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they'll both get knifed in the back by the party they're running for and it'll be a massive shitshow
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:50 |
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Jose posted:they'll both get knifed in the back by the party they're running for and it'll be a massive shitshow no we're talking about the American parties
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:55 |
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Jose posted:they'll both get knifed in the back by the party they're running for and it'll be a massive shitshow The republican party has been trying to do that to Trump since he started running and all its done is made him stronger.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 21:57 |
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serious gaylord posted:The republican party has been trying to do that to Trump since he started running and all its done is made him stronger. they can just give someone else the nomination despite him winning most of it as far as i'm aware due to how its done. i think there is even precedent for it happening. which will be really funny if he then runs as an independent and becomes president totally destroying them
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:01 |
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serious gaylord posted:The republican party has been trying to do that to Trump since he started running and all its done is made him stronger. nah, the crazy thing is that the establishment candidates have been spending more time attacking each other than Trump game theory 101 i guess
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:02 |
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'Transport tsar’s sell-off plan will break up Network Rail' 'Transport tsar Nicola Shaw to recommend partial privatisation with lines sold to outside investors' http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/business/Industry/article1665457.ece Can anyone with a subscription post the full article?
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:05 |
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Metrication posted:'Transport tsar’s sell-off plan will break up Network Rail' Paging Bozza to the thread...
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:08 |
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"It's 9pm, time for the railwayman on top of your internet forum to explode!"
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:10 |
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Nevermind, I found itquote:Nicola Shaw, the boss of the High Speed 1 rail link, is set to recommend taking several big lines — and even whole networks — and selling them to outside investors. Rail infrastructure is unprofitable as a business? (unless you cut corners like Railtrack and keep taking colossal government subsidy) Who is going to want these? Metrication fucked around with this message at 22:13 on Feb 10, 2016 |
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Jose posted:they can just give someone else the nomination despite him winning most of it as far as i'm aware due to how its done. i think there is even precedent for it happening. which will be really funny if he then runs as an independent and becomes president totally destroying them Mmmm, kinda. Basically you need an outright majority of the delegates awarded in the primaries and these delegates must respect the wishes of the primary results for the first round only. After that all delegates are unpledged and can vote for how they see fit. The time you're thinking of is when Nixon did some backroom deals to help... I think it was Eisenhower? get the nomination. So yes, the establishment can rig the vote towards Jeb! or Rube1.0 but they need to rely on other states failing to provide Trump an outright majority of votes. Their biggest fear is that Cruz could be the only thing capable of doing that since Marcotron had a stack overflow error on Saturday night.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:15 |
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"Northern Powerhouse" is such a patronising name. I cringe every time I see it. Also good to see they're going to make my local line worse.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:15 |
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serious gaylord posted:They'll all get smashed by Trump, which the thought of him as President is simultaneously hilarious and horrifying. Trump's actually doing worse than you'd think. He's polling worse than both Sanders and Clinton last I checked. NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:"Northern Powerhouse" is such a patronising name. I cringe every time I see it. Reminder that they closed several branch offices of the Northern Powerhouse to consolidate them in London. Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 22:18 on Feb 10, 2016 |
# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:15 |
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Trump is energising a decent part of the republican base but in the wider county I can't see anyway he wins the presidency.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:20 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Trump's actually doing worse than you'd think. He's polling worse than both Sanders and Clinton last I checked. Interestingly, Sanders polls better than Hillary vs Trump.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:21 |
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News just in. Americans have more common sense then Britian when it comes to voting.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:22 |
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Manic_Misanthrope posted:Interestingly, Sanders polls better than Hillary vs Trump. I think that's because Sanders is able to speak his mind a little more, Hilary can still very much come across like a political who is speaking in soundbites, platitudes and through the filter of media and PR teams, she hasn't lived in the real world for quite some time.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:22 |
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Just hoping Bernie picks a good VP. He'll be seventy-five when he takes office, and... well, look at the before and after pictures of Obama.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:25 |
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Extreme0 posted:News just in. Americans have more common sense then Britian when it comes to voting. its more that both sets of voters are railing against the establishment which results in sanders/trump. thats only happened to one party here and nowhere near a general election and why would it for the tories
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:27 |
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Please don't turn UKMT into the US threads with their DUCK SEASON / RABBIT SEASON dumb slapfight over Hillary/Bernie. What matters is that the GOP must not be in charge of all three branches of government or the whole world is hosed.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:28 |
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Americans still seem to have a generally decency about them. Like they're thick as poo poo and their police are basically some kind of tyrannical army but they probably would feel sorry if they saw a disabled person burst into flames in the middle of the street. They might even try and help them. In the UK we're at the point where a crowd would gather to throw petrol on them while shouting scrounger. Then they'd poo poo themselves, eat the poo poo, throw the poo poo at each other and then jump into the fire themselves. Something something immigrants austerity.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:32 |
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Someone hasn't been to New York. Where if a disabled person burst into flames the natural reaction would be to tell them to take that poo poo off the sidewalk.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:35 |
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i'm not sure advocating using trident on the UK would go down well with the populace as much as they deserve it
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:35 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Americans still seem to have a generally decency about them. Like they're thick as poo poo and their police are basically some kind of tyrannical army but they probably would feel sorry if they saw a disabled person burst into flames in the middle of the street. They might even try and help them. In the UK we're at the point where a crowd would gather to throw petrol on them while shouting scrounger. Then they'd poo poo themselves, eat the poo poo, throw the poo poo at each other and then jump into the fire themselves. Something something immigrants austerity. I don't think you know Americans
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:40 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Americans still seem to have a generally decency about them. Like they're thick as poo poo and their police are basically some kind of tyrannical army but they probably would feel sorry if they saw a disabled person burst into flames in the middle of the street. They might even try and help them. In the UK we're at the point where a crowd would gather to throw petrol on them while shouting scrounger. Then they'd poo poo themselves, eat the poo poo, throw the poo poo at each other and then jump into the fire themselves. Something something immigrants austerity. Maybe in south east England.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:40 |
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Personally I hope Sanders wins because It'd be hilarious to watch the right wing of America's reaction and also because it'd convince a lot of people to vote for Corbyn classic if AmeriCorbyn wins.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:40 |
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shrike82 posted:I don't think you know Americans Regarde Aduck you're making me agree with shrike82. That's how reality-warping your post was.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:41 |
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If the reaction of people on those german trains is anything to go by, the modern reaction to tragedy is to whip your phone out and record it before even checking anyone else is alive.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:42 |
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everything you think is poo poo about UK politics is imported from the US all the way back to Thatcher and before
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:43 |
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serious gaylord posted:If the reaction of people on those german trains is anything to go by, the modern reaction to tragedy is to whip your phone out and record it before even checking anyone else is alive. GOT TO GET THE HOT SCOOPS!
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:44 |
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thatcher didn't go senile as fast as reagan though
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 22:45 |
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There's significant enough crossover in trump/sanders voters that the bern polls much better then Clinton in a head to head (she actually comes out behind)
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:00 |
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Metrication posted:Nevermind, I found it They could charge the train operators ridiculous fees for the privilege of running trains on their infrastructure. The train operators would then pass those costs onto the passengers. The ridiculous fees go to the fund's shareholders who profit immensely. The company then goes to the government and explains that they need £billions in taxpayer subsidies to maintain and improve the rail infrastructure (the government, of course, obliges). I imagine it would pan out something like that, except even more blatant, complicated and ridiculous.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:04 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Reminder that new alcohol guidelines put the most you should be drinking a week at two pints. You're lowballing the guideline by a whole 10 units. Also the Royal Statistical Society told them to gently caress off.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:04 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:They could charge the train operators ridiculous fees for the privilege of running trains on their infrastructure. The train operators would then pass those costs onto the passengers. The ridiculous fees go to the fund's shareholders who profit immensely. The company then goes to the government and explains that they need £billions in taxpayer subsidies to maintain and improve the rail infrastructure (the government, of course, obliges). The company is a foreign state owned firm and its that countries taxpayers who benefit
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:07 |
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Tesseraction posted:Please don't turn UKMT into the US threads with their DUCK SEASON / RABBIT SEASON dumb slapfight over Hillary/Bernie.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:08 |
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DoctorTristan posted:You're lowballing the guideline by a whole 10 units. Also the Royal Statistical Society told them to gently caress off. Patient: "If I don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs, don't have sex and stick to a strict vegan diet, could I live to 95?" Doctor: "Well, yes but why would you want to?"
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:10 |
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DoctorTristan posted:You're lowballing the guideline by a whole 10 units. Also the Royal Statistical Society told them to gently caress off. No wonder Hunt won't go into work apart from Fridays. He should probably skip that day and leave a pot plant instead.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:17 |
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Tesseraction posted:Please don't turn UKMT into the US threads with their DUCK SEASON / RABBIT SEASON dumb slapfight over Hillary/Bernie. Yo where do I go to put on Bernie to win the Democrat primaries but the (non-Trump) Republican candidate to win the presidency? Gonzo McFee posted:Personally I hope Sanders wins because It'd be hilarious to watch the right wing of America's reaction and also because it'd convince a lot of people to vote for Corbyn classic if AmeriCorbyn wins. I'd pay good money to see Alex Jones reach a level even further beyond... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlvSdKcv0H0
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:51 |
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Guavanaut posted:From outside the US it'd be better to have the one who's opposed to the NSA and international security/economic fuckery than the establishment one who wants to expand it, although they're both better than the one that wants to block Muslims from the internet. The GOP's entire still-running candidates want to invade and/or carpet bomb the Middle East. Britain could well be dragged into that. Question whether you want to be involved in exponential human suffering with the GOP or linear human suffering with the Dems. The worst of the Democrats is better than the majority of our current cabinet.
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# ? Feb 10, 2016 23:53 |
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Just because the GOP are an unspeakable shambling evil dedicated to fascism with a smiley face plastered on it doesn't make Hilary Clinton any less of a massive pile of rancid poo poo.
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