Gum posted:

Why are the edgiest posters always the thinnest skinned?

Gort posted:

Isn't that statement basically meaningless? Like, no poo poo if a leader's party loses a lot of seats they might see a leadership challenge.

Mr. Flunchy posted:

She tells me that nearly all of the UKIP votes come from one single Year 8 class that's randomly gone really fash.

thehappyprince posted:

https://twitter.com/novaramedia/status/872510050551595009

deletebeepbeepbeep posted:

Thinking about all the people (particularly the youngsters) that he has infused and the crushing disappointment everyone is going to experience bums me out.

Kurtofan posted:

who the gently caress is voting libdem!

Party Plane Jones posted:

https://twitter.com/_snozberries/status/872767756751572994

The Scum hard at work.

Antwan3K posted:

A lot of European broadsheets have switched to tabloid format in the last decade or so. I mean yeah they also declined in quality but it's not necessarily related is it

kustomkarkommando posted:

The average time to form a coalition government in western Europe is like 40 days so this could take some time tbh

Synthbuttrange posted:

Jesus christ people inside were posting videos of pretty much their last moments.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-15/london-tower-fire-concerns-grow-for-missing-mother/8619234

kanonvandekempen posted:

I find that completely baffling, like I literally don't understand how this can happen in a modern country. In Belgium, where I live now, the doctor has the final word, period. I have a colleague who has been sick since january 2016, we're not really aware of what she has or if she's ever coming back, but a doctor affirms every 3 months that she has a valid reason for not working and so be it. She receives 80% of her wage every month. If we thought something dodgy was going on we could ask for another doctor to go check up on her but that's it.

I'm assuming she's depressed or burnt-out, but none of us have any idea and that is just fine, it's none of our business anyway.

What is annoying is that we are (because of our internal policy) unable to replace her until we can confirm she's never coming back, which means her colleagues just have to fill in for her.

Intrinsic Field Marshal posted:

I think you should gently caress off

VideoGames posted:

Why would it be Sadiq Khan's fault?

coffeetable posted:

I've been meaning to do an ~effective altruism~ post for a while. Haven't got time for the full thing now, but here's a cliffnotes:

• Donating anything to charity is a good thing, whatever the charity
  
• But some charities are far more effective in using your money to improve the world than others
  
• Like, hundreds or thousands of times better
  
• If what you're trying to do with your charity is save lives/reduce suffering/etc, then GiveWell has done a giant pile of research on where to get the best bang for your buck.
  
• Long story short, their recommendations are mosquito nets (~$3000/life saved equivalent) and deworming tablets (~$1000/life saved equivalent).
  
• Their website has a lot of details, but if you're a numbers person then maybe jump right to the spreadsheet.
  

Personally I put 10% towards demorming and I hope it'll be more in future.

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Personally I put 10% towards demorming and I hope it'll be more in future.

Apraxin posted:

Guavanaut posted:

It's what Barmy Brussels wants us to call a full English now you couldn't make it up!

Bedshaped posted:

Anyone listen to Ed Miliband on BBC 2 radio? He's become so much more likeable since stepping down as leader.

Miftan posted:

Is Black Rod that chap from Africa who was going on about being friends with benefits with the queen the other day?

TheRat posted:

Warning: Take so hot it WILL set you on fire

https://twitter.com/SunApology/status/877439921778286593

Jedit posted:

No, what you're seeing here from Labour is the distilled product of 800 years of burns being laid down on the floor of the house. Americans whip out a pistol and shoot someone. The British can achieve the same effect by politely agreeing with them.

Lightning Lord posted:

Is Guyovich a tankie? I thought he was a Trot.

Skinty McEdger posted:

It's the worst loving argument. I hate most that I know of it because my ma is sincerely pushing it.

ultrabindu posted:

https://twitter.com/Independent/status/879408360646430720

Pissflaps posted:

Yeah you can.

TinTower posted:

Irrelevant. You said:


Norway have access to them. They are not members of the EU.

Lord_Adonis posted:

I am not a libertarian. I believe in the Hobbsian social contract. I believe that the state has a large role in managing the economy and ensuring that the common welfare of the people is maintained. I believe in progressive taxation.

Lord_Adonis posted:

Tautology.

Tesseraction posted:

Jesus Christ

I'm now officially pro-remain, loving hell

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

Seriously though the arguments about which kind of brexit to choose are kind of terrible. The only negotiating tactic you've practiced is the "well give us what we want or else " thing which is kind of not great when you've already done the "or else" thing. Seriously, you do the thinking before you sign the article 50 thing. Or rather, before you call the loving referendum.

Now May can't sign EU severance checks or make continuous payments into EU budgets because well, how the gently caress could she? The negotiations are poison for any british politician because any credibly achievable agreement would be impossible to sell to the electorate. Also the UK is a net payer to the EU, which means that Brexit has made all the other countries pissed off - they'll have to strip their budgets of stuff they hadn't budgeted for. There's not a lot of patience with wheeling and dealing with the usual Tory infighting or whatever you guys think of next. You're down to trying to barter and haggle with our citizens' rights for leverage since this is apparently a loving zero-sum game to you? Better hope not a single national parliament in the EU takes issue with that tactic since all of them'd have to sign any agreement. Hopefully they'll be immune to shortsighted national concerns, right?

So here's what's gonna happen: in one year, negotiations will officially break off without any agreement signed, british negotiators won't have been given authority to negotiate the big sticking points and whoever's Prime Minister will be busy fighting internal party challenges. Fingers will be pointed a lot of places but at the end, everyone will blame Cameron and/or the Europeans. From oct 2018 to march 2019, your papers will all have doomsday clocks and will report breathlessly about the continental intransigence and the halfhearted attempts at a temporary deal after brexit to allow the markets to adjust or whatever but since you'll burn a lot of bridges without cooling much nationalist sentiment, it'll end with gently caress all.

Come Independence day, a lot of people will be upset because there are still pakis around and somehow the good food is a lot more expensive? Naturally, the EU will be blamed for both.

You know what? We're gonna be blamed for it anyway, so I'm fine that Brexit will be hard. Brexit makes me hard. I want to flood the canal tunnel, I want to build walls all over Ulster and gently caress me but yeah we'll have a standing invitation to Scotland to join because gently caress you.

JOHNSON COCKSLAP posted:

I sure am glad we're leaving an association of racists.

Tijuana Bibliophile posted:

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Mr. Johnson, perhaps the circumstances surrounding this negotiation have temporarily, as it were, escaped you

R. Mute posted:

You spit in the face of all your neighbouring countries and of one of the largest trade blocks in the world - and let's face it, they hated your guts even beforehand.

Firos posted:

You're posting that as if many of us were pro Brexit. Most of us are just resigned to our fate at this point, and just trying to make the most of a lovely situation; i.e. maybe we'll get a socialist government.

Guavanaut posted:

It wasn't though, that's the stupidest thing about the right wing leave campaigns. Entire talking points centered around non-EU member Turkey, about Sharia Law, about Syrian refugees, about laws that were made in the UK, about the ECtHR, about international treaties that would still be in place post any kind of Brexit barring full Juche hermit kingdom Brexit.

A leave campaign focused on the actual machinations of the EU apparatus would look a lot more like Tony Benn or Dennis Skinner's speeches than the flood of piss that we got.