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coffeetable
Feb 5, 2006

TELL ME AGAIN HOW GREAT BRITAIN WOULD BE IF IT WAS RULED BY THE MERCILESS JACKBOOT OF PRINCE CHARLES

YES I DO TALK TO PLANTS ACTUALLY
honestly i'm kinda surprised that the US trade team hasn't been any more aggressive than 'longer patents'. it's bad but not quite the privatize-them-all-and-let-god-sort-them-out you'd expect from Team Trump

e: cat tax

coffeetable fucked around with this message at 12:40 on Nov 27, 2019

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seizure later
Apr 18, 2007

Flipswitch posted:

She needs the loving sack, LauraK is a disgrace.

she needs the loving guillotine more like.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lmao

https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1199641416718331905?s=20

namesake
Jun 19, 2006

"When I was a girl, around 12 or 13, I had a fantasy that I'd grow up to marry Captain Scarlet, but he'd be busy fighting the Mysterons so I'd cuckold him with the sexiest people I could think of - Nigel Mansell, Pat Sharp and Mr. Blobby."

^^^^Stage 1: Deny everything
Stage 2: When presented with evidence draw the smallest possible conclusion from it

She is definitely not doing the investigative part of journalism here.

coffeetable posted:

honestly i'm kinda surprised that the US trade team hasn't been any more aggressive than 'longer patents'. it's bad but not quite the privatize-them-all-and-let-god-sort-them-out you'd expect from Team Trump

e: cat tax



I would almost definitely read a book with this cover.

Also the US only needs to push on the more technical barriers to trade like patent law and food standards because they'll start from a TTIPP style agreement which would allow their corporations to win any bid and enter any market anyway, they don't need to make that the focus of the talks.

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/_adamcafc/status/1199638315756138497

hmmm yes, America, renowned for it's really cheap drugs and cool and good healthcare system

Braggart
Nov 10, 2011

always thank the rock hider

Gonzo McFee posted:

lol only plebs get chemical washed chicken in a can.

https://twitter.com/MarkDiStef/status/1199643626487369728

hmm i wonder who they got to do that

John Selwyn Gummer offered to do it, but his daughter refused.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/simonk_133/status/1199656800045416449?s=20

Maugrim
Feb 16, 2011

I eat your face

Braggart posted:

:yeshaha:


Nah, I wanted to drop the hammer really suddenly :D

But you should write that one :)

Hope you all enjoyed reading that. I certainly enjoyed writing it :D

You got me too. Gotta say I enjoy your posting shtick.

Guys I had a thought. What if Labour has a whole file of similarly incriminating leaked documents and are just planning to roll one out every couple of days. There have to be plenty of disgruntled civil servants out there... Only thing is its not really Corbyn's style, he prefers to hammer the positive stuff. But I imagine Labour's strategy team are aware we need to depress turnout for the Tories as much as possible to have a hope of a majority.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/simonk_133/status/1199656800045416449

Incredible.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

I think they'd totally do that but I don't imagine they've got that stuff, if they have the russia report that would be a good thing to leak close to the polling day.

Purple Prince
Aug 20, 2011

namesake posted:


I would almost definitely read a book with this cover.

New edition of Master and Margarita looking good

Skull Servant
Oct 25, 2009

https://twitter.com/rubot/status/1199657966158405633?s=19

Jippa
Feb 13, 2009
Football message board posting update:

Trying to calmly explain the "ok boomer" meme (even though I never even use it). Trying to keep calm under fire. This somehow drives people insane.

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

It's literally just the same thing as "alright granddad"

Nothingtoseehere
Nov 11, 2010


lol someone dumped them on reddit a month ago

https://old.reddit.com/r/worldpolitics/comments/dkzlfc/officialsensitive_great_britain_is_practically/

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/alexwickham/status/1199659542461718528?s=19

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

When you're good at your job

https://twitter.com/matt_dathan/status/1199644811155984384?s=19

Flayer
Sep 13, 2003

by Fluffdaddy
Buglord
It's madness, the unredacted documents have been released. How could he be lying about what they contain when everyone can read them...

Undead Hippo
Jun 2, 2013

I'm disappointed, normally this thread is on top of all the leaked documents before they go mainstream.

JoylessJester
Sep 13, 2012

The media really have just given all pretext of doing anything other than uncritically passing on tory lines.

Bardeh
Dec 2, 2004

Fun Shoe
https://twitter.com/ITVNewsPolitics/status/1199655368105836545

the hatred is palpable, how long before they start just getting actors to pretend to be nurses lol

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
The press are going to desperately try and shift the conversation back to antisemitism before the night is through.

They clearly weren't expecting this document to be leaked, as is evident from the wildly poo poo response from the media on it. Clear panicked response from a group who wanted to do nothing but talk about internal Labour disciplinary processes for the next two weeks suddenly have the plausible deniability surrounding the NHS ripped from their hands. Their instincts to try and protect the conservatives on full display. They'll try to memory hole it as soon as possible.

Purple Prince
Aug 20, 2011

JoylessJester posted:

The media really have just given all pretext of doing anything other than uncritically passing on tory lines.

Private Eye has a good explanation for this. Most journalists are so overworked due to cuts and declining news income that much of their coverage is straight out reprints of press releases - and the Tories spend a ton of money on PR companies to pump out articles favourable to the party line.

This combined with editorial bias and that most journalists who survive at this point have class interests aligned with the Tories creates a hegemony in the British press.

bump_fn
Apr 12, 2004

two of them

like we laugh abotu this but i know people who really believe its a serious issue with corbyn just because the news keeps screaming about it

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/KieranPAndrews/status/1199613288511922176

Tarnop
Nov 25, 2013

Pull me out

bump_fn posted:

like we laugh abotu this but i know people who really believe its a serious issue with corbyn just because the news keeps screaming about it

Tell them you trust that, come Dec 13th, they'll vote with their conscience

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)
Not to be all Nothing Matters but I do think the only people who will pay attention to this drop are the same people who already knew about what it contained in the first place

Nothingtoseehere
Nov 11, 2010


Barry Foster posted:

Not to be all Nothing Matters but I do think the only people who will pay attention to this drop are the same people who already knew about what it contained in the first place

Eh, even if it only shores up core support it's important. It's also a good talking point on the doorstep, gives more claim to "if you vote Tory, they'll sell off the NHS, see X".

Grey Hunter
Oct 17, 2007

Hero of the soviet union.
Accidental destroyer of planets

Barry Foster posted:

Not to be all Nothing Matters but I do think the only people who will pay attention to this drop are the same people who already knew about what it contained in the first place

Most people will read the headline, and that's all.


its a good headline.

Al-Saqr
Nov 11, 2007

One Day I Will Return To Your Side.
Corbyn just proved that the NHS is for sale and the British media use this occasion to still try and paint him as an antisemite, seriously gently caress all British media, gently caress them all.

Drone_Fragger
May 9, 2007



What does a pro Israeli lobby have to do with antisemitism? Unless of course you’re lazily and antisemitic ally equating the thoughts and feelings of the Jewish diaspora with the political machinations of a country?

OwlFancier
Aug 22, 2013

It takes up press time and it forces the tories to deny it. It works the same way the AS stuff does.

PawParole
Nov 16, 2019

Drone_Fragger posted:

What does a pro Israeli lobby have to do with antisemitism? Unless of course you’re lazily and antisemitic ally equating the thoughts and feelings of the Jewish diaspora with the political machinations of a country?

What’s the story behind the Somali guy in your profile pic?

Jrbg
May 20, 2014

I guarantee by tomorrow the british press will have moved on lol

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/ChristianJMay/status/1199661229591212032

Press going from denial to justification mode.

gh0stpinballa
Mar 5, 2019

interesting to see how the press is coordinating the response to the NHS expose

DiscoWitch
Oct 16, 2009

uwu
I hope when Corbs gets in our media is taken out and replaced with something less corrupt, given a good wash you know?

Rarity
Oct 21, 2010

~*4 LIFE*~
Everyone in this thread should be deeply ashamed. CHUK-TIG released their election manifesto last week and not a single one of you noticed

Surprise T Rex
Apr 9, 2008

Dinosaur Gum
^^^^^ I can make my own blank PDFs thanks


Igotadigbick posted:

I hope when Corbs gets in our media is taken out and replaced with something less corrupt, given a good wash you know?

New from Labour: Leveson anti-bias spray. Bang, and the smear is gone.

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Failed Imagineer
Sep 22, 2018

It's like a koan - if a wastewoman releases a manifesto that would be immediately reneged upon for a sniff of power, does anybody care?

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