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Random Integer posted:An important cultural touchstone lost like tears in an overcrowded and not terribly clean holiday park swimming pool. I was so loving jealous of that swimming pool. My two brothers were part of the community games, so got in free. But myself and another brother weren't, and so had to pay. But the cost was something astronomical, and my parents couldn't afford to pay for it. So never got to use it. Me and my younger brother had to watch our two others have the best time in their lives from a lovely canteen. If you look at the pic of the swimming pool I gave, the black windows on the right were into some canteen area where we sat.
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Lungboy posted:Doesn't matter, that's not an eviction notice as only a judge can order an eviction, it's a notice that they will begin court proceedings to evict you. There's currently a massive backlog so it's likely to take years to get to you. It might even be that eviction proceedings are currently on hold due to Covid, I can't remember if that's the case. Finally, there's a very strict set of rules the landlord must follow, and even a small error will make their notice void. But a S21 leading to possession is the easiest of all of the court eviction processes and doesn't even need hearings, it's just done on paper. Practically, 6 months should be plenty to find a new place - staying on beyond the expiry of the notice in August is a pretty terrible idea unless it's done out of sheer necessity as it means he's guaranteed to never be able to get a good landlord reference for future places, which just makes life a lot harder. Lungboy posted:and you don't need to agree the rent increase either.
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Ewan posted:Legally true, although "years" isn't quite right. Last I heard some courts are operating on normal timelines now, although some yes do have big backlogs. Sorry for the duff info on the rent increase, you're quite right it depends on the tenancy type. I mostly wanted the OP to know that the letter the landlord sent wasn't an eviction notice, merely the start of a potentially very long process that might not even be legal if the landlord didn't serve it correctly. It puts the OP in a very strong position to get some money out of the landlord of they're desperate to regain possession.
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Leggsy posted:Trust the Tories to gently caress up a sure thing. Now the story goes from "Sturgeon almost certainly misled parliament" to "idiot Tories try to collapse government 2 months before election during a pandemic". I've barely paid any attention to this stuff because peripherally it seems like a storm in a teacup compared to 6 figure deathtolls caused by uk government fuckups coupled with blatant cronyism and embezzlement. Is the "misleading of parliament" involved in this not just a minor set of details around the specific times of a meeting and the UK press and Tories/Labour are trying to hammer home a technicality in order to somehow delegitimize the independence movement though character assassination of a popular politician at the front of it. Like (ironically) bang on about it in a misleading context enough and the the public ends up thinking she personally came round and shat in their kids eyes?
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Kin posted:I've barely paid any attention to this stuff because peripherally it seems like a storm in a teacup compared to 6 figure deathtolls caused by uk government fuckups coupled with blatant cronyism and embezzlement. While I haven't been fully following it, I think it's a bit more than that. Basically Alex Salmon (Sturgeon's mentor and at the time political higher up) got into some trouble and there were allegations made against him. It sounds like Sturgeon may have not followed all the rules to the exact letter as a means of pushing out a political rival. Now, on the flip side what Salmon was accused of wasn't some minor expenses scandal, but full on serious crimes, so Sturgeon could have been mashing the "hang him out to dry" button as hard as she could to avoid being tarred with the same brush as him. Since Salmon was acquited in his trial, he has not only swung back with "this was all a conspiracy to stitch me up" narrative but has double downed and gone with "every single woman who accused me of wrong doing is a part of a conspiracy against me! It's a conspiracy of women to do down an innocent man who should be leading Scotland!" Given his own testimony during his case, the fact he has not acknowledged any wrong doing and the self-serviing blaming of everyone for what happened to him Salmond is almost certainly an abuser. Just one not convicted of a crime but probably known by all involved as one. The question becomes since Salmond isn't going to let this issue die, is Sturgeon going to get pushed out of power for doing the wrong thing but for the right reasons. Or will Salmpnds refusal to take his win and go hide result in further skeletons being dug out about him.
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TheRat posted:That's a lot of mistakes for someone obviously reading off of a teleprompter. Seems odd to publish it like that. That's a dumb response to the president of the US actively pointing out that unions also help non-unionised workers and that the right to join a union Cannot Be hosed With. Like yeah dementia joe is funny but when he's making a based lefty take and also actually didn't make that many mistakes? He tripped a word twice but seemed sincere? then seems dumb to pretend dementia joe matters when the Syria bombings is literally this same week. If you're gonna criticise him criticise him on something legit ffs.
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Joe Biden has aphasia and a stutter, making fun of him for misspeaking is pretty lovely TBH. Yes, he makes mistakes talking but because he's had that problem his whole life, even in the days when he ran rings around Paul Ryan a la 2012 he was still making these kind of mistakes.
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There are many things he deserves to get attacked for but that ain't it.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:In other news: I honestly think this is a really good little moment of how Bidenism and Starmerism are completely different approaches to similar situations ie establishment figures heading off populist left leaders and responding to the ongoing existence of that lefty support base. But also loving lmao that brown is apparently being capitalised as well as black. Countdown until a confused editor thinks its 'just people colours?' and capitalises yellow, red and (an FT op-ed confused about why GW is doing well) green for an ultimate peak woke racist moment. Edit: I actually don't know if greenskins in the GW universe is a proper noun or not, I assumed it wasn't but am happy to be corrected Vitamin P fucked around with this message at 23:27 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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Mar 2, 2021 23:11
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Vitamin P posted:I honestly think this is a really good little moment of how Bidenism and Starmerism are completely different approaches to similar situations ie establishment figures heading off populist left leaders and responding to the ongoing existence of that lefty support base. Mega-Nob privilege is a real thing
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Also a more important thing to consider is that while Joe Biden is a centrist, he is a Democratic Party centrist so will actually listen to his party's left wing whereas the Labour Party's 'centrists' are all about slurping the Tory piss puddle while making GBS threads violently at the left.
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Tesseraction posted:Joe Biden has aphasia and a stutter, making fun of him for misspeaking is pretty lovely TBH. Yes, he makes mistakes talking but because he's had that problem his whole life, even in the days when he ran rings around Paul Ryan a la 2012 he was still making these kind of mistakes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MiGZzNEZmHY Can't see any differences at all...
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Tesseraction posted:Also a more important thing to consider is that while Joe Biden is a centrist, he is a Democratic Party centrist so will actually listen to his party's left wing whereas the Labour Party's 'centrists' are all about slurping the Tory piss puddle while making GBS threads violently at the left. Well that's absolutely untrue. The Democratics never listen to their left, only adopting progressive social issues after the non-party left has made the issue popular enough to adopt without official support and only adopting economic policies favourable to the USA working class when it has an imperialist angle. The unions in the USA had to crawl over to the Democratic Party, at least Labour was founded from trade union roots.
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https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1366855637775376388 Kieth is a massive piece of poo poo. Edit: I'm going to become the joker https://twitter.com/TheoBiddle/status/1366867283260407812?s=19 Gonzo McFee fucked around with this message at 23:39 on Mar 2, 2021 |
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namesake posted:Well that's absolutely untrue. The Democratics never listen to their left, only adopting progressive social issues after the non-party left has made the issue popular enough to adopt without official support and only adopting economic policies favourable to the USA working class when it has an imperialist angle. The unions in the USA had to crawl over to the Democratic Party, at least Labour was founded from trade union roots. Bidens Democrats have listened to their left to some extent though, it's not nothing that the executive order on climate very obviously took some cues from the 'green new deal' and that Sanders has been given a role with actual power, and cannot stress enough that the party hasn't done stalinesque purges of its lefties. Compare that to Starmer and if you think the distinction is "absolutely untrue" then we can just do battle with posts, if you're arguing that Starmer has been better for the UK left than Biden has been for the US left then lets go you're provably wrong. Bitch.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Kieth is a massive piece of poo poo. that's "sir kieth" to us plebs, remember
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Yeah this wasn't meant to be me saying "let us all love Joe Biden" it's more that the US left is doing better than it's done in a long time while our left has been purged and Sir Haircut has been loving dying in the polls while our criminally corrupt government has killed a hundred thousand brits through sure malevolence.
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Vitamin P posted:Bitch.  Tesseraction posted:Yeah this wasn't meant to be me saying "let us all love Joe Biden" it's more that the US left is doing better than it's done in a long time while our left has been purged and Sir Haircut has been loving dying in the polls while our criminally corrupt government has killed a hundred thousand brits through sure malevolence. Do keep in mind that he made queen of the prison-factory his VP and tried his very best to die on the hill of putting the biggest Sanders-hater in the universe in charge of the budgets.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/AaronBastani/status/1366855637775376388 Jesus christ. We all knew he was poo poo...but wow. Just loving wow. What an awful awful human being. From the nice jam man to this... loving hell.
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Tesseraction posted:Joe Biden has aphasia and a stutter, making fun of him for misspeaking is pretty lovely TBH. Yes, he makes mistakes talking but because he's had that problem his whole life, even in the days when he ran rings around Paul Ryan a la 2012 he was still making these kind of mistakes. Tesseraction posted:There are many things he deserves to get attacked for but that ain't it. I wasn't making fun of Biden, I was questioning his media production team.
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Vitamin P posted:Bidens Democrats have listened to their left to some extent though, it's not nothing that the executive order on climate very obviously took some cues from the 'green new deal' and that Sanders has been given a role with actual power, and cannot stress enough that the party hasn't done stalinesque purges of its lefties. Compare that to Starmer and if you think the distinction is "absolutely untrue" then we can just do battle with posts, if you're arguing that Starmer has been better for the UK left than Biden has been for the US left then lets go you're provably wrong. Bitch. Tesseraction posted:Yeah this wasn't meant to be me saying "let us all love Joe Biden" it's more that the US left is doing better than it's done in a long time while our left has been purged and Sir Haircut has been loving dying in the polls while our criminally corrupt government has killed a hundred thousand brits through sure malevolence. I'll agree that the USA left is generating more interest and power that previously but it's starting from a much lower position than in the UK. The Democrats either can't purge their left because their party structure can't do very much against people once elected or because there isn't a left to clear out. The UK left is also mounting a more stubborn grassroots resistance against the right than the USA left is against theirs so everything looks calmer and happier over there but are they getting more? I doubt it.
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The whole Pontins thing is just taking a complete piss and showing there are no actual teeth to anti-discrimination laws. BBC News - Pontins used 'undesirables list' of Irish surnames BBC posted:According to the i, there were 40 names on the list, including Boyle, Keefe, Gallagher, O'Donnell, McGuiness, Murphy, and O'Reilly. And this is company-wide policy that's been going on for years (the EHRC declined to say how long it was b/c of course, but the investigation strted in 2017). Not even a loving fine or anything. e: And the comments on those tweets posted earlier, like a third of it is people saying some variation of 'good on them for taking a stand against the ****'. Private Speech fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Mar 3, 2021 |
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Maybe there's a community-driven approach if the EHRC persists in being useless fuckers. They've got nice big signs outside to stencil "no Irish" or "we are racist" or "paedophiles welcome" on repeatedly, but they keep them behind the gates. I suppose putting a few bike chains around all those big heavy gates early in the morning would be a pretty fun hypothetical that would cause no harm to anyone but the company and provide useful work for local locksmiths.
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Guavanaut posted:I suppose putting a few bike chains around all those big heavy gates early in the morning would be a pretty fun hypothetical that would cause no harm to anyone but the company and provide useful work for local locksmiths. Except for when those improperly maintained gates fall off their hinges and flatten you
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TheRat posted:tried his very best to die on the hill of putting the biggest Sanders-hater in the universe in charge of the budgets. that's not what the OMB does but I am also very happy (and lmaoing irl) about this https://twitter.com/tylerpager/status/1366894971006160900 on national TV getting called a belligerent rear end in a top hat by the US senate only to be pulled anyway
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Tesseraction posted:Yeah this wasn't meant to be me saying "let us all love Joe Biden" it's more that the US left is doing better than it's done in a long time while our left has been purged and Sir Haircut has been loving dying in the polls while our criminally corrupt government has killed a hundred thousand brits through sure malevolence. As an American, I have to ask: what in the gently caress are you talkin' about dude?
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Vitamin P posted:Bidens Democrats have listened to their left to some extent though, it's not nothing that the executive order on climate very obviously took some cues from the 'green new deal' and that Sanders has been given a role with actual power, and cannot stress enough that the party hasn't done stalinesque purges of its lefties. Compare that to Starmer and if you think the distinction is "absolutely untrue" then we can just do battle with posts, if you're arguing that Starmer has been better for the UK left than Biden has been for the US left then lets go you're provably wrong. Bitch. I've seen the take that Biden is a neoliberal who has realised that the current setup is unsustainable and some sops need to made to the left both to keep the Dems increasingly young and ethnically diverse voting bloc together, and because some amount of left wing policy is needed to stop the torch and pitchforks. Meanwhile Starmer and his team have bought fully into the idea that the left, and specifically the Labour left, are electoral poison to be denounced and ignored at every turn. It's important to note here Han Sanders never got the top job and he most the US left has done within the Democrats is push out some Congresspeople like Joe Crowley. Meanwhile in the UK Corbyn did actually take charge and threatened the gravy train of a ton of councillors, MPs and other Labour apparatchiks, and did actually convincingly lose an election which gives a lot more ammo to the right to say the electorate rejected the left.
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mycomancy posted:As an American, I have to ask: what in the gently caress are you talkin' about dude? The post you're replying to was correctly pointing out the US left is looking healthier than it has in a very long time while the UK left just got decapitated and the neck hole pissed on by a Nazgul with the skeletal face of Owen Smith peeking out under the hood.
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https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1366800457402896393 Thanks for the input shaun.
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Imagine a stronger US left led to Sanders beating Hilary for the nomination, and then going on to lose to Trump. With that loss partly being due to a bunch of high profile Democrats giving interviews on Fox where they were all ‘I’m not actually saying you should vote for Trump, but here’s a list of 10 reasons you should be worried about Sanders; number seven will shock you’’. Then for the entire Trump Presidency, have every tweet he makes, every coup he tries, presented with commentary saying ‘this is Sander’s fault, Hilary would have won’. Then have the Dems pick, as a compromise candidate, one of the few senior Democrats who had never actually publicly expressed an opinion on Sanders. Who then expels him from the party, and starts putting in procedural fixes so that no one like him would ever win a primary again. Which, unsurprisingly, turns out to be unpopular enough he ends up eight points behind Trump in the polls. If the USA was like that, it would be like the UK right now. Ah well, at least we have healthcare.
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OwlFancier posted:https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1366800457402896393
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Tesseraction posted:Joe Biden has aphasia and a stutter, making fun of him for misspeaking is pretty lovely TBH. Yes, he makes mistakes talking but because he's had that problem his whole life, even in the days when he ran rings around Paul Ryan a la 2012 he was still making these kind of mistakes. He also only made one mistake that I heard, where he says "would support unions organising and their right to collectively bargain" and starts to say "... organisation", and even that could have been "would support unions' organisation and collective bargaining" before someone realised it sounded a bit too much like the government would back the unions in negotiations. The other two slips were clear references to earlier drafts. One was about an act that "didn't just say that unions are allowed to exist, but that we should encourage unions" but instead he obviously goes with the (better sounding IMO) "didn't just say that unions are allowed to exist, it said unions should be encouraged to exist". The other was talking about "the deep disparities [of race] that still exist in our country" and he starts to say "in our society".
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The super-dark dystopian near future uk thriller 84k is on sale for a quid right now if you have a kindle and are casting about for something to read - I read it last year and found it bleak but gripping. https://www.amazon.co.uk/84K-eerily-plausible-dystopian-masterpiece-ebook/dp/B076PBVSWV
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radmonger posted:Imagine a stronger US left led to Sanders beating Hilary for the nomination, and then going on to lose to Trump. With that loss partly being due to a bunch of high profile Democrats giving interviews on Fox where they were all ‘I’m not actually saying you should vote for Trump, but here’s a list of 10 reasons you should be worried about Sanders; number seven will shock you’’. Combined with the Iowa ratfuck, Obama's intervention, multiple Democrat-friendly broadcasters just conveniently leaving Sanders out of headlines and preliminary polling totals, the best I can say is that the DNC are much less incompetent than the Labour right but probably a lot less vindictive too.
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I fondly remember the graphs of sanders vs centrist voltron to avoid showing him getting more votes than everyone else.
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Leaving aside the question of whether the American or British "left" is doing better, which is an apples/oranges issue imo, the Biden video does show an important difference in strategy, namely that the Democrats have realized they need to appropriate progressive/leftist messaging in order to placate their base even if they do nothing to follow through on that messaging. The actual text of his executive orders is full of "consider", "investigate", "form a committee to" etc. delaying tactics and will almost certainly amount to nothing but it keeps the left off his back. Hence the video - there's zero chance of Biden doing anything substantive to help unions but he's perfectly content for people to get starry-eyed thinking he might, if those mean Republicans/Joe Manchin let him. Compare this to the Labour right, who can't even bring themselves to pretend to back higher taxes on Covid profiteers because they're so pathologically opposed to anything that smacks of socialism. I'm sure there are some more sensible strategists looking at Biden right now and wishing they could pull off the same trick, but the psycho contingent will never let them.
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