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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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I'm contributing 1% to my pension and I'm going to die cold and alone in a ditch at the age of 70 years and one month. e: 1129AD The Order of the Knights Templar is ordained. 2129AD The hundredth Assassin's Creed game is released. Nobody cares about the Desmond Miles bits. sebzilla fucked around with this message at 14:42 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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baka kaba posted:Marina's the best shes at her best writing about football imo
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Mar 24, 2017 15:00
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sebzilla posted:I'm contributing 1% to my pension and I'm going to die cold and alone in a ditch at the age of 70 years and one month. I will always care about the Desmond Miles bits. 
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Mar 24, 2017 15:22
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He saved the world from a threat they didn't actually show and barely explained. Something about a solar flare killing life on Earth? And he fixed it? By dying? They didn't actually show anything happening or changing so who loving knows. But then the games kept being made??????? And you were a pirate??????????????? And then a cheeky man/woman in London???? And Ubisoft represent themselves as the villains in their own game??????? AAA+ gaming.
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Mar 24, 2017 15:28
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it is a good stabbing mans game anf then you can kick the pope in his ballbag. I only played the first three though also I haven't looked but I hope Piers Morgan is getting a lot of abuse on twitter today while he can't retaliate
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Mar 24, 2017 15:33
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Regarde Aduck posted:He saved the world from a threat they didn't actually show and barely explained. Something about a solar flare killing life on Earth? And he fixed it? By dying? They didn't actually show anything happening or changing so who loving knows. But then the games kept being made??????? And you were a pirate??????????????? And then a cheeky man/woman in London???? And Ubisoft represent themselves as the villains in their own game??????? AAA+ gaming. If I can see cool hieroglyphs in eagle vision I don't care  Also, Persona 5 in a few weeks, can't wait!
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Mar 24, 2017 15:36
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Pesmerga posted:Also, Persona 5 in a few weeks, can't wait! Isn't that the game where you romance anime children?
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Mar 24, 2017 15:40
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Half-Life 3 or nothing!
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Mar 24, 2017 15:47
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fridge corn posted:Isn't that the game where you romance anime children? It's the game where you fuse new demons by guillotining them, have a talking cat, and has an awesome jazz soundtrack 
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Mar 24, 2017 15:46
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McDragon posted:also I haven't looked but I hope Piers Morgan is getting a lot of abuse on twitter today while he can't retaliate What did he get banned for?
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Mar 24, 2017 16:01
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lol trump getting elected was probably bad for le pen because he's been such a public trainwreck so far https://twitter.com/ASLuhn/status/8...%3D2835%23pti19
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Mar 24, 2017 16:05
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A follow on from the London attack, as the Crown Inn in Keith receives a threat purporting to be from ISIS. I can just picture that meeting: "Brothers, our mission at Westminster was a success! But how can we strike fear into the infidels in Scotland? They hate the English government more than we do, and they have no fear of death." "We could stop them drinking alcohol..." "Excellent work, Rachid!"
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Mar 24, 2017 16:07
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Pesmerga posted:It's the game where you fuse new demons by guillotining them, have a talking cat, and has an awesome jazz soundtrack And then gently caress your teacher.
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Mar 24, 2017 16:25
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Darth Walrus posted:And then gently caress your teacher. Well after Resident Evil VII I guess a change of pace is in order.
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Mar 24, 2017 16:37
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Some good news for Labour for once. Not that this actually gives them any power over the regulation of the finance industry in the City though. https://www.ft.com/content/c886bf4a-1067-11e7-b030-768954394623 quote:Labour scores record win in City of London election
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Cerv posted:Some good news for Labour for once. Not that this actually gives them any power over the regulation of the finance industry in the City though. There's so much rank stupidity in the arrangements of the City council, and in the statements made in this article, that I don't even know where to begin.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:41
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Pantsuit posted:What did he get banned for? He's doing some thing for red nose day where he's not tweeting or something along those lines, he didn't get banned or anything.
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Mar 24, 2017 17:47
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He should do that every day.Oberleutnant posted:I don't even know where to begin. 
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Mar 24, 2017 17:51
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baka kaba posted:Marina's the best More https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/24/nigel-farage-british-values-london-fox-news
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Mar 24, 2017 17:51
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Oberleutnant posted:There's so much rank stupidity in the arrangements of the City council, and in the statements made in this article, that I don't even know where to begin. The City is incredibly hosed up and I'm not even sure it's a good thing Labour are doing well there. It's hard to imagine things like affordable housing being a vote winner in a place like that
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Mar 24, 2017 18:05
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fridge corn posted:Isn't that the game where you romance anime children? If by romance you mean you say "I like u <3" to each other and then you get another arcana link that means you can start leveling up new personas then yeah. Ban this sick filth. I'm sorry but when did this thread become the UK media circa 2001?
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Mar 24, 2017 18:11
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Regarde Aduck posted:I'm sorry but when did this thread become the UK media circa 2001?
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Mar 24, 2017 18:15
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Guavanaut posted:Whatever happened to Gordon the Gopher? Big name in the jazz-funk scene.
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Mar 24, 2017 18:20
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baka kaba posted:The City is incredibly hosed up and I'm not even sure it's a good thing Labour are doing well there. It's hard to imagine things like affordable housing being a vote winner in a place like that Funny thing is the Corporation does actually own a couple of (shockingly non-privatised) council estates apart from Barbican, and until very recently probably had an economic mix fairly close to the norm for inner London as far as residential populations go, although rather heavier on students than most.
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Mar 24, 2017 19:16
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That's really weird, especially with all the stuff about the lack of public space around there Kinda sounds like a nature reserve or something. A little ecosystem of the little people you can watch from your tower
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Mar 24, 2017 20:07
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baka kaba posted:That's really weird, especially with all the stuff about the lack of public space around there Yeah, Crossrail - by taking up most of Finsbury Circus - robbed the City of over 85% of it's parkland. For reference, Finsbury Circus is *just* big enough for a couple of bowling greens and some trees. The only remaining public parks in the City are the Postman's Park, which you can walk across in about 30 seconds if you take your time, and St. Dunstan's which is literally a bombed-out church. And not a big church, either. This in an area that had a population of just over half a million right up to the Victorian era. It's a big part of the reason why the rest of London has quite so many parks, everybody sort of overcompensated once they started settling outside the walls. (There is quite a bit of green space just outside the City and quite a lot of church yards and other green spaces but of course they're not officially parks, and also Trinity Square Gardens which is inside the walls but which the City gave to Tower Hamlets, presumably because they didn't want to buy a *second* lawnmower)
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Mar 24, 2017 22:43
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Postmans Park is probably one of the most emotionally touching places in London though.
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Mar 24, 2017 22:50
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But on the other hand, the city owns Hampstead Heath, Epping Forest, Highgate Wood, Queen's Park, West Ham park, and hundreds of other little green spaces that are nowhere near being within the boundary of the city. The Finsbury Circus worksite is only temporary till next year. Would've been last year if Johnson & Osbourne hadn't cut the Crossrail budget. Cerv fucked around with this message at 23:04 on Mar 24, 2017 |
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Mar 24, 2017 23:02
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 I'm In London and I pass through Stockwell frequently when I'm drunk and happy with my uni friends. It stuck me, especially considering the events on Wednesday, that Jean Charles De Menezes died there. He was a brown guy who died because the Met thought he was an Islamic terrorist. It is a sobering reminder that Muslims are not the only victim of Islamophobia. Rest in peace.
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London is actually pretty cool and good besides house prices AFAICT. The thing you have to understand is that most large capital cities in the world are nightmarish hellscapes, because high densities of people are usually bad news. In this context, London is amazingly good. Sure, there's about half a dozen better capital cities in Europe, but that's about it really, if you want better you have to go to non-capital cities and those have their own issues. Grain of salt and all that though, I live in a loving bubble and haven't experienced the poor side of London. Still, for all his faults, between Sadiq Khan and a Tory I'd obviously vote for Khan because urgh lesser of two evils.
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baka kaba posted:The City is incredibly hosed up and I'm not even sure it's a good thing Labour are doing well there. It's hard to imagine things like affordable housing being a vote winner in a place like that https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/5twdj7/the_somethingsgate_diaries_dispatches_from_a/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/5u40l3/the_somethingsgate_diaries_2_a_change_is_gonna/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/5uyev6/the_somethingsgate_diaries_3_the_lay_of_the_land/ https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/5wnz9n/somethingsgate_newsflash_i_won/ LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 02:28 on Mar 25, 2017 |
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One thing I've noticed is that after this terrorist attack the 'keep calm and carry on, we are British, stiff upper lip old chaps' narrative has been particularly strong. Stronger in my opinion than the 'gently caress ISIS, close the borders, bomb them back to the stone age' jingoism that is the other typical response. I'm not really sure how I feel about it. On the one hand a peaceful response is clearly better than a war-like one, but on the other it doesn't leave us any closer to a debate about the causes of terrorism and why people might end up hating this country (and it's government) enough they're willing to kill/die over it. Almost like some of the Jo Cox murder 'a thing happened, please do not think too deeply about why' has seeped in. Like we've moved on from whipping up fear and now it's time to engender a sense of complacency to make terrorist attacks the new normal. Anyone else think there's been a bit of a shift in tone, or is it just me?
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Taking the train past Spitalfields Market every day, the Corporation should really invest in a few litter pickers. That place is a dump.
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radmonger posted:If it wasn't for Brexit, the City would be caning it right now, being based an island with most of those things, and no Trump or Putin. The real tragedy of trump (one of the real tragedies) is that we in the states would have been even more the rock of the world if it had gone the other way. At least the fact that poo poo's hosed up everywhere mitigates it for us a bit. Not quite enough of us learned from the brexit mistake, but at least our democratic party learned from the corbyn mistake.
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lol the rock of the world. the best bit is americans actually believe that. manifest destiny never went away, kill brown people is still en vogue
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Mar 25, 2017 07:37
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jabby posted:One thing I've noticed is that after this terrorist attack the 'keep calm and carry on, we are British, stiff upper lip old chaps' narrative has been particularly strong. Stronger in my opinion than the 'gently caress ISIS, close the borders, bomb them back to the stone age' jingoism that is the other typical response. Part of the problem is the nature of the attack. It's basically impossible to physically prevent the entire population of Great Britain from driving into crowds and stabbing people. There's no meaningful crackdown that can stop this sort of thing - the issue is entirely cultural, a social problem that compels people to spread terror and death, and we're not even all that sure what, exactly, that problem is - Thomas Mair was a powerful counterargument against the 'it's them inferior Musselmen' angle, thanks to committing a crime too major to be totally downplayed and forgotten, and too obviously political to be totally decontextualised. The public's been getting increasingly tired of invasive and questionably-useful antiterrorism measures, and this seems like it might have pushed a bunch of folks over the edge.
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Every one was expecting it for so long. That is the power of terrorism. It's the the threat of it that works more than the actual acts. This low level psychological background noise.
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Pret A Manger have a plan to solve their looming problem of Brexit disrupting their recruitment by 'hiring' children to work 30 hours a week making their lovely sandwiches. https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/845532471395434496 But instead of paying them any money they're going to get a free sandwich instead. Friends, I invite you to join me in boycotting this company until they commit to paying a wage to all their staff.
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Pissflaps posted:Pret A Manger have a plan to solve their looming problem of Brexit disrupting their recruitment by 'hiring' children to work 30 hours a week making their lovely sandwiches. "Leftist brexit" is still hilariously dumb. Corbyn three line whipped for this.
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