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Here's a good shareable 5 minute video about why Austerity is bullshit https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE Does anyone know a similar one about how the national budget isn't anything like a household budget?
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Nov 2, 2019 01:24
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I don't understand why when people on tv keep getting asked "what evidence is there that billionaires aren't paying their taxes" the answer isn't just the loving Panama papers.
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Nov 2, 2019 14:09
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Why wouldn't you just use one of these?
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Nov 2, 2019 22:24
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jabby posted:Did you see the survey question the graph was produced from? The lib dems couldn't even win in a poll where they were the only option other than Conservatives. Yikes. I'd like to see the results of that constituency for the same question but Con vs Labour.
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Nov 3, 2019 20:36
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https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1191408591594491904 Swinson might get her three-way after all then.
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Nov 4, 2019 21:38
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Nov 4, 2019 23:13
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forkboy84 posted:This is a take so staggeringly bad that it really beggars belief. This isn't an excuse at all, but he's practically playing a character. He's on American Dragons Den and is basically a capitalism troll. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t0ubnDcyYGw
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Nov 5, 2019 20:34
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RockyB posted:£8.21 an hour. £4.35 if you can find a young enough intern! This is clearly a task for an apprentice (£3.90/hr)
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Nov 6, 2019 18:01
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Where is your poppy? This is the BBC  (You did great!) Edit; Element 99 is Einsteinium, a synthetic element created by nuclear explosions. 
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Nov 8, 2019 01:59
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/britainelects/status/1193155302172119040 I took part in a YouGov one yesterday, so they're at least being conducted. E: It's worth pointing out that anyone can join YouGov. Be the change you want to see in the (polling) world.
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Nov 9, 2019 14:22
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Mr Phillby posted:remember in the eighties when we had a movement of alternative comedians because all the popular established ones were really poo poo? They're out there, they're great, they're not on (terrestrial) TV. Better would be a world where people like Walliams, Mcintyre etc's opinions were considered too alternative for mainstream TV.
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Nov 9, 2019 23:43
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Guavanaut posted:But what's 'political' in the early 00s? The hard left lost, the hard right lost, and there was no impending domestic crisis that people wanted to talk about, other than the kids are wearing hoods now, so the fight was mostly on idpol and Iraq War bad and "I'm a right wing comedian, terrorists allah ackbar amirite" "I'm a left wing comedian georg bush nucular amirite" and both lots of them did alright out of Blairism. There was never much need to actually think about things far outside of the middle ground. I think this is largely the reason that a lot of comedy in this (and the tail end of last) decade has moved from observational to confessional. Political comedy made a little bit of a comeback for a while with Trump and Brexit but unless you've got an exceptionally different and clever take people don't want to hear it because their entire day is already consumed with Brexit/Trump. Maybe the massive increase in news media killed political comedy? Idk.
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Nov 9, 2019 23:55
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Bobby Deluxe posted:Joe.co.uk doing good work here (also thanks to a quick attempt to search for this on twitter, i find out joe apparently also stands for Jerk Off Encouragement and now my sexual orientation is dirty northern girls) This feels like political jerk off encouragement https://twitter.com/PoliticsJOE_UK/status/1189531798902054912 I came
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Nov 10, 2019 00:14
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quote:Why did the chicken cross the road? Did it really think its life was more important than mine? Guys I think the AI is depressed.
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Nov 10, 2019 05:10
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Guavanaut posted:Isn't Boris Johnson running too? quote:Count Binface
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Nov 14, 2019 18:20
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Nationalised broadband with free service sounds like a really good idea from a infrastructure/investment/access point of view, but I'd be wary about a (presumably) single internet infrastructure being run by the government. It's not hard to imagine a future government getting trigger happy in expanding blocklists and banning VPNs etc. Won't somebody think of the children
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Nov 15, 2019 01:05
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Azza Bamboo posted:What about are poonds though? Are you saying pounds or poons? Either way, blacklisted.
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Nov 15, 2019 01:20
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Lord Ashcroft Polls posted:“He’s a proper nutcase and he likes to upset people. I quite like him.” The British public.
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Nov 15, 2019 20:13
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Would anything about remaining in the EU affect Labours plans to renationalise [Telecoms/Water/Energy/Trains] ?
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Nov 15, 2019 20:33
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OwlFancier posted:Possibly, but "the EU won't let us give you free broadband" might be relevant in the second referendum This is literally my fear.
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Nov 15, 2019 20:48
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Endjinneer posted:A takeaway from this- Dominic Cummings has been kept away from the campaign so far, but as it's not going well there will probably be a power struggle which he'll win. That'll mean his deeply toxic and divisive tactics are going to come into play in the next week or two, especially if Boris bombs the debate on Tuesday. I'm waiting for Labour to announce Levenson 2 on the final days of the campaign to watch the media implode about that instead of any last minute Tory announcements.
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Nov 16, 2019 15:49
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gh0stpinballa posted:yeah i've worked as a hospital porter and a labourer and they are easily the 2 most satisfying jobs i've ever had. now i work in an office and i just feel sad and tired all the time. As a fellow IT-Office goon, can confirm the happiest I've ever been is coming home exhausted from 14hr bar shifts. Granted it's not NHS levels of good karma but giving 500 people a fun and safe evening feels pretty good.
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Nov 18, 2019 14:48
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justcola posted:Can you only watch the debate on ITV (itv player?) or is it on twitch/youtube? This is the livestream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kEB5pqWpJw
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Nov 19, 2019 19:49
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Do you have any browser extensions installed that play/modify media or adjust your sound settings? Do you get the same volume jump if the only window that's open is incognito/private?
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Nov 20, 2019 01:12
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Just got this advert on Facebook: Paid for by "Alexander Karczewski Crowley". I wonder who that is?  What about the Fair Tax Campaign. Well, their page was created on October 13th this year and has no listed administrators, staff or contact details. They're currently running 44 ads though, with no other content on their page, having spent a grand and a half so far with £500 of it not disclosed to them:  Totally cool that you can still run anonymous political ads on Facebook provided you attribute it to a made up person. E: Turns out it's A former Boris aide, because of course it is. blunt fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Nov 20, 2019 |
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Nov 20, 2019 23:14
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blunt posted:Just got this advert on Facebook: A little more searching and it turns out it's a former Boris aide who's already had ads banned in the last month for being misleading BBC News posted:Facebook bans political ad posted by ex-Downing Street aide Cool.
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Nov 20, 2019 23:27
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TheRat posted:https://twitter.com/BethRigby/status/1197519906142654464 Sky news aren't owned by Murdoch anymore and there's been a vibe on most of their programming for months that they're sick of the Tories shenanigans.
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Nov 21, 2019 16:39
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NotJustANumber99 posted:I only earn 80k a year what about the bloody rich eh? I'm not the 5%! You're the 5%! 🌽
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Nov 22, 2019 00:04
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Pesky Splinter posted:And apparently (while looking that one up), this is going to be their new logo from 2020: I think you'll find it's this from 2020: 
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Nov 22, 2019 10:44
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Anyone got a decent argument to this response? My brain is non-functional this morning. If paying your employees a living wage means your business isn't viable then you've failed as a business man. Wrap it up and let someone else have a go.
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Nov 22, 2019 11:25
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Remarkable how different tonight's questions/audience/moderation/balance were compared to a usual Question Time. Depressing to realise that the BBC are capable of making a balanced and informative show but choose not to every week.
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Nov 22, 2019 22:57
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Nov 22, 2019 23:47
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Tai posted:Since there are quite a few Labour voters on here, I wonder if you could help me understand a few things. I'm sure other people will do a much better job at this than me, but I thought i'd throw a few answers in as it's late at night. quote:Why are some Labour supporters going on that Tories will privatise the NHS? One of the big reasons why NHS wait times dropped under Blair was the fact he privatised a chunk of the NHS. Blair was wrong to privatise parts of the NHS. The Tories were wrong to continue that privatisation and the leaked discussions regarding an American trade deal show that this would continue under them. There's constantly an NHS funding crisis - why does it make sense to throw money into the NHS when x% is skimmed out again for corporate profits when instead 100% of it could be reinvested into the service? quote:Why are students such fan boys of Labour? Labour were the party that hosed them by adding them in the first place. The con/lib dem pact raised it further but Labour got the ball rolling on that and both parties rolled it along with stopping it. It's important to recognise that the current incarnation of Labour under Corbyn isn't a continuation of Blair's New Labour, which most current young Labour supports abhor, but instead a return to more traditional left wing values. I'm sure the idea of free tuition is part of it but I think you'll find students (and younger people in general) are much more concerned about issues like climate change, poverty and inequality and future prospects, and find Labours positions around these issues more attractive than the other parties. quote:How will all of this be paid? All the stuff he is promising is paid for by an increase to the top 5%. It's been proven by independent financial tanks that there isn't even close enough cash to do it. The manifesto is fully costed. I'd encourage you to read it (the actual manifesto, not a third party analysis) and draw your own conclusions about how feasible you believe it is. quote:What is the big sell to people about nationalising services? It sucked prior so how will it work now? Similar to the NHS, why should national utilities and infrastructure that everybody is required to consume be run on a for-profit basis? quote:Why would you want to dump nukes in a nuclear world that is pretty poo poo right now. Nukes are bad but least we have them till everyone agrees to get rid of them (not anytime soon). Labour's position is that they would continue to maintain and invest in trident. quote:After years of austerity, Labour have flat out said they will increase public spending and put us back in the same poo poo show in the future. We had austerity (yes it sucked) to get our deficit back down so we run a surplus to pay off our public debt. Maybe we should try living within out means instead of writing more cheques? Us commoners (mostly) do this. A government budget doesn't work like a household budget. Austerity is a disproven economic model which results in wealth transfer from the poorer end of society to the richer. A good 5 minute primer on this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=go2bVGi0ReE quote:Numerous racism cases again Labour doesn't feel me with a lot of joy. It's hard to respond to this without you citing some examples, so i'll just say the Labour party has over 500,000 members, some of them are going to be shitheads and when cases are raised they are responded to. quote:Why in the loving loving fuckty gently caress would you want Diana Abbot in charge of UK special forces and MI6 and Mi5 along with the met? She is an incompetent dick splash who is a out right danger to national security. Thornberry isn't far off either. Both the armed forces and the police regularly mock the former. Ok? I disagree. If you want to provide some examples of why you believe she's an "incompetant dick splash who is an out right danger to national security" then I guess we can have a dialogue about it. quote:Links to various terrorist groups (or rumours of). See previous point.
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MrFlibble posted:gently caress you both poo poo man, we're in an election period. It's better to answer bad faith questions with good faith answers than to tell people to get hosed, even if just for the prospect of changing a lurkers mind and not projecting a "hard left are just as bad as the fascists" image, even if it'll do nothing to change the OP's opinion.
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Chuka Umana posted:He's just assuming that because she's a black woman and in his mind all black women are dumb and hate white people. Sure, i'd just like him to actually say it.
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Nov 24, 2019 01:36
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Chuka Umana posted:There's no reason why I should have to argue that Dianne Abbott is miles better than Priti Patel and if you think otherwise go gently caress yourself. MrFlibble posted:I believe referring to Dianne Abbott as an incompetent dicksplash is vile and should not be entertained by the posters of this thread. And the posters making good faith replies are welcome to. I agree! If he has an answer that isn't "because she's black" then we can talk about it, if the answer is "because she's black" I want him to verbalize it so that he can come to terms with the fact that he's racist, his opinion isn't one that is shared or tolerated by most of society and that he should rightfully feel ashamed about it.
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Continuity RCP posted:This guy does not want to have his mind changed But other people who lurk this thread might have similar questions (though hopefully less racist) and it's an opportunity to answer them for those people. e: Ratjaculation posted:I have a white friend who tried to argue that she is actually a super racist because she once said something about her experiences growing up black in britain. Sorry your friend has bad opinions. Hopefully they've changed over time?
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big scary monsters posted:The good and unbiased election voting guide image seems to be missing from the OP, would someone mind posting it for me, please? 
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Sunday night poll theory with absolutely no evidence to back it up: young people use less committal language than older generations, so when asked "how likely are you to vote" they respond less certainly than older generations, even if they are as likely to vote. This results in more of their answers being discarded. Is it true? No idea!
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