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I mean either way its a comically bad deflection to remind people that there have been multiple months of strikes under him. The tories keep dealing themselves killing blows over and over but it may be a while before anyone can take advantage of it.
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Angepain posted:Hasn't stopped the Guardian from leading with it on their home page, though... Yeah but all the papers at best just parrot things they're told without much context which filter down to their dedicated opinion writers who are largely too busy writing opinions to know anything. They operate mostly like those twitter or google automated news aggregators rather than places for analysis or inspection.
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Feb 10, 2016 19:48
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Renaissance Robot posted:So we're just going to forget that we had an agreement that both the BMA and the government found acceptable but which Hunt, just one man, vetoed because of ~reasons~, and then had the gall to try and score points on the fact that "only" over ten thousand junior doctors turned out to the latest strike. The Tories are pretty much all on the take from someone, that's the point of going into politics for all but the most old-school. And if he isn't right now once he's shuffled out of government he'll go sit on the board of some healthcare company or some company with shares in one.
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Feb 11, 2016 11:25
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Guavanaut posted:If Brexit happens then Scotland is ideally positioned, a sizable majority have said they'd want a second vote to choose which corrupt capitalist union they stay a part of. I think this might be a Scottish trade secret but "second referendum" is just Scots-Gaelic for "pour across hadrians wall and institute the socialist states of Greater Alba".
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Feb 11, 2016 11:59
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If my grandma is Swedish can I go live there instead. I'm a huge fan of dime bars
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Why is this gravity wave business exciting? Science articles in newspapers are always either uninformative or simplify things to the point of nonsense i.e. one of the guardian livestream things being like "lemme explain it to you plebes, imagine you had a tv with one channel then suddenly it started playing other channels!" I assume its a combo of the fact that it was an incredibly lucky and impressive thing to pick up at all and also that it goes some way to confirming that gravity is a distortion of 4(or more)D space? They suggest the gravitational waves travel at the speed of light which is interesting and probably means something to someone more physicsy than I.
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Guys chill its all part of corbyns new politics. We don't want to be negative here, the plan of asking Cameron "what are you going to do to help Mary feed her cats" every PMQs so he can make a speech about how great he is is going to pay off some day. E: anyway what is the destruction of the nations infrastructure in comparison to a rehashed old fight nobody under 50 cares about over what missiles our submarines carry? Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 11:37 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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Feb 13, 2016 11:35
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Robot Mil posted:I have been all for Corbs but loving hell his inability to focus on the current important political issues and actually challenge the madness competently is driving me up the wall. He has missed so many golden opportunities, and I don't care if he doesn't produce a fancy soundbite but any sounds would be good really. He's got distracted fighting the same battles he did when he was a young man. I was really excited when he was just coming in and had this cool team of modern left economists and policy wonks because the fundamental issue in my mind is the selling off of everything and an unworkable top-down economics strategy. I figured New Labour would be up for a return to the same old scraps but he would have a chance if he ignored them, instead he appointed Old Man Mao McDonnel (who me ma says is a smart and nice guy so I like him but jesus christ) as his loving treasurer and immediately got embroiled in a months long trident fight. Look everyone gets that nukes are stupid but there is very little public support for completely disarming and trident is an alright deterrent if you absolutely must remain in the big glowing dicks club. Meanwhile as the labour party beats the poo poo out of itself over an issue that was last popular a decade ago the Tories are constantly tripping over all the dead bodies they're creating and having their trousers fall down, occasionally McDonnel decides now is his moment and calls over the cameras to watch him weakly throw Maoist literature at them. e: there's still time for a major rethink of their strategy and they can pull it back without it being too humiliating by going "okay that was our year one strategy, now for our year two strategy going forward: pressure the omnishambles tory government, unify and come up with a policy or two. I think its unlikely though, a more likely hope is enough of this leftwing momentum carries over to Corbyn's replacement. e2: I'm still hopeful in the longterm though, the most likely outcome in 2020 is despite falls in support the tories retain a similar majority or increase it due to their gerrymandering and with labour's loss of scotland its tory-time for a decade, the part where hope comes in is this means the tories will be the ones overseeing the inevitable societal collapse brought about by their insane policies. Labour or some other leftist party is only going to win following a complete collapse in public confidence in the tories, which they are kindly setting up for us. The only problem is the huge human misery that will come with that but if you don't like human misery you might want to move countries. Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 12:33 on Feb 13, 2016 |
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I for one find it sorta new and refreshing to live in an era when the internet will get furious at you for not being progressive enough rather than for being female/gay/black.
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Feb 15, 2016 15:06
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Its weird reading the BBC news site which seems to be operating from a UK in which the doctors aren't all on strike. e: They do run the leaked Mind report that shows how the tories are loving up mental health in a big way, but noticeably don't include the information about suicides which seems to be officially not happening.
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Feb 15, 2016 15:16
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shrike82 posted:if early naughts DnD was libertarian and LF-era DnD was progressive, I wonder how people would characterize DnD now. To be fair LF era DnD wasn't that progressive hence why LF was a thing. It's kinda sad cause after LF got torn down by the running dogs DnD got better as the hordes of (correct) angsty lefties came back all fired up and there were jokes and fun discussions to be had. That was all a long time ago though and now DnD is roughly back to its old liberal self and is thus pretty boring. Even the UKMT which has always been super left wing has become a place for liberals to pontificate on common sense or pedantry and lefties to cringe in self loathing. LF was a shithole but man I miss having a forum where you could have fun while calling a fascist a fascist
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Feb 22, 2016 16:57
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Pork Pie Hat posted:That'll be the same Mum that actually opposes his own policies won't it? Tories don't use the NHS how are they supposed to know? Also on Cameron totes owning corbyn for dressing poorly while not killing patients: quote:Cameron knocked Corbyn out of the ring with his glib “Do up your tie” jibe (some people admire Corbyn for his sartorial humility, but there are probably many more who think a would-be prime minister should turn up to work looking smart), and even though Corbyn came back with a spirited come-back, he could not repair the damage done. But, even without that put-down, Cameron had the upper hand because he successfully defused Corbyn’s question about “misleading” hospital weekend mortality figures with a new figure that left Corbyn (and all the rest of us - I didn’t know what he was talking about) stumped. Ugh gently caress off, Guardian you shitrag. "Cameron comes up with some complete bullshit out of nowhere! Even I didn't know that was true, what a statesman!"
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Feb 24, 2016 13:56
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serious gaylord posted:https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/702472149001478145?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw you can shut up too, corbyn. how about let us be more ashamed of the 1.3 9/11s worth of mental health patients who are dying every year?
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Feb 24, 2016 13:57
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Darth Walrus posted:It means 'he looks like Dracula'. I assume you know where Transylvania is? Wait calling him Dracula is offensive because he may well be Dracula? Polo'ical correcness really is going mad!
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Feb 26, 2016 14:28
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http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/28/eu-referendum-stop-personal-attacks-on-anti-eu-tories-duncan-smith-tells-cameron IDS bitching about Cam being mean to him or some poo poo. Traditionally the tories can't help but self-destruct over Europe so maybe Corbyn not doing anything will fall under that whole political adage of don't interrupt your opponent when he's digging his own grave. I think theres some hope that basically Labour being in such a diablolical loving state will galvanise the tories into thinking that A: theres nothing standing in the way of the really nasty, nonsensical poo poo they want to do (which is arguably already going on) and B: now is the time to air all their dirty laundry and start stabbing eachother in the back over who is the most right wing nutbag of them all. They've still got next election sewn up since between the gerrymandering and the SNP Labour needs to gain like 80 seats on a platform of disarmament and letting in all the immigrants but that just means it'll be the tories dealing with all the social and economic catastrophes their policies cause which I don't think was part of the plan when they started out, their first term was very much a "do as much damage as we can before we're out" term. shrike82 posted:Do you guys tip delivery drivers? Yeah, if I've got a quid or two, I can't imagine they're super well paid.
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Feb 28, 2016 20:14
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JFairfax posted:oh no paying your employees a fair wage makes products costs more. Who would have thought it? My friend works at waitrose and lol. They treat their employees like poo poo and pay them same as sainsburys sorry. My other mate has worked at John Lewis for 10 years and still gets paid less than I did at sainsburys. If you think the posh expensive supermarkets are expensive because they pay high wages I have some very bad news about capitalism for you... Their whole thing seems to be having a "partnership" with employees that means basically nothing apart from not letting them in a union in return for a bonus that boosts their pay to the same levels as all supermarket staff.
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Feb 29, 2016 12:55
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Also the French cops are tearing down the "Calais Jungle" did they seriously just name it jungle because there are black people there? How did this lovely name catch on unless there are jaguars in there or something? I can't see it being called that if the refugees were Danish.
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Feb 29, 2016 13:07
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Did grant schapps get kicked out of office over it? He used to be my local MP and actually pretty good at playing the game (he'd email you back and get involved with local stuff) so it's been fun watching the series of scandals hound him.
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Dead Pony Club is pretty drat tasty though and whatever their classic blue one is I forget, haven't drank them since they got big though /beerhipster. Best part about living in Scotland is the brilliant beer. Council-run buses and an NHS with funding are also good.
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