Game of Morons: The UK General Election Thread

May has stumbled and seems on the verge of screwing up a sure thing.

Corbyn isn't doing too bad - although the ground data differs from the poll data, and doesn't show the same narrowing, so I've no idea if that is down to bias in the ground data or the polls - although that is mostly in comparison to a Labour team that are, frankly, a bunch of useless bastards who shouldn't be placed within a fucking parsec of running a school nativity play. Dianne Abbot makes great telly, but is alarmingly thick.

May is a bit like a broken fembot, wittering the same "strong and stable" phrase on repeat. You can't get away with saying you're strong and stable when look like you're made of cheap plastic and running Windows XP though.

Tim Farron still looks like someone who, if viciously assaulted with a hammer, you'd still feel the need to applaud the attacker before arresting them. It's like someone stuck teeth on the front of a galia melon and called it a politician.

So yeah, we've really a pick of the incompetents. I mean we've not had a strong leader since Thatcher, and Blair's most toxic legacy wasn't Iraq, but the main parties desperately trying to emulate his media manipulation and general love of Rupe Murdoch's rotting cock, and we've got... This. This utter pile of shit. Shit that's been shovelled up a donkey arse, which has then been gang-raped by a bunch of HIV-infested tramps until it prolapsed out along with all the shit and spunk and left to rot in a warm place.

That is the state of British Politics. A rotting, shit-coated, infected-spunk laden, dead donkey's arse in a gutter, occasionally rehydrated by rivulets of piss.

I briefly dallied with voting Tory on the basis they were the only ones talking any sense on Brexit, however Theresa is such a u-turn specialist I don't feel I can trust them. I then mused on voting Labour, as if we're going to hell then may as well pick the road paved with good intentions, but their Tobin Tax plans will kill the services golden egg far surer than Brexit and crash the economy.

So I'm thinking I'm going to spend the day injecting bleach in my eyeballs at the horror of it all.

I'm quoting this on Facebook.

Better idea, let's wear Fawkes masks, kidnap and seduce Natalie Portman and engage in a campaign of bloody vengeance somehow involving Stephen Fry.

Quote away!

Anonymous has made Fawkes masks uncool, as has Paul Staines. Portman though...

But Fry? No. Just no. I like him well enough, but he's such a fucking luvvie these days. Apple can't release a product without him deciding it's a better invention than medicine.

Plus V for Vendetta lasts a year, that'd really bite into my globetrotting antics.

http://m.worldstarhiphop.com/android/video.php?v=wshh0Z2t7hu4L84k0l1d

Speaking of Game of Morons... So a black chick in Houston stupidly rear ends the car in front of her on the freeway. Rather than admit her mistake she gets mouthy, climbs in to the car she just rear ended, and begins beating up the innocent motorist. While the offender was busy beating up the woman who's car she rear ended a third person, a black male, runs up and steals the offender's car.

You can't make this shit up!

Couldn't you at least made another thread for your racist garbage?

Fuck World Star and fuck you.

Racist? Hell, I saw the video on another forum and thought it was funny. It seemed to fit the game of morons thread title.

Corbyn has surpassed my expectations. Tory scum will still win, but not by a landslide, and one hopes that Labour can then get itself together without reverting to Blair is or some other version of Tory-lite.

Problem there is that the UK is a small 'c' conservative place. Even Labour was very socially conservative until the 80's. The Tories aren't the most successful political party in the West because they happen to be wonderfully competent, history tells us they've been anything but, it's because they've been pretty much in tune with enough of the public to win.

You need only look at how things have swung about too - minimum wage was once a right-wing idea, now it's a left-wing one. The EU, membership was once a right-wing idea, now left-wing - to recognise how the political ground has morphed. The Tories have historically been something of a wide church, housing libertarians, centrists, statists... Pretty much anyone who had some kind of conservative aspect really, this gave them the flexibility to adapt. Can you imagine the Tories from the 50's looking at the Cameroons of the pre-May era and recognising their party?

What Labour needs to do is die with something better rising from the ashes.

It's over-controlled by the Unions - a bigger bunch of pasty-white, domineering-male dinosaurs you'd be hard pressed to find other than their mirror opposites in the Bullingdon Club. At least they've dialled back on the violence and xenophobia that was rampant in the 60's and 70's (examples being the Union-controlled London Underground having a brief, yet proud, marketing campaign of "we don't employ blacks" and Union-controlled docks tending to lock out non-whites (partially out of racism, partially out of neptoism) until Thatcher was convinced to take them on and break their hold which was throttling UK trade), but females still find glass ceilings (if we're going to have more diversity in boardrooms, lets see it applied to Unions too) and of course the toxic environment that a lot of old school Socialists think is acceptable.

It's overly infested with the kind of lefty who does not tolerate dissent, which has meant it has had neither the flexibility nor the focus to adapt that quickly. Just look at the battles in the 80's. Hell, now.

The UK needs a left-leaning party that looks at the Tories as a template, and gives short-shrift to the Unions - who need to get back to actually looking after workers rights (I see a lot of ground floor dissent with them. Other than the legal protections, people are seeing precious little else for funding their particular Union Dear Leader's 6 figure salary) - and is open to all comers with an understanding that any group tying to subvert that range of opinions will be booted out.

I doubt Labour itself will ever become that party, so a new one is called for.

Oh, and just a reminder how wonderfully ethical Unions are...

And not to mention how Coyne was suspended for bringing the Union into disrepute (read: daring to challenge McClusky)

The Tories are rightfully getting dragged over the coals over their Thanet shenanigans, hopefully Unite will get the same treatment.

So any predictions?

No one is happy with the results.

Lib Dems FTW

Tory win, possible slight increase in majority.

Labour have had one of their best campaigns, although that is in comparison to a piss-weak Tory one, which is the reason they're not going to get stomped as was originally seen as fait accompli when the election was called.

The clock is ticking on May's tenure now though, she came close to delivering defeat (and may well yet, lets see the actual results) from a position of strength and unless she comes up with some stormers between now and a deal with the EU, she's over.

Tomorrow Facebook will be filled with Corbynistas shocked that their curated echo chamber wasn't representative of the UK public. Well, not shocked, just outraged and equipping themselves with tin foil hats and blaming the same dead tree press they've spent the last couple of years claiming were no longer relevant.

We've already had a few cheerfully proclaiming a lot of older Tory voters will be deep sixed by old age come the next election. Classy!

I think they'll be lucky to maintain what they've got. Their policy of another referendum to a public royally fucked off with the amount of times they've had to vote - even the pro-Remainers are mostly just wanting it over with rather than dragging it out - has not gone down well.

Part of me would love a Labour/SNP/LibDem coalition, simply as a reminder of how the 1970's went, but then I've got the ability to get the fuck out of dodge when the UK gets hitched to life support, so I shouldn't be selfish.

I predict hung parliament.

Supposedly this election was called to solidify support ahead of the government's Brexit negotiations. So what happens if the government loses seats?

The exit poll shows the Tories losing their majority.

They have about a one in ten chance of a majority based on my quick check of margin of error. There's a real chance of Corbyn as PM, given that he has more potential coalition partners.

It looks like Labour has already won more seats than in 2015. Even if the Tories manage to barely hold their majority, this was indeed a huge fuck up on their part.

In the event if a hung parliament, what are the odds of a Labour-SNP coalition forming a new government?

A bunch of asshattery.

As a half Scottish person I have to say the SNP are a bunch of wank stains. That said, labor would probably seize the chance to slurp up every gob in their rush to actually become the majority.

The problem for Labour is that even if they get the SNP and the Lib Dems, they're still short a majority. Corbyn literally has to mop up every last non-Tory, whereas May has only to close a 22-seat deficit.

So it's unlikely the Conservative government is going anywhere.

But May herself might have to resign after this colossal fuckup.

So if I understand what I was hearing on the radio correctly, nobody has a majority, but the Tories lost enough seats that Labour will probably be able to form a coalition government with some of the smaller parties, and Jeremy Corbyn is probably the next PM?

I'm not sure anyone knows how it all going to shake out, but it looks like it would be hard for Corbyn to form a coalition government, although he could possibly still become PM through some kind of minority trick (other parties don't join in coalition but agree not to topple government).

However I've also read that the DUP could potentially do the same with the Tories in exchange for soft-Brexit promises.

SNP is predicted to lose 20 seats. Tories 16. UKIP is imploding but that helps the Tories.

Actually from what I'm hearing one of the reasons Labour did so well was not just the youth vote but also that UKIPers in the UKs rustbelt went Labour.

May's gamble totally paid off.



No it's not funny. It's sad. This one's not a new Thatcher, she's a British Trump.

So it's looking likely that Teresa May will resign in short order.

The Tories don't have a majority but they'll likely form a minority government based on a confidence and supply arrangement with someone like the DUP.

Maybe, maybe not. She may yet make the magic number. We shall see.