smellmycheese posted:

Photo from Farages 60th birthday party

Beefeater1980 posted:

My best guess at what Starmer would do in office is try to govern as if this was a continuation of the Blair government except with total incompetents in charge.

Specifically I think this would look like:
* No independent foreign policy. Follow the US lead whatever that is from time to time. Bomb who they bomb, shun who they shun etc.
* Increase public spending (people here tend to talk as if the Blair government cut spending: it actually rose from about £400m in 1997 to about £750M in 2013 in real terms, i.e. after inflation, then very slowly fell until 2018 or so). Source
* Mostly avoid culture wars; when forced to take a view, try to be in line with the general public, who are slightly conservative.
* Be quite authoritarian. Promote and support the police, expand monitoring, default to any position that gives the state more information and control relative to the individual citizen….

…Just handled by people who are completely broke-brained by social media, who have never lived in a world where they had to interact with physical reality and who are governing a much poorer country with a lot fewer levers to pull on to change things.

Beefeater1980 posted:

My best guess at what Starmer would do in office is try to

big scary monsters posted:

bring back a beloved and traditional British institution by deregulating the sale of gin and making it duty free, and introduce strict liability for cyclists involved in collisions with cars.

smellmycheese posted:

Chaser:


Take the hint bro lol

sebzilla posted:

Yeah mate you can be responsible for punting Woah-oah Thangam Debonnaire into the harbour (metaphorically, on Minecraft)

Umbra Dubium posted:

You're right, they never did catch the Bristol Pusher.

happyhippy posted:

https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2016-05-05/results/Location/Constituency/Upper%20Bann

Dude was last place, and lost his deposit with 0.4% of the vote.

So can't understand why Rishi isn't taking this high flyer on board and immediately putting him in the front benches.

Starbucks posted:

Looked up Bristol Central and it existed before and had this lovely lady there

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Violet_Bathurst,_Lady_Apsley

I am glad she wasn’t elected. Just shows what Tories would do if they could.

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Don't tweet a post including the phrase "gobbledy gook" because the American algorithm has decided that instead of it having the perfectly normal British meaning of "unintelligible or meaningless language" it is supposedly "hate speech".

Z the IVth posted:

Think it's the latter part because it may somehow be confused with American for Vietnamese.

Beefeater1980 posted:

* Increase public spending (people here tend to talk as if the Blair government cut spending: it actually rose from about £400m in 1997 to about £750M in 2013 in real terms, i.e. after inflation, then very slowly fell until 2018 or so).

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Amazing though to see the platform run infested by nazis, transphobes and eugenicists deciding this is the one thing they do want to police.

Bobby Deluxe posted:

Still, I read an article claiming that even without the scunthorpe problem words like that can still come across a bit bigoted in certain contexts, if the context is talking about 'that person's language / dialect / accent is so unintelligible to me that it may as well be nonsense.' What was the tweet?

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Don't tweet

Mega Comrade posted:

NotJustANumber99 posted:

Gobbledygook should be one word anyway

happyhippy posted:

https://electionresults.parliament.uk/election/2016-05-05/results/Location/Constituency/Upper%20Bann

Dude was last place, and lost his deposit with 0.4% of the vote.

So can't understand why Rishi isn't taking this high flyer on board and immediately putting him in the front benches.

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/edcumming/status/1776215949797999027

fuctifino posted:

https://twitter.com/edcumming/status/1776215949797999027

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

Can't stop myself, I'm an addict. Though I am trying to remember to just block all those right wingers who get in the 'for you' feed instead of reacting with a reply.
I realize the more I react the more the algorithm will feed it to me.
Then if I am really getting my blood pressure up, I force myself to log out so there's that tiny pause when I would have to log in again to read some more when I can think "do I really want to do this".

quote:

First attested in a memo by US Representative (Texas) Maury Maverick dated March 30, 1944, banning "gobbledygook language". Apparently coined in imitation of the sounds made by a turkey.