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How can one pick a side between Lord Mann and the fucking Canary!! Fuck!

I was thinking perhaps the seeing the end of the trying-to-lie-more-than-tories Swinson LibDems might cheer me up a bit if the result was absolutely terrible. But it is has only delivered a wee morsel of grim satisfaction. Still pretty much winded from that gut punch of the exit poll last night. The weather is fucking horrible as well.

calzino, Friday, 13 December 2019 15:32 (four years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/ELrOa__XUAE8ME8?format=png&name=large

gyac, Friday, 13 December 2019 15:37 (four years ago) link

The issue is distribution as much as that breakdown

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 15:44 (four years ago) link

by the time the cohort has aged away from power it'll be too late for the climate, fuck everything.

stet, Friday, 13 December 2019 15:54 (four years ago) link

The world itself will change, and the people in it will need to adapt to survive. The result of this election doesn't change that. Even if Labour had won it.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:10 (four years ago) link

Something tells me a lot of you need cheering up, so here you go (even though I can already feel the stick I'm going to get!)...

Six reasons for the left to be cheerful https://t.co/Zh8LHchmQz

— Tom Clark (@prospect_clark) December 13, 2019

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:13 (four years ago) link

sorry everyone :(

Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:14 (four years ago) link

The world itself will change, and the people in it will need to adapt to survive. The result of this election doesn't change that. Even if Labour had won it.


a comprehensive green new deal, like the one labour was offering, would have put the country in a much better position to adapt, though

Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:21 (four years ago) link

huh that was meant to quote the previous post, sorry

stet, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

Graham Kendrick Lamar (cajunsunday), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:24 (four years ago) link

it got one mention on page 72 of the manifesto, so I think the real answer is "frack till it hurts then salve the wounds with coal"

stet, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:25 (four years ago) link

What Tory climate change plan?

I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:26 (four years ago) link

Priorities priorities but also who's the Commons Daddio now that Clarke and Skinner are gone?

nashwan, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:28 (four years ago) link

If it’s not Bill Cash, it should be.

Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:29 (four years ago) link

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?


machine-gun climate refugees at dover iirc

Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link

Tory climate change plan = do whatever sinister shadowy interests want, cover up with meaningless bluster. Same as their plan for everything else.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link

I did around 120 hours of canvassing in London, Bedford and Milton Keynes. I didn’t expect this result but here’s how I can make sense of it from what I encountered on the doorstep. 1/

— Luke Pagarani (@LukePagarani) December 13, 2019

Simon H., Friday, 13 December 2019 16:30 (four years ago) link

oh sorry I see some of this was posted earlier

Simon H., Friday, 13 December 2019 16:31 (four years ago) link

Xps, Peter Bottomley apparently.

Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:32 (four years ago) link

climate change will basically be ethnic cleansing on a global scale and i do not expect the tories to give one single fuck about it

one nation under a gloom (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:36 (four years ago) link

Mr. Personality himself. (xp)

I've Got A Ron Wood Solo Album To Listen To (Tom D.), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:38 (four years ago) link

I dread to think - but what's the tory's climate change plan?

machine-gun climate refugees at dover iirc

More realistically, take a look at what the US are doing - a network of concentration camps already being set up to detain climate change refugees, for example - and do the same. Remember that scene at Dover near the end of Children Of Men? That kind of thing. While scrapping over the spoils of newly-uncovered fossil fuels in the arctic, uncovered by climate change no less. Plus fracking. And blaming the resultant Armageddon on refugees.

AMM stands for Axe-Murdering Motherfuckers (Matt #2), Friday, 13 December 2019 16:47 (four years ago) link

climate change will basically be ethnic cleansing on a global scale and i do not expect the tories to give one single fuck about it

― one nation under a gloom (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

Australia RIP

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:52 (four years ago) link

More realistically, take a look at what the US are doing - a network of concentration camps already being set up to detain climate change refugees, for example - and do the same.

Britain already has this btw

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link

A 32 per cent vote share is 9 points down on Tony Blair’s second landslide, and indeed eight down on Corbyn’s own splendid defeat in 2017. But it is appreciably more than the 28 per cent score the party had in its 1983 Waterloo, and also up on the 29 per cent Gordon Brown scored in 2010, Ed Miliband’s 30 per cent in 2015, and Neil Kinnock’s 31 per cent in 1987. And it is only three points less than the 35 per cent share which produced the third Blair government in 2005.

This is... a parody?

Andrew Farrell, Friday, 13 December 2019 16:59 (four years ago) link

It's facts, or don't your feelings care for it?

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:00 (four years ago) link

Is that a Ben Shapiro riff?

pomenitul, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link

I'm grateful for people posting articles and tweet threads that put this in context, or provide any sort of grounds for optimism, for the record. Also all the canvassers.

It feels like the only option right now is to try to switch off and not give this more power than necessary while there's little to be achieved, but we will of course all be angrily refreshing screens like an inverse Male Online screaming "they're doing what?!" for the best part of ten years

We were young, once

Dadjokke (Sgt. Biscuits), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:01 (four years ago) link

a comprehensive green new deal, like the one labour was offering, would have put the country in a much better position to adapt, though
― Receive Your Simulated Fluids Before The End of The Year! (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 13 December 2019 bookmarkflaglink

I know what you mean but given the reports of what's already happening it will need heavy coordination between many countries at a time. Green new deal is definitely a template for things that still can be done at some point.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:03 (four years ago) link

Agreed. Shout out to all the canvassers, including comrade alphabet. Mad props.

pomenitul, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link

I remember when "the government has announced ..." wasn't immediately met with dread or suspicion.

stet, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link

Xp

pomenitul, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:04 (four years ago) link

Children of Men was Bexhill, not Dover, not important but interesting to me as my mum lived there at the time.

mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:06 (four years ago) link

thanks pom.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:08 (four years ago) link

So many canvassers on twitter saying how 'they failed' but we were doing the little we could, too late. It turned to be a bit too much to turn around what was in front of us. Stuff that was building for two decades.

xyzzzz__, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:12 (four years ago) link

i'm so sorry you all, this is very grim. solidarity.

goole, Friday, 13 December 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link

The only comfort I can offer is that without all that incredible mobilization it would certainly have turned out even worse.

Simon H., Friday, 13 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link

Righteous fury from the guy in the neighbouring constituency

Re-elected Labour MP Lloyd Russell-Moyle pledges to fight Conservatives in the street in fiery acceptance speech @lloyd_rm #GeneralElection #GeneralElection19 #generalelections2019 read full report 👉👉 https://t.co/ilKUjhMncU pic.twitter.com/hNBFnUZJ6d

— Jody Doherty-Cove (@JodyyDC) December 13, 2019

one nation under a gloom (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:37 (four years ago) link

Same lad who grabbed the mace in parliament btw

one nation under a gloom (NickB), Friday, 13 December 2019 17:39 (four years ago) link

take the lols where you can imo

TV gold here from @adamboultonSKY 😂pic.twitter.com/UblhRsxRfP

— Nick Jones (@resophonick) December 13, 2019

Simon H., Friday, 13 December 2019 17:44 (four years ago) link

Our leader in waiting.

pic.twitter.com/nfQg9hsv21

— Zack Breslin (@zack_breslin) December 13, 2019

Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:50 (four years ago) link

If this morning everything seems too dark to face, just remember that if it comes to the worst, the USA always welcomes immigrants with open, no wait, strike that.

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:53 (four years ago) link

I was thinking earlier there must be some right wing shitholes with better weather than here, but they don't tend to do mutual citizen exchange schemes for people that fancy a change!

calzino, Friday, 13 December 2019 18:56 (four years ago) link

Australia is the go-to.

Srinivasaraghavan VONCataraghavan (ShariVari), Friday, 13 December 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link

(takes a glance at recent ILX posts about Australian politics, then reads recent news reports coming from Australia)

ffs

A is for (Aimless), Friday, 13 December 2019 19:00 (four years ago) link

Combining anti-PC nationalism with leftist economics ... intriguing idea ... but the phrase is awkward and unwieldy ... I wonder if we can't coin one word to sum up this program. https://t.co/cnhHAuGCOu

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) December 13, 2019

calzino, Friday, 13 December 2019 19:03 (four years ago) link

lol I'm in a chat right now with a friend who's angrily dissecting that joke because fascist economics wasn't actually leftist

Daniel_Rf, Friday, 13 December 2019 19:06 (four years ago) link

yeah that occurred to me as well. I strongly suspect Jeet knows that but couldn't resist the obvious joke.

Simon H., Friday, 13 December 2019 19:07 (four years ago) link

you can forgive him for clowning someone with a good joke, even if it is built on the wrongness of what the other eejit is saying imo!

calzino, Friday, 13 December 2019 19:11 (four years ago) link


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