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 It's Brexit Day, as finally a Brexit happens!  Now begins the transition period until the clock strikes midnight (CET) at the end of the year, at which point a Super Brexit rises.  Also happening this month is the Labour Leadership Election, from 21/2/2020 to 4/4/2020  .Currently running for leader are: Rebecca Long-Bailey  Generally held as leftmost by nominations, and viewed by some as the 'continuity Corbyn candidate'. Momentum supported. Has some Roman Catholic personal views. Lisa Nandy  Towns candidate for towns and other places that are larger than villages and smaller than cities. From the Labour 'soft left' but some of her associates are a bit Blue Labour. Emily Thornberry  Sacked by Ed Miliband for taking a picture of a house. First to run after Corbyn said he'd step down, generally in the Corbyn Cabinet Camp. Keir Starmer  Was the longtime favourite to win. Probable melt/Milibandist. Deputy leadership candidates: Dawn Butler Angela Rayner Rosena Allin-Khan Ian Murray Richard Burgon Alfredo Navarro Salanga - 5 February posted:Find no symbol in the capture of the reservoir: water can do no sculpting. In Other News  • The Northern Ireland Assembly reconvenes after a three year hiatus; Arlene Foster (DUP) is appointed first minister, Michelle O'Neill (SF) deputy first minister. • Legislation is drafted allowing the use of cameras during trials at Crown Courts in England and Wales, but only the judges will be filmed. • Construction starts on Dogger Bank Wind Farm, which will become the world's largest offshore wind farm when complete, generating 3.6GW. • The Prime Minister approves a "non-core" role for Huawei in 5G mobile, resisting US pressure to use equipment that steals data for the CIA rather than the MSS. • British Airways suspends all flights to and from mainland China with immediate effect, due to the ongoing coronavirus threat. • Harry and Meghan drop their titles and move to Canada. • 333 days until Super Brexit. • Planet's dyin' Cloud. There is always in February some one day, at least, when one smells the yet distant, but surely coming, summer.  Xmas in February UKMT January 2020 - Jess Flops UKMT General Elexmas 2019 - casually eating surstromming UKMT November 2019 - Andrew Can't Denounce Epstein Properly UKMT October 2019 - Johnson Forced to Extend [Everything About It] UKMT September 2019 - A Pro-Roguelike Set In A Dystopian Failed State/A Fish-Abandoning Government UKMT August 2019 - we (UK) should simply invade Ireland peacefully UKMT July 2019 - A more cheerful Brexit/BBC for slutty communists All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) February - Whateva da Weatha Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread C-SPAM: BREXIT BYOB: UKMT February Air Podcasting is Praxis - The official podcast of the UKMT with UKMT goons talking into microphones about things. 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 second-most 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. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. General Intellect Unit - Podcast of the Cybernetic Marxists. Examining the intersection of Technology, (Left) Politics, and Philosophy; decently in-depth and theory-driven as podcasts go. Alpha 2 Omega - Tom O'Brien talks political strategy. Requires Improvement - Podcast of lefty teachers exploring all things education, from a socialist perspective. Swampside Chats - "The highest communist podcast" February Tale Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Demanding The Impossible - David Morland Demanding the Impossible: A History of Anarchism - Peter Marshall Chav Solidarity - D. Hunter No Shortcuts: Organizing for Power in the New Gilded Age - Jane McAlevey Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – Malatesta The Method of Freedom – Malatesta In Praise of Idleness – Russell Political Ideals – Russell Declaration – Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo God and the State – Bakunin The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg Violence – Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam Tooze Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons UKMT CLP Commissars (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Or on Discord for other UKMT Chat and Podcast Conspiring https://discord.gg/QErneZT  Do Not Post In This Thread:
learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this. 
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someone tell me about student loans and poo poo if i want to do a masters at the age of 31 and with a mortgage
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Feb 1, 2020 01:10
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Just got told by a ‘farmers daughter’ (an actual way in which people describe themselves in rural farming areas) that is vegans (of which I am one) are destroying the british agricultural industry so I went on a completely ad-libbed three minute rant about how the tories now have free reign to gently caress over the last powerful union in the country (the NFU), the fact that we left the CAP which is the largest organisation in the word to try to keep farming produce at a competitive price to benefit the farmers and that every free trade agreement the US has entered into they’ve insisted on removing “country of origin” statements from packaging so once we’re trading with them even putting “British beef”on a package will be against the loving law. Someone made a half arsed effort to call me out on not buying British beef but I pulled a Liz Truss and said that it was an absolute DISGRACE that we import 98% of our chickpeas I mean the countries hosed but we might as well enjoy ourselves. loving hell
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Feb 1, 2020 01:10
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Welp UK I guess you chose this...
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Feb 1, 2020 01:12
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You know who's vegan? Cows. Checkmate, farmer's daughter
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Feb 1, 2020 01:12
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This country sucks
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bump_fn posted:whats the uk equivalent of COASTAL ELITES 'metropolitan elites but obviously not bankers or newspaper editors or wealthy nobility or the extremely obvious child sex-trafficking ringleaders around westminster but also not totally not jews but then if its convenient then yeah gently caress it its 100% jews' The people they're actually demonising are like private-school teachers and software developers or some poo poo, it's people earning slightly above median income and a few of them might have a blog that says homelessness is bad and refugees aren't demons or something. The objectively 'how many quid they got' elite somehow slip every time through the cracks of that particular doghsit social analysis.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:14
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Posting on page one of the FREEDOM Thread 
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Feb 1, 2020 01:15
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Jose posted:someone tell me about student loans and poo poo if i want to do a masters at the age of 31 and with a mortgage going back to school buds  it's basically possible, i looked it up for my sister. i think funding depends on what you wanna do, this guide looks OK https://www.moneysavingexpert.com/students/postgraduate-loans/
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Feb 1, 2020 01:15
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Well Brexit happened and there's no Breadline WHAT NOW REMOANERS
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Feb 1, 2020 01:23
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Jose posted:someone tell me about student loans and poo poo if i want to do a masters at the age of 31 and with a mortgage I'd advise you to go to Germany and study an English-language Masters there, but that became a lot harder an hour and a half ago
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Feb 1, 2020 01:24
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Best of luck fleeing the tyranny of the EU and it's horrid demands for Human Rights, Climate Action and Food Safety Standards.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:24
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Oh wow, someone replicated the podcast logooooooooooh 
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Feb 1, 2020 01:25
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Food and agriculture is still devolved in Scotland, right?
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Feb 1, 2020 01:26
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Happy Brexit, I guess.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:26
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^ not the May moon, 2/10Venomous posted:Food and agriculture is still devolved in Scotland, right? Defra reigns supreme iirc
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Feb 1, 2020 01:27
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I’m looking from the outside, but what I’m seeing is mostly assholes saying “we might have had our differences but now is the time to come together” after three years of absolutely making GBS threads on everyone. gently caress those people, give them no quarter.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:35
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Mokotow posted:I’m looking from the outside, but what I’m seeing is mostly assholes saying “we might have had our differences but now is the time to come together” after three years of absolutely making GBS threads on everyone. gently caress those people, give them no quarter. Nah, it's still mostly assholes saying 'you lost, we won, get over it b/c democracy' without any sign of reconciliation
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Feb 1, 2020 01:36
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CoolCab posted:going back to school buds We'll probably be going to the same uni if I do lol
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Feb 1, 2020 01:36
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Im gonna get in on the ground floor of the brexit britain thread. Good luck all
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Feb 1, 2020 01:36
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They got brexit done. I don't think any of their other policies were really advertised, so now it's just 5 years of things being very normal.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:37
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In unrelated news I'm aware this is (blue white and) pink washing and they're still tax avoiding bastards but Starbucks are doing a thing supporting Mermaids https://mobile.twitter.com/Mermaids_Gender/status/1223211263196614658?s=09 Time was when this charity wasn't getting any kind of public support let alone corporate, and in peri-Brexit T*RF hell world, I'll take that small positive
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Feb 1, 2020 01:38
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Next you get treated to 11 months of Boris Doing Trade Deals. Good luck with that.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:39
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Brexit is already costing us some of our greatest minds  https://twitter.com/wizardcubes/status/1223347770356129797
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Feb 1, 2020 01:40
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Storm up to Starbucks singing IT'S DK IT'S DONKEY KONG
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Feb 1, 2020 01:41
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The remain fight is over, now begins the chance to do something better. - We take every opportunity to be smug when some tory oval office farmer or fisherman complains about how their over-inflated income has taken a hit after brexit. Their misery brings me succour. - We absolutely pin every failure on the Tories and their incompetence and inability to barter the brexit they promised everyone. - We need to get in early to deal with the "traitorous europe" narrative they're going to try to spin. We need to clearly present the counter-narrative, that our enemy wasn't Europe, but capitalism. re: eusupergirl though. The gently caress was that about? Horny dads being grifted doesn't fully explain it. She's horrendously bad at singing and won't sleep with you.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:42
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Pilchenstein posted:Brexit is already costing us some of our greatest minds can't believe they'd decommission the MauG-25 Foxbat like that, thought it still had a few years left
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Feb 1, 2020 01:42
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All this FREEDOM and SOVEREIGNTY is coursing through me like lightning. I feel stronger than ever! Who wants to knock over some foreign countries for the profits of some pedo toffs?
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Feb 1, 2020 01:44
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PowerBeard posted:Best of luck fleeing the tyranny of the EU and it's horrid demands for Human Rights, Climate Action and Food Safety Standards. Let's please not be stans for the EU. It has objectively put far more effort into making impactful union action illegal than it has into deliberate "climate action" and fyi human rights are clearly not a guiding principle either. Don't cuck to the organisation that has handwaved brutality against protestors since its inception, to use the most obvious example the gilet jaune deserve better than that.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:44
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Referring back to the idea from the last thread of reconciling with the fubpees... why? They're loud as gently caress but electorally meaningless and frankly most of them demonstrated last year that the movement was at least as anti-socialist as anti-Brexit, explicitly so in the case of the People's Vote campaign and their assorted hangers-on. Not that we should treat the hashtag as a Mark of Cain to forever reject them - most of them are pretty low-information and with the heat of Brexit taken out of the situation will hopefully be amenable to coming over to the right side of history - but they don't actually bring anything to the table for us when it comes to getting back into power, and that's where the Labour Party needs to be expending it's efforts right now. Ultimately the collapse of the Lib Dems gives us a chance to rebuild the Blair-era coalition in the opposite direction - we can rely on London, Liverpool, etc to vote for us for at least another couple of elections so we need to reach back out to them (and to Scotland) with actual good policies, actively courting the Fubpee demographic can wait until we've got Bolsover back.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:55
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Dawn Butler needs 7 more CLP nominations.
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Feb 1, 2020 01:59
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To answer a question from the last thread, I hope Galaxy O Brain is having a loving stroke tonight
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Feb 1, 2020 02:05
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Well Brexit got boring fast didn’t it. Newest thing on the daily mail is some shite about an old coin being found - it might be worth money. It’s a good post apocalypse tip but still
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Feb 1, 2020 02:13
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Mao did nothing wrong lol https://twitter.com/kaymtye/status/1223310647703662592?s=19
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Feb 1, 2020 02:31
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Venomous posted:Nah, it's still mostly assholes saying 'you lost, we won, get over it b/c democracy' without any sign of reconciliation Guess I’m reading too much Graun
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Feb 1, 2020 02:33
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winegums posted:The remain fight is over, now begins the chance to do something better. The EU is going to be the enemy, though, simply because the default state of international trade is ludicrously vicious, and they're a massive, institutionally capitalist economic superpower right next door who we just torpedoed our relationship with. They're going to treat us like they treat African economies.
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Feb 1, 2020 02:34
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When does the EU start charging the UK to use their satellites? Is it this time next year as well?
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Feb 1, 2020 02:47
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Isomermaid posted:You know who's vegan? Cows. Checkmate, farmer's daughter Cows, and most herbivores, are actually opportunistic omnivores. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CzkEpjT1QLQ Good luck, UK.
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Feb 1, 2020 02:50
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Venomous posted:Nah, it's still mostly assholes saying 'you lost, we won, get over it b/c democracy' without any sign of reconciliation But the FREEDOM! countdown projected on 10 Downing Street was very tasteful! Projecting a true RED, WHITE, and BLUE Brexit!
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Now that it gut dun, is there going to be a Post brexit voters realising they're gonna die because of Brexit thread? Like a UK equivalent of this thread? I don't just want to gloat at idiots having life come at them fast, I just want somewhere I can get regular shitposts to put daily into the whatsapp group I'm in with a brexit voting friend until I get kicked and then never have to talk to the fucker ever again.
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