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Jedit posted:If the Tories are planning a 100-day policy blitz after the locals, then they're probably calling a GE immediately after. That would put it at around September 19th. They might do it a couple of weeks earlier though, to catch out students in transit. Saw something from Kuenssberg last weekend saying that Sunak might call it in the wake of the local elections to stave off a potential challenge to his leadership if (when) the results are disastrous.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:02
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And he's gone. Managed to completely and comprehensively torpedo himself in record time.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:11
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forkboy84 posted:It's the same here. There was crossover with the Wee Frees up here & the Highland Land League Tommy Douglas, 1958 posted:The newspapers said we were going to socialize everything, that the government would own the farms, the corner store, the barber-shop, and the beauty parlour, and that everybody would be working for the state. When that didn’t happen, they had to give some explanation. So the explanation was that we had betrayed our principles, we were no longer Socialists, we were reactionaries and had departed from our original ideas. In effect, we were now traitors, because we didn’t do the horrible things they promised we would. They had built up a straw man and now they were knocking it down.  Also secret Hitlers, all Hitlers all day Tommy Douglas, 1958 posted:It was a fairly rough campaign because the Liberals had by this time begun to smell defeat in the air. Their attacks became almost frenzied. We had now ceased to become Communists, which we had been called in previous elections, because the Communists had become respectable.… We, who for years had opposed Hitler when other people were saying he wasn’t a bad fellow, were now classified as National Socialists. They made wild assertions that we were going to take farms, confiscate businesses, and drive all the industries out of the province. The attacks became more hysterical with every passing day.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:12
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Give it Mhairi 'til end of session
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Apr 29, 2024 12:13
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sebzilla posted:Give it Mhairi 'til end of session Black? Sadly she's an MP & there is no way the leader of the Nats won't be at Holyrood now. I'd be for it myself, she's clearly a good egg, which you can tell because she wants to get out of Westminster after a decade.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:15
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:And he's gone. Managed to completely and comprehensively torpedo himself in record time. The man who managed to headbutt himself in the dick.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:19
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Almost feels like he didn’t really want the job
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Apr 29, 2024 12:30
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WTF is this Tory strategy of stepping up attacks on the sick and disabled? I know they've always just wanted people to die but why this sudden rush, do they think this will play well?
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Apr 29, 2024 12:35
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i mean it worked in the last 4 elections
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Apr 29, 2024 12:36
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Rather than "hmm, we're losing popularity, what we're doing isn't working" it's "hmm, we're losing popularity, we're not doing enough of it".
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Apr 29, 2024 12:40
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HopperUK posted:WTF is this Tory strategy of stepping up attacks on the sick and disabled? I know they've always just wanted people to die but why this sudden rush, do they think this will play well? There’s probably some electoral calculus along the lines of “sick and disabled people are less likely to have photo id to vote with (either due to lack of money or lack of necessity in their day to day life) so gently caress them they won’t vote for us but they can’t vote against us either” in the mix.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:40
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Joke's on them, I only have photo ID because I'm disabled
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Apr 29, 2024 12:41
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HopperUK posted:WTF is this Tory strategy of stepping up attacks on the sick and disabled? I know they've always just wanted people to die but why this sudden rush, do they think this will play well? Throw everything at the wall to see what sticks.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:42
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This is all to secure their post parliament careers. Be it working at a think tank, being an after dinner speaker, doing the cons in the states, sitting on a board etc. etc.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:46
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Nuclear Spoon posted:i mean it worked in the last 4 elections Off topic but: baby tapir! 
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Apr 29, 2024 12:48
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HopperUK posted:WTF is this Tory strategy of stepping up attacks on the sick and disabled? I know they've always just wanted people to die but why this sudden rush, do they think this will play well? I'm not even sure that the Tories want disabled people to die. It's just more convenient if you don't need to look after them. It's still evil, obviously, but it's more banal than frothing psychopathy.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:48
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I'm absolutely loving bricking it today at the idea of PIP payments being stopped. My whole family relies on it. Three of the four of us get PIP and I have a Motability vehicle because of them. Without it we're super hosed. Could really use some reassurance today but nobody has any proper details. Is this just something he's proposing as a campaign promise or is it like, something he's trying to force through next month? What the hell is happening? Someone please talk me down. It's hard not to feel like my whole life is about to be utterly destroyed.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:55
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Obviously people who are genuinely disabled are able to access support, therefore people complaining about finding it difficult must be shirkers getting caught. More complaints means we’re catching more shirkers! 
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Apr 29, 2024 12:55
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Captain Fargle posted:I'm absolutely loving bricking it today at the idea of PIP payments being stopped. My whole family relies on it. Three of the four of us get PIP and I have a Motability vehicle because of them. Without it we're super hosed. I could be wrong but I think the proposed changes would require legislation, so 3 debates in the Commons and back and forth to the Lords. Probably not enough time to actually implement.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:57
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Mourning Due posted:Since the rise of the internet it feels like there are no more cultural "waves", like grunge or early 90s hip-hop or anything. Everyone has their own catered version of the media, but they aren't experiencing it alongside many others, at least in their own local circle. We've never been more connected, but we've never felt so alone. But now everyone's watching something different on a different streaming service and it's impossible to give or recieve recommendations without it also coming alongside 'you should spend another £10 a month to sign up for squuem' which nobody is going to do. My wife and I watched all of Ted Lasso a few weeks back after she was dogsitting for her sister and she saw an episode. She really liked it and I'd heard good things about it as well, but it's on Apple+ and they cracked down on password sharing, so we had to get a trial and rush all 3 seasons So telling my parents that they should watch it (and I genuinely think they should) means if they want to keep up with whatever all of their kids & grandkids are watching they need to subscribe to amazon, apple+, netflix, now tv, peacock (or cockmount or whatever The Star Trek One is calling itself), crunchyroll (older brother is a weeb), dropout.tv (who to be fair have some amazing stuff) and probably also nebula. That's about £60 a month. Yes they're retired boomers but even they have limits. Side rant - renting Barbie on streaming services is £15. Buying the DVD off amazon is £5. I shouldn't be surprised it's more expensive to rent than buy, but here we are.
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Apr 29, 2024 12:57
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Has everyone just forgotten that internet piracy exists and is easier than navigating a million different streaming options?mediaphage posted:ontario is doing the same thing. the housing crisis here is a legitimate issue but of course they’d rather turn up the racism knob than build housing Solve the housing crisis by forcing eveyone into those lovely single room shared kitchen/bathroom dorms (sorry luxury student accomodation) keep punching joe fucked around with this message at 13:10 on Apr 29, 2024 |
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Apr 29, 2024 12:59
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Pistol_Pete posted:And a hugely important and successful industry too. That money's spread through the whole economy and there's massive soft power in being the place where tens of thousands of clever, ambitious young people from all over the world choose to complete their education. We don't even require polluting factories to get the money either, we're literally just putting bums on seats! ontario is doing the same thing. the housing crisis here is a legitimate issue but of course they’d rather turn up the racism knob than build housing
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Apr 29, 2024 13:00
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Canada of all places doing the "there is no more land to build houses on!" is so loving funny.
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Apr 29, 2024 13:05
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keep punching joe posted:Has everyone just forgotten that internet piracy exists and is easier than navigating a million different streaming options? For a brief period internet piracy wasn't easier than dealing with official subscriptions. Started with Steam offering a simple platform for buying and playing games, but then you got Origin and Epic and a billion other services. Then Netflix and Spotify appeared and gave people a simple place to watch stuff/listen to music for a small subscription. That was great! My mum could do that instead of having to figure out what the best torrent site is then avoiding all the viruses and fake stuff that comes with internet piracy. Now there's Apple Music and Amazon and Google... play?, or Apple TV+ and Disney and Amazon, everything is an exclusive so it's loving impossible to just pay one amount to watch all the stuff you want to watch and not all the other crap those services put out to fill the page.
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Apr 29, 2024 13:09
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Pistol_Pete posted:Canada of all places doing the "there is no more land to build houses on!" is so loving funny. tell me about it. and currently our premier is literally selling the self-explanatory “greenbelt” to his contractor buddies and facing no repercussions (also refusing to deal with the keffiyeh ban in parliament). whenever someone complains about immigrants and housing here i just post this chart 
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Apr 29, 2024 13:15
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I pay actual money for Netflix, Disney and Amazon and never use them to watch anything because I've got two pretty reliable websites that have everything I want on them. One just works really well with no popups but doesn't get a few obscure things, the other has a few annoying popups but seems to have anything I can think of.
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Apr 29, 2024 13:20
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sebzilla posted:Give it Mhairi 'til end of session I’d have gone with Pep Guardiola, at least he’d have brought a Barca style of play By which I mean insurrection
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Apr 29, 2024 13:22
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My older brother has been leeching on our Netflix household account for a decade but they've finally clamped down I guess so now he's gonna have to deal with 3 small children who want to watch Beast Wars 
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Apr 29, 2024 13:24
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Bobstar posted:Off topic but: baby tapir! the most noble of baby animals. been posting here on and off for over a decade now so may as well have a picture to find my own posts with
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Apr 29, 2024 13:36
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keep punching joe posted:Has everyone just forgotten that internet piracy exists and is easier than navigating a million different streaming options? Netflix stopped me and my wife from using her dad's account on her uncle's subscription. We were both halfway through different shows. She immediately signed up for the £5 subscription with ads while I just went to a torrent site and got the rest of my show.
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Apr 29, 2024 13:42
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That video of a kid at the snooker getting his ear nibbled on is the weirdest/creepiest thing I've seen for a while. I actually had a weird physical reaction to it.
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Apr 29, 2024 13:45
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keep punching joe posted:Has everyone just forgotten that internet piracy exists and is easier than navigating a million different streaming options? (Please don't try to explain to me what a plex server is)
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Apr 29, 2024 13:49
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Apr 29, 2024 13:53
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I watch stuff on a big TV with my wife. Surely most modern tvs let you just read directly from a USB stick?
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Apr 29, 2024 13:54
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keep punching joe posted:Surely most modern tvs let you just read directly from a USB stick? works most of the time but subtitles often don’t work
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Apr 29, 2024 13:57
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I watch stuff on a big TV with my wife. Plex? You simply 
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Apr 29, 2024 13:58
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HopperUK posted:WTF is this Tory strategy of stepping up attacks on the sick and disabled? I know they've always just wanted people to die but why this sudden rush, do they think this will play well? its to soften the blow before rachel reeves has us all placed in stocks at the side of the road.
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Apr 29, 2024 14:03
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sinky posted:Plex? You simply Someone offered me access to a Plex server with oh so much wrestling on it once and I started to look into it & then my eyes glazed over & I still have no idea what it is, but just Chromecasting from VKontakte or from legit streaming services like ajpw.tv involves so much less thought on my part. Honestly, buying a £30 Chromecast was such a good investment on my part.
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Apr 29, 2024 14:27
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Bobby Deluxe posted:I watch stuff on a big TV with my wife.  sinky posted:Plex? You simply
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Apr 29, 2024 14:27
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You could just run plex off a raspberry pi and USB drive (though you still need to mess around with server stuff which I appreciate is a big ball ache to normal human beings).
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Apr 29, 2024 14:29
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