HJB posted:

Cerv posted:

23/02

There won't be enough results to make a drinking game out of it

Private Speech posted:

I thought No to EU was the Lexit campaign.

Not that I don't think it was kinda dumb mind you.

they got 0.19% of the vote in the last EP elections. I think that's possibly less than BNP.

e: Looking it up like that's like 4 times less than the english democrats and independence from europe apparently even. Kinda impressive. Though they did narrowly beat Britain First and Yorkshire First (both got about 20k votes).

Gorn Myson posted:

Its too bad that Britain will never be able to produce a show like Rick and Morty because any TV commissioner looking at it would throw it out unless its re-written to be a talent competition or a panel show.

Gorn Myson posted:

Its too bad that Britain will never be able to produce a show like Rick and Morty because any TV commissioner looking at it would throw it out unless its re-written to be a talent competition or a panel show.

JFairfax posted:

mid-life crisis, he's got himself a Ferrari

Regarde Aduck posted:

There aren't really any right wing animes. That's the strange thing. Maybe Berserk because Guts is really loving manly and doesn't afraid of anything? Toho (their loving mascot) is about fairies and shrine maidens, what the gently caress does that have to do with the right?

TheRat posted:

https://twitter.com/mattbcooper/status/828380210827497473

Oberleutnant posted:

Christ there are some twats posting in here these days.

Tesseraction posted:

That's No2EU who are the EU parliamentary candidates for the Trade Union/Socialist Coalition, who are the main opposition to Left Unity. The Lexit group was Left Leave http://www.leftleave.org/

quote:

The left defends the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)
adopted by the Council of Europe, a completely separate body from the
EU that Britain would remain a member of whatever the referendum
result.

quote:

Most health and safety legislation originates
in the 1970s, a time of union strength. The national minimum wage was
won by the labour movement—not given to us by the EU. The EU has
not defended workers against any of the 12 Tory anti-union laws since
1980.

quote:

“Fortress Europe” is also developing a military dimension, which EU
treaties openly link to Nato.

quote:

If Britain votes to leave, it won’t automatically mean a move to
the right. The Tories are being torn apart by debate over the EU.
If Cameron loses, he will almost certainly go. If a Conservative
government survives, it will be hopelessly fragile.

quote:

Not only will the government be weakened. The rich and powerful
overwhelmingly support British membership. The City, the Confederation
of British Industry and the Institute of Directors all support the status
quo. So do at least two-thirds of large British firms surveyed by the
Financial Times last year. A crisis for our rulers can open up a greater
space for the left.

Private Speech posted:

I like how weaselly their leaflet is (not that I don't agree with the other half of it, but they're more problems_with_nationalist_capitalism.txt than the EU):

Also they also seem to be mainly composed of SWP and RMT (to be fair the latter of which I do have respect for).

Spuckuk posted:

Guts has his life saved by women on many occasions, I don't think the anime hitlers would like that

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"Stewart Lee, a Comedian writing a habitually comedic column in a national newspaper posted:

My constituency voted 78% remain. On Wednesday, my MP was too ill to vote. I’m joining the Liberal Democrats, itself on some level a hopeless admission of defeat.

quote:

Public objections to Trump’s state visit are understandable, but are denounced as hypocrisy by shrill Brexit bullies pointing out that no one complained when the Queen hosted the entire entourage of Doctor Victor Von Doom, iron-faced autocratic dictator of Latveria, a totalitarian state policed by Doom’s flying sentinels, the Doombots.

forkboy84 posted:

Stewart Lee is still very funny. Liberals are capable of being politically wrong & yet still funny. Seems like the Libs would always have been a good fit for him really. But I bet Stewart Lee the character would like Jeremy Corbyn.

forkboy84 posted:

Stewart Lee is still very funny. Liberals are capable of being politically wrong & yet still funny. Seems like the Libs would always have been a good fit for him really. But I bet Stewart Lee the character would like Jeremy Corbyn.

Gorn Myson posted:

I hate Stewart Lee with a passion. He is like Ian Huntley to me.

dex_sda posted:

A poo poo-haired oval office, who resides at the very apex of all that is absolute patience testing wank.

Prince John posted:

The Beeb have an interesting breakdown of EU referendum voting trends.

They've been piecing things together with lots of FoI requests - the main trends identified before concerning education and age are replicated here, but they've also managed to obtain a much more granular picture than that available previously, even down to the individual ballot box in some places.

Worth a read if you have a few minutes. I also found it interesting that the education correlation with a remain vote was also present for levels of education below that of a degree, so it's not simply about campus contact with ~~foreigns~~.

TinTower posted:

UKIP MEP ordered to pay £160,000 in libel damages to three Labour MPs she accused of covering up the Rotherham child abuse scandal.

quote:

In her defence, she argued that it was a political speech that did not contain any allegation of fact but merely expressed an opinion.

quote:

The issue of costs is still to be decided. It is understood that Collins faces having to meet the entire bill herself, with Ukip not expected to contribute.

Gorn Myson posted:

Whats the best anime video game

Gorn Myson posted:

Whats the best anime video game

Gorn Myson posted:

Whats the best anime video game

kustomkarkommando posted:

Just in case you thought the NI elections where suspiciously civil the DUP launched their campaign today by comparing Sinn Fein to a ravenous crocodile

Pissflaps posted:

Cool that this thread is focussing on anime and video games when the Speaker has literally just denounced Trump in the House of Commons.

quote:

"An address by a foreign leader to both houses is not an automatic right. It is an earned honour. There are many precedents for state visits to our country that do not include an address to both houses. In relation to Westminster Hall, there are three key-holders: the Speaker of the Commons, the Speaker of the Lords and the Lord Great Chamberlain. Ordinarily we are able to work by consensus and the hall would be used for a purpose such as an address by agreement of the three key holders. Before the imposition of the migrant ban, I would myself have been strongly opposed to an address by president in trump in Westminster Hall. After the imposition of the migrant ban I am even more strongly opposed to an address by President Trump in Westminster Hall. So far as the royal gallery is concerned... I do not perhaps have as strong a say in that matter...although customarily an invitation to a visiting leader to issue an address there would be issued in the names of the two speakers. I would not wish to issue an invitation to President Trump to speak in the royal gallery. We value our relationship with the united states. If a state visit takes place, that is way beyond and above the pay grade of the Speaker. However, as far as this place is concerned, I feel very strongly that our opposition to racism and sexism and our support for equality before the law and an independent judiciary are hugely important considerations in the House of Commons."

quote:

Speaker Bercow can't block President Trump from addressing both Houses of Parliament in the Royal Gallery, since invitations for speakers in that room are issued by the Lord Great Chamberlain.

But for the Lord Great Chamberlain to do so would risk unnecessarily politicising the Queen, since he acts as her representative in the Palace of Westminster.

That is extremely unlikely, so it seems that the Speaker's actions today may well have torpedoed any chance of the President speaking on the Parliamentary estate.

Pissflaps posted:

Cool that this thread is focussing on anime and video games when the Speaker has literally just denounced Trump in the House of Commons.