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Zalakwe posted:This guy clearly going for the UKMT vote - https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/415590/auschwitz-post-fife-candidate-suggests-tories-should-kill-themselves/. Fife!
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LeoMarr posted:is TM going to deport eu citizens before the snap election? I always just walk into a london office and vote. I never have shown identity.. EU citizens can't vote in the general election.
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May 1, 2017 16:10
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https://twitter.com/jessicaelgot/status/859078057218506753 This is bad for Simon Danczuk.
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blowfish posted:Also, most of them would be condemned as unfit for human habitation in a civilised country. I was delivering campaign letters in what was honestly the most depressing council estate I've ever seen in my life last night. People deserve proper homes.
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May 3, 2017 10:03
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Pissflaps posted:I think that as time goes on the 'divorce bill' will morph into an amount of money we contribute on an ongoing basis to the EU in return for some of the benefits of membership. Another great Pissflaps prediction given the conciliatory Theresa May has decided to adopt today.
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May 3, 2017 19:00
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Pochoclo posted:In a strange twist straight out of The Art of War, the Tories defeated the UKIP by becoming them. So basically, it's the opposite of Star Wars.
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May 3, 2017 23:35
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May 4, 2017 08:02
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LemonDrizzle posted:screw those filthy eurowogs we're taking our money and going home in a huff The nuclear option is doing something that ensures the EU will completely refuse to give us any deal? 
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May 4, 2017 08:25
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Pissflaps posted:I expect the idea is there is the threat from the EU of no deal then this is the strongest response the UK could retaliate with. It's a loving stupid idea.
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May 4, 2017 08:43
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Pissflaps posted:Hopefully it won't come to that but it has to be a backstop option, surely? Credible threats have to be on the same magnitude as the threat they're supposed to counter. This is more like a toddler having a tantrum in the supermarket hoping the grown ups will cave in and buy them all the sweeties.
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May 4, 2017 08:48
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GaussianCopula posted:Reminder: Everything Brexit related coming from the UK government is meant for internal consumption only until the polls close on election day. If you want to go full tinfoil even the leaks about the dinner could have been orchestrated to give May an easy opponent to beat up on while not even engaging her internal opposition, given that even the EU has an interest to see May win as much high as possible. It doesn't matter that it's "meant" for domestic political posturing it's still going to have a negative effect. If the electorates in EU nations think we're all cunts then the EU won't want to give us a good deal because they all too have domestic political concerns of their own.
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May 4, 2017 10:40
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His Divine Shadow posted:I thought someone said that was a fake account earlier? Or at least not official. It's not "fake" per se. But it says right in the profile that they aren't an official account.
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May 4, 2017 13:21
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Bobstar posted:Ah yes, the "loop of doom" we called it. In our case the entry point into the loop of doom was the flat - they didn't care about a bank account so long as they got their money. Other countries may vary. When my partner moved over from France the bank wouldn't accept a written declaration from me as proof of address (I own the flat, so no letting agent, and bank with the bank so they could obviously check their own records to verify I live there) and insisted we get a utility or council tax bill with her name on it for "security/fraud" reasons I pointed out that neither the utility companies or council would perform any checks and just take our word for it they just looked at us blankly and reiterated it was for security reasons.
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May 4, 2017 16:37
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Jose posted:I've received a letter from a debt collection agency about outstanding british gas payment. I paid british gas' final bill after changing suppliers am I going to get spammed by these people if i reply? I'd call British Gas and not the debt collection bastards.
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May 4, 2017 16:47
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Bobstar posted:Haha, yes, I think I've mentioned this before, but much as I don't trust any British government not to leave a hypothetical ID database on a train, there is a certain convenience to being officially registered as living somewhere/existing, with a magic number that unlocks services. Like an electoral register, perhaps? awesome-express posted:When I was opening a business bank account I tried doing it through HSBC. They told me they needed statements from my personal bank account for *security* reasons. I do personal banking with HSBC, and they said they can't accept HSBC statements. The thing with personal banking is that it's really hard to do lots of things without a bank account and you don't want to have to piss about for a week or two gathering their arbitrary evidence when you can present perfectly reasonable evidence to the immediately!
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https://twitter.com/BrianElects/status/860151498470297600 I'm loving this new parody account
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May 4, 2017 17:19
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jBrereton posted:*nearly two thirds of states turn red* Bernie would have won. If for no other reason than the Comey letters wouldn't have happened.
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jBrereton posted:Yeah okay bud. You disagree? There's a good argument that it cost Clinton the election. Why would you think Bernie would've been in a worse situation otherwise than Clinton? Because the neoliberals would have all gone for Trump or something?
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May 4, 2017 18:07
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TinTower posted:According to everyone's favourite psephologist John Curtice, UKIP are down about by about 15%. Very little mention of the Lib Dem Fightback in this post. It's unclear to me how Corbyn critics handle a Labour defeat where the Lib Dems collapse even further. If the answer is be right wing then we might as well just abolish political parties.
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May 5, 2017 02:16
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TinTower posted:I'd like Labour to attack the government instead of the Lib Dems too. You have literally spent the last two years attacking Labour. So gently caress off you liberal collaborator.
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May 5, 2017 02:34
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TinTower posted:Labour wasted at least one PPB going into the European elections in 2014 attacking the Lib Dems instead of the Tories or UKIP. Your party was in government with the Conservatives. Your current leader didn't rule out doing the same. gently caress. Off.
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Pissflaps posted:Not sure what all the high emotion is for - last night's result has been on the cards for months. The Conservatives soaking up the UKIP votes because they've adopted all of UKIP's policies is a consequence of Jeremy Corbyn being leader?
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Pissflaps posted:When you demand labour is lead by somebody with a chance in hell of becoming prime minister I might believe you give a gently caress about people dying because of Tory governments. How does the Lib Dems losing ground fit into your narrative? You wanted Labour to be more pro-Remain. The centrist pro-remain party isn't doing any better? Isn't he fact of the matter that a lot of people want a right wing Brexit and that's what they're voting for?
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May 5, 2017 13:35
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UKIP actually gained a seat. https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/860465132333412354 Edit: Better result for Labour I guess https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/860473479984021504
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He's right. Let's make food poverty history by increasing benefits, ending sanctions, and a £10 minimum wage.
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May 8, 2017 00:57
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LemonDrizzle posted:A blue Wales, what a time to be alive. Wales voted for Brexit. People aren't voting for the Conservative party. They're voting for the Theresa May Brexit Government.
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May 8, 2017 21:47
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Zephro posted:You have to wonder if this is a gateway drug, though, the way UKIP seems to have been a gateway drug to Toryism for a bunch of former Labour voters. Meh. I think it's so attached to Brexit I don't see it lasting beyond that. Same goes for the anti-Corbyn stay at home crowd, although that's probably mostly the same crowd as the Miliband isn't strong enough to stand up the to the SNP lot.
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GaussianCopula posted:The people who celebrated Corbyn's ascension and victory when he was challenged. The reason that the Conservatives can do whatever they feel like is because there is no effective opposition. No, the reason the Conservatives can do what they like is because of Brexit.
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May 10, 2017 15:22
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Yorkshire Tea posted:Tuition fees are the biggest red herring in the loving world for the left. They don't impact the poorest because they only hit you once you earn above £21k which isn't living like a king or anything, but is still appreciable income. Even then, they're scaled in such a way that you're not going to be earning less if you hit that threshold. So someone from a rich family who pays the fees up front pays £27k while someone on a middling public sector income pays ~£80k over 30 years. Rightio. You're a loving moron. Tuition fees aren't terrible because of their effect on just the poorest. They're terrible because they're bad for everyone except the richest. The only red herring is claiming scrapping tuition fees is just a big bung to the middle class whilst completely ignoring we have a thing called income tax.
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Someone who is earning £25k after university is now only paying 1% less in their marginal tax than someone older earning over £45k. It's an intergenerational flat tax for anyone on a normal income.
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jabby posted:So Jess Phillips has broken cover, to give an interview in which she complains about Corbyn, brings up train-gate as evidence of his dishonesty, says the party 'has another fight on it's hands' removing him after the election, and expresses the wish to be leader herself in the future. She also manages to use the words 'bullshit', 'arse' and 'dick' all in one short interview Maybe I'm wrong but didn't Jess once give an interview where she stated there's no point in doing anything unless you see yourself rising to the top?
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jabby posted:A few of Corbyns policies are indeed similar to Milliband, but the big picture stuff, particularly about billions of borrowed infrastructure investment, is diametrically opposed. Milliband was entirely behind the narrative of austerity and of cutting benefits for skivers. People comparing the two are conveniently ignoring ex shadow cabinet ministers literally saying they were going to be tougher on benefits recipients and criminals than the Tories, and even making a weaker pledge on NHS funding than the Tories. In Red Ed's defense it was Balls who drove that economic stuff and apparently they disagreed about it.
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OwlFancier posted:Well yeah the dictionary has a lot of words in it but most people don't know very much of it. I am pretty sure all the figures I've heard for the actual number of words most people will use is a few thousand at most. It's still quite a lot. IIRC from studying linguistics a decade ago most people rarely use more than ~2k common words. Maybe some nerds are gonna stick in hard words but those people weren't choosing lovely passwords to begin with. I remember reading a fascinating article a couple of years ago about how crackers were using hacked password databases to produce Markov chain probabilistic models for helping to brute force hashed passwords. But based on the passwords family members have shared with me for various reasons it doesn't matter how much good advice you give people they'll still choose lovely passwords for convenience.
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CYBER HACKERS
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Another Person posted:.... Given how much money has been blown on contractors having a serious in house capability is probably the best long term solution.
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/general-election-2017-james-heappey-tory-mp-referendum-scottish-national-party-a7735311.htmlquote:Tory MP 'told schoolgirl to "f*** off back to Scotland" when she said she'd vote for independence' Hilarious!
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Trump and Erdogan have made NATO a complete joke.
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Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:"haha we should disband NATO and leave Eastern Europe open to be sucked into Russia's sphere of influence" Or we could have a defence pact lead by the EU which isn't a front for US interests.
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