Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed. |
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Jeremy Corbyn | 95 | 18.63% | |
Dennis Skinner | 53 | 10.39% | |
Angus Robertson | 20 | 3.92% | |
Tim Farron | 9 | 1.76% | |
Paul Ukips | 7 | 1.37% | |
Robot Lenin | 105 | 20.59% | |
Tony Blair | 28 | 5.49% | |
Pissflaps | 193 | 37.84% | |
Total: | 510 votes |
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winegums posted:He's leagues more popular than Dugdale and right now the tories are backpedaling over their budget. He'd want to be on. I should imagine he and that old man Jeremy Corbyn beardy man and Diane Abbott have gone out to an Irish pub to get drunk on alcohol and sing IRA songs. Sick days all around tomorrow, I shouldn't wonder!!!!!! (all goons join us for Question Time weekly punishment in #ukgoons on synirc)
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# ? Mar 9, 2017 23:17 |
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The BBC has kindly 'reality checked' the claim that the Tories broke their manifesto promise.BBC News posted:The claim: The government's increase in National Insurance contributions is a breach of its 2015 manifesto. I'm not sure whether to be grateful that they are even criticising the government or saddened that something as simple as pointing out lies requires a special 'reality check' now.
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# ? Mar 9, 2017 23:24 |
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Can someone repost the synirc link?
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# ? Mar 9, 2017 23:52 |
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#ukgoons
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# ? Mar 9, 2017 23:55 |
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Red Oktober posted:The news orgs at least got smart to that and have now started writing headlines like 'Trump claims, citing no evidence, that Obama tapped his phones'. If they're going to play that game then the headline should just be 'Trump makes claim while citing no evidence' and leave it at that. It'd get a bit repetitive, but his indignant rage sure wouldn't.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 00:13 |
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Red Oktober posted:We saw it a lot at the beginning of the Trump administration where the newspaper headline would be something like 'trump accuses obama of tapping his phone' or 'trump claims millions voted illegally', and while the article states that he had no evidence, that's not the part that people remember, especially if they don't read the article. Honestly it seems like the journalistic thing to do would be to just ignore his Twitter at the very least. Used to be that the dead cat strategy was something that took some planning, Trump can just pick up his phone and spend a few seconds typing any old poo poo that comes to mind and bam, it dominates the news And of course the big story ends up being 'THING: why thing probably isn't true'. Journalism
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 00:17 |
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It's a shame Tasmina Ahmed-Sheik has no policies or principles of her own, because she's a fairly effective mouthpiece when she wants to be. She shouldn't have bothered arguing with Kez about the Scottish attainment at the end because it was sensless bickering to an audience that didn't give a poo poo, but other than that she came across well. Kex performed well at raking the Tories against the coals where she could, but fell apart as soon as Scottish independence came up. A good question to ask about the NHS should be "assuming there is no change to the NHS being free at the point of service, should the rich be contributing more to it's cost". Hard to get anyone to se no to that, and boom you have justification to go back to the 50p top rate.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 00:56 |
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Yeah Dugdale's problem is she's always on when there's an SNP, and she just goes for them rather than dogpiling the Tories. Needs to play the ball not the (wo)man.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 01:00 |
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mehall posted:Kex performed well at raking the Tories against the coals where she could, but fell apart as soon as Scottish independence came up. She also sat there completely silent while the other panel members ripped Labour apart, not for anything to do with policy, but for being unpopular. The only defence came from the audience. I'm amazed she even bothered to attack the Tories. EDIT https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/839993872944136192 Britain remains well on track to becoming a one party state. jabby fucked around with this message at 02:39 on Mar 10, 2017 |
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Looke posted:here are all options I was told life would be peaceful if I went west.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 03:08 |
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Goldman Sachs are the scum of the earth. https://twitter.com/GoldmanSachs/status/839842797242953729
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 03:26 |
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Lord of the Llamas posted:Well there's the crackpot libertarian wing like Carswell and Hannan, sort of the the anti-Lexit particles. Of course the most funny thing about those guys is the naive belief that any substantive proportion of the population actually agrees with them which somehow makes them almost blind to the ethnic nationalism and xenophobia. Well I meant 'open to people from outside [the EU]' not 'open to people from outside [the country]'. I mean it works either way, but people who agree with the latter are much more rare.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 04:32 |
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/839993872944136192
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 09:41 |
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In other news, there is no news: https://twitter.com/pressgazette/status/840100621692805122 Insert opinion here before posting Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 09:52 on Mar 10, 2017 |
# ? Mar 10, 2017 09:46 |
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https://twitter.com/GerardDiTrolio/status/839975580133183489 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9WywJ3G2OgY
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:07 |
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I heard yesterday that Galloway has threatened to stand in Gorton if Labour does not select an Asian candidate. However, I have heard this morning that he has threatened to stand in Gorton if Labour does not select Afzal Khan MEP. I don't really know anything about Khan beyond the fact that he's an MEP and his name is Afzal Khan, but I am aware that there are two or three other prospective candidates who are also Asian who could be selected. Why is Galloway set on Khan as opposed to the other candidates?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:08 |
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Is Galloway aware that he is white?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:10 |
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Do you mean, is Galloway aware that Afzal Khan is white, or is George Galloway aware that George Galloway is white?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:16 |
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mehall posted:It's a shame Tasmina Ahmed-Sheik has no policies or principles of her own, because she's a fairly effective mouthpiece when she wants to be. I dont think the 50p top rate is very effective
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:43 |
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Breath Ray posted:I dont think the 50p top rate is very effective Why?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 10:59 |
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Maybe he wants a 90p top rate?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 11:05 |
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Yeah, 50p isn't really that high historically speaking if it's only on people who are that wealthy. And that's only on the margin.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 11:09 |
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Breath Ray posted:I dont think the 50p top rate is very effective Agreed. It's no where near high enough. John Lennon hardly lived in poverty when there was a 98p top rate.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 11:23 |
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https://twitter.com/election_data/status/840144450449891328 This is quite a thing.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 11:58 |
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Still great
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:01 |
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hand-fed baby bird posted:Still great The edit with Liz Kendall's face on the doll was funnier tbh
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:07 |
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forkboy84 posted:The edit with Liz Kendall's face on the doll was funnier tbh This was what started it though. You couldn't have one without the other.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:16 |
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Another interesting story from the Telegraph, but in the other direction to Alistair Heath shrieking about how taxation is theft: Juliet Samuel is pretty much calling the Tories intellectually bankrupt:Juliet Samuel posted:Philip Hammond is worried about the tax take. This, we are told, is why he made the strategic blunder of pushing up taxes on the self-employed this week. Very interesting in that she goes on to say that tax cuts aren't going to solve the problem, and neither is following typical centre-left policy, which is why protectionism is emerging as pretty much the only card left in a lot of right-wing politicians hands.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:23 |
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forkboy84 posted:Agreed. It's no where near high enough. John Lennon hardly lived in poverty when there was a 98p top rate. He also hardly lived in Britain.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:27 |
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Michael Gove's column in The Times today is really quite something http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/comment/mrs-may-is-our-first-catholic-prime-minister-zmbgdqjz3 quote:Mrs May is our first Catholic prime minister
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:27 |
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alright, it's time to own up - who gave jfairfax the michael gove skinsuit?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:30 |
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Big Tone wants a word
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:30 |
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Didn't Tony turn to Rome after he stood down?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:32 |
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Pissflaps posted:Didn't Tony turn to Rome after he stood down? officially, yes, but it was an open secret beforehand. He just kept denying it in the press because despite it being 2005-2007 when it was all over the press, it was still a controversial thing somehow.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:33 |
peanut- posted:Michael Gove's column in The Times today is really quite something Someone call Pope Frankie Boy and get a Govite crusade in the works, might help out a church dogged by persistent "you hosed/starved the kids" allegations.
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:35 |
It's good that someone sent him Max Weber's book from slightly over 100 years ago to keep him updated with slightly more contemporary threats to our country + liberty than marxism though lol
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:37 |
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Is there a UKMT thread consensus on George Galloway? Good man or bad man?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:40 |
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Entropy238 posted:Is there a UKMT thread consensus on George Galloway? Good man or bad man? Probably something along the lines of "amusing idiot" with that picture of him meeting Saddam Hussein attached
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:42 |
Entropy238 posted:Is there a UKMT thread consensus on George Galloway? Good man or bad man?
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# ? Mar 10, 2017 12:42 |
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Entropy238 posted:Is there a UKMT thread consensus on George Galloway? Good man or bad man? Seems to be a massive, massive twat to this UKMT heavyweight.
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