Sneak Lemming posted:

Do you think when everyone sees the mass graves and overflowing morgues that people will vote differently?

namesake posted:

Liberals and centrist media outfits are watching Tories mishandle the pandemic and do hard Brexit and are having to think "Surely we had a good reason for thinking this was better". Rightwingers and Zionists can't ever allow Corbyns international solidarity social democracy to be thought of fondly.

They can't ever relent and it's going to drive them even more insane as he becomes less relevant to politics.

Communist Thoughts posted:

it is very funny indeed when people get upset about people appearing on pressTV or RTV or whatever when we have the BBC, a state propaganda institution run by a human rights violating regime that has done considerably more harm to the world than fuckin ...iran lol

Jose posted:

reminder for cspam ed balls loving sucks

https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1321425153218273280?s=20

therattle posted:

The things he has said are borderline (although there are rather a lot of them), and a number of his fellow travellers are more overtly AS. So I kind of agree with Balls. I don’t think Corbyn is AS (or if he is, it’s barely), but he is/was blind to it on the left, which is why Labour got into the whole mess.

therattle posted:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/changed-my-mind-jewish-labour-activist-why-he-left-party/

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So, I mean, at points it was obvious. It was also said that he laid a wreath at the grave of the Munich terrorists who had abducted the entire Israeli Olympic team, murdered them and castrated them all. And so to lay a wreath at the grave of the group that did that is was perceived by the Jewish community in Britain to be not a terribly sympathetic act.

Maximo Roboto posted:

https://twitter.com/PopulismUpdates/status/1321902428095049728

Jazerus posted:

y'all ever consider starting over? sort of a "britain 2.0" kind of thing?

Maximo Roboto posted:

genericnick posted:

I don't really see where a Brexit deal is supposed to suddenly come from? 500 years after initiating the Brexit procedure we're still at the what-the-gently caress-do you-want stage.

therattle posted:

I posted in here a few weeks ago about Corbyn and AS, then, as told, hosed off the D&D and did the same. Unsurprisingly, the response was similar, so I decided to actually read the leaked report.

It's clearly a factional piece. BUT, it contains so many direct transcripts, and contains figures that are hard to dispute, that there must be at least some elements of truth in it. I usually plump for incompetence over conspiracy, but such was the staggering incompetence on display in the GLU that some measure of active malice seems to be the only reasonable justification for the slowness in dealing with AS. (It is also clear that the GLU was incompetent as well as probably malicious).

I also had not appreciated to what extent dealing with disciplinary cases was not Corbyn's responsibility, but McNicols's, and that any criticism for how Labour was handling them should have been directed mostly at McNicols, not Corbyn. I was uninformed, wrong, and I apologise.

Internet Poster posted:

Lufthansa airlifts food to the UK amid lorry chaos



I'll have three egg, please

Continuity NIP posted:

Scottish independence is an inevitability. The current government has hosed things so hard they've spawned an independence movement in the north of England

Jose posted:

as with a lot of the insane stuff our government did after 2010 on top of general austerity was trying to either run things that shouldn't be run at a profit at a profit or making them self financed. the justice system has to be financially self sufficient because of these changes and of course thats an insane idea

Jel Shaker posted:

the west wing and assorted american politics have infected u.k. liberals to such an extent that they want to create a democrat party

endlessmonotony posted:

The D&D thread insists this isn't being deliberately cruel to small children for laughs.

What loving else explains the kind of situation where you repackage pasta? loving pasta?

If they're repackaging pasta that's a clear case of malice. Malicious people love positions of petty power like this.

endlessmonotony posted:

I did use the exact words "the cruelty is the point".

This isn't even generating as much profit as possible because you're repackaging loving pasta.

endlessmonotony posted:

Not when you're doing five days worth of food.

Pasta for two of the days is fine, and the labor cost for splitting up £0.60 bags means you're not saving a meaningful amount.

If you had automated repackaging that would be a different matter and even then it's questionable if it's worth the effort.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

how much are those food parcels costing the government or local schools? what's the markup, like 500%

Maya Fey posted:

whatever they call "red cheddar" is orange in color, it's the one i remember anyway

Falcorum posted:

Their campaigning leaflets with "labour can't win here! it's between us and the tories" were also amazing and I wouldn't be surprised if at some point it turned out to be a false-flag thing.

bird. posted:

Eagerly awaiting this becoming the Scexit thread.

gonadic io posted:

Anybody that likes the labour right already prefers either the libdems or the Tories depending on if they consider themselves a good person or not.

oliwan posted:

I used to teach at a very expensive private school, and on of the things I learned about the wealthy is that they absolutely love to outsource raising their children to underpaid nannies and au pairs.

90s Cringe Rock posted:

depends

how long do you think the union'll hold

MikeCrotch posted:

Basically an unspoken law in Britain is that the royal family get to hang around on the taxpayers dime because they have no real power, you just need to get the queen's rubber stamp on things to become law (the "royal assent"). If the monarchy were to actually try anything like exerting power parliament would boot them out.

However it turns out that since the Queen gets all laws passed through her, she and the rest of the royal family can quietly ask for stuff to be changed if it would reveal things like how embarrassingly wealthy the royal family are through things like real estate. It's a big deal because, outside of the pure corruption, the royal family are supposed to be "outside" of politics. If it turns out that the royal family are in fact politically fair game, then people might start asking questions like "why do we pay them so much money" and "should we abolish them".