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Remember when the pigfucker thing started, and we were all super excited at the idea of Ashcroft's book tanking Cameron? That was where hope died, for me. I assume he'll shrug this off. 30 is the atomic number for zinc. Isn't that special?
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The pigfucker thing was so outrageous no-one could seriously believe it while being too hot to print in the papers, which is why it slipped off the radar fairly quickly. This is tabloid fodder for ages. They'll dig through his speeches and quotes and trot out any lines where hes mentioned being tough on offshore investing to keep the pain going.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:43
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Milotic posted:He'll still be in power. There's only one person who's 'Prime Ministerial' as replacements go and that's Theresa May. Osborne is too damaged, and at the end of the day, he has a bum nose. The public won't go for it. Johnson is a lightweight. May has gravitas, and a bit of glamour. Hunt. I hate to say it, but Hunt. Nothing really seems to be sticking to him despite him presiding over the single worst industrial dispute this millennium.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:45
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Majorian posted:To be fair, it's not like we didn't already know that he's heavily invested in pork bellies. 
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Apr 7, 2016 22:45
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thespaceinvader posted:Hunt. you can't run away from the press forever as leader of the party in power
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Apr 7, 2016 22:46
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thespaceinvader posted:Hunt.
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serious gaylord posted:The pigfucker thing was so outrageous no-one could seriously believe it while being too hot to print in the papers, which is why it slipped off the radar fairly quickly. This is tabloid fodder for ages. They'll dig through his speeches and quotes and trot out any lines where hes mentioned being tough on offshore investing to keep the pain going. Sure, but pigfucking was just supposed to be the first of dozens of tales of crime and debauchery the book contained, and I'm still perplexed that it was shrugged off so quickly. I hope you're right about this but I'll be surprised if it does anything.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:48
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Jose posted:you can't run away from the press forever as leader of the party in power Guavanaut posted:How will he be able to conduct international diplomacy while hiding behind a tree? How does Cameron manage it whilst hiding in a glass house and throwing stones? Because the press are not interested in his downfall, particularly.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:48
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Also, I'm happy to note that the Government have dropped the idea of testing 4 year olds on the basis that they're 4 years old. This makes me happy, given that only last week we got reports of 6 year olds developing mental health needs as a result of formal assessment in school. Also, Birmingham have said 'gently caress off' to forced academisation, so this is becoming a really lovely few weeks for Nicky Morgan.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:49
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Also someone alert me if/when he tries to use his dad's death as an emotional shield to deflect blame.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:50
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Weekly brain self-flagellation has resumed following its break, ironically for Easter! All goons come along to #ukgoons on synirc for Question Time. quote:David Dimbleby presents Question Time from Ilford. On the panel: Anna Soubry MP, Chris Bryant MP, UKIP's Douglas Carswell MP, economist Ruth Lea and novelist Irvine Welsh.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:53
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Not Operator posted:Also someone alert me if/when he tries to use his dad's death as an emotional shield to deflect blame. People are already saying 'don't bring family into it or we will too' as if there's some equivalence between Piers Corbyn being a bit of a tossbag, and Cambot being a giant loving hypocrite about tax avoidance, not to mention having (in his mind anyway) viciously attacked Milliband's dad during the last Parliament.
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Apr 7, 2016 22:54
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Jose posted:you can't run away from the press forever as leader of the party in power Can you dissolve a government because the prime minister keeps running away from everyone?
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Apr 7, 2016 22:55
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crispix posted:Weekly brain self-flagellation has resumed following its break, ironically for Easter! All goons come along to #ukgoons on synirc for Question Time. Irvine Welsh knows his poo poo so this might be good and I'd watch it if I was at home.
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Coohoolin posted:Irvine Welsh knows his poo poo so this might be good and I'd watch it if I was at home. He's coming over as an ignorant idealist, so no surprise you like him. wtf happened to Carswell's lips... he's like a gaunt or something
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Apr 7, 2016 23:00
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thespaceinvader posted:Hunt. Don't forget he managed to completely avoid any blame for the Sky/NI fiasco despite being balls-deep in the whole thing too. The man's got some skills but he's not popular in the party because he's seen as Cameron's man - if there were an orderly transition he'd maybe be in with a chance, but if Cameron is forced out and the party goes into full civil war he won't stand a chance. It's notable how almost all of the names after Osborne mentioned as next leader are on the Leave side, particularly Johnson who has generally been considered as very pro-EU to this point. The referendum is going to be the single biggest factor in a Tory leadership election if it happens in the next two years and certainly a leave vote probably makes that certain, with the Leave names going right to the top of the list. Then we get to see a Gove vs. Jonson fight, which is going to be fantastic as a spectator sport in the fairly safe knowledge that they'll fight each other into a stalemate and leave someone else to nick in, so we don't even have to begin to consider the chance of either of them as PM.
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Coohoolin posted:Irvine Welsh knows his poo poo so this might be good and I'd watch it if I was at home. Irvine Welsh is a grown man who still gets a kick out of jobbie jokes.
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TheHoodedClaw posted:Irvine Welsh is a grown man who still gets a kick out of jobbie jokes. And you don't?
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Irvine Welsh is a fantastic writer who's contributed some excellent narratives about working class life, drug addiction and jobby jokes to the literary canon, thank you all very much.
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Not Operator posted:Also someone alert me if/when he tries to use his dad's death as an emotional shield to deflect blame. David Cameron posted:I don't have anything to hide. I'm proud of my dad and what he did and the business he established... I can't bear to see his name being dragged through the mud.
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Not Operator posted:Also someone alert me if/when he tries to use his dad's death as an emotional shield to deflect blame. Anna Soubry just did it for Cameron on Question Time if that counts
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Apr 7, 2016 23:41
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TomViolence posted:Irvine Welsh is a fantastic writer who's contributed some excellent narratives about working class life, drug addiction and jobby jokes to the literary canon, thank you all very much. He's no James Kelman, and even less so an Alasdair Gray. But he can write though, when he can be bothered. A lot of his post Marabou Stork Nightmares stuff is just toss. He also tends to be a little disingenuous about his background, but eh, that's not uncommon. Might even happen in the UKMT!
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Irvine Welsh has written some decent books and seems to genuinely care but as stated he's a massive idealist and doesn't ever seem willing to really put himself out there. The superior Question Time author guest is Will Self who regularly schools everybody when he is on.
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StoneOfShame posted:Irvine Welsh has written some decent books and seems to genuinely care but as stated he's a massive idealist and doesn't ever seem willing to really put himself out there. The superior Question Time author guest is Will Self who regularly schools everybody when he is on. Hmm. He always seems more interested in sounding clever than being clever. Not that I give a suit about Welsh, either. I more enjoy watching the crypto Tory self hating gay David Starkey foam at the mouth If anyone dares the ruling class are not right to trample us mud eaters.
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Will Self is incredibly intelligent but completely fails to understand that not everyone can understand what he's saying, that or he doesn't care, his novels are the same, which is a shame because when they work they're some of the best examples of contemporary British fiction. Him talking about drugs and ISIS were both excellent examples, the drugs one has added Peter Hitchens insanity. David Starkey I amazing because he's completely insane and always hilarious, I suspect he thinks Britain would be better off under a full powered monarchy, particularly if we could find a good Tudor descendant.
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StoneOfShame posted:I suspect he thinks Britain would be better off under a full powered monarchy, particularly if we could find a good Tudor descendant.  J_RBG posted:Will Self has a pretty deep name 
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Guavanaut posted:Would Francis II do? I read a Will Self book once, Great Apes. I just remember it being quite a straight forward read & rather funny. Certainly don't think the language used was as obtuse as Will Self uses in TV appearances & the like.
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forkboy84 posted:Could never have a Catholic on the throne, don't be daft! I don't know if a dachshund can be said to be practicing.
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forkboy84 posted:Could never have a Catholic on the throne, don't be daft! Great Apes is very good an towards the more accessible end not that I think any of his work is as difficult as say Pynchon. Umbrella and Shark are both fantastic though stream of consciousness novels which some people don't get on with and The Book of Dave is very good though his invented future English for some sections might cause some difficulty. Yeah I think Starkey is more of a Tudor fan than a Stuart one, pity the Tudor line is dead.
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Well, David Cameron came to the university today (yesterday, technically.) Good of him to wait until all the undergraduates had gone home for the holidays, and also fantastic that postgrads were given virtually no time at all to respond to the RSVP email sent out by the University. After we responded to it, virtually everyone was told there was no room anyway, making it rather pointless that we were asked in the first place. Staff had apparently been given priority access for tickets, making it majority non-student. As far as could be seen, the people who actually managed to see ol' Dave were staff, the various committees of student societies, a few token random students, and that's it. Almost no representation from either undergrad or postgrad students, only five questions were allowed to be asked, and Dave scuttled out of the room to go back into his Ministerial Jag. Complete waste of our time and something that totally demonstrates how Cameron is afraid of actual democratic engagement and even talking with the media. You can't have a bloody student event if the majority of the people at the event aren't students! Robert Peston was swearing like hell though at how crap Cameron was being, which made up for everything somewhat. http://imgur.com/dCtM1zL Here's a pic of Piggy wandering back to his car after he's finished.
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That photo made me wonder what proportion of people he actually interacts with are wearing suits at the time. It must be pretty high. What a ghastly life.
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Apr 8, 2016 01:37
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Lazy twat can't be arsed to walk to the car park?
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Apr 8, 2016 01:44
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Here's a photo of the Remain Bus looking sorry for itself as well: http://imgur.com/1Xj1opH
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Clement posted:Here's a photo of the Remain Bus looking sorry for itself as well: http://imgur.com/1Xj1opH On the basis of this Remain will win with a small but definite majority. 
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^^^[e]:  Amazing--- In living Tory oval office News; Hunt insists he will impose new contract on NHS doctors posted:The matter is closed, health secretary says in defiant speech reported on second day of 48-hour strike by medics It's clear he's hoping for public opinion to turn against the junior doctors - so he's just going to wait it out. I hope it blows up in his loving face. Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 08:29 on Apr 8, 2016 |
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I hope something blows up in his loving face.
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Hi GCHQ just to be clear I mean a massive cock
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