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crepeface posted:lol ok so UK followed the US lead and imposed sanctions on xinjiang which grows 35% of the world's tomatoes and now there's such a shortage that they're being rationed at supermarkets?! Passing by a little local hole-in-the-wall supermarket this morning and they had boxes of the things piled high. Are my local Asian shops part of a worldwide tomato-smuggling ring?
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Medical students urged to fill gaps when junior doctors strike in England lol
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Runcible Cat posted:Passing by a little local hole-in-the-wall supermarket this morning and they had boxes of the things piled high. idk, i just saw articles about purchasing limits
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RIP English sick people
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Something something experienced with scabs
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keep punching joe posted:Hope they get their citizenship removed I'm hoping for denazification
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gonadic io posted:Something something experienced with scabs Lol
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I love it when police force babies to go hungry presumably is the thing here.
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The absolute best/worst interpretation of that it is that people desperate for money know that other people with very young children need that stuff but can't afford to buy it in the shops. What a fight for justice it is to deny these middle men the chance to provide for the desperately poor families.
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Gripweed posted:The United States has changed it's status from "In a Special Relationship" to "It's complicated" I'm sure the ambassador will be there. Maybe we'll dig up Kamala and kick her over your way so she doesn't gently caress anything up over here. Brandon's got enough Irish in him that he's not a big fan of the British Monarchy. Which is a funny thing to say about an American president but also true.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I'm sure the ambassador will be there. Maybe we'll dig up Kamala and kick her over your way so she doesn't gently caress anything up over here. Isn't Kamala as Indian (or more) as Joe is Irish? Surely she has even less reason to attend on that basis...
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so is this special relationship thing actually anything more than a comforting lie the british ruling classes tell themselves so they can pretend that they're still relevant by way of association? asking because i don't think i've ever seen any yanks actually give a poo poo or even mention it very much outside state visits and the like
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with the loss of the raj the british have been slowly tumbling into the american orbit. Three generations later they are essentially a cultural outpost of the USA with their greatest cultural export being sending actors to make it big in hollywood, dancing to the tune the american market plays.
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Cerebral Bore posted:so is this special relationship thing actually anything more than a comforting lie the british ruling classes tell themselves so they can pretend that they're still relevant by way of association? The "Special Relationship" has become much more unequal since the Thatcher years. And even moreso since you shot yourselves in both feet with Brexit.
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as far as i can gather the special relationship is reserved for the city of london and rada trained actors, it doesn’t even really get mentioned as much anymore? at least since brexiteers stopped trying to convince everyone that we had a golden free trade deal secretly in the works
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Cerebral Bore posted:so is this special relationship thing actually anything more than a comforting lie the british ruling classes tell themselves so they can pretend that they're still relevant by way of association? In a word, no. It's bollocks that's always been attractive to a certain strain of right winger because of shared bounds of grotesque capitalism and the English language. Which implies the continent isn't just as in love with grotesque capitalism but hey, fantasist all the way down
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forkboy84 posted:Tweet deleted but i can only assume it was an advert for their newspaper, because selling newspapers is the only reason Trots exist You forgot about the sex abuse cults
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Considering what they've both got up to with mi5 well... https://twitter.com/LBC/status/1632672778808709120?t=gWwOd28w5F1NwPKil-nI_Q&s=19
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Cerebral Bore posted:so is this special relationship thing actually anything more than a comforting lie the british ruling classes tell themselves so they can pretend that they're still relevant by way of association? it was once I think last time it meant anything was mid Blaire era but it only meant something in that we were useful. Now we're not but our elites are still making decisions assuming the US ultimately genuinely cares for us, or at least our upper classes. They're going to find out what happens to the colonial periphery in bad times. The worst thing about all this? Ultimately once the shock wares off the money'd classes will dust themselves off and just move to the core. Regarde Aduck has issued a correction as of 14:40 on Mar 6, 2023 |
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Jose posted:Considering what they've both got up to with mi5 well... I mean I doubt he did approach her, their handlers probably got together and worked out a deal over a pint.
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Regarde Aduck posted:it was once I mean, we'd show up if poo poo went really pear shaped over there. Like if a nuke plant exploded or if you ran out of food or whatever. But we're not going to pop over to save you from venal elites and a lovely press.
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Zeroisanumber posted:I mean, we'd show up if poo poo went really pear shaped over there. Like if a nuke plant exploded or if you ran out of food or whatever. But we're not going to pop over to save you from venal elites and a lovely press. Oh man. Now, I'm not saying I want some horrible calamity to befall Britain. But you have to admit tens of thousands of British refugees being taken in by kind-hearted Americans would lead to some pretty funny situations.
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The new refugee plans look like they will ban seeking asylum for most intents and purposes, it's powerfully poo poo. In fact it looks like it will be more draconian than what Australia is doing, which is an achievement, since it will apply to all illegal entrants, not just by boat, and will focus on returns regardless of duty of care. Refugee plan pushes limits of international law, says Suella Braverman Suella being the one sponsoring the law, the above is a boast. e: They changed the headline since I posted it LMBO, cowards. The quote is still in the article though, if expanded. Private Speech has issued a correction as of 10:29 on Mar 7, 2023 |
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I can't believe Priti Patel is a preferable home sec to this monster. It's like every time I think they can't get any more evil they are just like "hold my beer".
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they've got absolutely nothign for the next election and they know it but have an absolutely massive majority so they're drat well going to use it on this poo poo. they're not going to fix any of the poo poo that actually needs it so everything is just going to get insanely worse until keith lurches in and undoes none of it becuase he's a useless shite
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I'm sure someone in this thread recommended "Water of Death" by Paul Johnston but search isn't coming up with anything except Dune stuff. Anyway - just read it and it's fab. So thanks for that! Published in 1999 and set in future Edinburgh of 2025.
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