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pablo gbscobar posted:The tangible sigh of relief in his voice when he finally finds a sympathetic caller after spending the whole segment insisting that he wasn't being defensive is so, so telling. Yeah but didn’t she then say she agreed with Owen Jones and he cut her off too? It was really quick too
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Nah there's another woman on right after that who calls him a hard left polemecist or some bs who gets a much less hostile response. Didn't listen for much longer after that so couldn't tell you if it was a pattern or not but if def stood out after the barrage of angry callers
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I see the BBC has finally caved and let Johnson on Marr instead of having to do an interview with Andrew Neil
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I'm not sure why there's an expectation that Andrew Neill (of the Adam Smith Institute) - an intensely conservative figure - will give Johnson anything remotely resembling scrutiny?
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serious gaylord posted:I see the BBC has finally caved and let Johnson on Marr instead of having to do an interview with Andrew Neil "Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s candidate for Leicester South, and the Liberal Democrats’ Chuka Umunna". oh
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Tomberforce posted:I'm not sure why there's an expectation that Andrew Neill (of the Adam Smith Institute) - an intensely conservative figure - will give Johnson anything remotely resembling scrutiny? not much more than Neil's own personal pride in being seen as a tough interviewer, really.
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Tomberforce posted:I'm not sure why there's an expectation that Andrew Neill (of the Adam Smith Institute) - an intensely conservative figure - will give Johnson anything remotely resembling scrutiny?
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Also there’s probably some macho bullshit in the personal relationship between the two men seeing as how Andrew Neil was Boris’s old boss. Not hard to imagine that he would have a couple of scores to settle.
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baka kaba posted:That's a hell of an act. What do you call it? Top Brexit 
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I woke up at night a week or so ago, and I heard a blackbird training. I keep half an ear open for blackbird song at all times since I love it and it's how I determine that "gently caress the weather, birb sings means it's spring", but beyond that, what made me remember it is how bad his singing was. It was still recognisably blackbird song, but he sang only short phrases of a few notes, nowhere close to the length, width or expressiveness that a good songbird can pull off. So he's probably hatched this year, and grown up listening to his daddy's singing, convinced that he's gonna be every bit as good as him when he grows up. Wonder if it's stressful when you're just starting out, discovering that far from being easy, singing is tricky and laborious and hard, when it's the only hope you've got of getting a home and attracting a mate
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Payndz posted:Considering that Neil and Johnson worked together at The Spectator (Johnson was editor, Neil chairman of its parent company), and they both take large sums of money from the ultra-Brexiteer Barclay brothers (they own The Spectator and the Daily Telegraph, which paid Johnson his "chicken feed" salary of £250,000), I wouldn't imagine his Brexit strategy would get much of a grilling. (And the current deputy editor of the Spectator is Dominic Cummings' wife! It's an ouroborous of awful, awful people. Actually, merely being connected to The Spectator pretty much guarantees that someone is a vile right-wing piece of poo poo.) otoh him having known boris for long probably means he hates him
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Ms Adequate posted:Think it's safe to say that my prediction last month that I'm dreaming of a Red Christmas, comrades  
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Dec 1, 2019 09:35
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Honestly if you need clips of Johnson flailing and avoiding answering questions just use the LBC interview from Friday morning (or, you know, literally any other interview he's done so far)
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:I woke up at night a week or so ago, and I heard a blackbird training. I keep half an ear open for blackbird song at all times since I love it and it's how I determine that "gently caress the weather, birb sings means it's spring", but beyond that, what made me remember it is how bad his singing was. It was still recognisably blackbird song, but he sang only short phrases of a few notes, nowhere close to the length, width or expressiveness that a good songbird can pull off. So he's probably hatched this year, and grown up listening to his daddy's singing, convinced that he's gonna be every bit as good as him when he grows up. Wonder if it's stressful when you're just starting out, discovering that far from being easy, singing is tricky and laborious and hard, when it's the only hope you've got of getting a home and attracting a mate I'm a trans woman, and I've been struggling with voice therapy for the last year, and this really speaks to me 
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I saw a sparrow hawk today. It was hunting a sparrow. Flew off before I could see if it got it. Welp that’s my story for the day.
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Has anyone considered that if Corbyn's Labour wins the election, then he will have been the most successful left wing British politician since, arguably, Atlee ? Who he has a lot in common with. But yeah obviously an unelectable failure.
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I'm praying for a stonking majority, but I will be happy with a hung parliament and Labour as the largest party or a small majority for Labour.
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Jose posted:If Corbyn wins an outright majority the press are going to go off it about voter fraud and everything else to try and stop it being seen as a legitimate win Well yeah, but who gives a poo poo if they're gonna get Leveson'ed anyway
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Jose posted:If Corbyn wins an outright majority the press are going to go off it about voter fraud and everything else to try and stop it being seen as a legitimate win No one who believes them is physically capable of doing anything about it
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Tijuana Bibliophile posted:otoh him having known boris for long probably means he hates him
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https://twitter.com/HackneyAbbott/status/1200853524680232963 Better response from abbott than I was expecting tbh.
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Imagine if Marr actually cornered Johnson on this stuff. Such a wasted opportunity.
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Failed Imagineer posted:Well yeah, but who gives a poo poo if they're gonna get Leveson'ed anyway If the press only get Levesoned then they're getting off lightly. Also Christ it's strange knowing the future is arriving so soon, I don't think I've had an experience quite like this before. Looking forward to hundreds of pages of nonsensical reaction posts.
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CGI Stardust posted:I think there's a thing where reactionaries, especially competent ones, turn on other reactionaries who are perceived as weak; it wouldn't surprise me if Neil, as a competent reactionary, absolutely savaged Johnson. If your existence is defined by hierarchy, then one thing you can't stand is a failure at the top. And, well, Johnson's lazy and poo poo, he's been coasting, and it's really obvious. Looking forward to this post ageing rapidly. Wow Chuka Umunna was just terrible as always on Marr there. I guess it's up to the Queen to form a Lib Dem government (?).
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I'm intrigued by Johnson being left to the last minute of Marr. He seems to be getting the 'interview with a middlebrow West End actor' slot.
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"You've Been In Power For 10 Years" are words you don't hear enough on the BBC
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forkboy84 posted:Oh god, The Spectator is awful. Tory MPs as Harry Potter characters would be as useful. I've always thought Michael Gove is our universe's Professor Quirrel. (WHO SAID SQUIRREL?  )And to answer the headline question, no, Jacob Rees-Mogg just wishes he was Cato the Younger*. He's actually Crassus: an extremely wealthy amoral oval office whose defining features are arrogance and incompetence in all fields apart from leveraging his wealth. He made a play for power and overestimated himself dramatically, and was taken down by barbs from people he has no respect for: https://twitter.com/BathLabourParty/status/1200446500913872901 There you go, Spectator twat. Isn't that a better argument than "Sajid Javid used to work in banking ergo money ergo Crassus"? I can't believe you get paid for this. I'd drop the mic but it's the 1st century BC and they haven't been invented yet. Veni vidi vici, bitchi. * This is literally true, I bet.
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Reposting this from the end of the last thread cause it was a real gutpunch  https://twitter.com/C4Dispatches/status/1200836894231126017
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God save me. I've seen that dead, piggy-eyed stare from a thousand drunks and bigots in a thousand pubs when you ask them a difficult question.
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Trickjaw posted:God save me. With no humanity in they eyes
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Welp, Neil pretty much monstered Jòris on schools, libraries, hospitals, prisons, criminal justice, benefits, child poverty, Islamophobia, and Brexit. There should be endless clips of flailing angry prevarication to spread after this. He still didn't actually push back on any lies, or stop Johnson from blustering on CORBYN BAD tangents, but it was a lot more substantial than I would have expected.
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Spreading some yule feelings. Putting up some christmas lights (doesn't show well because it's noon, doesn't get dark until around 1400). Have got this tree which is a really nice christmas tree shape growing at the corner of our yard and decided to put up some lights on it, colored because all our neighbors are running white lights only. It's boring AF, we're the only ones with colored lights. Cats where enjoying the snow too.   
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Failed Imagineer posted:Welp, Neil pretty much monstered Jòris on schools, libraries, hospitals, prisons, criminal justice, benefits, child poverty, Islamophobia, and Brexit. There should be endless clips of flailing angry prevarication to spread after this. Marr, not Neil.
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https://twitter.com/JackmerrittJack/status/981151669479202816 That's the lad who died. loving shameful for the tories to use this lad as a meat shield.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/JackmerrittJack/status/981151669479202816 With the body barely cold, poor lad, the Tories politicise his death.
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quote:Some of the most disturbing footage shows one worker touching two cows in intimate areas on two different occasions,” the investigator said. “The worker appears to be moving his hand up and down in a way that would suggest masturbation.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/cow-sexual-abuse-violence-dairy-farm-punch-kick-hit-essex-nfu-a9215306.html
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