Also political bots, trolls and large scale disinformation campaigns don’t fall under the category of “ads”.

So really it’s just business as usual.

My constituency was created in 1983. For the next 32 years, my MP was Malcolm Bruce (Lib / Lib Dem). For my first few GEs, although I considered myself more of a Labour voter, I voted Lib Dem because Malcolm Bruce seemed like a good MP, a decent man, and Lib Dem policies seemed fine by me.

In 2015, Malcom Bruce stood down, Alec Salmond decided to return to Westminster, and SNP support was high.

In 2016, my constituency voted Remain, 55.5-44.5, one of the largest Leave shares in Scotland. So, in 2017, a single-issue election, I think everyone who voted Leave voted Conservative. They narrowly won, but it was such a massive swing, it felt like a bigger win. I now have one of the most disgusting, hardline, sycophantic, self-serving, snivelling, Selacious Crumb of an MP, Colin Clark.

I will have to vote SNP. In an ideal world I’d vote Green, but they don’t even stand here any more (a lot of the constituency are employed in oil & gas). Most people assume I vote SNP anyway; my dad has worked as a parliamentary/constituency assistant for various SNP politicians, including Salmond for a long time, and I am vocally pro-independence, so it’s a fair assumption, but the SNP are a shite party in Government. However, they are a good party in opposition, so I don’t grudge them my vote in Westminster elections. They are the best bet for kicking that Tory cunt out.

I don’t know if there’s other paid for activity than tweets that have the ‘promoted’ tag. But of those I don’t think I see many political ones anyway. So I wonder just how much they’re making from them.

Still it turns the screw on Zuckerberg so hopefully some good will come of it.

I'm prepared enough that I'm about to fly out of the country.

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I'm prepared enough that I'm about to fly out of the country.

I'm already it of the country - I was kind of hoping that it would happen and they wouldn't let me back in. I'd have been ok too, as I've got a console and three games with me.

Do you think Zuckerberg has ever said "zuck my dick" to anyone.

He can Zuck off.

Zuck me? No! Zuck you!

Lib Dems will get the fuck over themselves and support a referendum.

Tory+Farage+DUP could happen and is by far the worst outcome, worse that just Tory.
That will be result in no deal.

Probably the most likely too.

Just caught on the radio that Brexit Party are considering not contesting lots of seats, presumably because it'll impede a Boris Brexit - a Tory majority is currently the bookie's fave.

It won't make much difference imo because I really can't see anything other than a hung parliament at which point Brexit Party would only, as Liv says, try and form a Tory coalition anyway. They'd just hold less sway within that coalition because they'd have a lot fewer seats, which I suppose might be a tiny blessing.

Brexit Party won't factor into any coalition anyway because they won't get more than a seat or two, if any. They will take a chunk out of the Tory and Labour votes wherever they stand though.

I don’t think anyone is a fan of the EU really.

I’m not (well, not as it is now). But I’m still remain and abhor no deal. I’d accept a compromise deal in order to protect and try to restore long term faith in democracy. I don’t know if that’s possible - but I think we have to try. Failing that, remain over no deal, of course. But, in that situation, my own personal happiness may well be undercut by the fear of what is to come.