Tesseraction posted:

he's not stupid but he's repetitive and soulless

Brown Moses posted:

The perfect columnist.

Captain Fargle posted:

Thanks for the replies folks. The trees I'm growing in my own yard are saplings from a garden centre, the question relates to the apple cores I toss when I'm out walking. I like going for long walks late at night when everything is quiet out and I've taken to bringing apples along with me as a snack.

Tesseraction posted:

UKIP won by-elections when their MP crossed the floor. Given the absolute state of the Tories right now it might be a safer option.

V. Illych L. posted:

tbh is anyone surprised that peter hitchens is a massive technophobd

hitchens isn't stupid imo just very very British Christian

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/DawnHFoster/status/1116269807802966017?s=19

dispatch_async posted:

crispix posted:

Don't underestimate how upset stupid people get about their bins in this country, though.

Mr.Tophat posted:

Nah, it aint frowned upon. You have to stay within forms. That particular fight was against the sword instructor so I was trying my best to improve on my duel from two years ago with him during the first tournament between Torquay and Plymouth. Flashy means style points. Flashy communicates to your opponent so it can be rendered safe. I generally am not so flashy, that was kinda the exception to the rule. I change forms a lot so.

Edit: Disarming people is fun

Regarde Aduck posted:

I'm loving angry about bins. That the Tories have hosed up. I'm angry at the tories about bins. I'm in one of the 'once a month' areas and yes there's rubbish being dumped everywhere now because of course there is.

Brown Moses posted:

https://twitter.com/barnabynerberka/status/1116275982518898688

sauer kraut posted:

Once a month is insane. When they switched from weekly to every 2 weeks here (Germany), my municipality had to get rid of all public wastebins because people would dump their household garbage there at night and I saw bin locked with chains

Jose posted:

so whats he being charged with?

Jose posted:

so whats he being charged with?

Jose posted:

so whats he being charged with?

Jose posted:

so whats he being charged with?

Regarde Aduck posted:

I'm loving angry about bins. That the Tories have hosed up. I'm angry at the tories about bins. I'm in one of the 'once a month' areas and yes there's rubbish being dumped everywhere now because of course there is.

PST posted:

KittenofDoom posted:

Assange is in jail!

Thoughts and prayers for the cat.

Regarde Aduck posted:

For some reason successive governments have really hated North Wales and wanted it destroyed. They've mostly won at this point. I was going to describe it as the mid-west of the UK but I guess it's more like detroit really.

Gorn Myson posted:

Assange is definitely getting whisked off the US and tortured for the rest of his life.

Regarde Aduck posted:

For some reason successive governments have really hated North Wales and wanted it destroyed. They've mostly won at this point. I was going to describe it as the mid-west of the UK but I guess it's more like detroit really.

TheRat posted:

And a large portion of this thread will be applauding it for some grotesque reason.

Borrovan posted:

I hate the guy with a passion but my ideal outcome is he gets a proportionate slap on the wrist for bail jumping & then goes free.

He & his fans will feel like right tits & I will feel vindicated.

Bundy posted:

I spent many a holiday in Rhyl and Towyn as a kid, I was last there about ten years ago and holy poo poo what a stark concrete contrast from what I remember. Can't imagine what it's like now.

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Independent Group MPs have refused to face by-elections because they claim it would "crush the birth of democracy".

Ex-Tory MP Heidi Allen gave the eye-popping excuse today - bluntly admitting "we are not ready" - as she became the 11th MP to quit their party and join the new campaign.

Since seven ex-Labour MPs formed the group on Monday, they've faced furious calls to stand aside and let voters re-select them in a by-election.

But members of the new group have repeatedly rebuffed calls to test their mandate without party backing behind them.

They claim their values haven't changed and they were clear about their opposition to elements of their parties in 2017.

Yet today Ms Allen - who has a thumping 15,952 majority - said there's another reason too.

She told a press conference in Westminster: "This is what the big parties do. They want to crush the birth of democracy.

"They want to crush people like us trying to change things for this country. And this is the game of course that they will play.

"But we’re better than that and we think our constituents in the country deserve better than that."

She added: "The last thing the country needs right now is a general election or any kind of by-election.

"We haven’t changed.

"What we stood on, our values, our own leaflets, our own campaigning when we stood in 2017, none of that has changed."

Later, she told a briefing in Parliament: "If we are breaking the system and trying to create something new that is the first thing the big parties are going to do to try and crush us.

"Because they know we are not ready for a general election or for by-elections, and we have to really resist that.

"Because we're not going to break this mould of broken politics that has got us in this mess over Brexit unless we are prepared and we do it properly."

It came as Theresa May was hit with a bombshell Tory split as three of her most high-profile anti-Brexit MPs quit the party.

Heidi Allen, Sarah Wollaston and Anna Soubry dramatically crossed the floor of the House of Commons today and sat on the opposition benches as they joined the Independent Group.