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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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Labour 907 49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative) 48 2.64%
Liberal Democrats 31 1.71%
UKIP 13 0.72%
Plaid Cymru 25 1.38%
Green 22 1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party 12 0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party 1 0.06%
Scottish National Party 59 3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist 4 0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian 3 0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist 36 1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots 35 1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash 8 0.44%
Monster Raving Loony 49 2.70%
Space Navies Party 39 2.15%
Independent / Single Issue 2 0.11%
Can't Vote 188 10.35%
Won't Vote 8 0.44%
Spoiled Ballot 15 0.83%
Pissflaps 312 17.17%
Total: 1817 votes
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Borrovan
Aug 15, 2013

IT IS ME.
🧑‍💼
I AM THERESA MAY


MrNemo posted:

antisemitism
http://www.labour.org.uk/page/-/party-documents/ChakrabartiInquiry.pdf

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Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames

communism bitch posted:


You be the judge!

Injured bird not pictured as he had gone to the other platform by the time I got my phone out. I guess he had a train to catch.

This is bad for Corvids.

DesperateDan
Dec 10, 2005

Where's my cow?

Is that my cow?

No it isn't, but it still tramples my bloody lavender.
leadsom just had a car crash interview at the site of the fire on sky, only heard the audio off the graun so far but the reporter and angry locals get stuck in then she bails

I would blow Dane Cook
Dec 26, 2008
Who would you cast in the inevitable Greenfell tower movie?

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
According to google Rooks have bare faces like those, whereas crows have feathery faces.

themoreyouknow.gif

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Who would you cast in the inevitable Greenfell tower movie?

Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson

ephex
Nov 4, 2007





PHWOAR CRIMINAL

I would blow Dane Cook posted:

Who would you cast in the inevitable Greenfell tower movie?

John Hurt, Alan Rickman, Christopher Lee...

Living Image
Apr 24, 2010

HORSE'S ASS

Pissflaps posted:

This is bad for Corvids.

Nice.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
loving hell even the queen is going to meet people there before May

Jakabite
Jul 31, 2010
So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich

Pissflaps posted:

This is bad for Corvids.

Marked improvement in flapsposting since the election

RandomPauI
Nov 24, 2006


Grimey Drawer

SA_Avenger posted:

Getting together as a community tp get things done is the reason why governments exists...so it's actually depressing that people have to rebuild a government mockup from the ground up. Viewed from afar the absence of government action to do the relief effort is scary because it's probably the same state in every western countries.

Nah, in the States the levels of government (local, state, federal, tribal, territories), their agencies, and select nonprofits are legally mandated to plan this poo poo out ahead of time. Its all apart of the National Incident Management System. The NIMS is actually one of the few accomplishments of the George W. Bush administration.

There are problems with our system. Each major disaster reveals areas of weakness that need to be strengthened. And not everyone's doing the necessary planning and preparation work. But it's still light years ahead of the UK's "the council will figure it out" approach.

Edit: Here's a really quick intro.

https://youtu.be/d39esZe-NXg

RandomPauI fucked around with this message at 11:21 on Jun 16, 2017

Flatscan
Mar 27, 2001

Outlaw Journalist

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

I predict a lovely Kaiser Chiefs song.

Junior G-man
Sep 15, 2004

Wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma


Pissflaps posted:

This is bad for Corvids.

:golfclap:

Nice, nice, nice.

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

Thank God it wasn't her humanity or common decency that made her do it, but highly probably her press team and the Daily Mail. I hope she gets egged at the very least.

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

Oh look, another U-turn

Stretch Marx
Apr 29, 2008

I'm ok with this.

Pissflaps posted:

This is bad for Corvids.

This pun gets me raven mad.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE
She's going to be angrily told to gently caress off on live tv

Not Operator
Jan 1, 2009

Not A doctor, THE Doctor!

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

B-b-but security!

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

what odds it's a highly managed meeting with only the white residents

DeadButDelicious
Oct 11, 2012

Leave me to do my dark bidding on the internet!

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

I'm not sure even the Pope's bubble car could keep her safe down there.

PST
Jul 5, 2012

If only Milliband had eaten a vegan sausage roll instead of a bacon sandwich, we wouldn't be in this mess.

DesperateDan posted:

leadsom just had a car crash interview at the site of the fire on sky, only heard the audio off the graun so far but the reporter and angry locals get stuck in then she bails

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GJVA-AK1Z6Q

Blinks77
Feb 15, 2012

Not Operator posted:

B-b-but security!

She is going to be surrounded by an entire army of riot police.
That or by meet the locals she means kidnapping small groups to #10.

WeAreTheRomans
Feb 23, 2010

by R. Guyovich
https://twitter.com/lukeming/status/875633792127336448

Lol

SA_Avenger
Oct 22, 2012

spectralent posted:

Yeah, about the only saving grace of it would be the chance to do full communism, but the stars would need to be pretty loving aligned for that.

The fear of communism is so engraved in the US they'd probably rather find a way to murder Corbyn if he event keeps hinting at taking property

Party Boat
Nov 1, 2007

where did that other dog come from

who is he


When I was walking home the other week I saw some crows (or possibly rooks) do some really efficient zone marking to prevent seagulls​ getting near a bag of chips. Birds are cool.

goddamnedtwisto
Dec 31, 2004

If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you
Fun Shoe
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/15/experts-warned-government-against-cladding-material-used-on-grenfell

quote:

Investigations are also focused on gas pipes in the stairways and lobbies recently installed by National Grid, which residents had complained had not been boxed in with fire retardant material despite assurances they would be.

Holy gently caress if this is true - that they put loving gas pipes through communal areas and didn't even fireproof them - then they're going to have open a new loving prison.

Other tower blocks to have had gas pipes retrofitted have had the pipes go up the outside of the building - presumably this wasn't an option here because it would have ruined the sleek pretty looks and been more expensive because they'd need to use copper rather than PVC, so we're just going to run flammable gas lines through the only means of escape from a fire

pumpinglemma
Apr 28, 2009

DD: Fondly regard abomination.

Pissflaps posted:

This is bad for Corvids.
I too appreciate this new Pissflaps.

PST
Jul 5, 2012

If only Milliband had eaten a vegan sausage roll instead of a bacon sandwich, we wouldn't be in this mess.

Jakabite posted:

So May's apparently now going down to meet residents. I can only see this going horribly for her.

Only going to see the injured in hospital, which means stage-managed and limited interactions with people who are too ill to yell in her face.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Party Boat posted:

When I was walking home the other week I saw some crows (or possibly rooks) do some really efficient zone marking to prevent seagulls​ getting near a bag of chips. Birds are cool.

i've got ot be really careful driving around where i live because the roads are covered in pigeons that don't want to move for a car aand i don't really fancy crushing them onto the road

Surprise Giraffe
Apr 30, 2007
1 Lunar Road
Moon crater
The Moon

Jose posted:

I posted this last night but it understandably got lost in the news about the fire but its a good read. Its really long mind


Conservatives joining forces with murderous dictators for economic gain, what a loving surprise

Guavanaut
Nov 27, 2009

Looking At Them Tittys
1969 - 1998



Toilet Rascal

PST posted:

Only going to see the injured in hospital, which means stage-managed and limited interactions with people who are too ill to yell in her face.
Going to have to start bringing this back.

Senor Tron
May 26, 2006


goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/15/experts-warned-government-against-cladding-material-used-on-grenfell


Holy gently caress if this is true - that they put loving gas pipes through communal areas and didn't even fireproof them - then they're going to have open a new loving prison.

Other tower blocks to have had gas pipes retrofitted have had the pipes go up the outside of the building - presumably this wasn't an option here because it would have ruined the sleek pretty looks and been more expensive because they'd need to use copper rather than PVC, so we're just going to run flammable gas lines through the only means of escape from a fire

Jesus loving christ.

If that is true it's just a monumental cock up of the highest order. Would that explain why very few people seemed to come down the stairwell?

thehappyprince
Apr 4, 2006

Alastair Cock

Jose posted:

i've got ot be really careful driving around where i live because the roads are covered in pigeons that don't want to move for a car aand i don't really fancy crushing them onto the road

i had to stop at a zebra crossing the other day because a pigeon was crossing it like a human. absolute scenes tbh

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

thehappyprince posted:

what odds it's a highly managed meeting with only the white residents

Actually, what do we know about the demographics of the tower's residents? I've been wondering this for a while.

On that Buzzfeed article, it does rather sound like while the British government has reason to dislike political assassinations on British soil on principle, it felt that these particular people were not worth annoying Russia about. This was literally half a political dispute, and half a mob war.

Necrothatcher
Mar 26, 2005





Leadsom is scum, but at least she turned up.

haakman
May 5, 2011

Pissflaps posted:

This is bad for Corvids.

New Pissflaps Best Pissflaps

Gort
Aug 18, 2003

Good day what ho cup of tea
If this keeps up I may have to unignore him

haakman
May 5, 2011

Gort posted:

If this keeps up I may have to unignore him

It could just be a dead flaps bounce. Give it time.

Whimsicalfuckery
Sep 6, 2011

May isn't going back to the site of the disaster, she's going to the hospital to meet victims who hopefully are unconscious and won't be able to ask any difficult questions.

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Halisnacks
Jul 18, 2009

Mr. Flunchy posted:

Leadsom is scum, but at least she turned up.

Agreed. I also think she handled herself pretty well, given the circumstances. What was she supposed to do, say "Yes, Theresa May will definitely show up to meet with residents/victims"?

May would be destroyed in very similar circumstances though. A ten-minute aggressive interview surrounded by angry locals would be almost enough to end her premiership, I think.

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