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Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

OwlFancier posted:

Didn't he go all in on the freeze peach rowling letter?

It was signed by both him and Rowling, but the actual text of the letter is just generic, "let people disagree" stuff. I'd be more surprised if he refused to sign it given...his 70 prior years of being an uncompromising jerk to people he disagrees with.

E: Guav said it better

E2: 17 it was a very good year (I lost my virginity)

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:15

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# ? May 25, 2024 18:27

Red Oktober: May 24, 2006; wiggly eyes!

Torygraph is all out for Johnson tomorrow.

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:22

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

Red Oktober posted:

Torygraph is all out for Johnson tomorrow.

lol what shite is that? The top rate of income tax is 45%, "In 1974 the cut was partly reversed and the top rate on earned income was raised to 83%...This applied to incomes over �20,000" That's over �213k in todays money.

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:30

Gort: Aug 18, 2003; Good day what ho cup of tea

at least the lies are not in the tories favour for once

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:38

Tesseraction: Apr 5, 2009

How could Jeremy Corbyn do this to us?

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:39

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

Oh no, Boris has metamorphosed into a Cobalt Corbyn. :ohdear:

That's a type of butterfly, right?

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:40

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

STAND NAME:「COBALT CORBYN」ゴゴゴゴゴ

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:47

Bobby Deluxe: May 9, 2004

As Boris Johnson awoke one morning from uneasy dreams he found himself transformed in his bed into a cobalt Corbyn.

# ? Sep 7, 2021 22:49

josh04: Oct 19, 2008; "THE FLASH IS THE REASON
TO RACE TO THE THEATRES"
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what on god's green earth is a cobalt corbyn

# ? Sep 7, 2021 23:09

Small Strange Bird: Sep 22, 2006; Merci, chaton!

Red Oktober posted:

Torygraph is all out for Johnson tomorrow.

Yet every single Telegraph reader (and writer) would vote for him tomorrow if there were a snap election. After all, they don't want that awful Jerumby Crombin as PM! :rolleyes:

# ? Sep 7, 2021 23:27

Spangly A: May 14, 2009; God help you if ever you're caught on these shores

A man's ambition must indeed be small
To write his name upon a shithouse wall

Failed Imagineer posted:

Didn't they stop publishing Chomsky years ago? I remember Chomsky on something in the last couple of years grumbling that the only place that would publish him is the London Review of Books

Chomsky was signatory to the "have you people lost your loving minds" letter about Corbyn and antisemitism, which was instantly deleted and replaced by one written by far right and literal mi5 figures calling him jam hitler

I'm not sure why I've not really thought of this before, but Viner might not be a useless intelligence puppet, and actually just a fascist. I refuse to believe mi5 care this much about gender.

# ? Sep 7, 2021 23:43

Failed Imagineer: Sep 22, 2018

josh04 posted:

what on god's green earth is a cobalt corbyn

He's like the Silver Surfer but he travels from world to world heralding the onset of anti-Semitism

# ? Sep 7, 2021 23:44

RockyB: Mar 8, 2007; Dog Therapy: Shockingly Good

I just looked at it again and noticed she squeezed a second Corbyn reference in: Comrade Corbyn's book of Emotional Blackmail.

Living rent free in the Torygraph columists head etc.

p.s Cobalt is blue, hence Cobalt Corbyn is very witty fnarr fnarr.

RockyB fucked around with this message at 23:51 on Sep 7, 2021

# ? Sep 7, 2021 23:46

Jaeluni Asjil: Apr 18, 2018; Sorry I thought you were a landlord when I gave you your old avatar!

Govt has pulled tomorrow's debate on the UC cut:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/universal-credit-cut-labour-b1915886.html

quote:

Government pulls plans for imminent vote on controversial universal credit cut
Labour had been due to hold a vote on issue on Wednesday

Boris Johnson�s government has pulled Labour�s plans to hold an imminent vote on the controversial cut to universal credit payments � just weeks before the �20-per-week uplift ends.

Instead, the government announced it was earmarking time on Wednesday for a separate vote on the newly announced health and social care levy, which flouts a key Conservative election manifesto pledge.

Labour had been scheduled to hold an opposition day debate on the issue tomorrow, calling on the government �to cancel its planned cut to universal credit� from the end of September 2021.

It was not immediately clear whether the vote would be rescheduled before the universal credit payments are reduced, but the Commons leader Jacob Rees-Mogg is expected to update MPs on Thursday.

While any motion tabled by Labour would not be binding on the government, it would force Conservative MPs who have increasingly raised the alarm about the cut to divide on the issue in a Commons vote.

Despite repeated warnings from anti-poverty campaigners to re-think the decision to end the uplift � worth over �1,000 per year for claimants � the government has stood by its decision not to extend the support, which was first introduced at the onset of the Covid pandemic in March 2020.

Jonathan Reynolds, the shadow work and pensions secretary, said: �The [government] have pulled Labour�s vote on the cut to universal credit that would have been tomorrow to vote on NI [national insurance] increase instead.

�I will do all I can to ensure a vote still takes place,� he stressed. �The biggest cut in the history of the welfare state must be debated in Parliament.�

His remarks come as a Labour analysis suggested at least 200,000 children are at risk of homelessness if the decision to remove the support goes ahead at the end of the month.

In a speech on Wednesday, shadow housing minister Lucy Powell will describe the decision of ministers to remove the �20-per-week top-up as �social vandalism� and �economically illiterate�.

Using government data on households in receipt of local housing allowance and the monthly median gaps with rents, the party estimated that there are 204,706 children who live in families where the �20 uplift makes the difference between whether rent payments are made.

�Ending the �1,040 uplift is not just social vandalism that will weaken communities, but economically illiterate damaging local economies,� Ms Powell will say.

�Homes are the bedrock of a successful lives, stable families and strong societies. They give us a stake in our community.

�During Covid, the country came together to make sure everybody had a safe, secure home to shelter in. The government are abandoning any progress of a better future by returning to a failed past where unaffordable, insecure housing is a gaping hole in our social safety net.�

According to a separate analysis by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation the decision to hike national insurance contributions to fund an overhaul in social care would also impact around two million families on low incomes who receive universal credit or working tax credit, with the claimants paying on average around an extra �100 per year.

Deputy director of evidence and impact at the organisation, Peter Matejic, said: �This extra cost adds insult to injury for these families who are facing a historic �1,040 cut to their annual incomes when universal credit and working tax credit are reduced in less than a month on 6 October.

�If it presses ahead, this government will be responsible for the single biggest overnight cut to social security ever.�

He added: �Any MP who is concerned about families on low incomes must urge the prime minister and chancellor to reverse this damaging cut, which will have an immediate and devastating impact on their constituents� living standards in just a few weeks� time.�

Earlier this week, the Manchester United footballer, Marcus Rashford, a prominent campaigner on child food poverty, urged the government to keep the universal credit top-up to prevent thousands of children from going hungry.

�What is it going to take for these children to be prioritised? Instead of removing support through social security, we should be focusing efforts on developing a sustainable long-term roadmap out of this child hunger pandemic,� he said.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 00:12

crispix: Mar 28, 2015; Grand-Maman m'a raconté
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Hello, dear

a footballer in his early 20s has been the only effective opposition to the government for near 2 years now

# ? Sep 8, 2021 00:21

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

So theyr raising NI and lowering benefits while energy costs are going up by like 20% during a plague and the fallout of brexit? Am I forgetting anything?

These tories loving love recessions
It's 2008 again but...again

Time for shock doctrine

# ? Sep 8, 2021 00:39

WhatEvil: Jun 6, 2004; Can't get no luck.

Jedit posted:

The Portakabin classroom at Inverurie Academy was installed in November 2000 and was still in use when construction began on the new Academy in 2018. You do not, under any circumstances, need to "hand it to" the cunts who are responsible for terrorism in the Middle East.

I.... just stated a fact. I'm not a fan of Tony loving Blair mate.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 01:35

Lungboy: Aug 23, 2002; NEED SQUAT FORM HELP

https://twitter.com/johnmcternan/status/1434953741619372034?s=20

Perfectly fine assumption to make, can't possibly go wrong.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 08:06

Maugrim: Feb 16, 2011; I eat your face

That's one heck of a ratio

# ? Sep 8, 2021 08:15

keep punching joe: Jan 22, 2006; Die Satan!

Lungboy posted:

https://twitter.com/johnmcternan/status/1434953741619372034?s=20

Perfectly fine assumption to make, can't possibly go wrong.

Assume everyone is just dunking on him endlessly with this

# ? Sep 8, 2021 08:18

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

josh04 posted:

what on god's green earth is a cobalt corbyn

You can make batteries out of it, like lithium lenin

# ? Sep 8, 2021 08:35

Microplastics: Jul 6, 2007; It's what's for dinner.

forkboy84 posted:

lol what shite is that? The top rate of income tax is 45%, "In 1974 the cut was partly reversed and the top rate on earned income was raised to 83%...This applied to incomes over �20,000" That's over �213k in todays money.

They're selectively looking at only national insurance because it serves the interests of the capital class that own the newspapers to pretend that any tax rise of any kind is the worst thing to have ever happened in history

# ? Sep 8, 2021 08:39

Jedit: Dec 10, 2011; Proudly supporting vanilla legends 1994-2014

WhatEvil posted:

I.... just stated a fact. I'm not a fan of Tony loving Blair mate.

That was for Comrade Fakename's benefit, not yours. He's the one saying that New Labour got rid of the Portakabin classrooms.

E:

JeremoudCorbynejad posted:

You can make batteries out of it, like lithium lenin

NiCd Bevan.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 09:43

Ziggy Tzardust: Apr 7, 2006

https://twitter.com/PoliticsForAlI/status/1435504929821634567?t=5-LTpC7sLjLpyQ15LLydsw&s=19

:sickos:

# ? Sep 8, 2021 10:02

peanut-: Feb 17, 2004; Fun Shoe

They found a way to raise taxes that impacts effectively 0% of Telegraph readers, surprised they're so knives out about it.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 10:10

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

Jedit posted:

That was for Comrade Fakename's benefit, not yours. He's the one saying that New Labour got rid of the Portakabin classrooms.

They did, in my school at least, which was all I claimed.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 10:19

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

peanut- posted:

They found a way to raise taxes that impacts effectively 0% of Telegraph readers, surprised they're so knives out about it.

This is all part of the plan. The Telegraph are still Johnson's biggest cheerleaders and there's no way they're going to have put this front page up without it all being a pretty obvious setup for him to "regretfully" back down, then even more regretfully slash the NHS even further, and absolutely be broken-hearted about pulling up any opposition to the tax raise any time anyone suggests any kind of other tax raise or progressive policy.

(heavily edited after the fact because my phone posting makes even less sense than my desktop posting)

goddamnedtwisto fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Sep 8, 2021

# ? Sep 8, 2021 10:43

Comrade Fakename: Feb 13, 2012

https://twitter.com/zarahsultana/status/1435564010447982596

# ? Sep 8, 2021 13:36

peanut-: Feb 17, 2004; Fun Shoe

Was our hero truly killed for nothing?

https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1435574853579509761

# ? Sep 8, 2021 13:45

a pipe smoking dog: Jan 25, 2010; "haha, dogs can't smoke!"

peanut- posted:

Was our hero truly killed for nothing?

https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1435574853579509761

I was going to say this is the only thing that could possibly hurt the Tory's polling but then I remembered that it was Kieth that brutally murdered the llama

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:02

The Question IRL: Jun 8, 2013; Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

'Sup wiggidy wieners.

So I haven't seen my daughter in person since the start of the pandemic and I have finally bit the bullet and bought tickets to fly over to Glasgow to see her for her birthday.

From the Scot's goons, what are the odds that a lockdown will be declared before the middle of September, or am I fairly likely to be allowed travel over to Scotland and actually spend time with her?

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:08

stev: Jan 22, 2013; Please be excited.

peanut- posted:

Was our hero truly killed for nothing?

https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1435574853579509761

Kieth knew. He knew and he let it happen.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:10

goddamnedtwisto: Dec 31, 2004; If you ask me about the mole people in the London Underground, I WILL be forced to kill you; Fun Shoe

The Question IRL posted:

'Sup wiggidy wieners.

So I haven't seen my daughter in person since the start of the pandemic and I have finally bit the bullet and bought tickets to fly over to Glasgow to see her for her birthday.

From the Scot's goons, what are the odds that a lockdown will be declared before the middle of September, or am I fairly likely to be allowed travel over to Scotland and actually spend time with her?

They're not *zero*, but I'd say they're extremely remote. One complexity might be that Scotgov have previously enacted travel and gathering restrictions completely independently, but generally they've been more or less in line with rUK restrictions, just with different timing. If UKGov aren't talking about it it's very unlikely to happen at least in the next two weeks, and so far the most has been said is a general rumbling about maybe looking at it by half term in October if numbers in children go vertical.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:19

Doctor_Fruitbat: Jun 2, 2013

The one thing Keith came out swinging on and it's the one thing that's now guaranteed to make everyone mad. Absolutely incredible. He's completely Jo Swinson'd it.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:19

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

The Question IRL posted:

'Sup wiggidy wieners.

So I haven't seen my daughter in person since the start of the pandemic and I have finally bit the bullet and bought tickets to fly over to Glasgow to see her for her birthday.

From the Scot's goons, what are the odds that a lockdown will be declared before the middle of September, or am I fairly likely to be allowed travel over to Scotland and actually spend time with her?

There are rumblings of one happening soonish but the rule of thumb is basically that the SNP have to do whatever Britain does but worded differently, so if the tories lock down the SNP will do so probably slightly before to maintain kayfabe.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:21

Brendan Rodgers: Jun 11, 2014

That scene at the start of Children of Men with the news reporting the death of the youngest human, except it's the Alpaca.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:21

The Question IRL: Jun 8, 2013; Only two contestants left! Here is Doom's chance for revenge...

goddamnedtwisto posted:

They're not *zero*, but I'd say they're extremely remote. One complexity might be that Scotgov have previously enacted travel and gathering restrictions completely independently, but generally they've been more or less in line with rUK restrictions, just with different timing. If UKGov aren't talking about it it's very unlikely to happen at least in the next two weeks, and so far the most has been said is a general rumbling about maybe looking at it by half term in October if numbers in children go vertical.

Thanks, I sort of figured it. Like worst case the flights are cheap but non refundable (it would cost me more to upgrade my flights with Aer Lingus from non refundable tickets to refundable ones than it would to just write them off.)
And the car hire and accommodation can all be cancelled if things change.
Not that I'm hoping for this to happen, I really want to go over to see her.

I even have a super sealed mask to wear for the flight, and PCVR testing booked for after I get home.

# ? Sep 8, 2021 14:56

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

peanut- posted:

Was our hero truly killed for nothing?

https://twitter.com/darshnasoni/status/1435574853579509761

Questions for defra? Not really.
I thought it was always that the beastie didn't have disease but regulations demanded it's death anyway. Which is why kier supported it.