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Prince John posted:Apparently there's a twist to this - he's been booted out 3 days before he passed some threshhold as PM for mega retirement benefits worth AUD600k per annum. Second hand via facebook, but hilarious if true. Correct - if he'd been in office on the 28th he'd have the full pension. Also in the rumour mill is that he spends over $750k a year and had to remortgage his house while in office to avoid bankruptcy. Dude is apparently circling the financial drain and may well do the full Nick Griffin after this.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:00
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Oberleutnant posted:Morning Star and a single Scottish paper the name of which I forget. Glasgow Herald? Something like that. Daily Record, which has been about as staunchly pro-Labour as any newspaper can be for as long as I've been alive.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:01
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forkboy84 posted:Maybe hold cabinet meetings in a bigger room? They should get rid of the big table and all sit on bean bags.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:02
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Pesmerga posted:The media coverage is phenomenally awful - if ever there were an argument for much tighter press regulation, this would make an excellent case study. Destroy Fleet Street, execute News UK and the DMGT, bring in the People's Revolutionary Press Corp.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:03
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baka kaba posted:So there's a video going around, Corbyn's "walk of silence" which everyone's touting as him being unable to answer questions and handle the media etc. Turns out the journalist had been hanging around outside the office listening in on the private cabinet reshuffle meeting, and they'd been questioning him all night. So it was basically the guy following him out with his phone camera Isn't this kind of eavesdropping a major no-no that could land Sky in some serious poo poo?
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Sep 14, 2015 14:03
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Broken Cog posted:I have to say that the sheer vitriol spewed by the British media in response to the Corbyn election is a sight to behold. Are there any newspapers that are positive about it? The Guardian? The Morning Star? The Guardian have been one of the most staunchly anti-Corbyn and I hope to see a huge drop in their circulation as they've outed themselves as being utter trash.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:03
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I think the Guardian has cooled off on it's anti-Corbyn stuff a bit, but I don't think it could be described as positive.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:04
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Oberleutnant posted:I feel like I couldn't start saying anything without the temptation to type way too much, and my lunch break ends in 4 minutes - but I'll try and post something tonight when I'm again at liberty to sit and apply myself without interruption to an actual earnestpost. thanks, id like that. anyone else who wants to pitch is welcome to as well
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Sep 14, 2015 14:04
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Party Boat posted:Isn't this kind of eavesdropping a major no-no that could land Sky in some serious poo poo? It's a breach of protocol but doesn't violate any law.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:04
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forkboy84 posted:Maybe hold cabinet meetings in a bigger room? productivity collapses rapidly once there are so many people that rules of order prevail over the consensus decisionmaking that underpins collective cabinet responsibility as a rule of thumb, optimum size varies between five to eight people, although a more capable chairperson may be able to juggle more people it's not generally necessary for Health to make reports every day, of course. But making so many ministers merely means that they'll all become direct reports to Finance (i.e. the chancellor), or Home during a public health crisis
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Sep 14, 2015 14:05
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That thing about Chris Bryant and "what if we had to invade Russia" is the funniest loving thing I've seen in ages. Like, good grief, it's loving incredible.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:10
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Sentinel Red posted:That thing about Chris Bryant and "what if we had to invade Russia" is the funniest loving thing I've seen in ages. Like, good grief, it's loving incredible. it's a good trick question to see if one can give a decent reply without being diplomatically offensive to Russia albeit bullshit as a trick question when he's going to be very busy preparing for Wednesday
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Sep 14, 2015 14:11
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forkboy84 posted:The argument is that mental health issues are now such a big issue that desperately needs more attention it warrants it's own brief. I like this version of Labour more and more, the more I read. I'm all for it. Mental health issues, the stigmas surrounding them and the government's general handling of them are what almost forced me out onto the street and essentially forced me to leave the country. If Labour can put a new focus on those issues and their severity, then more power to them. There are still too many people that think depression is just you being a sad-sack and you just need to pull yourself together. The defunding of mental health care has been savage. The people treating me went from having their own small building and set of offices with specialist treatment gatherings and groups, to individual nurses migrating around the city, scrabbling to meet with even a fraction of their patients as they wandered from vacant GP office to vacant GP office. All within the space of six months. I remember my last conversation with my nurse being the most sad thing. I was basically consoling her as she went on a rant about ATOS throwing her clients off benefits and how one of them had attempted suicide. Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Sep 14, 2015 14:13
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Oberleutnant posted:Morning Star and a single Scottish paper the name of which I forget. Glasgow Herald? Something like that. The Daily Record (ironically also the most venomous of the Unionist papers during the referendum)
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Sep 14, 2015 14:13
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Sentinel Red posted:That thing about Chris Bryant and "what if we had to invade Russia" is the funniest loving thing I've seen in ages. Like, good grief, it's loving incredible. Answer: we lose, just like every other idiot that tries it.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:14
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ronya posted:it's a good trick question to see if one can give a decent reply without being diplomatically offensive to Russia "Tell me sir, are you a student of history?"
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Sep 14, 2015 14:15
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Guavanaut posted:I'd be careful calling him that. Haha, nice spot. Sadly, completely unintentional rather than part of a cunning posting strategy.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:16
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If we had to invade Russia we should definitely do it like this:
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Sep 14, 2015 14:17
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Kokoro Wish posted:I like this version of Laboutr more and more, the more I read. God that sounds horrible. Vulnerable people don't really have a voice to protest so they're a natural target unfortunately. What country were you able to make it to? I know a few people in your previous situation, now.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:18
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LemonDrizzle posted:It's a breach of protocol but doesn't violate any law. In this context I guess "major poo poo" would be "gets HoC pass revoked".
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Sep 14, 2015 14:21
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Party Boat posted:Isn't this kind of eavesdropping a major no-no that could land Sky in some serious poo poo? LemonDrizzle posted:It's a breach of protocol but doesn't violate any law. Plus, Corbyn took a couple of swings at the press in his speech. I reckon Sky/the media in general have taken the view that they don't really have anything to lose with this one. I have to wonder what sort of person is going to take them seriously after all this Chicken Little-ing, though. Sentinel Red posted:That thing about Chris Bryant and "what if we had to invade Russia" is the funniest loving thing I've seen in ages. Like, good grief, it's loving incredible. The most oblique way of turning down a job offer I've ever seen.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:25
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This "palling around with terrorists" stuff is giving me good Obama campaign vibes.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:25
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Breath Ray posted:God that sounds horrible. Vulnerable people don't really have a voice to protest so they're a natural target unfortunately. What country were you able to make it to? I know a few people in your previous situation, now. I was very lucky to have family in the Philippines willing to help me. It's not the best choice of location I admit, but you take what you get when your alternative is transience. Still want to make it back to the UK eventually, when sanity reigns again hopefully. I still consider it my home. It's where I grew up and I have some good friends there. I was actually never expecting to be able to return, but the Labour election gives me hope. Kokoro Wish fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Sep 14, 2015 |
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Sep 14, 2015 14:26
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Party Boat posted:In this context I guess "major poo poo" would be "gets HoC pass revoked". This is a reporter from news corp aka the Tory media arm, no chance of that happening.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:27
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My dad is forwarding me emails from Money Week about Corbyn. 
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Sep 14, 2015 14:28
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thats not fair, david cameron and rebekah brookes arent speaking any more
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Sep 14, 2015 14:28
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Vitamin P posted:This "palling around with terrorists" stuff is giving me good Obama campaign vibes. Jet fuel can't melt STRONG ECONOMY.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:30
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Mostly since it can't find one.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:31
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The 'threat to NATIONAL/ECONOMIC/FAMILY SECURITY' thing also put me in mind of American politics. I'm hoping the sheer scale of the hysteria will discredit itself, but it's not like it's slowed the Daily Mail down any. I expect the Guardian will start coming under pressure from its readers to be a bit less poo poo, though.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:47
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Oberleutnant posted:Answer: we lose, just like every other idiot that tries it. Not if we become the Mongols 
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Sep 14, 2015 14:48
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feedmegin posted:Not if we become the Mongols 'become'
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Sep 14, 2015 14:50
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feedmegin posted:Not if we become the Mongols They lost in the end. It's just a matter of time.
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Sep 14, 2015 14:52
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This week on BBC news: robbits are coming to TEK YER JERBS. This bad because the only way for you to stay alive is to be enslaved to capital. Smh. I'm not surprised, just disappointed. Honest journalism about the future of robotics would require asking some actually hard questions about why the status quo exists, whether it needs to, and if comforting notions like "it's okay because machines can't make art" are even true.
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Sep 14, 2015 15:00
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I love how the discussion in the press has gone from 'less than 24 hours to break his promise about gender parity in the shadow cabinet, what a typical politician!' to 'gender parity but men got all the good jobs, what a typical politician!' in the space of a few measly hours.
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Pesmerga posted:I love how the discussion in the press has gone from 'less than 24 hours to break his promise about gender parity in the shadow cabinet, what a typical politician!' to 'gender parity but men got all the good jobs, what a typical politician!' in the space of a few measly hours. It is almost as if the press's job isn't to inform but to push misinformation on behalf of their exceedingly rich owners. Makes u think
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Sep 14, 2015 15:05
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What even makes them the "good jobs" anyway? Is it the fact that they're high profile?
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Sep 14, 2015 15:06
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Napalm Wapping, lynch any who flee from the flames.
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Sep 14, 2015 15:06
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I really don't understand why it's such a tremendous thing to people. 16/15 is great. also, where's he going to find more candidates in the sea of blairites he has to deal with?
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Overminty posted:What even makes them the "good jobs" anyway? Is it the fact that they're high profile? I think you can work this one out for yourself if you concentrate
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