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Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed. |
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| Jeremy Corbyn |
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95 | 18.63% |
| Dennis Skinner |
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53 | 10.39% |
| Angus Robertson |
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20 | 3.92% |
| Tim Farron |
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9 | 1.76% |
| Paul Ukips |
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7 | 1.37% |
| Robot Lenin |
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105 | 20.59% |
| Tony Blair |
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28 | 5.49% |
| Pissflaps |
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193 | 37.84% |
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Mar 5, 2017 19:19
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Hi everyone, My twin brother Ray, who occasionally posted here as Chocolate Teapot, passed away yesterday peacefully in his sleep. He developed sepsis following the end of his chemotherapy treatment over a month ago, causing multiple organ failure. His body was unable to recover without intensive medical treatment. I want to show my appreciation for everyone who has made this a place he felt home in, even if he didn't post a lot. Thank you.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:46
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I'm sad to hear that and I wish you and fam the best. The thread loses a good comrade.
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Mar 5, 2017 19:54
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poo poo, sorry. I remember him posting a bit, UKMT usually attracts the good people
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Mar 5, 2017 19:57
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Sorry for that friend, losing people like that is horrible 
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Mar 5, 2017 20:11
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Ah poo poo, hope you and the family are doing okay. I'm glad he found some comfort/fun times in the UKMT
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Mar 5, 2017 20:19
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Fangz posted:Nice deflection. So why did you quote the Mail then? Is it just your usual news source? Why do you think the Mail is frontpaging made up stuff about Blair? Just innocently informing the public? I quoted it to make the amusing post "Okay he's just trolling us at this point". I'm still intrigued why you think an attack on Tony Blair is an attack on New Labour, though?
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Mar 5, 2017 20:21
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's a poll. Polls don't lie. Eat the poll you hungry piece of poo poo. Polls of labour members do. They're the idiots who elected Corbyn twice, remember? VIRGIN HEAT posted:Hi everyone, I remember this guy. Sorry for your loss.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:22
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VIRGIN HEAT posted:Hi everyone, Sorry for your loss.
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Mar 5, 2017 20:25
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VIRGIN HEAT posted:Hi everyone, Sorry for your loss, mate. Keep him alive in your memories, and be well
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Mar 5, 2017 21:58
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I quoted it to make the amusing post "Okay he's just trolling us at this point". The Daily Mail is 'trolling us', while you assume what it says to be true, if it involves Tony Blair. Why is that? And er, yeah? Tony Blair and New Labour are kinda connected? You think the Mail is frontpaging this for giggles? Fangz fucked around with this message at 22:20 on Mar 5, 2017 |
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Mar 5, 2017 22:17
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I remember seeing posts by Chocolate Teapot. I'm sorry for your loss.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:43
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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4282190/Tony-Blair-s-secret-White-House-summit-work-Trump.html this is coming from a uk news source so obviosuly it's likely to be bullshit but haha is this for real?
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Mar 5, 2017 22:49
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Fangz posted:The Daily Mail is 'trolling us', while you assume what it says to be true, if it involves Tony Blair. Why is that? No, the joke was I thought that Tony Blair was personally trolling us by wanting to be Trump's peace envoy to the Middle East and leaking this plan to the Daily Mail. It was such a perfect sotrm of annoyances for this thread, it seemed an amusing thing to say. New Labour was a much, much bigger project than Blair, and one that started before the odious little poo poo even entered Parliament. Conflating the two is done by precisely two kinds of people - the kind of people who thought calling him BLIAR and his party ZaNU PF LIEbour was Swftian satire, and the kind of people who think the sun shines out of his arse and the odd million dead brown people is a decent price to pay for watered-down Third Way-ism. I doubted you were the former. And the Mail put it on the front page because they very definitely are the former and still have a hate-boner for him that puts most of this thread to shame, and are loving horrified that he would be cosying up to their flaxen-haired fascist darling. Unless you genuinely think a) St. Tony will return from the wilderness to reclaim his throne and b) that the Mail made the story up to discredit him in the minds of the Beige Army waiting to follow him to the neoliberal promised land.
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Mar 5, 2017 22:50
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The Independent was running the Blair Trump story as well
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Mar 5, 2017 23:29
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Unforced Corbyn error #456741235: in which our hero makes his tax return public to try and grandstand about his probity, only to reveal that he's hosed it up for the second year running and forgotten to declare £37k of income http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39175570 quote:Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has published his tax return as part of a call for transparency from politicians.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:39
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Jeremy published his tax return again and managed to gently caress it up again well done Jeremy.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:40
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That's our Jeremy 
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Mar 5, 2017 23:43
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I think Jeremy is the product of some Tory project to create their perfect Labour leader.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:44
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As ever, he's making a good point but finding a way to gently caress up. That said I'll still vote for him.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:48
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I wasn't aware that leader of the opposition did get paid more.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:49
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Where's the 36 grand p/a pension from? That's not the Leader of the Opposition increment in the wrong column is it?
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Mar 5, 2017 23:50
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Jesus Christ people, that's still by far the closest I've seen a politician come to a real, clean tax return. I mean I've seen politicians declare huge mansions with helipads on them for $1 value and nothing happen, in comparison this dude forgetting to declare £35k is a breath of fresh air.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:52
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Pissflaps posted:I think Jeremy is the product of some Tory project to create their perfect Labour leader. Thatcher already completed this project though? If anything Corbyn is the twisted creature that crawled out of the pod unnoticed after Blair was complete, composed entirely of the parts he left behind, like socialism, but drained of charisma. The Anti-Tone.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:54
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Hasn't he got loving people to check his workings for fucks sake? When you make a point like this you want it really loving accurate right?
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Mar 5, 2017 23:55
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TheHoodedClaw posted:Where's the 36 grand p/a pension from? That's not the Leader of the Opposition increment in the wrong column is it? He's a pensioner, mp pension probably. Pochoclo posted:Jesus Christ people, that's still by far the closest I've seen a politician come to a real, clean tax return. I mean I've seen politicians declare huge mansions with helipads on them for $1 value and nothing happen, in comparison this dude forgetting to declare £35k is a breath of fresh air. If you're making the political point that people over a certain income should post your tax returns, and getting the chancellor to call it demonstration politics instead of posting his own, it's an own goal to then miss the equivalent of 150% of a newly qualified nurses salary off your own income. It leaves him open to ridicule and he'll have to publicly deny any wrongdoing. The right wing press get to laugh at him instead of engaging with the point.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:56
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jabby posted:Thatcher already completed this project though? Oh yeah because that thing about Tony Blair actually being a Tory and all that those things that helped people were done in the wrong way great point.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:56
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Pissflaps posted:Oh yeah because that thing about Tony Blair actually being a Tory and all that those things that helped people were done in the wrong way great point. If you keep making the point that Tories must love Corbyn I'm going to keep reminding you that Thatcher actually loved Blair.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:57
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Seaside Loafer posted:Hasn't he got loving people to check his workings for fucks sake? When you make a point like this you want it really loving accurate right? You're right. You don't want to advertise your incompetent and utterly nullify the whole point of your stunt. Unless you're a Tory sleeper agent like Jeremy Corbyn literally is.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:58
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jabby posted:If you keep making the point that Tories must love Corbyn I'm going to keep reminding you that Thatcher actually loved Blair. Yeah she loved new schools and hospitals and the minimum wage all things we remember thatcher for good catch.
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Mar 5, 2017 23:58
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Thatcher only regarded one of those two people as her greatest success tho
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Mar 6, 2017 00:01
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Namtab posted:Thatcher only regarded one of those two people as her greatest success tho
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Mar 6, 2017 00:02
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Namtab posted:Thatcher only regarded one of those two people as her greatest success tho I doubt she even knew who Corbyn was tbh.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:02
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I'm curious as to what Jez's explanation for the discrepancy is.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:03
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Some kind of fraud I expect.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:04
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Thanks for your messages of remembrance guys. It's really appreciated.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:06
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I mean really if it is wrong it sort of proves his point, when it comes to people who actually make our tax law we should know if they themselves are following it and where their conflicts of interest might lie.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:07
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OwlFancier posted:I'm curious as to what Jez's explanation for the discrepancy is.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:07
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Namtab posted:He's a pensioner, mp pension probably. Back of the envelope calculation says that this is likely the right answer, assuming 1/50th accrual. Lucky MPs, getting to vest pension rights, and still draw the salary.
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Mar 6, 2017 00:08
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OwlFancier posted:I'm curious as to what Jez's explanation for the discrepancy is.
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