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CGI Stardust posted:
Just imagine the savings if the Guardian cut loose their stable of identikit, overpaid, 'centrist' opinion havers. And the paper might actually become readable again.
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feedmegin posted:I'm not surprised. My parents live up that way and it's Old People Central, very Leave supporting iirc. People round there are largely more likely to align with UKIP than anyone socialist. Yeah, Morecambe is where the oldies who fancy a cottage in the Lake District but can't afford it move to.
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Jose posted:i'm aware. thinking of going after 9pm when it'll be really quiet at least I'm going at 5am tomorrow, before the germs have woken up.
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GW's success has obliged the FT to report on it from time to time and they always do it with ill-concealed irritation that a business selling little plastic space dolls has become one of the runaway investing success stories of the decade. I wish I'd invested in GW back in 2013.
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I've been thinking of buying a bunch of GW kit myself tbh, might as well paint some Orks while I have nothing better to do with my time 
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kingturnip posted:Moshé Machover is described as an Israel-born anti-Zionist, which is wording that suggests to me that he isn't Jewish as such Wikipedia posted:Moshé Machover (Hebrew: משה מחובר; born 1936) is a mathematician, philosopher, and socialist activist, noted for his writings against Zionism. Born to a Jewish family in Tel Aviv, then part of the British Mandate of Palestine, Machover moved to Britain in 1968 where he became a naturalised citizen. Jaeluni Asjil posted:Embedded in the link is a copy of the letter sent by the Labour Party to Machover which he is supposed to address the 'evidence'. I'm quite genuinely shocked. Yeah, that is shocking and creepy as gently caress. It's blatantly a campaign to push Jewish people with inconvenient beliefs out of the party. loving Starmer, what a shitstain.
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Hey, I never voted for Starmer but I attended his 1st Zoom call as party leader, along with 7000 other members and was broadly impressed with him - he seemed sincere, grounded and genuine about wanting to unite the party and move forwards after our election defeat. Fast-forward 8 months and I've left the party and dislike and utterly mistrust the man, it's been quite the wild ride. It IS impressive just how badly he's screwed up his initial task - uniting the party and providing a clear sense of direction - and just how short a time frame he's managed all that in.
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Dec 4, 2020 15:55
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Yeah, I voted for RLB, although with some reluctance: I thought she was the best of an underwhelming bunch but lacked the force and drive to really take charge of the party. Her reaction to being sacked for that tweet just confirmed my opinion of her, obediently scurrying off out of the public eye without making any attempt to fight such an obvious injustice against her.
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Be careful about placing too much weight on PMQ's - the pundits love it but the general public neither watch nor care about it (I think the tv audience is 250,000 people or something). Starmer can clobber Johnson as much as he likes at the despatch box - nobody's noticing it and it doesn't translate into polling gains for Labour.
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Julio Cruz posted:any consequences of Brexit will be blamed on the EU punishing us for daring to leave Yep, this will be the common right-wing media theme throughout 2021.
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My experience of office work: "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" "Have you got a minute?" My experience of home working: *blissful silence* I know which one I prefer.
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Dec 6, 2020 22:08
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Being repeatedly held up by vague, unfocused people faffing around helplessly in whatever bit of the shop you need to be in is central to the supermarket experience. They're the retail equivalent of those country roads where there's always someone doing 20 under the limit in front of you and touching their brakes every time they see a car on the other side of the road and there's no safe spot to overtake them.
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Dec 8, 2020 14:17
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Not our independent deterrent!! Actually, losing our 'independent' nuclear weapons because the US decided it wasn't going to supply or support them any more would cause some hilarious cognitive dissonance among the flag-waving sector of the population.
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WAR CRIME GIGOLO posted:So what happens in 2 weeks? Will we see the boris government toppled if they can't negotiate a trade deal? There's a rare Unherd article (rare in that it doesn't immediately make you want to claw your eyes out for reading it) that points out that Boris Johnson is actually doing pretty well. His electoral coalition is holding together, the Tories are polling unusually strongly for a parry that's been in office so long, Johnson's personal ratings are improving and Keir Starmer has failed to provide a strong and visible alternative political offer. https://unherd.com/2020/12/why-boris-is-still-beating-labour/ quote:Some will say that nobody outside of SW1 really knows who Keir Starmer is, or what he believes. And I do think that in our heart of hearts we all know that there is something missing — there is just not much charisma, much va-va-voom.
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Dec 11, 2020 12:24
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NHS rivalries: Doctors/ nurses Psychologists/ psychiatrists Midwives/ Obstetricians ... Pharmacists/ clinical scientists!?
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In funnier news: https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2020/dec/11/starmer-urged-to-start-cooperating-with-lib-dems-if-he-wants-labour-to-win quote:Keir Starmer is being urged to lay the groundwork for cooperating with the Liberal Democrats and Greens at the next general election, by MPs and campaigners who argue the party will struggle to win a majority alone.
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The Guardian puts a lot of effort into selling its image as a fair-minded, progressive and all round decent newspaper. The shine comes off as soon as you start to dig in to how it actually works and what it actually does but most people don't do that.
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When Rod Liddle joined Labour, it was probably the Tony Blair, Sensible Centrist Establishment version of Labour that he joined.
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To what extent do you think that Corbyn's Peace and Justice movement is a warning shot across Starmer's bows? I was just thinking what an obvious potential nucleus for a new left-wing party it is and whether that's a deliberate thing.
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therattle posted:I am still baffled as to why they went so strongly anti-Corbyn, as I now recognise they did. The Guardian's gimmick is earnestly calling for reform, while secretly being perfectly content with the status quo. They were visibly horrified when Corbyn popped up all eager to actually muck in and start changing stuff.
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cant cook creole bream posted:When will we officially know that any chance of a Brexit deal is over? January first? They seem to keep extending that final deadline. Eh, it'll happen one way or the other, although we may need a few weeks of no-deal chaos to concentrate people's minds sufficiently first. Here's a good FT article explaining why there'll be a deal at the end of all this: The Financial Times posted:And so we stumble onwards. The extension of trade talks between the EU and the UK should not be a surprise. For all Boris Johnson’s bravado about “prospering mightily”, the British prime minister knows that a “no deal” Brexit would be disastrous for the country. The EU would also suffer, but not nearly as much. So there will probably be a deal struck before the end of the year; if not, soon afterwards.
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Eat the broccoli, Owlfancier!
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Bone Crimes posted:That latter group I understand (clear US parallels), but its the middle group (It will be sorted by Boris in 2020) group that I just don't get. Ah well. I guess I'll join in the popcorn crew watching the destruction? It's been the last day to avert a disastrous no-deal Brexit every day for the past few years now and everyone's just grown numb to it.
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I'd also suggest stocking up on basic toiletries. You hear plenty of people worrying about having no pasta; rather fewer worrying about having no deoderant. I mean, it sounds petty compared to other stuff but you'll miss it if you run out.
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You'll regret that comment when you're bidding £50 for that last can of Brut on sale on Ebay.
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OwlFancier posted:How can you say the people of the british isles are not free spirited. He's lucky to be alive - I looked on the map and it's like, 30 miles across open ocean (and shipping lanes). I didn't know jet skis had that much petrol!
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Oh, I'm sure it's real enough, it's just not the reason why they're now frantically tightening the rules up.
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Jose posted:volunteering to do covid vaccines so i can give myself a mega dose instead Like an old fashioned comic where the greedy kid eats all the pies, except the other volunteers come into the room to find Jose sat happily on the floor with 100 hypodermics stuck in him. "Thanks guys, that box of vaccinations was deee-licious!"
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I'd already told my parents I'd be staying home this Xmas, 'cos I knew this was going to happen.
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Eh, I think a lot of people are incredibly miserable right now and have been clinging on to Xmas as something to look forward to at the end of the year. Having even that suddenly yanked away at the last minute is hugely upsetting for them.
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Dec 20, 2020 09:08
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My own feeling is there's no point stocking more than a few week's worth of emergency supplies - in any situation where the food supply chain breaks down for longer than that, we'd be into Mad Max territory anyway and you'd be better off putting the energy into designing your bondage leather Raider outfit.
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Is all this 'panic buying' honestly any different to a normal Xmas? I seem to remember you get idiots franticly stocking up on bread, eggs and milk every year to fend off the disaster of all the shops being closed for one day.
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Dec 21, 2020 13:52
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crispix posted:sir queef came on my tv set last night and he is still putting up little signs that say "A NEW LEADERSHIP" all around Every Starmer interview seems to go like this: Interviewer: "Labour are poo poo, aren't they." Starmer: "Why yes, Labour are poo poo and I'm most dreadfully sorry about that. I can only promise that, under my leadership, the party will be far more bland and undemanding in the future." Really whips up public enthusiasm for getting out there and voting Labour.
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Jose posted:who the gently caress is his speech writer lmao The guy in the other Tweet you posted described his speech as being full of empty platitudes and yep. It comes off as being a bit cargo culty: a strong successful leader would give a speech on the Union at this point in their leadership, so Starmer had better do that. Who cares if its meaningless and rather annoys the people who its supposedly aimed at: a Speech has been Made and that's what matters.
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Jose posted:when you've definintely not lost so many members you're realising you've poo poo the bed It's so lame and uninspiring I'm back to wondering if they're doing it all on purpose.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:mint Matchmakers I normally only eat those once a year, after xmas dinner and then wish that I hadn't.
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Comrade Fakename posted:It’s pretty funny how all the papers are praising Boris even though they have no idea what the deal is, because it’s obvious they’re just patronising him into not destroying the country (and more importantly its ability to sustain newspapers). They'd probably been briefed to announce it this morning, as an Xmas eve boost for Boris but it's been delayed again, so they're having to work with what they've got. After having it sat in my Steam library for a couple of years, I'm finally playing The Forest. It's suprisingly fun but the dark caves are too scary for me 
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Merry Christmas! I am having slow cooked beef stew with dumplings today. I reject the tyranny of Xmas roasts.
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Just Another Lurker posted:
I refuse to believe Baileys has existed since the 1990's.
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