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Tesseraction posted:Kinda shows how hosed our society has become when people can act like that without feeling embarrassed. There's a guy walking around Birmingham city centre in full Jimmy Saville costume with at least two mates. Shame left the building a long time ago.
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Dabir posted:There's a guy walking around Birmingham city centre in full Jimmy Saville costume with at least two mates. Shame left the building a long time ago. Tory Party conference was a couple of weeks ago - did he have the wrong date?
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Send me all the morphines instead.Mega Comrade posted:God that's depressing. Does this make Starmer right in the direction he has taken the party? At least in the "do whatever it takes to win". Guavanaut posted:the most recent FT/Chapel Hill polls Both Starmer and the Tories are chasing each other to the economic right (which nobody wants) to try and capitalize on non-existent voters. Like I don't want a neo-BNP that's economically Corbynite but also racist and pro capital punishment and armed police, but I at least admit that those voters exist (and they should feel bad about that, but mostly just feel poorly defined rage) whereas the Weetabix Wonderworld Atlas Shrugged voters they're going for do not.
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Twitter is full of Tory MPs doing doorstop and street canvassing with, er, well, tiny teams of mostly white old people. lmao https://twitter.com/GregHands/status/1581213379305566209https://twitter.com/kevin_j_foster/status/1581220544737087489 https://twitter.com/Rehman_Chishti/status/1581243541614825474 While others are visiting their voter base in old people's homes https://twitter.com/OliverDowden/status/1580905518184292352 https://twitter.com/baynes_simon/status/1580529266550505473 lmao
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Oct 15, 2022 16:13
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'national local matters' What kind of nationals are in your local area and where should we send them?
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a few years back I took a prescribed common antibiotic I had used at least half a dozen times before with no problems but that time I had an interaction and it hosed up my liver so hard I nearly died, leaving me with a permanent and life changing disability don't gently caress around with antibiotics imo Tesseraction posted:Kinda shows how hosed our society has become when people can act like that without feeling embarrassed. as things have gone gradually shittier I have seen an increase in reet mardy fuckin' behaviours, think it's getting to folks
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Yeah I have a probable antibiotic allergy that I didn't have before. Turns out that some based on common fungal and bacterial immune defences are good for priming your immune system into full gently caress this mode the next time you take them.
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Guavanaut posted:'national local matters' I think this is who Radio Active was broadcast to?
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fuctifino posted:I stopped talking to my mum completely a few weeks ago after yet another failed attempt at building bridges, as trying to pick through her telegraph pickled brain was like peeling an onion, only to find more rot, lies and gaslighting. I've given up putting any more effort into the relationship, as the whole situation was draining energy I don't have. I have better relationships with strangers I meet when out than I do with my own mum...
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fuctifino posted:I stopped talking to my mum completely a few weeks ago after yet another failed attempt at building bridges, as trying to pick through her telegraph pickled brain was like peeling an onion, only to find more rot, lies and gaslighting. I've given up putting any more effort into the relationship, as the whole situation was draining energy I don't have. I have better relationships with strangers I meet when out than I do with my own mum... Its drat necessary. There's full sides of my father's family that we (my family) stay clear from. Such selfish sickening fuckers that their own children ended up not wanting anything to do with them.
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fuctifino posted:Twitter is full of Tory MPs doing doorstop and street canvassing with, er, well, tiny teams of mostly white old people. lmao As winter and starvation sets in, some of these teams will head off into the cold, never to return.
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Z the IVth posted:As winter and starvation sets in, some of these teams will head off into the cold, never to return. New game! Spot the contrary twats deliberately not wearing a jacket. Right wing boomer men have been harping on to each other about how the poor are just used to central heating when back in my day, and yeh they turned only wearing a jumper into a dogwhistle for "everyone else is a snowflake scrounger"
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fuctifino posted:https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1581254604058021888 Most likely next steps are MPs still submit letters and Graham Brady goes round for a quiet word telling her to quit before a no confidence vote/they change rules. Same as Johnson and May. Edit: Tories will never do a no confidence in parliament and election won’t happen until 2024 given how certain losing is.
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Latest Brexit update from the Torygraph
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RockyB posted:Latest Brexit update from the Torygraph 
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learnincurve posted:New game! Spot the contrary twats deliberately not wearing a jacket. Right wing boomer men have been harping on to each other about how the poor are just used to central heating when back in my day, and yeh they turned only wearing a jumper into a dogwhistle for "everyone else is a snowflake scrounger" I was referring to the canvassing teams being eaten OP.
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loving 4 month loving wait to see a gynaecologist about my orange sized ovarian cyst that is causing constant pain and stopping me from doing basically anything other than lying on the sofa once I've got home from work, gently caress what Tories have done to the NHS
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Surely the best option for the Tories at this point is to say ‘gently caress it, General Election’. Let Labour sit on the hot seat when the big economic bomb goes off and then the whole charade can start over again
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minema posted:loving 4 month loving wait to see a gynaecologist about my orange sized ovarian cyst that is causing constant pain and stopping me from doing basically anything other than lying on the sofa once I've got home from work, gently caress what Tories have done to the NHS Jesus, I’m sorry. My wife’s going through the exact same thing atm- and lost an ovary to torsion due a different cyst earlier this year. It’s loving horrific. We’ve had to go private with her work health insurance, and even then it’s over a month of waiting till her first appointment.
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Anyone got a link to that 600k excess deaths paper posted a while back?
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I was wondering what it was that finally led to the tories getting kicked out in the 90s? I was only maybe about 14 at the time and not really paying attention to politics,but I'm also wondering just how much more coverage of the government antics there are now compared to then too? For instance I knew who John Major was and vaguely recall hearing him come up on the news and whatever. But back then that was maybe just the brief updates I saw at the typical news at 10 or 6 or whatever. This information is rolling now. You actively have to try and avoid hearing about it so I think a lot of this is going to be remembered for a long time,especially by the younger folk getting hosed over the most since the tories won 12 years ago. Edit: basically, calling a general election might be off the table because they want to milk the gift as much as possible before they're out for decades. Truss backfired because she did grift too obviously and everything started to collapse. Kin fucked around with this message at 19:34 on Oct 15, 2022 |
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Guavanaut posted:Nobody is going around abolishing nice functional families, but people deserve alternatives when they don't have that, and they needn't be automatically considered 'alternative'. 
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Ah, here you go. Those scripted pantomime stunts have now conditioned enough of the public into accepting what's about to come: https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1581335838159302657 https://twitter.com/SuellaBraverman/status/1581335844715397120 Keith will of course eventually back the bill, or demand an even tougher one 
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Kin posted:I was wondering what it was that finally led to the tories getting kicked out in the 90s? Back then having an affair or doing something dodgy was a sackable/resigning offense. You had David Mellor, you had the brown paper bungs all over the tories. People were just sick of them, it was a slow drip drip drip of incompetence and corruption. These days its just a Tuesday.
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That Public Order Bill is, er... wow.... extreme is an understatement. Welcome to fascism (more so)
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happyhippy posted:Back then having an affair or doing something dodgy was a sackable/resigning offense. The brown envelopes business was a big part of Majors downfall. Remember Martin Lewis and his white suit defeating Neil Hamilton? Of course the brown envelopes came from , erm, the dad of the bloke Princess Di went on to shag, but that kind of got forgotten.
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fuctifino posted:That Public Order Bill is, er... wow.... extreme is an understatement. “Interference with use or operation of key national infrastructure” should sync up nicely with their plans to stop people in certain sectors from going on strike. They might want to think about the wording though, considering most of this ‘key national infrastructure’ is probably in fact privatised…
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How this woman ever got to be not only a fêted head teacher but "Social Mobility Chair" I do not know. https://twitter.com/Miss_Snuffy/status/1581167885502013445
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:How this woman ever got to be not only a fêted head teacher but "Social Mobility Chair" I do not know. My dog actually has a smarter, more intuitive take on what’s just occurred than “Britains Best Headteacher”
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Major's government was toppled due to Black Wednesday in 1992. It ruined their credibility as being a safe pair of hands with the economy - their polling dropped massively and they lost a run of by-elections and council elections. There were major conflicts over Europe, a leadership tussle - and as said above, the cash for questions scandal. Major also launched a 'back to basics' campaign, which was all about conservative social values - and as other posters have said, there were numerous sexual scandals (amongst other scandals) which completely contradicted the policy's aims. The three that really stick in my mind were Milligan's auto-erotic asphyxiation, Brown's (Michael not Gordon) holiday with a 20 year old man when the age of consent was still 21, and then cash for questions. Those events happened in about 6-8 months of each other. But it was really Black Wednesday that started it all off, and that's why we're seeing all of this angst again now with Truss. The right wing press will not critique the Conservative party until their actions damage the middle classes. Like the 80s, we've all been suffering for more than a decade - but it's not until the middle classes scream (interest rates, housing market crash) that anything changes.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:How this woman ever got to be not only a fêted head teacher but "Social Mobility Chair" I do not know. ...did he have a choice?
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minema posted:loving 4 month loving wait to see a gynaecologist about my orange sized ovarian cyst that is causing constant pain and stopping me from doing basically anything other than lying on the sofa once I've got home from work, gently caress what Tories have done to the NHS I don’t know the cost of this but I’m sure the UKMT hardship fund would be worth asking about paying towards going private if this is at all feasible
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I’m guessing some Tories are weighing up whether they are at the nadir of their popularity now, or if it could get worse. If it could get worse, a GE now might salvage some seats. The prospect of electoral oblivion in two years might be worrying some.
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