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- face_melter0
May announces UK General Election for June 8th.
Let the games begin!
- she's confidentoey
- Well, this makes it look like she is - which is what people want to see from a PM i guess?Ianbolton
- Calculated move methinks. Labour is beyond fucked with Corbyn.face_melter
- makes absolute perfect sense for the Tories, which, as we know, is the main reason these things are held.Fax_Benson
- Continuity0
This whole UK snap election business bears a striking resemblance to Canada in the 1990s.
After a series of deeply unpopular policies, laws and more than a few scandals, then-Conservative Prime Minister finally resigned, and the Minister of National Defence — one Kim Campbell — was appointed leader of the party and PM, sans general election.
Knowing that she needed legitimacy from the electorate, she called a snap election for that same year, which ended in the Conservatives living in the political wilderness for over ten years ... and resulted in Ms Campbell having the dubious distinction of being the Canadian Prime Minister with the third-shortest term in office (137 days).
Mulroney knew this would happen, which is why he resigned. when he did. He knew that if he ran again, he'd be voted out so — rather than being shamed at the polls — he threw Kim Campbell under the bus.
What we're seeing in Britain — in its simplest, distilled form — is effectively the same thing. Cameron knew that in a post-Brexit UK, he'd never re-elected, so he decided to find someone to take the bullet for him.
That someone is Theresa May.
People may have initially voted for Brexit but — after a few months and really understanding what that will actually imply in very real, very ugly terms — I suspect the British electorate will have something of a change of heart, and punish May and the Conservatives for it.
- This outcome will, of course, depend entirely on how quickly and how well the opposition parties get their shit together.Continuity
- Ah sorry ... the former PM was Brian Mulroney, the one who fucked Campbell.Continuity
- she knows there is no viable opposition (maybe) so when brexit shit really hits fan later on she can say it was will of peoplelowimpakt
- This is the real problem, actually. And it should serve as a lesson to both the Lib Dems and Labour.Continuity
- Having said that, the opposition in CA in the 1990s wasn't much better, if we're honest. It was very much a case of people holding their noses and voting for ..Continuity
- ... the lesser of three evils.Continuity
- lowimpakt1
turkey steps back from democracy and trump congratulates the emerging dictator.
- Morning_star-2
The Independent have nailed the most likely reason for the snap election quite succinctly.
The thing that gives me the most fear is the rise of US style personality driven politics. I don't want to vote for a person, I want to vote for a coherent set of policies and ideas.
A big fuck you if you think that it should mater what sex, race, height, dick size, tit size you are.
- good luck finding a coherent set of policies and ideas before June.Fax_Benson
- There's some truth in that.Morning_star
- Yeah, it's going to boil down to playing the man instead of the ball when it comes to Corbyn.face_melter
- omg-4
Do not call pregnant women 'expectant mothers' as it might offend transgender people. Some women have penises.
lºl- you know who's perpetrating this don't you? making you a nation of feminized, confused idiots?
Russia._niko - they're going to cut off your johnsonFax_Benson
- This you trying to stir up some kind of shit, again?face_melter
- oh yurimoldero
- http://static1.squar…Ramanisky2
- @face_melter - That depends on whether you like women or not I guess.omg
- @omg, no it doesn'tmonospaced
- please educate us warrior.omg
- sure thing ... you are stirring shit up (again), and that is unrelated to your stupid-as-fuck accusation that face_melter hates womenmonospaced
- Either you like women enough or not to concern yourself with these social issues. You're the one who bad mouths and accuses others of hating hating women.omg
- that's a load of shit, and if I've badmouthed anyone for "hating hating women" it's for a damn good reason, unlike your dumbass selfmonospaced
- so, we've come full circle, that you're simply starting shit and making accusations based on bullshit rationale, which makes sense, since you're a dumbfuck trolmonospaced
- You should calm down with your angry uncontrollable language. What kind of person goes around accusing others of hating women but you?omg
- you didmonospaced
- your'e accusing face here of not liking women because he thinks you're here to start shit, which is one of the dumbest things you've ever concludedmonospaced
- and btw, a pregnant woman is an expecting mothermonospaced
- that wouldn't offend anyone, least of all the pregnant woman who is soon to be a mothermonospaced
- lol... what?! for some reason I thought you might have had some related thoughts on the issue this commentator brought up.omg
- you = faceomg
- No, I was only framing his interest in the topic or not. Again you’re the one who likes to attack people for “hating women” with a deluded sense that there...omg
- ...is a good reason. pfft. normal people do not conclude to such atrocitiesomg
- I pulled summary quotes from the video and apparently the new rule or idea is by using the term “expecting mother” is offensive to transgendered women which...omg
- ... you choose to ignore. That’s fine, just gathering opinion. To each his or her own.omg
- At least I won't go around asking you whether you like transgendered women or not, but it sounds like you don't.omg
- Yes, I like to attack people who hate women ... that's not an insult when you point that out. And you're still full of shit, 100%.monospaced
- So you only hate transgendered women. You would point out a pregnant woman as an 'expectant mother' even if it offends transgender people. That's just ignorant.omg
- No I don't. I hate that you are trying to start shit and accusing people of bullshit. Also that wouldn't offend transgender people and you're full of shit.monospaced
- Wanna know why I'm right and you're wrong? Because I am and you're nothing more than the dumbass troll you always have been, yuri.monospaced
- You can't change that. Stomp your feet all you want, you won't ever be right about this or most things. That's just the facts you little bitch.monospaced
- I don't believe there's a wrong or right. I'm not making it up, check the source. The video stated that its something transgender women find offensive.omg
- So you're saying without a doubt that only mothers can get pregnant, that a girl with a penis cannot be a mother.omg
- I didn't say that. I said she would be a mother if she gave birth to her own child. You clearly have no idea what transgender is you dumb fuck.monospaced
- Ok Mr. Transgender know-it-all, I'm just not understanding where your birth is starting from. You're saying your mother can or cannot have a penis?omg
- Because the British medical sources are saying you can have two mothers.omg
- You're confused because you're a moron and asking me stupid questions only makes you look like a bigger dumb fuck.monospaced
- Just say you don't know instead of wasting my time. You don't have to pretend like you know, stirring shit with your angry tones.omg
- It's you stirring shit with your dumbass view of the world, and your need to troll. It's you who has no clue.monospaced
- This Dove commercial isn't saying what you think it's saying, and that's why you're wrong. Using it to try to make good people look bad is just you being an assmonospaced
- you know who's perpetrating this don't you? making you a nation of feminized, confused idiots?
- detritus3
"On Tuesday, Mr. Ballmer plans to make public a database and a report that he and a small army of economists, professors and other professionals have been assembling as part of a stealth start-up over the last three years called USAFacts. The database is perhaps the first nonpartisan effort to create a fully integrated look at revenue and spending across federal, state and local governments."
- BonSeff3
- that must have been the best bowl of chili america had ever seen. ever!dorf
- his colon is backed up all the way to his brainsarahfailin
- utopian2
- Say what you will about the dude but that's the best fucking face ever right there lol_niko
- They call that the Shkreli
https://static.indep…Ramanisky2 - lol awesome was thunking only Shkreli comes close_niko
- R_Kercz2
http://www.politico.com/story/20…
The U.S. Navy aircraft carrier that the Trump administration had said was steaming toward North Korea was actually conducting exercises off the coast of Australia, a U.S. defense official acknowledged Tuesday.
- instrmntl1
Twitter sues to stop Trump's team from unmasking whoever runs this anti-Trump account
http://www.latimes.com/business/…
- utopian3
So far, Trump has been mercifully incompetent
“The world is laughing at us. They’re laughing at the stupidity of our president.”
— Donald Trump, October 2016
Stupid is as stupid does.
- BusterBoy3
So the orange turd is treating global affairs exactly the same way he runs his businesses...threats based on complete lies. When you threaten a country stating you're "sending a yuge Armada" their way...does he not realise it's pretty easy to verify claims like that?
- utopian1
Jared Kushner is still selling off his business assets
- since19792
this guy gets it
- yuekit1
Fox News preparing to fire Bill O'Reilly, Murdoch owned Wall Street Journal reports
- Bluejam7
- They should make Cartman the host for The Daily Show. That would be a much better comedy show. After a while this routine just looks like brainwash propaganda.omg
- Says the guy who believes Alex Jones and Don the Con Trump.
Perhaps Cartman would actually make a better President than Don?!kona - Jon Stewart would be a better president than Donal Trump. He's also very funny.monospaced
- zarkonite2
https://www.theatlantic.com/inte…
"How Did the Trump Administration Lose an Aircraft Carrier?
The White House said the USS Carl Vinson was headed for North Korea as it sailed the opposite direction—the latest example of a communications failure inside the executive branch."