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sebzilla posted:That's loving rough lc I had fair warning that this was coming, so spent 5 years putting a bit away each week which is a "luxury" that very few UC claimants have - to be honest knowing the solidarity fund was there lifted a weight off my mind so it just existing was a huge help. It's always going to be the people who suddenly find themselves on UC who end up with the most pain, the gap between claiming and money is too high. Always always apply for old style ESA separately from UC if you have 2 years worth of NI, what messes us up is that he's 19 and didn't so it gets sorted out "within 6 months" rather than 14 days.
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Dec 7, 2021 19:35
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I think journalists in general just cannot conceive that in a better world they wouldn't exist.
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I mean we all know that socials like twitter and fb cause literal brain damage, yet we still don't really think in terms of diminished capacity when we evaluate the actions of posters there. Which is fair, cause I don't know how you draw a line. Like , Monbiot maybe deserves a break for being way too Online, but Glinner should have all his tweets tattooed onto his one remaining gonad with an SDS drill
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Judge them on harm done. Mobiot's lovely liberal political opinions are probably outweighed heavily by the work he does raising public awareness of biosphere destruction. Glinner however has a couple of series of a beloved 90s sitcom about priests now totally dwarfed by a bunch of terminally divorced posting about who gets to use which toilet.
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keep punching joe posted:Judge them on harm done. Mobiot's lovely liberal political opinions are probably outweighed heavily by the work he does raising public awareness of biosphere destruction. Glinner however has a couple of series of a beloved 90s sitcom about priests now totally dwarfed by a bunch of terminally divorced posting about who gets to use which toilet. Yep, seems fair
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I mean I guess that's a thing I've been doing without consciously thinking about it. That said though, where do you draw the line? Because somebody like Hadley Freeman clearly does not do as much direct harm as Priti Patel, but nevertheless helps to prop up the establishment which allows Priti Patel to exist as a political force.
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/dollyton81/status/1468297021270503435 Right lads.... unpack that guillotine, there's work to be done. 
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Dec 7, 2021 20:25
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oof, what a video. I do wonder who recorded it and who leaked it...
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/dollyton81/status/1468297021270503435 This is the definition of "caught in 4k" Countdown til Labour absolutely squander this open goal
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NotJustANumber99 posted:He's admitted to making a mistake though? Like buying a Tesla? Oops wrong thread deano fucked around with this message at 20:59 on Dec 7, 2021 |
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Kernel Monsoon posted:This is the definition of "caught in 4k" I welcome the Prime Minister's party, but would call on him to go further and invite me next time too
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Is Allegra Stratton a bit tipsy in that clip? Looks like it to me. My mum gets like that after a packet of wine gums.
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Kernel Monsoon posted:Countdown til Labour absolutely squander this open goal "I think it was very wrong for the prime minister to offer cheese and pineapple on a stick, but do think individual bowls of cocktail sausages would have been appropriate in that situation"
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There must be a massive amount of chicken playing out in the heads of dozens of downing street dipshits right now... who's going to break first? Who will admit they were at the party? Will it be someone who left early and will lamentedly admit that they couldn't stomach it, so they're the good one, blowing the whistle? These people are weak minded and they know they can't trust each other, there's no way no-one will spill the beans, especially if it means they get to put their spin on it first.
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Marmaduke! posted:There must be a massive amount of chicken playing out in the heads of dozens of downing street dipshits right now... who's going to break first? Who will admit they were at the party? Will it be someone who left early and will lamentedly admit that they couldn't stomach it, so they're the good one, blowing the whistle? These people are weak minded and they know they can't trust each other, there's no way no-one will spill the beans, especially if it means they get to put their spin on it first. It's the Prisoner's Dilemma, but with real consequences, none of that life-or-death nonsense.
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DesperateDan posted:"I think it was very wrong for the prime minister to offer cheese and pineapple on a stick, but do think individual bowls of cocktail sausages would have been appropriate in that situation" "I've been to Downing Street Christmas parties, of course. We all have. They're dreadful."
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Marmaduke! posted:There must be a massive amount of chicken playing out in the heads of dozens of downing street dipshits right now... who's going to break first? Who will admit they were at the party? Will it be someone who left early and will lamentedly admit that they couldn't stomach it, so they're the good one, blowing the whistle? These people are weak minded and they know they can't trust each other, there's no way no-one will spill the beans, especially if it means they get to put their spin on it first. Gove or Raab will be the first big name imo. They'll want to position themselves away from whatever is coming for Boris.
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andyf posted:Thanks! Yeah I went to my nearest walk-in place today as well. Nice lady at door explained that at the moment they're doing 6-months-later only, can't do shorter time. She did say something like "we have no doctor on duty therefore can't do it", not sure if I understood that correctly though. But, need to wait for an unknown amount of time before they're authorised to do 3-months-laters.
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Convex posted:"I've been to Downing Street Christmas parties, of course. We all have. They're dreadful."
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“I applaud the Prime Minister’s stance but I think he should have gone further. It should have been a full on rave with the best of British talent EDM DJs and high quality MDMA rather than sausage rolls”
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Kernel Monsoon posted:This is the definition of "caught in 4k" I agree with the Prime Minister that we need to catch the whistle blower as soon as possible. And we support any new proposals for all news to be vetted by the government before it is allowed to be broadcast.
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Dec 7, 2021 21:59
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Imagine being the sort of prick who has access to that video and just sitting on it for a year.
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"Yes, it's true, I was at the Downing Street Christmas party, but I can confirm I maintained social distancing at all times since I spent most of the evening in the loos racking up bloody massive lines of taxpayer-funded coke"
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jaete posted:Yeah I went to my nearest walk-in place today as well. Nice lady at door explained that at the moment they're doing 6-months-later only, can't do shorter time. She did say something like "we have no doctor on duty therefore can't do it", not sure if I understood that correctly though. But, need to wait for an unknown amount of time before they're authorised to do 3-months-laters. For obvious logistical reasons vaccines are normally effectively OTC drugs that can only be dispensed within very tight guidelines. A doctor can write you a prescription for the booster in the same way they could write you a prescription for more than 2 packs of paracetamol (a terrible comparison I know but I've been wrapping presents all day which is somehow more mentally draining than anything I've done in months).
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keep punching joe posted:Imagine being the sort of prick who has access to that video and just sitting on it for a year. There are half a dozen journos in there who are all in on the joke and none of them thought to say anything until now, possibly because they were there.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There are half a dozen journos in there who are all in on the joke and none of them thought to say anything until now, possibly because they were there. Arent they just the little politics plebs pretending to be journalists for a test run of the press conference? Exactly the people who i suspect were at the party, noone interesting like gove or whatever. I say interesting...
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goddamnedtwisto posted:There are half a dozen journos in there who are all in on the joke and none of them thought to say anything until now, possibly because they were there. The people in the video are all government staffers, this was a rehearsal so they were chucking questions at Allegory Stratford that she might get asked the next day. Some disgruntled video tech has had this video for a year. Probably has more.
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the only reason this is coming out now is because the Tories are trying to chuck Boris before he becomes even more of a liability otherwise it would have been memory-holed permanently
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serious gaylord posted:Some disgruntled video tech has had this video for a year. Probably has more. Like the Hancock CCTV footage?
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keep punching joe posted:Imagine being the sort of prick who has access to that video and just sitting on it for a year. Politically now is the optimal best time to release it. You have the fear Boris will announce a second Christmas lockdown for months before, them umm-ing and ah-ing about Omicron restrictions, this is the perfect time to release it. I suspect this is a politician and not technican that did this.
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Thats from now.
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Ah well, nevertheless
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Imagine being the sort of prick who laughs at Jacob Rees-Mogg making a joke about the imperial system of measurement
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Gambrinus posted:I've been on here, Gwl@d (Welsh rugby site for deviants), and onetouchfootball for over 20 years now. Why would you do that to yourself?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Thats from now. Yeah that's the point though, him and all his dead-eyed chums just loving yucking it up knowing that nothing will happen about the fact him and all his oval office mates got together while people were dying literally in their thousands, alone, their families at best allowed to watch them gasp their last over a video call, alone apart from a nurse on a 12 hour shift who might have found time to touch them on the hand or something just in case they could feel it, before going on to the next poor fucker. You know that line about your hate being pure? I'm feeling it again now, in a way I haven't in a while. It's a joke to them, they know that nothing bad will ever, ever happen to them, that there are no consequences for them, that the rules only apply to the little people who were stupid enough not to have rich parents who could send them to the right schools. That braying you hear there? That's them laughing at *you*, and everyone you know and love, and everyone who has to follow the rules. I'm gonna stop now before I say something that brings the attention of the mods - or the police - because of course the rules apply to me. I can't even joke about what this makes me feel like doing, but they can airily dismiss the deaths of tens of thousands of people.
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