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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:The Home Office is just the absolute worst. Especially the whole: Oh it's because we think you were born in Albania not Serbia, in, uhh, 1985 that is. When they were both, you know, parts of a single sovereign kingdom. Ahh well see you later hope you have fun being stateless now. Cheers!
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This is where we're all going wrong.... I have a similar approach to pubs.
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Chucat posted:I mean yeah you could go the Evangelical Christian route and run shelters and stuff and just preach a left-wing message to captive audiences, but then the odds of them just switching off and tuning out and then voting Tory again anyway is probably there, that and I'm 99% sure this is verging on criminal activity (in a boring way). Like the soup kitchens etc that run out of churches and the hare krishna place in London where you have to sit through the service to get the nosh. (I did the hare krishna once when I was a bit desperate - weird having cake and coleslaw on the same plate but it depends on the donations.)
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Feb 13, 2020 13:00
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The Question IRL posted:Seems fairly clear cut. Smith managed to help broker a deal to restore Stormont but because he wouldn't go down Borris preferred line that soldiers aren't prosecuted for historic offences* he gets fired. No. 10 will appoint someone who is most likely English and will say horribly offensive stuff about Ireland and Northern Ireland, but has what Boris thinks is a vaguely Irish sounding name. I wonder if Jason McCartney is busy. Private Speech posted:When they were both, you know, parts of a single sovereign kingdom. 
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Feb 13, 2020 13:01
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Like the soup kitchens etc that run out of churches and the hare krishna place in London where you have to sit through the service to get the nosh. Yeah that's literally what I was thinking of. I legitimately have no idea what their conversion (lol) rate is, but I'm sure it's not high.
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Feb 13, 2020 13:03
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Private Speech posted:Especially the whole: Oh it's because we think you were born in Albania not Serbia, in, uhh, 1985 that is. When they were both, you know, parts of a single sovereign kingdom. Was Albania part of a sovereign kingdom with Serbia in 1985? In 1976 I met a Socialist Worker who had been on holiday to Albania when I was youth hostelling along the Welsh coast as a tender 16 year old who told me how you could leave car doors open and bags of shopping around and noone would steal them.
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People like the cut of Labour's jib when they get to hear it. Remember when Corbyn first floated nationalisation of utilities and the media signal boosted it verbatim because they thought it was self evidently stupid, and everyone loved it? We need leftist voices pushing to be in the spotlight and selling themselves confidently and aggressively. If the media responds by shutting them out completely then you'd probably need to crowd bomb them as much as possible (not that kind of bomb) - like the Stop Brexit guy, but more in your face and not so pathetically cute. Some people will reject leftist voices entirely, but most people will probably at least want to know why there are angry people yelling at the reporters constantly. The media can only spin things so long before wholesale disruption of their reporting starts to seriously affect their ability to get anything done.
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Chucat posted:Yeah that's literally what I was thinking of. I legitimately have no idea what their conversion (lol) rate is, but I'm sure it's not high. It's not great and even if it was it's also politically incoherent for left wing liberational politics. You aren't bringing the word of God to people, telling them how to live, you're there to show how the problems in their lives are structural and the solutions are based around collective action. They need to be involved in doing things, not just hearing things in exchange for essentials.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Was Albania part of a sovereign kingdom with Serbia in 1985? Oh wait Albania wasn't. Sorry I'm terrible with balkan countries. Either way he was a Serbian citizen prior to becoming a UK one, so really where he was born shouldn't matter. See: Johnson, Boris. Though in his case I'd be all for dumping him abroad tbf. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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Feb 13, 2020 13:07
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LOL Boris is a loving shambles. Dominic Cummings is just running the government now Someone is blaring Mad World on a sound system outside of Downing Street
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I used to enjoy being a chambermaid - when I left school before starting uni and again while doing weekend jobs to boost my pathetic income from my office job in my 20s. Realise this is a few pages old but it's something I'm thinking about a lot myself I used to be a forklift driver before I was moved to a sales role in the same warehouse and it's difficult to express how much I miss it (esp as my pay now isnt really that much higher). I've been reading like Franco Berardi and Mark Fisher recently about the shift from physical labour to cognitive and like, I don't want to go "ah yes, alienation was BETTER in the 70s" but there's a lot to be said for like.... how different your psychic landscape is when your work's done when you loving clock out. Plus forklifts are cool. bionic vapour boy fucked around with this message at 13:16 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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So the Saj resigned rather than fire all his advisors? Totally Normal Government. Budget in a month could be interesting.
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Borrovan posted:Saw a really good play the other week, "the political history of smack & crack". Never knew that before 1981, there were fewer than 3000 heroin addicts in the UK, almost all middle class. It was very explicit that supporting heroin producers in Afghanistan around that time was deliberate government policy, but also heavily implied that heroin addiction might have been deliberately weaponised against the working class as a response to the Brixton riots. Apparently it might be connected to some war criminal involved in the troubles who's written a bunch of books on psychological warfare getting appointed to some senior position. Pages back, but I'm going to see this next week in Glasgow, so glad to hear it's good!
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Guavanaut posted:Someone hasn't read Dom Cum's The Art of Cum. Apparently Brandon Lewis is getting the post "as a punishment". Great message to send to NI.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:The Home Office is just the absolute worst. Fun fact - the new visa Boris's government is introducing for researchers and academics is being taken completely out of the home offices hands and given to the research authority to dispense, simply because they can't trust the home office to let people into the country even when the government wants them to be here.
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Had a meeting at work that basically went "get ye to a doctor for a sick note, don't worry about us, we'll work things out here" so I should have some time to myself for a bit.
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bionic vapour boy posted:Realise this is a few pages old but it's something I'm thinking about a lot myself I signed up to that site the Universal Credit make you sign up for (anonymously - just to see what was on it) and despite putting STEM and other actual experience of mine in, all I ever got sent was Forklift Truck jobs.
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crispix posted:Was this in Take a Break? https://www.liveleak.com/view?t=k7jFq_1581289288 “I moved and out of nowhere I just felt a really sharp pain,” she said. The vibrator was nowhere to be found. “Where is it? And he like…didn’t know,” she said, about the moment she and her boyfriend knew something was wrong.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Was Albania part of a sovereign kingdom with Serbia in 1985? Well known sovereign Kingdom the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (no Albanias allowed) even  Home Office employee spotted?
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Chucat posted:Yeah that's literally what I was thinking of. I legitimately have no idea what their conversion (lol) rate is, but I'm sure it's not high. Go read George Orwell's bit on the Sally Army...
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Who the gently caress is Rishi Sunak?
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feedmegin posted:Go read George Orwell's bit on the Sally Army... Yeah I have, that's also what I was thinking of when I said it (and the entire captive audience thing).
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Fun fact - the new visa Boris's government is introducing for researchers and academics is being taken completely out of the home offices hands and given to the research authority to dispense, simply because they can't trust the home office to let people into the country even when the government wants them to be here.    what the gently caress I can't even 
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I CANNOT EJACULATE WITHOUT SEEING NATIVE AMERICANS BRUTALISED!
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feedmegin posted:Well known sovereign Kingdom the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia (no Albanias allowed) even I did say I was terrible about it. The kingdom existed at some point though, albeit a good couple decades prior. Which, yes, is the sort of argument I'd expect from the Home Office  He does say he's lived in Serbia to be fair: quote:“I don’t have anything or anybody in Serbia. I don’t think it’s safe for me to be there. That’s why I left. No child of 14 years old would want to leave. It doesn’t happen unless you’re forced to go.” Private Speech fucked around with this message at 13:31 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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sebzilla posted:Who the gently caress is Rishi Sunak? Clearly the best man for the job and not just a yes man who'd give up Treasury independence for an unexpected promotion. Tom Newton Dunn insists that he's a rising star.
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so what will Cummings assuming direct control of #11 mean for the future? more funding for dumb bridge projects?
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Blasmeister posted:so what will Cummings assuming direct control of #11 mean for the future? more funding for dumb bridge projects? More funding for science as long as that science shows darkies have inferior skull shape.
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Javid resigns the day before the Sonic The Hedgehog movie comes out  Maybe he didn't like the reviews?
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Blasmeister posted:so what will Cummings assuming direct control of #11 mean for the future? more funding for dumb bridge projects? Oh aye. Lots of headline grabbing policies which are moronic but who is going to hold them to account, Mail & The Sun? The atrophied corpse of the Beeb?
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Chucat posted:There is a lefty tabloid, the morning star, no one loving buys it (and that's independent of it being a terf rag). True, but it's not wholly a matter of popular choice. Maybe where you are, but I don't think I've seen one on sale in an actual shop since about 1987.
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feedmegin posted:Go read George Orwell's bit on the Sally Army... Private Speech posted:The kingdom did exist at some point though, albeit a good couple decades prior.
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https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/reforms-put-science-heart-uks-post-brexit-policy-agenda
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Guavanaut posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8qoB1XwtHM It's not quite that far ago: wikipedia posted:The Kingdom of Yugoslavia (Serbo-Croatian: Kraljevina Jugoslavija / Краљевина Југославија; Slovene: Kraljevina Jugoslavija) was a state in Southeast and Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1941.
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Yeah but the last time that Serbia was (rather unwillingly) part of any kingdom with Albania would have been under Ottoman rule.
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sebzilla posted:Who the gently caress is Rishi Sunak? The Chancellor of the Exchequer, motherfucker
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sebzilla posted:So the Saj resigned rather than fire all his advisors? It's a resigning issue 100% of the time, but big shock they found someone cowardly enough to take the post in seconds flat
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Guavanaut posted:Yeah but the last time that Serbia was (rather unwillingly) part of any kingdom with Albania would have been under Ottoman rule. Arguably the bits on the border where he could, plausibly, have been born, given the mixup in question, were part of the kingdom yugoslavia before 1941 though: quote:In April 1941, territories of Yugoslavia with substantial Albanian population were annexed to Albania inclusively western Macedonia, a strip of eastern Montenegro, the town of Tutin in central Serbia and most of Kosovo. I'm just being petulant now to be fair
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sebzilla posted:Who the gently caress is Rishi Sunak? The office junior-looking bloke who subbed in at one of the pre-election debates. Funnily enough I noticed last week he seemed to be trying to build a bit of media time and wondered if he was sharpening his elbows.
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sebzilla posted:Who the gently caress is Rishi Sunak? winchester > PPE > goldman > hedge fund > treasury vodkat fucked around with this message at 13:59 on Feb 13, 2020 |
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