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XMNN posted:I'm not sure why economic crisis leads to Boris resigning? If there's one thing Tories loving love it's knifing their leader because the economy went too bad to ignore any more
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Jun 11, 2020 10:33
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yeah its pretty standard that they let him take the blame for how hosed things have got while they loot the place
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Jun 11, 2020 10:39
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XMNN posted:I'm not sure why economic crisis leads to Boris resigning? Rats will attack each other when they're under stress.
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Jun 11, 2020 11:34
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I'm finding the destruction of statues very educational. I never before thought about who was on that huge plinth in St Andrews Square in Edinburgh and it turns out it's a tory called Henry Dundas who is best known for delaying slavery abolition by ~15 years and being impeached for embezzling public money.  ps https://twitter.com/BigScottGibson/status/1270482469041602560
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Jun 11, 2020 11:54
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i understand that flowchart tweet as a bit of fun not what will actually happen
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Jun 11, 2020 12:03
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Doc Hawkins posted:this i did not know Because, as the past few days have made clear, a large portion of the population - when made aware of this fact for the first time - take it as a good thing. "  Grate Britane nobly indebted itself for centuries to end slavery! This is probably why the Germans have a better economy than us! "Not "we paid slave owners £billions to not make a fuss, thus funding large parts of our current economy with bribes to lovely people who stood to lose profits while giving zero fucks to the people who were actually enslaved." But of course, it's apparently BAME people who have a victim complex...
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Jun 11, 2020 13:34
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bitterandtwisted posted:I'm finding the destruction of statues very educational. I never before thought about who was on that huge plinth in St Andrews Square in Edinburgh and it turns out it's a tory called Henry Dundas who is best known for delaying slavery abolition by ~15 years and being impeached for embezzling public money. do not stick the times up any part of a dog
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Jun 11, 2020 13:55
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bitterandtwisted posted:I'm finding the destruction of statues very educational. I never before thought about who was on that huge plinth in St Andrews Square in Edinburgh and it turns out it's a tory called Henry Dundas who is best known for delaying slavery abolition by ~15 years and being impeached for embezzling public money. always knew he was a wrong ‘un
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Jun 11, 2020 22:26
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it's not right when a dog looks down on men
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Jun 12, 2020 06:18
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Is this a famous dog? I have no idea.
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Jun 12, 2020 13:12
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Dead Goon posted:Is this a famous dog? It's a dog that sat by its owners grave for fourteen years after the owner died. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greyfriars_Bobby
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Jun 12, 2020 13:24
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prefect posted:It's a dog that sat by its owners grave for like sixteen years after the owner died. No. No, I'm pretty sure it's Seymour from that Futurama episode, not a statue
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Jun 12, 2020 13:26
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It's a dog, so I think it's a fair assumption that he was a good boy who deserves a statue more than most any human.
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Jun 12, 2020 13:26
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Cthulu Carl posted:No. No, I'm pretty sure it's Seymour from that Futurama episode, not a statue Now you've gone and made me sad.  (Also, now I want to watch all of Futurama again.)
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Jun 12, 2020 13:28
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All all, or the first few seasons all?
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Jun 12, 2020 14:45
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Jose posted:he's already possibly facing a tory rebellion over just how badly he's handled coronavirus. they'll absolutely allow him to take the blame for no deal brexit first though yeah theyr keeping boris til after brexit so they can crash out during like 200k roni deaths and then ceremonially dismember him as the scapegoat alternately, all that stuff happens but he just stays cause gove fucks up the backstab again and theres no other mechanism to remove him
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Jun 12, 2020 16:03
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Communist Thoughts posted:yeah theyr keeping boris til after brexit so they can crash out during like 200k roni deaths and then ceremonially dismember him as the scapegoat A vote of confidence comes up and Starmer spearheads Boris' support.
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Jun 12, 2020 17:27
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Communist Thoughts posted:yeah theyr keeping boris til after brexit so they can crash out during like 200k roni deaths and then ceremonially dismember him as the scapegoat i cannot imagine michael gove winning an election under any circumstances, he's such a freak
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Jun 12, 2020 17:35
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V. Illych L. posted:i cannot imagine michael gove winning an election under any circumstances, he's such a freak why
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Jun 12, 2020 17:46
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Brits will elect anything if the alternative is a thoroughly decent person who wants to make everyone's lives at least a little better. I haven't seen much of Starmer, but my impression is that he's the kind of pod person who's allowed to get Labour votes-
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Jun 12, 2020 18:02
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Samovar posted:A vote of confidence comes up and Starmer spearheads Boris' support. This is the funniest option possible and sadly the most likely one
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Jun 12, 2020 20:56
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:Brits will elect anything if the alternative is a thoroughly decent person who wants to make everyone's lives at least a little better. That's not true. We elected Attlee, and he wanted things to be better. Of course, he achieved his improvements to the British way of life through the ruthless exploitation of our remaining colonies. What the British don't like is politicians who will admit that people in other countries have worth and are human
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Jun 12, 2020 21:15
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Zulily Zoetrope posted:It's a dog, so I think it's a fair assumption that he was a good boy who deserves a statue more than most any human. ah, but he has a statue somewhere in the uk, which means he was responsible for claiming territory for the empire by genociding a local tribe or something similar Continuity RCP posted:That's not true. We elected Attlee, and he wanted things to be better. Of course, he achieved his improvements to the British way of life through the ruthless exploitation of our remaining colonies. What the British don't like is politicians who will admit that people in other countries have worth and are human it's simple. british people need brutality in their politics, and they don't really care if it's directed against them or against some foreigners
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Jun 12, 2020 22:11
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Greyfriars Bobby owned a cannon foundry
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Jun 12, 2020 22:15
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The story of Greyfriars Bobby faithfully waiting by his master's grave was made up by local merchants to attract tourists. The dog stayed in the graveyard because they were feeding it, and the statue isn't even of the original dog (they replaced it after it died).
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Jun 12, 2020 23:08
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marktheando posted:The story of Greyfriars Bobby faithfully waiting by his master's grave was made up by local merchants to attract tourists. The dog stayed in the graveyard because they were feeding it, and the statue isn't even of the original dog (they replaced it after it died). Wow thanks mister buzzkill, next you'll tell me that the Japanese railway cat didn't actually run the railway that well.
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Jun 12, 2020 23:37
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V. Illych L. posted:i cannot imagine michael gove winning an election under any circumstances, he's such a freak all of your opinions and commentary on brit politics have been so loving wrong so please shut the ever loving gently caress up
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Jun 13, 2020 00:07
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michael gove becoming pm is definitely what I would want to happen if the uk were a tv show rather than a real place that human beings live
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Jun 13, 2020 00:26
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redleader posted:it's simple. british people need brutality in their politics, and they don't really care if it's directed against them or against some foreigners it’s this. “the people voted for pain” is the greatest insight any British politician had had since thatcher’s “there is no such thing as society.” Britain is an island of savage morlocks hooting and jabbering for blood. in the absence of an empire to terrorize and pillage, they will terrorize and pillage themselves.
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Jun 13, 2020 04:35
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:all of your opinions and commentary on brit politics have been so loving wrong so please shut the ever loving gently caress up 
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Jun 13, 2020 08:17
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i feel as if i should clarify that that was more of a statement as to the freakishness of michael gove and not an assessment of the actual electability of a party under his leadership i cannot imagine his winning an election because it is sincerely hard for me to understand who he appeals to, though it's clearly *someone*
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Jun 13, 2020 08:27
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Really, whats hard to understand Traditional industry died, Thatcher psychotically advanced the transition rather than implementing real plans Now because of that impact half the country doesn't know where it is supposed to get its livelihood from, trying to compete with the middle class for jobs involving computer (the middle class resent this) Present Brexit as a way to not only placate the unrest but keep Tories in power, blame immigrants, etc Similar poo poo repeat ad infinitum until capitalism finally explodes. Nothing is even remotely surprising anymore
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Jun 13, 2020 08:53
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It's not his wife at least
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Jun 13, 2020 08:55
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gove has a shady wing of media and dark doings behind him but so do like 2 other tory factions, kier is trying to get his own too. plus hes a fuckup and looks like a fish monster. the media considers him very smart cause they're insanely loving stupid and intellectually (and sometimes genetically) inbred. he seems inevitable but surely people can't vote for the oval office, aka bojo priti patel could probably do it. she's mean, stupid and cruel so fits the party. the tories are actually far less concerned about women leaders than labour are so maybe they can also put aside their racism to vote for her. she's setting herself up as just as, if not more, racist as they are which is the go-to tactic for tory PoC MPs who want to get anywhere. plus shes the only MP who doesn't look like an inhuman goblin i think at some point gavin williamson will resurface and try to turn us into some kind of liberally-racist authoritarian military state. voters would love that
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Jun 13, 2020 13:08
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priti patel is hot, racist and spiteful as gently caress she'd do really well as leader most likely gove is just too much of an alien for people to vote for i reckon
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Jun 13, 2020 13:42
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the issue with patel imo is that she's not very tactically adroit she has killer instinct, but she leaves herself open to getting blasted by others as in that weird diplomatic entrepreneurship fiasco. the only reason she's back is because johnson desperately needed everyone he could get with governmental experience and she's fine so long as she can be kept under control any competent schemer should be able to put her out of commission if need be
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Jun 13, 2020 14:09
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Is Priti Patel the one that advocated the death penalty on Question Time years ago and got absolutely destroyed by Ian Hislop?
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Jun 13, 2020 14:23
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V. Illych L. posted:the issue with patel imo is that she's not very tactically adroit yeah but remember we've had theresa may as PM
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Jun 13, 2020 14:29
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