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  • UK General Election Live Thread (December 12, 2019)

    12/12/2019 2:18:28 AM PST · by goldstategop · 361 replies
    New York Times ^ | 12/12/2019 | N/A
    Live Updates: U.K. Votes in General Election Britain’s voters head to the polls to choose their next government on Thursday in a deeply divided moment for the country that has left the outcome unpredictable. RIGHT NOW Voting has begun in the British general election, the second since the country’s landmark Brexit referendum.
  • Italy election: hung parliament on the cards as populist parties surge – live!

    03/04/2018 8:39:31 PM PST · by blueplum · 16 replies
    The Guardian ^ | 04 March 2018 | staff
    The euro has recovered some lost ground and is trading at $1.232 so it’s looking like a bit of score-draw for the single currency so far. It’s a bit of a different picture for the Italian stock market which seems set to fall sharply later today. Futures trading points to a 1.3% drop in the Italy 40 index of leading companies, according to online trader IG. ...Italy’s ruling centre-left Democratic Party has admitted it had suffered a “clear defeat” in a general election after coming in third according to projections. ...More than 50% of Italians voters supported populist parties. ...The...
  • UK Election: Liberals Will Side With Labor After Feigning Uncertainty; Cameron Fool.

    05/08/2010 1:40:27 AM PDT · by chuck_the_tv_out · 32 replies · 1,002+ views
    Christian Husband Blog ^ | 8th May | Staff
    There is no real difference between the 'liberal democrats' of the UK (who, like every other party which tagged 'democrat' to their name ~100 years ago was doing so to differentiate themselves from the Totalitarian Left, like 'hey, it's OK, we're not like Lenin, even though we believe a lot of the same things'. Remember that context when you see 'democrat' in a party name), and the leftist Labor party, and they will together form a leftist government. They are acting now as if they might help the Conservatives into power: they will NOT. They benefit from acting as if...
  • Hung Parliament Looks Likely in U.K.

    05/06/2010 5:39:25 PM PDT · by myknowledge · 8 replies · 404+ views
    The Wall Street Journal ^ | May 6, 2010 | Cassell Brian-Low
    LONDON—U.K. Conservative Party leader David Cameron faces an intense round of political jockeying to gain control of the British government, as his party apparently won more House of Commons seats than rivals, but fell short of a majority. Early projections showed Mr. Cameron's party won 305 seats, short of the 326 seats required for a majority but more than the 255 seats for Labour and 61 seats for the Liberal Democrats, according to exit polls. However, exit polls can be wildly off and even small margins of error could produce very different final outcomes. If the final results confirm that...