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WhatEvil posted:Well first of all you take 10 points off the Tories for it being YouGov. Quoting myself but yeah, I just checked, Survation (one of the ones who got the polling the closest last election) have Tories at 28, Lab 24, LD 21, BXP 15, SNP 4. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_polling_for_the_next_United_Kingdom_general_election#2019 When you look at polling history, YouGov is fairly consistently an outlier among polls, often showing the largest Tory lead by a few percent. They do push polling and it's owned by Tories. You should generally ignore polls outside of an election season but that goes double for YouGuff E: https://twitter.com/bestcataccount/status/1163853317199618048?s=20
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I'm not sure I recognize anyone in that photo except jez. I like the look of captain porno stache at the left there though.
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Tesseraction posted:...I'm sorry what? Tweetman posted:The man must never be allowed anywhere near number ten. OwlFancier posted:I'm not sure I recognize anyone in that photo except jez. Directly on his right?
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The only polls I give a gently caress about outside of a GE, is chuckling at CUK dropping from 12% to 2% to 0% within the space of three months. The great beige hope 
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OwlFancier posted:I'm not sure I recognize anyone in that photo except jez. Tony Benn the other side of the woman in the pink coat. Families of Bloody Sunday victims: https://www.museumoffreederry.org/content/petitioning-10-downing-street
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I like these games. Pretty sure that's Tony Benn beside Corbyn and that's John Hume third from right in the front. He is one of those high profile men who has somehow managed to never have a single photograph taken where it looks like he is meant to be in it :/ crispix fucked around with this message at 00:59 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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I think I've only seen pictures of tony benn from shortly before his death when he's a bit thinner. Also old men all look the same to me kinda.
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OwlFancier posted:I think I've only seen pictures of tony benn from shortly before his death when he's a bit thinner.  Basically invented concorde.
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Aug 21, 2019 01:03
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I mean it sort of makes sense, there's probably some sort of natural resources under there and the US could always use another alaska. Probably a decent location for more ABM radars too.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163961884225277954 his brain is rotting, we are in full caligula and boy howdy do i sort of get the horse thing now
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Benn would've taken Britain to full communism just with his good looks.
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CoolCab posted:his brain is rotting, we are in full caligula and boy howdy do i sort of get the horse thing now I genuinely can't tell if he cancelled the meeting because he was serious about buying Greenland or because he's so offended that the Danish PM thought he wanted to buy Greenland. It reads like the first but my brain just can't believe it's true.
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Chuka Umana posted:Benn would've taken Britain to full communism just with his good looks. In the 1980s I had a boss who used to come out with "The trouble with Tony Benn is he's dangerous - he's very plausible".
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"The trouble with Donald Trump is he's dangerous - he's very plausible" - said no one ever.
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Private Speech posted:A lot of that is true about several other places where the soviet-backed governments were around, but I'd still take it over religious Mad Max cosplayers or the actual Taliban. Yeah, Kabul was the nice bit. It was the best-defended part of the DRA, got all the mod cons of a second-world capital, and was well-connected enough to the outside world that people there could import food when the agriculture sector imploded. It was the folks out in the countryside who were hosed hard by the government.
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Vlex posted:You can get houses dirt cheap outside of cities. Downside is, you're in the middle of nowhere. You can do this in the UK as well (viz mansions in the Highlands going for a fraction of an apartment in London), though admittedly the 'nowhere' tends to be even further away from anywhere decent.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163961884225277954 Private Speech posted:You can do this in the UK as well (viz mansions in the Highlands going for a fraction of an apartment in London), though admittedly the 'nowhere' tends to be even further away from anywhere decent. *On the upside they sometimes come with a title if you want to go around calling yourself a Laird. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 02:01 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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Private Speech posted:You can do this in the UK as well (viz mansions in the Highlands going for a fraction of an apartment in London), though admittedly the 'nowhere' tends to be even further away from anywhere decent. Getting into real estate seems a very odd move for a funny comic to make but they are known for a surrealist streak I guess.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean it sort of makes sense, there's probably some sort of natural resources under there and the US could always use another alaska.
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Greenland has had some form of ballistic missile radar for near six decades, I don't think the US would need to buy it to expand that. Just rename it "gently caress Off Donald Trump" It'll be a reminder for the
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feedmegin posted:What's really hard to source in America, unsurprisingly, is proper bacon and sausages. I guess importing fresh meat across the Atlantic isn't feasible because rotting and/or regulatory stuff; I managed to find some in the fancy supermarket's freezer that was 'Irish style' (because death 2 Britan), incredibly expensive and not very good. From ages ago, but what's wrong with American sausages? I know what's wrong with their bacon but I'd never heard anything about sausages before. jabby posted:https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1163961884225277954 I assume this is trump's brainworms coming up with some random dumb idea, then throwing his toys out of the pram when Denmark says "lol no" because he feels like he isn't being given the respect he deserves
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I'm starting to think my theory of the Tories running on an election grid is correct, yesterday it was Johnson saying that he won't meet with the EU anymore, today he's announced he'll be meeting with Merkel to act like an rear end, tomorrow, who knows? I really wanted to call him either dickhead or cuntface but I felt like leaving out gendered insults for once.
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Private Speech posted:I really wanted to call him either dickhead or cuntface but I felt like leaving out gendered insults for once. Not that I really mind in this instance cause BoJo is an absolute cuntface but this isn't exactly leaving out gendered insults
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Rarity posted:Not that I really mind in this instance cause BoJo is an absolute cuntface but this isn't exactly leaving out gendered insults Well I didn't actually use them, just sort-of, uhh, mentioned them. Though I can see how that doesn't really work if I substitute it with say casual racism. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 07:26 on Aug 21, 2019 |
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OwlFancier posted:I mean it sort of makes sense, there's probably some sort of natural resources under there and the US could always use another alaska. They've already got that at Thule. The "thinking" is that having Greenland would expand the amount of the proven oil and gas reserves they could claim under the North Pole, as well as the unproven reserves under Greenland and in the far north Atlantic they could claim. That exploiting these resources would require both to be more-or-less clear of permanent ice is particularly loving grim. (The even grimmer thought is that the land area of Greenland is slightly larger than the amount of arable land the US is likely to lose to climate change...)
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Qwertycoatl posted:From ages ago, but what's wrong with American sausages? I know what's wrong with their bacon but I'd never heard anything about sausages before. Donald Trump has not had an original thought since 1996. He overheard some RAND Corporation motherfucker and his brain locked onto it. e: This is probably the closest a Republican has ever come to admitting climate change is real, so.. progress?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They've already got that at Thule. In all fairness, making a land purchase of the place is by far the least lovely way that a major power could make up for agri losses. The alternative is gonna be letting a lot of people starve, soylent green, or conquering Canada. The Danes should have just said "Yeah we could be persuaded" and then ask for $15 trillion while telling Trump what a bargain it is.
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Vlex posted:You can get houses dirt cheap outside of cities. Downside is, you're in the middle of nowhere. Upside more like!
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Private Speech posted:I'm starting to think my theory of the Tories running on an election grid is correct I'm being Mrs Dim this morning but I have to ask - what is an 'election grid'? Professor Google was unable to assist.
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Trump looks at A3 map of the world, is inspired that Greenland is the same size as the US, the African Continent and South America. He never realises it's 1/15th that size.
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Aphex- posted:Upside more like! 
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Ratjaculation posted:Trump looks at A3 map of the world, is inspired that Greenland is the same size as the US, the African Continent and South America. When the miserable remnants of human technological civilisation are confined to the vineyards and oil wells of Antartica and Greenland, the Mercator projection will be no doubt be a great comfort to them.
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The funniest thing is that IFAB is made up of 8 votes. All of the Home Nations get one, and FIFA get four. We’re disproportionately represented within the laws of the game.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:They've already got that at Thule. Greenland also has a load of rare earth minerals. Like, a lot of them. Like 25% of the estimated supply in the world. The ones China also have a loads of, and process the most of. The ones the Chinese have been buying the rights up to in Africa for years and years. Its a sector that the Chinese are genuinely ahead of the US in, so obviously Trump can't take that, as it means they have a weapon to fight him with in his oh-so-logical trade war.
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To be fair, I did have quite a lot to drink last night, but I read this Trump-Greenland business this morning and felt that my own mind is now degenerating at the same pace.
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Has the whole Kashmir thing had any political bleedover in the UK? Generally speaking over the past few decades, I mean - it seems a bit soon to measure its political effect in the here and now. I ask because we've got big Pakistani and Indian communities, and it seems like the sort of thing that'd get them het up and lobbying like British Jews and Muslims do over I/P.
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Darth Walrus posted:Has the whole Kashmir thing had any political bleedover in the UK? Generally speaking over the past few decades, I mean - it seems a bit soon to measure its political effect in the here and now. I ask because we've got big Pakistani and Indian communities, and it seems like the sort of thing that'd get them het up and lobbying like British Jews and Muslims do over I/P. New graffiti appeared down the road from me, in the form of a FREE KASHMIR stencil. Make of that what you will.
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