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sebzilla posted:Looking forward to The Final Day Of Parliament on bonfire night. I suppose posting the finale of V for Vendetta might not be good form.
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Good point. https://twitter.com/mrjimifletcher/status/1189803806499966981?s=20
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Continuity RCP posted:I mean there's a list of LM issues and their contents and her name isn't on any of them. Probably used a different name Go here: https://www.spiked-online.com/author/munira-mirza/ I clicked on a couple and they have her name on them. Separately: This popped up: http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001779.php What is it about London Mayors and Marxist Sects? Boris Johnson, Munira Mirza, the Revolutionary Communist Party and the delayed coming of history Posted by Michael Mosbacher
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Continuity RCP posted:It's specifically LM articles I was looking for. Basically I don't think she ever actually wrote for that magazine or that the RCP were a trot group when she was associated with them OK sorry misunderstood!
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Nov 1, 2019 11:30
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People not voting chat: A friend is a brexiteer. She's disgusted (as are her entire brexiteer family) that brexit hasn't happened. "It's disgusting" quoth she "we've been diddled out of our vote. They're going to steal our brexit. I'm never voting again and neither are any of the brexit voters I know, what's the point?" I wonder how many leave supporters will take the same attitude and simply not bother to vote this election?
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Important infor for anyone posting images for campaigning. Our CLP press officer just shared this:quote:The Labour Party has made it crystal clear that in any legal claim by businesses or individuals for use of their identifiable image without proof of consent, the creator/photographer, candidate and agent will be responsible and NOT the Labour Party. Not sure if the relevant consent form is on the LP website - I expect it is! Our Press Officer sent it to us.
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Nov 1, 2019 13:34
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Doccykins posted:it's very common to do in pairs, both for safety and knowledge transfer (new doorknockers are often paired up with veterans) Yes, always pairs round here. Mainly for safety but also if you get a comrade who loves to chat to the door-answerer, someone might need to pull them away after 20 minutes or so!
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Nov 1, 2019 13:55
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Do you think Momentum might be able to train people on how to use Promote? None of us in our CLP can remember how to use it at all. Ed: Promote is the official Labour Party system for local parties to get ads into Facebook. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:20 on Nov 1, 2019 |
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Nov 1, 2019 19:02
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Comrade Fakename posted:I've never even heard of it, so no idea, I'm afraid. Promote: It's the official Labour Party system for raising adverts in Facebook.
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Nov 1, 2019 19:19
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Comrade Fakename posted:I think Momentum uses their own system. But I'll see if I can ask around, though maybe remind me on Monday. Thanks.
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Nov 1, 2019 19:34
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<vent> :smdh: I can't believe that there are still people who (a) don't check their spam/junk folders for emails and/or (b) delete everything in them without checking first that the stuff actually IS spam or junk. </vent>
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Nov 1, 2019 20:19
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Darth Walrus posted:One question - where was that thing about Johnson's 'permanent solution' to social care that he was keeping secret until after the election? It was in The Times at the end of one of those Theresa May things it was doing a few days or week ago.
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Nov 1, 2019 20:35
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Darth Walrus posted:One question - where was that thing about Johnson's 'permanent solution' to social care that he was keeping secret until after the election? quote:Mr Johnson’s team is finalising plans for social care, which he pledged to fix “once and for all”. However, some in government are pushing for the measures to be kept under wraps until after the next election. source: https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/may-at-10-by-anthony-seldon-grumpy-theresa-was-terrible-campaigner-say-ex-aides-rkkch2mgj (you can see a few articles for free if you register).
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Nov 1, 2019 20:43
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Angepain posted:Ok here's my synthesis of mine and Tigey's posts. (also lol at that kelly edit i made ages ago coming back to haunt me and still being relevant after all these years. though i guess the party being referred to in the leftmost cloud has changed somewhat.) Those in the know let me know all if there's anything needs added/taken away, i'm not a mental health professional so most of this advice is second hand: Thanks for this, have shared with our local campaign team.
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Nov 1, 2019 21:39
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Lefty brother (but not party member) who said a couple of months ago that he was going to vote Lib Dem purely because brexit was the single most important issue and Lib Dem's only party offering revoke has just started sharing Labour Party posts on Facebook. Hopefully he'll be voting Labour after all. Daredn't ask in case he's not.
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Nov 1, 2019 22:22
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Not UK politics but it's quite funny: https://forward.com/news/world/434041/afghanistan-jews-taliban/ quote:Meet Zabulon Simentov, 66, who is believed to be the last remaining Jew in Afghanistan. Emran Feroz recently profiled Simentov for Foreign Policy and uncovered some incredible stories about the feisty Afghan — including that the Taliban once imprisoned him for arguing with a fellow Jew, then kicked him out because the constant bickering became too annoying. Separate: Tesseraction posted:Looks like it, and people mistakenly using it because of this account What is it supposed to mean?
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Nov 2, 2019 00:57
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Swinson getting pasted by LibDems https://twitter.com/joswinson/status/1190246563651694593?s=20
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Nov 2, 2019 01:10
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A Buttery Pastry posted:Just need to make a big database that associates all license plates with the household wealth of their owners, then have a camera that scans your plates to determine whether you qualify for free parking. How about a 'pay what you think' box instead with suggested figures v salary. Eg if you earn < £15k - 0, if you earn +£40k £7 or whatever.
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Nov 2, 2019 13:33
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OwlFancier posted:Wait gently caress that's him... I thought linsday hoyle was a lady and she'd just taken a photograph of her senile dad or something. Yeah, I thought it was going to be a tweet about a care home where they had positioned the older person away from the cup and so he couldn't easily see the tv. Was surprised to see it was a tory mp doing a selfie!
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Nov 2, 2019 13:37
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A Buttery Pastry posted:No, I think the answer is a big database. Your suggestion is just plain humiliating, subjecting people to judgment from their neighbors, or worse, encouraging the poor to pay more to project an image of success. I don't see it that way. There's quite a few places/services do 'pay what you think'. No one would see what anyone pays. You can even miss out the 'suggestions' if that's the issue.
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Nov 2, 2019 13:59
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Nov 2, 2019 14:01
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Yeah well I got the email twice* so I'm twice as important as you Oh that explains why I get everything twice! I changed my email address on labour party but still get emails to the old address. I totally forgot I was also a 'union affiliate' which still has my old address.
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Nov 2, 2019 14:39
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Mrenda posted:That didn't bear out in my town at all (a satellite town to a big-ish city.) There was a point a few years ago, during the mornings, where there was a two hour gap between buses. Even when buses were scheduled more often, their timetable could have a gap of anywhere between 20 minutes and an hour to the next scheduled bus, so they weren't on a regular pattern. For years it was pointed out that people might use the bus if it was scheduled more often and more regularly. The bus company said it didn't make sense when you looked at car ownership and driving levels in the satellite town, until they actually tried it. With buses every half hour, at standardised times people started to use it far more often. So much so that they put them to every fifteen minutes a year or two ago, and when they did that passenger levels went up again. People use public transport if it's reliable, if they can get it without having to wait too long (both at the stop and for an amenable general wait-time) and if it's affordable. That's even before you get to the idea that a bus to a big hospital, even running at a loss, is a social good. Bus services should also have a 3 year rolling guaranteed timetable so people can PLAN. I had to go to my nearest hospital a couple of months ago. The bus from my town to that town runs every 2 hours. When I get to the hospital town there is then a bus every hour to the hospital (which of course does not tie in at all with the arrival of the bus from my town). I was able to get a lift as far as the bus station but then I had a 40 minute walk in pelting rain to get to my appointment. Luckily a relative was able to fetch me back otherwise that would have been another 40 minute walk in torrential rain. Fortunately, I was going for an ultrasound, not some kind of dread disease. I know people who have used hospital transport and they sometimes sit waiting hours upon hours for the transport to either fetch them or bring them home again. When dad was dying of cancer and getting chemo, I did some research into 'what exactly do people who are without friends and family supposed to do' (fortunately dad was not in that position) and there was no kind of financial help. One woman was paying £150 each way in a taxi to get to her chemo hospital. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 19:51 on Nov 2, 2019 |
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Guavanaut posted:There's also a certain type of person who is pathologically terrified that someone somewhere is getting away with something (see also benefits). Was it on here or somewhere else that someone pointed out that much of right wing politics is in fact 'the politics of envy' contrary to the popularly held belief that lefties are congenitally envious? (Either that or champagne socialists - no inbetween position).
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Nov 2, 2019 19:49
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Braggart posted:Jaeluni Asjil for Bus Commissar. They have good and practical ideas, and a wealth of experience to draw on. Bus Absolute Dictator of the Universe, please. I have billions of bus ideas (well general public transport ideas).
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Guavanaut posted:drat, that's a shame. Power cubes and bodged Europlug adapters with 1A fuses it is I guess. Do you mean the ones that use overhead cables or the ones that don't? I guess I prefer the ones that don't use overhead cables probably mostly for aesthetic reasons (strangely, because normally I am 'function over form' while my arty sister is 'form over function'). But I do remember some major incidents when I worked for a large popular national transport infrastructure company when overhead lines got wrecked in various ways. I don't know too much about the batteries in these buses and how they're charged though. I like this one:  source: https://www.nwnewsnetwork.org/post/battery-powered-electric-buses-hit-streets-northwest Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:18 on Nov 3, 2019 |
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Nov 3, 2019 00:15
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Scikar posted:That looks, uh, rather unsafe for the legs of any poor pedestrian who gets hit by it. At least it's already saying sorry. Other designs are available: Solaris urbino 12: 
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A friend posted a momentum thing about the NHS on FB. One of his friends made the (not intended sarcastically) comment that they were voting BXP or Tory because 'the NHS is fine, nothing is going to happen to it'. I just felt a bit sick. :smdh:
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Nov 3, 2019 01:09
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Braggart posted:You see? Jaeluni is perfect for the position of Bus Overlord, because they are a huge bus nerd who wants people to be happy Thanks for the vote of confidence. Naturally I expect the other parties to step aside for me. On that point who decided libdems should step aside for Soubry? Where is that decision taken?
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Eschenique posted:Germans still use a double "b" to say "s". I believe it is actually a double s with the first 's' written as in old English like an 'f' without the middle stroke (which is how a mid-word s used to be written). Now it does look like a big B. (Phone posting else I would find images.)
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Just went to the shop. Top headline on Sunday Times something like bad news for Boris because of Corbyn bounce. (Didn't buy so can't remember exact words).
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OzyMandrill posted:Yeah, my misses is kinda supportive but doesn't really want to vote Labour here cos welsh labour appear to be a blairite rump state atm. the conversation goes 'Well why haven't labour built lots more council houses then, it's devolved here and they've been in power forever. And the answer is, they're still the poo poo lot from before Jezza. To which the reply is 'and you want me to vote for them then?' Welsh Government still gets its funds from Westminster though so not sure how much scope they have to build more council houses or anything else. It's not got the same powers as Scottish Government.
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I don't know who this Alex person is but RR seems to have done a number on him: https://twitter.com/RespectIsVital/status/1190631005645877248?s=20
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Okay so the quick little appendix to my Balfron posts about council house design and Brutalism is now 5,000 words long and I'm talking about the colour of the beach at Southend. I think I might rename it seekhelp.txt and just keep it on my desktop as a reminder to myself. How about turning them into a blog for posterity? Or even a book?
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peanut- posted:I can't find a link to it now but I definitely read a study that showed for any decrease in business rates, 100% of the cost saving ends up being passed on to commercial landlords. Which makes logical sense, rent & rates are combined fixed premises costs and if the tax element falls the other one will raise. Not always. Depends where. In my local high at shops are rented from landlords at fixed rents with regular rises built in (RPI or whatever, different leases different rules). Business rates are entirely a matter for the business. Small retailers were absolutely hammered in the last rating revaluation. For example local chippy went from rateable value < £6000 therefore full rates relief to over £15000 no rates relief. A local burger place would have had to sell 60000 burgers a year just to pay rates + rent before even got to ingredients and staff. Town population 12000. There is no advantage to the landlords in reducing business rates.
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OwlFancier posted:Thinking about that tory "hospital building" policy. Many moons ago when I worked in the NHS, a certain J Saville wanted to donate several £m to build a new children's hospital in I think it was Peterborough. The relevant Health Authority said thanks but no thanks having the hospital would be nice but we simply can't afford to staff and run it. Mr S was going to run to the media about them not accepting a new hospital. Not sure why he didn't. Obviously everyone rather glad now! If by "build new hospital" they are going to replace old Victorian buildings and incorporate new technology that's one thing but just to chuck up new buildings without resolving many staffing issues is another. I'm just considering these kind of statements as synecdoches. (Hospital as shorthand for services and staff).
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Just thinking.. in the spirit of abusers everywhere accusing people of doing what they are in fact doing themselves (eg having affairs, having no friends, opening their legs to any man who looks at them etc etc): Tories accuse Corbyn of being a Trot - yet Johnson appoints real life trot to be his Director of No 10 Policy Unit Tories accuse Corbyn of being in the pay of the Ruskies - yet Cummings is or has been up to something dodgy with the Ruskies (don't ask me what!) Tories accuse Corbyn of wanting to take the UK back to the 70s in terms of State control - yet the tories are planning the biggest expansion of the state since the 70s. (again, don't ask me what, I've been out all day catching things on my phone). What else?
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Noooooooooooooooo The Bins in Blaenau Gwent (Labour MP). Ed: Independent councillors (not TIGS or CHUKS or whatever). 'They said they would do better than Labour but.. " People on my FB who live in that constituency going bonkers. quote:MONTHLY bin collections could be introduced across Blaenau Gwent in 2022. source: https://www.southwalesargus.co.uk/news/18013147.blaenau-gwent-set-monthly-bin-collections/
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Birds chat: quote:Gay penguin ‘power couple’ have adopted another egg together after successfully hatching their first chick source: https://www.pinknews.co.uk/2019/11/04/gay-penguin-couple-adoption-sphen-magic-sydney-australia-sea-life-aquarium/ Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 23:15 on Nov 4, 2019 |
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Took me a few seconds! https://twitter.com/jewdas/status/1191448430163513346?s=20 Also (separate): https://twitter.com/Socialist_Chris/status/1191263813326266368?s=20 Also (separate): Ed: turns out this is a parody account I think! https://twitter.com/NatHunter_BBC/status/1191386692931837952?s=20 Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 00:00 on Nov 5, 2019 |
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