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Guavanaut posted:So Grant Shapps has said that the London Underground needs to move towards 'driverless trains' in order to modernise like 'other European cities', which reminds me of my favourite seagull story. So if they go driverless and someone ends up on the tracks no one's going to realise until the poor sod is spread across half the Circle line?
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Z the IVth posted:So if they go driverless and someone ends up on the tracks no one's going to realise until the poor sod is spread across half the Circle line? A few paups getting meat-crayoned is well worth reducing payroll and breaking those damned unions. Y'know, if you're a sociopath. Yes, some of us may die, but it's a sacrifice they're willing to make.
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Our center right policy focus will be Boris continuation but LARGER budget cuts and privatization. Greener. With the help of corporate scientists (lists BP as a source of scientists) we will make major strides in renewable energy.
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Even with driverless you need someone on the train and staff on the platform, just look at DLR
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Aug 8, 2022 06:40
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Dabir posted:Isn't he the guy out of Giant Days I knew the name sounded familiar! Ed, what have you done? (Although at least they're looking to target Tories)
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Yvonmukluk posted:I knew the name sounded familiar! Ed, what have you done? Yeah, I'm 109% on board with the existence of more spinoff Tory parties to split the vote tbh. Maybe I give their viewers too much credit but I've always felt the Lib Dems were more detrimental to Labor than the Tories for example.
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Aug 8, 2022 07:17
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Mourning Due posted:I've always felt the Lib Dems were more detrimental to Labor than the Tories for example. The only times Labour won, in my rather long adult life, were when the LibDems were strong; and since their collapse we have total Tory hegemony. Don't get me wrong, I do not welcome any LibDem resurgence there might be, because they function (like Starmer's Labour) as a trap for left wing votes - but Labour would have a better chance of winning if the LibDems recovered in their previous strongholds. Oh dear me fucked around with this message at 08:14 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Mourning Due posted:Yeah, I'm 109% on board with the existence of more spinoff Tory parties to split the vote tbh. Maybe I give their viewers too much credit but I've always felt the Lib Dems were more detrimental to Labor than the Tories for example. I think this has as much chance of splitting the Tory vote as Change UK had for lefties but we live in hope.
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It does seem a bizzare position, "I like the tories on everything except the fact that they're not green enough"
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OwlFancier posted:It does seem a bizzare position, "I like the tories on everything except the fact that they're not green enough" Yeah, the Lib Dems already exist.
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OwlFancier posted:It does seem a bizzare position, "I like the tories on everything except the fact that they're not green enough" There's a certain strain of conservatism that realises it should also be about conserving the earth
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Aug 8, 2022 08:28
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Microplastics posted:There's a certain strain of conservatism that realises it should also be about conserving the earth I remember (maybe naively) believing David Cameron's green conservatism campaign and thought that tackling environmental destruction could be a true cross party issue but I'm not sure it's ever been more than a talking point. The conservative stance towards the economy and regulation in general is incompatible with respecting the earth. Plus some of the biggest donors are involved in industries actively destroying the planet. They'd never really go against those interests.
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Aug 8, 2022 08:38
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Microplastics posted:There's a certain strain of conservatism that realises it should also be about conserving the earth Oh sure they exist but just... I find it hard to believe that it is a remotely meaningful demographic in this day and age when the overwhelming bulk of right wing messaging for years has been "gently caress you I am not responsible to anyone or anything now lower my taxes" I find it hard to believe there is a significant constituency of "gently caress the young, gently caress the poor, gently caress foreigners, but we have to do something about climate change even though I hate everyone who would be affected by it"
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piano chimp posted:I think this has as much chance of splitting the Tory vote as Change UK had for lefties but we live in hope. The Independent ChUKlefuck Party might not have split Labour, but they definitely hit their vote share hard and played a role in the scale of the 2019 loss. Even though they were a joke by the time the election happened, the votes that they'd leeched went to Greens or Libs instead of back to Labour, while the Brexit Party largely went back to the Tories where they needed to.
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Mourning Due posted:Yeah, I'm 109% on board with the existence of more spinoff Tory parties to split the vote tbh. Maybe I give their viewers too much credit but I've always felt the Lib Dems were more detrimental to Labor than the Tories for example. You're making the same mistake Starmer is making (on the assumption that he isn't doing it deliberately). The Tory vote doesn't split. This is why Cameron was so terrified of the Eurosceptics in his party that he offered them a referendum; it's the one time in history that the party ever has risked splitting. But that split was a risk because the full fash Tories only vote Tory as it is the furthest right legitimate option, and Johnson mended it by ensuring there was nobody further to the right. However, a Tory will never do the reverse and vote for a different party because the Tories aren't left wing enough; they'll just stay at home. And if the choice is between a Tory and "Tory, but slightly less poo poo and/or in a different colour rosette", they always vote Tory.
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TBH it's not about peeling off the Tory base, it's about getting those dumb floating voter cunts who normally gravitate lib dem but vote Tory if Labour offer anything left of Mussolini.
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Seagulls are the devil. I may or may not have a paintball gun specifically for seeing off seagulls that harass my poor garden chikkuns.
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Salisbury Snape posted:Seagulls are the devil. I may or may not have a paintball gun specifically for seeing off seagulls that harass my poor garden chikkuns. Curious about how effective this is. Do you ever see the same paint-spattered gulls still lurking around?
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Aug 8, 2022 10:35
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Seems a bit cruel, you could easily cripple or blind a gull that way
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Tesseraction posted:TBH it's not about peeling off the Tory base, it's about getting those dumb floating voter cunts who normally gravitate lib dem but vote Tory if Labour offer anything left of Mussolini. Those people see themselves as sensible adults and will not vote for a new party that will never have power. Much better to work for change from the inside, so vote Tory.
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Aug 8, 2022 10:41
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Z the IVth posted:So if they go driverless and someone ends up on the tracks no one's going to realise until the poor sod is spread across half the Circle line? How do you think the trains will recharge? Blood for the Blood Train!
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Mourning Due posted:Yeah, I'm 109% on board with the existence of more spinoff Tory parties to split the vote tbh. Maybe I give their viewers too much credit but I've always felt the Lib Dems were more detrimental to Labor Not sure that taking votes away from am Australian political party is that helpful tbh As for Tory spinoffs - UKIP and then the Brexit party are about rhe most successful political parties of the last decade so ummmmm feedmegin fucked around with this message at 10:54 on Aug 8, 2022 |
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Microplastics posted:There's a certain strain of conservatism that realises it should also be about conserving the earth Correct. They are called the (English and Welsh) Green Party.
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Salisbury Snape posted:Seagulls are the devil. I may or may not have a paintball gun specifically for seeing off seagulls that harass my poor garden chikkuns. 
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You should use a net gun and eat the evidence.
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The beak and feathers are still evidence. Oh... you mean.. oh
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How are seagulls protected by law when they reject it?
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Guavanaut posted:How are seagulls protected by law when they reject it? In fairness, big fan of the shoplifting seagulls
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I will vote for whatever politician pledges to send seagulls back where they belong (the sea).
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holiday chat: tallinn is a nice, mostly cheap place to spend a short week in. there is a cool tall TV tower, outdoor museum and some remnants of the 1980 Moscow olympics around the seaside. there is a museum called kiek in de kok. if you're not spending enough money, a cheap ferry to expensive helsinki takes only 2 or 3 hours.
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Shared more than 45! times. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for news, huh?
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It's heating up again.
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IT'S CALLED SUMMER
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It's 69 degrees here. It's nice. See, the woke Celsius taliban can't make that joke until at least 2150, when we're all dead and two unmanned rovers crawl across the scorched surface of the earth. "Unit 2ef7 report external thermal telemetry" "It is 342K or 69 degrees Celsius. Humanity is dead. Only bacteria survives." "Nice."
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Hope this picks up - feels like a good clear articulation to hopefully cut through to the many…? https://twitter.com/eiecampaign/status/1556551243765514240?s=21&t=OyUaGU7NSDQGShSVu8cz8A
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:Our center right policy focus will be  Gort posted:Seems a bit cruel, you could easily cripple or blind a gull that way 
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Jimmy Cordless never watched the Anton Deck show, how can you trust him to lead your country?
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Seperate post for seperate thing but please god don't let this get co-opted by dickheads: https://twitter.com/eiecampaign/status/1556551243765514240?t=PKdWl0eJu7eEw_6G44vQbA&s=19
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Miftan posted:Shared more than 45! times. Really scraping the bottom of the barrel for news, huh? To be fair it may be the most interesting thing that's ever happened in Barnstaple.
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