The UK voted for Bojo and Brexit.
Laurence Fox feat. Elvis
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The UK voted for Bojo and Brexit.
Thanks for reminding me. This is a horrible country in many ways.
117k out of about 9,000,000 people. That's about 1.3%. Considering the platforms and funding he's been given, it's not too much to worry about.
that was also the second choice votes. It’s really not significant.
Those people barely outnumbered the even thicker people who were unable to correctly fill out their ballot paper (114,201).
And almost 320,000 didn't even bother to nominate their second choice candidate.
Actually it's out of 3m voters or whatever it was. So you can probably triple it to find the real dipshit quota.
Debatable.
Yeah, but that's the number of people he managed to convince to vote for him. Others decided they didn't care enough to vote for anyone, hence the low turnout.
True enough.
there’s nothing wrong with not nominating a second choice.
It wonder how many of those were protests - I’m not sure how you can get it wrong!
No, I agree. I'm just pointing out that more than double the number who decided to give Fox their second vote opted to give theirs to nobody.
On the second point, have you ever worked with the general public? Some people are almost unbelievably stupid. There wasn't a day that went by when I worked in retail without having to explain to adults how the alphabet worked.
i try to stay away from the public as much as possible!!
i did work in retail for a number of years, but it’s 20 years ago now, so perhaps I’ve forgotten the stupidity.
I don't particularly disagree with your support of free speech, but I think there are many, many examples where giving people with racists viewpoints and dodgy views exposure is exactly what lets them grow and turn into monsters. The examples range from Hitler to Trump to 8chan and the growth of internet-bred far-right terrorists. IMO we should support free speech because it's right to do so, not because we think it's going to defeat racists - because it almost certainly won't.
Its difficult to assess, as there will always be people with such viewpoints - theoretically banning them takes them underground, and then they don’t have anyone to critique them as they operate in an echo chamber.
I don’t believe free speech will defeat racist viewpoints, I support free speech as a basic human right - however, I also think it’s often the best way to quash these ways of thinking, because it allows debate, rigour and critique.
obviously I might be living in my own cloud cuckoo land.
Do some of you just like to be miserable?
This campaign couldn't have gone much worse for Fox, he's literally won a handful more votes than a man dressed as a bin, a kid who's sole purpose was to wind Fox up and less votes than a youtuber.
Just revel in how shit this has been for him and how London was always a weird choice for him to make a run for elected office.
Also kind of shows how much of a social media bubble some people live in. I don't think a single one of my friends or colleagues in London had even heard of Laurence Fox.
This campaign couldn't have gone much worse for Fox, he's literally won a handful more votes than a man dressed as a bin, a kid who's sole purpose was to wind Fox up and less votes than a youtuber.
Just revel in how shit this has been for him and how London was always a weird choice for him to make a run for elected office.
Also kind of shows how much of a social media bubble some people live in. I don't think a single one of my friends or colleagues in London had even heard of Laurence Fox.
I never knew Fox until the caf started talking about him. He should sign up here.
Exactly. He's been massively humiliated. This arsehole was getting fawning full page articles in the likes of the DM and the Telegraph, as well as TV appearances and he lost to a youtuber running on a 5p packs of crisps ticket.100% agree.
Yep, no one I asked in the real world seemed to know who he was either. And I know two people, one I work with on a daily, who are Q/Trump morons
I'd never heard of him until this thread turned up either...which sort of begs the question as to how he got onto Question Time in the first place.
@esmufc07 is his booking agent and got him in.
i'd have voted for this guy
Well worth it for us all to have a good laugh at Fox, I think.
If anyone was in any doubt about what a racist cnut he is.
the real uncomfortable truth for him is that most child sex grooming gangs are made up of white men
That’s where he’s going next then. The fake intellectual-I’m just advocating free speech-approach didn’t work. So he’s just going to be blatantly racist instead.
Laurence Fox endorsing cancel culture
I have seen that argument several times and it's baffling. Since when being shamelessly terrible at geography an argument for anything?
im sure if you asked 100 British people to point out where a dozen well known towns in the UK are - there would be many wrong answers.
ive Not seen the argument before, but it’s seems pretty futile.
If we had voted for him, he wouldn't have turned racist. Now he's going full super villain 
The moral of the story is, always vote for somebody who might be racist so that they mellow out and don't become racist because they lost.
The moral of the story is, always vote for somebody who might be racist so that they mellow out and don't become racist because they lost.
Laurence Fox is angry
I imagine Laurence position on this would change immdiately if footballers made a gesture to end lockdown and vaccinepassports.
You'd think an actor would be able to wrap his head around the concept given it's a long-standing feature of theatre adaptations. But then I suppose he is neither a good actor nor someone interested in making genuine arguments.
Look, I'm not saying I hope Laurence Fox dies, I'm not saying that. That's not what I am saying.
I’m pretty sure he won’t be a thing for much longer, he has absolutely no redeeming qualities.. and now he’s also proven he can’t get right wing folk to vote for him either the money will dry up too