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So they ended up doing the 7 way vote as Yes/No on what kind of Brexit the House actually did want, which came back as https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkEXGgdqMz8  Then there was a third Even More Meaningful Vote on just the Withdrawal Agreement. This also lost. But at least we didn't Hard Brexit last Friday. I think. So now everyone has until April 11th to figure out what the gently caress to do. If not by then then fallout No Deal on May 22nd.   quote:Among the most disturbing political phenomena of our times is the emergence in the newly created state of Israel of the “Freedom Party” (Tnuat Haherut), a political party closely akin in its organization, methods, political philosophy and social appeal to the Nazi and Fascist parties … Haherut was infamous for its terrorist actions. Begin would serve as Israel’s prime minister from 1977 to 1983. Haherut eventually merged into Likud in 1988.  In The (Non-Brexit) News  • Philip Hammond says that gas heating for new houses will be banned by 2025, although gas hobs will still be allowed. • Three climbers are killed and another injured in an avalanche on Ben Nevis. • The Institute and Faculty of Actuaries reports evidence of slowing life expectancy in the UK, which first emerged in 2010–2011 and is now "a trend as opposed to a blip". • A bunch of Boeing 737 MAX 8s crashed, killing all on board. It may have been due to a faulty software update. • A coroner's inquest finds a 'litany of failures' at Colnbrook removal centre in west London led to the unlawful death of detainee Tarek Chowdhury, 64. • Jeremy Corbyn's egg attacker is jailed for 28 days (he attacked Jeremy Corbyn with an egg, not attacked Jeremy Corbyn's egg). • New figures released by the Schools Cuts Coalition show that there has been a shortfall in funding of approximately £5.4 billion since 2015. • Women from Police Spies Out of Lives have accused Sajid Javid of appointing a misogynist judge to chair the investigation into undercover police work and refusing to reveal the groups who were spied on. • The EU Parliament voted to approve a new Copyright Directive with its most-criticized components intact, including link taxes and mandatory upload filters. https://twitter.com/gabrielroth/status/1109563826213654528 Day of The Resurrection UKMT March 2019 - A month till brexit and getting more stupid somehow/The hour has come; the man is Michael Gove/we live in a hell world of piss and poo poo. UKMT February 2019 - Mermaids are coming for their sons genitals/I loving hate centrists UKMT January 2019 - I think it might be satire but it's impossible to tell/What a loving mess All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Easter Baskets Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread BYOB: UKMT Egg Rolling Competition Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. 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learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. 
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Also after discussing it with CB and amongst ourselves, we’ve decided we won’t punish people just for mentioning pissflaps anymore as long as it doesn’t cause an extended derail. What constitutes “an extended derail” is up to interpretation. 
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Vitamin P posted:If any goon is hesitant about pounding the pavements next election because they aren't confident in how charming they are stop worrying, it's your compassion and commitment that makes a difference your charm is irrelevant.
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The queen is good and I like a parliament
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drat, corbyn just broke into my house and stole my toothbrush!
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The government is competent April Fool!
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pumpinglemma posted:Do we have any reason to believe Bercow will actually allow Meaningful Vote 4: A New Hope? Hasn't May just pissed about too much by this point?  
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Hellworld politics are more entertaining when it's not your country. I read this thread more than USPol nowadays.
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Regarde Aduck posted:The queen is good and I like a parliament You are wrong and a bad person.
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azza have you considered actually sending some cartoons to some newspaper or other you clearly enjoy the work and they are legitimately quite good, if frightfully online
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Pinch punch first day of the month
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normal people have had enough and think teresa may is trying hard. Its time to kill.
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You are a gift in dark tims.
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TACD posted:This is good to hear 🙂 But if I’m honest another big reason I’ve been incredibly hesitant to get involved in this way is because it just seems inexcusably rude to knock on people’s doors and interrupt their business to get political at them. If doorstepping is fine then how can I expect any better from telemarketers or any other advertising? UK working class people live in a world where their living costs, childcare costs, housing costs, basic survival costs etc just hit the brick wall of stagnating wages. It may be a bit rude to knock on someones door but honestly brits are generally nice and more often than not they respond well. Plus you've internalised some Thatcherism there. Oh heaven forbid we briefly intrude on the property rights of someone in our community to talk about how we value them. How appalling.
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In this new thread I want to say thanks to the previous thread for a lot of fun inspiration for drawing, a lot of kind words about my art. Also thanks for teaching me what Labour can bring to the rural areas of my county, and some constructive new ideas about the relationship between Labour and the SNP. Also huge thanks to Renaissance Robot for giving me access to forums search and an inbox and to pumpinglemma for financing .
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V. Illych L. posted:azza have you considered actually sending some cartoons to some newspaper or other People would have to read the thread to get some of them I don't think that's a bad idea, as long as they read the two landlordin' threads as a prerequisite
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Oh, hey, about time. https://twitter.com/apstylebook/status/1111697063404818432?s=21
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NotJustANumber99 posted:What does that mean? The Associated Press, the US's primary news service, is officially encouraging journalists not to use weasel-words when someone's being racist. Also, interesting thread by Jon Lansman on the war within the Labour disciplinary system: https://twitter.com/jonlansman/status/1112483238063280129?s=21
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How much of all this nonsense is mattering? I don't think much. Like from my conversations tonight corbyn is still hosed with a big group of people. But i don't think any of this nonsense is mattering. NotJustANumber99 fucked around with this message at 00:49 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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V. Illych L. posted:azza have you considered actually sending some cartoons to some newspaper or other I'd like to be published one day. I don't say this to be a defeated artist like most are, just that as someone who draws from time to time I can see the technicalities that make my work pretty sub standard when compared with most in published articles. It's possible that I could crap out art into one of those syndicates until I eventually strike one or two hits. It's definitely a thought.
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Have your eyes ever feasted on the work of professional cartoonist BoB? Also, for the Sunn O))) goons https://twitter.com/honkysupreme/status/1094270510794452993
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Welcome to the suck friends. Its what we call a constipation-ender of a month here, let pants making GBS threads commence.
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NotJustANumber99 posted:What does that mean? It means that people shouldn't say "racially charged" when they mean "racist". The latter is even shorter with fewer characters and syllables for convenience! The only reason to use the former is to avoid upsetting horrible racists, which is hardly any way to combat racism (and they're always in a bad mood anyway, might as well just say what you mean)
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baka kaba posted:Have your eyes ever feasted on the work of professional cartoonist BoB? The Telegraph guy? I like the one he drew of the skip.
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Ohhhh ok, the lack of quotes made it seem like they were saying "dont use racially charged terms (or similar) as euphemisms..." Maybe they should read their own style guide maybe!!!
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Oh wait, maybe BoB is just bad rather than artistically bad. It's been a while since I saw the cartoons thread I've seen him do decent stuff but it's mostly like *pop culture reference except the characters are miliband and cameron yes it's been that long*
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Been follwing a YouTube cannel called TLDR News for Brexit stuff. They break it down quite well in an easy to understand format for thse unfamiliar with proceedings whenever something happens. Pour example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bhAFAm8KE4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl5OpeoCQGg I haven't seen anything too objectionable from them as of yet, but I haven't watched everything they do.
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Hi April thread The house of Lords owns and if anything we should make the commons hereditary too! The Queen brings in tourism cash and has no political influence of her own whatsoever, what a steal! There's no such thing as English privilege, whiny jocks shut up! British people have nothing to answer for regarding the empire coz it woz a long time ago! MPs should be paid higher salaries, this would stop corruption! The UK is a democracy! Michael Gove is a talented and intelligent man!
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Stupidest timeline: It goes to a long extension plus general election. No second referendum is on the Cards. Labour repeats its soft brexit manifesto and seems quiet about a second referendum. The conservatives promise a better deal. After extensive committee meetings, the CUKs finally announce their manifesto. They have two policies. First: Stop Brexit, Remain in Europe Second: Immediately after the first is resolved, hold another general election. Knowing they'll have no actual political responsibility, and that they'll just have to stand in the house once to pass the remain motion, remain voting celebrities parachute in to every constituency as CUK LDs. They make significant ground but don't win and now Labour is in a coalition with TOWIE stars. Azza Bamboo fucked around with this message at 02:26 on Apr 1, 2019 |
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Hentai Jihadist posted:Hi April thread Hi! I would like to follow current trends and vote no e: also I have no real solutions
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Azza's toons are better than anything in the UK press except the Guardian's, and miles ahead of most of the US.
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Kokoro Wish posted:Been follwing a YouTube cannel called TLDR News for Brexit stuff. They break it down quite well in an easy to understand format for thse unfamiliar with proceedings whenever something happens. Pour example: They have been popping up on my recommends too, as far as I can see they seem to be trying to be as objective as possible which is fair enough. Its actually pretty useful to keep up with the amount of bullshit that has been happening in the past 2 weeks or so, its honestly blink and you miss it right now.
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