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he/him I escaped Britain for Aotearoa nearly ten years ago and I recommend you get the hell out of that awful country soon

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An all timer fuck Cristiano Ronaldo article here www.theguardian.com/football/art...

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Bonus round. The insta story with the choice of N Syncs Bye Bye Bye and tagging the Tories.

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David Tennant and his wife Georgia Tennant posting their joy at the Tories being kicked out and absolutely not apologising is great, isn't it?

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Dear Ms Parton, This is the first actual letter I have written to you, although I have prayer to you often throughout the last few years. I have a small request to ensure the future of the republic...

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LOL. LOL. LMAO. Also fantastic that transphobic prick Neale Hanvey got a pitiful 2.8% and lost his deposit.

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He's moved up from alpacas and deliveroo drivers

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Don't take this opinion from me, take it from respected Psephologist Sir John Curtice who says it better archive.ph/fyLIz

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You absolutely love to see it. Posie Parker' TERF gang got fewer votes than even the Monster Raving Loony Party at the UK election, and she got so few votes as an individual candidate in Bristol that she will lose her deposit.

www.thepinknews.com/2024/07/05/p...

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Khalid Mahmoud had been the Labour MP for Birmingham Perry Barr since 2001 until he got beaten by a pro-Gaza independent yesterday. He supported the Iraq war and defended the islamophobic Trojan Horse conspiracy theory in the right wing press. Couldn't have happened to a nicer idiot.

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Meanwhile over at the Telegraph, a leader writer wonders if a community taking part in the democratic process means its time to stop "handing citizenship out" to them. The absolute state of this.

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Interestingly some of the Tories, who've also fallen victim to the exact same strategy this year, are now claiming their party is also too left wing and that's why Reform won seats. The Farage project to drag UK politics to the far right is succeeding.

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In the handwringing about 2019 being Labours Worst Ever Result was always a conspicuous silence about how Farage stood down candidates with pro-Brexit incumbents in 2019. This split the vote against Labour in many of the Red Wall seats, but this was blamed on Labour being too left wing.

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Two elections in a row a Nigel Farage led third party has taken enough votes in England to send a large number of seats to the Tories (2019) or Labour/Lib Dems (2024). In 2019 the Brexit Party stood tactically and won no seats, in 2024 Reform didn't and won 5. That is something to be worried about.

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This is it, that Labour resurgence vote wise is purely a Scottish phenomenon - the coinciding collapse of the SNP and the Tory/Reform vote split really has ensured Labour ended up winning by default.

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Fun fact: when Wesley won the constituency from the Tories in 2015 he had a 500ish majority and his safest results came under Corbyn at 9k and 5k, so this result is actually him returning to the mean. His inflated ego means he thinks those Corbyn era majorities were to do with him, lol.

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He's trying to fit the two ideas in his head that he's a Special Boy With A Big Boy Job and that the line between constituents who tolerate him Vs those who loathe him is currently 500 people, and he can't understand why they don't like him.

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Hilary Cass has been appointed to the House of Lords but must provide proof she has lived as a Lord for two years and have a diagnosis of democracy dysphoria before she is allowed to take her seat.

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CHOAM Nomsky 💭's avatar CHOAM Nomsky 💭 @thielman.bsky.social
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no part of this is not absolutely hilarious

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I'd forgotten how weird FPTP is. Look at this shit from Scotland and Wales lmao.

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It's the lowest ever % for a majority win. Whatever this result is, it's not one that is as solid as some media are reporting

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Here, by the way, is what happened the last time they won by a landslide. Tell me where on here you think UK Labour are. And what happened in the next election? Ah. 1997 13,518,167 / 43.2 / 418 2001 10,724,953 / 40.7 / 412 2004 9,552,376 / 35.2 / 355

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UK Labour's last three vote counts, percentages and seats. Man that's one fucked up voting system. 2024: 9,650,254 / 33.8% / 411 2019: 10,269,051 / 32.1% / 202 2017: 12,877,918 / 40.0% / 262

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World class strategy from the Labour NEC

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Hey we can laugh at KJK eating absolute shit with her 16 candidates and 5077 votes but to be fair NZs own transphobe party stood 12 candidates and got 2513 votes. They're out there.

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Katie you have to go and find a kid called Wesley Streeting and

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George Galloway *losing* his seat in an election where a bunch of single-issue pro-Palestine Independents were elected is really, really funny

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Yeah but they're not going to leave the ECJ and you know Badenoch or Braverman Tories will head into the next election on that.

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It wouldn't split quite that way but neck and neck say. Labour 19 short of a majority.

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The stat that compared to 2017 Labour have 3,000,000 fewer votes and compared to 2019 its 500,000 fewer should furrow some brows when the anti migration voters they picked up return to the Tory Reform party. But I thought they didn't need those voters any more? What?!

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Apologies for the link to the other place but, JRC has worked out that 2024 Starmer Labour have got 500k FEWER votes than 2019 Corbyn Labour did with barely any left to count x.com/jrc1921/stat...

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Weirdest landslide ever, Labour vote static on 2019 which their leader says was their worst result ever. Like I'm genuinely fucking confused at what's happened here. However while you're in Edinburgh please find Joanna Cherry and tell her to suck shit like the loser she is 😁

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Labour have lost at least three seats directly to an Independent running on an explicitly pro-Palestine ticket and nearly lost another couple and I bet they're going to learn nothing from their genocide supporting bullshit.

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It's not quite done here but Labour went from twenty points plus ahead to a ten point lead in six weeks. And that Reform vote is a lot of that Tory vote. Look at those numbers and tell me this Labour majority is one that lasts another election.

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Kelly-Jay Keen aka Posie Parker received 196 votes in the electorate she stood for, meanwhile, this woman won the seat with over 24,000 votes

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More people voted for Jeremy Corbyn than Keir Starmer at this election.

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Just to be clear with 14 seats to go, the UK Labour Party have increased their vote share from 2019 - a result they consider The Worst Thing Ever To Happen and why they had to purge the left. By 1.6%. Seriously, they got 1.6% more on a -7.4% turnout. Something WEIRD has happened.

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KJKs Terf Party got 5077 votes or around 317 for each of the 16 candidates they stood. The Monster Raving Looney party got 5169 votes.

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Below the worst Blair result which was a result of the Iraq war lol

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I don't think you've read that tweet right tbh

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With reform in the mix and Independents winning in odd places this is not the dominant landslide it looks like

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