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Fun reminder that Letwin was first known for his 1980s book of reheated Friedman takes called 'Privatise the World' and is a right piece of work
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Mar 28, 2019 10:31
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yeah im aware he’s a tory
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Mar 28, 2019 10:32
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prefect posted:Wow, this is a lovely thing I did not know about Hmmm. Weird that the Scottish National Party would turn on a government that completely hosed them over. But I guess it's those damned Scots who are to blame for Labour's government being so unpopular that it collapsed and then Labour losing a bunch of elections.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:00
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Taintrunner posted:So how badly does this crash the global economy lmao It doesn't. Britain doesn't matter.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:09
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prefect posted:Wow, this is a lovely thing I did not know about That hair  
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Taintrunner posted:So how badly does this crash the global economy lmao It won't, the businesses don't collapse, they already have brexit plans they put into action, investment capital has moved out of the UK and finance jobs will to to Dublin Paris Frankfurt and Amsterdam
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Mar 28, 2019 11:15
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Reading through all that stuff today makes me think, is there any basis for my feeling that the group actions of an organization like the UK Parliament strongly resembles the actions of a single three and a half year old child?
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Mar 28, 2019 11:19
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Samurai Sanders posted:Reading through all that stuff today makes me think, is there any basis for my feeling that the group actions of an organization like the UK Parliament strongly resembles the actions of a single three and a half year old child? That's a bridge too far. Three year olds are more reasonable.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:26
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Hmmm. Weird that the Scottish National Party would turn on a government that completely hosed them over. But I guess it's those damned Scots who are to blame for Labour's government being so unpopular that it collapsed and then Labour losing a bunch of elections. drat, everything is hosed up. 
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Mar 28, 2019 11:30
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Hmmm. Weird that the Scottish National Party would turn on a government that completely hosed them over. But I guess it's those damned Scots who are to blame for Labour's government being so unpopular that it collapsed and then Labour losing a bunch of elections. I always wondered what the "people voted for Trump for good reasons" argument would look like in British form.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:34
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Wanting the British to suffer is very Scottish. It's why they stayed.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:36
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Relevant Tangent posted:Wanting the British to suffer is very Scottish. It's why they stayed. Scottish people are British
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Mar 28, 2019 11:37
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And they clearly want themselves to suffer, or else why would they have voted to affirm the English yoke? 
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Mar 28, 2019 11:38
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Weird that the Scottish National Party would turn on a government that completely hosed them over. But I guess it's those damned Scots who are to blame for Labour's government being so unpopular that it collapsed and then Labour losing a bunch of elections. any scottish person who says 'yeah it was the right thing to help thatcher into power' is scientifically and unarguably accurate to term 'damned'
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Mar 28, 2019 11:40
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JFairfax posted:Scottish people are British tell them that
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Mar 28, 2019 11:40
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ScrubLeague posted:tell them that Well even with independence I think Scotland will remain part of the British Isles
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Mar 28, 2019 11:43
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irish people are british
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Mar 28, 2019 11:45
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They really need a bit more room in the House of Commons Chamber.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:50
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:They really need a bit more room in the House of Commons Chamber. They're probably only allowed to build new benches out of some special ancient wood that was once sat upon by some sort of royal.
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Mar 28, 2019 11:56
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prefect posted:Wow, this is a lovely thing I did not know about https://twitter.com/barneyronay/status/1111191468927082496?s=19
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Mar 28, 2019 12:10
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I apologize for stepping in the SNP thing without understanding the history. I hope this is interesting enough to serve as penance. https://twitter.com/nichol77/status/1111223773993275392
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Mar 28, 2019 12:14
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prefect posted:I apologize for stepping in the SNP thing without understanding the history. I hope this is interesting enough to serve as penance. You loving pussy never apologize
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Mar 28, 2019 12:15
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prefect posted:I apologize for stepping in the SNP thing without understanding the history. I hope this is interesting enough to serve as penance. This just reinforces the notion that parliament voted for anything yesterday (it didn't) and that you can vote against no deal without either concluding bilateral a deal with the EU or unilaterally revoking Article 50 (you can't). So I welcome it as a contribution to project "Keep making Bexit a maelstrom of chaos that will devour the remnants of the British empire".
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Mar 28, 2019 12:18
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Pener Kropoopkin posted:I always wondered what the "people voted for Trump for good reasons" argument would look like in British form. i would understand if you've been maintaining a heroic BAC in these end of days and don't recall but you must have seen the "people voted for Trump for good reasons" argument about a thousand times by now w/r/t brexit and people voting leave because they've been let down by the government and just wanted to make that clear etc. etc.
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Mar 28, 2019 12:20
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Taciturn Tactician posted:Hmmm. Weird that the Scottish National Party would turn on a government that completely hosed them over. But I guess it's those damned Scots who are to blame for Labour's government being so unpopular that it collapsed and then Labour losing a bunch of elections. lmao at posting a wings over scotland article. https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110158462988754944 https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110486843756290051 https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110882972205531136 https://twitter.com/BBCPhilipSim/status/1110189944767696902
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Mar 28, 2019 12:21
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Did something happen in Britain that put Chelsea Manning back in the spotlight? Last time I heard of her, she was pardoned by Obama, then was alleged to hang around alt-right people and disappeared from the mainstream media coverage.
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Mar 28, 2019 12:26
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the guy behind wings over scotland is suing a labour politician because she wrote an article about his homophobic tweets
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Mar 28, 2019 12:26
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Randler posted:Did something happen in Britain that put Chelsea Manning back in the spotlight? They threw her in jail again. Wikipedia: In February 2019, Manning received a subpoena to testify in a US government case against WikiLeaks and Julian Assange (the existence of which had been accidentally revealed in November 2018), which was proceeding at the behest of the Trump administration under prosecutors in Virginia.[218] Manning condemned the secrecy of the hearings and announced she would avoid testifying as Daniel Domscheit-Berg had previously done,[219] saying "we've seen this power abused countless times to target political speech. I have nothing to contribute to this case and I resent being forced to endanger myself by participating in this predatory practice."[220] On March 8, 2019, she was held in contempt of court and jailed in Alexandria, Virginia, with the judge conditioning her release on her testifying or the grand jury concluding its work.[221][222][223]
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Mar 28, 2019 12:27
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hahaha Jesus Christ
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Mar 28, 2019 12:27
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I love brexit, it's my favorite political drama since despite being a bit less full on idiotic than the trump government, it has way less. Of an impact on the world. The season Finale is looking to be killer too!
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Mar 28, 2019 12:29
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prefect posted:I apologize for stepping in the SNP thing without understanding the history. I hope this is interesting enough to serve as penance. As soon as I read Labour Plan, I immediately thought "Lisa needs assurances"
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Mar 28, 2019 12:39
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twoday posted:As soon as I read Labour Plan, I immediately thought "Lisa needs assurances" BREXIT PLAN!
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Mar 28, 2019 13:14
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Jose posted:the guy behind wings over scotland is suing a labour politician because she wrote an article about his homophobic tweets I admit that I didn't know that, I saw the article linked and looked over it and thought it would be more intellectually honest to post it directly than to post the sources I got from it. My bad. ulex minor posted:any scottish person who says 'yeah it was the right thing to help thatcher into power' is scientifically and unarguably accurate to term 'damned' The Scots didn't vote Thatcher into power. They gave Labour twice as many seats as they gave the Tories. Sheppard didn't say "better Thatcher than keeping that government!!", he said said he would have done the same thing, i.e. voted against a confidence vote in a government that hosed his party over. Here's the full speech where he follows up saying he would do the same thing by adding that they didn't vote for 18 years of tories. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WB6Ro1cNTaM Labour would super like to frame any dissendence against them as voting to make a Tory PM dictator but it's pretty rich to accuse the SNP of being Tory sympathisers. Also it's pretty bad timing when the SNP has been way more on top of Brexit stuff than Labour. Taciturn Tactician has issued a correction as of 13:51 on Mar 28, 2019 |
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Mar 28, 2019 13:46
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Jose posted:lmao at posting a wings over scotland article. To be clear the Wings guy is also a Glinner-adjacent TERF, but no matter how objectionable he becomes Callaghan's quote remains the same
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Mar 28, 2019 13:48
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ulex minor posted:any scottish person who says 'yeah it was the right thing to help thatcher into power' is scientifically and unarguably accurate to term 'damned' Just a warning from an American, "not voting with me is voting for the bad guy" trolley problem language is how you end up with Democrats. You don't want to have Democrats.
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Goon Danton posted:Just a warning from an American, "not voting with me is voting for the bad guy" trolley problem language is how you end up with Democrats. You don't want to have Democrats. The Brits have been enjoying the fun of a de-toothed centrist "left" party for almost the same amount of time as us. The whole Blairite phenomena.
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Mar 28, 2019 13:58
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So Chuka really is Obama
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Mar 28, 2019 13:59
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What's the difference between 'customs union' and the labor plan?
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Grape posted:The Brits have been enjoying the fun of a de-toothed centrist "left" party for almost the same amount of time as us. The whole Blairite phenomena. The democrats aren't a centrist party, though. They're decidedly right-wing.
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