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Petition to give Wales more vowels
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 18:59 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:06 |
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it's a day ending in 'y' so there's another wonderful poll https://twitter.com/MattSingh_/status/830476525380239361 quote:Petition to give Wales more vowels
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:10 |
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Fangz posted:The irony is that if she is still alive they'd probably loving hate her. She was in a relationship with a muslim. Imagine if she'd gotten married to Dodi Al-Fayed. That'd have gone down well with the definitely not xenophobic British papers.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:13 |
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Jeza posted:Petition to give Wales more vowels I think you'll find they voted against the eu so they'll just have to make do with what vowels they have left
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:16 |
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forkboy84 posted:She was in a relationship with a muslim. Imagine if she'd gotten married to Dodi Al-Fayed. That'd have gone down well with the definitely not xenophobic British papers. Also she'd be twenty years older and let's face it half of the reason for all the adulation is she died comparatively young and pretty. 56 year old Diana, married to a Muslim, probably fairly openspokenly liberal (she held hands with an AIDS patient in 1987, look at what rightwing press coverage of AIDS looked like back then), probably pro-Remain - they'd be doing their best to destroy her.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:20 |
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WeAreTheRomans posted:Piers Morgan's death will bring me a lot of happiness /
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:24 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:it's a day ending in 'y' so there's another wonderful poll It's worth considering that these changes are from June last year. It demonstrates pretty well that while Labour have done badly in the last 8 months, UKIP has done much worse and the Tories seem to have taken the majority of their poll boost from them. Whichever way you slice it owning Brexit and basically becoming UKIP has worked out very nicely for them.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:28 |
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fridge corn posted:Nice disaster tourism It was cracking, toss up between that and seeing ground zero in 2002 for my personal fave
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 19:44 |
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https://twitter.com/FrankConniff/status/830481544645050369?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 20:14 |
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Who the gently caress goes "gently caress the tories, I'm voting x" and then goes back to voting tory afterwards?
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 20:32 |
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Gort posted:Who the gently caress goes "gently caress the tories, I'm voting x" and then goes back to voting tory afterwards? the average voter
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 20:32 |
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Gort posted:Who the gently caress goes "gently caress the tories, I'm voting x" and then votes tory anyway? Fixed
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 20:41 |
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jabby posted:It's worth considering that these changes are from June last year. It demonstrates pretty well that while Labour have done badly in the last 8 months, UKIP has done much worse and the Tories seem to have taken the majority of their poll boost from them. It's also worth asking ourselves why it is that the narrative is that UKIP (as always) are about to have a SURPRISE VICTORY (at Labour's expense of course) in the upcoming by-elections (c.f. Oldham in 2015) despite not making any progress in the polls, and why the Lib Dems are the REAL OPPOSITION despite still being 12 points below their 2010 performance, but Labour who are 3-4% down are IN CATASTROPHIC MELTDOWN!
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 20:57 |
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Because "Politics continues more or less as usual" isn't going to sell papers.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:38 |
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Is there a large-scale response for the retraction of the dubs amendment? I mean they just sentenced a bunch of children to death because they can't be arsed. it'd be totally appropriate to declare damnatio memoriae on the last ten years of british history at this point
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:40 |
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feedmegin posted:Also she'd be twenty years older and let's face it half of the reason for all the adulation is she died comparatively young and pretty. 56 year old Diana, married to a Muslim, probably fairly openspokenly liberal (she held hands with an AIDS patient in 1987, look at what rightwing press coverage of AIDS looked like back then), probably pro-Remain - they'd be doing their best to destroy her. It weirds me out a bit knowing that Claudia Christian from Babylon 5 had a small but fairly important role in the death of Diana.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:44 |
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Almost half of Labour's voters do not want the party to try and block Brexit, a new poll for The Independent has found. Though two-thirds of Labour supporters voted to Remain, the new ComRes study found that this does not necessarily translate into wanting to stop Article 50 being triggered. 48 per cent of the party’s voters now say the Opposition shouldn’t try and overturn the referendum result. The finding is likely to take some pressure off Jeremy Corbyn, who has come in for criticism from some supporters for whipping his MPs not to block Article 50. Mr Corbyn suffered several frontbench resignations over the Article 50 vote, which took place at the end of an all-hours debate about Brexit which ran late into the night for several days last week. The most high-profile resignation was Clive Lewis, the shadow business secretary. Multiple whips also voted Remain, though frontbenchers outside the shadow cabinet have been let off with a written warning and will not be forced to resign. The public at large also broadly agree with Labour’s stance of not standing in the way of leaving the EU – with 64 per cent saying the party should not try to obstruct the process. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/labour-voters-brexit-poll-support-article-50-a7575406.html
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:50 |
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lol https://twitter.com/BraddJaffy/status/830486372410675202?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:52 |
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Jedit posted:It weirds me out a bit knowing that Claudia Christian from Babylon 5 had a small but fairly important role in the death of Diana. hang on, what?
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:54 |
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JFairfax posted:Almost half of Labour's voters do not want the party to try and block Brexit, a new poll for The Independent has found. I think it's quite endearing that even when jeremy uses a three line whip he clearly can't be arsed to enforce it still wonder if it worked as a stunt, still think it was dumb
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 21:54 |
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He pretty much gave that impression before the vote anyway, it seemed more about having a strong official stance than actually forcing every MP to vote for it
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 22:01 |
The mail had yet another pro Corbyn puff piece today, making it three weekends in a row. I'm pretty sure this is a bad sign.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 22:20 |
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HJB posted:I was looking for some content for my thread in NMD (warning: plug), and spotted this motion - http://www.parliament.uk/edm/1997-98/565 . Some familiar names there. I've even found something related to the Di chat: Skinty McEdger posted:The mail had yet another pro Corbyn puff piece today, making it three weekends in a row. I'm pretty sure this is a bad sign. Wait, what?
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 22:24 |
HJB posted:Wait, what? He's a "Champion of Democracy" and for the good of the country he must continue to be Labour leader for being the only one in the party with any integrity. I seriously am weirded out by this.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 22:30 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:hang on, what? "Who am I? I am Susan Ivanova, Commander. Daughter of Andre and Sophie Ivanov. I am the right hand of vengeance and the boot that is going to kick your sorry rear end all the way back to England, sweetheart! I am death incarnate, and the last living thing that you will ever see. God sent me." - Cmdr. Susan Ivanova speaking to Diana, Princess of Wales, c. 12:20 am, August 31, 1997.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 22:40 |
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I think I've fallen asleep and it's April Fools Day already https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/830535973725466624
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 23:08 |
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Skinty McEdger posted:He's a "Champion of Democracy" and for the good of the country he must continue to be Labour leader for being the only one in the party with any integrity. I can't imagine why the Mail would want a pro Brexit Labour leader completely unable to stand up to the Tories. Just can't imagine.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 23:16 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:I think I've fallen asleep and it's April Fools Day already I'm sure this won't be like the last X times he tried this obvious deflecting tactic and he'll definitely hand over the money he promised to real charities, in full and right away without having to be shamed into it by journalists months after the fact.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 23:21 |
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Skinty McEdger posted:The mail had yet another pro Corbyn puff piece today, making it three weekends in a row. I'm pretty sure this is a bad sign. ok well the three line whip quite clearly worked corbyn... good? Gravitas Shortfall posted:I can't imagine why the Mail would want a pro Brexit Labour leader completely unable to stand up to the Tories. his page today is nothing but various people challenging the dubs retraction please don't confuse "doesn't challenge" with "I'm too stupid to read anything not in the papers", which you are doing now Spangly A fucked around with this message at 23:42 on Feb 11, 2017 |
# ? Feb 11, 2017 23:33 |
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Jedit posted:It weirds me out a bit knowing that Claudia Christian from Babylon 5 had a small but fairly important role in the death of Diana. Forget all the politics poo poo for the moment, this needs an answer.
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 23:40 |
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namesake posted:Forget all the politics poo poo for the moment, this needs an answer. they had an on again off again relationship. if Christian hadn't walked out on Al Fayad when they'd been living together a year before the crash, then he presumably wouldn't have been out with Di that night
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# ? Feb 11, 2017 23:55 |
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Spangly A posted:I think it's quite endearing that even when jeremy uses a three line whip he clearly can't be arsed to enforce it Isn't the convention for members of the shadow cabinet to be booted out for breaking the whip, which has happened? He's only letting people who were outside the shadow cabinet off with the written warning, because they weren't part of the decision making process and therefore not bound by collective responsibility. It sounds logical to me, but I don't know whether this is something normal (i.e. only shadow cabinet members usually get the boot) being spun as a Corbyn weakness, or whether everyone with a position on the opposition benches usually gets booted for breaking the whip, regardless of whether they're in the shadow cabinet or not.
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:18 |
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Prince John posted:Isn't the convention for members of the shadow cabinet to be booted out for breaking the whip, which has happened? He's only letting people who were outside the shadow cabinet off with the written warning, because they weren't part of the decision making process and therefore not bound by collective responsibility. I'm assuming it's convention else he'd have been kicked off the benches a ridiculous number of times, but I'm not sure. The opposite, on reflection, seems a logistical nightmare. I'm expecting clive lewis to get the symbolic defence role this year anyway
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:25 |
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Edit: ^^ Sorry, my post wasn't completely clear. When I said 'position on the opposition benches' I meant whips and junior shadow ministers who don't attend the shadow cabinet, but still have some position beyond that of just a backbencher.JFairfax posted:Almost half of Labour's voters do not want the party to try and block Brexit, a new poll for The Independent has found. Quoting in full because I think the public's broader wish that Article 50 not be blocked is not always taken on board when criticising Corbyn on this issue. One other stat in the article is that only 39% of Labour voters want to block Article 50. So if only 39% of Labour voters want to block Article 50, and <36% of the public at large (less whatever percentage of "don't knows") want Labour to block it, it looks to me like he's chosen the best of a series of bad options in terms of electability. Edit: vv Thanks! I guess he'd struggle to refill the positions if he booted them all at this point anyway. Prince John fucked around with this message at 00:32 on Feb 12, 2017 |
# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:28 |
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Prince John posted:Isn't the convention for members of the shadow cabinet to be booted out for breaking the whip, which has happened? He's only letting people who were outside the shadow cabinet off with the written warning, because they weren't part of the decision making process and therefore not bound by collective responsibility. Letting whips who broke a triple line whip off with a warning is pretty unconventional
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:30 |
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Cerv posted:they had an on again off again relationship. if Christian hadn't walked out on Al Fayad when they'd been living together a year before the crash, then he presumably wouldn't have been out with Di that night This, basically. As I recall from her bio, he wanted kids and she wanted a career so she dropped him.
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:34 |
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Jedit posted:This, basically. As I recall from her bio, he wanted kids and she wanted a career so she dropped him. quote:Dodi and I met when I was 18. He was so charming and I was intrigued. He was very romantic, he immediately sent me flowers and pursued me. We dated for a while but then it became clear to me that it wasn’t my sort of lifestyle. It was a bit over the top with the bodyguards. I was very Western, I was making my own money and his father was very Egyptian. The women stayed in the kitchen when they would eat. Dodi was lovely, but I grew bored, I was young. We became friends and every time I went back to Europe I’d stay with him. Looks like Shatner also made a pass at her. Didn't realise she had struggled so much with drugs and alcohol though.
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 00:37 |
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kustomkarkommando posted:Letting whips who broke a triple line whip off with a warning is pretty unconventional It's almost as if we live in unconventional times.
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 01:34 |
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blunt posted:Here's the full version without weird cropping/quality: I dont really get it. Everyone knew Trump was going to be batshit insane. How does Trump turning out to be, surprise surprise, batshit insane change anything? Are we supposed to think that Clinton is a saint now?
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# ? Feb 12, 2017 03:54 |
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# ? May 15, 2024 04:06 |
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Prince Phillip ordered Diana's death because she was pregnant with Dodi's baby which meant that there would one day be a brown Muslim as the sibling of the King. I think I actually believe that conspiracy theory. Also someone was telling me last night that the reason Federer has two sets of twins is that his wife got pregnant through IVF because he's secretly gay and lives in Switzerland with his male lover. Also the same reason Beyoncé is having twins but not because Jay-Z is gay but because he has AIDS and gave it to her and that's why Solange slapped him in that lift.
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