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This month we barrel headlong towards a snap general election on June 8th following local elections across Great Britain this Thursday, the EU provides a framework for a united Ireland, war rhetoric ramps up as we promise to follow Trump into Hell, Tim Farron finally lays out his position on mixed fabrics, and the foreign secretary accuses Jeremy Corbyn of being a 19th century conservative. Also some bad news for Kate McCann? In The News The Bank of England is implicated in Libor rigging by secret recordings. Two men wearing burqas as disguises carried out an armed robbery in Leicester, look out for exciting and totally not predictable responses from the usual outlets. A man has a bread knife near Parliament. This is big news. Police shoot a woman in her home in Willesden. Maybe she also had a bread knife in her kitchen. There are conflicting reports, but the woman may have been handcuffed prior to being shot. Britain goes a full day without using coal power to generate electricity for the first time since the Industrial Revolution. Unfortunately a chunk of the replacement is unsustainably forested biomass. Suspicious packages containing white powder have been sent to SNP offices, after there was nobody to sign for them at George Osborne's. Sadiq Khan cancels the stupid waste of money known as the garden bridge before Boris's friends can suck any more public funding through it. They still manage to get away with over £30m. Leo Baxendale, creator of The Bash Street Kids and anti-war newsletter The Strategic Commentary, dies. Unlike certain other cartoonists he eventually recognized that drawing blackface minstrel caricatures was in poor taste. Little Plum though... David Cameron has bought a £25k designer garden shed to touch livestock and write books in. North Korea has a missile capable of hitting Shetland. Paper fivers stop being legal tender this week. You can still use them to negotiate private debts on mutual agreement as long as the shop doesn't have a gold fringed flag. Nick Cohen badly misquotes Voltaire to make some kind of hot take about how the left are the real intolerant ones. UKMT Book Bus The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists Robert Tressell Liberalism, a Counter History Domenico Losurdo The Method of Freedom Malatesta Declaration Hardt and Negri Libertarian Communism Isaac Puente Amestoy Violence Slavoj Zizek Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution Rosa Luxemburg Ecology of Freedom Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital Karl Marx and Goons Mayday Mayday Mayday International Museum Day UKMT April 2017 UKMT March 2017 UKMT February 2017 UKMT January 2017 UKMT December 2016 World Whisky Day Scotpol Thread Channel Islands Liberation Day EDL/Fash Thread Cinco de Mayo Europol Thread Take a Girl Child to Work Day Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread Golden Spike Day Trainchat Thread Free Comic Book Day Political Cartoons Thread International Virtual Assistants Day #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). International Hug Your Cat Day quote:1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor; Also over half the country is either an open ethnic nationalist or has 'common sense' views about same: MikeCrotch posted:Depressing crosspost from C-Spam - who likes open ethnic nationalism? Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 13:05 on May 25, 2017 |
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If corbyn had made the party's motto for the election "Make June the End of May" he might, just might, have had a chance.
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hakimashou posted:If corbyn had made the party's motto for the election "Make June the End of May" he might, just might, have had a chance. It's the unofficial motto on the campaign trail.
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How do paper scottish fivers come into play with this plastic nonsense
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jBrereton posted:How do paper scottish fivers come into play with this plastic nonsense They are all plastic too.
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:14 |
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I got a Clydesdale Bank fiver in the pub on Saturday and it was also poly.
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:15 |
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Disappointed at the lack of a link to the best uk thread in that op. Recent discussions include stuff about my balls. Fluo (rip), a forum users home address and the dire state of sainsburys meal deals. We also talk about the JAM MAN
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:16 |
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Is it just me or has there been a lot of non-news about maddie lately?
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:18 |
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make June the END of MAY
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:21 |
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Guavanaut posted:I got a Clydesdale Bank fiver in the pub on Saturday and it was also poly. just because you like to press together your cash and pretend Nan Shepherd is making out with the Queen does not mean they're capable of forming romantic relationships
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Namtab posted:Is it just me or has there been a lot of non-news about maddie lately? that clemunt freud tottally killed her
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The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complimentary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552quote:1) May had said she wanted to talk not just Brexit but also world problems; but in practice it fell to Juncker to propose one to discuss. e: the Reuters writeup of the article is here: http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-britain-eu-may-idUKKBN17W09L Unfortunately, this is likely to be an ongoing feature of the brexit farce, with the EU perspective on the proceedings being primarily reported in non-English language sources and thus less visible to the UK public. Also, the bit about expecting every aspect of the talks to leak no matter how much May rabbits on about wanting to avoid giving away Britain's hand or whatever is spot on - the exact same thing happened during the "negotiations" between the EU/eurogroup/troika and the Greek government, which is the most similar situation I can think of. LemonDrizzle fucked around with this message at 00:50 on May 1, 2017 |
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TheHoodedClaw posted:They are all plastic too.
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LemonDrizzle posted:The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complementary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552 strong and stable leadership
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# ? May 1, 2017 00:30 |
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Wow it's EXACTLY like us Remainers were saying all along.
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jBrereton posted:Yeah I'm saying I have some paper ones, they are presumably not usable anymore right? Same use-by schedule as BoE paper notes, I think. If a retailer won't take them, a bank branch will.
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Mister Adequate posted:Wow it's EXACTLY like us Remainers were saying all along. Umm, I think you'll find we're actually remoaners, and we probably hijacked the talks to make the Prime Minister sound like a horrifically out-of-her-depth buffoon purely so we can smugly say "I told you so" to the real patriots who should hang us as traitors to God, King & Country once we're out of the dastardly cultural Marxist cult that is the ECHR.
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jBrereton posted:Yeah I'm saying I have some paper ones, they are presumably not usable anymore right? Down south? No idea. But up here, I've definitely had one fiver accepted in the past 3 or 4 months, maybe more. They are definitely not common any more but I think you should be able to still use them. I was meant to quote this and then edit into the previous post but I forgot. Oh well.
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LemonDrizzle posted:Unfortunately, this is likely to be an ongoing feature of the brexit farce, with the EU perspective on the proceedings being primarily reported in non-English language sources and thus less visible to the UK public. Oh dear. I shall cling to the folorn hope that this is also a bit of psychological warfare ahead of the election given the Commission sources. But sadly, I think it all rings quite true.
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LemonDrizzle posted:The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complimentary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552
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So apparently Michael Foster, the Labour donor suspended last year for comparing Corbyn supporters to Nazi stormtroopers, is going to stand against Corbyn in Islington if he doesn't step down. What is it with wealthy donors recently and thinking they can actually stand for election and win, especially as in independent? Does the money just go to their head and they figure they clearly will be made MP if they just throw some cash at the situation?
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jabby posted:So apparently Michael Foster, the Labour donor suspended last year for comparing Corbyn supporters to Nazi stormtroopers, is going to stand against Corbyn in Islington if he doesn't step down. By islington standards he's not even that wealthy!
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Wealthy donors without fail think themselves bigger than the party, and see any success of the party as being related directly to them. They normally don't stand once the amount of work involved in running, the level of press scrutiny they would receive and how expensive it ends up being becomes clear to them. They always give themselves an out when they make their declarations. The UKP guy said he would only stand against the UKIP traitor, Foster says only if the locals are a "disaster" without establishing what would qualify as such for him.
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Skinty McEdger posted:Wealthy donors without fail think themselves bigger than the party, and see any success of the party as being related directly to them. They normally don't stand once the amount of work involved in running, the level of press scrutiny they would receive and how expensive it ends up being becomes clear to them. They always give themselves an out when they make their declarations. The UKP guy said he would only stand against the UKIP traitor, Foster says only if the locals are a "disaster" without establishing what would qualify as such for him. Plus of course they have no interest in being an MP, and seem to equate the election to some kind of beauty contest where you get given a trophy at the end rather than a full time job.
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LemonDrizzle posted:The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complimentary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552 UKMT May 2015: national delusion awareness month please name UKMT June 2015: the blind electing the stupid
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# ? May 1, 2017 01:46 |
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It's 2017?
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OwlFancier posted:It's 2017? That's one heck of a delusion.
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# ? May 1, 2017 02:19 |
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American here, is there any reason I don't want Corbyn to win?
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Taintrunner posted:American here, is there any reason I don't want Corbyn to win? If May wins we take back the "stupidest country on the planet" title belt.
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OwlFancier posted:If May wins we take back the "stupidest country on the planet" title belt. i dunno turkey just voted to have a dictatorship
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# ? May 1, 2017 02:36 |
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u could say they voted for christmas
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LemonDrizzle posted:The German newspaper FAZ has an account of the midweek dinner meeting between May/Davis and Juncker, which is really not complimentary at all of the PM; the Economist's Berlin bureau chief did a translation of the highlights on Twitter: https://twitter.com/JeremyCliffe/status/858810953353367552 drat this is all gold. We've had some rare political honesty from the Tories lately, when they've been giving the impression they have absolutely no idea what they're doing. Hide under some coats and it will all work out
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JFairfax posted:i dunno turkey just voted to have a dictatorship I mean, that's a very classical way to get a dictatorship.
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Taintrunner posted:American here, is there any reason I don't want Corbyn to win? he's got weird foreign policy hobbyhorses that the United States domestic politics also tends to be also involved in, not necessarily on the same side - you can be sure that at least someone in the Irish National Caucus wishes they were relevant again. conversely there's an undying faith on the part of British leftists that makes them think that they are automatically invited to comment on Latin American affairs by virtue of international solidarity. This plays for their audiences but starts totally unnecessary piles of diplomatic paperwork for yours. the popularity of "smart" sanctions instead of blunt hammers or more aggressive approaches is contingent on a certain degree of consensus, particularly amongst financial centers, as to who or what belongs on the target list. You can be drat well sure nobody in Belgium paid any price for unanimously cheering the withdrawal from UNAMIR in 1994. Dehaenes at least has the excuse that it was Rwandans or the Euro, and he'd rather have the Euro - he plausibly didn't do it just to score points at home, although he was certainly awarded those points. e: alternate post: because this card works much better for the USSR player ronya fucked around with this message at 06:07 on May 1, 2017 |
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ronya posted:he's got weird foreign policy hobbyhorses that the United States domestic politics also tends to be also involved in, not necessarily on the same side - you can be sure that at least someone in the Irish National Caucus wishes they were relevant again. Ok.
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# ? May 1, 2017 06:36 |
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i'm glad blair is promising to get his hands dirty and help Theresa May get re-elected because shes what this country needs
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ronya posted:e: alternate post: because this card works much better for the USSR player I don't think there's a single other card I've sent to space more than Soc Govts. Maybe Decolonization? But Decolonization loses its potency later in the game, Soc Govts is dangerous throughout the game because The Iron Lady is virtually always better spent as points. I guess you could get lucky and have USSR draw it. (I usually play US despite myself because it's the tougher side to play.)
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Jose posted:i'm glad blair is promising to get his hands dirty and help Theresa May get re-elected because shes what this country needs Pretty sure this is grounds for suspension from the party.
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Jose posted:i'm glad blair is promising to get his hands dirty and help Theresa May get re-elected because shes what this country needs Anything to cover the blood, I suppose.
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