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TACD posted:The Guardian view on Mr Corbyn’s newfound enthusiasm for Europe: a mark of more mature leadership To be honest, I've noticed recently that the press coverage of Corbyn seems to have got better. I mean, the Mail and the like will keep up their assault regardless but they'd do the same for most labour leaders. But at least on places like the Guardian and BBC, corbyn as leader of the opposition seems to have basically become the status quo. I definitely see his responses to various things given more space and not always joined with some comment along the lines of 'what a loony leftie!!!'. It's hardly great but definitely improved. II think it's partly because the budget, brewing tory civil war and panama papers have given him so much ammo to use.
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Hoops posted:So I read about the Palace of Westminster falling apart again this morning, with the suggestion that they could move parliament to Bristol for five to six years. It's not the first time I've ever heard the idea or anything, but I absolutely love it and think it could have seriously profound and wide reaching implications on how the country is run. Parliament moving to Bristol would be pretty interesting since we're such a lefty city. My company is holding a hustings for all the Bristol mayoral candidates and the Labour, Lib Dem and Green candidates are coming plus the Bristol First incumbent (it's less white supremacist than it sounds) but the Conservative candidate hasn't RSVPed as he knows he doesn't stand a chance. So having the conservative government come here would be a laugh if nothing else. There'd be a lot more heckling.
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Pissflaps posted:What will happen in that case - if the numbers fall in that way - is that the UK would have voted to leave the EU. Yeah, the whole nation would leave but it would give the various independence movements of the other countries in the union a lot of legitimacy. Obviously for scotland but ireland and even wales will start to get more of a push towards independence if it's clear that a majority of their nations wanted to stay in the EU but England dragged them out of it.
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feedmegin posted:Ummmmm I meant northern Ireland since I was talking about nations within the uk. Sorry, should have been more specific. Although I probably should have just not mentioned it since the situation regarding independence is obviously a lot more complicated there than in Scotland or Wales.
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If pissflaps did not exist, it would be necessary for the thread to invent him.
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