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keep punching joe posted:Na h-Eileanan an Iar ain't going Labour. I wouldn't be so sure, last election the split was 45/26/22 SNP/Lab/Con, and the MP Angus MacNeil has been in place since 2005, has been expelled from the SNP and intends to stand again, probably as an Independent. Any significant split in the SNP vote as a result, combined with Conservative voters tactically voting for Labour could give them the seat.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:09
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Galloway gets their dander up because he is the loudest oval office in the pub, which is also why basically no-one likes him. Him coincidentally stubbing his toe on a correct opinion from time to time doesn't undo the rest.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:19
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I can't even wrap my head around the consequences of an outcome like that. That's the kind of ridiculous result that only happens when you're abusing a game mechanic in Vicky or something. It's also making me want to vote Lab because useless spunk-filled johnnies though they may be, the lure of the bants is strong.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:24
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Ms Adequate posted:I can't even wrap my head around the consequences of an outcome like that. That's the kind of ridiculous result that only happens when you're abusing a game mechanic in Vicky or something. It's also making me want to vote Lab because useless spunk-filled johnnies though they may be, the lure of the bants is strong. People saying that they're willing to support an act of immense harm to the UK because it would be funny is a part of why we're no longer in the EU.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:27
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Ms Adequate posted:I can't even wrap my head around the consequences of an outcome like that. That's the kind of ridiculous result that only happens when you're abusing a game mechanic in Vicky or something. It's also making me want to vote Lab because useless spunk-filled johnnies though they may be, the lure of the bants is strong. After a certain threshold FPTP breaks, see Scotland 2015 for example. Though that was a wave of rage and optimism that brought that about. Starmer Labour are like the anti charisma party sensibly avoiding anything that looks like positive change. So they'll probably gently caress it. Also lmao 
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Mar 4, 2024 14:28
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Jedit posted:People saying that they're willing to support an act of immense harm to the UK because it would be funny is a part of why we're no longer in the EU. Sure, but it's not like there's a good alternative on offer here
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Mar 4, 2024 14:45
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keep punching joe posted:Also lmao Fuckin less than 5 percent Liz failing upwards into this kind of position says all you need to know about the sensible new Labour Party.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:51
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Union chat - the flowchart is this: Union your job recognises > Union with the most members at your job > if all similar-ish, union with the best local branch. Local branches can vary wildly by job/location and unfortunately there's no way to know before you join them and have to deal with them. The branches should have meetings every now and then where you can go and gauge what they're like. Don't be afraid to quit and join another one if you're really disappointed by them! As long as you don't have any ongoing issues at work (since unions will not represent you on issues that started before you joined them, otherwise everyone would just join last minute), it should be fine. Unite are probably the best of the big three (unite, unison, gmb) on a national politics level and anecdotally, my branch are quite good, but as I said it varies pretty drastically.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:54
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keep punching joe posted:After a certain threshold FPTP breaks, see Scotland 2015 for example. Though that was a wave of rage and optimism that brought that about. Starmer Labour are like the anti charisma party sensibly avoiding anything that looks like positive change. It's called Labour because everyone is forced into labour
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Mar 4, 2024 14:59
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Failed Imagineer posted:Sure, but it's not like there's a good alternative on offer here Just because the world is burning doesn't mean I have to toast marshmallows.
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Mar 4, 2024 14:59
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Jedit posted:People saying that they're willing to support an act of immense harm to the UK because it would be funny is a part of why we're no longer in the EU.  2020 amazing year for Britain etc etc Tesseraction posted:Fuckin less than 5 percent Liz failing upwards into this kind of position says all you need to know about the sensible new Labour Party.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:00
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Jedit posted:Just because the world is burning doesn't mean I have to toast marshmallows. No one's asking you to?
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Mar 4, 2024 15:01
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Watching that Adam Curtis / I do like The Welsh Catcher though, driving around border towns with a big zoo cage full of Welsh people on the bed of his truck. keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 15:28 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Mar 4, 2024 15:05
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keep punching joe posted:Watching that Adam Curtis / Martin Sheen drama 'The Way' and gotta say, it's pretty terrible. is this what President Bartlet ends up doing
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Mar 4, 2024 15:16
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Failed Imagineer posted:No one's asking you to? 
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Mar 4, 2024 15:17
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Lady Grey orange juice.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:18
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keep punching joe posted:Watching that Adam Curtis / Martin Sheen drama 'The Way' and gotta say, it's pretty terrible. Back in the day, the Welsh Catcher would come right into your garden to collect them for you. (Btw it's noted Welshman Michael Sheen, not noted Irishman Martin Sheen AKA Ramon Estevez)
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Mar 4, 2024 15:18
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Got my Sheens mixed up. Though bizarrely Emilio Estvez directed Martin Sheen in a 2010 movie also titled The Way.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:24
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quote !== edit
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Mar 4, 2024 15:26
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keep punching joe posted:Got my Sheens mixed up. That was what was loving me up, because I saw that movie. Kinda boring but it did make me want to walk the Camino
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Mar 4, 2024 15:29
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Public taps that wine comes out of
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Mar 4, 2024 15:45
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I wonder if the uptick in SNP isn't just down to folk realising that Labour are a shower of shits but, also that they're finally realising (in a round about way) that the way Scotland votes has minimal impact on a UK government. Essentially, the more the news bangs on about the tories nation wide crippling defeat to Labour, the lower their "tories out" platform and vote in Scotland will be.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:46
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Right. Google's not giving me anything useful, and you lot know things so I'm asking here. What's different between the generic Salamol inhalers and the older Salbutamol inhalers? I ask because most of my adult life I've had a blue ventolin/salbutamol inhaler. Never had any issues with it. Worked great. However in recent years, they've been giving me these lovely little salamol generics that crap out after a few activations, and something in their composition gives me palpitations and makes me feel extremely jittery after using them (I have a similar problem with caffeine and a bunch of other medications). I can't find anything specifying the difference apart from an asthma forum claiming (unsourced) that the generics use ethanol? Apparently if the prescription specifically says ventolin you can get the older style so I might try that, but it does mean running the gauntlet of trying to get through to the GP surgery.
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Mar 4, 2024 15:48
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keep punching joe posted:After a certain threshold FPTP breaks, see Scotland 2015 for example. Though that was a wave of rage and optimism that brought that about. Starmer Labour are like the anti charisma party sensibly avoiding anything that looks like positive change. so like as not the lesson they take from electoral annihilation will be 'the woke marxist deep state did this', they assert control of the party orgs, invite farage and tice back into the club, fold reform into the New Conservative Party for Liberty and Democracy, and by the time the next election rolls around after a few years under a labour government that believes it would be wrong to offer hope at a time when hopelessness is ongoing, the uk has a full on blood-gargling populist party to match wit the rest of europe
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Mar 4, 2024 15:50
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Bobby Deluxe posted:However in recent years, they've been giving me these lovely little salamol generics that crap out after a few activations, and something in their composition gives me palpitations and makes me feel extremely jittery after using them (I have a similar problem with caffeine and a bunch of other medications). NotJustANumber99 posted:Public taps that wine comes out of
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Mar 4, 2024 15:51
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keep punching joe posted:Watching that Adam Curtis / I didn't really like The Way. I found it odd, and not in an 'intriguing' way.
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Mar 4, 2024 16:04
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It would be interesting to know how much the whole RV ordeal and finance stuff has hurt the SNP, there are a sensible alternative to Labour in that they get votes in a FPTP system. I would expect given Labour and the lurch to the right because who are the left in England going to vote for? Tories? As for The Way, it seemed clumsy towards the end, if it had something like the third act of Children of Men it would work better.
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Mar 4, 2024 16:04
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Just Another Lurker posted:I can see why a cleaver could be a good choice, bought one years ago (7in Ken Hom branded off Amazon on discount) and they are bloody great for all my veg cutting/chopping... i rarely cut meat. Consider a Chinese cleaver (not the same as an actual cleaver, you aren't cutting through bone with these, they are general chef's knives). It's nothing fancy but I have this - https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B005HE8F8S/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_image?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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Mar 4, 2024 16:14
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https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1764666740917575973?s=20
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Mar 4, 2024 16:41
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gently caress him up jez
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Mar 4, 2024 16:42
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Libel Farage
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Mar 4, 2024 16:43
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What was the defamatory statement?
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Mar 4, 2024 16:50
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8 years too late but hey-ho.
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Mar 4, 2024 16:54
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Mar 4, 2024 16:55
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Bobby Deluxe posted:What was the defamatory statement? A statement from Mr Corbyn's team said Mr Farage "accused Jeremy Corbyn of subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory". ^ from Sky, their article doesn't currently contain the actual words said by Farage
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Mar 4, 2024 16:56
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The man who used to sing Hitler Youth songs? Who believes in the Great Replacement conspiracy theory and calls things he doesn't like "cultural marxism"? He's accusing people of subscribing to an antisemitic conspiracy theory?
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Mar 4, 2024 16:59
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feedmegin posted:Consider a Chinese cleaver (not the same as an actual cleaver, you aren't cutting through bone with these, they are general chef's knives). It's nothing fancy but I have this - Rechecked my cleaver i remembered the wrong bloody one!  Sorry about that. This is what i'm using nowadays: https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B001ASYCLE/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&th=1 a Mercer like yours, different model. 
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Mar 4, 2024 17:05
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The segment he's suing over is a GB News broadcast where Nigel says: 'I don't believe in a Jewish conspiracy to control the world... BUT JEREMY CORBYN DOES'
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Mar 4, 2024 17:08
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That's weird because just a couple of years/months ago he was claiming a globilalist agenda to push Marxism funded by George Soros and that the Jewish lobby has a disproportionate influence in American politics. Which sounds a bit anti semitic conspiracy theory adjacent to me.
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Mar 4, 2024 17:12
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Galloway is a baffling politician to me. Like maybe 60% his takes are actually very on point, but the remainder are absolute horseshit. He seems generally alright on foreign policy and economics but dear god he can be pretty reactionary socially and the gleeful transphobia is grim. I don't know how much of this is actually what he genuinely believes and how much is him actively playing to religious conservatives in his constituency, but I guess that's besides the point. I do think he's a narcissist, and he's clearly primarily interested in George Galloway first and foremost. Still, many problematic issues aside, he's consistently been good on Palestine and he's positioning himself as a left-wing populist, so if nothing else it'll be good to have someone in the commons actually calling the centrists out, and it's nice to see the major parties losing their minds about him. I'm interested to see how things play out.
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