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  • monoboy1

    Scenario time...

    1. Tories scrape in due to a youth vote no show. Lots of derision. May gets knifed in the back. Boris takes over. Hard brexit. We are totally fucked. Unless you're loaded. Left-wing activists cause civil unrest.

    2. Hung parliament. Tories get knocked back by everyone. We get a progressive alliance between SNP and Labour. No brexit. Toryland goes batshit crazy, calls for English independence. The lot. Right-wing nutters cause civil unrest.

    3. Labour landslide. A big fuck you to the smug old cunts. Cue mass hysteria. Corbyn thinks he's Jesus until big business starts fucking off to the continent en masse thanks to Brexit. Right-wing nutters cause civil unrest.

    IE. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

    But scenario 3 totally worth it to see the smile wiped off these ignorant, smug, nationalist pricks. They'd lose their shit completely.

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    • Isn't a Tory landslide much more likely than a Labour one? Some polls still have them 12 points ahead.yuekit
    • Boris as PM. Like giving a foul-mouthed child a box of matches in a fireworks factory.face_melter
    • Yup, but others have them just at 1 point. Hard to tell. I think scenario one is the most likely.monoboy
    • I agree with all of this - shame number 3 is so unlikely. And yes even if he won the shitstorm to follow would be nearly as bad. No win situ.fadein11
    • reality:
      a government is elected. some people moan. everyone carries on. the usual muddle. it's the British Way      hans_glib
    • Normally yes but not this time I think. Simply because of the uncertainty around Brexit. It's a poisoned chalice.monoboy
    • Alas @hans_glib it is v.different this timefadein11
    • You're Scottish aren't you, monoboy?
      If so — did you vote for independence in the referendum?      detritus
    • No it's not, it's the same shower of cuntery revolving around the ever-so occasionally minimally-divergent middle. The more things change...detritus
    • Yup. I voted yes. Simply because I felt it was in the best interests of Scotland to leave a Conservative dominated Westminster behind.monoboy
    • If we had a more social democratic party in charge, I'd have voted no to independence. (I'm actually English but have lived in Scotland for years).monoboy
    • Christ, you're about as muddled-up as I am, then. Can you perhaps concede that 'many' people in England voted Leave for non- cartoon-Nationalism reasons?detritus
    • Perhaps ill-advisedly, but not necessarily 'nationalistically'? I just think it's unfair to lump all in disagreement as 'ignorant, smug nationalist pricks'detritus
    • Absolutely. But the backdrop is mostly xenophobic amongst the older voter. I dislike nationalism but would vote yes for Scottish independence.monoboy
    • For me, it's all about having a socially progressive outlook. Brexit was a reaction against that imo. Harking back to a bygone era that never existed.monoboy
    • I do know some Tory progressives. But they tend to blame those that don't 'succeed in life' for being lazy. Forgetting, the privilege that brought them theirs.monoboy
    • indeed.fadein11
    • The Tory scum will probably scrape by due to the amount of brain dead people in the UK.Chimp
    • yep - told who to vote for by newspapers. hilarious.fadein11
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