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What is the best flav... you all know what this question is:
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Labour 907 49.92%
Theresa May Team (Conservative) 48 2.64%
Liberal Democrats 31 1.71%
UKIP 13 0.72%
Plaid Cymru 25 1.38%
Green 22 1.21%
Scottish Socialist Party 12 0.66%
Scottish Conservative Party 1 0.06%
Scottish National Party 59 3.25%
Some Kind of Irish Unionist 4 0.22%
Alliance / Irish Nonsectarian 3 0.17%
Some Kind of Irish Nationalist 36 1.98%
Misc. Far Left Trots 35 1.93%
Misc. Far Right Fash 8 0.44%
Monster Raving Loony 49 2.70%
Space Navies Party 39 2.15%
Independent / Single Issue 2 0.11%
Can't Vote 188 10.35%
Won't Vote 8 0.44%
Spoiled Ballot 15 0.83%
Pissflaps 312 17.17%
Total: 1817 votes
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Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Hoping that the victims families will issue an apologise to the Conservative Party soon for sullying their good name.

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Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

Sargon's whole deal is he is very very good at researching and collating information to use in his videos.
Carl's deal is that hes a YouTube personality that talks about politics, science and culture, so its only logical to assume that his knowledge is at best rudimentary. And its not an incorrect assumption.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






She should come back tomorrow and try better. Iterative governance.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Weirdly enough, I was just listening to the episode of Chapo where they break down her book, and shes even dumber than this headline suggests. Shes the sort of person that thinks that she got to where she is through hard work and perseverance when you just know that had she not been born into an affluent family she wouldn't even be fit to stack shelves.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






nopantsjack posted:

if you turn the UK fash in HoI4 it turns into the British Empire, extremely appropriate imo

N-not that I would ever have dreamed of fighting on the side of the virtual nazis, c-comrade!
Australia changing its name to Empire of the Platypus is the best one.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






They're just upset at the building wasn't set on fire by a bomb set off by a Muslim.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






ronya posted:

Mail and Sun are taking the ACTUALLY SADIQ KHAN tack
£5 says that the Mail's outrage is mostly driven by the fire causing a decline in house prices in the area.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Tesseraction posted:

How are they so bad at this
Because Sadiq Khan.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






LeoMarr posted:

Apparently yhe van owner yelled "gently caress off pakis" before careening into the mosque... so yeah i think its a racist attack.
Hi, Liverpool fan here. I'm pretty sure you'll find that this is a term of endearment in the Pakistani community.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Fans posted:

:britain: Only the Tories could really negotiate a strong and stable Brexit. They'll fight for our national interests and the fight starts today. :britain:

We've sent David Davies, a difficult man who won't let those bloody foreigners get the best of us. No deal is better than a bad deal so you know he won't compromise until he gets what we want. Let's see how it's going!

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...l-a7798076.html


Oh.
Brexitters will claim that this is Corbyn's fault for "dividing the country".

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






loving hell this documentary on BBC1 about Grenfell is loving damning on the council and the government.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






"Grenfell stands as a monument for a system that simply didn't work"

loving hell BBC

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






TheHoodedClaw posted:

Ed Miliband on Radio 2 with Barney from Napalm Death. I seem to have woken up from a coma into a very strange new reality.

https://twitter.com/BBCRadio2/status/877532985565818880
For a second I thought that this is where Corbyn ends up in two years time, but then I realised that hes more likely to end up as co-presenter of Gardeners' World with Monty Don and...I'm pretty happy with that.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






First they came for the empty properties owned by billionaire tax dodgers, but I did not speak up.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






serious gaylord posted:

You've really missed out, however watching it now the sheer absurdity of some of the scenes will be lost as well, modern politics.
The most damning thing you can take away from TTOI on a re-watch is that the public barely feature in it. The entire show is about pointless politicians being bullied for not dancing properly in front of the press because they don't know how to properly sell their poo poo policies. No one accomplishes anything meaningful in TTOI.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Doctor_Fruitbat posted:

They love falling back on the Stephen Lawrence case too, so increasingly desperate to have some contemporary example of being positively socially relevant that they act as though they were the absolute lynchpin without whom the entire case would have been lost.
If someone asked you "name one good thing you've done in the last 25 years?" and you're such a profoundly lovely person that you can only think of one example then maybe you need a long look in the mirror. Its as if throwing money and attention behind it just absolves them of every other viciously bigoted poo poo that they've published before and since they got involved in that case. Liverpool fans spend less time banging on about past achievements than the Daily Mail do about this one single story.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Skinty McEdger posted:

Nick Davies two books about the evils of modern journalism Flat Earth News (which goes in depth about the Mail and the Stephen Lawrence case) and Hack Attack (which focuses on the Murdoch papers and phone hacking) are well worth a read. Flat earth news predicts a bunch of pessimistic trends for journalism that he hopes to be proven wrong about, while Hack Attacks message is things are worse than I had thought they would be.
I'm pretty sure that Davies was the person that first mentioned that the Daily Mail had a history of sending journalists out to locations for a particular news story, only for them to be called back before reaching said location because the people involved are black.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Lord of the Llamas posted:

His wife hosed the right wing out of him. There were even rumours he would defect to Labour before he became speaker.
Not unheard of.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






jabby posted:

The press didn't take his approval rating down to those depths overnight, they did it through the constant grind of every single line written about him being unrelentingly negative, combined with the refusal to show him in person or report his opinions accurately.

We're going back to that now. We get a brief period where his sheer popularity is a story in itself, like with Glastonbury, and then it's day after day smears and lies and misrepresentation. Complacency now is a massive threat, which is what makes it all the more galling when an ally proudly brings up Trident of all loving things.
No one is going to give a poo poo about his position on Trident at this point because its been around long enough that people have already built their perspectives on Corbyn and his opinions on it. And I'm not worried about complacency when Labour have been open about their desire to stay in full campaign mode after the election because thats the only possible way they're going to carry on hitting the Tories.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Also teaching is a pile of piss. "Those who can't do, teach" is what I say, and they get loads of school holidays so they basically do nothing for most of the year.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

I would call hillary apologists revisionists but no they've been like this forever.
I'm hoping they push for Hilary 2020 to be honest.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Night10194 posted:

I mean, over here, my libertarian brother screams Venezuela!!! any time anyone points out the lovely stuff the right does and the need for more social protections. It'll be their new favorite toy for years.

Libertarian? Just scream "Somalia!" In response. Sure, it doesn't make much sense but gently caress it neither does the "Venezuela!" thing either.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






willie_dee posted:

All the Tories on my Facebook are claiming that Labour were in charge when the cladding was put on and inspections were cut, is this the case?
Tell that that its absolutely disgusting that they are playing politics with this tragedy.

Or just ask them why the Tory led council repeatedly try to shut down any attempt to remedy the situation, why they even threatened legal threats against people who voiced concern over it, why they were the ones that installed the cladding in the first place despite every bit of evidence telling them that it was a terrible idea, why they went completely awol when the fire started and why they were more concerned with saving their jobs than actually loving doing them. Then ask them why the Tories are so completely poo poo at government, because by their own admittance they're so bad at their jobs they can't fix any issues even after 7 years in power.
This is second only to his surprise appearance in Coriolanus.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Tesseraction posted:

At this point I'm genuinely hoping that a few weeks from now David Davis comes back from negotiations all shook and just goes "I was wrong. We need to stop this."
My hope after the vote last year was that no politician have the backbone to pull the trigger on Brexit given how obviously stupid a decision it is. In actual fact, our politicians don't have the backbone to risk the ire of the British pollution by refusing to act on it. So I wouldn't expect Davis to do anything except rescind all responsibility for what happens in the negotiations by blaming anyone he possibly can. He'll probably get away with it too given that the narratives of "Remainers want to sabotage this" and "the EU is bullying us" have already gained traction in the press.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Why is he in charge of very very important negotiations
Whats baffling is that he probably isn't even the worst choice. Thats how bereft our establishment is of any sort of quality. Theres a chance that Boris Johnson could be our next Prime Minister.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






R. Mute posted:

I think we all know that - which makes it all the more insulting, really.

Speaking of which, what's David Cameron been up to since resigning?
He spent £25k on a shed.

Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






namesake posted:

lol, Jacob would get us to leave the EU immediately and send gunboats to shell Egypt and take back the Suez.
If he invades Spain to protect Gibralter as well, I'm on board with all of this.

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Gorn Myson
Aug 8, 2007






Mister Adequate posted:

'Perceived' failings ah yes I do perceive the 220 foot tall monument to almost a hundred dead human beings (probably more itbt), choked and burned because profits were more important than lives.

Get in the loving sea Paget-Brown.
Its no wonder that so many people are disengaged with politics at any level, when elected representatives can be proven to be directly responsible for the preventable deaths of hundreds of people and then put out a statement like that which attempts to defer any responsibility for doing so.

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