UK Politics Thread

Discussion in 'Off Topic' started by Spud, May 6, 2016.

  1. Spud Well Liked OG Cruiserweight

    So we've plenty discussions about American politics on here, lets try to get one for the other side of the Atlantic. And now seems like a decent time to get one.

    The SNP will still run the Scottish Government, but this time as a minority. Not too big of a deal considering the voting system is set up to prevent majorities & all they have to do is keep the Greens happy, but not quite the victory they'd have hoped for.

    Labour are in freefall, particularly in Scotland, but Sadiq Khan becoming London Mayor is a decent victory for them.
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  2. Jak Moderator

    Ireland was epic in their bada**ness last year for voting for gay marriage.

    Khan being a muslim is mostly all that North American reporting has done on him.

    Do mayors mean much there? For example, the mayor of Vancouver is a hipster yuppie who started a juice company years ago. While he is a "mayor" he doesn't really do jack sh*t except add bike lanes everywhere.
  3. rhino78 Movie Idol Champion 2018

    Aren't you guys run by a queen or something?
  4. Spud Well Liked OG Cruiserweight

    Being from Scotland I don't really pay any attention to the particular policies that the London Mayor introduces, but it's a very high profile position. Boris Johnson is the current Mayor & he's probably going to end up as the leader of the Conservative party. Of course, Boris also has the goofy personality that makes people think he's a human being with feelings & a soul, rather than a Tory.
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  5. Jak Moderator

    Lol. I'm from Canada, aren't we run by the same Queen bee too?
  6. Jak Moderator

    From what gather from the news, there's been a ton of political turn over in the last decade in the UK. Is this somewhat correct? Always seems like someone is voting on a referendum to detach from someone else.

    Or at least it comes across like there hasn't been any long term stability with the leading parties, of the various UK countries, at least recently.
  7. Gnarcore OG Sports Idol Champion

    Kind of. It a long explanation of how it all breaks down...but in essence she does sign off on things but has no effect on policy. Essentially whatever Parliament passes goes....but when Parliament breaks down things get interesting.

    I love the UK Parliament how they just yell over each other and hurl insults.
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  8. Spud Well Liked OG Cruiserweight

    The referendums have been a recent issue. We've got a referendum to exit the European Union coming up & Scotland has its independence referendum in late 2014, and despite voting going against independence it's still very much a live issue, certainly still one of the biggest in Scottish politics.

    As for the leadership, there's been a lot of change. If we take the Labour party, 10 years ago they had Tony Blair in charge. He stepped down, Gordon Brown stepped up & the financial crisis kinda f---ed him. The Ed Miliband took over & that was a disaster. Now they're all fighting with each other since they've got a proper left wing leader, Jeremy Corbyn. Now you've mentioned it, it really has been a crazy few years over here. Next thing you know Simon Cowell will be running for leadership of a party.
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  9. Simon Cowell. How silly. Nothing like that could ever happen in a first world country.
  10. redstar Well Liked OG Welterweight

    Jeremy Corbyn seems to be a really good guy.
  11. london209 OG Featherweight

    Sadiq Khan played the victimised race card all through he's campaign and hardly spoke about he's policy's other than building more houses for the housing crisis all we kept hearing was islamaphobia islamaphobia the whole time

    Zac goldsmith did not help himself one but with he's silly attempts to link Khan to terrorists and hate preachers it was the worst campaign for London mayor ever

    I have voted conservative since the day I turned 18 but didn't vote this time for the first time I would rather of kept boris
  12. london209 OG Featherweight

    Jeramy Corbyn fills out questionnaires in he's spare time for money and has 2 lodgers in he's house he and Khan are anti anyone who earns over 70k a year or owns property
  13. Spud Well Liked OG Cruiserweight

    And we've found the UKs troubleshooting
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  14. CardioKing Well Liked Lightweight

    The whole royal family thing is ridiculous. Time to seize control of all their assets, give everyone in the family $30,000 for 2 years and tell them to make it on their own.
  15. Holeydel Well Liked OG Featherweight

    The EU referendum is gonna be interesting. I'm leaning towards out at the mo but have to read up on more real facts etc before chucking my vote in.
  16. Spud Well Liked OG Cruiserweight

    Yeah I don't really know much of the details and both sides are twisting the information to their benefit so much it's difficult to know what's true.

    One thing I will say is that the In campaign using scare tactics isn't something I want to see. It's pretty much just Project Fear all over again, telling us leave and the country will collapse.
  17. Jak Moderator

    Why so many recent referendums? Was it not that long ago Scotland was voting to be independent? Or does that have something to do with it?

    Would that mean the end of the Euro? Lol. I remember a time before Euro's. and i'm not even that old!
  18. smartigan Well Liked OG Super Heavyweight

    I remember when it changed. I went to Holland with Irish money, changed to guilder and came home with Euros.

    50 guilder was about 20 Irish punt
    then the euro came in and they kept the prices the same over there, just changed the currency

    So a 50 guilder bag was the same size as a 50 Euro bag
    50 guilder = 25 Euro

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  19. Holeydel Well Liked OG Featherweight

    I think with the two main parties losing power and popularity, other parties have gained momentum which in turn gives them a greater backing for their demands.If they demand a referendum, they can no longer be ignored as it would reflect poorly on the leading party at that moment in time. Previously the leading party could tell these other parties to get bent and not worry about the little votes they were losing - now those little votes have grown into a substantial number and there demands have to be addressed.

    Nah, us Brits ain't part of the Euro. It will continue as normal elsewhere.
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  20. Holeydel Well Liked OG Featherweight

    Very true. The scare tactics really pissed me off to be honest. I saw a simple video for the Out campaign and it was very well made - it certainly swayed me some. Alls I gotta do now is check whether it was BS or not, but logically the video made sense. Keen to see In's response.

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