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Payndz posted:Also, for the first time ever the Prime Minister is younger than me, so I can turn my age-related despair up another notch. She is still older than me (by 2 years!) thank gently caress. Edit: 18. Thread's old enough to drink now and after the last few days^Wweeks^Wmonths^Wyears I'm sure it wants to.
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Coalville MP Andrew Bridgen (Con, Leics NW) is branded "dishonest" by a judge, ordered to pay £800,000, and evicted from his luxurious country home after a dispute involving his family potato business.
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Good news everybody, Priti Patel is resigning.
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Sep 5, 2022 17:58
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Bad news pals, Suella Braverman is to be Home Secretary.
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bessantj posted:That's the cost of the standing charge? Disgraceful. Is the standing charge actually going up? Why? Is it greed, it's greed isn't it
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Paranoid Peanut posted:thread, I am not from the UK, so how should i feel about her? on a scale of boris to rubbish - where to place?? Depends what you care about? I mean, if you're a rich corporate raider type then it's probably about to be a good time to "invest" in Britain, ie to make off with the family silver. If you have any empathy it is bad, but the saving grace of Boris was he was spectacularly lazy. A total oval office, but if he was really motivated he could've done worse. Well, Truss is motivated to do worse. Also Britain is just generally in a shitter place than it was in 2019 so things are going to get a lot worse regardless of which Tory shite is PM.
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Microplastics posted:Is the standing charge actually going up? Why? Is it greed, it's greed isn't it They have to cover the costs of heating their offices.
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I'm going to buy a rotten burg.
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keep punching joe posted:Good news everybody, Priti Patel is resigning. Can’t help but think this is going to be a case of staying out of trouble and heckling in the background until Johnson swans back in…
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Guavanaut posted:Coalville MP Andrew Bridgen (Con, Leics NW) is branded "dishonest" by a judge, ordered to pay £800,000, and evicted from his luxurious country home after a dispute involving his family potato business. This is a hearty lol
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Fun fact: the "Zug" from Zugzwang means move, as in a chess move, but also means train (both related to English "tug"). So it could also mean forcing trains on people, which is relevant to this thread's interests.
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why is philomena cunk PM of UK of britane and ingurland
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Paranoid Peanut posted:thread, I am not from the UK, so how should i feel about her? on a scale of boris to rubbish - where to place?? I am genuinely not sure if there is a more incompetent yet also malicious politician out there. Like she might genuinely be in the running for causing mass death the way you normally have to have Very Big Ideas About How Agriculture Works to achieve. Except she has Very Big Ideas About How Thermodynamics Works.
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let's face it nobody else really wanted to be in charge of this utter shitshow lol
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Sep 5, 2022 18:48
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keep punching joe posted:Bad news pals, Suella Braverman is to be Home Secretary. Looking forward to her discovery that it is not - yet - legal to deport trans people to Rockall
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bessantj posted:That's the cost of the standing charge? Disgraceful. This reminds me that I keep getting letters from Scottish Energy addressed to VACANT VACANT and telling me my prepaid meter needs money. I've been paying direct debit to a different huge provider for a long time - ever since I moved in - and have only a standard non-smart non-prepaid meter. Also my name is not VACANT VACANT. I didn't really care about it much to be honest thinking it's a scam, but maybe it's a different scam of some kind where they are trying to pin a balance on me somehow for someone. Who knows. I know the previous tenant had the same DD provider too. Their support lines are utterly hosed so I can't be bothered to care.
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smellmycheese posted:This is a hearty lol
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Microplastics posted:Is the standing charge actually going up? Why? Is it greed, it's greed isn't it According to the Ofgem models from their website, the nil kWh GB average gas standing charge for a pre-payment meter has gone from £136.08/year to £136.91/year, an increase of, uh, 83 pence per year. Source: Old tariff cap: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/default-tariff-cap-level-1-april-2022-30-september-2022 Model v1.10 New tariff cap: https://www.ofgem.gov.uk/publications/default-tariff-cap-level-1-october-2022-31-december-2022 Model v1.13 In each case, you want sheet "1a Default tarrif cap", cell G71
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i don't know why we don't power the country w/ the hot air that all these polticians produce!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOL 
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feedmegin posted:Tbf specifically-academic books have always been expensive as gently caress (like up to 100 quid) because the audience is small and it's mostly institutions not people buying off their own bat. Oh sure but I'm talking pop history stuff that you find in Waterstones on the tables at the front.
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Sep 5, 2022 19:14
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it rules that they wont call an election for two more yeara. democracy lol
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Kieth and Liz sitting in a tree K.I.S.S.I.N.G. https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1566838480814104582
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smellmycheese posted:Kieth and Liz sitting in a tree Oh did they hire Joe Lycett to write for him?
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Paranoid Peanut posted:thread, I am not from the UK, so how should i feel about her? on a scale of boris to rubbish - where to place?? She's hands down, bar none, the funniest possible loving PM we could have. It's like Mr Bean becoming PM in a dark reboot There isn't really a US equivalent I can think of, her only claim to fame is being really stupid and she handily won the leadership contest against some of the vilest egotists in the UK Unfortunately were probably gonna find out she's also in that category but oh well
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Communist Thoughts posted:There isn't really a US equivalent I can think of, her only claim to fame is being really stupid and she handily won the leadership contest against some of the vilest egotists in the UK marjorie taylor green seems similar, in that she appears to be monumentally thick and also extremely malicious in an unpleasantly happy way.
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bump_fn posted:it rules that they wont call an election for two more yeara. democracy lol The third PM in row who haven't been elected to N:o 10 but chosen by Tories to replace the last guy who resigned in shame! The previous guy who became the PM by rising from opposition to win a general election was Tony loving Blair in 1997. That was 25 years ago. How the hell is Britain this bad at letting the people choose their overlords??? Yes, monarchy, I know...
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I mean, they do consistently choose the general flavour of poo poo, it's not like all of this happens behind closed doors, you know what you're getting with the tories, but a lot of people seemingly want that.
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Nenonen posted:The third PM in row who haven't been elected to N:o 10 but chosen by Tories to replace the last guy who resigned in shame! The previous guy who became the PM by rising from opposition to win a general election was Tony loving Blair in 1997. That was 25 years ago. I know we'd all like to forget David Cameron, but come on.
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evilmiera posted:I put 100 bucks on the dumbest possible option winning the competition and somehow I only won a total of 150 bucks off the bet. Odds aren't great when there's two runners and one spaffed his chance entirely
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Jedit posted:I know we'd all like to forget David Cameron, but come on. I knew it, but then I remembered Gordon Brown and got so angry. So one time in 25 years!
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I see a big future for twitter memes of Liz truss reacting to that presenter that collapsed in response to all the calamities that befall her for however long she lasts.
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is liz truss being PM when the queen dies funnier than if it had been boris
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The Queen's death is both objectively and subjectively funny. PM not required.
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Nenonen posted:I knew it, but then I remembered Gordon Brown and got so angry. Most of Johnson’s premiership took place after he/the Tories won a landslide election victory. Really I’d say only Brown and debatably May really never had an electoral mandate during their premierships.
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I was tempted to suggest we up sticks and move back to Hamburg recently. Then i saw the property prices. 269k for an attic apartment right by the airport? With no bathroom.  How about 229k for a 0 bedroom (??!) 1 bathroom place even further out.  Or the crowning glory. A 0 bedroom 0 bathroom place (is it a cupboard?) on the 4th floor (remember, no elevators or ac) in the attic for 279k! But you get partial use of the neighbouring attic space for storage. Yay.  I'm gonna just move to chile or something I think.
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Diet Crack posted:The Queen's death is both objectively and subjectively funny. PM not required. As a loyal subject I beg to differ.
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Jedit posted:I know we'd all like to forget David Cameron, but come on. I suppose you could argue he didn’t ‘win’ the 2010 election since they didn’t have a majority (and the subsequent election it wasn’t from opposition)
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OwlFancier posted:I mean, they do consistently choose the general flavour of poo poo, it's not like all of this happens behind closed doors, you know what you're getting with the tories, but a lot of people seemingly want that. Yeah, it's the same thing that always happens in Canada, you have people upset about the leadership contest results and it always sounds like "well, yes, I know I wanted a venal loving moron, but that venal loving moron isn't quite to my taste, I'm outraged!" No tories are so different from one another that you can really say the voters were sold a false bill of goods if you swap one prick for the other prick.
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in retrospect, priti patel's resignation letter was a masterclass in subtlety https://twitter.com/PippaCrerar/status/1566845071978336257?cxt=HHwWgsC41dPSxr4rAAAA
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https://twitter.com/lizzietweeter/status/1566756032650559489 Alas we're about to speed run some Dunning Kruger.
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