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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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JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless

number one pta fan posted:

It feels like whatever surfaces apply the friction that slows down events like expressions of social dissent have been thoroughly greased in the last few weeks. I wouldn't be surprised in the least if something terrible and/or wonderful happened in the area very soon.

Edit

https://twitter.com/LBC/status/875736612185001984

That was fast.

STORM THE BASTILLE!!!!

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Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.

communism bitch posted:

"Ducky's day will come", it's a rephrased revolutionary slogan.

"Tiocfaidh ar lá" means literally "will come our day". "Ducky" sounds like "Tiocfaidh" and "Ducky ar lá" means "Ducky our day". Oiche mhaith means good night. No idea what Grma taillte is.

EDIT: A quick google shows GRMA is Go raibh maith agat, ie "thank you". "taillte" is the land.

JFairfax
Oct 23, 2008

by FactsAreUseless
they're setting up guillotines now

baka kaba
Jul 19, 2003

PLEASE ASK ME, THE SELF-PROFESSED NO #1 PAUL CATTERMOLE FAN IN THE SOMETHING AWFUL S-CLUB 7 MEGATHREAD, TO NAME A SINGLE SONG BY HIS EXCELLENT NU-METAL SIDE PROJECT, SKUA, AND IF I CAN'T PLEASE TELL ME TO
EAT SHIT

Tsaedje posted:

I'm inclined to think the notice was a balls up in timing rather than a threat. Given it's dated the 14th, it was probably queued up earlier. It's terrible timing and they should've put a stop on sending out stuff like that, but I don't think it's anything more than a total lack of tact.

If they were hand-delivered by TMO people I don't think the 'poo poo they're already in the mail' excuse works - someone would have at least brought it up (plus they're dated after the fire had happened)

I mean if there's growing anger and talk of riots, I can see them wanting to remind people that they stand to lose their homes if they get involved with any 'harassment'. Sow fear and doubt in people's minds and keep them subdued

e- looks like people really want a kickabout

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

Nuclearmonkee posted:

"Stormed" "Charged"

*large group of people walk in an orderly fashion*

swarming so they are

Taintrunner
Apr 10, 2017

by Jeffrey of YOSPOS

JFairfax posted:

they're setting up guillotines now

a man can dream

Nuclearmonkee posted:

"Stormed" "Charged"

*large group of people walk in an orderly fashion*

poo poo imagine catching these people on a bad day

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Nuclearmonkee posted:

"Stormed" "Charged"

*large group of people walk in an orderly fashion*

Upto a locked door. That sure is Storming!
gently caress Sky.

Nuclearmonkee
Jun 10, 2009


happyhippy posted:

Upto a locked door. That sure is Storming!
gently caress Sky.

If everyone's going to say their storming the place anyways they should show them what storming actually looks like imo

Pyrotoad
Oct 24, 2010


Illegal Hen
A guy was walking up the steps backwards filming everyone on his ipad, what a frenzy :ohdear:

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

JFairfax posted:

they're setting up guillotines now

As I remarked in irc, the wall, cigarette and blindfold triple combo is traditionally the Correct socialist method :spain::respek::ussr:

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

Nuclearmonkee posted:

If everyone's going to say their storming the place anyways they should show them what storming actually looks like imo

Im Storming off to the toilet here.
Then Im going to Storm over to the kettle and make myself some coffee.
I may or may not Storm back though, don't want to spill it.

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.
Somewhere a Tory MP is reaching for Twitter so he can have a good round of victim blaming, while his advisors are desperately hoping he won't go full Trump.

Beefeater1980
Sep 12, 2008

My God, it's full of Horatios!






My secondary school alumni network, that has sent me precisely 3 communications in the 19 years since I graduated, just sent me an email saying that the school has agreed to take in the students from Kensington Aldridge Academy. Seems like it's a 6th form college that was near to the flats and has stopped operating as a result of the fire. Anyone know any more about that school? Feels like a decent thing to do.

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

baka kaba posted:

If they were hand-delivered by TMO people I don't think the 'poo poo they're already in the mail' excuse works - someone would have at least brought it up (plus they're dated after the fire had happened)

I mean if there's growing anger and talk of riots, I can see them wanting to remind people that they stand to lose their homes if they get involved with any 'harassment'. Sow fear and doubt in people's minds and keep them subdued

e- looks like people really want a kickabout

Don't get me wrong, it's entirely believable that someone would be lovely enough to send a passive aggressive threat like this, I'm just not going to assume that's definitely the case because it's clearly a response to a specific complaint about ball games being played presumably at least a day before the fire. I think it's more likely to be extreme incompetence than malice

Jedit
Dec 10, 2011

Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

feedmegin posted:

As I remarked in irc, the wall, cigarette and blindfold triple combo is traditionally the Correct socialist method :spain::respek::ussr:

And then what, you wait for them to die of lung cancer or walk into traffic?

(Hint: you're missing the most important part of the equation, and so are the British public.)

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

happyhippy posted:

Im Storming off to the toilet here.

I'm storming the pee-cup.

CptAwesome
Nov 2, 2005

Coohoolin posted:

"Ducky" sounds like "Tiocfaidh"

What the gently caress

Tsaedje
May 11, 2007

BRAWNY BUTTONS 4 LYFE

PST posted:

Somewhere a Tory MP is reaching for Twitter so he can have a good round of victim blaming, while his advisors are desperately hoping he won't go full Trump.

They already blamed May not meeting residents on "security concerns"

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

CptAwesome posted:

What the gently caress

Actually it rhymes with Tiocfaidh, which sounds more like "Chucky."

Doccykins
Feb 21, 2006
In a gobsmacking display of not getting it, JustGiving has doubled down on its policy of skimming 5% of donations to Grenfell related pages

https://twitter.com/joetidy/status/875702913624047616
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/just-giving-website-takes-115000-fee-grenfell-tower-donors-give/amp/

Remember to donate, there are profits to be made from this awful tragedy!

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Tsaedje posted:

They already blamed May not meeting residents on "security concerns"

To be fair, this is kinda indicating she might even have been right. Noone's angry at our Corbs or Her Maj for this, everyone knows they weren't responsible, but May nooot so much

happyhippy
Feb 21, 2005

Playing games, watching movies, owning goons. 'sup
Pillbug

CptAwesome posted:

What the gently caress

Now you know why Irish is a dead language.
Spent 4 years forced to learn it, loving learning to read RSA encryption protocols in real time is easier.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

hit button posted:

Maybe worth noting that the TSG got decommissioned in 2016 as part of the Met's cost-cutting measures. :laugh:
that's news to me.
are you thinking of the one particular riot squad of the TSG that was disbanded last year after they were all caught inflating their overtime claims?

feedmegin
Jul 30, 2008

Jedit posted:

And then what, you wait for them to die of lung cancer or walk into traffic?

(Hint: you're missing the most important part of the equation, and so are the British public.)

I had assumed the bullet, the thing you use to make that bullet go fast, and your friendly neighbourhood Red Guard would be inferred by the thread.

Cerv
Sep 14, 2004

This is a silly post with little news value.

Beefeater1980 posted:

My secondary school alumni network, that has sent me precisely 3 communications in the 19 years since I graduated, just sent me an email saying that the school has agreed to take in the students from Kensington Aldridge Academy. Seems like it's a 6th form college that was near to the flats and has stopped operating as a result of the fire. Anyone know any more about that school? Feels like a decent thing to do.

not just near the flats. it's right at the base of the tower north side. like 20m across the pavement

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/16/most-of-central-london-hospital-to-be-sold-off-secret-plans-reveal

quote:

Almost all of a central London hospital is to be sold and its services diverted to already stretched facilities around the capital under plans for NHS modernisation seen by the Guardian.

Charing Cross hospital, a flagship NHS facility in the heart of London, is to be cut to just 13% of its current size under proposals contained in sustainability and transformation plans published last year in 44 areas across England.

...

NHS chiefs have stated as recently as March that “there have never been any plans to close Charing Cross hospital”, and in March 2015 the then prime minister, David Cameron, said it was “scaremongering” to suggest that the Charing Cross A&E departmentwas earmarked for closure. The health secretary, Jeremy Hunt, echoed the claims.

However, in the internal NHS documents the apparent downgrading of Charing Cross is outlined in great detail.

...

The NHS in England is gearing up to start selling off billions of pounds worth of land and property in order to free up cash to tackle what Naylor estimated to be a £10bn backlog of repairs to sometimes crumbling old buildings.

The Health Service Journal disclosed last week that the Department of Health was preparing to create six regional public/private partnerships covering all of England that would oversee such sales. The plan, codenamed Project Phoenix, would see the proceeds from asset sales being shared between NHS organisations and private firms. Under the plan, London and the south-east would comprise one giant, and very valuable, area.

Government trying to slip this one out under the radar? These people need to be gone

hit button
Mar 18, 2012


Cerv posted:

that's news to me.
are you thinking of the one particular riot squad of the TSG that was disbanded last year after they were all caught inflating their overtime claims?

Whoops you're quite right, I misremembered.

Pissflaps
Oct 20, 2002

by VideoGames
It's going to kick off in London tonight.

StoicFnord
Jul 27, 2012

"If you want to make enemies....try to change something."


College Slice

peanut- posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2017/jun/16/most-of-central-london-hospital-to-be-sold-off-secret-plans-reveal


Government trying to slip this one out under the radar? These people need to be gone

If it's not one thing they are trying to gently caress up, then it's the other.

NI, NHS. Anything else beginning with N the Tories are looking to screw?

Tesseraction
Apr 5, 2009

StoicFnord posted:

If it's not one thing they are trying to gently caress up, then it's the other.

NI, NHS. Anything else beginning with N the Tories are looking to screw?

the whole Nation?

Vitamin P
Nov 19, 2013

Truth is game rigging is more difficult than it looks pls stay ded

Pissflaps posted:

It's going to kick off in London tonight.

I don't think so. I'm walking there from Lambeth now and even 20 minutes out there's a ton of coppers on the roads. Anything happens it'll get shut down quick.

Honestly I'm expecting more a vigil than anything else.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Pissflaps posted:

It's going to kick off in London tonight.

Is this an official Pissflaps Prediction?

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
Looks like it's kicking off at the town hall, mounted police have turned up and the protestors seem to be trying to prevent people from leaving.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Vitamin P posted:

I don't think so. I'm walking there from Lambeth now and even 20 minutes out there's a ton of coppers on the roads. Anything happens it'll get shut down quick.

Honestly I'm expecting more a vigil than anything else.

Imagine the optics of the filth kicking the gently caress out of the grieving relatives of those killed in the fire.

I couldn't guess what way the next few days are going to go but the whole situation seems to be teeting on a precipice and has the potential for a major blowup.

Also tomorrow is saturday. Gonna be a lot of people without work and school to distract them.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
So the gbs thread is posting what they claim to be pics from helicopter footage of police getting surrounded and beat to gently caress for trying to clear out the council building.

peanut-
Feb 17, 2004
Fun Shoe
I hope not, a bunch of local council employees don't deserve to get beaten up for something they probably had nothing to do with.

TomViolence
Feb 19, 2013

PLEASE ASK ABOUT MY 80,000 WORD WALLACE AND GROMIT SLASH FICTION. PLEASE.

communism bitch posted:

So the gbs thread is posting what they claim to be pics from helicopter footage of police getting surrounded and beat to gently caress for trying to clear out the council building.

THere was a small scuffle when the council officials and employees were pulled out by the filth, resulting in one arrest according to Sky news.

SA_Avenger
Oct 22, 2012

Tsaedje posted:

Don't get me wrong, it's entirely believable that someone would be lovely enough to send a passive aggressive threat like this, I'm just not going to assume that's definitely the case because it's clearly a response to a specific complaint about ball games being played presumably at least a day before the fire. I think it's more likely to be extreme incompetence than malice

Incompetence is malice

Coohoolin
Aug 5, 2012

Oor Coohoolie.

CptAwesome posted:

What the gently caress

Gaelic pronunciation is fun!

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ultrabindu
Jan 28, 2009
https://twitter.com/MajinStevie/status/875745624699924480

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