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13 Dec 2019, 4:55 am

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

Everywhere in the world, the conservatives breed more kids, so they're becoming the majority everywhere while the seculars are becoming more minority with every generation; it's the case in US, UK, France, Turkey, Egypt....everywhere.
The future of the world..... is conservative by the cheer numbers.

Conservatives don't breed more here. Also not to be confused with American use of the word conservative, similarities but not the same thing. As far as I know there's the same percentage of Conservatives who are secular as the other parties, religion is RARELY discussed in politics her, this is intentional.

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13 Dec 2019, 5:01 am

This is so depressing, Tory knobheads!

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13 Dec 2019, 5:06 am

Win for democracy and Britain gains independence and freedom. A bunch of corrupt bankers in Belgium should not dictate terms to Britain. This is a great win for British nationalism and keeping Britain for Britain.

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13 Dec 2019, 5:07 am

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The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

Ok...you know better, but I find it hard to believe that religiosity doesn't affect conservatism/political choices.

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13 Dec 2019, 5:16 am

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

Given that apparently Cambridge Analytica were working for Leave, I'm not sure it's even a win for democracy.

The_Face_of_Boo wrote:

Ok...you know better, but I find it hard to believe that religiosity doesn't affect conservatism/political choices.

Religion really doesn't have that much to do with politics here (so far as I can see).

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13 Dec 2019, 5:28 am

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Labour also received a plurality of the vote amongst those belonging to other religions (48%) and those with no religious affiliation (47%). Amongst these two groups, the Conservative vote share was, respectively, 33% and 32%.

http://www.brin.ac.uk/religious-affilia ... -election/

I'm not sure whether 'no religious affiliation'= atheist .

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13 Dec 2019, 6:34 am

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http://www.brin.ac.uk/religious-affilia ... -election/

I'm not sure whether 'no religious affiliation'= atheist .

Yes, confusing term, I couldn't even tell you whether I had a religious affiliation or not. Do they stop people in the street and ask them? how rude

Oh, maybe it's from the census, but I don't see how they could connect the votes to the census unless they compared areas which is a bit big brother, voting is private for a reason. Anyway according to the 2001 census 390,127 people said their religion was Jedi

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13 Dec 2019, 9:00 am

Capitalism has been saved in the UK. Brexit will be done and 5 years of UK building strong economy to secure it economic future. UK loves Boris Johnson and he will reign as PM for a very long time.

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13 Dec 2019, 9:10 am

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UK loves Boris Johnson and he will reign as PM for a very long time.

Well this little section of the UK (my house) really can't stand him but I imagine "reign" is a very good word for what he'd like to do.

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13 Dec 2019, 9:24 am

Boris Johnson may be a moran but at least maybe now brexit will actually happen,deal or no deal.

England has had 3 years to figure out a deal and now has to leave no questions asked.

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13 Dec 2019, 9:29 am

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

UK loves Boris Johnson

He won 43.6% of the vote yesterday

He won a large amount of constituencies which gives him very solid power for the next 5 years, but it's hard to say the UK 'loves him' when the majority of voters didn't even vote for his party

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13 Dec 2019, 11:01 am

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

Capitalism has been saved in the UK. Brexit will be done and 5 years of UK building strong economy to secure it economic future. UK loves Boris Johnson and he will reign as PM for a very long time.

Thank you Rainbow_Belle
Enjoy your enthusiasm, congratulations I guess. :lol:

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13 Dec 2019, 11:33 am

Obviously to the working class mind potentially subjecting the disabled to even more mistreatment was a fine thing to do so long as Brexit is delivered.

I don't detect much affective empathy in that .

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14 Dec 2019, 5:02 am

fluffysaurus wrote:

5000 out of 95000, I'm surprised my 19 year old Lib Dem got that many since he was clear he wanted to stop Brexit. This is Brexit central. My relations are the only people I know not pro Brexit.

If you live in Lincolnshire then it’s possible you have just voted for one of my friends. Total policy nerd but also very committed to his community.

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14 Dec 2019, 5:18 am

Rainbow_Belle wrote:

Brexit is likely to cause chaos,at least in the short term,for exporters and importers.All shipments entering the EU from outside it must be declared to Customs in the EU country at least 24 working hours before arrival.This means that UK exporters who normally work to Thursday or Friday deadlines to meet vessels sailing on a weekend will now have to change their entire manufacturing processes to have the shipments produced and fully documented by Wednesday.Failure to have the documents finalised and requiring later amendments will result in additonal charges or even Customs fines.They will already have additional costs to declare the goods to Customs in the first place if they were previously under Free Trade.
To add that it was a victory for English nationalism not British.

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14 Dec 2019, 6:18 am

The_Walrus wrote:

fluffysaurus wrote:

5000 out of 95000, I'm surprised my 19 year old Lib Dem got that many since he was clear he wanted to stop Brexit. This is Brexit central. My relations are the only people I know not pro Brexit.

If you live in Lincolnshire then it’s possible you have just voted for one of my friends. Total policy nerd but also very committed to his community.

He seemed genuine, if a little naive. I think really I was just impressed he had the balls to go for it.

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