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Private Speech posted:Am I the only who feels that BBC reporting lately has been even more pro-government than before? Nah even the melts have started noticing the BBC isn't impartial because of how overt it's gotten.
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Eregos posted:Seems possible his going hard right might be stronger from a strictly Machiavellian maximizing power standpoint. At least over the short term. Honestly the best way forward would be to do a Cameron, concede on the Irish customs border, and then lie his face off about how this is really a sign of strength and his adept negotiating skills. Then start hunting for Brexiteer Labour voters with the massive cash giveaways and declaring he succeeded in passing Brexit through Parliament. Sure the ERG and other hard right people would hate this, but the papers will pump out Boris propaganda which will easily win over like a third of hard right people, while the other two thirds (like 15% of the population) could be replaced by Labour voters bought off with massive cash giveaways. May was getting there towards the end of her tenure but was hamstrung by trying to please too many people at once. Trying to please the hard right is a trap for centre right leaders because it simultaneously alienates "sensible" right wingers and drags you down a rabbit hole of xenophobia that you'll never be hardcore enough to deal with. E: I hate to say it but pigfucker probably could have succeeded with this. Purple Prince fucked around with this message at 14:49 on Sep 6, 2019 |
# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:47 |
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Private Speech posted:Am I the only who feels that BBC reporting lately has been even more pro-government than before? There was a post with a tweet a couple pages back explaining why this is the case.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:48 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Cummings literally thought that he could bully Corbyn into a GE with a chicken meme. He probably wrote it in giant letters on the glass walls of the HQ thinking he was Good Will Hunting. The Galaxy brain is expanding at relativistic rates I imagine it being more like this scene from it's always sunny:
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:51 |
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Roblo posted:There was a post with a tweet a couple pages back explaining why this is the case. That was first posted in like 2016 tho
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:51 |
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Purple Prince posted:Honestly the best way forward would be to do a Cameron, concede on the Irish customs border, and then lie his face off about how this is really a sign of strength and his adept negotiating skills. Then start hunting for Brexiteer Labour voters with the massive cash giveaways and declaring he succeeded in passing Brexit through Parliament. This might have worked before he booted out Ken Clarke and Churchill's loving Grandson. No way can he afford to lose the headbangers now. He's hosed (hopefully).
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:51 |
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Grey Hunter posted:It really is schoolyard name calling, isn't it. I wonder if it's all they have, anything to distract from how mind shittingly terribly they've handled Brexit and the last ten years.
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Purple Prince posted:Honestly the best way forward would be to do a Cameron, concede on the Irish customs border, and then lie his face off about how this is really a sign of strength and his adept negotiating skills. Then start hunting for Brexiteer Labour voters with the massive cash giveaways and declaring he succeeded in passing Brexit through Parliament. You're probably right. Where Johnson wouldn't succeed in this is that Cameron could lie whereas Johnson can only bullshit
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:54 |
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Chinese Gordon posted:This might have worked before he booted out Ken Clarke and Churchill's loving Grandson. No way can he afford to lose the headbangers now. He's hosed (hopefully). Yeah the problem is with Tory leaders (except Cameron) being delusional enough to think they have any negotiating power against the EU and that their role is to negotiate rather than managing expectations at home. Really should have gone with the centrist approach from the start, but that wouldn't have been suitably Churchill 2.0 for our lad Boris.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:55 |
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Blasmeister posted:The doctor literally fights and beats capitalism in a recent series (the ep was ‘Oxygen’ for ref.), so I don’t think I can agree with your analogy fully. Ofc the doctor also carried the Olympic torch in a very bad ep. Land of contrasts. That's a good point. Although given the replacement system seems to be full power to the monarchy, I think it's more of a sideways move. (As seen in "the Beast Below.")
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 14:58 |
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seriously burying the lede here
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:00 |
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bump_fn posted:
He should talk to the people who run the Loch Ness Monster exhibition at Drumnadrochit because the end of that is just them saying explicitly "there ain't no Loch Ness Monster" which is pretty funny.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:02 |
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Posting the whole piece because it's cool and we should all read more: quote:John McDonnell: ‘Change is coming. It’s as simple as that’ The egg is good in that one.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:03 |
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bump_fn posted:
The Nessie part or the bull-grappling part? Because both sound better than talking about loving Brexit anymore
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:03 |
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At this point is Boris' best bet not just to resign from government (but not as party leader), allow the opposition to squabble over who forms a temporary government to get 'their' extension, then demand an election on the basis that no one has a majority? That way he avoids the Brexit trap, and can play the underdog trying to defeat the rebels. Labour couldn't actually do anything as they'd lack a majority for anything other than an extension, and the Tory papers spend weeks pointing out how Corbyn is in No 10 but not making anything better for people.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:11 |
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Private Speech posted:Am I the only who feels that BBC reporting lately has been even more pro-government than before? Nevermind Channel 4, the difference between the BBC and ITV's framing of the past week's events has been startling. ITV news reports actually try and explain WHY the opposition are doing what they're doing, BBC try their best to not to so they can paint the Poor Old Tories as the victims. It's genuinely appalling, then of course there's the fact that the first 20 minutes of last night's Question Time were spent bashing Labour (after 5 minutes of tiptoeing around Jo Johnson).
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:12 |
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https://twitter.com/KFC_UKI/status/1169970678658998277 what the gently caress is politics right now
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:13 |
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mfcrocker posted:what the gently caress is politics right now Something something the new Joker movie something.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:14 |
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mfcrocker posted:
We live in a society
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:15 |
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IrvingWashington posted:Oh poo poo they've got him on the ropes now https://twitter.com/KFC_UKI/status/1169971331229786112 ahah e;fb
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:15 |
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Absolute state of tha https://twitter.com/jelly_pack/status/1169976528551235584?s=19
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:17 |
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Want some of those Colonel Corbyn stickers tho
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:18 |
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This is really poo poo cyberbullying.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:20 |
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xtothez posted:At this point is Boris' best bet not just to resign from government (but not as party leader), allow the opposition to squabble over who forms a temporary government to get 'their' extension, then demand an election on the basis that no one has a majority? This is probably what will end up happening. It's risky as gently caress but is probably the only way out. If the BXP don't play electoral ball (and Farage will demand the loving moon on a stick to stand down) then it's still pretty unlikely BoJo would be able to scrape a majority in an election where he's failed to take us out by Oct 31.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:21 |
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But ... WHY is this being delivered to the House of Commons? A place where nobody will change their mind and probably won't even find this poo poo funny. What a waste of time and effort. It's a dumb stunt anyway, but at least do this poo poo in a marginal constituency with a couple of Tory volunteers handing it out to randos.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:22 |
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I smell Galaxy Brain Cummings afoot again.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:24 |
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Junior G-man posted:But ... WHY is this being delivered to the House of Commons? A place where nobody will change their mind and probably won't even find this poo poo funny. What a waste of time and effort. "some journalist will take a picture and put it on twitter and then it will go viral! social media manager is so a real job,"
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Junior G-man posted:But ... WHY is this being delivered to the House of Commons? A place where nobody will change their mind and probably won't even find this poo poo funny. What a waste of time and effort. Because they know they don't need to persuade the voters, they just need to persuade the press. Or at least, they think that, anyway.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:25 |
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CoolCab posted:"some journalist will take a picture and put it on twitter and then it will go viral! social media manager is so a real job," Yeah but you could manage that by doing it somewhere in a London borough. You'd even get some 'ordinary people' comments on it and pick the ones who say "yes Of course, journos being lazy means they don't even need to leave the gallery for their hot take for the day.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:26 |
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jfc it isn't even fried
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:26 |
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Gasmask posted:jfc it isn't even fried It's probably just a dish of whatever chicken they could get subsidised from the Parliament staff canteen.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:27 |
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Gasmask posted:jfc it isn't even fried I appreciate their effort at finding chicken that's definitely less palatable than KFC. Like that looks even more like random dead birds industrially pressed together into chicken shapes.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:30 |
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I did the what kind of lefty are you quiz and it turns out just like the other good posters in this thread I'm a council communist
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:31 |
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Big respect to them!
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:32 |
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I'm Larry btw
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:33 |
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suck my woke dick posted:
Hahahahahahaha they really loving think they're this, don't they. I wonder if they remember what happened to literally loving every Rebel on that poster.
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:34 |
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Momentum have already turned it round to Jeremy Fuckin' Corbyn this legitimately might be the worst political stunt I've ever seen
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:37 |
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Rarity posted:I did the what kind of lefty are you quiz and it turns out just like the other good posters in this thread I'm a council communist
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# ? Sep 6, 2019 15:37 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Absolute state of tha Corbyn should wear one of these stickers into parliament.
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Guavanaut posted:We're currently scheduling a meeting to discuss revising our rallying cry of "up the councils" I am very pretentious so I prefer to use the Russian word for councils. "Up the soviets" (Actually "all power to the Soviets" is a good slogan but I mean it, Lenin clearly didn't)
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