<Iskierka>
apparently clegg may have lost his seat to labout
<Pinkbeast>
Ho ho
<Iskierka>
wrexham was one con was hoping to take but remains lab
<egg|df|egg>
hm, clegg was one of those backing the EU citizenship for UK citizens post-brexit thing iirc?
<Iskierka>
clegg was leader of libdem
<Pinkbeast>
It's Clegg who made the Faustian pact in 2010
<egg|df|egg>
!wpn Iskierka
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gives Iskierka a Lovecraftian lobster
<Pinkbeast>
Horrible for reasons your brain could not comprehend without exploding
<egg|df|egg>
Pinkbeast: but if instead of trying to comprehend it I eat it, I'm fine, right?
<Pinkbeast>
egg|df|egg: As long as you don't mind ingesting a lot of adjectives
<Pinkbeast>
There's a theatre group near us who do essentially recitations - their schtick is sound effects produced during the performance, not prerecorded - who keep doing Lovecraft, but they did Poe once and I wish they'd do Poe again
<Iskierka>
... democratic unionist party have two seats, whoever they are
<Pinkbeast>
They are Irish and alas essentially Tories
<Iskierka>
booo. was hoping unionist would be EU
<Pinkbeast>
Nooo, the other union, the one we formed by murdering people
<Iskierka>
being fair at that point in history that's how most unions came about
<Iskierka>
though it's only the tories trying to keep that up
<Iskierka>
at least betting things corbyn is the favourite
<Pinkbeast>
Iskierka: Oh, where?
<Iskierka>
... can't find it now
<Iskierka>
"Some betting websites such as Betfair are now rating Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn as favourite to become prime minister, which is putting more pressure on sterling." on the BBC live feed
<Iskierka>
suspect this is betting "after coalitions determined" rather than outright, however
<Pinkbeast>
I'd take after coalitions determined
<Pinkbeast>
Tee hee, what an upset for the Tories :-)
<Iskierka>
someone on radio 5 now thinks the exit poll is going to be almost exact and is con prediction is probably a ceiling. Suspect they may be early calling that but hopefully they know what they're talking
<Iskierka>
(someone being a professor but iunno how qualified)
<Iskierka>
"Sebastian Borger, the London correspondent for Berliner Zeitung, says Angela Merkel would prefer a Conservative majority - despite not being a friend of Theresa May." <- confused.
<Pinkbeast>
If I were Merkel I'd prefer May's lunatic approach to negotiation - if Britain is going out, why give them anything?
<Iskierka>
perhaps. would've thought preference might be lib dem so no agreement required but perhaps she just realises how crazy that would be
<kmath>
<ManyATrueNerd> I assume Corbyn's ringing every Labour MP, just to yell "Hey, I wonder how it would look if you'd bothered backing me 2 years ago?"
<Iskierka>
he can still be nearly electable after all that
<Pinkbeast>
Perchance not even "nearly"
<icefire>
curious why snp is losing so many seats
<Pinkbeast>
icefire: SNP had all the seats in Scotland in a sweep from Labour, so only a small twitch can give a lot back
<Iskierka>
pushed independence hard when if it's at all an option they'd generally prefer not
<Iskierka>
they'll probably go for it if it were a tory brexit but it's now not an option so there's a hard pushback to try hold things together
<Iskierka>
least that's the theory I'm seeing
<Pinkbeast>
And the Scottish Parliament has a sensible voting system so it's much easier for voters to signal to each other what they'd really like, and that carries over into national elections
<Iskierka>
s/it's now not an option/not is now an option/
<Qboid>
Iskierka meant to say: they'll probably go for it if it were a tory brexit but not is now an option so there's a hard pushback to try hold things together
<Iskierka>
early reports 72% of 18-24s voted, which would be above the current average estimate
<Iskierka>
if that's accurate then all traditional poll-correction techniques are out the window, probably
<Iskierka>
nick clegg seat loss confirmed
<Pinkbeast>
As ye sow, so shall ye reap
<icefire>
I respect this surprising turnout in the UK voters
<icefire>
compared to the pathetic shitshow that is US voters
<Pinkbeast>
Our turnout is usually quite terrible but we don't have the active voter suppression efforts the US has got up to recently
<Iskierka>
possibly worse media if considering the mainstream stuff
<Iskierka>
<Pinkbeast> Our turnout is usually quite terrible but we don't
<Pinkbeast>
Gosh, I wonder if we can think of another gamble the Mail liked that backfired eg betting on Hitler
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<Iskierka>
and this is the turning point when we see the conservatives gain a lead again. equal votes to 4k margin, 2 constituencies to labour
* Iskierka
should probably sleep
* Pinkbeast
should too but bad at that sort of responsible adult stuff
<Iskierka>
last update 501 seats 68.2% turnout and they're equal seats @ 220, +24k votes to con. I'm going to bed.
<UmbralRaptor>
"Fears of Brexit Chaos"
<Pinkbeast>
Sleep wossname
<UmbralRaptor>
Didn't that happen last year?
<UmbralRaptor>
sleep is fake
<Pinkbeast>
UmbralRaptor: No, last year we had a memorandum of national suicide
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<UmbralRaptor>
It caused chaos, though, right?
<Pinkbeast>
Not at the time - to cause chaos there would have to be acceptance that the ship is sinking
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<egg|df|egg>
Iskierka: Pinkbeast: UmbralRaptor: I'd somewhat surprised that the SNP and libdems, that were the most decidedly pro-european parties in there, fared so bad
<egg|df|egg>
s/'d/'m/ too early for grammarz
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<egg>
!wpn Iskierka
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gives Iskierka a hacked physicist
<egg>
!wpn UmbralRaptor
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gives UmbralRaptor a harmless inexplicable popup that didn't used to be there and doesn't do what it used to
<Iskierka>
okay ... don't think that's quite *fully* configured, but new router has enough setup for external ssh/vnc so I can fix the rest of it as it emerges
* Iskierka
finds it amusing that we did not previously have a .skybroadband resolved address and now we're not on sky any more
<Iskierka>
apparently labour are being accused of "buying" young people's votes with free tuition. Perhaps the tories are "buying" people's votes by claiming they'll reduce taxes and having to completely destroy the country in doing so
<kmath>
<cononeilluk> Theresa May announces a coalition with DUP. DUP say no agreements have been made. Theresa May now has to offer everything not to lose face
<UmbralRaptor>
"If the Tories form a government with UDP instead of the DUP, they don’t have to guarantee to deliver *anything*."
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