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Jose posted:i'm glad blair is promising to get his hands dirty and help Theresa May get re-elected because shes what this country needs Based on that Juncker meeting analysis she's certainly what this country deserves. That said, I myself have been holding Brexit talks of late, and have successfully negotiated a deal to leave the EU I'm moving to Norway this month.
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knox_harrington posted:How does voting work after you #brexit? What constituency do you vote in? You vote in the constituency you were last registered in, and you can vote for up to 15 years after leaving the UK.
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Spuckuk posted:It's like looking into the UK 19 years forward. We'll be defending Ginsters lovely pasties I'm glad that once we leave the EU Cornish pasty will no longer be a protected term. It's shameful that Ginsters is the most common pasty experience for most of the country, they're complete shite.
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May 2, 2017 13:31
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Worst man walks into a bar joke of this election campaign so far.
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May 2, 2017 20:49
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bessantj posted:Hmmmm, maybe I will. Free yourself of the oppression trouser regime and do your gardening wearing a liberating utilikilt.
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May 3, 2017 15:10
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I expect Philip is withdrawing from public appearances so he can concentrate on his new role as Britain's goodwill ambassador to the Brexit negotiations.
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May 4, 2017 10:34
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My council ward has 3 SNP candidates and one from each of the other main parties, I guess as a result of the boundary changes last year? Previously we had two Labour councillors but it'll probably look something like 2xSNP, 1xLab and 1xLib this time around.
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May 4, 2017 11:19
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Oberleutnant posted:local councils. I've been looking at my candidates and two of them don't have any online presence whatsoever. Of the remainder all but two seem to be really bad, and it's possible one of them has killed three people but I can't be sure it isn't someone else around the same age in the same neighbourhood with the same name. local councillors lol If I want to put the Tory candidate last do I have to rank all the intermediate ones too or can I just do the top couple and the last one?
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May 4, 2017 11:43
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Angepain posted:Sounds like someone's prepared to make the tough strong choices required to reduce council expenditure by reducing demand for public services. Vote #1 imo OK, thanks. I will try to figure out how to rank the Lib Dem who left Labour for the SDP, the man who has never used the internet and the SNP candidate with the overall top K/D ratio.
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May 4, 2017 12:05
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FYI you do NOT get a sticker when voting this time around. It's barely even worth bothering.
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May 4, 2017 14:30
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forkboy84 posted:If you're wealthy enough to gently caress off at the election of a Tory you're probably not likely to get hosed that badly by them. I think I got one at the 2010 GE but maybe my memory is playing tricks on me.
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May 4, 2017 15:35
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The Conservative Party: the brand so toxic that even we're ashamed of ourselves.
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May 4, 2017 15:39
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JFairfax posted:I was broke when I left the UK in 2010 having not had a steady job for about 9 months. I'm starting my move to another country tomorrow, as I promised previously in the thread I'm going to keep track of my expenses and post in a month or two what it cost me. I think last time it was about £2k over a couple of months but I didn't track it exactly. This time I think it might be a bit less.
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May 4, 2017 15:53
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Sapozhnik posted:I'm sure a repressurization shockwave travelling at the speed of sound won't cause any problems What's the speed of sound in a vacuum?
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spectralent posted:Question time is good??? It's actually extremely bad.
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I will never reveal the secret meaning behind my username. Also here's this while I wait for files to transfer so I can go to sleep. Long way to go yet, I guess for some reason a lot of Wales is reporting early?  e: Why does the SNP have one seat with no votes? big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 02:21 on May 5, 2017 |
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May 5, 2017 02:16
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Can't say I especially remember Corbyn's anti-Farron speeches, though I certainly do recall plenty of the reverse.
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May 5, 2017 02:34
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Apropos of nothing but my idle twitter browsing: https://twitter.com/federicacocco/status/859770725003132928
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May 5, 2017 02:56
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I'm listening to Radio 4 and in the past 15 minutes or so they've given Paul Nuttall, head of the racist party with no MPs and one councillor, three audio quotes. Nothing from notably more successful minority parties Plaid, the SNP, the Greens, and only a quote each from the big 3 (only Farron got a voice recording). Northern Ireland doesn't exist of course.
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May 6, 2017 13:05
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lol now we have Nigel Farage on Any Questions along with the big three English parties. Cool. e: don't know much about Emily Thornbury but she seems at least pretty good at radio in this format and is saying reasonable stuff.
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May 6, 2017 13:22
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a pipe smoking dog posted:I don't think people hate Andy Burnham. in fact I thinks its impossible for anyone to have a strong emotional reaction to him. Someone described Burnham as "a child's drawing of a man", which is rather cruel but I think gets the point across accurately.
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May 6, 2017 16:09
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Namtab posted:Doctors are ok, not quite nurse tier tho Nurses are indeed good, but it would be ridiculous to talk about people serving public health without also honouring binmen and sewage workers, whose hard work probably saves more lives a year than a doctor or nurse will manage in a lifetime.
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May 7, 2017 00:26
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Ora Tzo posted:Replace the lords with an actual upper house too? Lower the voting age to 16 and replace elected MPs with a randomly selected member of the electorate from each constituency. No parties, tell them to form a government as best they can. They're unlikely to accidentally do as much damage as recent governments have done the country intentionally, and it'll make UK politics a lot more entertaining to the rest of the world. big scary monsters fucked around with this message at 09:54 on May 8, 2017 |
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May 8, 2017 09:52
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Guavanaut posted:Making the UK the British Empire again would mean scrapping the Commonwealth Immigration Act and there's no way the country would vote for "free movement of goods, capital, services, and labour, but this time 500 million of them are black." Just think what it would do to house prices.
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May 8, 2017 11:50
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IMO someone who has gone through the expense, stress and effort of gaining UK citizenship is far more British than someone who just happened to be born here by accident and rolled with it.
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May 8, 2017 16:33
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I'm in a cafe in some middle of nowhere village in Northern Sweden and I just heard a news report on the radio about the leaked Labour manifesto. I don't speak Swedish but I can pick out words like "manifesto", "Labour", "Jeremy Corbyn" and "Royal Mail privatisation". Clearly Corbyn's message is reaching someone!
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May 11, 2017 11:10
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Alchenar posted:Literally anyone who has the capacity to want to vote should have that option (caveating; you should have to be a Citizen and you have to be resident in the UK). This takes the vote away from quite a lot of people who currently have it. Was that your intent?
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May 11, 2017 14:03
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I don't think cameramen set the BBC's editorial stance, and I hope he's OK.
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May 11, 2017 15:13
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I'm not sure I understand the argument for not taxing under 18s. I know that Americans are big on the "no taxation without representation" for historical reasons, but you don't pay taxes to be allowed to vote (I'm sure the Tories' would be keen on removing the franchise from the unemployed though). You pay taxes for the privilege of living in a society where sewage doesn't flow over the dead bodies lying on the mud track outside your collapsing hovel. In addition, it'd be absurd for a 16 year old child star to make millions in untaxed income, and it'd be likewise silly to allow rich parents to put assets in their children's name as a convenient tax loophole.
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May 11, 2017 21:34
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OwlFancier posted:I don't think Justin Beiber should be a concern for the tax system. It doesn't really make much difference, just an additional problem I thought of. I just don't see any reason, if children are making sufficient money, not to tax then.
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May 11, 2017 21:42
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Private Speech posted:I'm not counting Pissflaps among that group though. I should hope not, Pissflaps is a master of his craft, not some grubby slavery/genocide/Germany apologist. He's been doing his bit here in this thread longer than I've been posting, everybody knows who he is and what his shtick is, yet people still for for it every time. I don't know why someone would sell their soul for that particular talent, but I reckon the devil got a raw deal.
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May 11, 2017 23:38
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lol just lol
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May 12, 2017 13:52
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The legacy of Red Ed, who grew up reading Das Kapital over the breakfast table, lives on.
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May 12, 2017 13:54
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How can you forget 2004 winner and former Ukrainian member of parliament Ruslana?
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May 12, 2017 14:15
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The solution to most password problems is to use a password manager. Then every password can be 20 random characters and, more importantly, they can all be unique. Password managers have their own potential vulnerabilities of course, but that's nothing compared with the current situation of most people using one or at most a couple of weak passwords to protect their entire online lives.
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May 12, 2017 21:27
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Seaside Loafer posted:I could do with a good recommendation for a piece of password vault software at my place if anyone knows a good one. I've got them mostly sorted in their user and network security now but the all admin passwords are still living in one not terribly well hidden file on the IT manager's (I use the word manager loosely there) computer. I liked LastPass but they've had a number of security holes found of late (by a Google security researcher, and they were all patched promptly, but still). Other popular managers that I have not used and which may also have security holes, but at least they haven't been made public yet, are Keepass and 1password. I believe both differ from LastPass in that you store the vault yourself, rather than them doing it on their server. This is potentially more secure but if you gently caress up then you're hosed. Dropbox is a popular option for storing your vault to make it accessible across devices and probably recoverable if you accidentally delete it.
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So has May announced yet who'll be replacing Jeremy Hunt after his resignation following this appalling mismanagement of patient data on his watch?
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Another Person posted:Also the issue with bespoke and proprietary systems for the NHS is that they would be massive money sinks, and would probably require an entire training path just to hire people to work on developing after it exists and is out there. There is a reason we contract tech stuff out: it requires an expertise which only industry has, because nobody goes to university to get a degree in coding so they can take the modest income of NHS backend design - they would work for a company which pays them as much as possible for their knowledge. This would become a greater problem again as the system got older and older, because the education for coding would evolve - the language and design ideology of the NHS bespoke system would be an artifact of the day it was released. Getting people to choose to train into the expertise of a bespoke system would require some serious incentives, both for those choosing to learn it and the institutions you want to teach it. The funding would need to compete with private contract stuff. I guess ideally the ecosystem you create is so good that you eventually sell it to other health services and similar extremely large organisations. That means it's widely used enough that people actually want to train in it, and maybe even brings in a bit of cash so it isn't such a massive money sink. You're talking about setting up a nationalised version of Oracle basically (hopefully not that bad though).
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Scikar posted:You haven't been reading, because £5.5m was the cost for an extra year of security updates to Windows XP from Microsoft. That is completely different to purchasing a full EHR software package.
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ukle posted:Yes. Its why I am annoyed, we are the pawns for Lib Dem's bigger game. They were probably going to come second in both seats, but now they will come second in just 1 as despite Harrogate going remain they stand almost no chance in hell of winning the seat now. It doesn't really matter who comes in second in FPTP though?
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