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gently caress me, the amount of friends and family that messaged my wife asking to meet up 'before the new lockdown.' Between that and my sister in law's ideas about what constitutes a bubble, it'll be a miracle if we make it out of this bloody house alive.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:gently caress me, the amount of friends and family that messaged my wife asking to meet up 'before the new lockdown.' Between that and my sister in law's ideas about what constitutes a bubble, it'll be a miracle if we make it out of this bloody house alive. Yeah this gets me. The mentality of "Oh, a new lockdown is about to come in, better meet up now before the rules change!" when it should be "Well, things are getting dangerous now, we should probably stay home". I have stayed home this entire loving time since March. I didn't have to, but I did. I've been out for shopping and I've moved house but I have had zero social engagements except we had an outside party for Canada day. And I know I didn't need to, according to the rules, BUT if every fucker had been doing the bare minimum compliance to the rules, poo poo would be much worse at this point (in both Canada and the UK). WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 07:05 on Nov 1, 2020 |
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My in-laws took some serious convincing not to run the blockade for the welsh lockdown. All for 2 nights at a beach house in October.
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ronya posted:a good point: Having hospitals collapsing and everyones granny dying at Christmas is the kind of thing governments collapse over.
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jabby posted:Baker has the look of someone who went into a room thinking that, and then basically got Venkman's speech to the Mayor from Ghostbusters screamed at him for six hours until some part of his brain snapped and realised what a real catastrophe we're facing. On the other I have a suspicion about the type of scientists that would rise to the top under such a state of affairs.
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serious gaylord posted:Having hospitals collapsing and everyones granny dying at Christmas is the kind of thing governments collapse over. How many government-enders have we had just in the last couple of weeks? Nobody cares any more.
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we haven't yet seen the Tories face a substantial rebellion where the leadership can bleat that the alternative is Corbyn since, uh, Corbyn that said, this being replaced by 'the alternative is a Starmer lockdown anyway, rather than the most grudging Johnson lockdown where The Prime Minister will do his level best to outwit those irresponsible scientists' doesn't improve the odds of backbencher revolt - the Tory back benches have grown markedly more rigid since Brexit ripped through their party
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MeinPanzer posted:Thanks, everyone, for the advice. We'd just moved to the UK when we moved into this place and we were desperate to find something. We've written back to the landlord with a reasonable point-by-point response, so we'll see what she says. I started writing this yesterday but got distracted. From what you have said so far, you were lodgers, but I would suggest that you have moved onto an AST. To be on licence, the landlord must be resident in the property. Now the question lies where what is required for someone to be resident in a property. The only court case I know that deals with this was Palmer v McNamara and in that situation the landlord visited every day, even though they didn't sleep there. I would suggest that the landlord has found a new main residence and as such you were no longer lodgers and went automatically on an AST giving you full tenant rights. So here's a fun thing to try if they come back still asking for a massive amount. Tell them you have proof of their non-residency in the property, that you would legally be on an AST from that time and as such the landlord should have secured your deposit into one of the governmental schemes and that you will now need looking at claiming damages to the value of £900 from her in addition to the return of your deposit in full. However if they agree to return your deposit right now, you will forego such action. The court action is a bit of a pain in the arse so it's a partial bluff, but as it looks like they want to claim the entire deposit anyway, you have nothing to lose.
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, it's literally true though? London afaik is pretty consistently more left wing than most of the country. Absolutely wetting myself reading this in Liverpool. Cities in general are more left wing than rural areas, and southern rural areas are far more Tory.
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https://twitter.com/TheTrashiesUK/status/1322817320352423937 The BBC is full of Nazis.
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Spuckuk posted:Absolutely wetting myself reading this in Liverpool. Yes and london is a very big city, ergo, it is more left wing than most of the country?
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/TheTrashiesUK/status/1322817320352423937 She might have deleted her tweet but the fascist puff piece is still up on the BBC https://twitter.com/bbcnews/status/1322702373790339074?s=21
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My city is more Correct than your city, no one should live in your tory city, get owned *disappears in sulphurous cloud of own farts*
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It’s true tho we should stop the migrant boats. Give them free ferry tickets instead. Anyone trying to get into England right now is clearly not an economic migrant.
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Nov 1, 2020 10:36
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So there is a lot of Left across the length and breath of the country, and instead of saying "cool, lets go have an s club party" we're arguing over whos Pantone is redder. This is why The Tories win.
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Nov 1, 2020 10:41
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I've long felt that there should be an aspect of immigration law that runs on Takeshis Castle rules. If you can make it past the British Only Boat Squads and all the rest of our needlessly antagonistic bullshit you should get full citizenship no questions asked Like that guy who managed to run the entire channel tunnel without getting caught and instead of immediately giving him a passport and claiming him for Team GB we just turned him away. What a waste
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notaspy posted:So there is a lot of Left across the length and breath of the country, and instead of saying "cool, lets go have an s club party" we're arguing over whos Pantone is redder. Don't think that's why
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Hot take. The latest Labour drama isn't the powers that be making a killing stroke for Corbyn. They're manipulating Starmer into cutting ties with the left leaning Labour voters that he needs to win a future election. Starmer is still on his honeymoon as the media basks in the gentle glow of his neoliberalism. But he can expect to get the full Corbyn treatment before the next election. Because capital is absolutely not going to favor a compliant Labour when there's Tory on the menu.
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Guavanaut posted:The North is weird because Mablethorpe (53.3409° N, 0.2611° E) is definitely in the Midlands, but Northwich (53.2587° N, 2.5181° W) is definitely in the North. I've no idea who these people are, but their twitter account is tickling my sense of humour: https://twitter.com/FreeNorthNow/status/1322628894026014720 communism bitch posted:He's sorted. He's just got to hang in till he reaches two years as PM to get his £100k a year pension, and then he can gently caress off for a consequence-free career making £50k a pop speaking engagements and a bunch of non-executive directorships where he's paid tens or hundreds of thousands a year for doing literally nothing. Everybody knows he's a loving lazy poo poo, and being Prime Minister will be the hardest he's ever had to work or will have to work. But he's sorted for life after this poo poo. Is he not already set for life, on account of him being rich enough to become a member of the Bullingdon Club way back when?
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notaspy posted:So there is a lot of Left across the length and breath of the country, and instead of saying "cool, lets go have an s club party" we're arguing over whos Pantone is redder. That is a healthy sign. All movements with lots of committed members argue a lot. Churches only discover ecumenism when they are fading into irrelevance. Thinking it's our actions that let the other side win is a kind of power fantasy, honestly.
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biglads posted:When the Tory brand gets too toxic (e.g. by killing everyone's grandparents at Christmas) it's good to have your placeman in as head of the alternative. Everyone's grandparents dying in the Summer didn't seem to hurt them too badly.  notaspy posted:"cool, lets go have an s club party" We can (and should) do this while arguing.
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Rumda posted:the fact is I'm still more welcome here than I would be in loving bedford Labour held Bedford in 2019 so it's not the worst place in the south.
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As a true northernertm from a place that as far as I know has never voted for anything but labour, I still know of a few people who openly voted tory and for brexit. You can still be from one of the "good" parts of the county and still be an arsehole and vice versa. I don't think we should eject from the country all together but I do think it would be cool to move towards devolution. Maybe move the capital up here for a change.
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Pull up the drawbridge is absolutely sickening language, particularly in the face of people drowning in the channel. No leftist should support fracturing or isolationism but no doubt there will be more and more of this "we need to help our own" messaging as the migrant crisis worsens.
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Nov 1, 2020 11:31
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Nov 1, 2020 11:31
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We could have done the whole executive capital Cardiff, judicial capital London, upper house legislative capital Edinburgh, lower house legislative capital Leeds thing, a bit like what South Africa did. The upper house there is made up of delegations from each of the provinces too, which helps regional representation and avoids the whole continuously expanding upper house full of sinecures problem.
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Guavanaut posted:We could have done the whole executive capital Cardiff, judicial capital London, upper house legislative capital Edinburgh, lower house legislative capital Leeds thing, a bit like what South Africa did. This except Scotland is independent.
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This antisemitism thing just doesn’t seem to be going awayThe Guardian posted:Indeed, it is the antisemitism thing that is splitting Corbyn into two discrete almost contradictory characters. To those who do not pay it much attention, he remains popular. To those who do, his actions have been unconscionable. Maybe it is not going away because of you The Guardian, you shower of lying intentionally misinforming cunts. How are they allowed to be so wrong and still think if themselves as the newspaper of sensible moderate fact based liberalism? Oh it's the last word isn't it, ah I answered my own question. Pure Ideology ~ sniffs ~
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Desiderata posted:This antisemitism thing just doesn’t seem to be going away Right, so they're essentially accusing the left of the party of being complicit in antisemitism no matter what. There's no winning with these people.
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It's like that thing with the American Civil War. People that only know a little think it was about slavery. People that know a bit think it was about states' rights. People that know a lot think it was about slavery. People who don't pay much attention to Corbyn think he's decent, people who exclusively pay attention to the newspapers saying that he's an antisemite because he was in the same room when an Israeli said that Holocaust denial isn't illegal in the UK think he's an antisemite.
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Jose posted:the guardian also have an article by actual CIA asset ruth smeeth today about antisemitism in labour Can't believe you did an antisemitism towards Ruth Smeeth, reported.
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WhatEvil posted:You're missing the bigger picture. He's handed out literally billions of pounds to dodgy offshore companies and poo poo for "PPE" and various other poo poo. I'd wager he'll be getting a board of director position on some made up company and getting at least a few mil a year for the rest of his life. There might also be some links with some Russian oligarchs and stuff because he's obviously got matey with Trump and his cronies. I'm not saying "IT'S A RUSSIAN CONSPIRACY, PUTIN!!", just the same old crony/disaster capitalism poo poo which happens to include a number of rich Russians like Evgeny Lebedev. I think it’s both: money and ego. But more ego. He’s a giant narcissist who has always wanted to be PM so he can be seen to have won. Money on top of that is great but secondary; it’s a given. Look at how much a charisma black hole failure like May is getting paid now for speeches and imagine what Bojo might expect. It’s nauseating.
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