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Comrade Fakename posted:When I was in sixth form our college’s union went on strike because they’d had 12 consecutive votes of no confidence over the college’s principal, all of which were unanimous against him. Anyway, my maths A Level lecturer was in a different union that didn’t believe in striking, considering teaching to be a profession like nursing that was too important to risk a strike. She informed us that on the strike day, the class would be held as normal, and if we didn’t attend we’d be marked as absent. So, she demanded that we cross a picket line in order to go to maths. In NI here there are at least two teacher unions, and for some past strikes we would go in and just some teachers would be in, the others have empty classes The good days where when all your classes had teachers who were off. happyhippy fucked around with this message at 03:59 on Feb 17, 2022 |
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WhatEvil posted:https://twitter.com/TypeForVictory/status/1494034483108093956?s=20&t=MM0rH85ytbuD4I7kTRxzMw Who can bring themselves to give a poo poo about student loans? I apparently owe tens of thousands and forget about it for months and years on end. Silly joke loan that seems to exist purely to convince working class people they're going to gently caress themselves by taking it and not to go to uni after all. It's literally just a graduate tax (which sure shouldn't be a thing either) in all but name, but under neoliberalism everything must be expressed in market language.
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I am sort of waiting for the government to decide to throw everyone with one into the workhouses retroactively but yes otherwise as I do not ever expect to earn enough to pay it I am not really bothered, eventually they're going to have to write them off because most people are going to default on them.
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Feb 17, 2022 04:34
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I'm getting close to mine being written off without ever having earned enough to pay anything and sometimes the company sends me hopeful little notes all ' you can make payments if you want any time!' Nah I'm all right thanks
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Feb 17, 2022 04:47
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At the end of a long night, obviously, but just feel the need to express that I love you all. From Barry to owly to borrovan to jaeluni, you’ve somehow ended up as my most reliably support network, even if it’s just reading your posts. I know it’s frowned upon but I’d really love to buy you all a pint, or a cuppa, one day.
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Jakabite posted:At the end of a long night, obviously, but just feel the need to express that I love you all. From Barry to owly to borrovan to jaeluni, you’ve somehow ended up as my most reliably support network, even if it’s just reading your posts. I know it’s frowned upon but I’d really love to buy you all a pint, or a cuppa, one day. Thanks, Boris!
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Feb 17, 2022 06:00
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What happens to the corgis when the Queen kicks it? Are they entombed with her or...?
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Epic High Five posted:What happens to the corgis when the Queen kicks it? Are they entombed with her or...? Think Bricktop, just replace 'pig' with 'corgi'.
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Feb 17, 2022 06:09
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The corgis are actually aspects of anubis and are keeping her from dying.
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Epic High Five posted:What happens to the corgis when the Queen kicks it? Are they entombed with her or...? Anyway, Witchell will be entombed with her. Anyway, ROBOBUNNY or something.
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I fed them the extremely cheap wine I’m drink and they had a conniption
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ThomasPaine posted:Who can bring themselves to give a poo poo about student loans? I apparently owe tens of thousands and forget about it for months and years on end. Silly joke loan that seems to exist purely to convince working class people they're going to gently caress themselves by taking it and not to go to uni after all. It's literally just a graduate tax (which sure shouldn't be a thing either) in all but name, but under neoliberalism everything must be expressed in market language. Whether you give a poo poo or not, freezing the payment thresholds is still relevant. Used to be that as average pay went up, so did the thresholds for when you start paying/how much you pay back - same as how your personal allowance/tax-free amount goes up every year with inflation. Not anymore. Your graduate tax just went up in real terms, and it'll continue to go up, and even those who currently don't earn enough to be paying them back will soon enough start having to pay some portion, often to go on top of the rest of the effects of inflation giving real-terms pay cuts. And before you (perhaps not specifically you but the plural form of "you") might have had a chance at repaying them at some point and being free of them, if you were a middle-earner. Now nobody except for people who go on to be finance wankers and those with rich parents will ever pay them off. So yeah, it's a tax on middle-earners more than anything else. It's regressive as poo poo.
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WhatEvil posted:Whether you give a poo poo or not, freezing the payment thresholds is still relevant. Used to be that as average pay went up, so did the thresholds for when you start paying/how much you pay back - same as how your personal allowance/tax-free amount goes up every year with inflation. Not anymore. Your graduate tax just went up in real terms, and it'll continue to go up, and even those who currently don't earn enough to be paying them back will soon enough start having to pay some portion, often to go on top of the rest of the effects of inflation giving real-terms pay cuts. This, plus I'd expect the government to flog them off to some bunch of utter bastards like Erudio again, who will make the lives of the loanees absolute hell and trick or cajole them into paying when they don't need to.
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Feb 17, 2022 09:24
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The best part is that the older plan 1 loans are only going up by 1.5%.
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What happens to the money when Liz goes Norwegian Blue? Do we keep seeing her eyes follow us around the room, or telling us to set fire to things, every time we hold a fiver up?
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Feb 17, 2022 10:24
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Prince Charles' ugly mug on all our coins and banknotes lol.
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Feb 17, 2022 10:25
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You just draw your best picture of the new monarch over her face and carry on using it.
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I wonder if they will also use a picture of him from 30 years ago.
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Pistol_Pete posted:Prince Charles' ugly mug on all our coins and banknotes lol.
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King Chuck, inches from your genitals.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Ages ago someone in this thread put forward the theory that Corbyn drove centrists mad because they love to think of themselves as the nice guys, so as soon as someone came along offering to be nicer and genuinely improve things they were clamouring to tear him down so they could reclaim the high ground. I've advanced a similar theory as the explanation of why liberals side with fascists over socialists a few times. It's not about thinking of themselves as nice guys though. It's just that they don't want to help anyone. With fascists they can tut and present themselves as the sensible option, but if someone ever successfully managed to improve things then the voters might realise that there is no reason to vote for a liberal who won't even try. In a nutshell: "better things aren't possible" isn't just the centrist mantra, it's the fundamental plank of their existence.
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happyhippy posted:What happens to the money when Liz goes Norwegian Blue? It just gets replaced on the normal schedule, most notes will be gone within a couple of years but the coins will keep rattling around until they change the planchet - until they changed the size of the 5 and 10p bits in the 90s you'd still get the occasional George VI 1 or 2 shilling coin in your change (none older though because before him they actually had silver in them).
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Prole, your commentary last night is exactly how I feel about it, I wouldn't consider going in in any circumstance if I hadn't been specifically asked to help the Union with a legal issue related to the strike. Like sure there's all kinds of justifications for why it's not an issue but... you just don't do that. Ever. ...except that I'm apparently the only member with relevant expertise for a current problem, and I need my books to fully address it. Picket day today anyway, so the dilemma's deferred for a bit (& I can chat to the Committee about it on the picket lines)
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Jedit posted:In a nutshell: "better things aren't possible" isn't just the centrist mantra, it's the fundamental plank of their existence. 
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I've got various bags of old pre-decimal ha'pennies people have found in drawers and given to me over the years, I've got at least 4 different monarchs on them. It used to be pretty standard to have an old king on some of your money, and even now you'll get coins with different portaits of the queen on them, which have changed about as often as monarchs usually last.
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Private Speech posted:The best part is that the older plan 1 loans are only going up by 1.5%. I thought they were going up to 1.5%, not by 1.5%. They’re based off the lower of Base rate+1%, or RPI.
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https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1494249179421499396 Yikes. Straight back to Nu-Labour authoritarian shitbaggery then.
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Jakabite posted:At the end of a long night, obviously, but just feel the need to express that I love you all. From Barry to owly to borrovan to jaeluni, you’ve somehow ended up as my most reliably support network, even if it’s just reading your posts. I know it’s frowned upon but I’d really love to buy you all a pint, or a cuppa, one day. Thanks Jakabite. Maybe one day...
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1494249179421499396 Her follow up line is the really piss-boiling part, just "whoops did I just say that" Barbie fascism
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Pantsmaster Bill posted:I thought they were going up to 1.5%, not by 1.5%. They’re based off the lower of Base rate+1%, or RPI. Yes, but seeing as RPI is %many, it'll be 1.5%.
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My hometown MP doing a 'Diane Abbot': I'm sure it will go as viral as the aforementioned version 
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I like that you've circled a third shoe as though part of the controversy is that he has yet another leg
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Failed Imagineer posted:Her follow up line is the really piss-boiling part, just "whoops did I just say that" Barbie fascism it reminds me of Jess Phillips' style "telling it like it is" https://twitter.com/TheSinanKose/status/1494251109032017920?t=p7trEm_PV3dmjJjwV3BxkQ&s=19 somehow they manage to plumb new depths every day
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Man, I'm a loving catastrophe when it comes to fashion & even I managed to wear 2 shoes from the same pair.
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When it turns out the police are hilariously corrupt the best thing to do is to have them kill a load of people.
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Who looks at the many, many cases of US police killing random people and says to themselves 'that's what we should be doing here' jfc
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SixFigureSandwich posted:Who looks at the many, many cases of US police killing random people and says to themselves 'that's what we should be doing here' jfc Tories.
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sebzilla posted:https://twitter.com/AyoCaesar/status/1494249179421499396 Now THIS is the sort of "Angela Rynar is bad actually" content I wanted before!
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jfc Rayner is so loving bad at politics It's like she doesn't even understand that the reason the right won't accept her is factionalism, well good news Angie you no longer have a faction
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Bacon Terrorist posted:My hometown MP doing a 'Diane Abbot': I honestly think politicians are the ones that social media has skewered the worst. They are at heart awkward nerds and needed the filter the most.
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