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Dell_Zincht posted:So the next local lockdown is going to be Soho then, yeah? London has had barely any cases last few weeks, it's actually possible no one there had it. Not likely, but possible. Who would have thought when you tell people pubs are open, they act like pubs are open?
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Jul 5, 2020 10:02
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Jose posted:Lol really wanting no deal brexit to be as hosed as possible
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Jul 5, 2020 10:08
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Flayer posted:Boris "Churchill" Johnson slashing the size of the army. This will go down well with the gammons. Downside is that Sir Keir will have even more incentive to promise them one war crime per vote.
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Jul 5, 2020 10:18
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i think it's good we're cutting the military budget and i look forward to labour arguing to give them more money.
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Jul 5, 2020 10:21
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gh0stpinballa posted:i think it's good we're cutting the military budget and i look forward to labour arguing to give them more money. Very much the same. The military budget is far bigger than it needs to be for an island this pissant. Slashing the military budget only reduces the possibility of future military adventurism abroad. It's going to suck when Sir Keir goes for "we really need to invade Iraq again. And Iran. At the same time."
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Jul 5, 2020 10:29
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Also, in a world where the people making procurement decisions aren't sleeping next to the lint inside BAE executives' pockets, it would encourage smarter procurement. This being hell-world, though, I've got no idea what Boris and his gang of public-private-funds-reallocation will do
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Nothingtoseehere posted:London has had barely any cases last few weeks, it's actually possible no one there had it. Is that with or without the hidden Pillar 2 results?
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haakman posted:I thought it was really good and wouldn't mind borrowing bits of it for my own cancellation email if you wouldn't mind? Everytime I try and write it, it just comes out as inarticulate screaming. Absolutely, go for it.
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Darth Walrus posted:Sneak preview of Conservative messaging during the second wave: Not sure that's the phrase they wanna go for when the obvious counter is "A lot of people won't live with it, though"
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Flayer posted:Boris "Churchill" Johnson slashing the size of the army. This will go down well with the gammons. Boris "Churchill" Johnson could piss directly into a gammon's mouth and if given the option to stop will gurgle "blut corblyb!"
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Nothingtoseehere posted:London has had barely any cases last few weeks, it's actually possible no one there had it. https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-coronavirus-cases-latest-a4487981.html Leicester was the only place with more new cases than London last week
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Tarnop posted:Is that with or without the hidden Pillar 2 results? That's a good point, I forgot the government was hiding most cases behind pillar 2.
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Tarnop posted:https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/london-coronavirus-cases-latest-a4487981.html There's a pretty large population difference between the two tbf...
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gh0stpinballa posted:i think it's good we're cutting the military budget and i look forward to labour arguing to give them more money. i agree i just think its funny with all the talk of using Are Troops to keep the peace and distribute food after no deal they're cutting the troops https://twitter.com/muntazer_zaidi/status/1279636306931433473?s=20 https://twitter.com/muntazer_zaidi/status/1279516713625759745?s=20 Jose fucked around with this message at 11:10 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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While I think that cutting the militaries budget is probably a net good decision, they said they are reducing the number of personal. And won't that mean "well we have X Thousand fewer soldiers. Now we don't need quite so much body armour, military grade assault rifles and Hum-Vees. To whom can we sell those to? How about the police force." And as we all know, giving police Robocop levels of equipment just means you get rid of all crime.
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Jose posted:i agree i just think its funny with all the talk of using Are Troops to keep the peace and distribute food after no deal they're cutting the troops this dudes a fuckin king
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Jul 5, 2020 11:14
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she really is the most unpleasant person in the cabinet https://twitter.com/snigskitchen/status/1279327633151533058?s=20
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Jul 5, 2020 11:22
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Jose posted:Lol really wanting no deal brexit to be as hosed as possible Cummies wants to do away with all the mouth breathers doing booooooooooooorrrrr-iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiing things like logistics and replace them with a dozen people like super cyber-hacker new Q off Bond!!!!!!!!! 
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-53296689 Coronavirus: 'Crystal clear' drunk people will not socially distance Well no loving poo poo, did we need to open the pubs to ascertain the validity of this assessment?
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Jose posted:she really is the most unpleasant person in the cabinet isnt she the oen who said she was happy to change immigration law so that her parents wouldnt have been able to immigrate lol
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Cutting the size of the army and the Royal Marines means they get to save money on forces wages and small boring stuff like logistics, while at the same time keeping open the direct pipeline from taxpayers --> BAE Systems. (Weren't they very recently talking about ordering a bunch more warships because of "the threat from China" or something?)
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:The people in Soho last night won't be just the people living in Soho, so yeah you joke but it'll literally have to be all of London. There was talk about specific boroughs being put into lockdown, enough that councils put out statements to say their numbers are low and it's just rumours https://www.mylondon.news/news/health/london-boroughs-respond-local-lockdown-18524303 but how would you even do borough by borough lockdowns in London? You gonna set up 4000 barriers across roads and pathways or just close a few tube stations and hope? It seems impossible. London has had really low numbers, maybe it'll all be fine, but yeah it would have to be all of London to be anything and then you've got all the peope that commute in each day too.
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Jul 5, 2020 11:38
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Look forward to starmer in full lobsterback costume saying that he would make the army 20m strong and allow troops to be quartered in every house.
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Sky News has a regional case tracker for the UK (including Pillar 1 and Pillar 2 data) that may prove useful for predicting the next outbreaks.
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Payndz posted:Cutting the size of the army and the Royal Marines means they get to save money on forces wages and small boring stuff like logistics, while at the same time keeping open the direct pipeline from taxpayers --> BAE Systems. (Weren't they very recently talking about ordering a bunch more warships because of "the threat from China" or something?) There's still two busted carriers with no planes on them. Do we also need a new set of warships with no crews for the Potemkin Fleet?
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bump_fn posted:isnt she the oen who said she was happy to change immigration law so that her parents wouldnt have been able to immigrate lol Yes, and also that it's racist to want her to not be racist because that's forcing her to conform to prejudiced ideas of what an child of immigrants should be. It's madness all the way down.
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:Sooooo... is there actually a mechanism for finding out how the contract was put out to tender, what the tender application actually said and how it was assessed? Further question for me would be is it possible to see what was actually delivered as part of this contract?
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An doctor friend of mine working in London has said they've had a quiet shift, quieter than some weekdays before COVID. There were obviously thousands of people out around the country but if it was just a symbolic need and visit for a lot of people rather than a return to the sess (helped by nightclubs not being open) and this weekend will literally be the low point of community infections then this may not the predicted apocolypse after all. It'll be whether this becomes a normal unsafe habit for a lot of people which will be the problem.
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Yeah will be interesting to see if the British public has any interest in going out and getting pissed. Might not catch on
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lol https://twitter.com/paulwaugh/status/1279736855660027906?s=20
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Darth Walrus posted:Sneak preview of Conservative messaging during the second wave: Turns out the virus was within us all along.
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This kind of stuff makes me wonder (and we'll never know!) if Corbyn were still LOTO whether Labour support would be going up just the same regardless. So is it a 'Starmer is great' or 'Tories are fuckin useless' support?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This kind of stuff makes me wonder (and we'll never know!) if Corbyn were still LOTO whether Labour support would be going up just the same regardless. So is it a 'Starmer is great' or 'Tories are fuckin useless' support? I would be staggered if someone like Clarkson would have voted for Corbyn even if Boris was like, pissing on Churchill's grave.
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It's the latter but they can say the former is to not lose face with anti Corb comments. The army cuts means more rank and file pushed out onto the streets which is tragic and it will hamper our peacekeeping commitments most likely. Hard to tell though what is exactly will affect other than pushing soldiers from disadvantaged backgrounds from poverty, into poverty and homelessness. Sad.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Yeah will be interesting to see if the British public has any interest in going out and getting pissed. Might not catch on As much as we dunk on the public for being lovely about a lot of things we've had 3 months of pretty effective propaganda about how deadly just going to hang out with people can be. There will always be a core of people not giving a poo poo and tragically a lot of them are in government right now but it's quite possible that enough people are actually acting well enough to limit the overall impact. If so, a lot of places are going to go out of business but that was also completely predictable. namesake fucked around with this message at 13:08 on Jul 5, 2020 |
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Flipswitch posted:It's the latter but they can say the former is to not lose face with anti Corb comments. I have no problem with cutting the military budgets and shrinking the size of the standing army, but without replacing those jobs with either UBI or some other jobs, all it's goign to do is harm poor communities even further.
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