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Lansman's pick wasn't blocked because of the appearance of impartiality, it was straight-up partiality. A Jewish Starmer supporter put forward by Lansman is about as balanced as it gets, whereas a non-Jewish left-hating Starmer supporter is, uh, not. Luckily nobody will care outside of the left though, because it's the left getting screwed. I thought we still (barely) controlled the NEC though? How are we letting this obvious stitch-up happen? Flipswitch posted:I think Britain's hosed boys and girls, we should just call it all off
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Party Boat posted:Boris offspring count JRM was probably just doing his thing of saying something innocuous sounding that he knew would get him in the papers (a la floxinoxinihilipilification), it's been a while e: my bad, misread, I thought it was JRM making the remark. Theyre still a pair of cunts tho Borrovan fucked around with this message at 16:51 on May 1, 2020 |
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Testing target (reportedly) met. Taking bets for exactly how they've fiddled the numbers.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Beyond silliness. Is it parody or real?
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e: ^^^ I thought it was "do what I say I did" (i.e., walk 80 miles in shoes made of nails to work 30 hours every day before personally fighting hitler on the beaches)Barry Foster posted:tbh I don't trust Rayner either idk what game she's playing, it looks very bad for the left atm so I think she might be going turncoat Borrovan fucked around with this message at 13:31 on May 4, 2020 |
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justcola posted:It's not bad fried in a bit of butter, salt and pepper.
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baka kaba posted:PROTECT ARE NHS that's my  thanks for listening
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winegums posted:This Gove bookshelf stuff really bummed me out. I'm under no illusions as to how the media machine conspired with inside sources at Labour to make the AS thing a "thing", but it's just really frustrating how cynically it all plays out. Literally nobody important argued this in good faith so when Gove's bookcase was seen, the same people who were screaming about Corbyn's anti-semitic eyebrow movements were silent about Gove's reading habits. Bobstar posted:Keir Starmer spends the entire PMQs demanding to know whether the Tories have "done the green one yet", much to everyone's bafflement. Pissed me right off tbh, his general approach to questioning was p much identical to Jez, except that he then just sorta goes along with it & moves on when the Govt give him an open goal. & Raab is impressively poo poo at PMQs too, worse than May even. Johnson is gonna eat him alive.
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XMNN posted:lol is this like the brexit tests again It's an excuse to support whatever the government does
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GazChap posted:Points 1 and 3 on that graphic are basically the same thing (1 implies 3) 
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BBC News at 10 headline: "Italy used to have the most deaths in Europe, but Health Secretary Dominic Raab says that international comparisons are not helpful" They added in the missing piece in the actual story but uuuhhhh that was a pretty glaring omission
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Do not, my friends, become addicted to wages. They will take hold of you, and you will resent their absence.
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Whereas the "prof lockdown" story, which also broke 12 hours earlier and was not an exclusive, was very important to report upon, because Also, I saw the beeb coverage when the kill count was breaking:- Borrovan posted:BBC News at 10 headline: "Italy used to have the most deaths in Europe, but Health Secretary Dominic Raab says that international comparisons are not helpful" e: vvvv don't they hate trans people and basic rigour? (e2: the Morning Star, that is, I haven't read the Covid Times) Borrovan fucked around with this message at 13:16 on May 6, 2020 |
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Cerv posted:and as this morning’s FT interview reminded us, while Starmer was Director of CPS he used to eat in the staff canteen with the the grunts.
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Guavanaut posted:If the police are members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence, as they supposedly are, It's a totally inconsistent theory, but the principle of policing by consent pre-existed special treatment for cops so my understanding is that it basically survived solely as the basis for that one thing because it was easier than coming up with a new rationale. It doesn't follow that they should be held to a higher standard, because the whole (contextual) rationale for preserving the idea is that they should not be held to a higher standard, to allow them the same discretion as everybody else. Otherwise we'd have to, like, hold them to account or something. (apologies for the wooly explanation btw, my source for this is one half-remembered conversation over a boozy lunch with an anarchist human rights lawyer colleague of mine, who as you can imagine has some opinions on the subject)
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Guavanaut posted:I can see how they'd try to wrangle that out of "the police are just the public" along with the idea that they're not responsible for any specific person's safety but only 'the public order', but the "paid to give full-time attention to duties" bit implies different. Personally I've always been a big fan of the "incumbent on every citizen" bit, because it theoretically means that if you & a few dozen comrades happen to come across some dickhead with a Starmer haircut & loudspeaker inciting racial hatred up on a podium, it becomes incumbent upon you to use reasonable force to stop them. In theory. Plod might disagree.
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Oh dear me posted:No, it's never happened before, I doubt many people were even aware of the date. We only celebrate it on the 8th because Stalin asked us to 
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gh0stpinballa posted:ronya should people have to pay back their landlords on top of their standard rent over 2 years yes or no Because they're loving idiots whose ideological commitment to compromise completely misses what compromise is. They're starting right off the bat with a piss weak compromise position, from which they will then compromise repeatedly until they agree to let every landlord get all of their rent immediately and also punch us all in the crotch. Thing is though, Starmer's a loving lawyer, he loving knows that's how negotiation works. The big brainers will all lap up how reasonable and compromised it is, and get to feel like they supported a thing whilst actually implementing Tory policy. But, from Starmer's perspective, it serves its purpose: sucking up to all the petite bouge BTL crowd & letting all the rich feel good about how they're doing their part whilst actually doing nothing.
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Sure hope none of the people Boris just sent back to work need any health & safety guidance for the next 6 hours
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Yeah but he's not homeless, his address just isn't fixed  I went to a bank one time many years ago to tell them that my address had changed as I was NFA. The cashier asked for some proof of address, then got shirty with me for asking if she was loving joking. Eventually got it solved by having a good cry at the manager, but seriously most people are just completely unable to comprehend the basic concept of homelessness, despite notionally being very familiar with it. I think the human brain is just very adept at blocking out stuff that sits outside of a person's experience and would force them to confront ugly realities about the world.
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Yeah the end result was just a c/o address, just had to get to a manager to get that far, because the cashier was actually telling me with a straight face that she'd need a utility bill or the like addressed to "NFA" to make the change, the whole concept was just beyond her Guessing something similar has happened here, like some prosecutor just can't compute that "homeless" actually means not having a home
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forkboy84 posted:If I remember right the IWW have a computer touches branch, sure we have a couple of thread regulars who are in it who may be able to give more explicit advice Darth Walrus posted:'A senior government source briefed the Times' that people were 'addicted' to the scheme. My bet is Gove. The first clue was that he specifically denied saying it
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Tesseraction posted:Gonna start a myth that Brenda is trans. (The "real" Bess supposedly died in a house that's now a pub & used to be my local) e: in 1564, Elizabeth I had allegedly been dead for 30-something years Borrovan fucked around with this message at 15:28 on May 12, 2020 |
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Drone_Fragger posted:You don’t have an “official” name in the uk it’s whatever people call you by.
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thespaceinvader posted:... Like Labour's independent investigation into the traitor leaks. wtf do words even mean
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Ms Adequate posted:I don't think it's fraud as you're not trying to pretend you're someone else? IANAL ofc.
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Filboid Studge posted:If there’s a push for renewed austerity measures, there has to be a counter-push for a general strike. You can’t austerity your way out of a recession, we have always known that. These pricks have only got one button to push and they know they’re lying about what it does.
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Gonzo McFee posted:Lol shut the gently caress up
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Melissa McCarthyism posted:Lord Sumption on BBC News around 4pm saying the Government has no purpose to extend the lockdown other than fear of negative public response. Says Government response has only scared people more when the virus is not as bad as they have been led to believe. Fit and healthy people should be allowed to live their lives, you cannot live without risk. People should be able to take decision about their health and bodies without government intervention. In a sense this fellow advocated for legalisation of all drugs and assisted suicide. (maybe he isn't so bad???) Lord Sumption is a judge whose whole gimmick is non-interventionalism in every scenario. He is not representative of views among the senior judiciary, he can make some very interesting academic arguments but bringing his views up in non-legal circles is the equivalent of citing that one economist who thinks Brexit is a good idea instead of literally all the other economists who disagree. Except that at least he loving knows stuff about law, even if he's fairly consistently wrong on any matter of principle (not just me saying this, it's widely agreed, the other senior judges poke fun at it all the time). Why the gently caress have they got him talking about epidemiology - unless, perhaps, they just want some famous "intellectual" toff to say that all the povs should go back to work, and he's flagrantly obviously going to oppose any kind of intervention since that's literally his whole thing? Which would also explain why they weren't challenging him on anything. He wasn't even being honest anyway, he might be a dick but he's clever enough to know that "don't punish everyone for a few irresponsible people flouting common sense" and "I would go to the pub or theatre without hesitation" are not consistent positions. He was just shilling for the loving Tories, and of loving course the BBC just uncritically platformed him as an expert despite the clear absence of any actual expertise. /rant
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e: in 1993, Blair helped put an end to the Trade Union block vote for Parliamentary candidature selection Borrovan fucked around with this message at 12:51 on May 19, 2020 |
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Failed Imagineer posted:Read comments 2 die instantly
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Josef bugman posted:However, I do not know that. Alongside that, who actually votes for the General Secretary?
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OwlFancier posted:Beds and benches, things which are a fixed distance in all possible orientations. A helpful unit of measurement.
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deletebeepbeepbeep posted:We have been asked to accept a 10% pay cut today which will last a year (providing that the economy recovers!!?) and that about 12% of staff will be made redundant. Bobstar posted:strip Russian roulette
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£50 to the solidarity fund says this just gets memory holed & Dom carries on as normalXMNN posted:if this is within the guidelines, then they have done an absolutely shocking job of explaining them
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