[UK] Knee Deep In The Inbred

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Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

The plp are all so loving awful

https://twitter.com/faith_e_taylor/status/1370838400400523277?s=19

# ? Mar 14, 2021 09:45

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# ? May 23, 2024 12:51

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

Tiananmen
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Maidan
Clapham Common

# ? Mar 14, 2021 09:47

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/moniqueroffey/status/1371022514919464964?s=19

# ? Mar 14, 2021 10:06

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

Kieth is a really good leader for the labour party

https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1371033639434194944?s=19

# ? Mar 14, 2021 10:43

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

Keith has been the rubber stamp giving the OK to nearly all the major state crimes against the public in the last 20 years or so

# ? Mar 14, 2021 12:10

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/1371048684587257859?s=19

# ? Mar 14, 2021 12:22

prefect: Sep 11, 2001; No one, Woodhouse.
No one.; Dead Man’s Band

Jose posted:

https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/1371048684587257859?s=19

News update:
https://twitter.com/OwenJones84/status/1371060740296151041

# ? Mar 14, 2021 12:29

Dravs: Mar 8, 2011; You've done well, kiddo.

wtf, so the bill stated in very clear terms that somebody could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if the police decided that somebody was at risk of being annoyed?! Like, if I said that to someone there is 0% chance they would believe me, it would pass without comment because people simply wouldn't believe that that is what the bill stated.

# ? Mar 14, 2021 12:51

Barry Foster: Dec 24, 2007; What is going wrong with that one (face is longer than it should be)

Dravs posted:

wtf, so the bill stated in very clear terms that somebody could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if the police decided that somebody was at risk of being annoyed?! Like, if I said that to someone there is 0% chance they would believe me, it would pass without comment because people simply wouldn't believe that that is what the bill stated.

hypernormalisation awwooooo (wolf howL)

# ? Mar 14, 2021 13:04

the sex ghost: Sep 6, 2009

Tbf keir probably realised that he himself would have to be arrested for regularly committing acts of serious annoyance so decided to vote against

# ? Mar 14, 2021 13:09

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

It's the same with the spycops bill, they authorised any government department to commit any crime, specifically including rape and murder, if they can prove they thought it would protect the financial interests of London.

That's so comically deranged that nobody can talk about it.

It is just the tories pushing through the most insane wishlist authoritarian poo poo possible because kier will support it.

Presumably he's only voting against this next bill because he thinks it will pass anyway.

# ? Mar 14, 2021 13:34

XMNN: Apr 26, 2008; I am incredibly stupid

on the one hand it's better that they vot against it than not, on the other hand keith still shouldn't get any credit because it took some unignorable police brutality immediately beforehand to shame him into doing so

# ? Mar 14, 2021 13:59

Biplane: Jul 18, 2005

Its funny that people like starmer are some of the last people in history to ever have it good.

# ? Mar 14, 2021 14:03

A Buttery Pastry: Sep 4, 2011; Delicious and Informative!

"I'm sorry you were offended" is now an admission of guilt, and every conservative will be imprisoned immediately.

# ? Mar 14, 2021 14:06

Jel Shaker: Apr 19, 2003

Jose posted:

Kieth is a really good leader for the labour party

https://twitter.com/shirleymush/status/1371033639434194944?s=19

i must say that i don�t know anybody who didn�t think he was completely innocent by the time he was merked by the police

maybe the usual talking heads, but even they had to spin it pretty hard

# ? Mar 14, 2021 14:23

Communist Thoughts: Jan 7, 2008; Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!

i guess they would have been too demoralised anyway but RLB and her team really shoulda loving mentioned any of kier's history or gone on the attack at all.

his entire career is just a massive array of disqualifying poo poo

we need someone to actually run on the "keith is a spook" platform because its a very persuasive narrative

# ? Mar 14, 2021 14:51

Relevant Tangent: Nov 18, 2016; Tangentially Relevant

Dravs posted:

wtf, so the bill stated in very clear terms that somebody could be sentenced to 10 years in prison if the police decided that somebody was at risk of being annoyed?! Like, if I said that to someone there is 0% chance they would believe me, it would pass without comment because people simply wouldn't believe that that is what the bill stated.

if it were further explained that it was passing in the uk no one would doubt it for a second

# ? Mar 14, 2021 14:58

genericnick: Dec 26, 2012

https://twitter.com/UnitePolitics/status/1370865838140571648

The people voted for pain.

genericnick has issued a correction as of 18:35 on Mar 14, 2021

# ? Mar 14, 2021 18:09

barbecue at the folks: Jul 20, 2007

So you're just sliding comfortably into actual fascism now, neat

# ? Mar 14, 2021 20:20

gonadic io: Feb 16, 2011; >>=

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Cao Ni Ma: May 25, 2010

[UK]Protect Churchill At All Costs

# ? Mar 14, 2021 20:39

Runcible Cat: May 28, 2007; Ignoring this post

Cao Ni Ma posted:

[UK]Protect Churchill At All Costs

Ed: drat that was quick!

Runcible Cat has issued a correction as of 21:07 on Mar 14, 2021

# ? Mar 14, 2021 20:53

genericnick: Dec 26, 2012

Cao Ni Ma posted:

[UK]Protect Churchill At All Costs

# ? Mar 14, 2021 20:54

Atrocious Joe: Sep 2, 2011

https://twitter.com/DCBMEP/status/1371185828077170694?s=20

quote:

Former Cons MEP for East of England. Strategic consultant, writer and campaigner. Inventor �SuperCanada� UK/EU Free Trade Deal. Pro Brexit. RTs NOT endorsements

# ? Mar 14, 2021 21:26

forkboy84: Jun 13, 2012; Corgis love bread. And Puro

Atrocious Joe posted:

https://twitter.com/DCBMEP/status/1371185828077170694?s=20

IIRC he's related to former Liberal PM Henry Campbell Bannerman. Because this country is nothing if not full of failure grandkids of ex politicians

# ? Mar 14, 2021 21:37

90s Cringe Rock: Nov 29, 2006

I love the tories and the police and hate the antisemite c*rbyn. Brexit means brexit and I support it wholeheartedly. Just wanted to get that posted, for the record. I also love our papers.

# ? Mar 14, 2021 21:41

spankmeister: Jun 15, 2008

90s Cringe Rock posted:

I love the tories and the police and hate the antisemite c*rbyn. Brexit means brexit and I support it wholeheartedly. Just wanted to get that posted, for the record. I also love our papers.

Are you bloody well against the monarchy? Not a single word about the Queen!

# ? Mar 14, 2021 21:55

Shyrka: Feb 10, 2005; Small Boss likes to spin!

And where's your fuckin' poppy?

# ? Mar 14, 2021 22:00

Dr. Kyle Farnsworth: Apr 23, 2004

Can't believe Jeremy Corbyn killed a woman in police custody to make our brave boys in blue look bad.

# ? Mar 14, 2021 22:27

Tom Smykowski: Jan 27, 2005; What the hell is wrong with you people?

What is a supercanada

# ? Mar 14, 2021 23:11

Jose: Jul 24, 2007; Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer

one of the best ever things to happen while corbyn was leader was his car being driven away and crushing the foot of a bbc journalist

# ? Mar 15, 2021 00:38

Falcorum: Oct 21, 2010

Tom Smykowski posted:

What is a supercanada

it's like regular Canada but with twice the Tim Hortons

# ? Mar 15, 2021 00:45

bedpan: Apr 23, 2008

incredible that jezza still has the energy to hurt labor this much at this age

# ? Mar 15, 2021 10:45

it dont matter: Aug 29, 2008

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/tempers-fray-among-expats-as-brexit-rules-cast-shadow-over-costa-sunspots-fb5c37dbp

quote:

Tempers fray among expats as Brexit rules cast shadow over Costa sunspots

Britons who planned a retirement in Spain are leaving rather than struggle with bureaucracy, travel curbs and fees

The Brexit vote was nearly five years ago, but the battle continues in Spain where the largest British expatriate community in Europe is at loggerheads over who is to blame for ending their idyll.

Tempers are running high over a welter of paperwork and post-Brexit rules depriving British visitors of the freedom to come and go as they please as well as requiring them to apply for residency cards and Spanish driving licences. It has forced many to abandon their sunny retirement and resettle in the UK.

Brexiteers and remainers are blaming each other. Gareth Thomas, 69, a former RAF engineer from Kent who lives in the hills outside Benidorm on the Costa Blanca, does not dare visit his favourite bar these days for fear of being attacked as an opponent of Brexit.

�I have been threatened with violence,� said the retired geography teacher. �I was told if I didn�t shut up this person was going to smash my face in. Brexiteers target people like me because they think if we �traitors� had kept our mouths shut, it would have been plain sailing and we would have got a better deal from Europe.�

Between 800,000 and a million Britons are estimated to own a second home in Spain, and they were allowed to vote in the referendum as long as they had been registered to vote in Britain in the previous 15 years.

Brexiteers also have been feeling the heat. Mark Sampson, a former bar owner and fervent Brexiteer, said: �I get remainers trying to tell me their arguments. I�ve had a few shouting at me in bars. I am 6ft tall and 20 stone so no one�s going to take me on in a fight, but if they want to talk about Brexit, I give them both barrels.�

British-only enclaves along the �Costas� are Brexiteer hotbeds notorious for their unwillingness to integrate with Spanish society. The top three areas for Brits are the Costa del Sol in the south, the Costa Blanca further north and the Canary Islands. The Balearics are also popular. �They think they�re the best in the world these little Englanders,� said Baz Rhodes, a pensioner and paragliding guide who lives further inland. �The ones who voted for Brexit should keep their gobs shut.�

Rhodes, who is from Essex but has lived in Spain for two decades, said Brexit had complicated his happy retirement. �It�s taken away a lot of rights that we had. Now we need to get private medical insurance, which is expensive and hard to afford on my pension. I�ve had no earnings since the end of 2019.�

Since just before the referendum in 2016, the number of Britons registered as resident in Spain has fallen by 20,000 to 262,885. An even greater number, though, are thought to have taken advantage of the EU�s freedom of movement to live in Spain �under the radar�, without registering, and returning to the UK whenever they needed medical attention.

Those days are over. Now, like all other foreigners from outside the EU, British visitors who were once able to come and go on a whim will be limited to stays of 90 days within every 180 days. Those wishing to register as residents will have to jump through a number of bureaucratic hoops to prove earnings of �2,000 a month � and �500 more for each dependent � as well as acquire Spanish driving licences.

The end of the transition period on December 31 prompted a rush of applicants for residency cards before the new earnings requirement took effect. But the paperwork has proved taxing for many expats who speak little Spanish. Others who let properties in Spain are put off by the far higher tax they will have to pay as non-EU citizens.

�The Sunday roast, fish and chips brigade, have taken a big hit. A lot have thrown the keys back and buggered off,� said Julian Charter, an estate agent and former pub landlord from Newbury, Berkshire, living in southern Spain, who added that the pandemic had also contributed to this outflow.

Michel Euesden, owner of Euro Weekly, an English language newspaper in southern Spain, said: �Removal companies have never been busier. There�s an abundance of people leaving.�

Daphne Vallins, 64, has returned from southern Spain to live with her mother in Leatherhead, Surrey. �I did not want to apply for residence status. It would mean paying �100 a month in private health insurance, changing my UK driving licence into a Spanish one and having to pay my taxes in Spain,� she said.

Among those affected are so-called �swallows�, Britons with second homes in Spain who used to come and go as they pleased but will now have their passports stamped with entry visas limiting them to three months in Spain like other tourists from outside the EU. They are dispirited.

�We decided that it was all too much if we could only spend 90 days there,� said Chantal Purdy, a retired school examiner who, with her husband David, moved home to Hinckley, Leicestershire, last year for good.

�We are very sad as we adore our house in Spain. We never imagined that Brexit would stop all this. It is awful.�

Euesden said: �We were warning about the consequences of Brexit, but nobody took any notice. Now our lives have changed for ever.�

She was optimistic about the future, though, joking that today�s exodus was not as great as when a pirated satellite television service ceased operating in a giant British housing estate in Orihuela, near Murcia, a few years ago. �Suddenly they couldn�t get their Coronation Street. There weren�t enough trucks to take them all back.�

While many Britons are leaving �because they can�t get their favourite English sausages�, others are arriving, including many intent on escaping UK lockdowns for sunnier climes, and �digital nomads�, Euesden said.

�Spain was let down by people who didn�t have anything to offer,� she said. �But now I think people who�ll come will be a bit different.� Referring to job-seekers and �digital nomads�, she added: �They will be people who are earning their living.�