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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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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Deltasquid posted:

I'm not a Brit nor a regular UKMT poster, and I just popped in to lurk, and I have to say I am severely disappointed this wasn't a joke about the Game of Thrones character.

People on twitter were saying that guy was at glastonbury, shitfaced, and singing a somg about corbyn.

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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/29/grenfell-survivors-barred-from-council-meeting-about-fire

quote:

Survivors of the Grenfell Tower disaster have been banned from the first meeting of senior councillors since the fire amid fears of “disruption”.

Kensington and Chelsea council is to hold a private cabinet meeting led by the council leader, Nicholas Paget-Brown, who has been widely criticised in the wake of fire. It will be held behind closed doors to avoid a repeat of protests on the Friday after the fire when angry residents stormed the town hall.

Councillors will discuss the Grenfell Tower fire, according to a notice on the local authority’s website, joined by support officers and “invited guests (if any)”.

The notice says: “Please note this meeting will be held entirely in private session, pursuant to Standing Order 31.01, in the light of the risk of disruption (as witnessed on Friday 16 June) and consequent security and public safety concerns.

“As such it will be open only to council members, support officers and invited guests (if any). The public minutes of this meeting will be published, in due course, on the council website.”
:unsmigghh:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Spangly A posted:

theyre going to get themselves arsoned and nobody is going to feel sorry for them
إن شاء الله

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
The most striking thing to me about this latest vatican scandal is not that God's no.3 is a nonce (wbich i take as a given) but that God's no.3 is a bank manager.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Red Oktober posted:

For extra fun, have a read about Roberto Calvi, God's Banker.

Didn't end well.

If by 'found hanging under a bridge over the Thames with pockets stuffed with bricks and 15k in cash' counts as 'not well'.

quote:

Propaganda Due (Italian pronunciation: [propaˈɡanda ˈduːe]; P2) was a Masonic lodge founded in 1945 that, by the time its Masonic charter was withdrawn in 1976, had transformed into a clandestine, pseudo-Masonic, ultraright[1][2][3] organization operating in contravention of Article 18 of the Constitution of Italy that banned secret associations. In its latter period, during which the lodge was headed by Licio Gelli, P2 was implicated in numerous Italian crimes and mysteries, including the collapse of the Vatican-affiliated Banco Ambrosiano, the murders of journalist Mino Pecorelli and banker Roberto Calvi, and corruption cases within the nationwide bribe scandal Tangentopoli. P2 came to light through the investigations into the collapse of Michele Sindona's financial empire.[4]

P2 was sometimes referred to as a "state within a state"[5] or a "shadow government".[6] The lodge had among its members prominent journalists, members of parliament, industrialists, and military leaders—including Silvio Berlusconi, who later became Prime Minister of Italy; the Savoy pretender to the Italian throne Victor Emmanuel;[7] and the heads of all three Italian intelligence services (at the time SISDE, SISMI and CESIS).
wtf lol

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

goddamnedtwisto posted:

Have you never heard of the Vatican Bank? Because hoo boy they're shady even by Vatican standards

Oh sure i've heard of the vatican bank and the shady poo poo going on there - its associations with the mob and tax dodgers, etc.
What surprises me is that the loving bank manager is the 3rd most important representative of christ on earth. You'd think they'd have the PR nous to at least pretend the money isn't that big a deal.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Remember that there's no cover up attempt. This is just government ineptitude.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Al-Saqr posted:

loving white christan terrorists throwing acid on innocent human beings

https://twitter.com/majstar7/status/880499089581977601

when will the white community come out and condemn this extremism? Their silence speaks volumes imo.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

mediadave posted:

Why do we care what racists think?

because they run the country :newlol:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Skinty McEdger posted:

I'd like to point out that Adonis had a meltdown in the Warhammer Total War thread about someone making a joke about the evils of the British Empire.

looooool

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Leave it to video games to bring out the absolute worst in everybody

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

ShaneMacGowansTeeth posted:

isn't alcohol like stupidly expensive over there?

Like £8 a pint last time I was there.
My dad (who lives there), his partner, and I went and got a Subway - just a 6inch sub, drink, and snack each and it came to something ridiculous like £35

e: when the latest playstation came out it was cheaper for my dad to fly to Germany, but one, and fly home, than it was to buy them locally. He also drives to Sweden twice a month to do his shopping because it works out cheaper. poo poo is ridic expensive in Norway

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Spangly A posted:

All we have to do is not totally poo poo the bed as a nation

Not looking promising, then.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Lord_Adonis posted:

I believe that the state should maintain its monopoly of violence.
*spit take*

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Barry Foster posted:

Just to be clear, were the last 400 odd posts a slapfight about Brexit, or has there been any interesting news?

TIA, Barry Foster
Brexit slapfight

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
I dunno my eyes glaze over whenever i see his posts

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Anybody know anything good to do in Bristol? Gonna be there over the weekend with the gf and not too too sure what we're gonna go see yet.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

JFairfax posted:

what sort of poo poo are you into?

POCO is a really nice little spot to eat with locally sourced food and is in the vibrant Stokes Croft area, and is opposite the Canteen which has decent live music.

There is an app Headfirst Bristol - download it and it will give you a solid heads up as to things that are going on.

Motion is a bit out of the way and is a 'big night out' type of a thing. There are a bunch of decent pubs in Bristol, The Orchard on Spike Island, Bag of Nails, Coronation Tap are all proper interesting little boozers.

e/ oh if you want to smoke some weed out the back of a pub go to The Cadbury

where will you be staying?

We'll be just outside the city in an airbnb type place. I like galleries and museums, old bookshops. Cheap is good, free is better.

We're bringing weed with thankfully, so no worries there.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

JFairfax posted:

yeah, I mean you can go to the back of the Cadbury and smoke out the back in the beer garden - that's it's thing.

the Arnolfini is a good gallery on the docks, you might like the industrial museum which is near there and now known as the M shed - but it miiight be a little kiddy focused. But on weekends there is a steam train which takes you down the docks from the M shed towards the SS great britain which is worth a look.

for free art go to the bearpit and wander around Stokes Croft, plenty of graffiti around there.

bristol does not have the best museums.

there is an old bookshop in St Nick's market on Corn street, it's worth checking out the market for good food + the book shop.

Castle park is worth a little wander around for the bombed out church. Also check out Cabot's tower off Park street for another cool park and views.

:cheers: much obliged.
We're only there for a couple days because the gf is desperate to visit before we leave the country, so hopefully she'll be happy regardless. We'll give some of these a shot.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
I'll install it on the way up for sure, cheers

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Skinty McEdger posted:

Paget-Brown's deputy Fellen-Mellen also resigned.

Fellen-Mellen got tore to pieces in private eye this week so no wonder he doesn't want the national attention. He's shady as gently caress.

Some of you may remember i had a bunch of poshos in my office last week all talking about what a lovely chap feilding mellen was.
Well some of them were back this week to continue their work and they were all shouting and swearing at each other in agreement about how loving stupid the mayor is and "this is all eco green bollocks" and how "well zinc has to be mined and flown here and that's all airmiles, not very loving green is it?".
I didn't twig at the time but now i guess they were talking about Grenfell because I gather that the cladding could have or should have been made of zinc, and that this would've been an improvement. I assume this contorted argument was them all trying to convince themselves and each other that their mate isn't a massive oval office lol.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Wiggly Wayne DDS posted:

yeah it appeared in bbc earlier today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40453054

This was a couple days ago so i guess they got an early line on the news. :tinfoil:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Do you work in a prison

Please tell me you work in a prison.

It feels like it sometimes, but no.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Extreme0 posted:

What resources are we dealing with that the current level of technology can't produce enough of?

Gold toilets and bugatti veyrons just for starters

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

CoolCab posted:

cause the population is leveling off in places where women are being liberated, have access to birth control and attain higher educational levels. this means a bunch of populations in the first world are getting older (which isn't ideal) which means they'll become progressively more reliant on immigration from poorer countries, which will lead to more wealth going to the poorer countries, which will increase the likelihood of their women being liberated.

the real issue is that climate change will gently caress us WELL before any of that will happen, but describing climate change as an overpopulation problem sort of misses the point. the circumstances which cause climate change also increase populations, but the truth is that we did the most damage with comparatively tiny first world populations

Im not sure how i feel about international trickledown organised around importing labour to care for our ever growing population of methuselahs.
It seems pretty opportunistic.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Im going to emigrate to mars anyway.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Skinty McEdger posted:

He seems like a perfectly reasonable chap, I mean who amongst us hasn't accidentally bought a property in an area that turned out was soon to have a huge regeneration program take place around it which we voted for, which led to the property's value doubling.

I mean I know that sounds illegal and like a massive conflict of interests, but you have to appreciate that he bought the property on the very first day of being a private citizen during a five month break from holding council office which makes it completely legal and above board.

Hahahaha loving hell. I knew none of this.

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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Put big solar panels in orbit. Massive gigantic wafer thin sail designs, and then send the power back to earth in huge devastating beam of heat and light to be captured by some doohicky and just hope it never gets misaligned.

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