So apparently Farage has unresigned.
Here’s what I get using nationwide party votes (taken from Wikipedia) and PR using D’Hondt (assuming the Speaker gets a seat):
Conservative - 243
Labour - 201
UKIP - 83
Liberal Democrat - 51
SNP - 31
Green - 24
DUP - 3
Plaid Cymru - 3
Sinn Féin - 3
UUP - 2
SDLP - 2
Independents - 2
Alliance - 1
The Speaker - 1
If you don’t give the Speaker an automatic seat, the Liberal Democrats get a 52nd seat, although who knows how many people who voted for the Speaker (or had a spoiled ballot) would have voted, say, Conservative or Labour.
Actually, that ‘announcement’ had been on the DWP website for months. A friend of mine works on their websites (and voted Labour), basically writing out the policy detail for their pages, and is a bit disgusted at the media spin on that one.
And I don’t think you can simply sign this off as opposition to policies. Some of it, yeah, but signs saying ‘Tories out!’ isn’t a ‘policy’, but poorly masked outrage at the election result.
Since I don’t think it’s been mentioned yet,
CUNT.
(No need to click the link if you’re a Brit, you’ll know exactly who I mean)
Without clicking, it’s either Farage unresigning at the “request of the party” or Galloway challenging the result in Bradford.
So… given amanset’s post at #721…
Must have missed that one… I try to avoid thinking of Galloway, he makes me feel slightly ill. He’s living proof that if you go too far to the left you end up back on the far right.
::: sigh :::
For those who may wish clarification regarding the use of the preceding, here is the most recent pronouncement from on high:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?p=17968323&highlight=cunt#post17968323
So him directing it against some cunt who doesn’t post here is fine, then?
Perhaps Tom is just clarifying that very point?
Friday: Farage resigns
Monday: Farage re-signs
What are you referring to specifically?
The abhorrent, racist, sexist campaign he waged against his Labour opponent in Bradford.
“Let’s eat Grandma!”
“Let’s eat, Grandma!”
*Punctuation saves lives.
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Not that Bradford hasn’t had its electoral “issues” in the past but George is a vile, amoral asshole with the appeal and credibility of a syphilitic telemarketer. He needs to go away swiftly and silently.
There I sort of agree with you. I only “sort-of agree” because I’m not sure it’s him going too far to the left that alienated people.
(He used to be my MP and he was shit).
BTW, due to clicking on “first unread” not necesarily being reliable, I might have missed responding to posts on here even if they directly quoted me. I did intend to, but only after a few days of recovery and now I end up being directed to this page despite not having read it.
Looking at the likely field, I’d probably be happy with Charlotte Church parachuting into the first available safe seat while singing the Red Flag.
The globe-trotting, publicity-hounding, Saddam-kowtowing and “pussycat” Big Brother performance might have had something to do with it. They don’t exactly give an impression of devotion to serving the constituents. Plus, according to some reports I’ve read, it didn’t help this time that he attempted to play the kind of clientelistic community politics that he’d previously denounced (for which he’d won the support of a lot of younger voters, and now lost it).
sorry, you’ve lost me?
IIRC, all that happened before 2010.
I think that’s got more to do with it. It seems to have been much the same approach as in Tower Hamlets. Plus, he did run an appallingly hateful campaign - I don’t know if you saw anything from his Twitter feed, but he circulated photoshops of, e.g., cheering Israelis with the words “If Labour win in Bradford” superimposed, or of Netanyahu with the caption “Let’s hope our plan to win in Bradford succeeds” (or the like - I’m quoting from memory and damned if I’ll look it up). To make it even worse, the gutless shitheel appended the words “Without comment” to each of his tweets of these images in a feeble attempt to claim some distance from his transparent hatemongery.
Everyone concerned about the threat of extremism should take great solace from the fact that this approach failed so badly.