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Namtab posted:Haha 69 Ah the sex number, very nice. Also: https://twitter.com/BrianElects/status/859135427432853504
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# ¿ May 1, 2017 21:38 |
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# ¿ May 2, 2024 03:05 |
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More police are poo poo, good on Diane for taking the bullet and making it about her and not reinforcing the Special Patrol Group. Sort of joking but with tons of crime now being cyber crime just having more police around won't do anything.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 13:05 |
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Spuckuk posted:Fair point, but you can do lovely things to flank while keeping it pink. https://youtu.be/amKyA2PrSu4 Also I'm vegetarian and all you are terrible.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 13:18 |
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TinTower posted:https://twitter.com/mapduliand/status/858990538837684225 Wondering how bad UKIP and the Tories are going to be in the next 2 years. Pissflaps posted:The most watched video on this YouTube channel has one thousand views. Because it's probably part of a wider media launch and so will be being shared on facebook and twitter rather than directing people to YouTube.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 13:30 |
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Alchenar posted:Do we not count that time in 1988 he announced he was organising a leadership challenge? Just running for leadership isn't undermining the party, deliberately acting in an organised fashiom in ways which damage the party in its operations and media image while constantly searching your own ranks for a replacement because you don't actually think anyone specifically would be better you just can't stand the current leader is though. https://twitter.com/jmsclee/status/859336320803590144 namesake fucked around with this message at 15:38 on May 2, 2017 |
# ¿ May 2, 2017 15:35 |
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Skinty McEdger posted:In a fit of rage following his trolling this afteroon Bryn Phillips has announced he's standing as an independent in Sidcup to oppose the hard left Labour party. Yikes, this is definitely going to be the biggest unforced error this election.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 16:21 |
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http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39784170 posted:Brexit: Theresa May says she'll be 'bloody difficult' to Juncker Bloody difficult to watch or hear speak as well. I really hope this EU dinner thing keeps going or gets bigger with another disaster meeting, just keep chipping away at the soundbites. Eventually it's got to drive any pro-EU Tory to either election apathy or outright madness.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 18:12 |
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OwlFancier posted:I'm the twerking class. Guavanaut posted:Where does that go in the Marxian model? Center stage obviously.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 21:04 |
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Angepain posted:I see the Guardian are trying really really hard to make Chipsgate a Thing It's dumb and they shouldn't, both because it is dumb and because as politically irrelevant as it would be, it's nice to have a real double standard in the press to point to.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 21:11 |
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OwlFancier posted:He's not very centrist other than the bit where he is actually a social democrat. That's a pretty statement right there.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 21:12 |
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OwlFancier posted:He's centrist if you include tankies, like the tories are centrist if you include military juntas. No I mean I agree, his platform is a pacifist social democrat (welfare state for my country, you arrange your part of the world yourself, let's negotiate all the joint stuff). His radicalism, his non-centrism only goes as far as that platform does and the fact that the far left has rallied around him since he entered the leadership contest.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 21:24 |
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OwlFancier posted:And I would suggest that because we live in a nominal democracy, and will continue to do so for the forseeable future, it is a bit silly to restrict the use of the political axis across the actual major political participants because they're all, relatively speaking, in the middle of the axis if you extend the axis to include libertarian dystopia-turned-effective-monarchy and revolutionary anarcho communist syndicalist free association utopia. Okay but abandoning objective assessment of political platforms and turning it purely relative to the moment normalises all the shifts to the right we've had and creates stupid sentences like 'The Tory candidate, running on the left compared to the UKIP candidate for this seat'. There's still plenty of subjectivity involved in saying what the centre is but it has to be defined and parties move around it rather than it move with the parties. JFairfax posted:I hope this backfires spectacularly It'll come out that she stamped on a weasel or something in her kitten heels or a kitten in weasel heels.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 21:33 |
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Pissflaps posted:More from that poll earlier: This doesn't say that at all when you see the other responses.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 21:47 |
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Looke posted:I believe in the Honourable Pissflaps MP Leader of the Opposition Pissflaps gets hit in the face with the ceremonial mace 4 questions into his first Prime Ministers Questions.
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# ¿ May 2, 2017 22:03 |
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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. Almost inevitably if there is a transition arrangement beyond the two years.
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# ¿ May 3, 2017 13:38 |
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Malcolm XML posted:That study says nothing new; its long been known that you gotta keep up with the Joneses rather than being absolutely wealthy to be happy Yeah but anyone claiming a sort of utilitarian approach to social organisation should immediately start using it as evidence that private wealth should be taxed massively and distributed to the poor as it makes the poor materially better off, it makes the middle classes relatively better off compared to the rich and only the very small number of very rich see no benefit at all. So it has to be effectively ignored until a sociologist or journalist writes something about it and then it's treated as a great surprise and then ignored again.
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# ¿ May 3, 2017 20:31 |
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Last one: https://twitter.com/BrianElects/status/859843282427314176
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# ¿ May 3, 2017 22:46 |
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It was good enough for my Cholera-afflicted ancestors and so it's good enough for me! Sewers sound awfully French to me!
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# ¿ May 4, 2017 15:11 |
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Voted for a Labour member in county council (good luck in this sea of blue!) and scattershotted 11 members out of 15 for local council after trying to remember which 11 were on the slip of paper that was posted through my door. Sorry if my wayward votes screw up the local superteam!
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# ¿ May 4, 2017 18:26 |
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MikeCrotch posted:The count doesn't start till 10am tomorrow. Depending how quick their data collection outside the polling is processed (checking poll cards against historical voting records) they can get a vague idea of whose supporters have come out.
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# ¿ May 4, 2017 22:43 |
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Very sensible considering there's another election next month. Also I'm a little annoyed to constantly see UKIP results as 'heavy' rather than 'total' losses. I guess it's to not need to change it if they actually hold onto a seat somewhere, but come on!
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# ¿ May 5, 2017 12:37 |
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Robot Mil posted:So basically UKIP bled a lot of support from Labour over the past few years, and now they are useless, the voters who used to vote Labour (or other parties) are now switching over to the Tories? Nah UKIP always drew most heavily from active Tory voters who are going back to them, Labour lost their base to apathy or nationalist parties or Greens after New Labour and hasn't recovered.
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# ¿ May 5, 2017 13:11 |
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This is not true btw, the guy seems to be lying, bad at maths or not linking the full results. Also another lie, but this is just funny: quote:With the Lib Dems currently on 10 seats, leader Tim Farron said: "These results tell a clear and stark message.
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# ¿ May 5, 2017 14:28 |
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Undead Hippo posted:Sadly, yes. Looking at this from the perspective of building a winning coalition, it's largely Corbyn's fault. The Tories feel safe on the centre, so have rhetorically gone after the right wing voters who had been choosing UKIP. Early indications are that this is working really loving well. If Jeremy Corbyn wasn't Labour leader, then the Tories would have to contend with the possibility of their centrist voters deserting them if they went too right wing. But as it stands, the Tories have maintained their centrist coalition and cannibalized their right wing rivals. It shouldn't have been possible to do both, but Corbyn (and the anaemic Lib-Dems) allowed them to by not presenting a credible centrist alternative. I still suspect that after an election or two the right will split between the outright nationalists and the capitalist wings: nothing has been resolved and Brexit will probably be a sore spot for all of them no matter what the final arrangements will be. Lack of electoral opposition from Labour (hopefully they'd still be providing ideological opposition) will embolden this urge as well. namesake fucked around with this message at 14:56 on May 5, 2017 |
# ¿ May 5, 2017 14:53 |
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It'll be more money to surgeries (maybe council mental health units) budgets for staffing but no changes at all to training or supply of staff. Since it'll be temporary funding or at least a temporary increase in a period of cuts it'll be spent entirely on temporary or locum staff because no finance department will approve anything else and the general impact will be minimal.
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# ¿ May 6, 2017 23:49 |
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Namtab posted:You want another civil war? Frankly I'm cool with that, medicine is about serving the greater public good. I've heard anecdotes of first year students being told that if they're studying medicine to get rich then they should change degree immediately and I think that's responsible and reasonable tutelage. Society should support the individual in achieving their hopes and asks that the individual contribute back to others around them. I'm saddened that currently that'll mean asking far more from the worker than is necessary to pay the capitalist but I can't disagree on principle.
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# ¿ May 7, 2017 00:03 |
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^^^^Tory Thunderdome but it's a country The Tories look to be keeping their impossible promise of net migration to tens of thousands so abolish all borders now because borders kill. However Labour will probably talk mostly about protecting the rights of EU citizens here to be allowed to remain, tackling gang masters and the seasonal labour force and if they've got any sense keeping immigration levels at whatever level is necessary to keep the NHS fully staffed. namesake fucked around with this message at 11:39 on May 8, 2017 |
# ¿ May 8, 2017 11:36 |
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DaWolfey posted:They aren't debating each other. It'll be (presumably) 30 minutes with May, then 30 minutes with Corbyn Well that could potentially be worse if she's unable to say anything else for 30 minutes. A proper debate would at least let her rephrase it every few minutes.
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# ¿ May 8, 2017 13:41 |
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Gonzo McFee posted:Remember when we thought Watson was good when he was pissing off Murdoch? If he'd kept treating the press as a bigger enemy than Corbyn then he, Corbyn and the Labour Party in general would be doing much better.
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# ¿ May 8, 2017 18:45 |
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Darth Walrus posted:There's a UKMT redtexter with a very strange sense of humour. You're telling me.
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# ¿ May 9, 2017 22:31 |
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While vaguery and uncertainty denies Labour options like that they'd be unlikely to gain more than they lose by appearing to move closer to the Tories on that and piss off Remainers. Labour campaigned for Remain, represents many areas which voted both ways and from the get go have taken a position of reluctantly following the result of the vote. Straying from that difficult position will only hurt them more right now.
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# ¿ May 10, 2017 11:46 |
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ookiimarukochan posted:Income != Wealth - and I hope you mean "highest" not "higher" as 33k a year does not make you "rich" anywhere in the country. It makes you above average so definitely in the rich range, although I guess the whole point of this discussion is that there isn't a definitive fixed point. Which is why Marxist analysis is better because you have to argue over pretty discrete categories (what capital is owned and how is it used) rather than just whether a £ notation is meaningful. namesake fucked around with this message at 18:08 on May 10, 2017 |
# ¿ May 10, 2017 18:01 |
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ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:Have the Tories actually announced any policies they are looking to implement apart from pledging to turn the Brexit negotiations into some sort of S&M party? A strong stable for the fox hunting hounds.
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# ¿ May 10, 2017 22:54 |
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Hahah, wow I hope that's real.
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# ¿ May 10, 2017 22:59 |
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Oberleutnant posted:Okay new plan: disenfranchise everybody except me. No me. One man, one vote. I am the man and I have the vote. 1983: Official birth of the Internet and the re-election of Thatcher. Humanity never recovers. namesake fucked around with this message at 14:20 on May 11, 2017 |
# ¿ May 11, 2017 14:18 |
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learnincurve posted:What if the people you don't like starts throwing money at the press, and runs online campaigns with celebrities and whatnot involved aimed directly at an enormous demographic known to be gullible, politically innocent, and easily manipulated by their peers? We get Brexit? You're right though, I don't want Pepe Longstockings from the 'Hitler did nothing wrong' party to get 5% of the vote.
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# ¿ May 11, 2017 17:24 |
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sassassin posted:If everyone's stupid how come all you geniuses are so poor? I'm stupid in a different way.
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# ¿ May 11, 2017 17:33 |
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Oberleutnant posted:I was a complete oval office when i was 16 And when is your 18th birthday coming up?
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# ¿ May 11, 2017 17:57 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:It's gonna be bad. They're already talking about fox hunting which was political poison until... well right now, so I expect bringing back capital punishment is not far behind. Being pro-death penalty was the strongest indicator of voting Leave so yeah, it's in the works. It all fits together.
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# ¿ May 11, 2017 20:43 |
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hakimashou posted:What exactly is so wrong with fox hunting except that "its for rich people" ? It's awful, cruel and pointless, much like your posting
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