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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 21:36:13 GMT
The polls have closed. The polls have closed. OH FS I'M GOING OFF mY NUT WITH EXCITEMENT. Can the opinion polls be believed? Are we going to storm it? Could my nation even be normal in a year or two? OMG THIS IS THE MOST EXCITING THING IN THE WORLD EVER EVER EVER. X I do love your wild, unbridled enthusiasm for this sort of bollocks, RG.  That said, the "yes" vote will be crushed under the jackboot of British sensibleness (best jackbooted sensibleness in the world, obviously).  AH |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 5, 2011 21:40:07 GMT
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK HOW WE VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENT IN LONDON: I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENT IN LONDON IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! I WANT OUT!!!!
I voted for AV for purely intellectual reasons. I really could care less what method is used.
I don't want to be governed from there. Vote for it how you like. Do it naked to the waist and greased down in olive oil for all I care.
JUST LET MY PEOPLE GO . . .
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Post by Weyland on May 5, 2011 21:42:07 GMT
I've NEVER velt a vibe like this for the SNP before. I've always been entirely realistic, cynical even, about the chances. But then again, I've never seen a Labour Party so lacking in soul and mojo, and I've never seen such warmth for a serving politician ( except maybe Tony Blair in the early days) as for Alex. I'm not even drunk, and I'm thinking this, so there's a chance I might be right. Or else the breakdown has finally happened. I'm going to feel a right twat in the morning if I come on here and the SNP are not back in power. The kiss of death. I had Blair weighed up accurately even before John Smith died. Threw my Labour Party card in the bin the day Blair became leader. Worse than Thatcher, in the sense that she at least did believe in her vile dogma. However, I think you're right about the SNP, would vote for them were I a Jock, and wish you all well in your quest. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 21:42:51 GMT
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK HOW WE VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENT IN LONDON: I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENT IN LONDON IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! I WANT OUT!!!! I voted for AV for purely intellectual reasons. I really could care less what method is used. I don't want to be governed from there. Vote for it how you like. Do it naked to the waist and greased down in olive oil for all I care. JUST LET MY PEOPLE GO . . .You have a so called "nationalist" government, but they don't actually have the stones to declare or even vote for real Independence. Scottish stones, worst stones in the world. AH |
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Post by jean on May 5, 2011 21:42:51 GMT
I really could care less what method is used... Weyland may want to have a word with you about your choice of words here, Riot. |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 21:45:09 GMT
Yeah, whats all this "could care less" rubbish, 'merican grrl?
AH
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Post by Weyland on May 5, 2011 21:46:10 GMT
That said, the "yes" vote will be crushed under the jackboot of British sensibleness In other words, no change. Government by a minority, exactly as before. If only Britain were a democracy, how great it could be. |
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Post by Weyland on May 5, 2011 21:47:11 GMT
I really could care less what method is used... Weyland may want to have a word with you about your choice of words here, Riot. Not when she's in such a froth. It wouldn't be right. Talking of Right, I'm sure Alph will have a word or two to say in any case. |
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Post by Weyland on May 5, 2011 21:49:14 GMT
Yeah, whats all this "could care less" rubbish, 'merican grrl? AH Could have put it better myself! [See what I did there?] |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 21:51:32 GMT
That said, the "yes" vote will be crushed under the jackboot of British sensibleness In other words, no change. Government by a minority, exactly as before. If only Britain were a democracy, how great it could be. Remind me again just how many western democracies use this AV system. AH |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 21:52:18 GMT
Yeah, whats all this "could care less" rubbish, 'merican grrl? AH Could have put it better myself! [See what I did there?] ;D AH |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 5, 2011 22:01:58 GMT
I DON'T GIVE A FUCK HOW WE VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENT IN LONDON: I DON'T WANT TO HAVE TO VOTE FOR THE PARLIAMENT IN LONDON IN THE FIRST PLACE!!!! I WANT OUT!!!! I voted for AV for purely intellectual reasons. I really could care less what method is used. I don't want to be governed from there. Vote for it how you like. Do it naked to the waist and greased down in olive oil for all I care. JUST LET MY PEOPLE GO . . .You have a so called "nationalist" government, but they don't actually have the stones to declare or even vote for real Independence. Scottish stones, worst stones in the world. AH They were a minority Govt; the Labour, Libs and Tories voted down the idea of a referendum (a legal pre-requisite to declaring independence). Whadyagonnado? |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on May 5, 2011 22:10:36 GMT
You have a so called "nationalist" government, but they don't actually have the stones to declare or even vote for real Independence. Scottish stones, worst stones in the world. AH They were a minority Govt; the Labour, Libs and Tories voted down the idea of a referendum (a legal pre-requisite to declaring independence). Whadyagonnado? In short, the majority of scottish folks aren't really wanting this magical Scottish Nation-State then. Why don't you Independantanistas (I made that word up) take over a little island and set up your own nation there? Everybody wins. AH |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 5, 2011 22:13:01 GMT
Daily Mail poll has SNP on 51% of constituency vote (the FPTP bit).
And 53% on the list top-up vote (the PR bit).
I would be over the moon if we held the Parliament as a minority Govt, but if the Daily Mail is to be believed, this is truly historic.
Oh hold on, I've just seen the immediate problem . . if the Daily Mail, etc.
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Post by riotgrrl on May 5, 2011 22:54:12 GMT
OMG OMG OMG OMG
Rumours a go-go, Maximum rumours. Everybody hyper, but word is Labour took a complete kicking.
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Post by riotgrrl on May 5, 2011 22:56:36 GMT
Scottish Sun Headline 'Home and Dry'
Times 'Salmond poised for victory and increased number of seats'
Herald 'Salmond looks likely to win'
It's not just me who's going to look very foolish in the morning if the vibes I'm picking up are wrong.
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Post by everso on May 5, 2011 23:46:27 GMT
I voted NO. I had three votes on my local election paper. I voted two Conservatives and one UKIP. So there. Funny thing — to me, Nigel Farrago is the Great Satan (and UKIP is just a posh version of BNP plus a brain-cell or two) yet he talks a lorralorra sense about AV. Funny old world. (The BNP is dead against AV, of course. Goes without saying.) Yes, I know it seems a bit odd me voting UKIP, but I know the bloke, see. He stood up and spoke up for residents at a borough council meeting a while back when they wanted to build a travellers' site nearby (somewhere that - oddly enough - the borough council had previously turned down for building houses on, on the basis that it was in a dodgy position regarding traffic). He won the day. Also, I'm not keen on the other Con bloke. |
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Post by riotgrrl on May 6, 2011 0:28:12 GMT
WIPEOUT
This is mental. The results are mental.
Wow.
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Post by riotgrrl on May 6, 2011 0:38:29 GMT
3 Seats in
1 Lab Hold
2 SNP gain from Lab
Word is also we're taking at least 2 new seats from Labour in Glasgow, holding all the existing . .
BBC report "Jaws will be dropping around Scotland . . "
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Post by riotgrrl on May 6, 2011 1:13:49 GMT
I really have to go to bed soon . . but that's the 3rd seat in a row, SNP gain from Labour.
This is a parallel universe. I've been plugged into a different part of the matrix.
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