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Puntification posted:I wouldn't want to risk sacrificing schoolgirls as collateral damage. Plus Corbyn'll never earn the nickname Uncle Jez if he doesn't grow and moustache and purge at least one dude. But... he already has a moustache?
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Remind me, any good articles on the hilarious backstabbing going on in the 'leave the EU' camp?
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StoneOfShame posted:You know how free schools were a great idea? You know how elected police commissioners were also a great idea? Well how about we combine the two for a superb idea! Police commissioners to set up free schools for troubled kids under a new proposal from Theresa May http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/feb/04/may-wants-elected-commissioners-to-set-up-free-schools-for-troubled-children What went wrong with elected police commissioners? Like, I know the electoral turnout was tiny, but what real-world damage did the policy end up causing?
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Renaissance Robot posted:If you know the rest of this songjoke please post it, it's been skittering around the edges of my brain for days and all I can remember is the punchline Johnny was a chemist, Johnny is no more, For what he thought was H2O Was H2SO4.
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The Times issues a dire warning in today's front-page scare-story. Article is paywalled, but you only really need the first few paragraphs to get the gist of it.
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Feb 6, 2016 23:29
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winegums posted:I hope we leave europe. I want the racist right wing to sort of implode whilst taking the the FYGM-right wing out as collateral damage. Yep, them getting everything they want is definitely going to cause them to implode. Seriously, this logic is weird as hell.
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Feb 7, 2016 04:30
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Guavanaut posted:The latest Corbyn related non-story is apparently that a man in his 20s goes on dates with women. Jeremy 'The Sexpot Trot' Corbyn.
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Feb 8, 2016 00:22
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What evidence do we have of corruption in the academy/free school system? It seems ripe for it, but I'd like specifics.
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Feb 8, 2016 20:51
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Thundercloud posted:http://www.localschoolsnetwork.org.uk/2014/01/just-how-corrupt-does-a-free-school-have-to-be-to-be-seen-as-unacceptable I ask because of this bit from the BBC article on proposed prison reforms, which has triggered a quiet internal scream that will not cease: quote:The governors of Young Offenders Institutions will be given the same freedoms the head teachers of free schools have in an attempt to improve conditions
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Feb 8, 2016 21:34
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Gonzo McFee posted:Ahahahaha Jesus Christ, We're going to have a full Abu Ghraib within a month and it's going to be all legal. Yarl's Wood already exists, though?
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Feb 9, 2016 01:11
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Just hoping Bernie picks a good VP. He'll be seventy-five when he takes office, and... well, look at the before and after pictures of Obama.
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Feb 10, 2016 22:25
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big scary monsters posted:This cannot be true. It is just way beyond parody, no self-respecting comedy writer would even go for this it's so laughable. Bets on the inquiry discovering that a nice bit of NHS privatisation would cheer those poor doctors right up?
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Feb 11, 2016 20:36
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MrL_JaKiri posted:https://moreknownthanproven.wordpress.com/2016/02/16/proof-council-cuts-hit-poorest-areas-hardest/ Axes start at zero. Good blogger, well done.
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Feb 16, 2016 23:58
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V. Illych L. posted:well he made the pledge because he wanted to win an election, and there would probably have been open rebellion if he hadn't gone through with the referendum once promised. then he decided to try and leverage the situation he himself had created for his own electoral success to extract concessions from europe, after making sure that everyone that matters in europe really hates him because of his myopic focus on domestic affairs All signs indicate that the current kerfuffle in Brussels is being heavily stage-managed so that Cameron can get a bunch of largely meaningless pre-arranged concessions that he heroically eked out from a bunch of tense negotiations that totally weren't being played up for the press by all involved, honest. For instance, one thing he's been pushing for is a British exemption from the Charter of Fundamental Rights of the European Union... which we already got in the lead-up to the Lisbon Treaty back in 2007.
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Feb 19, 2016 01:37
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Tesseraction posted:I'm happy to have Europol in here except for Germans, Austrians, Finns and Estonians. There's obviously exceptions but the ones who slide into Europol are racist motherfuckers and GC is far-right even for them. Gee, has Cameron just signed the deal for you!
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Feb 19, 2016 23:53
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Tesseraction posted:No-one's 100% sure. Unlikely his lovely cells left the Reich, though. If they put him in the river, he could be anywhere. You might be drinking Hitler right now. 
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Feb 22, 2016 01:17
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Guavanaut posted:Didn't Miliband get called a copper-bottomed poo poo too? When did copper-bottomed become an insult? 'Copper-bottomed' means 'firm, guaranteed, and reliable'. It's a reference to wooden ships having copper reinforcement in their hulls to keep them... well, ship-shaped, as opposed to a pile of splinters across a couple of nautical miles of seabed. Basically, it means that they are definitely shits, and they are really good at being shits.
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Oberleutnant posted:Isn't it a reference to copper hulling of late 18th/19th century warships, which were resistant to corrosion and therefore good? Darth Walrus posted:'Copper-bottomed' means 'firm, guaranteed, and reliable'. It's a reference to wooden ships having copper reinforcement in their hulls to keep them... well, ship-shaped, as opposed to a pile of splinters across a couple of nautical miles of seabed.
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Feb 22, 2016 13:56
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Praseodymi posted:...and what do you think about sucking farts through a straw? Oh, wait, that isn't capitalism... Depends - whose farts are they, and how much did you pay for them?
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Feb 22, 2016 19:38
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In more weird student news (sorry), Kent University's Conservative Society are pushing a motion to build a 200-foot-tall iron statue of Margaret Thatcher again. Reports are unclear on whether the eye-beams will be fully functional before it begins its death-march to the North.
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Feb 23, 2016 00:04
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Renaissance Robot posted:More like lazy scroungers attempting to get paid to lay around all day. Actually, the new Gundam is good. It's about our heroes starting a proletarian revolution against the space aristocracy, and the latest arc involves the hero smashing corrupt strikebreakers with a giant hammer. Giant sickle not confirmed as a new weapon, but plausible. Also, Tony Benn is a cute anime girl.
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Feb 24, 2016 13:29
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PiCroft posted:I thought "Something of the night" was a homophobic reference as well. Why would it be construed as a reference to Romanian heritage? It means 'he looks like Dracula'. I assume you know where Transylvania is?
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Feb 26, 2016 12:11
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:If you held a referendum right now on which end of the political spectrum should be banned, most of this thread would end up in jail. Your chosen leader using those powers for good isn't enough, because eventually they'll be gone, some shithead will be in power, and then the law you used to enforce right-think on the populace is going to be used on you. Words, at least, can cause material harm. There's the old fire-in-a-crowded-theatre argument, but we also have hate speech laws for a reason - whipping up violence against vulnerable groups is pretty goddamn dangerous.
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Feb 27, 2016 10:03
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Miftan posted:That doesn't sound like something someone voted for Corbyn would say? Trident warhead casings make great pots for growing strawberries in. We must secure the existence of our preserves and a future for British jam.
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Feb 27, 2016 22:23
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So I was wondering - Churchill gets a lot of press as the 'greatest Briton', and we've discussed his (considerable) flaws thousands of times in the UKMT, but who would you lot put up for the title? Best ever British person?
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Feb 27, 2016 23:40
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J_RBG posted:I think we should get Theresa May to deport non-jam-likers Some people are pretty amazingly cool, though. Just look at Hedy Lamarr. God drat, she had a hell of a life.
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Feb 27, 2016 23:50
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Rakosi posted:It's not exactly stick beating if the services being beaten over the head with their history of covering up of child sex abuses actually did cover up child sex abuses. The stick could afford to be swung with a broader arc, though. Might be a good idea for them to stop every so often and beat themselves over the head, too.
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Feb 28, 2016 14:56
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The Tory bullying scandal centring around Mark Clarke just went places again.
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Feb 29, 2016 13:39
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il_cornuto posted:Oh that's OK then, no one would ever bully someone they were in a relationship with The guy leading the charge against the bullies, Ben Howlett, is also openly gay and (unusually for a Tory) an enthusiastic gay-rights campaigner, so framing this whole thing as being about homophobia is probably going to work less well than it normally would.
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Feb 29, 2016 13:53
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hookerbot 5000 posted:Isn't it accusing the boys parents of homophobia? Suggesting his suicide was less to do with the tories and more because of his parents not supporting his sexual orientation. I've not been following the story though so I don't know. I feel there's a double-element to it. He's accusing the kid's parents of homophobia for driving their son to suicide, and accusing his Tory pursuers of it for focusing on him rather than on that alternative explanation.
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serious gaylord posted:http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35688401 That was the after-party.
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