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Who is your first pick in the deputy leadership race? This poll is closed. |
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| R. Allin-Khan |
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6 | 1.60% |
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80 | 21.33% |
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| A. Rayner |
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| I. Murray |
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| P. Flaps |
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177 | 47.20% |
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https://twitter.com/BorisJohnson/status/1241706514940919808 leading the charge with some timely advice delivered an hour ago e- dog n birb 
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Mar 22, 2020 14:38
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https://twitter.com/JamesTCobbler/status/1241693538523496448 And again it appears I have pretty good not-a-twat radar because I've used Timsons a fair bit.
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Mar 22, 2020 14:41
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can't remember if it was here where I read about the old lady saying that if we change our habits it's letting the virus win, but there's video https://mobile.twitter.com/mattzarb/status/1241006547905458177
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Mar 22, 2020 14:44
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We will not negotiate with viruses.
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Mar 22, 2020 14:47
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XMNN posted:can't remember if it was here where I read about the old lady saying that if we change our habits it's letting the virus win, but there's video  that lady
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Mar 22, 2020 14:49
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https://twitter.com/LeadingEwe/status/1241710576474226689 https://twitter.com/_hanimustafa/status/1241717064286580738
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Mar 22, 2020 14:50
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I really want to get to Tesco to hoard junk food (could really go for some Pretzels)but can't be arsed dealing with crowds.
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Mar 22, 2020 14:59
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Jose posted:Lol the ft chart talks racistly about Japan naturally self isolating and wearing masks when out and about as a reason for their low numbers but 50k people queued to see the Olympic torch. They're just not testing people. Japan going to extreme methods to defuse their demographic timebomb.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:02
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Roller Coast Guard posted:Japan going to extreme methods to defuse their demographic timebomb. I'm absolutely certain there are multiple graphs about this in documents in front of the leaders of every country in the developed world. "Let's kill all the boomers and disabled people" solves - well, defers for a couple of election cycles - a *lot* of problems in late-stage capitalism.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:04
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm absolutely certain there are multiple graphs about this in documents in front of the leaders of every country in the developed world. "Let's kill all the boomers and disabled people" solves - well, defers for a couple of election cycles - a *lot* of problems in late-stage capitalism. I keep saying it but it's weird that the only people who still believe in capitalism are being slaughtered to save capitalism. https://twitter.com/markaustintv/status/1241459316302979077 "Lets go back to 2012" is the only Centrist policy.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:06
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OwlFancier posted:Stop reading about it (and, I would suggest, people maybe stop crossposting scaremongering from the coronavirus thread here, you can go over there if you want to wank yourself into an coma about it) and just do something fun that doesn't involve politics/social media. Man going bowling for orcs with Rohan cavalry in the first game was just tremendous fun. Does anyone know when the supermarkets are releasing new delivery slots? I'm asking for mum, she's getting very stressed out as she's quite vulnerable and doesn't want to go out for shopping. She's too far away for me to reliably help. I'm still going shopping cos I'm not at risk (relatively speaking) and I don't want to add to the delivery burden, but trying to keep it at once a week now.
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Mar 22, 2020 15:06
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Yesterday my Facebook and Twitter feeds were filled with the Stay Home, Save Lives message being shared. Today they're full of everyone going to visit their mams. 
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Mar 22, 2020 15:11
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Deketh posted:Man going bowling for orcs with Rohan cavalry in the first game was just tremendous fun. To be honest, you're probably better off getting on facebook, finding groups local to your mum who are organising volunteers and asking someone for help. (Our local groups have had requests from people in your situation - miles away from an elderly relative who needs shopping or dog walking or whatever). Learnin' Curve posted a couple of days ago that Morrisons and another one are opening 21 day ahead schedules at midnight on their text-websites. I know all our local deliveries are fully booked 3 weeks ahead (also people who have managed to get deliveries are reporting a lot of stuff missing from the orders as unavailable).
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forkboy84 posted:I really want to get to Tesco to hoard junk food (could really go for some Pretzels)but can't be arsed dealing with crowds. I just went and got some crisps and dips from the Tesco express next to mine lol
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Mar 22, 2020 15:23
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Jose did you fit the bidet yet?
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Mar 22, 2020 15:26
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https://twitter.com/LabourSocialism/status/1241703060344385536
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:Yesterday my Facebook and Twitter feeds were filled with the Stay Home, Save Lives message being shared. Today they're full of everyone going to visit their mams. mine is full of petitions to get the government to keep paying [insert group here] during the crisis guess they didn't get the memo from Brexit that petitions achieve precisely gently caress and all
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Mar 22, 2020 15:39
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:To be honest, you're probably better off getting on facebook, finding groups local to your mum who are organising volunteers and asking someone for help. (Our local groups have had requests from people in your situation - miles away from an elderly relative who needs shopping or dog walking or whatever). Thanks for the advice mate, I'll see if I can find anything on FB
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Mar 22, 2020 15:40
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Gonzo McFee posted:I keep saying it but it's weird that the only people who still believe in capitalism are being slaughtered to save capitalism. nah, it seems like ‘bankrupt the BBC’ is also on this guy’s list
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Mar 22, 2020 15:58
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Have we considered that all the olds dying of a preventable disease due to their own hubris may in fact be the change that britain not only needs, but the one it frankly, deserves?
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Mar 22, 2020 16:00
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the scotland daily update just finished and a nugget of info came out: so friday morning it became clear to the modellers that the r0 wasn't 2-3 here, it was at least 4-6 - so doubling time was double was everyone was working with (and more than all current academic papers suggest - but r0 is cultural) and best care scenario for scotland is fatality rate of 1% presuming medical care can be provided they better do an actual lockdown as soon as possible, all ferry services have been told to throw out non-essential passengers to try and reduce spread to the islands
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Mar 22, 2020 16:03
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Dear BBC , these are desperate times . The nation needs a lift. Please replay the sounds of Doodlebugs flying over ahead, far away explosions, and muffled 'Roll out the barrel' Blitz music as if its coming from the underground.
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Mar 22, 2020 16:04
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Oscar Romeo Romeo posted:Jose did you fit the bidet yet? No I need a new toilet seat first For people who want to do some cardio inside so long as you have stairs you can just walk up and down them repeatedly. It's boring sure but you'll get a good cardio workout from it
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Mar 22, 2020 16:05
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Oh yeah you did say that earlier in the thread. Sorry. :/ Passing the time doing goblet squats with a bag of flour. Not fun but when you have an opportunity to get prison ripped without the prisony bit, might as well do it.
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Mar 22, 2020 16:07
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Julio Cruz posted:mine is full of petitions to get the government to keep paying [insert group here] during the crisis Unfortunately we're in a bit of a hosed situation about organising because rallies, protests and any people based tactics are impossible to hold safely at this time so we're stuck on tactics like social shaming through petitions and bad reviews on websites or legal challenges if possible. Ideally the key workers will be able to organise and get protections through wildcat strike threats but that's naturally quite hard to get at this point and if you aren't in one industry or a full time organiser then social media stuff is what we're stuck at.
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Mar 22, 2020 16:09
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Jose posted:No I need a new toilet seat first Speaking of lockdown exercise.  A french guy ran a marathon on his 7mtr balcony.
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Mar 22, 2020 16:10
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Mar 22, 2020 16:10
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My opinion on Alex Jones: He would have been a fantastic pro wrestler. He has big entertaining heel energy.
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Just saw that Twitter thread saying "supermarket shelves may be empty for more complex reasons than people being an unstoppable selfish horde", and loving* the several replies posting pictures of empty supermarket shelves going "but look at these empty shelves!!!" *loving that I only go on Twitter via this thread
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Drone_Fragger posted:Have we considered that all the olds dying of a preventable disease due to their own hubris may in fact be the change that britain not only needs, but the one it frankly, deserves? No. Because it's not what anyone deserves and it will always have blow back that harms others. If it were purely with people worth over a billion pounds dying then maybe. But until just owning a private island causes the spread of an infectious disease I don't think we are there yet.
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Gonzo McFee posted:I keep saying it but it's weird that the only people who still believe in capitalism are being slaughtered to save capitalism. Gonzo McFee posted:"Lets go back to 2012" is the only Centrist policy.
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ThomasPaine posted:Even the worst case predictions assuming no intervention at all showed cases peaking late May/June and then beginning to drop off, mostly subsiding by September or so I know this was 2 pages back but I want to address it - If we sit back, assuming everything's fine, and let the virus run rampant through the population, then yes it could start to drop off from it's peak around June, clearing off likely around September. Problem with that being that, that's the "let everyone who could die, die" line. The intention of social distancing and lockdowns etc is to cut the rate of spread to give the health system more time to cope. By very design of the measures, the slower you want it to go, the longer the lockdowns etc need to go on. For that strategy to work, you're looking at something closer to a "peak" spread over most of August-ish, with the actual real decline happening by the end of the year
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Bobstar posted:Just saw that Twitter thread saying "supermarket shelves may be empty for more complex reasons than people being an unstoppable selfish horde", and loving* the several replies posting pictures of empty supermarket shelves going "but look at these empty shelves!!!" If they're spooked by the sight of empty shelves then i should rather fancy that they'll have a very bad time if they go to B&Q!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  (aforementioned shelves in B&Q being DIY shelving that, generally being sold flatpacked to be erected in the home, are technically empty of contents)
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Her Majesty's Government, three weeks ago: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=owI7DOeO_yg
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crispix posted:If they're spooked by the sight of empty shelves then i should rather fancy that they'll have a very bad time if they go to B&Q!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  I was going to get some bits to do DIY but now I'm too worried about money. Speaking of, for the after times, can anyone recommend a small tree-like plant that we can put in a pot outside, that isn't too easy to kill?
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Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:they better do an actual lockdown as soon as possible, all ferry services have been told to throw out non-essential passengers to try and reduce spread to the islands But what if they can't swim
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mehall posted:If we sit back, assuming everything's fine, and let the virus run rampant through the population, then yes it could start to drop off from it's peak around June, clearing off likely around September. I wouldn't be massively surprised if this was part of the motivation behind the government's shithouse approach - say everything's fine and we don't need to do anything at all yet, following the science! - suggest people stay home in specific circumstances - start halfheartedly encouraging everyone to avoid social gatherings and places, while refusing to call out the people who actively ignore it, including your own dad - say things like "hope I get to see my mum on Mother's Day!!" and then pretend you meant video chat - eventually start closing things down after going "we're absolutely not going to be doing that" a day or two earlier - do everything at the last moment like you have no plan because you're not taking it seriously - say "it'll all be over in 12 weeks and the NHS is fantastic and has everything it needs" like the whole thing has been to play it down from the beginning, then drag their feet on shifting that policy and narrative, and barely even sound like they're taking it seriously. It puts it in people's heads that it's not really a big deal, that everyone's overreacting, might as well go see mum or enjoy the nice weather. Spreads around a bit more (get dat herd immunity) and the government gets to go oh no, we said not to do this, can't believe this has happened, people have ignored our advice somehow. "Flatten the curve" can also mean getting some cases in early, not just pushing it all into the future
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Not often that I agree with Andrew Neil but he's dead right here: https://twitter.com/afneil/status/1241329181331513345 I loved it when the Chancellor said the other day that they had no power to stop companies paying dividends with taxpayer's money, when he just has to make them sign a loan agreement saying "should the company pay or make an accrual for a dividend at any time while this loan is outstanding, the amount shall become immediately due" or something along those lines.
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Bobstar posted:
Place I live in has a little gardenlet - a triangle of ground by the driveway with pebbles on and a huge big knacker of a conifer. When I moved here I gave it a flat top cut so I can just about keep it trimmed. I looked on google street view at this place 12 years ago and it was one of those little mini conifers they sell outside greengrocers and that. You can put them in pots and they're very hardy but definitely keep it trimmed if you put it in the ground
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