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This feels like an appropriate subject for the thread. There are plans for a women’s refuge in Edinburgh which is in the process of being highjacked a bunch of NIMBYs because obviously all abused women are junkies and this will attract drug dealers to the area etc etc. It could really use some ‘support’ comments. https://citydev-portal.edinburgh.gov.uk/idoxpa-web/applicationDetails.do?activeTab=makeComment&keyVal=PVT0Z5EWG9T00
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Tesseraction posted:Boris has threatened to purge 30 anti-No-Deal Tories from the party if they don't vote to enable no deal. Don’t be silly. The word purge is only used when applied to Labour.
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No, they’re shouting Boo-ris, Boo-ris.
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Sep 2, 2019 22:17
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OwlFancier posted:Then we NDB but at this rate corbyn's going to be ruling over the shattered and ashen husks of every other party by virtue of being the only one who isn't a festering moron for several years. Just in time for Labour to win an election and the UK to enter a recession allowing people to entirely blame them for it.
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Sep 4, 2019 11:30
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I knew that Johnson's 'humph-humph-whatsit-latinist' schtick was going to come unravelled when he actually had to start leading a party and all the scrutiny that would bring. But I just didn't think it would happen so incredibly quickly.
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Sep 4, 2019 11:35
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gently caress me that was a bad response from Johnson. Christ.
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Sep 4, 2019 12:08
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Pablo Bluth posted:Can you do Goya's Saturn Devouring His Son but as Corbs Devouring? Oh god please this.
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Sep 4, 2019 12:13
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Blackford outright calling Johnson a dictator. That's something.
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Sep 4, 2019 12:23
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CyberPingu posted:Whats the timeline for today if anyone has it to hand? https://publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm201719/cmagenda/OP190904.pdf SUMMARY AGENDA: CHAMBER 11.30am Prayers Afterwards Oral Questions: Wales 12 noon Oral Questions: Prime Minister 12.30pm Urgent Questions, Ministerial Statements (if any) No debate Presentation of Bills Up to 20 minutes Ten Minute Rule Motion: Compulsory Purchase and Planning (Emma Hardy) Until 7.00pm European Union (Withdrawal) (No. 6) Bill: All Stages Up to 90 minutes Early Parliamentary General Election (Motion) Until 7.00pm Animal Welfare (Sentencing) Bill: Remaining Stages No debate after 7.00pm Motion relating to the membership of the Selection Committee No debate Presentation of Public Petitions Until 7.30pm or for half an hour Adjournment Debate: Treasury funding for the Department of Health and Social Care (Robert Halfon)
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Barry Foster posted:Bailed after PMQs, don't care what the eggman has to say I watched it for a bit but it's just so tedious.
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Nuclear Spoon posted:https://twitter.com/PrivateEyeNews/status/1169538310835965953  Ratbiter who may be Nick Cohen.
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Sep 5, 2019 14:42
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Mince and tatties is amazing, reminds me of dinner at my grandma’s. If made properly it’s super tasty. SpaceDrake posted:jesus who on his staff let him get in front of a camera looking like that. fix your drat hair, boris I have it on good authority from two separate friends in politics that he tousles it up right before he goes on camera. No doubt it’s part of his image or something.
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Sep 5, 2019 21:36
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Fedule posted:
It’s not even right, the Shadow Cabinet is a specific function, not just ‘the person we would have as X position if we were in power’. I mean, the Lib Dems aren’t getting that either so even having a post like that is just showboating.
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Sep 13, 2019 13:23
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bump_fn posted:what’s a good charity to donate a bunch of women’s clothes? women’s shelters? in the london area https://www.emmaus.org.uk/ do good work with homelessness, they’re generally my first choice. If it’s specifically good quality women’s clothes then a shelter sounds a good idea though - although I don’t happen to know any.
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Sep 14, 2019 10:40
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Guavanaut posted:I've traveled round this country This owns, and is much better than the “police have nothing to go on” joke I’m expecting to hear a lot of over the next few days.
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Sep 14, 2019 17:05
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OwlFancier posted:Just finished episode 3 of the podcast. Absolutely, it's intended to get you into a state where you'll accept a job, any job at all, to get off the system. I've been on JSA twice in my career, and both times I had incredibly sympathetic advisors who completely accepted that the kinds of jobs I'm suited for aren't the kinds they get and were happy to tick me for turning up every couple of weeks. Until one of them went on holiday, and I had her replacement. He was awful, insisting I apply to X Y Z, "you can get sanctioned for not engaging with your job hunt" and all of that. Job is unreachable on the tube network and you can't drive there because you've lost your licence for medical reasons? gently caress you, apply. This is the experience that many, many people have on JSA.
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Tsietisin posted:So I'm at the Royal Albert Hall watching the last night of the proms. I've never seen so many EU flags. Absolutely fine: a seat at the RAH isn’t a requirement for life. And it can be a good way to support the arts, yada yada.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Like just now I thought of a seperate summary thread condensing happenings in the ukmt, but first of all who would take that on, why would they want to do that, and this is all way, way too much effort for something that's not really solveable without going back to the draconian D&D standards of old. And ultimately, that's what the front page of the thread is for each month. I view this thread as more than just a 'strictly UK politics digest', it's more of a UK enclave.
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Firos posted:No ifs, only butts.  Taken in Soho.
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Cerv posted:But enough about your weekend  They have a few of them up  “Guardian of Uranus” is a particularly good strap line.
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https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/sep/17/boris-johnson-likely-lose-supreme-court-case-labour-shami-chakrabarti posted:The former supreme court justice Jonathan Sumption told BBC Newsnight he thought the government ought to win but suggested judges might be outraged at Johnson’s approach. An excellent take.  [Sickos gif here]
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The auto subtitling on the suspension has just declared “we are asked to opine on parliament solvent free”. Mores the pity
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Sep 18, 2019 11:07
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:i genuinely don't understand the significance of the 'labour activist' thing, is the suggestion that he probably doesn't even have a child as patient or something? if he believes his child receives worse care because of government policy, how could that not influence his politics? calling him an 'activist' in that context is extremely creepy really, it's obviously not why he's there I think it's a "of course he would accuse the Tories of these things, true or not, he's a labour activist." I think.
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Von Linus posted:BoJo: You are a big posh sod with plums in your mouth, and the plums have mutated and they have got beaks. You make pigs smoke. You feed beef burgers to swans. You have big sheds, but nobody's allowed in. And in these sheds you have 20ft high chickens, and these chickens are scared because the don't know why they're so big, and they're going, "Oh why am I so massive?" and they're looking down at all the little chickens and they think they're in an aeroplane because all the other chickens are so small. It's like we're playing with HAIM again. Johnson was in New York when he received the news. "I didn't want to make anything official until I saw what was happening there," said Johnson, who is the Prime Minister. "They've been really gracious in offering to help," he said of the US State Department. In return, Trump would have been the first world leader to meet with Johnson. "I wanted to visit him, it's been a dream of his," Johnson said on Thursday. Trump has already been in contact with Johnson, as part of a visit to the White House. After Johnson's confirmation that he would be the US president's trade representative, Trump will have many meetings with other administration officials in the coming weeks. For now, the US President will only have a chance to meet with the President of the US. This makes it a good time to put your phone away and turn down that high-profile phone call. In Britain, there are signs of the backlash from voters against the European Union. A poll conducted on Wednesday showed the government's popularity falling to 37 percent, down slightly from December's poll. It is far from being the only polling that has demonstrated the same drop off this year. On Thursday, Corbyn laid a banging VONC on it.
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Still B.A.E posted:Yes, sorry for not being more specific. Maybe a lesser known museum or something, fairly central. I was going to go to the wellcome collection, but it's only open late on a Thursday. How about The Old Operating Theatre then? Near London Bridge, Europes oldest surviving theatre. It's open until 5pm today.
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I don't really get the point in asking Cox for his opinion. It's now a settled matter, Cox knows that, and he's not going to risk his position etc by 'going against' the court. It's an odd question.
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Sep 25, 2019 11:41
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Aidan_702 posted:
It was an awesome brooch though. Obviously all the 'hidden message' stuff is bollocks, but it was an objectively cool brooch. She has quite the collection apparently.
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Sep 25, 2019 12:07
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Guavanaut posted:There's a lot of working class people who need multiple prescriptions each month. You can get prepayment certificates, but there's a lot of people who are on reduced income (due to needing multiple prescriptions a month) and don't meet the HC1 requirements. I wouldn't call someone who can only work part time because of an illness and yet earns more than minimum wage 'middle class'. The charge is pretty weird in its own way - around 90% of prescriptions are dispensed free anyway. And even if you have a medical exemption (which I do), you get all prescriptions free - not just the ones to treat whatever you have the exemption for. It raises about 1/2billion a year though, which is around 0.3% of the NHS budget.
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Jedit posted:Yeah, even before the SNP abolished charges I was getting everything for free as I'm diabetic. I wouldn't ever have slapped them for it otherwise. But the net for exemption is wide enough that basically everyone who needed free scrips was already getting them. It was a purely populist policy. If they're going to tinker with the policy it should be something like widening the net to admit more people who struggle to afford them (the wonderful result of the current system may well be extra strain on the NHS anyway as people don't prevent a condition from rising to the point where it is serious because of the cost of a prescription) while also tightening to only allow exemptions for specific types of prescription - I should get certain prescriptions for free because of the conditions they treat, but it shouldn't allow me to get something entirely unrelated prescribed free - which it does.
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ThomasPaine posted:
This is creepy to read because it's almost exactly what I was going to write in my long rant about the process as well (with the exception of the adviser - I was fortunate and both times had 'good' ones*). I went to Woolwich JC so it's a pretty mixed area, and having to get buses there meant that you had to either get the earlier bus to avoid missing your appointment if it's late or gamble on it. I've frequently been kept waiting for 10 minutes past my time because things are overrunning - but you better not be late yourself. Once while I was waiting I saw a woman get turned away for arriving 5 minutes late because her bus was slow, she was sent away and told to come back in 2 weeks as she had missed her slot. Never mind that I had been waiting more than 5 minutes for mine at the time... *I once had to change my appointment to another day - which was a fight in itself - and had a different adviser for that one, and he was absolutely awful. Trying to get me to apply for both shop jobs at £8/hr or so and director level banking jobs at 140k/year in the same session, and darkly implying that I wasn't 'cooperating with the process' when I pointed out that I was grossly overqualified for one and under-qualified for the other. Red Oktober fucked around with this message at 15:26 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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Sir Keir is doing well, lot of well laid out points. However I'm fairly sure that Gove is just going to not-answer any of them. ^^The above rings very true as well, I was lucky in that I had lost my job at a bank, and the adviser used to work in HR Recruitment for HSBC so a) knew that the jobs they had there weren't the kind of jobs I'd be looking for and (I suspect) b) I was the 'right kind of person'. Red Oktober fucked around with this message at 15:44 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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ThomasPaine posted:Does that not put him in contempt of parliament To copy a standard line from improv" "Yes, and?" edit: Those Gove questions were a waste - one of the questionnaires should have just jettisoned their prepared question and only asked him who changed the title and when. By asking him two questions he was always able to just give an answer to the other one and move on. Red Oktober fucked around with this message at 16:14 on Sep 25, 2019 |
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bump_fn posted:people still use email signatures?????? "Please consider the environment when printing this email". Unfortunately being just enough words to trip the email over to two pages.
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Necrothatcher posted:Yeah, you have to (or at least should) put something like That's absolutely not a requirement, at all.
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Someone get Charlie Brooker on the phone, I've got an idea for another Black Mirror. Also enjoy he's put "TV Star" in quotes.
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