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Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed. |
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| Jeremy Corbyn |
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95 | 18.63% |
| Dennis Skinner |
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53 | 10.39% |
| Angus Robertson |
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20 | 3.92% |
| Tim Farron |
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9 | 1.76% |
| Paul Ukips |
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7 | 1.37% |
| Robot Lenin |
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105 | 20.59% |
| Tony Blair |
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28 | 5.49% |
| Pissflaps |
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193 | 37.84% |
| Total: | 510 votes | ||
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Boy, do I have the thing for you. Also seriously, gently caress everybody who was involved in getting ChestEze pulled. Also whiskey, honey, lemon, boiling water.
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Pissflaps posted:I heard that lemsip, honey and a big glug of whisky is efficacious though being tee total I haven't had it myself. The active ingredient in there for your cough is phenylephrine, which has never really been shown to be active orally, but they pulled all the ephedrine-containing cold medicines because a couple of are boyes OD'd for a training course trying to increase their stamina and lung capacity despite the huge black box saying never do that. I prefer just lemon. efb
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Mar 7, 2017 00:48
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Or J Collis Browne's Mixture, which is the same thing but morphine. And peppermint. Some Boots' still carry it. Both are preferred for dry coughs than productive ones though.
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Mar 7, 2017 01:14
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Who on the left wants milquetoast social democrats to be portrayed as left-wing extremists other than other milquetoast social democrats who want to play revolutionary? Have any other science men like internationally respected bioethicist Dickard Dorkins weighed in on this?
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Mar 7, 2017 10:44
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mfcrocker posted:Just saying, I'm not sure why I should give a toss about what he thinks of the state of the Labour party That's better than James Watson's gay abortions and African intelligence stuff as old man with an audience comments go, but still.
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Mar 7, 2017 11:17
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namesake posted:It's because everyone to the left of Angela Merkel gets described as leftwing by at least one newspaper so from a societal level it's literally true than no one knows (or agrees) what it means. e: 1930 - Mao Zedong's second wife is executed because of grammar schools. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 12:23 on Mar 7, 2017 |
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Mar 7, 2017 12:19
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I just got this as a promoted post thing: I'm not sure what it is, looks like one of those things they use to generate analytic profiles as were alleged to be used in the referendum and US election. I took a quick look and the questions are along the lines of "how worried about a terror attack against the country/you" and "how worried are you about being injured in a car crash" followed by four brain-teaser/Bayesian statistical riddles, so it seems fairly transparent what narrative they're trying to push, followed by a survey which is just "Are Muslims encrypting immigrants on the dark webs?" type stuff, but 3 and 8 are the same. 
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Mar 7, 2017 13:19
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Private Speech posted:6 out of 8 of those options are completely and utterly idiotic on a fundamental level, but somehow from what you said I get the impression that most people don't pick the duplicate one. Who is that even for? Smug 'rationalists' who like to use the word sheeple unironically? Internet nerdlords who think all social problems can be solved with badly-applied Bayes? Or is it genuinely trying to prove a link between authoritarian silliness and innumeracy? If it's the latter, what are they then proposing we do? Move away from authoritarian methods because they're logically unsound even though it will make the Express scream? Or replace statistics in schools with Goveathonics for Academies so that more people will be on board with those kind of measures? Or (more likely) just selling that data to anyone that wants to push for either of those.
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Mar 7, 2017 14:05
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big scary monsters posted:It's actually bad that scientists don't want to engage in politics and think that their work is somehow apolitical. I suspect that senior scientists generally trying to avoid taking a stance that can be seen as political and being unwilling to comment publicly on policy even when it relates to their specialism is a part of what has led to experts being seen as untrustworthy and every person's opinion as good as any other. Science isn't any more insulated from politics and society in general than anything else, and it's a dangerous delusion that scientists allow themselves to believe it is. We have this huge pool of experts who dedicate their entire lives to studying topics that have huge impacts on our daily lives. Yet as soon as some idiot politician who knows nothing about anything but where the bodies are buried in Westminster opens their mouths, suddenly all these experts start staring at their feet and mumbling "well of course there are two sides to every story" and pretending that the real world and their pet area of study are comfortably separate domains that only overlap on their funding proposals. We should also be aware that the evidence will only tell you whether something is likely to work or not, not whether the thing you want to do is a good thing or not. So philosophers of science should also be given a platform. There was an interesting public lecture recently that argued for teaching ethics and phil. of sci. alongside the sciences in schools. We should also have more input from social scientists, while at the same time admitting that their models may be both useful but culture or standpoint bound. The problem comes when you grant a bully pulpit to people whose main achievement has been a lifetime of study and achievement in a highly detailed area of the sciences (usually a 'real science') and they gain celebrity smartperson status, which too often turns into 'old white Oxbridge man tells us all about the Muslims' or 'this neurosurgeon has some theories about slavery'.
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Mar 7, 2017 17:29
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Regarde Aduck posted:He'll be writing 5000 word polemics about why the EM-drive could never work and how we're never leaving this planet and how truly awe inspiring it is that we're all going to live meaningless lives in a universe destined for heat death before you know it.
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Mar 7, 2017 18:04
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Brexit could be the biggest charitable reparation to Africa and the Levant in history, the biggest problem is that it had to be wrapped in 'Turkmen!' and 'Our Sovreignity!' to get it passed. The only articles I saw through the whole referendum campaign even talking about this angle outside of anarchist publications with readerships in the dozens was something about the CAP and knock on effects on sub-Saharan Africa by Zambian economist Dambisa Moyo, something in the back of the Graun from one of the two Lib-Dem Leave MPs, and a couple of pieces in ThisIsAfrica about how the EU operates a Eurocentric Neocolonial foreign trade policy. Even then I only found those through occasionally reading those publications, nothing like that came up in the mainstream debate. Even Lexit was mainly talking about how the EU is bad for the British left and British workers. They could even have lied, like they did about the money for the NHS, or Turkey joining before Euro 2020. They could have tugged at the heartstrings of daytime television watchers. "This is Thandi. She is 8. She doesn't have clean drinking water because the EU stole it all to wash Francois Hollande's filthy ballsack." But they didn't, it was entirely a campaign of Us! Our stuff! Control! Them! Bad!
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Mar 7, 2017 20:00
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Darth Walrus posted:That's literally where Britain First came from. OwlFancier posted:I invariably play a pretty good character in every RPG but I like ones that give you the option to be a dickhead because a game that railroads you to being nice doesn't really connect as well as games where you elect to be nice. That's sort of an aspect of the medium, that the player has agency, and what separates it from a linear narrative and facilitates its ability to communicate with the player. Guavanaut posted:There's an anti-radicalization CYOA where no matter what you do your character becomes more and more fash ... I think it's part of Saatchi's anti far right campaign. I can't find it anywhere now though. https://openyoureyestohate.com/ I also like how the URL appeares to be something-something-yes-to-hate at first reading.
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Mar 7, 2017 22:39
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Kokoro Wish posted:The main character is literally raped by a school uniform in the first episode. Then I remembered we're discussing bad anime and not bad 2nd waver lit, so it probably grows tentacles or something. idk/care
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Mar 8, 2017 02:23
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Lunar Suite posted:http://news.sky.com/story/eu-may-demand-83642bn-from-uk-after-customs-fraud-investigation-10794571
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Mar 8, 2017 12:41
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Pissflaps posted:
I tried looking it up by URI and got this:  Is it this?
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Mar 8, 2017 13:39
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Lunar Suite posted:Considering the other member state have successfully tackled the problem according to the linked article, I don't think it's an unfeasible "death of a thousand cuts" situation.
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Mar 8, 2017 16:43
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Jedit posted:Now taking wagers that barring a snap GE we'll be back to 4 million unemployed by the time May is done. I could be persuaded to believe either.
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Mar 8, 2017 17:28
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Seaside Loafer posted:So in summery people don't want to do lovely service sector job with no prospects, heavens hold the front page ... What they will actually do is keep them lovely and fill them with workfare staff. 
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Mar 8, 2017 21:36
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crispix posted:They do have an online cyber-shop but they have taken down all the really tacky ornaments they used to sell on it.
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Mar 9, 2017 01:40
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It used to be like an extremely dark St Patrick's day stall.
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Namtab posted:Haha like any paper would publish a corbyn op-ed OwlFancier posted:I wish he'd say gently caress more.
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Mar 9, 2017 02:20
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forkboy84 posted:This is my favourite rage-inducing stat. Sure, wages are stagnant in ways not seen since before the Highland Clearances
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Mar 9, 2017 13:37
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MikeCrotch posted:Meanwhile Alistair Heath in the Telegraph is screeching at a level that only dogs can hear:
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Mar 9, 2017 14:36
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OwlFancier posted:Isn't that what pisspots are for? Which sounds like a surefire route to selective enforcement and a street to prison pipeline for the homeless that is about 3x as expensive as just getting them a house and paying for their basic needs.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:25
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baka kaba posted:I wasn't really thinking of TV, unless you mean Question Time Angry Thumb Man Juror: We're taking time out of our day and all the prosecution and defence are doing is arguing with each other, they should just find the criminals and lock 'em up. It's all gone soft. Sobbing Woman in Dock: When I voted Conservative to Ban This Sick Filth I didn't think they were going to come after me.
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Mar 9, 2017 19:53
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OwlFancier posted:GET YE FLASK You cannot get YE FLASK.
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Mar 9, 2017 20:48
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Skinty McEdger posted:I read the Daily Mail's coverage of the budget while I was sat on a delayed train today. Predictably enough they came to the conclusion that Corbyn was to blame for it being bad because his weak opposition had given Hammond reason to be complacent and think he could get away with anything.
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Mar 9, 2017 21:25
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It sounds a lot like what Leave campaigners said to Asians in the Midlands before immediately turning round and saying no it won't to the whites.
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Mar 9, 2017 22:46
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#ukgoons
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Mar 9, 2017 23:55
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Yeah, 50p isn't really that high historically speaking if it's only on people who are that wealthy. And that's only on the margin.
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Mar 10, 2017 11:09
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peanut- posted:Michael Gove's column in The Times today is really quite something MikeCrotch posted:Probably something along the lines of "amusing idiot" with that picture of him meeting Saddam Hussein attached
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Mar 10, 2017 12:51
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jBrereton posted:*this guy shakes his fist while critically examining both the illiberalism of protestant land/asset seizures and attempts at a more egalitarian society by the female Protestants such as Katarina Zell whose writing on religion in and of itself was revolutionary and is still truly unwelcome in the catholic-influenced faiths including the CofE to some extent*
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Mar 10, 2017 13:08
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feedmegin posted:I do like that Galloway is something apparently all of us itt can agree on without controversy. Excited for his pirate book tho.
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Mar 10, 2017 13:41
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Maybe he just likes Asses.
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Mar 10, 2017 14:09
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I'm sure if you make the right noises you can have him eating out of your hand.
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Mar 10, 2017 14:15
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But Iran is #2 in the world for gender reassignment therapy. Why do you hate the Islamic Republic George? Why do you make Ali Khamenei cry so?
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Mar 10, 2017 15:09
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quote:She hates the idea that politics is just a game, which is what she suspects the Cameroons have always believed. 
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Mar 10, 2017 20:54
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Hoops posted:Devils advocate then - isn't it easier for the left to succeed in one isolated country that is not interdependent with right wing governments than it is to succeed in five or six countries at the same time? It's easier to move an island nation to the left than move a whole continent. Can the working class of our country overcome the contradictions with our peasantry and establish an alliance, collaboration with them? Can the working class of our country, in alliance - with our peasantry, smash the bourgeoisie of our country, deprive it of the land, factories, mines, etc., and by its own efforts build a new, classless society, complete Socialist society? Such are the problems that are connected with the first side of the question of the victory of Socialism in our country. Leninism answers these problems in the affirmative. Lenin teaches us that "we have all that is necessary for the building of a complete Socialist society." Hence we can and must, by our own efforts, overcome our bourgeoisie and build Socialist society. Trotsky, Zinoviev, Kamenev, and those other gentlemen who later became spies and agents of fascism, denied that it was possible to build Socialism in our country unless the victory of the Socialist revolution was first achieved in other countries, in capitalist countries. As a matter of fact, these gentlemen wanted to turn our country back to the path of bourgeois development and they concealed their apostasy by hypocritically talking about the "victory of the revolution" in other countries.
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Mar 10, 2017 23:07
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We know there were plenty of Did Not Votes who came out to vote Leave, but was there anyone who voted in 2015 who didn't vote at all in the Referendum? Even just enough to make up 1% for one of the parties? Other than General China, who drew a cat.
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Mar 11, 2017 00:44
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baka kaba posted:He's going to be showered with gold by the private sector for services rendered baka kaba posted:I think the markets can provide a service solution for this conundrum, friend. Step forward, Atos! G4S! Capita! And whatever the 4th horseman is these days
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Mar 11, 2017 03:46
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jBrereton posted:Alternatively he shouldn't have held one because do you really need to sort out internal party discipline when you don't end up with the hung parliament most people predicted? No.
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