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Oberleutnant posted:Blue Labour is Tory Labour. And Tory as UKIP Labour at that. Jedit's First Law of Socioanthropics applies: the likelihood that any given individual or group is racist rises directly with the surface area of all national flags they own and/or display. E: 1983 - famous Blue Labour politician Margaret Thatcher is reelected. Jedit fucked around with this message at 14:29 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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Oberleutnant posted:Blue Labour is Tory Labour. I guess there's already a party for people who are economic conservatives and socially liberal though, they just don't have many seats.
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Hate crimes rise by up to 100 per cent across England and Wales, figures revealquote:Below are the number of hate crime offences recorded by police forces in England and Wales from July to September 2016. I won't post the full list but here's the top and bottom five: Dorset 104* (up 100%) Nottinghamshire 189* (up 75%) North Yorkshire 64* (up 68%) West Mercia 247* (up 64%) Devon and Cornwall 220* (up 63%) ... Northamptonshire 79 (up 4%) South Yorkshire 225 (down 1%) Gloucestershire 55 (down 4%) Surrey 137 (down 7%) City of London 25 (down 7%)
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The fact that one of the bottom 5 is still an increase says it all really.
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This is the best primer on how Article 50 works and what might happen, whether we can reverse it, whether May might really walk away, how much hardball the EU might play, and so on, and y'all should read it because at least it will help to explain the roach-infested wasteland that will be this country by 2020 http://www.politics.co.uk/blogs/2017/02/15/everything-you-need-to-know-about-article-50-in-five-minutes For eg: quote:Yeah, I get the point. The talks collapsing would be bad. But wouldn't we at least be able to fall back onto the WTO?
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Something terrible has happened to Bozza...
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JFairfax posted:Something terrible has happened to Bozza... It just occured to me that you could put any logo in the world in the middle of that flag and make it work.
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JFairfax posted:Something terrible has happened to Bozza... Lol this is from a fashion brand/Facebook clothes selling group called Wavey Garms. I thought appropriating Nazi iconography for attention was considered boring and cliched after punk but I guess not...
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Zephro posted:This is the best primer on how Article 50 works and what might happen, whether we can reverse it, whether May might really walk away, how much hardball the EU might play, and so on, and y'all should read it because at least it will help to explain the roach-infested wasteland that will be this country by 2020 Let's check those comments then: quote:Usual remoaner tosh. We're hosed, aren't we. We have to replace every moving part in a ten thousand piece machine all at once, have to agree with the machine's current owner what to replace each part with, have to hope that all the new pieces work and can't miss a beat on any of them. There is no way this is going to work. We are completely hosed.
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Tbh I quite like the idea of network rail being a paramilitary maintenance organization. Driving around in pickups closing rail lines for unilateral engineering work, all in the hope of one day, eventually, getting the trains running on time.
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HJB posted:Hate crimes rise by up to 100 per cent across England and Wales, figures reveal Good old Surrey 😇
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OwlFancier posted:It just occured to me that you could put any logo in the world in the middle of that flag and make it work. The Odin symbol and Wolfsangel for neo-nazis, the triskelion/triple 7 for the AWB etc. etc. Going too complex ruins it though, it needs to be a stark, bold, simple symbol. I like the iron cross
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:We're hosed, aren't we. We have to replace every moving part in a ten thousand piece machine all at once, have to agree with the machine's current owner what to replace each part with, have to hope that all the new pieces work and can't miss a beat on any of them. Like I've said twice now, nobody is willing to listen to anything that doesn't line up with what they already think. Hypernormalisation has happened and we're all hosed because the right wing won.
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mehall posted:The fact that one of the bottom 5 is still an increase says it all really. I'm surprised Northamptonshire is not up by more tbqh. The whole industrial dying county thing.
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fridge corn posted:Good old Surrey 😇 They already got rid of all the brown people anyway. Can't have hate crimes without a target!
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MikeCrotch posted:They already got rid of all the brown people anyway. Can't have hate crimes without a target! I was gonna say, social homogeneity does make hate crimes harder but I don't think Surrey is achieving it in the way I would like.
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-38971675 TL;DR: steel workers accept cut in pensions to keep jobs. This is how it starts folks, I've seen this. I've seen this loving same thing before. This is the loving beginning, trust me. Next up: labor "flexibilization" (i.e. "I can fire you whenever the gently caress I want, no severance"). It will come, and would you believe there's more steps? It's a train of misery and pain.
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Pochoclo posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-38971675 That already happened under the coalition for the first two years of employment, unless it's specifically stated in your contract otherwise (and even then things like disciplinary provisions etc. don't count, it has to be this specific magic phrase - so exactly like right-to-work in the US for the first two years). Given that short contracts are becoming increasingly common this is more worrying than it might seem. Nobody really cares. Of course there were other changes even worse for workers, like the work tribunal fee being introduced. But it reduced spurious charges against employers! (which have been exceedingly rare) Clearly the 80% drop in cases is exactly what this country needs. Not to mention zero-hour contracts and workfare, another wonderful invention. It would probably be quite hard to push employment rights even further, at least compared to how things were pre-2010. Can't actually see them going for full American-style right to work, particularly now that they have more working class voters under May than they did under Cameron. Not even most of the US is willing to put up with that. At a guess they might go against union rights instead, those still exist to some extent. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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https://twitter.com/youngvulgarian/status/831890773511647232?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw
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# ? Feb 15, 2017 16:53 |
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just caught up with the thread and loving lol at the people thinking that Labour losing byelections is fine
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Make that girl the leader of the Labour party, thanks. At last someone Theresa May is scared of.
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OwlFancier posted:It just occured to me that you could put any logo in the world in the middle of that flag and make it work. Wonder how dickbutt would work
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Pochoclo posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-politics-38971675 it's a sunset industry regardless, mainly because the price of energy is too high in the UK anyway if the UK govt could not be moved to bail it out when it was 1) considerably more socialist in its outlook, 2) considerably more involved in its ownership, and 3) had hundreds of thousands of relatively poorly-paid generational workers, not thousands of semi-skilled-to-skilled workers earning well over median wage, well, really, why would anyone expect it to be saved now
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ronya posted:it's a sunset industry regardless, mainly because the price of energy is too high in the UK If only there was some national entity that could do something to regulate and do something to improve the power situation in the country Oh well, we can all dream I guess
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Hmm yes, some kind of international union with plans to increase proliferation of renewable power sources, nuclear research programs, and the like. Truly that would be a cool thing.
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The Malaysian authorities have released an image of Kim Jong-nam's assassin by the way
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Is the supernatural glow also part of their appearance? Because I would be afraid of hipster assassins from beyond the grave.
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sure. I vote that the hydroelectric dams be built over your town, whilst the electricity powers the industry in mine. (remember capel celyn!) after decades of tumult, britain finds nominally independent statutory regulators to be a necessity for civil-social peace. solve that first, then propose nationalisation again.
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OwlFancier posted:hipster assassins from beyond the grave. Just gonna steal this for a grindhouse film title.
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ronya posted:sure. I vote that the hydroelectric dams be built over your town, whilst the electricity powers the industry in mine. I'm pretty sure you couldn't fit a hydroelectic dam on the middle of the river Trent. There is a weir at one point though...
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MikeCrotch posted:They already got rid of all the brown people anyway. Can't have hate crimes without a target! We've still got plenty of Poles here
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Guavanaut posted:It's funny how switching to palm oil would have appeased most of those groups, when palm oil production kills far more animals than the half a cow needed for the entire UK banknote supply. Oh hello If I was still in Nottingham Id check this out. While dressed up as a soviet premier of course.
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ronya posted:
I still find it weird that every time I turn on the tap I hear the ghost of a small Welsh child saying exactly these words
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Guavanaut posted:It's funny how switching to palm oil would have appeased most of those groups, when palm oil production kills far more animals than the half a cow needed for the entire UK banknote supply. Giant flags is something Nottingham does every year around St. George's Day, it's sickening.
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why do you all hate the Tifosi so
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Not So Fast posted:Giant flags is something Nottingham does every year around St. George's Day, it's sickening. You would lose your mind if you went to most other countries that fly flags every where all year round.
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Jippa posted:You would lose your mind if you went to most other countries that fly flags every where all year round. I know Brazil and USA does, but where else? I didn't see that many in China e: NI loves their flegs I suppose WeAreTheRomans fucked around with this message at 20:27 on Feb 15, 2017 |
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So that wee boy that died at Topshop, details are slowly being released and it looks like it had something to do with a display table not being bolted down. It's tragic and awful that a child died in an utterly preventable way. I wonder if this will cause people to think twice before saying health and safety has gone mad then I remember the tragic Truth
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WeAreTheRomans posted:I know Brazil and USA does, but where else? Brazil and the USA are kinda hosed up Making kids swear allegiance to a flag every day gives me bad vibes
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WeAreTheRomans posted:I know Brazil and USA does, but where else?
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