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Who would you / will you vote for in the Scottish Parliament election?

SNP
24
26%
Conservative Party
15
16%
Labour Party
18
20%
Liberal Democrats
11
12%
Scottish Greens
8
9%
Mispronounced Alba Party
2
2%
Reform UK
7
8%
Other
7
8%
 
Total votes : 92

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Postby Hirota » Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:41 am

The Blaatschapen wrote:
Salus Maior wrote:I hope this doesn't mean that the Queen will pass soon. It often happens with old couples that when one goes the other isn't far behind.


Is that confirmation bias or an actually measured statistic?
There is some evidence suggesting it's a measurable phenomenon.
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Postby The Blaatschapen » Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:42 am

Hirota wrote:
The Blaatschapen wrote:
Is that confirmation bias or an actually measured statistic?
There is some evidence suggesting it's a measurable phenomenon.


Cool, thank you :)
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Postby Souseiseki » Fri Apr 09, 2021 7:47 am

Ostroeuropa wrote:Recently, The Daily Express was forced to pick between royalism and anti-socialism, and picked anti-socialism.

Mr Eade explained: “Influenced by his uncle, whom the Establishment had long regarded as ‘rather pink’ Philip had become relatively progressive in his views on politics and in 1945, he had told Dickie that he was not in the least ‘antagonistic to principles of Socialism’.”

The biographer also pointed out how Philip even wrote to the-then Queen in December 1946 to apologise for starting a “rather heated discussion” about politics.

However journalist Mr Driberg told his “friends on the left” that they should not object to Philip becoming a royal on political grounds.

He even said that Philip was “something of a socialist himself”.


And so on.

Apparently he was notorious for starting arguments with other family members about socialism.


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Postby Vassenor » Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:31 am

Anyway, time to go hyper-vigilant for all the stuff the Government tries to slip under the radar while everyone else is focused on Phillip's death.
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Postby Fartsniffage » Fri Apr 09, 2021 8:33 am

Vassenor wrote:Anyway, time to go hyper-vigilant for all the stuff the Government tries to slip under the radar while everyone else is focused on Phillip's death.


No government announcements for the next 8 days. Excepting Covid stuff.

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Postby The Nihilistic view » Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:37 am

I hope we don't get too many people going to the Palace the next fee days as well.
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Postby The New California Republic » Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:40 am

The Nihilistic view wrote:I hope we don't get too many people going to the Palace the next fee days as well.

Too late, there are already loads of people there.
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Postby An Alan Smithee Nation » Fri Apr 09, 2021 9:53 am

The New California Republic wrote:
The Nihilistic view wrote:I hope we don't get too many people going to the Palace the next fee days as well.

Too late, there are already loads of people there.


Oh dear, the Metropolitan police will have to break up the vigil.
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Postby Thermodolia » Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:14 am

The New California Republic wrote:
North Washington Republic wrote:[...] and the residents of Belfast deserve to have Law and Order.

Not quite sure why you have capitalised that, but alright.

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Postby Ifreann » Fri Apr 09, 2021 10:37 am

The Nihilistic view wrote:I hope we don't get too many people going to the Palace the next fee days as well.

You just need to tell them to form a queue.
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Postby Kowani » Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:28 pm

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Postby Fartsniffage » Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:34 pm



It's almost like the Loyalists aren't actually loyal to the Crown.

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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Fri Apr 09, 2021 2:54 pm


Been to that street a few times when i worked at ladbrokes, its a mixed area, New lodge is Nationalist but the surrounding areas are Unionist for the most part bar around Cliftonville. Could be problematic.

Just hope Nationalist youths dont raise to the bait like they did at Springfield.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:04 pm

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Postby The New California Republic » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:05 pm

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Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
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Postby Salus Maior » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:06 pm



Imperial Guard are the best faction don't @ me.
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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:07 pm

Salus Maior wrote:


Imperial Guard are the best faction don't @ me.

They are 100%

Ive never heard this one so ill check it out.
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Postby Greater Miami Shores » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:11 pm

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Postby The New California Republic » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:18 pm

The Huskar Social Union wrote:
The New California Republic wrote:Have some of this instead.
Ive never heard this one so ill check it out.

"Help them to learn songs of joy instead of "burn baby burn", let us show them how to play the pipes of peace. [...] Help them to see that the people here are like you and me, let us show them how to play the pipes of peace."
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The Irradiated Wasteland of The New California Republic: depicting the expanded NCR, several years after the total victory over Caesar's Legion, and the annexation of New Vegas and its surrounding areas.

White-collared conservatives flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
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Postby Old Tyrannia » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:51 pm

Greater Miami Shores wrote:My Respects to Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, God Save the King and Queen, God Bless the King and Queen, Rule Britannia - GMS.

I RP the real life based nation of NS Great Britain with Pride and Honor.

"God Save the King?" Which king would that be, exactly?
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Postby Borderlands of Rojava » Fri Apr 09, 2021 3:56 pm

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Postby The New California Republic » Fri Apr 09, 2021 5:07 pm

Old Tyrannia wrote:
Greater Miami Shores wrote:My Respects to Prince Philip and Queen Elizabeth, God Save the King and Queen, God Bless the King and Queen, Rule Britannia - GMS.

I RP the real life based nation of NS Great Britain with Pride and Honor.

"God Save the King?" Which king would that be, exactly?

The super secret one who is a communist probably, as half the family are leftists allegedly... :roll:
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The Irradiated Wasteland of The New California Republic: depicting the expanded NCR, several years after the total victory over Caesar's Legion, and the annexation of New Vegas and its surrounding areas.

White-collared conservatives flashing down the street
Pointing their plastic finger at me
They're hoping soon, my kind will drop and die
But I'm going to wave my freak flag high
Wave on, wave on
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