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OwlFancier posted:Had a bit of a better canvassing session today, convinced a friend to vote labour and met a nice pro european man who seemed willing to give labour a shot based on the party giving him the best shot at staying integrated with europe. Glad you're having a more positive experience, I feel it helps to have a nice set of positive experiences so the inevitable gammon battle is less traumatising.
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It's nice when you meet someone supportive, they're usually lovely. But every door feels like you're sticking your arm in a box and you don't know if it's full of vipers or sweets.
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lol wait he still plans to run as an MP lmao https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1192060180005081089
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24 storey building, dark, smoke-filled staircase, full of panicking people, some with ambulatory difficulties or kids, others dying of smoke inhalation, locked (I believe) at the bottom. All these fuckers who claim they would have got out of Grenfell are making me just a little bit annoyed. Had to go and edit some comments I made on FB late last night (eg tories are vile scumbuckets) because I know some f*kr is going to say 'oh kinder gentler politics if you're an example I'm voting tory' or some such bollox. 
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Pochoclo posted:You put them on in the dark, they’re nothing like you expected them to be, then you fumble for hours trying to figure out how you’re going to take it out, and in the end no matter what happens everyone involved is frustrated? they’re an 100% effective method of birth control since no-one will gently caress you if you’re using one
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If I didn't find the idea of talking about my sister's sex life with her deeply uncomfortable I would definitely encourage the conditioning of her Tory boyfriend. Interestingly he works as a consultant for Anglican Water on the OhFuckBrexitWhatWillWeDo team and apparently if there's a no deal Brexit it will be absolute chaos in water treatment circles, so you'd think this would be enough to sway him away from voting for them. Add my sister being trans to this considering the Tories atrocious history with LGBT people and I can't believe he's not already out campaigning for Labour. 
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forkboy84 posted:I've mentioned before but I worked at a call centre for a well known high street brand, mainly checking on orders, ordering replacements & also putting orders in on the website for olds. It was about this time of year I got hired as they took on staff for the holiday season, it was shite dogsbody work but whatever. The centre was open 7 days a week but I never worked Sundays because I use public transport and the local bus service is loving useless on Sundays, thanks Stagecoach, it's definitely 1904 and nae oval office works on the Sabbath. That was fine, they hired me, I got very good at doing the soulcrushingly meaningless work and had excellent call times and responses from customers, etc. So come the end of my temp contract they offer me a permanent position. Not great, but better than signing on. And then suddenly a week before the new contract was due to start the guy from my agency asks me into a meeting room and says actually the contract offer had been withdrawn because they've suddenly decided they need me to do Sundays. Like they hadn't noticed in the previous 3 months, the loving cunts. And then they were like "oh yeah & you can't tell anyone" and I'm all "nope", go to my desk, get asked what that was about and said I'm getting let go because I can't work Sundays. And as a temp working I got gently caress all help from the union rep. A young relative of mine, not allowed to drive because of epilepsy, reliant on family and friends to drive her anywhere as local bus service completely shite, had a job in a care home about 20 miles away where to start with they accepted that she had to do fixed day time shifts because of the buses. After a couple of months they said she had to start doing shifts. Her parents/friends tried to help out but they had their own work to do and some of the shifts were 11pm - 4am kind of thing. So she had to give it up.
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Tesseraction posted:lol wait he still plans to run as an MP lmao https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1192060180005081089 probably trying to extort a “please go away and stop drawing attention to the scandal” payment from CCHQ
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minema posted:If I didn't find the idea of talking about my sister's sex life with her deeply uncomfortable I would definitely encourage the conditioning of her Tory boyfriend. Seems like you could convert him to a "one off" Labour vote over Brexit.
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Tesseraction posted:if they had common sense they would have leapt from the windows with their hang glider and swooped to safety Not sure about safely landing when you're night gliding across London though.
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Tesseraction posted:-Crabby Steve, admitting the Rape Loving Guy might not be a great campaign mascot Brexit-voting wales was supposed to be of the key target areas for the tories to flip historic labour seats.
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Rustybear posted:Brexit-voting wales was supposed to be of the key target areas for the tories to flip historic labour seats. Just before GE 2017 campaign really got going, a friend of mine who is a former Labour (blairite) MP was moaning about Corbyn because polling in some areas around Cardiff and along the south coast of Wales were 'going to turn tory for the first time in a century' and going on about how if David Milliband had been chosen, things would be better. Now he loves Jezza.
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Tesseraction posted:Seems like you could convert him to a "one off" Labour vote over Brexit. They live in a safe Tory seat so it won't even make much difference. Doesn't stop my husband ranting about Tories whenever we all play games together though. Maybe the peer pressure will get to him! My parents quickly changed their mind on potential Lib Dem votes once they heard about Jo Swinson's voting record, they want to know how me and my sister find such good information about politics. I tried to describe the UKMT but they remained baffled.
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minema posted:They live in a safe Tory seat so it won't even make much difference. Doesn't stop my husband ranting about Tories whenever we all play games together though. Maybe the peer pressure will get to him! "It's the place where a bunch of extremely online people argue about crisps while making strange memes about beans, while some of the less fun ones post news once in a while."
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minema posted:I tried to describe the UKMT but they remained baffled.
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minema posted:They live in a safe Tory seat so it won't even make much difference. Doesn't stop my husband ranting about Tories whenever we all play games together though. Maybe the peer pressure will get to him! I keep quiet about UKMT though some people know I frequent an unnamed 'political forum' - firstly because it's pretty well anonymous (though if anyone could be bothered and had 'search' they could figure out who I was) and I can say what I think and secondly, because some of the people who would enjoy the politics chat would not be able in their minds to dissociate it from some of the other well-worn non-political topics (the least of which is crisp chat!) and lack of  Ed: I'm crotchety tired so I'm going for a nanna nap. Catte tax: https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1192077961144545280?s=20 I feel that Amon Amarth's "We shall destroy" would make a good soundtrack to the grey catte's face. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 15:55 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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"It's basically like a documentary on a hypothetical Monty Python movie about politics." The Death of Stalin but contemporary.
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Oh I thought this was a comedy article doing some lighthearted joke candidate stuff but no https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/06/operation-votey-mcvoteface-voter-registration-drive-targets-boat-dwellers-and-sofa-surfers Operation Votey McVoteface is a legit campaign to get people with no fixed address registered to vote.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/georgeeaton/status/1191868397623152640 He also equated Ed Miliband standing for Labour Leader with Stalin's genocides: https://www.indy100.com/article/boris-jo-johnson-quits-resign-government-brother-david-ed-miliband-quote-2013-9092976
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minema posted:I tried to describe the UKMT but they remained baffled. Just tell them it's a flaps free zone. They'll get it.
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Tesseraction posted:Oh I thought this was a comedy article doing some lighthearted joke candidate stuff but no https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/nov/06/operation-votey-mcvoteface-voter-registration-drive-targets-boat-dwellers-and-sofa-surfers Bad name. Good campaign.
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Independent posted:‘What about my holiday to Fuengirola?’
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minema posted:They live in a safe Tory seat so it won't even make much difference. Doesn't stop my husband ranting about Tories whenever we all play games together though. Maybe the peer pressure will get to him! Let's be honest most links in this thread come through Twitter, you'd have better luck explaining that than the Uncouth Kommunist Monster munch Thread.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/RaynerSkyNews/status/1192090501081706497 It isn't about anti-Semitism so he doesn't need to pretend to care.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:24 storey building, dark, smoke-filled staircase, full of panicking people, some with ambulatory difficulties or kids, others dying of smoke inhalation, locked (I believe) at the bottom. This came up a couple of times previously in the thread but it had moved on by the time I noticed and thought to ask - does anyone have a source for this? Because even the lovely 80s security retrofits fail open, and I've literally never seen a physical lock installed on a council block of any vintage on an exit route. Also any further word/confirmation as to whether or not Serco had run actual gas pipes up the stairwell? (Also not sure if I should share the One Weird Trick that'll get you through like 90% of those 80s/90s council block doors because it's possibly close to B&E even if it shaves quite a lot of time (and annoyed people you randomly have to buzz to get in) when canvassing.) e: Now I think of it, no, the fire exit on the stairwell can't possibly have been locked because that would have been the LFB's point of access unless Grenfell has an *extremely* weird layout. goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 16:08 on Nov 6, 2019 |
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Cool cool cool, BBC just uncritically accepting Gavin Williamson's assertion that having polling stations in schools would be bad because it could disrupt nativity plays. Definitely not a shameless attempt to remove an easy way for people in the younger end of the age spectrum to vote while dropping the kids off/picking them up.
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Tesseraction posted:web design is my passion http://www.brexitparty2019.co.uk/index.php This is amazing... hello, what do we have here? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D79IrmumF8 I'd like to introduce to you Mammy P and her Brexit Rap! Mammy P and her Brexit Rap posted:'Mammy P' (Pat Kirby) is back with a rap that tells the EU we ain't taking no c**p! Patriotic and pointed, giving it with both barrels, Pat has a dig at the inert British government, the intransigent and bullying EU, the tiresome Brexit jargon, the squabbling politicians and the whinging Remainers. Proud to be British, Independent and Free - make a stand with Pat Kirby. The lyrics are listed on her YouTube page and I strongly encourage you to check them out if you want to see text somehow get drunk and disorderly as you scroll down them in real time
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This came up a couple of times previously in the thread but it had moved on by the time I noticed and thought to ask - does anyone have a source for this? Because even the lovely 80s security retrofits fail open, and I've literally never seen a physical lock installed on a council block of any vintage on an exit route. Also any further word/confirmation as to whether or not Serco had run actual gas pipes up the stairwell? I think this is getting wires crossed with discussion of Hillsborough earlier in the thread.
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/RaynerSkyNews/status/1192090501081706497 Would that be the second time today he's hosed up in regards to candidate selection?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This came up a couple of times previously in the thread but it had moved on by the time I noticed and thought to ask - does anyone have a source for this? Because even the lovely 80s security retrofits fail open, and I've literally never seen a physical lock installed on a council block of any vintage on an exit route. Also any further word/confirmation as to whether or not Serco had run actual gas pipes up the stairwell? No I don't have a link to that, I got it from here. Separate: (really am going for nap now) https://twitter.com/omaromalleykhan/status/1191983673945526273?s=20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:This came up a couple of times previously in the thread but it had moved on by the time I noticed and thought to ask - does anyone have a source for this? Because even the lovely 80s security retrofits fail open, and I've literally never seen a physical lock installed on a council block of any vintage on an exit route. Also any further word/confirmation as to whether or not Serco had run actual gas pipes up the stairwell? I'm trying to find it, but it was something I read at the same from one of the escapees, that they tried to get through a fire door only for it to refuse to open, so they had to run elsewhere.
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thespaceinvader posted:Lol it's the CUKTIG logo but in the colours of all the major parties, AND it looks like they've redacted her policies. Maybe Chuka has really taken over? Would loving hilarious
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