Oberleutnant posted:

Surprised that we had no discussion of a serving General being backed by No.10 after publically criticising the policy of the political opposition. The government's (horseshit) justification is that it was appropriate because he's the government's defence adviser.

Allowing a serving general to dip his toes into politics is setting a dirty, horrible precedent. You can insert your own slippery slope argument here.

Crashbee posted:

She's also a black woman in a position of power who once said something bad about white people, which is what right-wingers seem to hate the most.

baka kaba posted:

Yeah I saw that - I'm sure I saw reports of them basically reinforcing what he said too. Not too surprising since he didn't just magically appear on TV in full dress uniform to spout some reckons. Nice to know being a government advisor means you get carte blanche to propagandise in the media!

This is a great photo choice

Jedit posted:

You're overthinking it. She's a black woman who hosed a white man. That's all right wingers need to hate her.

Jedit posted:

You're overthinking it. She's a black woman who hosed a white man. That's all right wingers need to hate her.

Jedit posted:

You're overthinking it. She's a black woman who hosed a white man. That's all right wingers need to hate her.

Crashbee posted:

Well either way they definitely like accusing her of racism. There's a guy on Guido Fawkes who does nothing but call her a 'fat loving racist cow' for example.

Noxville posted:

He'll get nothing but the most minor concessions (because he and his team are the worst negotiatiors) and hold these up as a grand victory that justifies a Stay vote because as one of the rich countries the EU is worth too much money to us to justify leaving.

Angepain posted:

Somewhere on Bizarro D&D there's a monthly UK thread filled with nothing but "Jeremy Corbyn hosed a black woman" in various permutations

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It means addressing the fact that it is easier for an EU citizen to bring a non-EU spouse to Britain than it is for a British citizen to do the same.

DesperateDan posted:

All the good intentions and policies regarding school lunches are not really going to make a difference without getting through to the parents. My kids school has a really good lunches program that uses locally produced stuff where possible, still doesn't stop me seeing 5 year old kids on the school run having a breakfast of coke and a mars bar forced into them before the gates.


I did it. But rather than sweets it was discs full of the best porn the late 90's internet had to offer, then duty free cigarettes when that ring got busted (snitches deserve stitches)

Kokoro Wish posted:

And Andy Burnham, oh my God. With his immaculately plucked eyebrows and polished, porcelain features, powdered and preened to lifeless perfection. Jesus how could anyone have supported such a man.

Noxville posted:

Andy Burnham isn't a man, he's an animatronic.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Kokoro Wish posted:

That was literally my first thought when I saw him. Though I guess my brain was being kind at the time and I imagined more of a Captain Scarlet rather than a Stingray.

Oberleutnant posted:

A critique of Thunderbirds as propaganda for bourgeois philanthropy enabled by laissez faire economic policies, in 3 volumes.

Guavanaut posted:

Captain Pastel Pink

Would read.

Baron Corbyn posted:

The government have had to cancel a cross party trip to China to build relations because Danczuk refused to fly economy.

Baron Corbyn posted:

The government have had to cancel a cross party trip to China to build relations because Danczuk refused to fly economy.

Kokoro Wish posted:

Just watched the final hustings for the Labour leadership for the first time today after missing it many moons ago. Looking back on the race and the candidates, it's fun to see Jeremy Corbyn so decisive and upstanding in his views and beliefs on the questions, while the others felt so cagey and "politician" about the whole thing. Their measured tones and rhythmic speech patternation as if set to a loving metronome. And Andy Burnham, oh my God. With his immaculately plucked eyebrows and polished, porcelain features, powdered and preened to lifeless perfection. Jesus how could anyone have supported such a man.

Yeah, looking back at it all it's hard to see how Corbyn could not win.

Baron Corbyn posted:

The government have had to cancel a cross party trip to China to build relations because Danczuk refused to fly economy.

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On Monday, military officers were sent to help coordinate logistics at Migrationsverket, Sweden’s refugee and immigration agency. They will be involved at a management level, rather than on the ground.

For several weeks, Migrationsverket has already been working with the country’s civil contingencies agency (MSB), a department usually involved in the aftermath of natural disasters or in overseas humanitarian catastrophes. The severely short-staffed migration agency cannot find enough housing for refugees, some of whom have been forced to sleep on the floor of reception centres. Despite some centres quadrupling their manpower in recent months, many agency officials are working double-shifts and weekends.

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Sweden is bearing a disproportional burden of the European refugee crisis, due in part to its pledge in 2013 to provide permanent residency to almost any Syrian who reached Swedish soil. Of the roughly 800,000 people to have arrived in Europe by sea this year, at least one in seven have ended up in Sweden, even though the country accounts for just one in 50 EU citizens. So far in 2015, more than 120,000 people have applied for asylum in Sweden.

Migrationsverket expects the total number of refugees to reach about 170,000 by the end of the year, with 10,000 people arriving every week, compared with 4,000 during the summer.

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In the medium-term, the situation is not so dire. The government has identified potential space in sports halls and other public buildings for an extra 66,000 arrivals, just under half of which could be converted without too many adjustments. But in the short term, ready-to-use space is proving hard to find due to a combination of allegedly greedy landlords, arsonists and health-and-safety laws. Vandals have set fire to several sites earmarked for refugees, while the agency blames legislative bureaucracy for the delay in opening a series of tent cities in southern Sweden.

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Others feel that any dereliction of duties to refugees would mark an abandonment of the core tenets of Sweden’s social democracy. “Our society is built on the principle that people are entitled to the same as everyone else,” said the secretary-general of the Swedish bar association, Anne Ramberg, as she waited to provide legal advice to new refugee arrivals at Stockholm central station. “But we are in a situation where we can’t even give refugees housing.”

The answer, Ramberg argued, is not for Sweden to lower its standards, but for the rest of the world’s richest continent to take on its fair share. “A crisis for us,” said Ramberg, “is very different from the crisis in Jordan or Lebanon,” two countries where refugees are estimated to respectively constitute around a tenth and a quarter of the total population. “We could take these people if we had solidarity between EU countries. We are a continent of 500 million people – of course we could do it. But there’s no solidarity. It’s just Germany and Sweden.”

The Saurus posted:

Surely at this point no one can possibly take the right-wing press seriously when it comes to Corbyn. They're attacking him for the depth of his bow and being incredibly disrespectful about remembrance day at the same time. How much more ridiculous can this get in the next 5 years? Or are they expecting Labour will coup him and become lite Tories again because they can't bear the bad press?