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As President Trump takes office and Brexit starts to mean Brexit, there's only one piece of journalism powerful enough to summarize current events: Welcome indeed, to Tiny Train World. https://twitter.com/rpy/status/824557660653572096 What else is in the news? The British Red Cross described the situation in England's NHS hospitals as a "humanitarian crisis". The RCN describes conditions in the NHS as the worst they have ever experienced. The Northern Irish Assembly falls apart over heated horse solaria. Martin McGuinness resigns due to ill health. Tristram Hunt resigns as Stoke MP to become a museum director, triggering a by-election. Bristol police tase their own race relations official after mistaking him for another black man. Dud egg Paul Nuttall backs Donald Trump's position on torture as all newspapers except the Express (even the Mail) condemn him for cozying up to EDL thugs. Labour are going to back Article 50 subject to some good amendments but also maybe even without them. Except some of them aren't. ANAL seizes property in Belgravia back from the Grosvenor Estate, opens it up as a homeless shelter, and fights off thugs wearing fascist-linked masks. Brexit countdown: 58 days. Brexit plans released: 70 words w/o header. Brexit means: Hardest Fastest Reddest Whitest Bluest Brexit. Library briefing of the Bill February Air Groundhog Day UKMT January 2017 Thread UKMT December 2016 Thread UKMT November 2016 Thread UKMT October 2016 UKMT September 2016 Canned Food Month Brexit Thread Oatmeal Monday Scotpol Thread International Stand Up to Bullying Day EDL/Fash Thread Fat Tuesday Europol Thread Get a Different Name Day Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread Newcomen's Birthday Trainchat Thread LGBT History Month Worldwide QUILTBAG Thread Open That Bottle Night Political Cartoons Thread Safer Internet Day #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). World Thinking Day quote:1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor; And most famously, the day of commercially sanctioned gestures of love:  forkboy84 posted:Is there an award for being the biggest shithead in parliament? Is there a reason Philip Davies acts like he does? Hates gays, seems to be totally OK with domestic violence, is obviously a complete xenophobe, is a shill of the gambling industry, is a piece of poo poo to the disabled, and yet he's been elected 3 times. With a bigger share of the vote each time.
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Tesseraction posted:How similar looking are the tubes that something like this could happen?
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Feb 1, 2017 11:14
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Better than following a length of twin and earth and finding it coming out of an Aussie's pecker.
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Feb 1, 2017 11:31
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forkboy84 posted:And while I'm linking to dumb poo poo I've seen on Twitter, UKMT's favourite art critic Jonathan Jones has dropped a solid nugget of gold here.
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Feb 1, 2017 16:12
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forkboy84 posted:Hard not to say he's probably the worst Labour leader ever. Or at least 2nd behind Ramsay MacDonald.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:09
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forkboy84 posted:Didn't deserve that moustache, that bastard turncoat scab motherfucker. I bet Tom Watson could pull off a Stalin one. e: Zephro posted:The value of the pound is like a daily summary of who's winning the stupidity race between Britain and 'Murca
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Feb 1, 2017 20:21
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DesperateDan posted:Dickies workwear do a "tall" sizing across a lot of their stuff which is great for lanky people like me, long arms long legs and proper long torsos on everything, and it lasts quite well even on jobsites, let alone casual wear.
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Feb 1, 2017 20:52
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Prince John posted:Did the Tories use a whip? 
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Feb 1, 2017 22:38
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TinTower posted:I found some more quote:How then is it possible that Elizabeth Mountbatten, who is also known by the aliases "Windsor" and "QE 2", is the richest woman on Earth, whilst hundreds of thousands of British people are homeless, with millions living in relative poverty and she has political parties of both left and right, in her illegal democracy? It is because the TRUTH about the British people's true identity has been purposely hidden from them, by the monarchy, so that the people would not read The Covenant; relate it to themselves and demand that the monarchy gives back the wealth it has defrauded the people out of, by using its own illegal laws and taxes.
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Feb 2, 2017 00:13
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Surely if the MPs were reflecting the Will of the People, the vote would have been split 52:48
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Feb 2, 2017 00:42
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Is manga real?
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Feb 2, 2017 01:24
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LemonDrizzle posted:Paul Nuttall may be going to pokey:
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Feb 2, 2017 02:24
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Jedit posted:Alternately, just read Puckoon. Alertrelic posted:Really, we need to be looking at creating a whole ecosystem of organisations, some outside of direct state control, which can promote socialist politics as well as deliver changes on the ground, in terms of housing, infrastructure etc. This seems absurdly utopian at the moment, but its better than relying on failed 20th century models.
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Feb 2, 2017 12:54
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Pissflaps posted:That's interesting I always assumed they'd be for it tbh.
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Feb 2, 2017 13:22
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I saw Diane Abbott in Nando's bragging about how she voted leave.
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Feb 2, 2017 15:36
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The asthma inhaler might come in handy in modern London.
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Feb 2, 2017 16:24
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David Milliband would have won in 2015 because the papers couldn't have run the 'holds food funny' or 'Marxist dad' campaigns they ran against Ed.
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Feb 2, 2017 17:15
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They want to continue with the current Hapsburg monarch who was christened on a fake scone, rather than putting e: 1550 - The Rough Wooing is ended by formal treaty. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 19:07 on Feb 2, 2017 |
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Feb 2, 2017 19:04
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feedmegin posted:Don't get me wrong, I think we should build loads of council houses, I'm just not sure how to do it without further entrenching the Tory Reich. 
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Feb 2, 2017 19:08
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MikeCrotch posted:Pissflaps is waiting for the inevitable rise of Cyber-Tony in the ashes of the Post-Trump wasteland
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Feb 2, 2017 19:17
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Prince John posted:Supposedly the anointed successor is Rebecca Long-Bailey. I base that on more random internet articles. spectralent posted:Yeah, but it seems to be one of the recurring arguments that sexuality is pre-set and inherent and this makes it natural and good. I'm not sure that's accurate (the first bit, obviously) but I'd rather be winning the rhetorical argument than correct on nitpicks. I think the existence of identical twins with differing sexuality and the existence of completely different standards of sexualities throughout history makes it unlikely to be something completely innate and hard wired into you before your birth, but I also think that love between consenting adults should be protected from assholes whether they're yelling "it's a choice and you can choose not to!" or "it's genetic and we need screening!"
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Feb 2, 2017 20:38
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Renaissance Robot posted:Even if you accept the racism at face value, Muslim immigrants mostly don't even come from the EU.
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Feb 3, 2017 13:34
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Private Speech posted:Interestingly half of UKIP thinks that May is going badly about implementing Brexit, which is significantly more than tories (~14%)
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Feb 3, 2017 17:02
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The Tories should have a leadership election more like Labour.
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Feb 4, 2017 13:42
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Gove thinking he was capable of Machiavellian plotting will never not be hilarious.
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Feb 4, 2017 13:49
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namesake posted:I'd hope most people support the 'I love Hitler' local candidates less than the mainstream candidates. namesake posted:If you are rigorously taught to obey a series of intricate physical laws and doing otherwise will invite ruin without also having a reasonable indepth knowledge of how society doesn't function according to such neat rules you can produce a collection of manipulative conservative authoritarians misapplying their knowledge. Engineers are overrepresented among terrorists though.
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Feb 4, 2017 18:05
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I didn't read it as normalizing terrorism, it's hard to put terrorism into the political spectrum. Anti-government terrorism by definition has a libertarian streak, but uMkhonto we Sizwe and Britain First (or whoever gave Mair that gun) attacked their own governments for vastly different reasons. And I'd guess most of them aren't economically right wing, if your ideology was just 'more money for me, gently caress you' you'd rob banks instead. The only exceptions would be CIA backed contras. I'd guess the real left/right split in terrorist groups is whether they're reinforcing the status quo through terror (KKK/AWB) or opposing it (MK/PKK), but then like you said there are the theocratic terror groups on top of that which are hard to categorize. I'm not sure which ones all the engineers are joining, they weren't allowed at careers day but I think the reports mentioned Marxist and Islamist rather than Neo-Nazi.
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Feb 4, 2017 18:38
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What's with the @s? Is it just that they can't bring themselves to spell those terrible terrible words or is it some alt-right poo poo like the (((echoes)))?
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Feb 5, 2017 02:13
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Namtab posted:People are convinced that the daily mail arbitrarily deletes comments based on a "word filter" (usually the comment either got reported or it got moved to best worst comments). Keith Voz and his deproved lifestyles. (Have they considered that maybe their comments including the words Muslim, Islam, or immigrant are being moved to the worst comments because they are the worst comments?)
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Feb 5, 2017 13:21
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Everyone take out your copybooks, today's lesson is Liberals will always defend right wing populism over any kind of leftism. Write it 100 times.
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Feb 5, 2017 14:01
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Because one's a bad word, and people don't like to be called the bad word. "I'm not a racist, I'm a race realist." "I'm not a sexist, I'm a gender traditionalist." "I'm not a piece of poo poo, I'm part of the alt-right."
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Feb 5, 2017 14:22
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TinTower posted:If I recall, one of the major stumbling blocks to UBI in the UK–and most economic policy all around–is the shitshow that is the housing market.
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Feb 5, 2017 15:55
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ronya posted:he's a senior fellow of this. he writes for that. I get that the idea of CiF is supposed to be to provide the Millsian idea of a free pulpit for everyone (who can pass the Graun's arbitrary standards), but we also know all about the failure of that kind of thing against rabid populism.
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Feb 5, 2017 17:16
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ronya posted:aside from the Americanism of using "middle class" to invoke the notion of the wage labouring class, the essay could have come from a left-wing populist, of which there are plenty
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Feb 5, 2017 17:47
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Regarde Aduck posted:Toho (their loving mascot) is about fairies and shrine maidens, what the gently caress does that have to do with the right?
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Feb 5, 2017 19:21
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Tesseraction posted:I said it before and I'll say it again, Britain's greatest hope post-Brexit is to re-form the UK-Japan alliance since we're both xenophobic islands off the coast of the Eurasian continental mainland who have a national obsession with unrealistic fantasy.
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Feb 6, 2017 10:47
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Dead Goon posted:Isn't British anime just like, cartoons?
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Feb 6, 2017 11:24
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:British children's animation is so bad it makes me want to cry. It's not like they don't have access to the good stuff being pumped out of the US, it's just that they look at it, think "that's nice" then go back to writing garbage. e: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QQUu3A3gAjE 
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JFairfax posted:mid-life crisis, he's got himself a Ferrari Sisyphus hath reached the summit, and looking across the world he weeps. He should have got himself a sic transit instead. 
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kustomkarkommando posted:Just in case you thought the NI elections where suspiciously civil the DUP launched their campaign today by comparing Sinn Fein to a ravenous crocodile 
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