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Well, Jeremy Clarkson did another racism. Maybe he'll finally get the sack this time? http://www.theguardian.com/media/2014/may/01/jeremy-clarkson-not-use-n-word
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notaspy posted:If he does he'll become even more insufferable. He'll go full time at The Sun/The Times as their new 'voice of the man on the street' and he'll attack the BBC incessantly 'having seen with my own eyes the waste and bureaucracy' that 'drags the organisation to the left'. He'll get his own show or even channel on sky that will make that Noel Edmonds nonsense seem reasonable. Nah, his next career move will be UKIP's first MP, I reckon. 
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May 1, 2014 10:35
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FiftySeven posted:I don't know exactly how much stock I would put into allegations about Jeremy Clarkson coming from the Daily Mirror... I don't know exactly how much stock I would put into denials of racism about Jeremy Clarkson coming from Jeremy Clarkson, so I guess they cancel each other out?
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May 1, 2014 10:51
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I can't even imagine just how insufferable a 19 year old UKIP supporter is.
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May 1, 2014 13:39
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JoylessJester posted:
But they're  VENEZUELAN AND SOCIALIST http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2014/apr/30/ed-miliband-labour-rental-market-reforms-property
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May 1, 2014 14:21
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It cracks me up how all of a sudden UKIP keep trotting out the line 'we're not racist; in fact, we're the only party who make people specifically declare that they've never been a member of the BNP or EDL.' Not racist, just so popular with racists we have to specifically filter them out.
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May 1, 2014 17:01
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Saki posted:The Guardian's Comment is Free section is hilarious. Just an endless succession of clickbaity, badly researched articles shrieking about something or other with a bunch of comments ranging from "Right on!" to "You're retarded". I pretty much only look at the Culture/music section and that's gone downhill massively since the rise of clickbait. It's all regurgitated PR briefs, buzzfeed-style 'Top 5 songs about motorways' and pointlessly provocative things like 'why the Beatles are the worst band of all time' or whatever. it's been a while since they had a proper article that was a decent read.
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May 2, 2014 17:07
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Jippa posted:Big Nige is on bbc1 now. So who does the PR for UKIP? I assume someone with some pretty serious connections with the BBC. The amount of coverage and cheerleading they get is insane. Imagine if someone like the Greens had that much of a platform, and they actually have an MP! Ps. Who are these 'UKIPs of the left' that people are mentioning? Answers Me fucked around with this message at 10:11 on May 4, 2014 |
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May 4, 2014 10:03
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I see someone's dusted off NewLabour-bot... http://www.politicshome.com/uk/article/97242/business_class.html quote:Although he opted for politics, Umunna stresses that it’s time Labour shouted more about the way business can boost social mobility for individuals. “I’m very clear: we want to help people make their first million,” he says. “If you set up a start-up and you increase you turnover to over a million, you will be employing people and delivering tax receipts to the Exchequer and helping Britain pay its way in the world. We should be saying that.” 
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May 4, 2014 11:10
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LemonDrizzle posted:Labour made a thing. This is so terrible, i wish parties wouldn't so this poo poo. I was thinking voting Green but since I've seen this I might have second thoughts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BDsV8YumePk In other news, I had Tory and Lib Dem leaflets addressed specifically to me the other day. Is my address freely available for political parties to spam?
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May 7, 2014 17:41
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twoot posted:'I make £120,000 but I can’t recall the last time we went out for dinner’ loving hell, there's so much entrenched class prejudice wrapped up in just that one little statement it's unreal.
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May 7, 2014 18:24
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Gonzo McFee posted:Saw James Dingleberry talk and you can't let that pass without posting this. This is incredible. Proof that you can have the best education money can be and still be a complete loving idiot.
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May 8, 2014 12:53
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twoot posted:BNP Youth - Fight Back It somehow passed me by (or I'd gladly forgotten) that Nick Griffin was an elected MEP until I saw this in the suggested videos: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZE6u9OCPK1Y How the hell did that happen?
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May 13, 2014 19:18
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these videos can get worse.
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Trickjaw posted:Well I was wrong. This is showing Paul Golding of Britain First to be a comlete and utter thick wanker, as you might expect. So who else is the 'balanced' BBC going to have on to balance this one out? I'm not sure I've seen anyone to the left of, say Owen Jones, show up on one of these programmes. Are there any 'far left' parties likely to be labelled as extremists by the average Joe, or are they all too irrelevant to be thought of as such? Answers Me fucked around with this message at 13:08 on May 15, 2014 |
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May 15, 2014 12:49
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So how far along the Road to Fascism is the rise of private militias?
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May 15, 2014 15:38
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Pilchenstein posted:Entertaining isn't a strong enough word. That was my favourite bit. I don't think I've ever cheered at the radio before twoot posted:Satire is dead I've often wondered why advertising has never reached into sponsoring, say, Train Stations, but I guess now I know the answer. I wonder how long it'll be until a commuter town gets renamed 'Tesco-upon-Thames'
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May 16, 2014 17:53
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I saw the worst Party Political Broadcast (politically and aesthetically) I've ever seen last night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJYctoNKbcE
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May 16, 2014 18:44
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Zephro posted:Remember all that "Farage's career is over" stuff? Which was the first time? This is why the 'just give them enough airtime to shoot themselves in the foot' strategy isn't going to work with UKIP, because there's plenty of people who'll agree with their racism once it's 'exposed'
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May 21, 2014 08:39
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Lavender menace posted:This is what you get when you spend the last decade pandering to the "genuine concerns" of racist. This is what you get when your campaign team tells you to apoligize to bigots for calling them bigots. This is what you get for every time you promise to cut immigration as it were an ends in itself. This is what you get when you can't even attack UKIP in your campaign literature because you're afraid of alienating their supporters. I want to emptyquote this on every page forever
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May 21, 2014 13:02
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Mr N posted:So, would anyone here consider voting Lib Dem again, ever? If I'd been less ignorant about politics at the time I never would have voted for them in the first place. It makes me cringe just thinking about it
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May 22, 2014 10:17
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Jack the Lad posted:What's up with news outlets saying Ukip instead of UKIP suddenly? It's a growing trend generally to not capitalise acronyms that are pronounced phoenetically, or at least not well known ones. Ie Ukip is far more commonly heard than The United Kingdom Independence Party that its practically a word in its own right. That's the rationale anyway Answers Me fucked around with this message at 16:30 on May 23, 2014 |
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May 23, 2014 16:27
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HortonNash posted:Before : "Ain't no black in the Union Jack!" Stewart Lee posted:if political correctness has achieved one thing, it's to make the Conservative Party cloak its inherent racism behind more creative language.
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May 23, 2014 18:23
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gently caress's sake: So I guess instead of using Literature to broaden horizons, teach critical thinking and harbour creativity, kids will now be taught "books by dead white British people are awesome because dead white British people are awesome" I can't believe Gove has free reign to design a syllabus himself
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May 25, 2014 09:39
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HortonNash posted:Nah, it's the usual rah rah British authors Tory poo poo, mixed in with quite a lot of Dunning-Krueger. Everything about Gove's tenure at Education screams Dunning-Krueger, from Free Schools and Academies to the new Primary Curriculum and now the English GCSE syllabus. The focus on exams is one of the worst things, some kids are going to be screwed for no good reason. I ended up studying English through to postgrad but if I'd taken mostly exams I doubt I'd even have passed my GCSEs
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May 25, 2014 10:05
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Nigel Farage on the BBC saying it's been a tough couple of weeks because everyone's been against them  Counterpoint: the continued existence of Nick Robinson; about a million other things
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May 26, 2014 11:05
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Does anyone have a full breakdown of results that shows the voting for each local authority? I want to try and take solace in the possibility that my local area didn't vote quite as horribly as the rest of the region 
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May 26, 2014 11:20
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The BBC were just in the middle of talking to Paddy Ashdown, and they completely interrupted him to cut away to live footage of Farage walking down the street. Not that I care about Ashdown particularly, but why do people put up with that poo poo?
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Pork Pie Hat posted:If anyone was thinking of reading Thomas Piketty's "Capital in the Twenty-First Century" but didn't want to pay £30, WHSmiths are doing it for half price. Might just be for this week though, I'm not sure. Is it a good read? Is it nothing new if you've read this kind of thing before? I've heard tons about it and might go pick it up
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