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jabby posted:Speaking of Boris being an utter prick, has there ever been a campaign like Labour's current one to unseat prominent members of the government? It seems like such an obvious idea to punish those most responsible for loving the country by funnelling resources into taking their seat, but I don't remember it being done before. Some kind of gentleman's agreement to keep politics a game for the rich and powerful? Also Lord Buckethead. Always Lord Buckethead. e: 1642 - The last time a monarch enters the House of Commons. It doesn't end well. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 01:05 on Sep 30, 2017 |
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I don't think it's a gentleman's agreement as much as it's ministers and safe seats going hand in hand and parties tending to focus their limited resources on swing targets. The big difference this time is that after 2017 a lot more ministerial seats are in play (Boris' majority went from 10k in 2015 to 5k in 2017).
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Trevor Hale posted:https://twitter.com/dwdavison9318/status/913905088804130816 This guy is actually the perfect Foreign Secretary. Donald Trump should hire him to be Secretary of State, gently caress Rex Tillerson.
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Sep 30, 2017 01:28
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No one in Trump's administration could recite a poem from memory. I would bet my life on that.
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Sep 30, 2017 01:35
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Don't be too impressed that someone from an elite public school has memorised a bunch of colonial poetry
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Sep 30, 2017 01:44
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the Rohingya were pro-British on the Muslim-Buddhist divide-and-rule scheme of things, so of course he says that in a Buddhist temple
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Party Boat posted:I don't think it's a gentleman's agreement as much as it's ministers and safe seats going hand in hand and parties tending to focus their limited resources on swing targets. The big difference this time is that after 2017 a lot more ministerial seats are in play (Boris' majority went from 10k in 2015 to 5k in 2017). Amber Rudd 
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Julio Cruz posted:The Tories' core support is boomers who don't realise things have changed a bit since the 1950s. we should kill all boomers imo
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Mister Adequate posted:Amber Rudd And to think she was being touted as the next tory leader a few days before the results
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Party Boat posted:I don't think it's a gentleman's agreement as much as it's ministers and safe seats going hand in hand and parties tending to focus their limited resources on swing targets. The big difference this time is that after 2017 a lot more ministerial seats are in play (Boris' majority went from 10k in 2015 to 5k in 2017). don't count on them being in play. between the 92 and 97 elections lots of conservative names moved constituencies. would be funny if Momentum's efforts in Uxbridge amounted to preventing a rando tory councillor joining parliament. but a win's a win
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Trevor Hale posted:No one in Trump's administration could recite a poem from memory. I would bet my life on that. I don't think Boris can either as it sounds like he was reading it off his phone.
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Sep 30, 2017 09:12
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Well at least Boris was right about Saudi Arabia!
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lmao https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/30/boris-johnson-caught-on-camera-reciting-kipling-in-myanmar-temple quote:The foreign secretary has been accused of “incredible insensitivity” after it emerged he recited part of a colonial-era Rudyard Kipling poem in front of local dignitaries while on an official visit to Myanmar in January.
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Jose posted:lmao I'm guessing you can't see embedded tweets
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Sep 30, 2017 09:56
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Reading propaganda about how great the British Empire was to victims of the British Empire and not understanding why it's inappropriate is the most Tory thing I could think of without Boris immediately going to the nearest brothel and ordering two of their finest prepubescent sex slaves.
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https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/913991378870444032 "The crucial thing I want to get over about Brexit is that it is going to be great and we need to believe in ourselves and believe we can do it. It is unstoppable."
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jabby posted:Have to agree with this. According to the statistics the baby boomer generation spent more and had a better standard of living than the previous generation when they were young, and now they're old they spend more and have a better standard of living than the generation after them. They have always been on top regardless of where they were in the age bracket. https://twitter.com/TorstenBell/status/914036277032431616 The guardian has a couple of articles about that report as well: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/sep/29/baby-boomers-are-enjoying-a-second-bite-of-the-economic-cherry quote:This view of the world has not gone unchallenged. The millennials might not be seeing the same sort of growth in real incomes as their parents and grandparents did, but they are still having a grand old time, streaming their music on Spotify, jetting off for weekend breaks in Budapest and eating avocado on toast before heading off to the movies. and https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/sep/29/tories-risk-permament-loss-of-youth-vote-says-willetts quote:Willetts said: “It is sometimes said that the great technological improvements of recent decades mean that young people enjoy a far higher living standard than previous generations. Our new research shatters this idea. Not only are young people earning less, they’re also spending less too, especially as housing takes up ever more of their outgoings.
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Speaking of Boris, since his last Brexit intervention seems to have got him a little of what he wanted, he's trying to sabotage efforts to keep us from crashing straight out of the Single Market.
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Is that a cumulative score or just today's breakdown?
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Darth Walrus posted:Speaking of Boris, since his last Brexit intervention seems to have got him a little of what he wanted, he's trying to sabotage efforts to keep us from crashing straight out of the Single Market. I think we can stop talking about Boris now. It's blatantly obvious that he's trying to get sacked so he can challenge May, and he'll say or do anything to make that happen.
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Sep 30, 2017 10:28
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This is actually great. Her whole twitter feed is golden
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Jedit posted:I think we can stop talking about Boris now. It's blatantly obvious that he's trying to get sacked so he can challenge May, and he'll say or do anything to make that happen. Yes, but he's also the Foreign Secretary, and May keeps making concessions to him rather than firing him.
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Isn't it wonderful? The Foreign Secretary is blatantly trying to sabotage the country's international reputation in order to get himself sacked, and the PM won't sack him because she's more concerned about her own skin than her government's international standing and relationships.
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communism bitch posted:Isn't it wonderful? The Foreign Secretary is blatantly trying to sabotage the country's international reputation in order to get himself sacked, and the PM won't sack him because she's more concerned about her own skin than her government's international standing and relationships. what a time to be alive
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boris getting sacked and losing the leadership election would be insanely good
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I can't read this in anything other than James Alexander Gordon's voice. Barclay's Premier League: Manchester City three, Sunderland nil. Harakat-Ul-Jihad-Ul-Islami one, Reading nil. ronya posted:the Rohingya were pro-British on the Muslim-Buddhist divide-and-rule scheme of things, so of course he says that in a Buddhist temple communism bitch posted:Isn't it wonderful? The Foreign Secretary is blatantly trying to sabotage the country's international reputation in order to get himself sacked, and the PM won't sack him because she's more concerned about her own skin than her government's international standing and relationships.
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Related: apparently Paul Golding, grand wizard of Britain First, put up an FB post stating that they were getting ready for legal action against UKIP for their blatant theft of the BF logo. The post disappeared in a puff of ridicule. (Doing an attachment thing because phoneposting. Dunno if work) e: yay!
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Britian First's graphic designers have got to be kicking themselves that they didn't think of incoporating the bars of the union jack into the lion's mane.
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communism bitch posted:Britian First's graphic designers have got to be kicking themselves that they didn't think of incoporating the bars of the union jack into the lion's mane. Either way they deserve a kicking
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Britain First's one looks like it was based on the thundercats logo.
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Is it just me, or does the BF logo look a lot more like Lion-O than a real lion? e: lol, not just me then
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In "of course it's Goldsmiths" news, apparently showing freshers the local takeaways is culturally appropriating the working class, according to the woman who tried to get That's-So-Raven sacked from the American version of Loose Women.
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Looke posted:This is actually great. Her whole twitter feed is golden https://twitter.com/AMDWaters/status/914027703912796161 
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^holy loving poo poo lol, I was just telling my gf last night that Ukip nearly elected a fash leader Ukips logo just reminds me of a bank or something instead of a political party
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The whole food cultural appropriation debate is the one of the most stupid things I've come across.
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Why isn't aren't they using a proud british animal as their logo, such as...
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Guavanaut posted:Britain First's one looks like it was based on the thundercats logo. It's literally a generic public-domain clip-art piece that turns up everywhere - once you see it you can't un-see it. I've noticed it used in an estate agents logo, on knock-off Aprilia Racing kit, and for a local five-a-side league.
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Lunar Suite posted:Why isn't aren't they using a proud british animal as their logo, such as... Like all great British icons we stole it fair and square and if the Plantaganets want it back they can get in the queue.
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Lunar Suite posted:Why isn't aren't they using a proud british animal as their logo, such as... 
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