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keep punching joe posted:Isn't Labour's whole campaign in Batley & Spen basically the 'do it for her' simpsons meme but with Maggie replaced with Jo Cox pictures. Roughly 70% that, 30% quietly supporting Palestine to try and stave off desertion by Muslim voters and hoping nobody outside of the constituency picks up on it. A winning combination.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:The one thing I don't want to happen is a draw because the centrist columns about how it applies to the indy debate will blot out the loving sun. not a centrist column but about as bad https://twitter.com/hendopolis/status/1406006239570632714?s=19
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This crap popped up on a news aggregator for me yesterday, you can guess the content from the link without bothering to click through. https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9694427/Rishi-Sunak-squirms-hes-grilled-Andrew-Neil-GB-NEWS-ballooning-government-spending.html It's interesting how GB news is functioning as a credibility engine. The hostile tone of the interview is pure charade because Sunak and Neil are both ideologically aligned. Sunak squirming is not so much the grilling as "oooh spank me harder Andrew". The government donates credibility to the channel by allowing Sunak to even show up, and the channel donates credibility to the government by exhorting them to carry out actions they already intend to. It is manufacturing public desire for a planned set of outcomes that both parties agree on.
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Jun 19, 2021 00:04
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blues thief posted:https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1406004486313844745 there was a woman on channel 4 news last night who said that by-election result last night was good news for labour
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Jun 19, 2021 00:09
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bump_fn posted:lmao does gibraltar even have room for a pitch They have a league! Every team plays on the same pitch.
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Jun 19, 2021 00:12
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crispix posted:there was a woman on channel 4 news last night who said that by-election result last night was good news for labour Nice to see that Labour is taking lessons from the sterling work of Muhammad Saeed al-Sahhaf
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Jun 19, 2021 00:16
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Lib Dem gains in Tory areas aside, I hope the Greens fill more of Labour's voids than the Lib Dems. It'd be a shame for history to look upon the Labour movement as an aberration: something that hung around for a century before things went back to normal Con/Lib balances. It'd be good to make it clear that the reason Labour died is not through a desire to return to Con/Lib, but to move further left.
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Jun 19, 2021 00:20
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i reckon these nutters in charge of labour, of an evening they sit by themselves listening to the d-ream song on repeat, and they close their eyes and clench their fists and say "it's 1998 again, it's 1998 again, it's 1998 again" over and over and they contort their muscles like they're trying their utmost to flatulate (and in most cases do) and then they open their eyes to see if it's worked and it's 1998 again, but it hasn't and it isn't and that's their plan
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Jun 19, 2021 00:30
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Jun 19, 2021 00:38
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XMNN posted:not a centrist column but about as bad I didn't watch it because football's boring as gently caress, but I did think ahead of it that a nil nil draw would be the most politically safe outcome of the game. Lo and behold that was the result. I dunno how Scotland are these days but given that most football games play out as you expect (with the historically better team usually winning), it did seem odd England not trouncing us. If I were a paranoid person, I'd think the government told the England team to take it easy so as not to rile up the separatists. Or is Scotland better now and England a bit poo poo?
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Jun 19, 2021 01:18
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on paper England are easily the better team but they always manage to be a lot less than the sum of their parts when it comes to tournaments and they didn't exactly play like it was a game they particularly wanted to win, they'd clearly decided before the game even started that a draw was a good enough result
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Jun 19, 2021 01:22
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it looked to me like they were trying very hard to score goals, but were unable to score goals i'm not a expert though
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Jun 19, 2021 01:36
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And you've got the football that's played by the team in the north and the football that's played by the team in the south and it's all mixed together on the same pitch and they're all just trying to get the ball in the goal Clive, and that's what we used to call miwk.
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Jun 19, 2021 01:46
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I think football would be better if it were a sort of player versus environment takeshi's castle kind of arrangement where everyone competes to score a goal against the pitch which is filled with burly men hitting the players with giant q tips. And I also now know that I don't have to go very far to get a potentially controlling share in the people who can make that happen, I'm sure one of the other football people would go along with it for a laff
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Jun 19, 2021 01:52
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Disgraceful attempt by Guido to smear by headline Taiwo Owatemi MP. (She was a pharmacist and still does work as a locum pharmacist.) https://twitter.com/jonwensley/status/1405991390270611459?s=20
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Jun 19, 2021 02:17
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That's even worse than the Sun-level "and he was also an openly practicing paediatrician" level attempts at a smear.
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Jun 19, 2021 02:23
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This is an interesting article: https://readpassage.com/a-guide-to-bullshit-power-serving-journalism-phrases/ quote:
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Jun 19, 2021 02:45
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blues thief posted:Roughly 70% that, 30% quietly supporting Palestine to try and stave off desertion by Muslim voters and hoping nobody outside of the constituency picks up on it. A winning combination. Its all so clumsily cynical that I'm sure it repels voters more than anything. The big reveal of Starmer's leadership to me is how the people around him just fundamentally aren't very good at politics and don't seem to know it.
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Jun 19, 2021 06:59
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Just scuttle the party already.
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Jun 19, 2021 07:19
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Utterly hosed https://twitter.com/leftiestats/status/1406016282881925124?s=21
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Jun 19, 2021 08:01
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Going to be interesting to see how the spin the defeat as caused by the haunting specter of Corbynism. RLB talking about a scandal that the government isn't being hammered enough for. https://twitter.com/GBNEWS/status/1406007715642626050
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Jun 19, 2021 09:16
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:This is an interesting article: A good read, thanks. When I did a spell working as a sub-editor for a proofing firm (predictive text wanted to say 'farm', which might have been more accurate) I clashed several times with the news senior sub over whether 'the international community' was a weasel word or not. The house style guide required us to remove or rewrite weasel words and it was clear to me that 'the international community' nearly always meant 'America and its allies', and was therefore at best a weasel word or was just blatantly misleading. His main argument boiled down to "yes, more countries supported [thing] than condemned it, but all the important countries condemned it." I suspect my response of "so should I change 'international community' to 'important countries' then?" was why my as-and-when contract suddenly became very empty of working hours.
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Jun 19, 2021 09:57
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bessantj posted:Going to be interesting to see how the spin the defeat as caused by the haunting specter of Corbynism. Why the gently caress is she talking to GBeebies
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Jun 19, 2021 11:39
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Nobody else is gonna give it airtime I guess, still think she probably shouldn't be though because the last thing we need is to give them any credibility.
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Jun 19, 2021 11:40
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Barry Foster posted:Why the gently caress is she talking to GBeebies Same reason they'd go on Press TV or RT or whatever. You take the outlets you can get, beggars can't be choosers etc
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Jun 19, 2021 11:46
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So uh who are these workers party geezers?
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Jun 19, 2021 11:48
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feedmegin posted:So uh who are these workers party geezers? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6v9IXwFb_cg
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Jun 19, 2021 11:52
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feedmegin posted:So uh who are these workers party geezers? It's George Galloway backed up by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) which is an explicitly "anti-revisionist" party & formed after some members of Socialist Labour Party were mad because Arthur Scargill wasn't pro-North Korea enough for them. Mostly they are notable for being absolute dogshit on trans rights as you sometimes find on the far left fringes where they mutter quietly to an audience of one about "bourgeoisie degeneracy" & for the stance that surge, the Great Purges happened but that was all Yezhov, Stalin knew nothing lol.
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Jun 19, 2021 12:14
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forkboy84 posted:It's George Galloway backed up by the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) which is an explicitly "anti-revisionist" party & formed after some members of Socialist Labour Party were mad because Arthur Scargill wasn't pro-North Korea enough for them. Mostly they are notable for being absolute dogshit on trans rights as you sometimes find on the far left fringes where they mutter quietly to an audience of one about "bourgeoisie degeneracy" & for the stance that surge, the Great Purges happened but that was all Yezhov, Stalin knew nothing lol. So, uh, Not The Good Guys but lol if they lose Labour the seat anyway. Surprised they're on 6%!
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feedmegin posted:So, uh, Not The Good Guys but lol if they lose Labour the seat anyway. Surprised they're on 6%! Basically yes, shites but if they make Kieth lose again I will still enjoy it.
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Jun 19, 2021 12:40
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The thing about Galloway on CBB is that everyone focuses on the cat thing, and not how he instantly formed a clique with the nastiest piece of poo poo in the house and spent the whole time turning everyone against each other. The argument with Barrymore is one of the most horrific examples I can remember ever seeing of someone spitefully laying into someone who is clearly an emotional wreck. Also how pleased he seemed to be to see Saville when he turned up as part of a task.
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Jun 19, 2021 12:40
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I mean he is a professional politician, that's not very surprising 
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Jun 19, 2021 12:42
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OwlFancier posted:I mean he is a professional politician, that's not very surprising For a given definition of "professional"
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Jun 19, 2021 12:50
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Miftan posted:For a given definition of "professional" As far as I know he doesn't have a day job so apparently he is literally a politician as a profession. I am as surprised as anyone.
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Jun 19, 2021 13:39
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https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1406012979305398275?s=19 Survation polling that absolutely guts Starmer. Labour lost this election specifically because of his leadership. The whole thread is absolutely damning.
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Jun 19, 2021 13:43
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Leadbetter is what I've been saying for months.
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Jun 19, 2021 13:50
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1406012979305398275?s=19 Can't believe Starmer got 32% on "Clear what he stands for" https://twitter.com/Survation/status/1406012993738002433 Also I saw Thorpe Park was trending and been as I worked there for a few seasons many years ago I thought I'd have a look why. Ah, people who are mask exempt have to sit at the back of the rides so they're exactly like Rosa Parks. It reminded me that some customers could make your day a living hell.
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Jun 19, 2021 13:52
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really though, who would replace keith? like who in the labour right has any political sense or personal charisma lol
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I mean I think starmer is quite clear what he stands for I just don't like any of it.
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