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Pascal Jacquemain

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French citizen in Brexitlandia. Married to a Brit, 2 great daughters. Left of centre. Dislike the right. SQL specialist currently working on Snowflake. Yes, I'm @jacquep on X but hey, things are so much nicer here.

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Paris from the Ménilmontant area

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Street art Paris
#Ukraine

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I would love the Tories to choose Braverman as leader and then Badenoch, but only if they both crash and burn.

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There are huge problems with the UK. Labour government doesn't have a magic wand. It was distasteful of the Tories to blame Labour when they had been in power for 14 years. Labour is perfectly entitled to blame the Tories but not for long, and Labour must start to deliver very soon.

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There may be hope for France. A second poll/estimate shows the likelihood of a majority for Rassemblement National is getting less likely. Still, anything can happen. I have voted, of course. Fingers crossed for Sunday night.

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Regrettably, the North (previously West) Yorkshire constituency where I live, Skipton and Ripon, stayed in Tory hands, but the majority was slashed. The Member of Parliament Julian Smith was made a Knight by the now ex Prime Minister.

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Worth remembering, for the next five years, that the Tory party rules ASSUME they'll have a large number of sitting MPs. e.g. to automatically start a leadership context only 15% of tory MPs have to put in letters. 15% of 130ish seats is... not a lot.

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But more to the point, will the new Labour government do something to sort it out?

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Considering the Tories tried to steal the vote by accepting certain IDs for older people that are not eligible for students, maybe not that much. Maybe a huge voter apathy.

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Close to 40% didn't vote.
About 20% voted Labour.
About 15% voted Tory.
#ge24

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Vorderman is on fire on C4

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Reform won 29% of the vote in Sunderland South. Much more than the Tories. Can you really see the Tories not standing a candidate in 2029 in such a seat? I can't. That's why I think a merger is a possibility.

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Au Royaume-Uni, les comptes ne sont pas faits dans les bureaux de vote mais sont centralisés dans des bâtiments qui peuvent compter plusieurs circonscriptions. Les résultats arrivent au compte-goutte pendant la nuit. Les candidats sont généralement présents à l'annonce de leur résultat.

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What would be the result if the Tories and Reform merged? Would it be beneficial in term of votes for the (far) right or would it result in what happened to the Tories under Hague and IDS? My worry is that like in France, the RW electorate may have shifted largely to the far right.

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One thing: it's impossible, today, to predict the next election. How much of Labour low percentage was caused because people thought they were freer to vote for other parties because the Tory vote was so low?

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“Maggie Thatcher! Can you hear me? “Maggie Thatcher. Maggie Thatcher, And Sir Julian Smith (since you've been knighted), your boys took a hell of a beating! Your boys took a hell of a beating!”

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Funny isn't... Labour has a Blair style majority, and I am slightly disappointed as the Tories got 131 seats

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So, any lick, oops, leek, ah come on... leak?

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In April, Whitbread revealed proposals to axe around 1,500 jobs across the UK with the closure of 200 less profitable restaurants.

Two Leeds restaurants part of Premier Inn company set to close permanently www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/business/con...

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In French, for instance. Although we typically add "funéraire" for the other meaning.

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For all those asking I absolutely shall hold the next Government to account just as I have this one. Let’s start by giving this one the boot first

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Today is National Bin Day in the UK, when they finally put the rubbish out.

Remember, today isn't the standard bin or recyclables, it's toxic waste. 👍

#GTTO

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The Tories will fuck off tomorrow. I'm glad they will.

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Yeah. I'm not Johnny Doomer or anything, but I'm much happier cutting it up with you folks on the Titanic here than watching newly emboldened fascists threaten political rivals with death and nothing comes of it

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He won't be PM forever, but the likelihood of the UK returning in the EU in my lifetime is, I believe, very low indeed.

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Either the Democrats will run Biden, or he'll say he can't continue the campaign and Democrats will run Harris. Either is newsworthy, but neither is nearly as radical as running a pro-insurrection convicted felon with legal immunity he's eager to use.

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Presidential candidate who the far-right members of the Supreme Court just placed above the law tells voters how he will exercise his new powers.

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After Brexit, the 2019 general election sent me into a deep depression. Starmer is not my cup of tea but the Tories deserve oblivion. I hope I can rejoice tomorrow night.

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I won't have time to cry about the result of the French election this Sunday. I have an interview to return to a team leadership position in my company on Monday (or manager as it is now known). Wish me luck.

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Jesus fucking christ. One day to go, and they release... cat memes.

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THE sentence of the day: A Macronist incumbent in the Marseille region came in 3rd in her seat. She just dropped out to support the left. She said, about why she's maneuvering to block the far-right: "Defeats happen, but you can never recover from dishonor."

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Furthest I've been N: Orkney Islands, Scotland E: Dubrovnik, Croatia S: Miami, FL W: San Francisco, CA

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