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Mark Blythe on Brexit (and Trump and global capitalism) again. Watch the whole series of interviews for a good laugh. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pGK3XkuGeLw
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 12:17 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:Too be fair though its not like Irish people are particularly good at the old voting lark. No we're also complete loving idiots, just too small and inconsequential to ruin everything
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 12:18 |
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serious gaylord posted:You don't know what cheerleading is. You have to go to a part of the Labour website.to quit. But it's really loving hard to find. Best idea is to call up on 0345 092 2299 and ask them to point you in the right direction.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 12:22 |
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hakimashou posted:Aside from forcing all the MPs to vote for his precious brexit and tanking their standing in the polls, what has Great Helmsman Corbyn managed to achieve in his time taking up space at the top of the Labour Party? He hasn't been a fuckwit making GBS threads up the UKMT.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 12:27 |
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Dead Goon posted:Why are you so important that you need to resign from the Labour Party? Because that's the process every member is told to go through. Otherwise they keep you on their rolls for 6+ months and continue to send you marketing poo poo. But thanks for the personal attack.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 12:30 |
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Jedit posted:He hasn't been a fuckwit making GBS threads up the UKMT. I heard that Corbyn posts on here under the name 'Pissflaps'.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 12:32 |
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serious gaylord posted:Because that's the process every member is told to go through. Otherwise they keep you on their rolls for 6+ months and continue to send you marketing poo poo. You are welcome. Have you tried this, from The NewStatesman? quote:2. You can cancel your direct debit, and contact the Labour party headquarters telling them you are leaving at The Labour Party, Labour Central, Kings Manor, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 6PA. This is more boring, but more predictable, and it means you can join again when you are filled with regret for abandoning your comrades. Dead Goon fucked around with this message at 12:43 on Feb 9, 2017 |
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Dead Goon posted:You are welcome. Either The New Statesman stole that from The Metro, The Metro stole it from The New Statesman, or the same journo sold the exact same article to them both which is fun.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:00 |
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Didn't the Metro go through a phase of flat out reprinting Yahoo News articles with minor alterations, without spell (or fact) checking?
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:03 |
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't the Metro go through a phase of flat out reprinting Yahoo News articles with minor alterations, without spell (or fact) checking? I don't know about that, but I do know Wikipedia has stopped all attributions and citations linked from The Daily Mail due to the sheer number of lies that rag prints
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:11 |
baka kaba posted:This isn't what happened though. Here's what Labour did: Labour openly said they were making no attempt at all to stop anything if the amendments failed. So what's the point of even asking? And if you say it's a "democratic decision", I mean who the gently caress voted for this current leadership (nobody directly) and who the gently caress voted for Brexit meaning Let's Go It Alone if Theresa May's team doesn't like it? No effort was ever made to sway public opinion against Brexit after the vote despite it being very close, and there being known buyer's remorse in the aftermath for a lot of people. Carte blanche for the Tories was not a democratically made choice. It's a disgrace.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:16 |
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't the Metro go through a phase of flat out reprinting Yahoo News articles with minor alterations, without spell (or fact) checking? The Metro is free. I'll cut them more slack than I will a paid publication. And they're all corrupt. A few years ago the Economist printed an article on the world's largest iron ore shippers that omitted the actual largest shipper because the company in question refused to pay to be mentioned.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:21 |
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it's a tory brexit that was endorsed by the majority of the house so a parliamentary brexit, if you will
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:21 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I don't know about that, but I do know Wikipedia has stopped all attributions and citations linked from The Daily Mail due to the sheer number of lies that rag prints As amusing as it is, I think it's more to do with stuff like this than anything else:
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:23 |
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Corbyns not powerful enough to overrule our own vote to gently caress ourselves really hard. Though when brexit is poo poo it's just going to have the papers turn on Labour more than the Tories because they didn't stop it, then all start fluffing the lib dems as the true guardians of the people. So business as usual except the NHS will be run by Trump Corp and well all be dead.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:38 |
*Corbyn sits back, nodding at the result he wanted all along* "A shame he was not powerful enough to save the almost half of people in this referendum who opposed Brexit and the many who still do despite a one-way narrative on Getting The Job Done that Labour has done nothing whatsoever to combat. At least he had that relaunch."
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:49 |
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Dead Goon posted:Why are you so important that you need to resign from the Labour Party? If you don't consider yourself important enough to stop paying money to a party you no longer support you might have self image issues.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:51 |
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nopantsjack posted:Though when brexit is poo poo it's just going to have the papers turn on Labour more than the Tories because they didn't stop it, then all start fluffing the lib dems as the true guardians of the people. Except the Guardian. Always. Regarde Aduck posted:If you don't consider yourself important enough to stop paying money to a party you no longer support you might have self image issues.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:54 |
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HJB posted:As amusing as it is, I think it's more to do with stuff like this than anything else: That looks like an interesting article but it shouldn't come as a surprise that people in different parts of the world use different sources and see the world in a different way. Wikipedia ams to be neutral and I'm sure that a lot of editors do their best to live up to that, but human beings aren't really capable of divorcing themselves entirely from the society they are part of and its assumptions and values. For example, "Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (born 28 November 1935) is an Indian-born British business magnate, investor, and philanthropist". Aside from his name and his birthday, the fact that he is Indian-born is literarlly the first thing we're told about him (even though Wikipedia says he is British, not Indian). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Hinduja By contrast, "Sir Richard Charles Nicholas Branson (born 18 July 1950) is an English business magnate, investor and philanthropist". The place of his birth is mentioned later on, but as he was born in London it's not considered to be interesting enough to be put in the intro. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Branson Note that they are both seem to be British, it's just that being born in India is in some way remarkable while being born in London is "normal" for a British person and far less interesting. There are lots of similar examples on Wikipedia. Also, Branson is described as English but Hinduja is "British", even though he also seems to be from England (he lives in London). I'm sure it's correct to say he's British, but it would be equally correct to say this about Branson. Somewhere in these articles there are assumptions about what it means to be British and what it means to be English and who counts as what. I'm not knocking Wikipedia, which I think is good, I'm saying personal biais is just impossible for human beings to avoid.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:55 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:If you don't consider yourself important enough to stop paying money to a party you no longer support you might have self image issues. Stop paying money then. "Resigning" smacks of self-importance.
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Guavanaut posted:Nobody is going to start fluffing the Lib Dems no matter how bad it gets.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 13:58 |
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Dead Goon posted:Stop paying money then. "Resigning" smacks of self-importance.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:03 |
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jBrereton posted:How's about the electorate, who have done so in a number of byelections and council seats? the electorate are loving stupid
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:04 |
It also sends them a handy "gently caress you" message!
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:04 |
JFairfax posted:the electorate are loving stupid
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:05 |
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Gravitas Shortfall posted:I'm an EU citizen who only speaks English, my options are somewhat limited.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:06 |
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"Now the real fight begins" is as ridiculous as "Here's how Bernie can still win".
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:07 |
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Paxman posted:Also, Branson is described as English but Hinduja is "British", even though he also seems to be from England (he lives in London). My dad's been living in London for 2/3 of his life now and I don't think he would be happy if people described him as "English" - and there are plenty of similar Scottish people.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:08 |
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JFairfax posted:the electorate are loving stupid but labour believe in democracy
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:09 |
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jBrereton posted:ah ok. surely brexit has proved that?!
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:09 |
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Fangz posted:but labour believe in democracy there is no law against being stupid is there.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:10 |
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TinTower posted:"Now the real fight begins" is as ridiculous as "Here's how Bernie can still win". If somehow Labour had teamed up with the LDs, SNP and some Tory rebels to block A50 it would've been loving carnage. So gently caress off you loving hypocrite Liberals who somehow think accepting the outcome of a referendum is wrong when you wrote a blank cheque to the Tories when you propped up their minority government and gave us all austerity and crippling tuition fees for the next generation. Seriously, gently caress you all.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:13 |
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Zephro posted:No they aren't. Vast swathes of Europe speak English well enough that you'll be fine for a few months until you can start picking up Danish/German/Swedish/Dutch or whatever And what do you do for a living in the meantime?
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:17 |
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JFairfax posted:there is no law against being stupid is there. yes, that is a serious problem.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:19 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:If somehow Labour had teamed up with the LDs, SNP and some Tory rebels to block A50 it would've been loving carnage. So gently caress off you loving hypocrite Liberals who somehow think accepting the outcome of a referendum is wrong when you wrote a blank cheque to the Tories when you propped up their minority government and gave us all austerity and crippling tuition fees for the next generation. Seriously, gently caress you all. Nice deflection. 7/10.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:21 |
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The mental hurdles people are jumping over to excuse Corbyn literally voting for a hard Tory Brexit reminds me of that "irregular verbs" joke in Yes Minister: I respect the government's mandate, you prop up an unpopular government, he is a yellow Tory.
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:21 |
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As a lazy hypothetical, is there actually a point at which Corbyn would be perceived to have crossed some kind of red line for people?
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# ? Feb 9, 2017 14:23 |
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TinTower posted:"Now the real fight begins" is as ridiculous as "Here's how Bernie can still win". loving of course you thought Hilary was a good candidate. Liberals, what a lark.
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Lord of the Llamas posted:If somehow Labour had teamed up with the LDs, SNP and some Tory rebels to block A50 it would've been loving carnage.
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Paxman posted:For example, "Srichand Parmanand Hinduja (born 28 November 1935) is an Indian-born British business magnate, investor, and philanthropist". Aside from his name and his birthday, the fact that he is Indian-born is literarlly the first thing we're told about him (even though Wikipedia says he is British, not Indian). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S._P._Hinduja Eh, that [country]-born formulation crops in all sorts of places - for example, here are the opening sentences of the bios of the winners of the 2016 Physics Nobel: quote:John Michael Kosterlitz (born June 22, 1943) is a British born Anglo-American physicist.
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