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Gonzo McFee posted:Seriously though Chuck Umunna is like a blank slate of a human being. Basically someone who's not dedicated enough to being evil to be a tory but still wants power. No real opinions of his own. That is basically a textbook definition of New Labour.
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quote:Nigel Farage in UKIP event no-show due to 'immigration'
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Sorry one of you lost a job so close to Christmas.  
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There's nothing wrong with ambition if you want to improve things.
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TinTower posted:Rail replacement bus causes Wirral services to be suspended - after ripping its roof off on a rail bridge
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Paul.Power posted:Although the sad part of this is that Bulgy was Awdry's parody of Communism. Sounds more like a parody of the free market types to me.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Sorry one of you lost a job so close to Christmas. That's the best-written piece of journalism of the year, right there. (Also only marginally less accurate than almost everything else that's appeared in the papers this year, for that matter)
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I want "Prefers the purity of nude socialism" on my headstone.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I want "Prefers the purity of nude socialism" on my headstone. Yes but also as the thread title please?
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Gonzo McFee posted:Sorry one of you lost a job so close to Christmas.  I like the authentic quotes in the article.
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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Gonzo McFee posted:And you're a born wiener. As I called him several months ago, Umunna is basically a "walking Tory regex machine".
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Gonzo McFee posted:Sorry one of you lost a job so close to Christmas. 10/10, excellent parody. Oh... oh no.
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Froodulous posted:Oh... oh no. It's from the Sunday Sport. If there's a grain of truth in the story, it's mere co-incidence
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I for one can't wait for the arguments that royalty is progressive.
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baka kaba posted:I love those front page combos I know, right? "Stealing £2million from the Royal family, disgraceful. Also this Royal spent £32,000 on one night out."
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Dec 7, 2014 19:45
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Gonzo McFee posted:I know, right? She and William charged a shed load of money for a charity dinner to daft Americans who wanted to say they'd met them. Which is pretty positive.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I know, right? It was £32,000 for a member of the American elite to get a meeting with Kate/Wills. Not any better really.
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Gilganixon posted:A good article by Zoe Williams today on this topic points out that responsibility is privatised. quote:Breastfeeding is a prime example: there is good evidence that it prevents gastric bugs, through a specific and identifiable mechanism, the presence of the antibody SIgA. No other supposed result – improved IQ, better health in later life, reduction in other infections – has ever been separated from the confounding factors that, in the UK, breastfeeding mothers tend to be richer, and with that comes more maternity leave and better housing. An intelligent approach from social scientists was a longitudinal study, comparing breastfeeding outcomes from a country where there was a middle-class bias (the UK) to a country where breastfeeding mothers were more likely to be poor (Brazil); all the differences between the breastfed and the bottle-fed were reduced, most evaporated, some reversed.
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twoot posted:It was £32,000 for a member of the American elite to get a meeting with Kate/Wills. Raising money for charity, how loving lovely of the Royals. String 'em up, I say.
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Well yeah you'd have a point if that's the entirety of what the royals do, but it's not. Wasn't there a big story back in June about them taking £8 mil for a helicopter and £4 mil for renovating a palace, back to back? EDIT: haha yeah and they said it was good value because "It will provide an alternative to chartering a number of different helicopters." Spooky Hyena fucked around with this message at 20:09 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Not sure but the onus probably lies with you to supply details e. Thanks
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Spooky Hyena posted:Well yeah you'd have a point if that's the entirety of what the royals do, but it's not. Wasn't there a big story back in June about them taking £8 mil for a helicopter and £4 mil for renovating a palace, back to back? After they were supposedly near bankruptcy, from what I can remember. If you want to be bailed out, be royal or a bank. A Royal Bank in particular and you're quids in.
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Basically gently caress the Royal family and all those who support it.
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Spooky Hyena posted:Well yeah you'd have a point if that's the entirety of what the royals do, but it's not. Wasn't there a big story back in June about them taking £8 mil for a helicopter and £4 mil for renovating a palace, back to back? Maybe, but what twoot said was literally "the Royals charging £32k to meet them at a charity event is no better than them spending £32k on a night out".
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Jedit posted:Maybe, but what twoot said was literally "the Royals charging £32k to meet them at a charity event is no better than them spending £32k on a night out". Considering the administrative cost to program cost ratio of your average charity, this is pretty much valid.
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Jedit posted:String 'em up, I say. We chop their heads off. It's traditional. Edit: Speaking of expiring monarchs, did you know George II strained so hard on the crapper one morning that his heart exploded. Note to self: eat more fiber. tooterfish fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Jedit posted:Maybe, but what twoot said was literally "the Royals charging £32k to meet them at a charity event is no better than them spending £32k on a night out". I didn't know it was for charity  Not quite so bad only string them up a little
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Gonzo McFee posted:Sorry one of you lost a job so close to Christmas. mods rename me "proletari-ate" pls
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Doesn't really matter if it was for charity, because if it had been "royals spend £32K of public money on a dinner event" nobody would be remotely surprised. Nationalise them all!!!
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Gonzo McFee posted:Basically gently caress the Royal family and all those who support it. Excellent stuff.
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Are we on a "gently caress the nobility" kick now? Because my oh my the things I could tell UKMT. My boss avoids paying millions in tax every year by turning his castle business into a charity run by a trust. A trust of which he is the principal trustee along with his wife and a bunch of his professional mates he knew at school. He pays no tax on the castle while living in it at a token rent (few grand a year) and pays no tax on the £25m endowment or the money that earns by being invested. Obviously the castle doesn't pay any tax on the profits it makes as an attraction - this was useful at first because the castle didn't make a profit anyway so he wasn't losing out on anything, just avoid the taxes with no drawbacks. As soon as the castle visitor numbers went up he spun the gift shop and restaurant off into private enterprises under his control (and which he takes the profit from) which just happen to be located inside the castle which is a charity. lmao. He also paid no capital gains or inheritance duties on the death of his father by making a gift to the nation of certain portraits - portraits which are on permanent loan to the duchy and cannot be moved. This agreement was also purely a gentleman's agreement and nothing was actually put into writing until about 10 years after the agreement was made, so that's just great. communism bitch fucked around with this message at 21:15 on Dec 7, 2014 |
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Oberleutnant posted:My boss avoids paying millions in tax every year by turning his castle business into a charity run by a trust. Bill Gates does this with the Gates Foundation (as does every Private Foundation).
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Clinton's in 'Christmas Shits' shocker: https://uk.news.yahoo.com/council-estate-x-mas-card-withdrawn-112047293.html#oxPsBww They're the latest to join in the 'let's mock the poors' theme while directly contributing to them with their wages. At least they got shouted down for it. Party Boat posted:You could be our man / woman on the inside ober, raise the portcullis at the designated time and a crack team of ukmt posters will ride in and
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They had the Santa Claus on the front represented by a black actor too.
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His butler had the cheek to accuse my direct boss of "always being after a free lunch" because the duke invites him over there sometimes. I pointed out that the Duke's entire life has been one long free lunch, to which the Butler said basically "actually no he had to slum it too - all he owned was a garbage truck company and a car dealership before he inherited the dukedom!" lmao boo loving hoo.
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Oberleutnant posted:His butler had the cheek to accuse my direct boss of "always being after a free lunch" because the duke invites him over there sometimes. I pointed out that the Duke's entire life has been one long free lunch, to which the Butler said basically "actually no he had to slum it too - all he owned was a garbage truck company and a car dealership before he inherited the dukedom!" lmao boo loving hoo. Knock him out then. Posh people are almost always massive fannies.
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Bape Culture posted:Knock him out then. Posh people are almost always massive fannies.
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