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Josef bugman posted:Care to tell us? Look up Operation Countryman - TLDR in the seventies the Met really were the biggest gang in London, and the Vice Squad pretty much muscled out all of the gangs that had been fighting over Soho and Chinatown since the war.
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Ms Adequate posted:Don't ask twisto to tell on himself That is very fair. I just love twisto story time!
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Josef bugman posted:That is very fair. I just love twisto story time! I do too, it's absolutely wild how much he knows about like, everything!
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OwlFancier posted:Or forever, news is shite, imo. Well also this thread too. Ash Crimson, go play videogames or watch films or darn socks or whatever. Disconnect
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dispatch_async posted:Newcastle United has issued the following statement in response to recent comments made by Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn. Pay are footer boys soldiers pay etc.
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In the post-brexitpocalypse, england will feudalize not under the aristocracy: who are useless and faint at the sight of the poor, which will be everyone, but the football clubs. Edit: And yes, I do mean england specifically. Ireland will reunify, Wales will sink beneath the waves and Scotland will pull the emergency disconnect, floating off into the north sea, never to be seen again. NewMars fucked around with this message at 08:57 on Oct 9, 2019 |
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forkboy84 posted:Maybe the Premier League sides should be better with their money, live within their means & all that. Like, don't spunk Ł20m up on the wall for Oliver McBurnie, a striker with 16 EPL games to his name & 0 goals. The money floating about in English football is absurd and if they can't budget for it then nae oval office to blame but themselves. Now this is a sport with capitalism. But, it has too much capitalism. So I don't know, you might want to wear a hat. If the 50s hadn't ruined that for some reason.
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Ms Adequate posted:I'm not entirely sure that that approach is effective though, because it ultimately means people have to accept they were hoodwinked by the stupid and the corrupt. This is... not a thing human people tend to find easy to do. xtothez posted:It's not their decision to make. An A50 extension has to be requested first, one can't be imposed unilaterally. Then again even a sitting parliament might gently caress it up right now.
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Oct 9, 2019 09:25
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Guavanaut posted:Extremely normal country where football clubs are doing jobs that the local or state government ought to be doing but have abrogated their responsibilities. In event of No Deal Brexit we will loan out Andy Carroll and Jonjo Shelvey to Morrisons to guard their stores from looters
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Oct 9, 2019 09:26
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:https://www.theguardian.com/books/shortcuts/2015/mar/17/terry-pratchetts-name-lives-on-in-the-clacks-with-hidden-web-code Pratchett references are of course praxis but in case you were unsure, xtothez' "GNU" stood for Government of National Unity Guavanaut posted:Fallen Scotland. Would play this.
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Bobstar posted:Now this is a sport with capitalism. But, it has too much capitalism. So I don't know, you might want to wear a hat.
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Oct 9, 2019 09:30
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Newstatemen take on the big Spectator post from yesterday re No 10 and brexit: Everyone seems to be convinced he won't resign on the morning of Oct 31st? Why? It works perfectly. Boris resigns to call a GE and either the opposition hastily cobbles together a GNU to prevent us from crashing out or they don't and we crash out. There is clearly no possibility of that GNU lasting longer than it takes to pass an extension and much doubt it could even get that far. Win/win for Boris; he gets the GE he needs, he keeps his promise not to extend, and 70:30 we Brexit anyway. Corbyn should 100% refuse to be roped into being the patsy here but the leadership seem to have bought hook line and sinker in to the idea being pushed by the usual wreckers that pushing Boris off his 31st date will reduce his chances in the GE.
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If they make boris do it I think it will, if boris forces parliament to do it, the effect is lessened though I think there'll still be a mild effect of him failing to do it.
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Rustybear posted:Everyone seems to be convinced he won't resign on the morning of Oct 31st? Why? Boris resigning does not trigger a General Election. It triggers a Conservative Party leadership contest.
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Rustybear posted:Everyone seems to be convinced he won't resign on the morning of Oct 31st? Why? The PM resigning doesn't lead (directly) to a General Election. He would still need to get an FTPA-compatible vote through the Commons, although (once again thanks a lot pigfucker) FTPA leads us into a legislative dead end if Parliament can't decide on a PM *or* pass a new election bill.
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Jedit posted:Boris resigning does not trigger a General Election. It triggers a Conservative Party leadership contest. In principle no but in practise once the opposition tries and fails to achieve anything it does force a GE. For the latter, is this is actually mandated anywhere in their party rules? And are we really resting our political hopes on the entirely arbitrary bylaws of the Tory party.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:4 bed terrace in St Anne's Court, W1, £4.5m!! My mum worked there (DTW&GE) with the owner until they had to flee to the North to escape the mob who they owed money to, iirc because Thatcher changed something around book importation so it wasn't viable to keep up the repayments
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I had to google all three of those. This is why Leave won.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The PM resigning doesn't lead (directly) to a General Election. He would still need to get an FTPA-compatible vote through the Commons, although (once again thanks a lot pigfucker) FTPA leads us into a legislative dead end if Parliament can't decide on a PM *or* pass a new election bill. Have to admit I'm far from an expert on the FTPA but I assume if Boris can't get a GE vote through parliament and nobody else can get a GE vote through parliament and there's no functioning government because the PM has stepped down then it defaults to....a GE?
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They don't even need Corbyn as interim pm. They can just pass a law saying 'this person is now deputised to ask for an extension and we're having a GE on this specific date also suck it boris'
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Guavanaut posted:I had to google all three of those. I think occitane make perfume or something? E: woo yay I know one of them. E2: also where is that photograph taken? It's like the abstract shopping zone, just piles of identical cans and jars of poo poo with no price stripping.
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Guavanaut posted:I had to google all three of those. To be fair you're doing Brexit stockpiling wrong if you're stockpiling cheddar cheese, scrumpy and Yorkshire puddings.
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Food, medicines, and a source of heat are stockpiling. Anything else is stockpile LARPing or hoarding. Wall for both.OwlFancier posted:I think occitane make perfume or something? OwlFancier posted:E: woo yay I know one of them.
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Moonwolf posted:My mum worked there (DTW&GE) with the owner until they had to flee to the North to escape the mob who they owed money to, iirc because Thatcher changed something around book importation so it wasn't viable to keep up the repayments  that's amazing! Tried googling the Thatcher thing to no avail.
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Guavanaut posted:Food, medicines, and a source of heat are stockpiling. Anything else is stockpile LARPing or hoarding. Wall for both.
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Guavanaut posted:stockpile LARPing Once the kingdom is bereft of +2 Longswords we'll see who will have the last laugh, good sir.
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I remember a while back, a friend of mine was telling me about how their Mum complaining she couldn't get hold of her favourite face cream anymore because of Brexit - if she wanted it she'd have to go to France and get it direct.
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Guavanaut posted:Extremely normal country where football clubs are doing jobs that the local or state government ought to be doing but have abrogated their responsibilities. Also the obvious lie in the response is that Corbyn attested that Ashley puts his business interests before the livelihood of the club and his response was centred entirely on his personal interest, ignoring the likelihood that all of Newcastle’s commercial revenue is likely on a 95/5 split between Sports Direct and the club.
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Miftan posted:They don't even need Corbyn as interim pm. They can just pass a law saying 'this person is now deputised to ask for an extension and we're having a GE on this specific date also suck it boris' Right but then Boris gets to frame the whole GE as 'I tried as hard as possible and those traitors in parliament connived to stop me' and his base will go nuts for it. The sight of Ken Clarke or Soubry or whoever gets gulled into being that deputy will galvanise every single gammon the length and breadth of England to march through snow and ice to tell them where to stick it.
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Rustybear posted:Right but then Boris gets to frame the whole GE as 'I tried as hard as possible and those traitors in parliament connived to stop me' and his base will go nuts for it. Yes, but he's doing that already, and going hard for NDB alienates the wet tories and makes them vote liberal.
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Rustybear posted:Right but then Boris gets to frame the whole GE as 'I tried as hard as possible and those traitors in parliament connived to stop me' and his base will go nuts for it. Probably yeah, but if it comes down to Oct 31st its still better than no deal
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Josef bugman posted:That is very fair. I just love twisto story time! Ms Adequate posted:I do too, it's absolutely wild how much he knows about like, everything! Which reminds me, I've had half an effortpost about the social cleansing of Balfron Tower stuck in my mind for ages now, because it's such a perfect microcosm of everything that's gone wrong with the housing market (and society in general) over the last 20 years - the only thing stopping me is how angry the whole thing makes me (including my main source on it being an insufferable twat who is only coincidentally on the right side of this particular story). As I'm stuck at home waiting on a delivery I might as well dust it off and try and put something together now, because it's ages since I've gone on an incredibly long ramble interesting only to me and an assortment of like-minded nerds.
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OwlFancier posted:Yes, but he's doing that already, and going hard for NDB alienates the wet tories and makes them vote liberal. That's baked in already at this point; he's not losing anything by doubling down. Every wet lib dribbler he loses gains him one screaming Brexit Party war boy. I'm mean i guess it comes down to gut instinct but it just feels like everyone has glommed on to 'Boris is finished if he can't force Brexit by Oct 31st' and there's scant actual reasoning as to why that's the case other than 'this is what everyone in the know knows'.
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Miftan posted:Probably yeah, but if it comes down to Oct 31st its still better than no deal
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