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Post by Ghyl Tarvoke on Jul 12, 2017 0:02:36 GMT
Your Presbyterian contempt for Irish Anglicanism is showing! No, this is wrong. This is the contempt I have from growing up (somewhat) in that millieu. |
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 12, 2017 0:04:02 GMT
Ah, but as not one of them, that's the key lol
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 12, 2017 0:05:40 GMT
I feel the stunning performance of the DUP should be mentioned a little more given their dire showing in the Assembly election not long before...
...while Sinn Fein's results were remarkable in places. The result in Foyle was one of the most extraordinary in the entire UK.
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Post by Ghyl Tarvoke on Jul 12, 2017 0:13:23 GMT
Slow hand clap to, among other people, SDLP leader Colum Eastwood ("Who?" I hear everyone on this board dedicated to UK politics cry) for muttering that perhaps a poll on NI's constitutional status would be indeed a good thing, maybe. And for Sinn Fein who used the Assembly election to browbeat about Tiocfaidh ar La and inevitable demographics. Not that this would hurt them with the demographic whose supposed inevitable triumph they proclaimed.
In this election it's worth noting that yet again the SDLP platform was largely "Hey, at least we take our seats". And it was even less successful than usual. It's difficult to know what exactly the SDLP are for, and with the loss of Foyle their transformation into essentially a party for bourgeois Catholics will soon be complete.
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Post by Ghyl Tarvoke on Jul 12, 2017 0:23:05 GMT
Oh, and if we are talking about remarkable results, forget Canterbury for a minute. The UUP losing their deposit in Belfast South is quite a spectacular development given that they used to weigh the vote here. The good burghers of the Malone Road clearly having moved on to other greater things (partly the Alliance or even the DUP, although quite a lot of those burghers are *gasp* Catholics now, so SDLP).
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Post by Ghyl Tarvoke on Jul 12, 2017 0:28:38 GMT
If the SDLP need a rebrand may I suggest "The Party of Moderate Progress within the bounds of the Law"
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Post by The Bishop on Jul 12, 2017 10:26:51 GMT
In the past (and until quite recently) that *was* enough in itself to make them a major player. But times change, and parties that don't change with them risk irrelevance.
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Post by iain on Jul 23, 2017 12:47:15 GMT
What's your notional for Carrick, Cumnock & Doon Valley?
It seems unlikely that the Tories would have been ahead there.
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 23, 2017 14:50:19 GMT
No offence, but that's pure voodoo.
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Sibboleth
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Post by Sibboleth on Jul 23, 2017 14:50:57 GMT
God damn electoral calculus for encouraging everyone to think they can just make up numbers and declare the to be Facts in this manner.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 23, 2017 20:45:09 GMT
Result of the 2017 general election in Scotland by 1997 UK Parliament constituency (notional):SNP 40 (+5) Con 18 (+5) Lab 10 (+3) LD 4 (nc) Proportionally the Conservatives and Labour would have the largest increase in their share of Scottish seats under these boundaries, whilst the SNP and Liberal Democrats would see their share of seats reduced.  I thought Edinburgh Central might be Tory on those boundaries but I guess not. Thanks for another fantastic Scottish map. |
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