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WhatEvil posted:People on average probably had better/more secure access to food during rationing than in 2022 in Britain anyway, and things are about to get much worse. The first part sounds truly bizarre to me, but I'm not experiencing day to day post brexit life, so,
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GreyjoyBastard posted:The first part sounds truly bizarre to me, but I'm not experiencing day to day post brexit life, so, The entire system of rationing relied on a functional government capable of ensuring its citizens had enough to eat (but not much more). You start to see the problem with 2022 Britain in comparison?
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https://www.statista.com/statistics/382695/uk-foodbank-users/
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Something to consider between then and now is that Winston Churchill thought landlords were parasites and a stain on humanity. The modern tories have a different view.
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GreyjoyBastard posted:The first part sounds truly bizarre to me, but I'm not experiencing day to day post brexit life, so, I'm not either but I'm still aware of what's going on: https://twitter.com/c4dispatches/status/1200927491134820353 Heartbreaking. I wouldn't be at all surprised if food bank donations dry up too simply because a lot of people who were contributing will no longer be able to afford to. E: (This post isn't a dig at you btw, I appreciate not everybody, even many many people living in the UK still don't grasp how much poverty is an issue in the UK.) WhatEvil fucked around with this message at 22:56 on Aug 26, 2022 |
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Aug 26, 2022 22:52
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Schools going back in 10 days is actually good news for lots of parents, since it means they don't have to pay as much for their children's breakfasts, as long as there's a Breakfast Club or similar at their childrens' school. And some schools will fully comp the cost for the most needy families (although schools are getting turbo-hosed this year, so who knows if that'll continue).
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Aug 26, 2022 23:00
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WhatEvil posted:
Or like one of my co-workers refuses to believe it because a foodbank that a friend of hers worked at, apparently a group of travellers came in and just cleared the shelves*. Therefore there is no real poverty requiring foodbanks and people who use them are either can't manage a budget or are cheating. *many foodbank volunteers are little old ladies in their 60s & 70s so no way would they have challenged them. **I am in my 60s but I am not a little old lady.
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Aug 26, 2022 23:07
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https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1563157831184191489?cxt=HHwWgsDU-f7wubErAAAA how long do we reckon before PM Truss decides the reclamation of Calais is just the ticket to distract the nation from the energy crisis?
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Apraxin posted:https://twitter.com/BBCWorld/status/1563157831184191489?cxt=HHwWgsDU-f7wubErAAAA Agincourt 2: Brexit Boogaloo
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Truss going to ban onions and deport the cast of Allo Allo as her first act as PM.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Kieth playing dress up Mike Pence vibes.
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Convex posted:Agincourt 2: Brexit Boogaloo Picking the one battle in the late war that the English unambiguously won.
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Private Speech posted:Picking the one battle in the late war that the English unambiguously won. This may explain why it was the one that came to mind. Checking Wikipedia and yeah there's some war crimes alright
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Charles I was the first post-Classical head of state to be formally charged as a war criminal, so anything prior to that is just sparkling disproportionality.
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Convex posted:This may explain why it was the one that came to mind. Checking Wikipedia and yeah there's some war crimes alright The British don't do War Crimes  We come in peace to rule with a fair, kindly, compassionate, democratic heart.  shoot to killOh. I think I just committed Treason. 
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Guavanaut posted:sparkling disproportionality. the new essence from michael gove?
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The British don't do War Crimes This reads like the start of one of those M&S food ads  edit: also I have realised I have only myself to blame for the mental image of michael gove's extracted bodily fluids being sprayed across a human body. Time to get back to The Sinking City I guess
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I started reading from the middle so I thought the label was what sort of aquatic creature you wanted to attract and assumed that "secret mix" does in fact get you deep ones, but then I saw cheese and was disappointed and/or annoyed that nobody told me you could fish for cheese.
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OwlFancier posted:I started reading from the middle so I thought the label was what sort of aquatic creature you wanted to attract and assumed that "secret mix" does in fact get you deep ones, but then I saw cheese and was disappointed and/or annoyed that nobody told me you could fish for cheese. No but you can cheese for fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNqiFxUZxk0 Even better, you can HUGE cheese for fish: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2ue3TbNLJc
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https://twitter.com/NewStatesman/status/1563102471878488064 Comrade new statesman apparently.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:No but you can cheese for fish: I think I am now going to forever imagine you as wearing a "women love me, fish fear me" hat. Or possibly the more memey version, possibly on a metal band t shirt. 
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Cheese fishing works if you're bold enough. OwlFancier posted:Comrade new statesman apparently.
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OwlFancier posted:I think I am now going to forever imagine you as wearing a "women love me, fish fear me" hat. Now which song is that. Muse is the band I think.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:The British don't do War Crimes Brits sooo good they did Bloody Sunday twice!  1920 Dublin, 1972 Derry.
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Just Another Lurker posted:Brits sooo good they did Bloody Sunday twice! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_war_crimes We did lots and I don't understand why the right, so proud of British history, want to bury our glorious past. Cheese fishing chat: Cheese Fishing by J R Hartley Farm Cheese www . hartley-farm . co . uk/product-tag/cheese/ (Ed: took the link out in case the farm shop doesn't want to be associated with a bunch of commies). (For those ITT old enough to recognise the analogy). Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 02:00 on Aug 27, 2022 |
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Just Another Lurker posted:Brits sooo good they did Bloody Sunday twice!
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We have two chemists in town - Boots and Lloyds. The latter lost their inhouse pharmacist a few months back and has been relying on a shrinking floating pool of visiting pharmacists for them to open. More times than not, they get let down and cannot open, resulting in many people not being able to get their prescriptions. I've taken great pleasure in the local facebook group explaining that there's a huge nationwide shortage of pharmacists, and that we've made the country unenticing for foreign workers to fill those gaps. I've also loudly highlighted the fact that it takes 5 years to train a pharmacist, and we don't even have enough university places to begin to fill the vacuum, so the situation isn't going to improve until at least 2027. But most of all, I highlighted that the shortages are a direct result of Brexit, and reminded the town that they ultimately voted for this, and to ask them imagine how angry those who didn't vote to leave are feeling. That was quite schadenfreudic... In other health news, my resting HR started spiking to 180bpm+ this evening, resulting in a rare call to NHS 111. I haven't used the service since the covid days. The call handler was great, and I was put on an emergency list to be contact by the out of hours GP within 2 hours. That was at 10:30pm.... It's now 3:11am, and the call handler phoned an hour ago apologising for the delays, and suggested I go to bed with the phone close by, and to dial 999 if I think my life is in danger. My HR is back to normalish levels now, which is good... but loving hell, is our health system broken to gently caress 
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fuctifino posted:We have two chemists in town - Boots and Lloyds. The latter lost their inhouse pharmacist a few months back and has been relying on a shrinking floating pool of visiting pharmacists for them to open. More times than not, they get let down and cannot open, resulting in many people not being able to get their prescriptions. Hope you're ok. I used that service or whatever the equivalent was back in around 2003 when I had acute shooting pains up and down my left arm, my heart dancing the fandango, and a sensation like a huge stone in my chest. Called at 1030pm, no call back for over 2 hours when they said 'call an ambulance'. Anyway, won't bore you with the details, but I spent 9 hours on a trolley wired up to a heart monitor before being diagnosed with acute costochondritis which does a bloody good impression of a heart attack.
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OwlFancier posted:I think I am now going to forever imagine you as wearing a "women love me, fish fear me" hat.
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I finally got my emergency phone call at 5:30am, 7 hours after I called them, however I was very much asleep and didn't get to the phone in time. The doctor is apparently going to attempt another two times, but I have no idea when those two times will be.... I guess I'm going to have to stay awake then.
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HI HELLO SORRY I got into a huge Rimworld modding spree and forgot to check this thread again So many people have been so nice about my progress, just wanted to thank you all! On a more germane note, watching the ongoing dissolution of every single governmental/civic function that there is, is quite a thing to behold.
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Zahawi is reported in today's Telegraph saying that middle class (the horror!) people will have to cut back on energy use - wonder if there will be any self reflection on 12 years of policies leading to a collapse in insulation rates and falling way behind Europe on the uptake of more efficient heating systems
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Finally got my telephone call from the exhausted sounding GP at 8:20am, 10 hours after I called NHS111. She was brilliant, and I told her as much, and is going to be contacting my local medical centre to get me seen this morning. Our NHS is loving amazing. I'm going to be sad when it's totally gone
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I’m off to get married today! Nice to have something exciting in the middle of all this *gestures around* everything. 
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It really feels like there's going to be one absolutely heart-rending story during all this (my prediction: 3 generations of one family freezing/starving to death) that will splash all the headlines, and a new law will be passed with the name of the dead to ensure that this will "never happen again", and it will be good for some but too late for them. Hate that it's so obvious that the system is about to catastrophically fail, and it's just "Welp we'll need to wait and see" from the govt & opposition. Sad.
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Tesseraction posted:Something to consider between then and now is that Winston Churchill thought landlords were parasites and a stain on humanity. The modern tories have a different view. Yeah I'm not sure if Churchill still thought that when he was older; if he did, what kind of priority it had in his thoughts; and if he did prioritise it, whether any of the actual powers that be behind the Conservative party, e.g. the royals and other aristocrats, gave a poo poo about his opinion Tories have always been the landlords party for the landlords by the landlords, one tory accidentally having a decent opinion at one point in their life doesn't make any of it (or him) actually any good
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On a more local note, there's now a proposal to setup a £5 congestion charge in Cambridge, to pay for an expansion of the bus services and subsidizing £1/£2 fares. In theory it sounds "ok", however the proposed charge zone applies to the entire city (and then some) between 7am and 7pm and given rents have gone up by like 20%+ since 2020, there's plenty of people that have moved away so they could afford housing that will be hit by this. The bus services are also provided by Stagecoach, which is about as reliable as Starmer. So basically this is just going to price more people and small businesses off the city. 
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