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Total Meatlove posted:Keith's gonna have to argue why these whistleblowers are bad, but the Panorama ones deserved payoffs, and not reveal any detail about the report into the report. Don't worry, it will be framed in the complicit press entirely in the context of Corbyn getting revenge from beyond the grave as ""Corbyn staff accused of leaking private information, bankrupt party" without ever going into what that 'private information' was. Oh my tattoo? Oh it's german, it says 'The Labour Party, The'. Desiderata fucked around with this message at 18:23 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 18:19
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OwlFancier posted:Somewhat uncharitable way to describe the maltese gun batteries I'm sad to have discovered the combination AA emplacement and pillbox between St. Julian's and Sliema that was my Maltese family's "beach house" has apparently been demolished and replaced with a lovely looking diving centre and bar. Also the quotes apply to "beach" as much as they do to "house" because it was literally just solid rock right up to the water's edge.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:24
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U.K. police say they won't take action on Prince Andrew sexual assault lawsuitquote:LONDON — British police said Monday that they would take no action after reviewing a document related to a U.S. civil sexual assault lawsuit filed against Queen Elizabeth II's son, Prince Andrew.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:28
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keep punching joe posted:Anyway totally normal and cool that the right-wing want to get back into the colonisation game. Lucky for the rest of the world that our armed forces are a shambolic mess. I think it was on Podcasting is Praxis where they pointed out that our armed forces have been privatised to the point where the entire military budget's going on massive rip-off contracts to price-gouging firms and they've barely got any ability to deploy overseas any more. Which is honestly pretty funny.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:29
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Grouchio posted:U.K. police say they won't take action on Prince Andrew sexual assault lawsuit I wonder what Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Constabulary will make of it.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:30
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Total Meatlove posted:Parking a Type 45 in the harbour and then building New Jerusalem on the rock would probably be of a net benefit to world peace, given that to sustain it you'd need close agricultural ties to the nearest continent and all the boomers would die off fast given the conditions. Would this report not become a matter of public record if its entered as evidence? I have no idea about how courts work regards to this just FYI. Also just saw that they have got Carter Ruck on the case. Lmao Labour are bankrupt before christmas.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:34
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Desiderata posted:Oh my tattoo? Oh it's german, it says 'The Labour Party, The'.  Sounds like they might be going into bankruptcy proceedings soon at the rate things are escalating.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:41
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Labour party income is around £58m though.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:47
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Well. I bought a ticket too. gently caress it. The fun of thinking what I'd do with a few million quid is more than worth £2.50. Camrath if I win can I commission a millionaires shortbread fudge to send to everyone in the thread?
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Oct 11, 2021 18:48
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Private Speech posted:Labour party income is around £58m though.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:51
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Thanks to the sound financial advice of this thread (ahem) I have purchased a Euromillions ticket. and i'll follow jaeluni around moving my head from side to side in staccato like a pigeon looking for crusts
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Oct 11, 2021 18:51
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gently caress lotteries, I'm going to goad Starmer into calling me a llama nonce so I can sue.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:55
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Mebh posted:I rang up my mortgage advisor to ask exactly this and he told me to get an estate agent in, tell them I want to sell and get a valuation. How much is your/a mortgage adviser? We remotgaged a year or so ago and never really consulted anyone. We got contacted by some "the new home group" who then proceeded to really try hard to sell us more aviva insurance products instead of just handling the remortgage. They tried to initially claim that our house value had dropped because they just looked at the average house price on the scheemy estate across the road, but ultimately just said the house was the same value and signed us back up with the same lender. In the last year there's been a fair few houses in my street getting sold and, thanks to the land deeds, i've worked out that the average price has increased by 15% since we moved in. It's got me thinking that our house actually might have increased by some when we remortgaged, but because we didn't consult an expert we got railroaded into just acceting what this company said. Also, is it worth getting a financial adviser too or are they just gonna tell you to pay off debts and max out your ISA/Pensions or do they tend to lean more into investment advice, etc?
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Oct 11, 2021 18:56
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Private Speech posted:Labour party income is around £58m though. Bear in mind they had to fire+rehire* a bunch of staff earlier in the year because they couldn't afford to keep them on their current contracts. Labour is skint. *Yes, we all thought that was pretty funny/scummy at the time.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:57
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Guavanaut posted:gently caress lotteries, I'm going to goad Starmer into calling me a llama nonce so I can sue. That would lead to a lengthy court case where people in tailored suits try to convince everyone that you are a llama nonce. Be careful. Truth doesn't matter.
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Oct 11, 2021 18:58
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Private Speech posted:Labour party income is around £58m though. I don't think its that high anymore, especially given all the sackings and fire/rehire on lovely temp min wage contracts they've had to do this year. That suggests they have a major cashflow problem. It wouldn't take a spectacularly large settlement to bankrupt them, especially if they have to pay costs.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:13
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What would happen if you won a 100 million quid and tried to spend all of it at once on bitcoin?
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Oct 11, 2021 19:14
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kingturnip posted:Bear in mind they had to fire+rehire* a bunch of staff earlier in the year because they couldn't afford to keep them on their current contracts. Considering who said that I am suspicious that it was a "necessary" measure rather than just something they felt like doing.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:14
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serious gaylord posted:I don't think its that high anymore, especially given all the sackings and fire/rehire on lovely temp min wage contracts they've had to do this year. That suggests they have a major cashflow problem. You're probably right, now that I look at it, like £8-16m might be gone now, unless it was replaced by big business donations.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:16
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Guavanaut posted:gently caress lotteries, I'm going to goad Starmer into calling me a llama nonce so I can sue. "Starmer has has libelled my client. It was actually an alpaca"
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Oct 11, 2021 19:21
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Private Speech posted:You're probably right, now that I look at it, like £8-16m might be gone now, unless it was replaced by big business donations. The last we heard they were hemorrhaging members and it wasn't being replaced by big business donations. Add in that some unions have now said the purse strings are closed for the time being and outside of an election campaign their funding will be drying up. They'll obviously keep getting short money but the cash for staff not in the immediate vicinity of parliament is running out for sure. serious gaylord fucked around with this message at 19:30 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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Oct 11, 2021 19:28
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Kin posted:How much is your/a mortgage adviser? Free basically. HSBC paid the bill to have the mortgage. Bit mad, but like with most of these things, ring one and ask. I used the mortgage advice bureau and they were super awesome. The advisor I got 2 years ago is just the guy I ring directly now.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:30
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Mebh posted:Well. I bought a ticket too. gently caress it. The fun of thinking what I'd do with a few million quid is more than worth £2.50. I mean, you can literally do that without winning- it's a flavour I bought in early last year. Haven't done it for a while because it was a massive faff and had bad shelf life, but yeah. I can make it happen.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:31
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NotJustANumber99 posted:What would happen if you won a 100 million quid and tried to spend all of it at once on bitcoin? You'll have no problem turning 100 million quid into bitcoin, and changing it back will surely be just as simple!
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Oct 11, 2021 19:32
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Grouchio posted:U.K. police say they won't take action on Prince Andrew sexual assault lawsuit Imagine I photoshopped the river from that Stalin pic over the photo of him with Giuffre instead of sailing the high seas of the Deadfire peninsula in my trusty sloop , 'The Trans Agenda.'
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Oct 11, 2021 19:32
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Mebh posted:I rang up my mortgage advisor to ask exactly this and he told me to get an estate agent in, tell them I want to sell and get a valuation. We did this too as we're looking to get an extension done. We got 3 estate agents in and they valued our house at nearly 90k up on what we bought it for. Mortgage advisors will use that figure and the mortgage surveyors themselves will often not even attend a property, just go on if its 'reasonable' with regards other properties in the area and maybe drive past it to make sure the house isnt a bombed out hellhole.
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Oct 11, 2021 19:32
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Bobby Deluxe posted:loving hell, it'll be interesting to see if "I have seen a lot of shops in my time, you can tell by the pixels" will fly in court. Wait is that the actual defence he's used as opposed to being something a lot of Twitter accounts all decided independently was his response?
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Oct 11, 2021 19:43
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Need a player for the British Commonwealth in my space race game, so I'm posting here. https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3980882
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Oct 11, 2021 19:57
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Wait is that the actual defence he's used as opposed to being something a lot of Twitter accounts all decided independently was his response? "Andrew, the Duke of York, has always vehemently denied the allegations. In a 2019 interview with the BBC, he said he has “no recollection” of ever meeting Giuffre. He also suggested that a photograph of them together with Epstein associate Ghislaine Maxwell could have been doctored."
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Oct 11, 2021 20:10
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Catching up to the thread today. Wanted to chime in though I'm well behind to say i enjoyed the recent praxiscast episode on Scotpol, and the discussion about the Scottish Greens sliding into mediocrity was really insightful.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:15
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Bobby Deluxe posted:From the NBC article: Quick, someone photoshop Brenda into that photo.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:16
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Can you really get a PhD in Photoshop? Or do they just mean .psd?
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Oct 11, 2021 20:17
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Mycroft Holmes posted:Need a player for the British Commonwealth in my space race game, so I'm posting here. I don't have the time but I find it vaguely funny that nobody wants to play as the British.
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Oct 11, 2021 20:18
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Mebh posted:Well. I bought a ticket too. I've bought TWO tickets 
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Oct 11, 2021 20:19
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Grouchio posted:My condolences. 
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Oct 11, 2021 20:23
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Mebh posted:Free basically. HSBC paid the bill to have the mortgage. Bit mad, but like with most of these things, ring one and ask. I used the mortgage advice bureau and they were super awesome. The advisor I got 2 years ago is just the guy I ring directly now. I used HSBC and the advisor was quite good (and no charges), though the best part was the hilarious set of passive aggressive letters sent to me and my wife separately to confirm that we had rejected his kind attempt to upsell us on all kinds of overpriced insurances that we just don't need
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Oct 11, 2021 20:24
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I guess it's worth their while to sell you all that stuff you don't need so they can then get paid to investigate themselves in ten years time and win you a payout.
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If I win big on Euromillions tonight I will pay off my mortgage as the sensible thing; pay for cosmetic surgery as the frivolous thing; and pay to have a baby as the long-term investment. Also fudge for everyone. Assuming no big win, I'm up for remortgage next spring, just as the energy price cap increases and the Govt's 'keep prices low to save Christmas' scheme finishes. It's not going to be pretty. Lady Demelza fucked around with this message at 20:55 on Oct 11, 2021 |
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