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That is pretty impressive actually. They screwed over the legal system handily there.
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In the never ending march of Kippers 'Telling It Like It Is' this chap cannot be sexist because 'his best friend is a girl' and not racist because he 'brought home a curry last night'quote:James Elgar, 19, denied being sexist or racist and said his views on subjects such as immigration, taxes and crime were "moderate" and not radical He also used the hashtag ect, ect, ect. For some reason, that always grates on me. So, how many of these lovely people coming out of the woodwork does it take to go from 'an individuals unfortunate views' to a general consensus within the party?
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:32 |
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I can't even imagine just how insufferable a 19 year old UKIP supporter is.
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:39 |
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Trickjaw posted:“Last night he came home at 10.30pm with a curry.” "He's even eaten things as diverse as kebabs, and once stayed on al jazeera longer than a half second while changing channel, he can't possibly be a racist, besides, I didn't bring him up to expose his views about niggers and whores in public"
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:42 |
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More housing stuff- the Bank of England and Treasury are looking into the possibility of replacing their current preferred measure of inflation (CPI) with one that accounts for housing costs: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/economics/10799758/Treasury-may-change-inflation-target-to-include-housing-costs.html quote:Britain's headline measure of inflation may be modified to include housing costs, after a top Bank of England official revealed it had held further talks with the Treasury about switching to a more “useful” gauge of price rises. It's surprising that CPIH inflation was lower than CPI last month, although I suppose with ultra-low interest rates and the fact that most mortgage holders will have bought at pre-bubble prices, it will be some time before aggregate mortgage payments reflect increases in current sales prices. Also, Shelter and KPMG have released their full report into the state of the housing market - the Graun have summarized its contents here. quote:The average price of a house in England could double in the next decade and hit more than £900,000 by 2034, unless there is a radical new housebuilding programme to provide nearly a quarter of a million new homes a year, a report claims today. The recommendations in the report itself are actually a bit more radical than the ones the Graun chose to highlight - they also want mandatory national minimum space standards for new homes and major increases in funding for housing associations and council house building. Likelihood of this stuff actually happening: questionable.
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:45 |
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Why is slope offensive?
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:49 |
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JFairfax posted:Why is slope offensive? I'm assuming it's related to the whole 'slanty-eyed Asian' thing.
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:52 |
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Darth Walrus posted:I'm assuming it's related to the whole 'slanty-eyed Asian' thing. The way I heard it explained was that it was actually related to the standard 'coolie hat' giving vietnamese a "sloped head" appearance, which became 'slope head' as an insult, which then shortened to 'slope'.
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# ? May 1, 2014 13:57 |
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I'm leaving my job today and a nice lady in the office next door whose name I don't know bought me a Penguin book, The Case for Communism, because we once had a long conversation about politics in the kitchen over lunch. That's nice
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:03 |
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SybilVimes posted:The way I heard it explained was that it was actually related to the standard 'coolie hat' giving vietnamese a "sloped head" appearance, which became 'slope head' as an insult, which then shortened to 'slope'. Huh, well the more you know I guess. Can't say I recall hearing that in any of the Vietnam war movies I've watched.
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:15 |
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Clarkson obscured what he said to be funny and edgy. He's annoyed people think he said the N-word based on the PC GONE MAD act that made him rich (and the fact he totally does). The slope gaffe was annoying because he denied knowing it was a racist term, but the wordplay only worked if he knew it was a term for an Asian man. Sadly he'll keep his million pound BBC job despite a string of acts of casual racism and use it as a platform to attack the BBC and political correctness. But in good news Labours come out with rent controls which are a)something I like because it'd benefit me and b) will be fairly popular. A couple more decent bits of policy and maybe I might hold my nose and vote for them. Maybe.
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:16 |
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I was looking over the candidates in the Euro election in Scotland: we have the people that you'd expect (Labour, Tories, Lib Dems, SNP, UKIP, Greens, BNP); some BNP splinter group called "Britain First" and No2EU. There's at least left unity this time since the SSP and the SLP aren't bothering to stand candidates, although I can't see them coming any higher than seventh: and that's me being optimistic about how much the BNP vote will move to either UKIP, back to Labour or split with the BNP splitter party. The No2EU idea is a could one with Euroscepticism being high, although its a failed venture because Eurospecticism in the UK isn't reasonable but based on "IMMIGRANTS STEALING ARE JOBS!!!", which a left-wing party can't really support without being a little hypocritical...
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:17 |
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JoylessJester posted:
But they're VENEZUELAN AND SOCIALIST http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/30/ed-miliband-labour-rental-market-reforms-property
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JFairfax posted:Huh, well the more you know I guess. Can't say I recall hearing that in any of the Vietnam war movies I've watched. It is used in Apocolypse now, and I think I remember hearing it in another (possibly 4th july). I heard pretty much every anti-asian slur at school (you know, being white and all ), and many of them didn't make any sense, so I'd occasionally ask an adult wtf it was supposed to be insulting.
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:So how complicated are we talking about to make it impossible to prosecute? What are you planning Also, Ed Milliband's on the right track with these rental reforms, judging by the squeals coming from the relevant vested interests: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2014/may/01/nick-clegg-hosts-his-call-clegg-phone-in-politics-live-blog quote:Capping rents could potentially lead to landlords simply withdrawing from the market if they don't get the price they need to make their investment economically sound. Those poor landlords
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:22 |
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If landlords have to sell up (which is a nonsense scare move anyway), that'd also help ease the housing market too, right? Two birds, one stone.
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:28 |
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Umiapik posted:Those poor landlords I always love hilarious alarmist bullshit like that. They're just going to leave all that money sitting there? Doing nothing? So... demand will drop, causing price to drop, until house prices are low enough again to make rent-capped rates profitable? Get on my level tories
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:31 |
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Umiapik posted:Those poor landlords I assume that most cases of landlords "withdrawing from the market" would involve putting their houses up for sale, which would depress prices a bit? Or would the insanity of the bubble result in them just holding onto them and seeing the appreciating value as a replacement for rental income? e: beaten
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:32 |
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They phrase it like a landlord withdrawing from the market will somehow take the building with them somewhere else
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:36 |
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IceAgeComing posted:some BNP splinter group called "Britain First" A facebook "friend" of mine has liked their page after sharing some story about how Burkas are evil because "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?!?!?!" Needless to say, after a quick glance of their facebook page, I promptly unfriended the guy. It was about as bad as the supposed banned 2014 BNP video that is doing the rounds on youtube.
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:43 |
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KKKlean Energy posted:Or would the insanity of the bubble result in them just holding onto them and seeing the appreciating value as a replacement for rental income?
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# ? May 1, 2014 14:59 |
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MyFaceBeHi posted:It was about as bad as the supposed banned 2014 BNP video that is doing the rounds on youtube. Wat. That wasn't parody?
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:09 |
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What does this thread think about All Women Shortlists?
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:18 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:That would involve BTL landlords not having mortgages to pay, which I can't imagine being the case. mortgages with T&Cs attached making sure they rent the property out for as much as possible quite disapointing that Milliband says that any existing BtL mortgage that specifies no rental terms greater than one year (ie most of them) will be exempt from the law guaranteeing the availibilty of 3 year tennancy agreements. why not just render that clause of mortgage contract unenforcable?
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:26 |
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It is well known that when landlords stop renting property out they demolish them. Also is it normal for campaigners to threaten to "shank you one" unless you vote UKIP? Just a quick question.
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:30 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:Also is it normal for campaigners to threaten to "shank you one" unless you vote UKIP? Just a quick question. The Ex-BNP ones? Probably.
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Drone_Fragger posted:It is well known that when landlords stop renting property out they demolish them. Only the ones who have spent time in prison.
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:33 |
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Umiapik posted:What are you planning Nothing major, just a few billion.
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:35 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:That would involve BTL landlords not having mortgages to pay, which I can't imagine being the case. If you rent a house out you're stupid not to have a mortgage as you can offset the interest on it against your income, the current system literally encourages it.
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:46 |
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Shakespearean Beef posted:Oh come on, this is a complete non-issue, an actual case of PC gone mad. Most people these days realise that Political Correctness is more about controlling the cognitive behaviour of the masses than protecting minorities, a current example would be how UKIP is constantly spammed with racist accusations rather than well thought out policy alternatives. Clarkson is an intelligent man and I would think his politically incorrect slip ups are designed to be rebellious against this Frankfurt school style manipulation rather than be offensive to either minorities or in the case of Asian people who represent 60% of the global population majorities. Haha, oh wow. No, Racists are stupid fucks and should be shunned and ostracized because it's literally the only way to enact societal change. If there's anything the past several thousand years of human history have taught us it's that the way to get what you want is to use strongly worded letters and disapproving tuts, right? e: did I just get trolled? It's so hard to tell these days. I've got a 2 hour round trip tomorrow because someone completely hosed the locks in the jobcentre I have to go to normally so we're being forced to go to one pretty much in the next town over. Rush Limbo fucked around with this message at 15:51 on May 1, 2014 |
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MyFaceBeHi posted:A facebook "friend" of mine has liked their page after sharing some story about how Burkas are evil because "WHAT ARE THEY HIDING?!?!?!" They're standing in two regions including Scotland: I question why a far-right British nationalist party would waste their time standing in Scotland when the BNP got 2.5% in the last Euros, the height of their success across the UK...
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:52 |
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Ddraig posted:Haha, oh wow. Its Shakey, and he got you
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Trickjaw posted:Its Shakey, and he got you Well don't I feel like a prat. Oh well, my anger is still justified if wrongly directed. Apparantly someone forced superglue into the main staff entrance for the jobcentre, then shattered the cylinders, so rather than going in through the pleb entrance, they've decided to close up shop and send everyone to a different place. Appointment times are still the same, apparantly, so if you don't find out the jobcentre is shut and you go to that one expecting to be seen, you're going to get sanctioned, son!
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# ? May 1, 2014 15:56 |
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The telegraph explains the housing woes of young people today: they are all lazy rentailures who just can't be arsed to spend time hunting for a good place. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/women/womens-life/10801103/Dont-blame-the-recession-Im-moving-back-home-because-Im-lazy.html quote:So, to all the parents getting those phone calls from their former babies glumly announcing they’ll ‘need to move home for a while’, don’t automatically assume it’s because of the housing crisis. Because if these cunning kids are anything like my friends and I, it’ll actually be because they were too lazy to find a flat and they just fancy some free lodging and veggies. I hope my mum isn't reading this.
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# ? May 1, 2014 16:02 |
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At least you can trust the hotbed of multiculturalism that is London to keep the crazies out http://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/ukip-local-elections-candidates-racist-language-is-exposed-9310580.htmlEvening Standard posted:UKIP was engulfed in a new racism row today after the Evening Standard unearthed evidence of its London election candidates using offensive language.
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# ? May 1, 2014 16:03 |
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Ddraig posted:Well don't I feel like a prat. Oh well, my anger is still justified if wrongly directed. Yes, that is a load of poo poo, document everything (in case someone else gets sanctioned, and needs it) and also so you get your travel expenses back. Its also probably been done by someone who has suffered at their hands, not much consolation, but people do lose perspective when they are really bloody angry, and getting no where.
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# ? May 1, 2014 16:04 |
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Farage got egged today. It was wonderful to see. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-27242557 It's actually a bit worrying to see how easily someone could stab him in the neck a few times. Speaking of UKIP, the guy at the top of my street has a big sign declaring his support for UKIP He seemed like a decent bloke and I used to buy goose eggs from him.
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# ? May 1, 2014 16:05 |
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WastedJoker posted:Farage got egged today. It was wonderful to see. Yeah I saw that. I didn't really want to give it any legitimacy, as its puerile and not going to change anything, apart from Kippers thinking they are now in the club of politicians who have been assaulted by food. This is why mailing them jiffy bags full of nonsense is a bit more dignified. As for MA's post from the Standard, its great to give these terrible people enough rope to hang themselves, as they inevitably do. Mind you, not sure how much difference that will make in Barking and Dagenham. Also, even though they are not officially UKIP anymore, Christine Hamilton is on This Week tonight, and she never fails to perform atrociously on demand.
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WastedJoker posted:Farage got egged today. It was wonderful to see. Goose egg Farage
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I wonder how many candidates will remain as official UKIP candidates next week, I'm guessing they can't just substitute in other candidates this late in the game either.
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