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Post by tabby on Jun 9, 2017 14:44:53 GMT -4
I also learned while in London that the blue and red are backwards. Conservatives are blue and Labour is red. I had to keep doing double takes at the election maps. I just learned that this morning! If nothing else, the bonkers worldwide political scene is increasing my store of international electoral trivia.
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Post by chonies on Jun 9, 2017 15:07:59 GMT -4
You'd think with the unionist part of their name, they'd be lefties. I also learned while in London that the blue and red are backwards. Conservatives are blue and Labour is red. I had to keep doing double takes at the election maps. I had them pegged as conservatives who wanted to remain within the UK based on the "union" but I had no idea about the list of hard-right climate denying foolishness.
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jenm
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Post by jenm on Jun 9, 2017 15:40:41 GMT -4
You'd think with the unionist part of their name, they'd be lefties. I also learned while in London that the blue and red are backwards. Conservatives are blue and Labour is red. I had to keep doing double takes at the election maps. I had them pegged as conservatives who wanted to remain within the UK based on the "union" but I had no idea about the list of hard-right climate denying foolishness. Yep the Unionists is based on their support for the Act of Union 1800. I've never understood why the Tories and Labour don't all out in NI. There's a lot of people there who don't want to be represented by SinnFeinn or the DUP. It's a lot of seats they could try for.
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Post by Oxynia on Jun 9, 2017 16:28:19 GMT -4
Very dangerous...Northern Ireland peace depends on each party having equal power. Now the DUP has more. Not to mention the DUP wagging the UK dog. Queen should have said No.
Ridiculous...all this to satisfy various unresolved childhood issues of conservative MPs. Theresa May is as much a raging narcissist as Cheeto.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 16:41:49 GMT -4
Last seat filled by labour in Kensington and Chelsea (London) by 20 votes 20! There ya go your vote does count.....
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Post by Ninja Bunny on Jun 9, 2017 16:43:34 GMT -4
Wow, A hung Parliament with the DUP. That's not what Mrs May thought would happen way back when called for snap election was it now... David Cameron didn't think the Brexit vote would lead to an actual Brexit. The conservatives keep surprising themselves in unpleasant ways, don't they?
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Post by ladyboy on Jun 9, 2017 18:34:48 GMT -4
Wow, Kensington went Labour? That's shocking.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 9, 2017 19:37:48 GMT -4
Wow, Kensington went Labour? That's shocking. Yup, Tory seat since 1974 I'm told
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Post by Mugsy on Jun 12, 2017 11:38:11 GMT -4
Same here in Canada - Liberal is red and Conservative is blue. I had to do doubletakes at American election maps.
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Post by butterfly on Jun 12, 2017 15:53:53 GMT -4
Here in Australia, the Liberal Party IS the conservative party. Go figure!
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