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Is getting elected as a Conservative and then defecting easier then getting through Labour's centralized candidate selection processes?
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 12:59 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 02:52 |
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Love that our 2 mains parties are so similar members can bounce back and forth so easily. Really says a lot about our choices in this democracy
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:00 |
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Oh now I'm going insane listening to journalists who are incapable of pronouncing Bury
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:00 |
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Wakeford won by .8% of the vote so it could very well be that he thinks his best chances of winning next time are switching to Labour.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:00 |
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domhal posted:Is getting elected as a Conservative and then defecting easier then getting through Labour's centralized candidate selection processes? If you're a left winger, probably.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:01 |
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Majority of 402 from a formerly safe Labour seat, so literally jumping now in the hope people will forget he's a Tory. Gonna laugh my arse off if Boris ends up winning the VONC by a single vote though.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:02 |
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domhal posted:Is getting elected as a Conservative and then defecting easier then getting through Labour's centralized candidate selection processes? Gonna assume "Is an actual Tory" is +100 points on Akehurst's weird Cosmo quiz for PPCs.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:03 |
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domhal posted:Is getting elected as a Conservative and then defecting easier then getting through Labour's centralized candidate selection processes? One weird trick to bypass the "no supporting parties which ran against Labour in the previous X months" rule.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:03 |
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When Tories can defect to Labour and be welcomed, and nothing of any note change in their politics, you have to wonder if we even have a Labour party anymore.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:05 |
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Oh now I'm going insane listening to journalists who are incapable of pronouncing Bury I don't get arsey about outsiders getting the pronunciation of Canning Town wrong and frankly we should be rejecting all these stupid local rules about how place names are pronounced.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:05 |
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gently caress me I'd forgotten how much I hate the forced laughter at PMQs.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:06 |
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Prole posted:When Tories can defect to Labour and be welcomed, and nothing of any note change in their politics, you have to wonder if we even have a Labour party anymore.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:07 |
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Prole posted:When Tories can defect to Labour and be welcomed, and nothing of any note change in their politics, you have to wonder if we even have a Labour party anymore. It's very reminiscent of the Blair years in that sense.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:07 |
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The new Labour MP has pride of place behind Starmer, sporting a garish Union Jack facemask lmfao e: lol, makes sense https://twitter.com/zObscurantist/status/1483770724296888322?s=20
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:08 |
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Keith has certainly had his 'Irish' Ovaltine this morning
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:08 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:gently caress me I'd forgotten how much I hate the forced laughter at PMQs. They don't laugh, they bleat like diseased goats.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:08 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:frankly we should be rejecting all these stupid local rules about how place names are pronounced. Bad news for Southwark. Worse news for Loughborough.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:09 |
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Yet having pressed 'like' on a tweet that was actually a local labour party post mentioning the word 'green' gets you suspended/expelled from the party for supporting another party. (Can't find a link for that now, it was back in 2016 when saying you liked the Foo Fighters in an emphatic manner would get you expelled.) Also https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...y-a7217376.html quote:Woman blocked from joining Labour on basis she tweeted support for Greens
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:12 |
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Guavanaut posted:Yes, full pronunciation of all vowels and consonants, Hangul style. loving Southwark. Used to work for an IT call centre outsourcing place & one of the clients was Price Waterhouse Cooper (don't want to shock you about how entitled & self-important these cunts were, but it was very) & they'd always get so mad when you'd pronounce it like it's written because you're a poor wee Highland laddie who sees the word & pronounce it like former Scotland international John Wark. So of course you'd always mispronounce it because gently caress it, small victories.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:13 |
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Finally, The Labour Party is back to its original purpose, a parachute for tories.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:13 |
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Guavanaut posted:Yes, full pronunciation of all vowels and consonants, Hangul style. Loogabarooga has already embraced its silly name
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:15 |
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forkboy84 posted:loving Southwark. Used to work for an IT call centre outsourcing place & one of the clients was Price Waterhouse Cooper (don't want to shock you about how entitled & self-important these cunts were, but it was very) & they'd always get so mad when you'd pronounce it like it's written because you're a poor wee Highland laddie who sees the word & pronounce it like former Scotland international John Wark. So of course you'd always mispronounce it because gently caress it, small victories. It particularly annoys me when people pronounce it suthuk, voicing the "th". It was originally "South Wark", the normal erosion of pronunciation turned it into suvvuk, either you accept the erosion or you don't, don't drop a "th" in there just to sound like you're better than the common proles.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:16 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I don't get arsey about outsiders getting the pronunciation of Canning Town wrong and frankly we should be rejecting all these stupid local rules about how place names are pronounced. Featherstonhaugh will rise again
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:16 |
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its been a while since I've forced myself to watch PMQs and my god if I was an MP i would be dying of embarrassment.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:16 |
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Wait are they not allowed to mention the Royal Family in Parliament? What the heck?
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:17 |
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keep punching joe posted:Wait are they not allowed to mention the Royal Family in Parliament? What the heck? I believe not, it's due to all the performative bullshit about it being a separate institution to the monarchy
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:20 |
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keep punching joe posted:Wait are they not allowed to mention the Royal Family in Parliament? What the heck? In case someone loses their head
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:22 |
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So can they mention the nonce one or not? The publicly known nonce one. forkboy84 posted:loving Southwark. Used to work for an IT call centre outsourcing place & one of the clients was Price Waterhouse Cooper (don't want to shock you about how entitled & self-important these cunts were, but it was very) & they'd always get so mad when you'd pronounce it like it's written because you're a poor wee Highland laddie who sees the word & pronounce it like former Scotland international John Wark. So of course you'd always mispronounce it because gently caress it, small victories.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:22 |
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I noticed they're still talking about the 14 new hospitals. Has anyone seen one yet?
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:25 |
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Well, I'd like to see ol Boris Johnson wriggle his way out of THIS jam! *Boris wriggles his way out of the jam easily Ah! Well. Nevertheless,
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:26 |
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https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1483718042949500928?s=21 https://twitter.com/SidewaysShrops/status/1483718670501224451?s=20
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:27 |
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keep punching joe posted:Wait are they not allowed to mention the Royal Family in Parliament? What the heck?
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:27 |
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Johnson seemed back to his usual smarmy oval office self today. I'm hoping that's him misreading the room as opposed to having been given news to cheer himself up. Good digs from Starmer and Blackford today at least.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:31 |
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Charlotte Nichols decidedly not calling for her mate Christian to face a by-election. I've never been prouder and more content with my decision to tell the Labour Party to go gently caress itself. Every day they add to the list of things that confirm they're a heap of poo poo. How any of us thought this party was going to be the vehicle to progressive change is embarrassing, isn't it? I mean, hope is one thing...
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:31 |
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Tesseraction posted:Johnson seemed back to his usual smarmy oval office self today. I'm hoping that's him misreading the room as opposed to having been given news to cheer himself up. I'll give Kieth a tiny thumbs up for the "Bury South is a Labour seat, Prime Minister" but my god I always forget just how whiny and rubbish his speaking voice is.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:32 |
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Honestly a Labour Party committed to being poo poo is still better than the the Turbononces, even if it's like choosing between a warm poo poo sandwich and a cold one.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:33 |
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'll give Kieth a tiny thumbs up for the "Bury South is a Labour seat, Prime Minister" but my god I always forget just how whiny and rubbish his speaking voice is. Which is interesting because last week he managed to inflate himself up enough to lose the whiny twinge. I think he needs to do more PMQs drunk.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:34 |
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https://twitter.com/StefGotBooted/status/1483779556041535496
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:35 |
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https://twitter.com/evolvepolitics/status/1483779373878632450?s=20
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:38 |
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# ? May 25, 2024 02:52 |
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David Davis dropping the "In the name of God, go" bomb, Johnson claiming not to recognise the quote, lol.
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# ? Jan 19, 2022 13:38 |