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 5th May 2017, 04:30 PM
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QUOTE(Suedehead2 @ May 5 2017, 04:16 PM)  Rape Clause Ruth was trying to convince people that the elections had been run on local issues. Rape Clause Ruth has a lot of cheek given that the Tory party didn't come up with a single policy during the entire campaign. Signal is that they're planning on the same for the GE. Say what you want about the SNPs constitution obsession but they've always put up truck loads of policy alongside it and over past decade have a proven track record of delivering those policies. Looking at the council campaign you'd quite rightly assume as an uninvolved third party that the unionists were the ones obsessed. |
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5th May 2017, 04:40 PM
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Good riddance UKIP
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5th May 2017, 04:43 PM
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QUOTE(Jade @ May 5 2017, 05:40 PM) Good riddance UKIP At least they achieved what they set out to do but Nuttall is no Farage. |
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5th May 2017, 05:15 PM
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QUOTE(Jade @ May 5 2017, 05:40 PM) Good riddance UKIP The parasite died by consuming its host. |
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5th May 2017, 05:17 PM
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QUOTE(Jade @ May 5 2017, 05:40 PM) Good riddance UKIP *.* Unionist media seem to be spinning a 7 seat SNP gain across the country into a 7 seat loss :') The tories keep going on about the SNP's 'obsession with independence', but Ruth Davidson and her abusers are the ones that have turned this council election into an independence referendum and the ones dividing the country lmao. truly despise them! This post has been edited by Andrew.: 5th May 2017, 05:24 PM |
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5th May 2017, 05:21 PM
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The Tories and Republicans are really despicable. They are all about power and how to get it and keep it at all costs.
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5th May 2017, 05:24 PM
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Well UKIP have achieved what they wanted (British independence) so there is no point in voting for them now, no surprise they are doing badly.
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5th May 2017, 05:24 PM
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Howdy, disco citizens
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QUOTE(Andrew. @ May 5 2017, 06:17 PM) *.* Unionist media seem to be spinning a 7 seat SNP gain across the country into a 7 seat loss :') But, the BBC is currently saying that the SNP HAVE lost 7 seats. |
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5th May 2017, 05:32 PM
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Congratulations to Mebyon Kernow on becoming the seventh largest party / grouping in county councils with four times as many councillors as UKIP
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5th May 2017, 05:35 PM
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Mebyon Kernow need to be in the debates tbh. Dick Cole is surely as relevant as Leanne Wood at least!
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5th May 2017, 05:39 PM
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QUOTE(Brett-Butler @ May 5 2017, 06:24 PM) But, the BBC is currently saying that the SNP HAVE lost 7 seats. That's why I said unionist media  It turns out that we've gained 6 seats from 2012 (where we got 425) but in the last five years that has risen to 438 with by-elections so it's a 7 seat loss from then. My mistake! |
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5th May 2017, 05:40 PM
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QUOTE(Brer @ May 5 2017, 06:35 PM) Mebyon Kernow need to be in the debates tbh. Dick Cole is surely as relevant as Leanne Wood at least! *snigger*. |
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5th May 2017, 05:45 PM
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QUOTE(Andrew. @ May 5 2017, 06:39 PM) That's why I said unionist media It turns out that we've gained 6 seats from 2012 (where we got 425) but in the last five years that has risen to 438 with by-elections so it's a 7 seat loss from then. My mistake! It's counted from 2012 ignoring by-elections. Their count is done on the notional results of the 8 additional councillors. |
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5th May 2017, 07:13 PM
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Whilst Ukip avoided a complete wipeout by a hair's breadth, one party did suffer a wipeout, albeit from a much lower base, as the Liberal Party (not to be confused with the Liberal Democrats) lost all 3 of the seats that it was standing in. Not that anyone saw that as a surprise, particularly those people who didn't realise that it was still going.
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5th May 2017, 07:31 PM
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Strangely, UKIP's single seat was actually a gain. They lost every single seat they were defending which may well have created some sort of record.
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5th May 2017, 07:38 PM
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The only county council seat that UKIP were able to win (Padiham and Burnley West) was the first county council seat that the BNP won in June 2009.
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6th May 2017, 07:01 AM
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Bloody Tories won in the West Midlands
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6th May 2017, 09:25 AM
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QUOTE(danG @ May 5 2017, 06:24 PM) Well UKIP have achieved what they wanted (British independence) so there is no point in voting for them now, no surprise they are doing badly. ISTM they will hang around until Brexit is officially completed though, just in case... |
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6th May 2017, 12:13 PM
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I'm so lonely, I paid a hobo to spoon with me
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QUOTE(vidcapper @ May 6 2017, 10:25 AM) ISTM they will hang around until Brexit is officially completed though, just in case... Just in case what, David Davis and Liam Fox have a change of heart?  Absolute annihilation in Greater Manchester with about 10% more of the first preference vote than I was expecting. A substantial silver lining on an otherwise awful set of results. |
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6th May 2017, 12:38 PM
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That's what Altrincham, Cheadle Hulme, just to the West of Bolton and Prestwich that the Tories won? (trying to roughly line that map up with the actual map of GM.
I did think it would be a closer fight and tbh was expecting a run off. The shock for me was the thrashing Burnham gave the Trafford Council leader in Trafford. |
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