UK General Election, June 8th 2017

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Douglas Carswell is also stepping down.

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Apparently campaigning will start again on Friday.

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where would one put corbyn on an americanized scale? bernie sanders, hillary clinton, or something in between?

Jill Stein.

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Amazing how far Corbyn has come...this guy was a laughing stock who repeatedly got trolled in the house of commons and now he's almost winning while turning May into the bumbling idiot she is.

And if Labour's surge turns out to be a polling error, he will return to being a laughingstock.

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Maybe this makes me crazy but the idea that this would move anyone's vote strikes me as wishful thinking on the part of the right, unless Trident is some sort of Shibboleth for something else, I fail to see why the refusal to commit a "tit for tat" policy of murdering millions of innocents is scandalous, particularly considering that the Cold War ended 25 years ago.

The point is that the policy of mutually assured destruction ensures that nuclear weapons will not be used.

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Alastair Campbell, former Blair aide, compared the jihadists to Brexit supporters in a tweet (and then deleted it): https://twitter.com/GuidoFawkes/status/871358356472156161