Their failure to reform and attitude to change hasn't helped.kk67 wrote:It's only stupid and depressing because the UK is unilaterally jumping ship. You cannot blame the EU for the outcome.Sandydragon wrote: The utterly stupid and depressing thing about all this is the reliance that we have on each other. Yet both sides seem to be quite happy engaging in diplomatic dick waving rather than compromising. Juncker, for example, insulting our political leadership is hardly helpful.
Most worrying, stupid and depressing is the simple fact of the pound having lost 20% of it's value since the vote.
Very few people seem willing to even mention this situation and even worse it suddenly seems to be a method of checks and balances that the Establishment have decided to utterly ignore.
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Indeed. But Emily Thornbury is suggesting that its too early to make any conclusions on how badly Labour have done.Digby wrote:So far it's been a pathetically bad night for Glorious Leader™ though Labour wouldn't be wholly wrong to note the turnout was similarly pathetic
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Maybe because not all council results were in yet..Sandydragon wrote:Indeed. But Emily Thornbury is suggesting that its too early to make any conclusions on how badly Labour have done.Digby wrote:So far it's been a pathetically bad night for Glorious Leader™ though Labour wouldn't be wholly wrong to note the turnout was similarly pathetic
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Zhivago wrote:Maybe because not all council results were in yet..Sandydragon wrote:Indeed. But Emily Thornbury is suggesting that its too early to make any conclusions on how badly Labour have done.Digby wrote:So far it's been a pathetically bad night for Glorious Leader™ though Labour wouldn't be wholly wrong to note the turnout was similarly pathetic
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Now, normally opposition parties do well in local elections. Yet even now, Labour have lost a swath of seats. Even if they hold all their remaining seats, its been a really bad night.
Also a very bad night for UKIP and the Lib Dems haven't performed as well as they would have liked.
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If the UK really wants to be Tory, so be it. Luckily for me I'm mostly unaffected by the idiocy of such people.Sandydragon wrote:Zhivago wrote:Maybe because not all council results were in yet..Sandydragon wrote:
Indeed. But Emily Thornbury is suggesting that its too early to make any conclusions on how badly Labour have done.
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Now, normally opposition parties do well in local elections. Yet even now, Labour have lost a swath of seats. Even if they hold all their remaining seats, its been a really bad night.
Also a very bad night for UKIP and the Lib Dems haven't performed as well as they would have liked.
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Warning, low flying teddies!!
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Meanwhile... In Europe, people look on with mild bemusement... at a country's slow descent into irrelevance.Sandydragon wrote:Warning, low flying teddies!!
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I think Europe has enough of its own problems without taking the piss too much.Zhivago wrote:Meanwhile... In Europe, people look on with mild bemusement... at a country's slow descent into irrelevance.Sandydragon wrote:Warning, low flying teddies!!
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Five Star Movement, Le Pen, Wilders, Golden Dawn etc etc etc. Nothing to worry about there.Sandydragon wrote:I think Europe has enough of its own problems without taking the piss too much.Zhivago wrote:Meanwhile... In Europe, people look on with mild bemusement... at a country's slow descent into irrelevance.Sandydragon wrote:Warning, low flying teddies!!
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Feegie Park, FFS!!!
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All not in power. There are extremists in power in the UK. You wonder why UKIP vote declined so much? Because Tories just became them for all intents and purposes...Mellsblue wrote:Five Star Movement, Le Pen, Wilders, Golden Dawn etc etc etc. Nothing to worry about there.Sandydragon wrote:I think Europe has enough of its own problems without taking the piss too much.Zhivago wrote:
Meanwhile... In Europe, people look on with mild bemusement... at a country's slow descent into irrelevance.
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If you think the Conservatives are extremists you've lost all perspective.Zhivago wrote:All not in power. There are extremists in power in the UK. You wonder why UKIP vote declined so much? Because Tories just became them for all intents and purposes...Mellsblue wrote:Five Star Movement, Le Pen, Wilders, Golden Dawn etc etc etc. Nothing to worry about there.Sandydragon wrote:
I think Europe has enough of its own problems without taking the piss too much.
The UKIP vote has declined because they achieved their sole aim.
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I've lost perspective? Absurd.Mellsblue wrote:If you think the Conservatives are extremists you've lost all perspective.Zhivago wrote:All not in power. There are extremists in power in the UK. You wonder why UKIP vote declined so much? Because Tories just became them for all intents and purposes...Mellsblue wrote: Five Star Movement, Le Pen, Wilders, Golden Dawn etc etc etc. Nothing to worry about there.
The UKIP vote has declined because they achieved their sole aim.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk_eu_referendum2016
This shows the political perspective of the various main political opinion that dominated the EU ref. Conservatives (A & F) are clearly extreme. That you cannot see their extremism is rather disconcerting.
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Dianne Abbot has added up all the figures and declared victory for Labour with a gain of seventytwelve seats.
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I stopped reading when they described Corbyn as a 'left of centre social liberal'.Zhivago wrote:I've lost perspective? Absurd.Mellsblue wrote:If you think the Conservatives are extremists you've lost all perspective.Zhivago wrote:
All not in power. There are extremists in power in the UK. You wonder why UKIP vote declined so much? Because Tories just became them for all intents and purposes...
The UKIP vote has declined because they achieved their sole aim.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk_eu_referendum2016
This shows the political perspective of the various main political opinion that dominated the EU ref. Conservatives (A & F) are clearly extreme. That you cannot see their extremism is rather disconcerting.
Rather than give me an referendum-centric opinion piece which thinks Corbyn is left of centre, give me some Conservative Party policy that is extremist. That they want to leave the EU after the referendum, the result of which stated that the country should leave the EU, doesn't count as an extremist policy.
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No extremists in this picture, no siree...
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Genuinely shocking that the Conservatives have picked up seats in some of the Wards they have in Scotland.Stones of granite wrote:Feegie Park, FFS!!!
Interestingly, in areas that will translate into Alex Salmond and Angus Robertsons seats on June 6th has seen the Conservatives do well.
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Absolutely pmsl at the results in Scotland. Who'd thunk the SNP would bring a tory surge with them? Feckin hilarious.
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-Nuclear first strike policyMellsblue wrote:I stopped reading when they described Corbyn as a 'left of centre social liberal'.Zhivago wrote:I've lost perspective? Absurd.Mellsblue wrote: If you think the Conservatives are extremists you've lost all perspective.
The UKIP vote has declined because they achieved their sole aim.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk_eu_referendum2016
This shows the political perspective of the various main political opinion that dominated the EU ref. Conservatives (A & F) are clearly extreme. That you cannot see their extremism is rather disconcerting.
Rather than give me an referendum-centric opinion piece which thinks Corbyn is left of centre, give me some Conservative Party policy that is extremist. That they want to leave the EU after the referendum, the result of which stated that the country should leave the EU, doesn't count as an extremist policy.
-Privatisation of health & education
-Selling arms to dictatorships committing war crimes
-Reneging on international obligations incl. Refusal to grandfather treaty rights.
-Expansion of mass surveillance state
-Censorship of Internet
-Destruction of state support for vulnerable
Um... There's Surely more
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I bet there aren't many in Scottish Labour laughing. What are the odds on Kezia falling on her, um, sword, after the GE?Donny osmond wrote:Absolutely pmsl at the results in Scotland. Who'd thunk the SNP would bring a tory surge with them? Feckin hilarious.
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- The same as the perennially left of centre France (the real left of centre, not Political Compass' left of centre) and supported by the Labour Party. It's also NATO policy. It's not North Korean policy, though. Good to know that good old Kim isn't an extremist. So......not solely a Conservative policy.Zhivago wrote:-Nuclear first strike policyMellsblue wrote:I stopped reading when they described Corbyn as a 'left of centre social liberal'.Zhivago wrote:
I've lost perspective? Absurd.
https://www.politicalcompass.org/uk_eu_referendum2016
This shows the political perspective of the various main political opinion that dominated the EU ref. Conservatives (A & F) are clearly extreme. That you cannot see their extremism is rather disconcerting.
Rather than give me an referendum-centric opinion piece which thinks Corbyn is left of centre, give me some Conservative Party policy that is extremist. That they want to leave the EU after the referendum, the result of which stated that the country should leave the EU, doesn't count as an extremist policy.
-Privatisation of health & education
-Selling arms to dictatorships committing war crimes
-Reneging on international obligations incl. Refusal to grandfather treaty rights.
-Expansion of mass surveillance state
-Censorship of Internet
-Destruction of state support for vulnerable
Um... There's Surely more
- Not what I'd call extremist but hey-ho. Both started by the Labour Party.
- Not that I want to defend it but this would make most industrialised nations governed by extremists. So........not solely a Conservative policy.
- I'd like some examples but before you do I'll counter it with the International Development Act, commitment to the NATO 2% spending etc
- That mass surveillance keeps us, and citizens of other countries, safe. It's hardly Orwellian in its nature. Be careful though you might have a knock on your door tonight after they've read this. Also, state surveillance is nothing compared to the surveillance undertaken by Google, Apple, Facebook etc but you don't want to stop that.....
- Don't make me laugh. It's impossible to censor the Internet - unless you're China and just ban non-governmental sites. They are merely asking providers to monitor their content. Can't see why anyone would be against that. Not solely a Conservative policy.
- You can always tell when people get desperate as they start using hyperbole. Pensioners would disagree with you here, as would the record number of employed people. The attempted cut to the DLA was wrong but the party as a whole stopped it from happening. Also, the vast majority of the cuts were under the coalition govt so we'll have to label the Lib Dems as extremists as well. I suppose that fits in with Farron's thoughts on homosexuality. Speaking of which, which party legalised gay marriage? Also, the socialist governments of both France and Spain have cut their welfare budgets.......the extremists.
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Clueless. France is not left wing. In case you haven't been following their politics, no one from the left advanced to the second round. Hollande is also not left wing.
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She might, Labour need a root and branch reboot. Don't know if she will tho, it would bring deck chairs and the titanic to mind.Stones of granite wrote:I bet there aren't many in Scottish Labour laughing. What are the odds on Kezia falling on her, um, sword, after the GE?Donny osmond wrote:Absolutely pmsl at the results in Scotland. Who'd thunk the SNP would bring a tory surge with them? Feckin hilarious.
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France isn't left of centre. Haha, good one.Zhivago wrote:Clueless. France is not left wing. In case you haven't been following their politics, no one from the left advanced to the second round. Hollande is also not left wing.
I have being following the French elections, but unless Le Pen and/or Macron set policy over the last 35/40 years or so I'm not sure they can be blamed for France's nuclear deterrent policy or the welfare cuts in the last parliament (by the socialist party).