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VideoGames posted:Lady VG just got her pip assessment back from the DWP (she was on highest due to her needing zomorph (morphine) twice a day to function) and not only are they ending it, but apparently she needs to pay them back because she was given too much. Sorry to hear this VG. Are you still able to appeal at this point or has that been exhausted? It'd be well worth emailing your MP (even if they're a Tory) about this as well, to request a review of the case. There's a dedicated parliamentary hotline for pip so MP's staff can speak to DWP staff about cases quickly, although any actual review will take a few weeks. Anecdotally having MP interest in a case seems to help expedite things, even if the outcome isn't always the preferred one. If you've got specific objections to the DWP decision as written, it'd be a good idea to highlight them & give the reason why.
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Guavanaut posted:Then again given Boris' history, I'm also going to guess that he doesn't know how pregnancy tests work. Step 1: the woman (who is not your wife) pees on a stick Step 2: If positive, pressure her into signing a non-disclosure agreement*/getting an abortion**/marrying you Step 3: * allegedly ** according to that MP staffer's spreadsheet of MPs to avoid that did the rounds a couple of years ago
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Jose posted:truly incredible stuff here from the economist The economist: a good thing happened? Oh no! This will inevitably lead to bad outcomes Also the economist: a bad thing happened? Don't worry, this will inevitably lead to good outcomes
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Vitamin P posted:Genuinely go on, what was your thinking? It's a sex joke 
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This is a very strange statement to make. Not because it's not the kind of thing that the tories would do, but because the "moonshot" is an entirely fictional concept whose large numbers are plucked from the aether with no basis in reality. Why bother to make any statement about the cost (or not) of something that does not, currently cannot, and most likely will not exist?
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ObamaAkbar. posted:Are red wall MPs making GBS threads themselves now that brexit and Corbyn are no longer issues they can beat over constituents heads? A bit, but probably not as much as you'd think, and probably less so than Tories with similar majorities in non-"Red Wall" seats. "Corbyn" is doing a lot of heavy lifting here, since his unfavourability by the end cut deep, but in terms of a new leader electoral effect it'll be interesting to see if it's more pronouced in these seats than others. I'm sceptical, personally. The long-term demographic shifts (and more than anything the aging population in these constituencies) would tend to favour the Tories even aside from Brexit/Corbyn, which is probably why we're seeing a whole bunch of culture war bollocks, since that seems to be the best way to get the grey vote. I suspect it will be the Tories in commuter belts wondering about their proportion of voters under 50 that are more nervous. By the by the red wall is basically a journalistic convention that doesn't seem to have much explanatory or analytical value beyond "long term Labour seats that went Tory" as far as I can tell, so I'm pretty wary of using it (and fed up of journos and MPs and commentators being extremely lazy and using it instead of actually saying anything), even if it feels like a good reading of the election. "Labour lost their red wall and Tories overran the country" is a neat narrative and clear visual image, even if it doesn't make a huge amount of sense besides losing seats = losing elections. Though if someone wants to argue the case for it I'm open to be convinced it's a decent label!
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ronya posted:in mildly amusing trivia: Pankaj Mishra (From the Ruins of Empire) is David Cameron's cousin-in-law I know it's not the point at all, but there's something so incredibly UKMT about ronya pointing out that an apparently anti imperialist author is DCFADP's cousin
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sebzilla posted:19th Century style political cartoon idea for someone good at art (what happened to our official thread cartoonist?): Where's my Pulitzer x 2? 
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JeremoudCorbynejad posted:So do we know who has shares in PPE Medpro Ltd, or who the directors are, or what. This is the public information: https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/12597000/officers Three appointees, 2 with no other company house information and 1 with multiple (24) directorships etc over the years. I don't know anything about The Byline Times, but they have an article from last month that basically covers all the publicly-accessible information. https://bylinetimes.com/2020/09/14/government-awards-122-million-ppe-contract-to-one-month-old-firm/ quote:Boris Johnson’s Government awarded a whopping £122 million contract for the supply of gowns to a company that had only been in existence for one month, Byline Times can reveal.
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Guavanaut posted:Imagine being a Conservative voter. Not just as a stunt No need for public goods Just be a complete oval office
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Rincewinds posted:>Defund the NHS Someone criticises you for defunding the NHS > acccuse them of playing politics with your dead grandma
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hemale in pain posted:Why do the British media seem pro trump at the moment? I watched some poo poo on ITV yesterday where they mostly interviewed pro trump people and just let the lies go unquestioned. The voice over even said multiple times about how trump is good for the economy. I also just watched a bit on the BBC about how trump was good at the debate and they VERY selectively showed clips of him and didn't mention the racism or rambling lies. They then interviewed a republican who did the normal lies about how lockdown bad, trump good, oil good etc etc but didn't have anyone pro-biden on. A few pages back, but this might be of interest to folk here. There's a (very good) 3 part documentary airing on the BBC right now called the Trump Show, and one of the people involved in it is absolutely raging at the BBC right now. The programme has been in production for a while, but thry said that they started getting a whole load of notes from BBC upper echelons just in the last few weeks and even right up to broadcast about how they needed to be less critical of trump because the documentary was "too negative about trump" and therefore was "unbalanced." The heart of the doc is various interviews with people who are/were in trump's circle (rudy guilliani, Sean spicer, Steve bannon) along with people like stormy Daniels and Michael Wolfe, and while their contributions are of course all framed by the programme makers the narrative itself is a pretty straightforward chronology of events. Their sense is that the new DG is very deliberately pushing for a more Conservative/tory friendly culture when it comes to current affairs programming, and specifically "more amenable to the telegraph" (that's a quote from the program maker, not the BBC!) Fwiw this person has made programmes for the BBC (and Channel 4) in the past and has never had to have had such a fight over balance/presentation and is really, really pissed off at the BBC right now for causing a poo poo load of stress at the last possible moment as well as the obvious politicisation
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jabby posted:https://twitter.com/AngelaRayner/status/1319698900069076994 In a deeply competitive field I think Ben Bradley still manages to stand out as a consistently repugnant tory. He's just so grating, which might be a deliberate culture wars-y schitck, but he's so offensively terrible about so many things
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goddamnedtwisto posted:He's also just so *thick*. Like he's an avatar of every "I reckon..." ever spoken in a pub. Yeah, this is a good way of putting it and part of why he's so grating. I think he's very much leaning into it (while still also being thick as poo poo) and does it all the time in every interaction so it comes across as an exaggerated version that even those pub bores would find tedious.
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She's not only nicked Ben Bradley's reality-defying "context" excuse but is using, word-for-word, the endlessly mocked non-apology cliche for good measure. She's not just appalling in her opinions, she's brazenly thick and/or spectacularly unoriginal as well: "The Guardian posted:She later said her comments had been taken out of context. “I of course deeply regret any offence which may have been caused,” she said.
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Good to see Ben Bradley's tactic of "deny the evidence of reality even as it is literally being presented for everyone to see" is something he has been honing for a few years now.
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Mugsbaloney posted:hey chaps just browsing RT today and imagine my shock at seeing this, everyone's favourite arbiter of truth, immortalised in film : https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bellingcat_truth_in_a_post_truth_world Initially mistook/misread RT as Russian Today, which was, uh, a bit jarring.
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mehall posted:It's be pretty easy to automate The Wee Wee* Frees: known for doing things the easy way * heh
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WhatEvil posted:Horrible news Condolences WhatEvil, that's gut wrenching to hear
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NotJustANumber99 posted:huger than what? Why are they obnoxious. The Tesla model X is more fuel efficient than any ICE car. I'm very confused by this post. You seem irritated at the suggestion that suvs are bigger than other cars and up to twice as heavy, so to refute this you ... post a list showing that suvs are bigger and up to twice as heavy as other cars.
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Sanford posted:Community woodland stuff Echoing killerwhat's post, this is a fantastic project and sounds awesome, well done! Also (maybe it's against the spirit of the thing?) I'm certain you'd be able to get bits and pieces of funding to help support this if you so wished, even though the informal arrangements might make things trickier in the short run. Your mention of it being Coal Board land immediately brought to mind the National Forest, which has small grants available, but even if that's not the right location for you this kind of community grassroots thing will appeal to a bunch of different funding organisations (community! woodlands! education! active lifestyles! family recreation! etc etc). This post Sanford posted:Hope people don't mind... is halfway to a small grants funding application already
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TheRat posted:Sir Keith is at it again. Wasn't nationalised broadband just about as popular a policy as it could possibly be? Random Integer posted:From what I remember it was simultaneously popular and also considered completely unfeasible and therefore a sign that Labour weren't fit to govern. I agree with Random Integers second point, but I see "labour's policy X was actually super popular" repeated a lot here, and it doesn't ring true, especially on this. I really think a lot of lefties, and UKMT in particular, have a bad habit of clinging to the odd poll that asks things like "would you like X?" as solid evidence that Y policy is actually incredibly popular and total vote winner. I did a lot of campaigning at the election (in and near Glasgow, for reference) and I have to say that I didn't meet anyone who thought it sounded like a good idea, outside of left wing labour voters. The most common objections to "free broadband" (which is how it was universally referred to) was just an obvious electoral bribe that was basically pointless "because broadband is only £15 a month anyway." It really tied into a lot of people's long standing perceptions of labour "giving sky TV to benefit cheats" as well as being something that self-identifying "sensible" people latched onto as a clear example of a specifically corbynist silly/unrealistic/extreme/stupid/not-sensible economic policy. It's a really good example of a decent policy being communicated pretty poorly and without much clear planning or responses to account for it easily feeding into pre-exisiting negative stereotypes as well as election specific narratives ("Labour's manifesto is just a hodge podge of giveaways").
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Sanford posted:Closing the schools just shines a light on awful poo poo that normally passes unnoticed. Depressingly, closing the schools is making a lot of awful poo poo go unnoticed that normally gets a light shone on it by teachers/attendance records/etc. There are a lot of kids who's only experience good quality of socialisation, stimulation and formal & informal education comes in and around school. Like learnincurve is getting at I'm a bit surprised at all the UKMTers who are giving off the impression that they think closing schools is no big deal and that keeping them open is entirely predicated on allowing people out to work with no other factors to be considered Like Sanford I'm not even sure what point I'm making and I'm not sure that keeping schools open is the right decision, but I'm pretty disappointed at the really simplistic picture some people are drawing here
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goddamnedtwisto posted:I'm so loving pleased I didn't bother to stay up to watch this shitshow. This is exactly how I'm feeling. Given that basically every election in the last 10+ years has been some flavour of utter poo poo, maybe I should just stop watching elections?
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Payndz posted:Biden: "Vote for me! I'm not Trump!" I'm sympathetic to this because, well, just look at Biden and the state of the Democrats, but the implicit argument that this clusterfuck of an election is a consequence of voter apathy isn't true at all: https://twitter.com/bpmehlman/status/1323950208477265921
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forkboy84 posted:A third of the electorate didn't vote. 66% turnout is not worth singing about It's not celebrating the turnout figures to say that voter apathy isn't a useful explanation because voters are less apathetic than previously.
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sinky posted:Actually it's a self propelled gun goddamnedtwisto posted:Isn't that a self-propelled gun rather than a tank? Brendan Rodgers posted:Hey it's a quite the difference, this is a tank: So...what is the difference between the two? Or is it too painfully boring to bother to know?
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Guavanaut posted:Do not take Jose's advice on anything
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Try eating a few. Cows or centrists? That adonis tweet seems like it should be a riff on Antichrist, but a) it doesn't make much sense in context and b) Adonis has never, ever shown any capacity for self parody
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Guavanaut posted:It's definitely a "better to reign in hell than serve the public in any way" statement. This checks out: Paradise Lost, Book 9, The Temptation Of Eve posted:Neerer he drew, and many a walk travers'd
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Guavanaut posted:Satan as neither the brightest angel of the Lord nor the Rebel who defies, but the centrist lib who insists that both extremes are wrong and that the truth sits in the middle is the true 2020 reading of Paradise Lost. Also checks out Paradise Lost, Book 9, Satan speaks to Eve posted:Thenceforth to Speculations high or deep
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Sanford posted:Aldi woman: You've forgot the pound in your trolley! Not only is this illegal but by writing it on the forums you've made us all culpable under Section 58 of the Terrorism Act 2000, "to collect or make a record of information of a kind likely to be useful to a person committing or preparing an act of terrorism, or to possess a document or record containing information of that kind. The maximum sentence in respect of s58 is 10 years' imprisonment." Mods?!
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Julio Cruz posted:I wish Biden and Harris were 1% as left-wing as the fash believe (or at least claim) they are Speaking of: quote:Congresswoman Abigail Spanberger, a moderate Democrat of Virginia, unloaded on some of her colleagues during a caucus call this afternoon, according to multiple reports. 1. The right wing gets the exact candidate they want 2. Candidate does poo poo 3. "Clearly the left wing of our party are to blame"
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therattle posted:Mayo and ketchup together is really good too. I was in a chippie today that boasted of serving a "frickled egg," which I can only assume is a deep fried pickled egg. Yet somehow, despite all reason and standards of taste, that abomination was not the worst food crime I've seen today
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Guavanaut posted:*that scene from Speed 2 but with Bangor crashing through Portpatrick* Samuel O'Jackson, putting Ireland into reverse at the finale: "I've had it with all those motherfucking snakes on that motherfucking landmass" OwlFancier posted:Knock down
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peanut- posted:Nick Rewcastle sounds instantly like a spoonerism  Rick Newcastle also sounds like a character from a Martin Amis novel
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peanut- posted:No this is what Wes wants to hear about Wait, what? From a quick skim of that Ajay guy's twitter feed he's just some random person who hasn't offered any interesting insights into the results or the election at all. Am I missing something, or is Wes just that impressed by vapid smugness that he wants to invite them to talk at the CLP?
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happyhippy posted:I liked Far Cry 5 for the environmental details they did. Each location has its own story, you could see the struggles, the blood stain, the blood trail, the normal family life they had before poo poo went down. As if they were crafted and not just random poo poo placed around to fill space. Nice touches like that, then again I like walking simulators and open world games. Environments I can stop and stare at are my thing. Do you have any other recommendations? I haven't played many games aside from football manager, civ and gta 4 for years, but got massively into rdr2 over lockdown and loved it. I tried ac: odyssey, but despite it being in theory exactly my poo poo (I mean, I read thucydides this summer...) it just seemed a bit, I dunno, thin and arcadey compared to rdr2. Is there anything else in the kinda open world exploring vein that has a similar slower paced vibe?
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