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CGI Stardust posted:just had one of these (common pheasant) wandering around the garden for ~15 minutes I saw one fly while driving once, it's like someone attached wings to an american football and lobbed it. Beautiful but not graceful.
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gh0stpinballa posted:i wonder what kind of accident prince andrew will have if this PR campaign doesn't put out the fire, i hope they do funny one to him like auto erotic asphyxiation or something mycomancy posted:I'm gonna go with sudden onset paedophilia. OwlFancier posted:Not sure if this would make PMQs more or less dignified tbh.
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CGI Stardust posted:just had one of these (common pheasant) wandering around the garden for ~15 minutes Pheasants used to get into my garden constantly when I lived in the woods, and the cats would try to stalk them before realising those birds are a bit too big for them to take.
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OwlFancier posted:He'd still have to win a byelection in that seat, they can't swap him out without one. Yeah Boris is far more popular with the dementia-riven party membership than with MP's. They'll be tripping over each other on the way to the kitchen knife drawer.
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EvilHawk posted:If he did lose his seat he would be immediately parachuted into the safest possible Tory seat (the MP for which would have to mysteriously resign). Who knows what would happen with the PM/leader of the Tories thing, I know Labour have rules about the leader being a sitting MP (so if Corbyn somehow lost his there would be an immediate leadership election) but no idea what the Tories do. Then good news! The Lib Dems are going to win in Corbyn's constituency  https://mobile.twitter.com/IslingtonLibDem/status/1144989024873938944
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crispix posted:I don't understand how Boris manages to be popular with the membership given it largely comprises sanctimonious shite bags who like to tsk-tsk about adultery and fornication out of wedlock etc The republicans do the same for trump, the specifics don't matter to them, it's really just about the thought that they can gently caress up other people, principles are just a means to that end.
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Nov 17, 2019 20:06
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crispix posted:I don't understand how Boris manages to be popular with the membership given it largely comprises sanctimonious shite bags who like to tsk-tsk about adultery and fornication out of wedlock etc Tories are vicious cunts and massive hypocrites, mostly.
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Bundy posted:Nice tweet from June I couldn't find anything more recent to go with my dumb joke 
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crispix posted:I don't understand how Boris manages to be popular with the membership given it largely comprises sanctimonious shite bags who like to tsk-tsk about adultery and fornication out of wedlock etc Same reason Trump is popular with Christian Right in the US who use bible verses to slag off Greta Thunberg amongst others but seemingly ignore the 10 commandments which Trump has broken almost all of repeatedly.
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Chuka Umana posted:What the gently caress is with the 17% Tory lead in the Sunday Times? Reminder the tories had about a big a lead a month before the polls in 2017 and look how that turned out.
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serious gaylord posted:Reminder the tories had about a big a lead a month before the polls in 2017 and look how that turned out. Regardless, Labour is done if they don't close the gap after the debate and manifesto launch. Not even the broadband announcement has narrowed the gap. Commentators on UK polling report says Labour is finished.
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Guavanaut posted:Ladykillers scenario where all the royals are scheming to get him killed but instead Liz, Charles, William, Harry, and the bairns all end up dead and we have King Nonce I. For whom Noncester will be named. (ch sound, the King insists.)
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OwlFancier posted:Oh no the times says the tories are great and "commentators on UK polling report" are sure labour is doomed, I could never have predicted this. Good thing you don't run a polling company then 
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Chuka Umana posted:Regardless, Labour is done if they don't close the gap after the debate and manifesto launch. Have you been ignoring literally every poll and their massively skewed metrics that have been shown over the last week or so. Its literally paid propoganda at this point. Don't even bother looking at them. The last 3 elections have all shown that polling is meaningless as a barometer of an actual result, all it does is give muppets and morons big veiny hard ons to tweet about.
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Chuka Umana posted:Regardless, Labour is done if they don't close the gap after the debate and manifesto launch.
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serious gaylord posted:Have you been ignoring literally every poll and their massively skewed metrics that have been shown over the last week or so. Its literally paid propoganda at this point. Don't even bother looking at them. The last 3 elections have all shown that polling is meaningless as a barometer of an actual result, all it does is give muppets and morons big veiny hard ons to tweet about. Or just read the thread, it's mentioned on about every other page that Polls Are poo poo (Except Exit Polls And Even Then)
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Z the IVth posted:There was something about the default being Washington though? I've never heard of DC being default, every time this has come up people have pointed at the Nevada Test Site or possibly White Sands being the default. After all, they've already been nuked, multiple times, and if they're just testing (the most likely time an accidental launch of a live weapon may happen) then that's where they're going to send them anyway. The ocean makes a lot less sense for a few reasons I can think of - first, if the warhead doesn't detonate you've then got to retrieve several kilos of plutonium from the bottom of the ocean, which is nobody's idea of fun. Second, if the warhead *does* detonate you're going to face some PR problems if it happens to do so directly above a cruise liner. Last, and probably most important when you're thinking with the extreme amount of paranoia that you kinda have to be when dealing with the end of the world, if you get particularly unlucky with your choice of safe spot and the position where the accidental launch happens you may well have a missile that's suddenly hurtling in the general direction of another nuclear-armed nation who may not be in the mood for asking too many questions. Aiming at the continental US from almost anywhere that a US (or UK) missile sub is likely to be means that there's no ambiguity about where the missile is going.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Same reason Trump is popular with Christian Right in the US who use bible verses to slag off Greta Thunberg amongst others but seemingly ignore the 10 commandments which Trump has broken almost all of repeatedly. I'd put money on it that the bit shithouse has coveted his neighbour's oxen as well 
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OwlFancier posted:I think the PM can also be a lord if necessary I'm fairly sure ministers don't have to be commons MPs but I can't remember if they have to be at least lords. Yeah technically the PM can be a lord but the last PM to be appointed from the lord's, Douglas-Home in 63, immediately renounced his peerage open becoming PM and ran in a by-election to become an MP within 20 days of becoming PM. The Tories have shored up their rulebook since to ensure only an MP can be PM by their rules but either way Boris does not currently have a peerage so he wouldn't be eligible post election even counting a rule change
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goddamnedtwisto posted:
Makes sense. Thanks!
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Chuka Umana posted:Regardless, Labour is done if they don't close the gap after the debate and manifesto launch. I have to admit I was starting to get a bit worried about the gap in the polls still persisting at this point. But then I saw that breakdown for one of them that had the raw poll result and their weightings, where Labour were ahead unweighted, but behind on the weighted score because they were predicting a record low turnout for 18-24 age bracket and a 95% turnout for 65+ in the middle of winter. It's right to be wary of dismissing polls just because the result is bad, but when their working literally doesn't add up it's right to challenge them.
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Nonce Solidarity.
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Chuka Umana posted:Regardless, Labour is done if they don't close the gap after the debate and manifesto launch. Settle down pissflaps
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Scikar posted:I have to admit I was starting to get a bit worried about the gap in the polls still persisting at this point. But then I saw that breakdown for one of them that had the raw poll result and their weightings, where Labour were ahead unweighted, but behind on the weighted score because they were predicting a record low turnout for 18-24 age bracket and a 95% turnout for 65+ in the middle of winter. It's right to be wary of dismissing polls just because the result is bad, but when their working literally doesn't add up it's right to challenge them. Do you have the link for that breakdown?
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Alctel posted:Do you have the link for that breakdown? It's on that other site: https://www.reddit.com/r/LabourUK/comments/dwrn69/kantars_recent_poll_weighting_is_based_on_lowest/
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I assume it's this one: https://www.reddit.com/r/ukpolitics/comments/dwro11/kantars_recent_poll_weighting_is_based_on_the/
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Qwertycoatl posted:https://twitter.com/iucounu/status/1196111168806490113 Nigel Lawson's son, eh?
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DrSnakeLaser posted:I saw one fly while driving once, it's like someone attached wings to an american football and lobbed it. Beautiful but not graceful. Ratjaculation posted:Landowners have released so many and without any requirement to limit or control that they are wild (introduced) now, so pretty much everywhere. They're non-natives that impact ground flora/fauna detrimentally to native birds, when they are released they destroy small reptile pops and they're also stupid as poo poo. They need to be controlled, preferably by banning releases. also, preserve woodlands, catapult the landowners into the air and use them as target practice Lord Ludikrous posted:Bird/road chat reminds me of this when I still had my Mini.
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OwlFancier posted:I think the PM can also be a lord if necessary I'm fairly sure ministers don't have to be commons MPs but I can't remember if they have to be at least lords. Douglas-Home, in the early 60s, was chosen to replace Macmillan, and gave up his peerage and stood in a by-election as even then it was unacceptable for a Peer to be PM. Add to that in the decades since the powers of the Lords have been stripped back such that they can't set legislative goals, only review law from the Commons, and it all adds up to why you don't see Lords in cabinet posts anymore, except for those that don't have legislative agendas to set forth.
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