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How are you going to vote on May 7th? This poll is closed. |
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| Conservative |
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72 | 6.22% |
| Labour |
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410 | 35.41% |
| Liberal Democrat |
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46 | 3.97% |
| UKIP |
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69 | 5.96% |
| Green |
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199 | 17.18% |
| SNP |
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121 | 10.45% |
| DUP |
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0 | 0% |
| Sinn Fein |
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35 | 3.02% |
| Plaid Cymru |
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20 | 1.73% |
| Respect |
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3 | 0.26% |
| Monster Raving Loony |
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56 | 4.84% |
| BNP |
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23 | 1.99% |
| Some flavour of socialist party |
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37 | 3.20% |
| Some flavour of communist party |
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27 | 2.33% |
| Independent |
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3 | 0.26% |
| Other |
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37 | 3.20% |
| Total: | 1158 votes | ||
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Pissflaps posted:The headline and picture looks just like something from Viz.
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quote:Police will be forced to adopt a “paramilitary” style of enforcement if the government inflicts big budget cuts on them, the head of the police officers’ organisation has warned. http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/17/police-warn-big-budget-cuts-will-lead-to-paramilitary-force This tory parliament brought to you by the word "Accelerationism" 
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May 18, 2015 13:05
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Oberleutnant posted:Some scumbag solicitor's form sent me (I have no idea why) an invitation to an "Employment Law Masterclass - Managing Employee Performance", where I can learn how to:- To be fair, at least some of their advice on how to avoid legal liability will probably deal with acting within the law - e.g. A lot of employers may not be familiar with indirect discrimination so the seminar may deal with the basis of liability for it, and explain how you can create workplace procedures and priorities that do not indirectly discriminate. It's possible they may be really dodgy but lots of solicitors firms do this sort of thing and usually it's not about screwing over your employees. Employment law is such that if the employer knows what they're doing and follows correct procedures it's quite easy to avoid liability by acting within the law. So you don't really need to be taught how to "game the system". You just need to know the law and follow it.
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May 18, 2015 13:16
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Oberleutnant posted:http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/17/police-warn-big-budget-cuts-will-lead-to-paramilitary-force 
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May 18, 2015 13:26
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Zephro posted:Nietzsche knew what he was talking about when he called Christianity a moral system designed to keep slaves and the downtrodden quiet. Actually he called it an example of "slave morality", which is morality from the perspective of a slave, abstracted from Judaism, and later secularized into the democratic/socialist movement, which he despised.
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May 18, 2015 13:32
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Oberleutnant posted:http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/17/police-warn-big-budget-cuts-will-lead-to-paramilitary-force e: Kyrie eleison posted:Actually he called it an example of "slave morality", which is morality from the perspective of a slave, abstracted from Judaism, and later secularized into the democratic/socialist movement, which he despised.
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May 18, 2015 13:35
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Oberleutnant posted:http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/may/17/police-warn-big-budget-cuts-will-lead-to-paramilitary-force I suspect the police "fear" becoming paramilitary the way doomsday preppers "fear" the Racial Holy War. They have a good long fear over it late at night whilst touching themselves.
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May 18, 2015 13:35
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Fargo Fukes posted:I suspect the police "fear" becoming paramilitary the way doomsday preppers "fear" the Racial Holy War. They have a good long fear over it late at night whilst touching themselves. 
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May 18, 2015 13:50
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To be fair, being a police officer is a poo poo job that has become increasingly shittier. They probably deserve to have some skull-cracking fun.
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May 18, 2015 14:00
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Guavanaut posted:The article can be reduced to "give us more money or we'll start getting violent." Pretty sure there's laws against that type of talk Yeah someone really ought to call the police.
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May 18, 2015 14:01
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SNAKES N CAKES posted:To be fair, being a police officer is a poo poo job that has become increasingly shittier. They probably deserve to have some skull-cracking fun. Perhaps we could automatically enrol the police in the TA and send them to beat up foreigners? Reduce stress levels in the police force and shore up the army at the same time?
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May 18, 2015 14:02
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It certainly makes you wonder if Britain shouldn't have accepted those unruly mediterranean refugees after all.
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May 18, 2015 14:05
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OwlFancier posted:Perhaps we could automatically enrol the police in the TA and send them to beat up foreigners? Reduce stress levels in the police force and shore up the army at the same time? We might not need to go as far as shipping them abroad. A couple of weeks of paramilitary training aka sleeping in muddy fields and getting the poo poo kicked out of them by the regular army on Salisbury plain and they might be happy to go back to their nice warm police stations.
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May 18, 2015 14:07
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I did initially read the article as the police threatening to adopt "parliamentary" policing which would either be really good or really bad. If it meant hanging around parliament and giving MPs funny looks on the basis they might be kiddy fiddlers, that would be good. If it meant spending all day in the station arguing with each other and charging £20k to have a moat installed around it, that would be bad.
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May 18, 2015 14:13
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Shaping up to be a two-horse race:quote:Senior Labour figures have expressed concern that the growing parliamentary support for the two leadership frontrunners has left the potential modernising candidates struggling to gather the 35 nominations they need to make the ballot paper. Will somebody abolish the unions already?
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May 18, 2015 14:15
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OwlFancier posted:I did initially read the article as the police threatening to adopt "parliamentary" policing which would either be really good or really bad. So they're all joining the Met. 
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May 18, 2015 14:18
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David got absolutely savaged by his brother with a fifth of David's funding so lol at Labour bigwigs thinking that he'd have stood a chance in 2015.
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May 18, 2015 14:18
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yeah, but... Andy Burnham as union man? hm.
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May 18, 2015 14:25
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Gonzo McFee posted:David got absolutely savaged by his brother with a fifth of David's funding so lol at Labour bigwigs thinking that he'd have stood a chance in 2015.
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May 18, 2015 14:30
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Kyrie eleison posted:Actually he called it an example of "slave morality", which is morality from the perspective of a slave, abstracted from Judaism, and later secularized into the democratic/socialist movement, which he despised. Do you have some sort of alert for when the word christianity is posted??
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May 18, 2015 14:40
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When the last leadership election happened I thought Andy Burnham seemed to be the most "old Labour" to me. And now apparently he's a bit of a poo poo. I know a bit more about people now, I guess. Is he just the best of a bad bunch or is he actually a really bad choice?
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May 18, 2015 14:43
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Gonzo McFee posted:loving Twitter. Dateline's right there at the top or the Mirror's article. Don't see how you can blame Twitter.
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May 18, 2015 14:46
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Cerv posted:Dateline's right there at the top or the Mirror's article. Don't see how you can blame Twitter. Because Jack Monroe tweeted it today. LemonDrizzle posted:What are you talking about? Ed's campaign was far better resourced because he was the union candidate, and he only narrowly won the leadership election on second preference votes. I may have gotten that mixed up.
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May 18, 2015 14:49
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SNAKES N CAKES posted:Shaping up to be a two-horse race:
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May 18, 2015 14:50
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Cerv posted:My favourite thing is people pulling out these sort of counter factual arguments that are completely unverifiable.
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May 18, 2015 14:53
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Gonzo McFee posted:Because Jack Monroe tweeted it today. Still not seeing how this is Twitter's fault. Would you like them to add a process that follows URLs, checks for a date in the metadata and inserts a siren in the style of one of their 'hashflags' to warn you if something's a bit old? Would be a bit obnoxious when people are genuinely discussing old articles.
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May 18, 2015 14:53
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Gonzo McFee posted:Because Jack Monroe tweeted it today. The article is ten years old man. Ten years.
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May 18, 2015 14:55
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Cerv posted:Still not seeing how this is Twitter's fault. Would you like them to add a process that follows URLs, checks for a date in the metadata and inserts a siren in the style of one of their 'hashflags' to warn you if something's a bit old? Oh for god's sakes unless it's specified most people assume articles they see posted on social media are current- it's how many people see news nowadays, stop being a disingenuous arse.
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May 18, 2015 14:56
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Guavanaut posted:My favorite recent one is "if they're replaced Major with Hague sooner he'd have stood a chance of winning the '97 general election, and wouldn't have deregulated the banks like Blair did, meaning that Britain wouldn't have suffered so badly from the Great Recession. *Harry Turtledoves fly overhead* Bonkers. Who said that?
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May 18, 2015 14:57
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Cerv posted:Bonkers. Who said that?
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May 18, 2015 14:58
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Coohoolin posted:Oh for god's sakes unless it's specified most people assume articles they see posted on social media are current- it's how many people see news nowadays, stop being a disingenuous arse. It is specified though.
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May 18, 2015 14:58
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Cerv posted:It is specified though. Specified by the person posting it on social media, not in the article itself, no one checks the date there. Do you own Twitter stocks or something, loving hell.
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May 18, 2015 15:00
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Bercow just got reappointed as Speaker by acclamation with no nays. So much for that conspiracy theory. Cameron congratulates: quote:He welcomes John Bercow, and says after the election the media were not sure whether 330 or 331 Conservatives were elected. That was because people did not know whether Bercow was a Conservative, he says.
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May 18, 2015 15:02
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Coohoolin posted:Specified by the person posting it on social media, not in the article itself, no one checks the date there. Do you own Twitter stocks or something, loving hell. Maybe people should check the date - and, indeed, the content - of articles they find on twitter before they share them elsewhere? It would certainly have spared you a bit of embarrassment.
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May 18, 2015 15:03
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Pissflaps posted:The article is ten years old man. Ten years. Don't know how I'll live with myself tbh.
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May 18, 2015 15:05
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Gonzo McFee posted:Don't know how I'll live with myself tbh. Better fetch the guillotine. It's just a question of time.
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May 18, 2015 15:10
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thehustler posted:When the last leadership election happened I thought Andy Burnham seemed to be the most "old Labour" to me. And now apparently he's a bit of a poo poo.  They are all shits.Burnham narrowly claims the title of best of a bad bunch. He has a lot of baggage to overcome, especially the Mid-Staffs scandal. None of the candidates will go very far this time round without the support of the "Progress" wing of the PLP. (When you read Progress, see Mandelson).
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May 18, 2015 15:14
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Gonzo McFee posted:Don't know how I'll live with myself tbh. Freak out and join the army
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May 18, 2015 15:16
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Gonzo McFee posted:Because Jack Monroe tweeted it today. I unfollowed her because her feed just became her responding to people who were saying horrible stuff to her. I get why she feels the need to respond but surely that's letting them win instead of just blocking them or otherwise reporting the abuse? Also is the MP-eating thing from Tony Benn or some other "radical" like Douglas Carswell? Talking of Carswell everyone should read his guardian interview from last year to see how utterly mental he is and how he's basically joined UKIP because he doesn't like being told what to do.
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May 18, 2015 15:32
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Some SNP MPs tried to take Dennis Skinner's seat in parliament. They were moved on swiftly.
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May 18, 2015 15:39
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