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Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

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though Neil himself has said merely that it will serve the “vast number of British people who feel underserved and unheard”, arguing elsewhere that “the direction of news debate in Britain is increasingly woke and out of touch with the majority of its people”.
One of my friends made the observation on Facebook that "any time someone gets angry and rants about something being 'woke', remember that it's effectively a synonym for 'decent'."

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Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
A couple of years ago I had to take my young son to hospital. We arrived about 9pm and didn't leave until after 4am because there was one (1) doctor on shift to do paediatric consultations, and he was splitting his time between the children's ward and somewhere else. There were only two nurses, one of whom was training a student and the other was also on call in another part of the hospital. A Czech couple was there with their kid too, and they were absolutely horrified that yep, that was the staff, and there was no way to speed things up or call anyone else in.

The NHS is one of the greatest things this country has ever created. Imagine - you never, ever need to worry about how you'll pay for a doctor! But it's being systematically and deliberately hollowed out and crippled by a bunch of parasitic ghouls out of pure greed and selfishness. Makes me so angry, but right now there's literally no way to stop the process short of a socialist revolution, and that ain't happening.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!
Starmer and the rest of the Labour right seem to have the attitude of "the system is absolutely fine as it stands, we just want a turn running it." All the cronyism and corruption is a feature, not a bug, and they feel they deserve to get their beaks wet too.

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

multijoe posted:

SLIGHTLY LEFT WING PARTY
Boy, I'm shocked that the party now led by a literal knight of the realm and member of the Trilateral Commission, a body which exists entirely to boost the interests of global capital, and also cop-loving, minor-benefit-fraud-prosecuting-without-mercy former DPP under the Coalition, is opposed to taxing the rich!

Small Strange Bird
Sep 22, 2006

Merci, chaton!

knox_harrington posted:

Also the Swiss are loving terrible drivers.
Oh, gently caress yes. I did a load of travelling around Europe a few years back, and my takeaways were:

• The Spanish words for 'driving' and 'tailgating' are the same
• The Italians use the white lines on the autostrada as guides - for the centreline of their car, like it's a Scalextric slot
• The Swiss drive as if they own the road. As in, "What the gently caress are you doing on my road, peasant? Get out of my way or I will kill you with my Audi Q7"

Everywhere else seemed pretty chill. And French motorways are great. Need to pull over? There's a nice aire within five minutes. None of this "26 miles to the next lovely Moto" crap.

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