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If a general election were held today who would you vote for?

Conservatives
126
16%
Labour
229
30%
Liberal Democrats
130
17%
Greens
39
5%
UKIP
135
18%
SNP
26
3%
Plaid Cymru
7
1%
Sinn Fein/SDLP
27
4%
DUP/UUP
12
2%
Other
35
5%
 
Total votes : 766
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If an edit meme over this does not go viral over this I am gonna be very disappointed with the internet.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:12 am

So the rumour is they have the numbers to go for a no confidence vote on Theresa May.
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Postby Shamhnan Insir » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:13 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:So the rumour is they have the numbers to go for a no confidence vote on Theresa May.

Looks like she is willing to fight it.
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Postby Dooom35796821595 » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:22 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:So the rumour is they have the numbers to go for a no confidence vote on Theresa May.


But does anyone have the balls to be the Brexit PM?
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:28 am

Dooom35796821595 wrote:
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:So the rumour is they have the numbers to go for a no confidence vote on Theresa May.


But does anyone have the balls to be the Brexit PM?


Depends on how long they want to be PM for, I guess.
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Postby Platypus Bureaucracy » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:39 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:So the rumour is they have the numbers to go for a no confidence vote on Theresa May.

That sounds delightfully self-destructive.
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Postby Freezic Vast » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:41 am

Place your best now on the next PM.

My money's on Boris.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:43 am

I would guess this would be the last chance Boris gets to try to be PM.
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Postby Philjia » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:43 am

Freezic Vast wrote:Place your best now on the next PM.

My money's on Boris.

Michael Gove.

Or Jeremy Corbyn.
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:52 am

Shamhnan Insir wrote:
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:So the rumour is they have the numbers to go for a no confidence vote on Theresa May.

Looks like she is willing to fight it.

Time for cold steel to be unsheathed once more.


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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:54 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Shamhnan Insir wrote:Looks like she is willing to fight it.

Time for cold steel to be unsheathed once more.


David?
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Postby Eastfield Lodge » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:57 am

Freezic Vast wrote:Place your best now on the next PM.

My money's on Boris.

Apparently, polling of Conservative Party members showed Rees-Mogg was the winner in all realistic head-to-heads.
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Postby Shamhnan Insir » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:58 am

Eastfield Lodge wrote:
Freezic Vast wrote:Place your best now on the next PM.

My money's on Boris.

Apparently, polling of Conservative Party members showed Rees-Mogg was the winner in all realistic head-to-heads.

At which point we all stop to concede that it was a joke that's now gone too far.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 9:59 am

Eastfield Lodge wrote:
Freezic Vast wrote:Place your best now on the next PM.

My money's on Boris.

Apparently, polling of Conservative Party members showed Rees-Mogg was the winner in all realistic head-to-heads.


It would be amusing to see them try to win an election with Rees-Mogg as leader.
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Postby Hurdergaryp » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:00 am

Shamhnan Insir wrote:
Eastfield Lodge wrote:Apparently, polling of Conservative Party members showed Rees-Mogg was the winner in all realistic head-to-heads.

At which point we all stop to concede that it was a joke that's now gone too far.

The joke has been going on since 2016, but still no punchline.


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Postby The South Falls » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:02 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Shamhnan Insir wrote:At which point we all stop to concede that it was a joke that's now gone too far.

The joke has been going on since 2016, but still no punchline.

Just a disappointing "womp womp", and the song "bye bye baby" playing in the back.
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An Alan Smithee Nation
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:04 am

"The dream of Brexit is dying" according to Boris. Good.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:05 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
Shamhnan Insir wrote:At which point we all stop to concede that it was a joke that's now gone too far.

The joke has been going on since 2016, but still no punchline.


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"The Aristocrats"
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:06 am

I want a death of stalin type movie based on this shitshow, bound to be a good laugh.
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Postby Ifreann » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:07 am

An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:"The dream of Brexit is dying" according to Boris. Good.

There's still time to pretend it was all just a misunderstanding.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:08 am

Ifreann wrote:
An Alan Smithee Nation wrote:"The dream of Brexit is dying" according to Boris. Good.

There's still time to pretend it was all just a misunderstanding.

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Postby Hurdergaryp » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:10 am

The Huskar Social Union wrote:I want a death of stalin type movie based on this shitshow, bound to be a good laugh.

Not a single news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch is going to review that movie favorably.


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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:10 am

Hurdergaryp wrote:
The Huskar Social Union wrote:I want a death of stalin type movie based on this shitshow, bound to be a good laugh.

Not a single news outlet owned by Rupert Murdoch is going to review that movie favorably.

Throw them in too, double the shitshow, double the fun.
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Postby MERIZoC » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:11 am

I like how we were all thinking having to rely on the DUP was going to fuck this government up, but no, the tories have managed to do it on their own.

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Postby Caracasus » Mon Jul 09, 2018 10:15 am

Anyone else think Gove said he'd resign of Johnson did and Johnson fell for it?
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