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Spergin Morlock posted:Lol he makes his hair messy in the front to distract from the bald spot in the back this is boris with his hair cut and 'smartened'. because he's serious now
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The Lords talking about guillotines 
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 bankers, on their hands and knees, crying and groveling as they beg BIGG COMMIE DADDY to save them from Brexit
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dpf posted:this is boris with his hair cut and 'smartened'. because he's serious now The UK version of Rick Perry's smart guy glasses.
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23:36:25 Lord True (Conservative) The main conservative lord who is putting forth all the amendments (Lord True) is really terrible at filibustering, and keeps giving the same terrible speech at the beginning of every amendment proposal, and everyone is getting pretty annoyed with him
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Here’s the Sun’s take (in England) And in the Scottish Sun-  Oh Murdoch
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"the guillotine motion could be dropped" poor choice of words
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frankenfreak posted:The Lords talking about guillotines and saying it quite a bit!
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Taintrunner posted:
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Ah, I was hoping the super weird corporate state of the City of London would stick their noses in this. If you're a dumb boggling yank like me reading about that clusterfuck is another fine detail of British politics that will make your head spin. Maybe somehow the Protectorate period laws will come into play. 
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The Sun is only 55p?? That’s crazy cheap, even for such a rag
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twoday posted:The Sun is only 55p?? That’s crazy cheap, even for such a rag Probably a case where its readers would revolt if they changed the price because inflation does not exist if you're a dumb Boomer.
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am i really watching this. Is the commons done for today?
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What does the House of Lords do? Is it just a vestigial part of the government now?
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Raccooon posted:What does the House of Lords do? Is it just a vestigial part of the government now? it’s like the senate but for rich pricks. sort of
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Seamlessly transitioning from a discussion about how it is important to Lords that they all have degrees from Cambridge and nepotistically appointed each other to jobs, to a discussion about how they would have “wriggled and fought and farted” to evade the literal guillotine of the French Revolution, this is the absolute distilled essence of the House of Lords
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twoday posted:The Sun is only 55p?? That’s crazy cheap, even for such a rag if you want to reach a large audience with your reactionary bullshit to poison their minds, you make your paper cheap or free
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Taintrunner posted:it’s like the senate but for rich pricks. sort of But seems weird because it looks much weaker than the US senate from a quick glance at its wiki.
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how many votes are left to go in the Lords. Does anyone know? e: this is the liviest i've ever seen the upper house. they're even heckling. madness. usually eveyone is just asleep
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Taintrunner posted:
So Hey Long is born again as an Englishmen.
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lost my old email posted:do not do it you fucks do not turn this into a dr. who thread you fukken sickos would you say wednesday is bigger on the inside? sorry, im sorry, im trying to delete it
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dpf posted:how many votes are left to go in the Lords. Does anyone know? There is no way they have gone through more than a dozen, and there were somewhere between 90 and 110 amendments. I read somewhere that at the current pace they were expected to go till Sunday
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twoday posted:There is no way they have gone through more than a dozen, and there were somewhere between 90 and 110 amendments. I read somewhere that at the current pace they were expected to go till Sunday the first elderly casualities of a no-deal will be in the upper house at this rate lol
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Raccooon posted:But seems weird because it looks much weaker than the US senate from a quick glance at its wiki. check out what they can expense and how much oversight is exercised over those expenses
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I'm still watching the Lords. Specifically this fucker is talking: This bastard is Lord True. As a professional logician I find that name offensive.
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https://twitter.com/RespectIsVital/status/1169388492851437568?s=20 https://twitter.com/hisham_hm/status/1169271866755899394?s=20 I think they have to keep it up till Friday at 5 pm to win, but I’m not sure
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Hexyflexy posted:professional logician whereof you cannot speak, you must be silent
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Aw, I kind of hoped the Lords still wore wigs and fancy robes on a daily basis.
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The main function of the House of Lords is to determine whether It Is Wednesday. This is an oft-overlooked, yet vital function, since time does not actually exist.
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[DID YOU KNOW?] Prime Minister Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson was in the music video for Fat Les's song "Vindaloo"? Check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaBdajHOsSM&t=132s
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Cross posting from the cspam wrestling threadRogue Copter Pilot posted:https://youtu.be/4E5sHRhk5YA
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Taintrunner posted:it’s like the senate but for rich pricks. sort of So the senate
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Raccooon posted:What does the House of Lords do? Is it just a vestigial part of the government now? Like the Commons, the members of the Lords group along party lines plus some independents ('Crossbench' peers), but the Conservative Lords aren't 'the government'. They can be expected (but not relied on) to support legislation coming from the government and the whip system also operates in the Lords. Since the 1900s the Lords has been subordinate to the Commons (a positioned strengthened by further legislation in the 1940s)- its purpose is to review and recommend changes to Bills coming up from the Commons. It cannot block them or recommend 'changes' that nullify the legislation. A Bill normally needs to pass both Houses to go on and receive Royal Assent to become law. If, after a Bill is shunted back and forth too many times or without any clear resolution, the Commons can invoke the Parliament Act and bypass the Lord's entirely. There is a  convention that the Lords won't delay the passage of legislation that was in a government's election manifesto as this is seen as having even more democratic weight. As seemingly ridiculous and patently undemocratic as the Lords is, it often works surprisingly well. Because its members are appointed for life they're under very little political pressure to follow a party line. Many have decades of experience in parliamentary procedure, law, foreign affairs or various economic, industrial or scientific areas of expertise (plus a good number being octogenarian inbreds and/or nonces and other horrors). They can, do and have stopped badly-drafted, knee-jerk or the most blatant authoritarian laws being passed through and, during the Brexit Years have passed some spectacular slap-downs on governments trying to weasel out of the proper channels. In the pre-Corbyn 2010-2015 years when Labour lacked any balls the Lords Spiritual, of all loving people, who were pretty much the only voice in Parliament saying "Maybe it's immoral to kill all the poor, disabled people and deport anyone who looks a bit foreign?" That's not a real defence of the Lords as a institution, but it has its place in the weird British political system and it really kinda works quite well. Far better than you'd think it would when the basic description is 'unelected upper chamber of overwhelmingly old, rich, white dudes who are there for life, some of whom are required to be high ranking members of the state religion'
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Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius Rees-Mogg Anselm Charles Fitzwilliam Rees-Mogg Mary Anne Charlotte Emma Rees-Mogg Peter Theodore Alphege Rees-Mogg Sixtus Dominic Boniface Christopher Rees-Mogg Thomas Wentworth Somerset Dunstan Rees-Mogg
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I would blow Dane Cook posted:Alfred Wulfric Leyson Pius Rees-Mogg Must be hard getting a flight ticket with these names. Guess they don’t really fancy leaving their island, though.
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dpf posted:whereof you cannot speak, you must be silent I was trying to come up with a good response, you've bloody got me on that one.
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Hexyflexy posted:I was trying to come up with a good response, you've bloody got me on that one. anayltic philosophy is brexit
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