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Yeah, I agree with this. Given the broader context Galloway winning is probably the best outcome, but that doesn't detract from the fact that he's a deeply shady bloke with some extremely suspect opinions. Any major party candidates would almost certainly be nonentities who'd just quietly toe the line, and if I have to eat poo poo either way I'll take the guy who's going to be openly pro-palestine and anti-austerity while he's squeezing it out over the guy who's going to (at best) stay silent. That he's also going to be flinging it around and getting it all over a bunch of the worst people imaginable is a nice bonus too. The chaos will be entertaining at least. I'm interested to see how things play out when the media try to crucify him - which they will, as an outspoken and nominally left wing voice. They certainly have more to work with than they do with Corbyn and this time some of it is actually true, but I can't imagine him adopting the same overly polite, defensive strategy. I remember reading Caroline Lucas' book on becoming an MP and she goes into the various weird ways the commons functions day to day and I certainly don't envy him. Even things like office allocation are done in a way that very much benefits members of the bigger parties and particularly those with the right friends. She did alright because I guess as a polite Green she probably wasn't really perceived as a threat and can be quite charming, but I imagine that Georgy, being detested by almost every MP in there, is going to be working from a stationary cupboard in the bowels of the palace, probably opposite that one remote toilet the cleaners only remember about every other month.
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Mar 5, 2024 03:09
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OwlFancier posted:Given the rainbow washing approach establishing the pattern I suspect the response would be "oh you don't like us bombing the puppies well hamas personally invented XL bullies to eat western children yet you support them????" Are you saying hamas didn't invent xl bullies? What are you, some kind of t*r*st? ===================================================== Separate topic: Meanwhile in other news, it seems that Daniel "Is this a calendar I see before me" Hagari has not in fact resigned contrary to all the tweets yesterday about mass resignations at the top of IDF. And there was me thinking he'd been threatened by Lieutenant Friday. ===================================================== Separate topic: ThomasPaine posted:
Don't forget he's been an MP several times so is probably well aware of what goes on. Though rumour has it he wasn't seen around Westminster much. ===================================================== Separate topic: https://www.jpost.com/omg/article-789809?dicbo=v2-JITeebP Never mind doing a genocide, the act which gets you put on trial is cooking hot dogs on the sabbath: quote:Two soldiers have been sentenced to 20 days in military prison after being caught warming up hot dogs in a military kitchen on Shabbat, according to a KAN11 report on Friday. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 03:55 on Mar 5, 2024 |
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Mar 5, 2024 03:49
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Baroness Jones, "I'm deeply offended its been brought to us.. It's a mess of a bill.. It's illegal and nonsensical.. We are being asked to indulge in pointless chatter because whatever we say the government will not listen to us" @GreenJennyJones "And this is partly fuelled by the Labour front bench that seems to be rewriting the Salisbury convention - that we do not try to stop anything in the government's manifesto" "In fact the Labour front benches say the Lords must not interfere with any legislation or decision by the government or the commons because they are elected and we are not. Then what is the point of the House of Lords?" "We have centuries of experience and knowledge and we did have the opportunity to stop this foolish bill and the Labour front bench decided that we would not.. I think that's an abdication of their responsibility" "And it grieves me that they might actually win the election and then behave in the same way as the Conservative party" Link to tweet with video of her saying all this: https://x.com/implausibleblog/status/1764696351655317805?s=20 (she's a Green btw)
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Mar 5, 2024 05:40
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It's time for this thread's favourite kind of journalism: the "help, we make £80k a year but we're poor" article: https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/04/middle-class-workers-mortgages-bills-tax.quote:An annual gross income of £74,000 puts Scott, 28, a software engineer from Leicestershire, in the top 10% of earners nationally. But, he says, it doesn’t feel that way for him and his family. Hmm, computer, enhance. quote:The couple’s mortgage uses up more than a third of Scott’s take-home pay, the family’s monthly grocery shop costs more than £500, his student loan repayments are £300 – “money I now desperately need,” he says. Right, so that's about £2,300 of his £4,400 take home accounted for, leaving £2k for everything else. Computer, zoom in again. quote:“We lease a car, the cost of which has risen greatly too because of higher interest rates. After all the things I have to pay for, we’re lucky to have £300 left over for the month, which is quickly depleted by day-to-day expenses. It feels like we’ve done everything we were told to do and yet we’re still struggling,” Scott says. Ah, there it is! No way we can buy, say, a used car instead of leasing! Lots of conspicuously unexplained gaps in these budgets where money just happens to disappear. Also, the commonly identified culprit? Those dang taxes being too high for us honest middle class earners! Reminds me of two American colleagues of mine who both work in academia in a relatively cheap part of the country. One has a permanent lecturer position, the other isn't competitive for permanent jobs and picks up part time teaching but refuses to even look for other kinds of work. Between the two of them they make right around the same or more annually than my wife and I do. I ran into them the other day and they were complaining about how they just can't afford to stay here in the UK and are considering moving back to the US. The kicker? They bought a £400k house, an electric SUV that must be £40k, regularly take expensive vacations--and do that all with a huge dose of financial help from their parents. Meanwhile my wife and I are doing just fine living in a house that costs less than half that amount, driving a used car that cost £4k, and taking modest vacations. Yeah, it's that damned cost of living crisis 
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Mar 5, 2024 07:35
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Mebh posted:I'm just wondering how the chicken thighs went. It was fine, they were nicely falling apart so I could just pull out the bones while serving. Each thigh had one straight bone and one gristle cap - admittedly the latter were a bit of a pain to find amongst all the white veggies I had in there. My main issue was undersalting the whole thing but we fixed that in post
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Mar 5, 2024 08:25
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OwlFancier posted:It's like when you read old victorian stories about how the high society types spend all their time at "the club" which is an endless series of drawing rooms and wood paneling with the terminally affluent milling about in them because that's just what they do. Having a brother who was at one time a member of the Reform Club I can assure you the clubs were and are incredibly effective vehicles for networking amongst toffs. It's all part of how they keep each other rich and everyone else poor
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Mar 5, 2024 08:37
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It's 2034. George Galloway wins a Battersea by-election with a single-issue campaign on the issues around puppy smuggling. The establishment, stunned and afraid, sends the PM out to the podium holding a kitten. Teachers have to pay to build their own schools. A Kit-Kat costs £15 on the black market.
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Mar 5, 2024 08:48
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The twist: George Galloway is the PM.
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Mar 5, 2024 09:06
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Why does anyone want to ban puppy snuggling? Weird freaks.
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Mar 5, 2024 09:11
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Guavanaut posted:New conspiracy theory, queens's not dead, she just phased invisible into the UV part of the spectrum so we can't see her.
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Mar 5, 2024 09:51
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Actually..... this is a ton more likely to work with those who either don't want to think about Israel/Palestine or who just respond with 'they're all the same why are we even bothered about a foreign land 3000 miles away none of our business etc' or are in the 'can't we all just get along' crowd. MeinPanzer posted:Yeah, it's that damned cost of living crisis I'd be dead from a cocaine induced myocardial infarction on that amount. domhal posted:It's 2034. George Galloway wins a Battersea by-election with a single-issue campaign on the issues around puppy smuggling. The establishment, stunned and afraid, sends the PM out to the podium holding a kitten. Teachers have to pay to build their own schools. A Kit-Kat costs £15 on the black market. 
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Mar 5, 2024 09:56
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keep punching joe posted:Why does anyone want to ban puppy snuggling? Weird freaks. It's quite often non-consensual. Just ask my two kittens.
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Mar 5, 2024 10:02
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domhal posted:It's 2034. George Galloway wins a Battersea by-election with a single-issue campaign on the issues around puppy smuggling. The establishment, stunned and afraid, sends the PM out to the podium holding a kitten. Teachers have to pay to build their own schools. A Kit-Kat costs £15 on the black market. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYdsNeRoShA
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Mar 5, 2024 10:10
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CGI Stardust posted:Charles will join his mother in the ex-rey spectrum very shortly 
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Mar 5, 2024 10:11
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CGI Stardust posted:Charles will join his mother in the ex-rey spectrum very shortly 
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Mar 5, 2024 10:11
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:
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Mar 5, 2024 10:17
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Guavanaut posted:A software engineer from Leicestershire on how loving much??? That may be both their incomes, the way it's worded. For what the article is trying to say making out that he himself makes all the money sounds better. Because having been a software engineer in Leicestershire, yeah, that's bonkers money especially for a 28 year old so it's not like he's actually Head of Engineering or something.
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Mar 5, 2024 10:57
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i've seen people get into financial holes because instead of getting a car they can afford they got something on hire purchase to be seen in i find it impossible to have sympathy 
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Mar 5, 2024 11:05
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Do people not just go to their local garage any more and buy an old Fiat panda for 500 quid and running it till it dies like my mum has been doing for the past 30 years.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:11
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crispix posted:i've seen people get into financial holes because instead of getting a car they can afford they got something on hire purchase to be seen in Every time I see a shiny new Tesla, I have to fight the urge to plow my poo poo box Seat into the side of it.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:15
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Just in relation to this, just want to post this here as from what I can tell this is the only place on the entire internet where this song exists. It was never on any of the soundtrack albums or released commercially. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6VutHSqivBE
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Mar 5, 2024 11:16
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Sadsack posted:Every time I see a shiny new Tesla, I have to fight the urge to plow my poo poo box 
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Mar 5, 2024 11:20
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DON'T BE SO CRUDE 
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Mar 5, 2024 11:24
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we spell it plough in this house
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Mar 5, 2024 11:24
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keep punching joe posted:Do people not just go to their local garage any more and buy an old Fiat panda for 500 quid and running it till it dies like my mum has been doing for the past 30 years. We've got Mercedes and BMW dealerships near us, so there are loads of people driving those around. And, yeah, if your options are a brand new Mercedes on an affordable monthly plan* or a second-hand car that could have had anything happen to it, it's no surprise people will choose the new car. Also, there are fewer second-hand dealers than there used to be. But yeah, the way these leases are sold or at least advertised absolutely takes advantage of the lack of skill many people have with household budgets. There may also be a bit of wariness about how good local garages are at taking care of older cars.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:40
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They need to make more cars like the Toyota Hilux that will keep running when half of what's under the bonnet is bits of wood, lighting flex, and components bought from Maplin e: 
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Mar 5, 2024 11:43
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I am a serial puppy snuggler and anyone who tries to stop me is going to regret it. When my dog looks at them all sad and mournfully licks them.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:45
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Good news friends! Keith Is having a good genocide! 
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Mar 5, 2024 11:48
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crispix posted:i've seen people get into financial holes because instead of getting a car they can afford they got something on hire purchase to be seen in The way car industry is evolving is a bunch of factors that's having the end result of pricing newer cars out of the reach or ordinary people, or without taking on crippling amounts of debt. If I focus on a single example, take modern led lamps, studies show they cost on average around 1500€ to replace and last on average 15 years, that is 150€ per year if it lasts that long. I pointed this out and someone countered with that most people would be new owners so it doesn't matter (yeah gently caress 2nd or 3rd hand owners) and if it broke they would have insurance replace it so increased costs on lamp replacement doesn't really matter. But you think the insurance companies will just take that lying down? They will get that money back by increasing rates. Which affects even you with a very old car using halogen bulbs you can replace at home for a few euros / pounds. This is to me just one of many, many ways that rich(er) people stuff poor people just by living their lives as normal people (for their income bracket). Society seems designed to increase the gap between the rich and poor in every single aspect.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:48
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Bring back those 90s diesel Mercedes that will run on chip fat and rubbing alcohol too.smellmycheese posted:Good news friends! Keith Is having a good genocide! 
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Mar 5, 2024 11:50
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kingturnip posted:We've got Mercedes and BMW dealerships near us, so there are loads of people driving those around. And, yeah, if your options are a brand new Mercedes on an affordable monthly plan* or a second-hand car that could have had anything happen to it, it's no surprise people will choose the new car. People going for leased/new vehicles here over used vehicles and then complaining about the cost is especially annoying because the second hand vehicle market is so much more consumer friendly in the UK than in many other countries. The requirement for vehicles to pass the MOT plus the ability for anyone to freely access basic information on a vehicle means that you can buy used cars with considerably more confidence than in, say, the USA or Canada. Whenever you buy a car in those countries, you're just trusting that the owner hasn't had their cousin who owns a shop turn back the odometer and make a couple of cosmetic fixes so that their piece of poo poo looks like a good deal.
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Mar 5, 2024 11:54
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My current car (A 2007 smart 451) is the most expensive vehicle I've ever had - cost £2800 (mostly from the insurance payout of the last one).
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Mar 5, 2024 12:00
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Keep crashing* more and more expensive cars until you can buy a fantastic one. *pro-tip don't be the one responsible for the crash
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Mar 5, 2024 12:05
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Personally the more modern a car gets the less it interests me. I actively dislike new cars now. Their development path is to me the perfect example of capitalism acting to make the product worse. See the LED example for a narrow slice of what I dislike. Not that I think LED technology is bad, but like most other technologies it gets implemented in a way as to gently caress people over. It's technically possible to standardize LED lamps to make them user serviceable, if you wanted to. But why? You make less money that way and it would restrict how crazy rear end looking you could make them too.
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Mar 5, 2024 12:09
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Plus modern main beams seem to be designed based on rather than seeing where you're going.
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Mar 5, 2024 12:13
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They’ve put some work into the layout of that sign so someone can’t be photogrsphed covering up a bit so it reads “I support [politician’s head] puppy and kitten smuggling” They’re learning, and it’s a drat shame. Although one sign reads ‘support’ and one reads ‘back’.
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Mar 5, 2024 12:19
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tackles poppy and statue defenders
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Mar 5, 2024 12:25
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Guavanaut posted:Bring back those 90s diesel Mercedes that will run on chip fat and rubbing alcohol too. Am I old because I knew instantly what film that image is from? Or do the young 'uns also know?
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Mar 5, 2024 12:25
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Apparently 'Kate Middleton' has been 'seen'!  Please don't ask what's happening on the underside of the car with those spare tyres, nor why this is the best picture a pap was able to get given the technology of today. GOD SAVE OUR FUTURE QUEEN! 
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fuctifino posted:Apparently 'Kate Middleton' has been 'seen'! Have you not read twitter? That is either Pippa OR Ozzy Osbourne pretending to be Kate to allay rumours that she is no longer of this earth.
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