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Poll: Who Should Be Leader of HM Most Loyal Opposition? This poll is closed.
Jeremy Corbyn	95	18.63%
Dennis Skinner	53	10.39%
Angus Robertson	20	3.92%
Tim Farron	9	1.76%
Paul Ukips	7	1.37%
Robot Lenin	105	20.59%
Tony Blair	28	5.49%
Pissflaps	193	37.84%
Total:	510 votes

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Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

This is what's hosed my application and loads of others', Comprehensive Sickness Insurance. gently caress the home office. gently caress it hard.

https://www.freemovement.org.uk/comprehensive-sickness-insurance-what-is-it-and-who-needs-it/

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 01:45

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:30

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

What about the Swiss and Norwegians though.

WHAT ABOUT US.

# ¿ Mar 1, 2017 20:29

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Kurtofan posted:

Corbyn must walk

Not before Hawking does.

# ¿ Mar 7, 2017 11:01

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Can someone repost the synirc link?

# ¿ Mar 9, 2017 23:52

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Galloway is also transphobic as all hell. Overall a big shithead.

# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 14:58

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Breath Ray posted:

Odd for an economic migrant to rail against big money

odd for al gore to be against carbon emissions when he himself is made of carbon

# ¿ Mar 10, 2017 19:40

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Scottish Labour is dumb though and they'd have a lot more support if they'd never campaigned for the Union.

# ¿ Mar 11, 2017 17:08

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

indyref2 is inevitable, climb the mountain of conflict.

# ¿ Mar 13, 2017 11:39

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

big scary monsters posted:

I dunno, there was The Vow that was immediately shot and buried following the No vote, and there was Gordon Brown's last minute essay writing and I can barely remember what else Labour was involved in in the last referendum. Of course I was living in Scotland so probably wasn't the main focus of their campaign.

Alistair Darling was the head of Better Together, and Jim Murphy made it his raison d'�tre to campaign against. The Unionist campaign was very much "Tory Money, Labour Action".

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 12:55

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

jBrereton posted:

Right... and the Swiss have a really big airport which explains them getting more trade than the French or what?

You're aware of a couple of wee things called the Alps and the Gotthard Pass?

# ¿ Mar 14, 2017 17:37

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 12:12

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Think there's more here.

https://mobile.twitter.com/Zarkwan/status/841961696759562242/photo/1

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 17:06

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

VVD ~~made the biggest gains~~ had the best result, I think, what's their story?

# ¿ Mar 15, 2017 23:12

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

big scary monsters posted:

I was surprised to find out when I was in Norway last year that neither they nor any of the other Nordic countries have a national minimum wage. Neither do Switzerland or Austria. Instead they all have strong trade union movements and rely on collective bargaining to set wages across industries. I don't know enough about those countries to say whether that is a more effective approach, but certainly when I think inequality and poverty level wages I don't think of Sweden.

In Switzerland it's a problem because the union-arranged wages only apply to Swiss residents and the country is small enough that there's a massive commuter workforce that lives in France or Italy and works in Switzerland. The Swiss right wing feeds of the idea of commuters "stealing" people's jobs, while resisting anything that might force employers to be less scummy in their hiring practices, while the Swiss Socialists have been screaming for years about either extending the union membership to anyone who works in Switzerland or implementing a federal minimum wage.

# ¿ Mar 16, 2017 11:27

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Don't Lol me posted:

Hmmm, yes that's definitely the entire cause of why Scottish Labour did so badly, it all happened in a vacuum and the media and referendum played no part in that whatsoever.

Can't wait to get a new Labour leader in with some sick bantz to swing that vote back, it's sure to happen.

Just a reminder that Scottish media is overwhelmingly pro Scotlab and anti SNP.

# ¿ Mar 17, 2017 01:08

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

radmonger posted:

Be a plausible next government, so that your position on things matter more than a wet fart,

You know who else can't get coverage of their policy positions? The Lib Dems. Is that really because they are radicals the Man is running scared of? Or is it just because nothing they say will ever take place?

Remember UKIP?

# ¿ Mar 19, 2017 20:03

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I had a course in high school called Theory of Knowledge where they taught critical thinking skills like recognising fallacies, researching sources, understanding bias, stuff like that. I still remember the one class where one student had the penny drop about his mother not having vaccinated him. Stuff like that should be widespread.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 12:37

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Jakabite posted:

This is what I'm talking about. Perhaps if I'd had such a class, I'd have the critical thinking skills to know not to engage with someone as cretinous as Breath Ray when I've got better things to do.

Here, it was this.

http://www.ibo.org/programmes/diploma-programme/curriculum/theory-of-knowledge/what-is-tok/

quote:

Theory of knowledge (TOK) plays a special role in the International Baccalaureate� (IB) Diploma Programme (DP), by providing an opportunity for students to reflect on the nature of knowledge, and on how we know what we claim to know.

It is one of the components of the DP core and is mandatory for all students. The TOK requirement is central to the educational philosophy of the DP.

How is TOK structured?
As a thoughtful and purposeful inquiry into different ways of knowing, and into different kinds of knowledge, TOK is composed almost entirely of questions.

The most central of these is "How do we know?", while other questions include:

What counts as evidence for X?
How do we judge which is the best model of Y?
What does theory Z mean in the real world?
Through discussions of these and other questions, students gain greater awareness of their personal and ideological assumptions, as well as developing an appreciation of the diversity and richness of cultural perspectives.

Assessment of TOK
The TOK course is assessed through an oral presentation and a 1600 word essay.

The presentation assesses the ability of the student to apply TOK thinking to a real-life situation, while the essay takes a more conceptual starting point.

For example, the essay may ask students to discuss the claim that the methodologies used to produce knowledge depend on the use to which that knowledge will be used.

What is the significance of TOK?
TOK aims to make students aware of the interpretative nature of knowledge, including personal ideological biases � whether these biases are retained, revised or rejected.

It offers students and their teachers the opportunity to:

reflect critically on diverse ways of knowing and on areas of knowledge
consider the role and nature of knowledge in their own culture, in the cultures of others and in the wider world.
In addition, TOK prompts students to:

be aware of themselves as thinkers, encouraging them to become more acquainted with the complexity of knowledge
recognize the need to act responsibly in an increasingly interconnected but uncertain world.
TOK also provides coherence for the student, by linking academic subject areas as well as transcending them.

It therefore demonstrates the ways in which the student can apply their knowledge with greater awareness and credibility.

# ¿ Mar 20, 2017 12:46

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

LemonDrizzle posted:

can whoever flicked the bizarro universe transition switch please reset it to its normal value thank you very much

Heavily, HEAVILY, outlying poll that doesn't abide by the British Polling Council, doesn't need to reveal its raw data, and was released JUST in time for a televised debate tonight.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 12:08

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I bought some stuff from the Repeal The 8th campaign yesterday. Good cause.

# ¿ Mar 21, 2017 13:24

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Seen a lot of people posting that meme and a lot of people sharing this article, which I feel is worth giving a read.

https://medium.com/@seanboneill/our-response-to-terrorist-attacks-is-like-much-else-becoming-automated-b44fbf256989#.f9ra7ti9h

# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 14:58

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

namesake posted:

To be fair to media there are regular protests and often quite large ones, obviously there should be coverage that it happened but unless they're actually quite a militant group at the protest or are involving powerful groups who are close to actually achieving their aim then there isn't really much to report other than 'X0,000 people feel strongly about something.'

Every. Single. loving. Voxpop.

# ¿ Mar 25, 2017 16:27

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

TinTower posted:

Yeah, to be honest it is a bit creepy to be doing those photoshops.

Also, hasn't JFairFax been probated multiple times for being a massive creep to flaps? It seems like it's the only thing he does if he's not complaining about the Pope.

He contributes, at least.

Remember coconuts?

# ¿ Mar 26, 2017 23:44

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

They got Salmond on to do nothing but yell at Davis, I might tune in as well.

# ¿ Mar 27, 2017 17:33

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

So uh. This is a thing.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 00:50

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Any legal goons want to weigh in on the actual illegality of sex-selective abortions? Abortion legislation doesn't seem to make it illegal beyond a doctor deciding whether it's a reasonable grounds.

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 18:52

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

JFairfax posted:

also hyper religious groups are not usually the sorts to be getting abortions anyway

http://www.prochoiceactionnetwork-canada.org/articles/anti-tales.shtml

# ¿ Mar 28, 2017 21:20

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Can you imagine Angus Robertson in charge of a nationwide leftist party I mean MY GOD

# ¿ Mar 29, 2017 20:31

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Namtab posted:

I just realised that I only have a few days left to come up with a good name for the next thread in which details will roll out about our independence from Europe, human rights and thoughts

eur-all-pee-in union

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 00:19

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Switzerland has access to the market because it agreed to EU bilaterals including freedom of movement. When a referendum passed to limit this movement, the Swiss government said "lol no you idiots" and punted it into row Z where it's stayed.

EDIT: A bit more than that.

quote:

The EU/CH bilateral treaties are all co-dependent, if one is terminated then all are terminated. Consequently, should Switzerland choose unilaterally to cancel the 'free movement' agreement then all its agreements with the EU will lapse unless a compromise is found.[4] On 22 December 2016, Switzerland and the EU concluded an agreement that a new Swiss law (in response to the referendum) may require Swiss employers to give priority to Swiss-based job seekers (Swiss nationals and foreigners registered in Swiss job agencies) but does not limit the free movement of EU workers to Switzerland.[5]

A stupid referendum passed on the basis of right-wing fervor, but because the Swiss government is somewhat competent, they came to an agreeable compromise with the EU that gives some concessions to the referendum and it's not going to wreck the Swiss economy because of it.

Coohoolin fucked around with this message at 13:32 on Mar 30, 2017

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 13:29

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Oh don't get me wrong Switzerland is awful.

It just has a competent government that doesn't let idiot referendums derail the national economy.

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 14:22

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Is McCluskey the only non-Brexiter/Right-winger on there?

# ¿ Mar 30, 2017 23:18

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

I mean it's not like they have much else to do.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 01:48

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# ¿ Apr 29, 2024 15:30

Coohoolin: Aug 5, 2012; Oor Coohoolie.

Cerv posted:

he's boasted of signing up as a £3 supporter to vote for him. then gone on to vote SNP rather than Corbyn's Labour in the 2016 election

Wrong. I'm a unite member, and tried to vote for Corbyn because I wanted to see a shift to the left. I was unable to do so because of leadership election wankery. As a Swiss citizen, I'm not allowed to vote for UK or Scottish elections. I'm a member of the SSP and will continue to campaign for a socialist party that supports Scottish independence.

# ¿ Mar 31, 2017 22:36

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