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crispix posted:Annaliese Dodds went on TV yesterday and the only point she kind of made was that it's rude of Rishi to put up corporation taxes because he might be able to lower them again before an election and that's not fair lol I saw her on Marr over breakfast yesterday and gently caress me she's a non-entity. No charisma, no presence, no ideas, no ability to read the mood of the electorate, just nothing. Of course, she attended the same school as Michael Gove (Robert Gordon College in Aberdeen), love that meritocracy.
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josh04 posted:Unite aren't actively doing anything, it's just a natural outcome of having successfully defended their members. They'll be funding Labour's defence in the same way as ever, via the big sum they pay to fund Labour as a whole. Though it is worth remembering that Unite did cut their contribution to the Labour coffers. (At least I think it was Unite?) I'm happy to say despite being a left libertarian I'd prefer Tankies in charge to Tories.
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MikeCrotch posted:Unite have not made any voluntary donations since Starmer became leader but still pay affiliation dues (though they cut that as well iirc) Cracking. Even better than I remembered. And makes disaffiliation even easier.
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https://twitter.com/alexnunns/status/1366406062627319809?s=20kustomkarkommando posted:The lead candidate to replace McCluskey as GS has talked a lot more about attempting to repair relations with the Labour right and retreat from the open hostility and frankly he's probably gonna win (considering he's nominated by the united left slate). Disappointing to hear Coyne is the favourite to win. That's terrible.
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That Harry Cole ends up doing PR for Boris so much is one of the few things in our press that is enjoyable. What a loving loser.
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josh04 posted:https://twitter.com/NickCohen4/status/1366712420547313664 Has he tried artificially generating an antisemitism scandal? That worked well on the last party leader Nick and his colleagues in the press didn't like.
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Private Speech posted:It's funny how ineffectual the Labour shadow government is even when "holding the government to account". Poor Jon has bigger worries, what with his wife owing ~£120,000 in legal fees now
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peanut- posted:I have some sympathy for Labour in that even if Sunak is trying to raise taxes, he’s not doing it to drive public spending and investment. So make that case. Don't just mew tax rises bad. Argue for an increase in the top band of income tax while lowering VAT or another regressive flat tax. Something, anything. Take a loving stand.
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Mar 3, 2021 12:11
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Comrade Fakename posted:From the USPOL thread (it's about the BBC): Whom amongst us hasn't accidentally got a random bloke confused with a reasonably a prominent politician on our beat?
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Mar 3, 2021 13:45
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Jedit posted:The political class don't believe it at all. It's a convenient fiction to support the narrative they want. And the media, well, it's in the air as to whether the tail wags the dog. But if they're not complicit they're compliant. Simon Jack might. He is after all an independent school educated PPE doer at Oxford and we all know the PPE is basically brain poison that teaches more about bluffing it than understanding anything.
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Mar 3, 2021 16:43
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Hasn't New Scientist been a bit poo poo for years?
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Jose posted:I don't see why sturgeon would resign when its clearly been shown nobody gives a poo poo Because the fearsome Scottish Tory leader Douglas Ross told her to of course!
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Mar 3, 2021 18:24
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More people need to say gently caress you Paul Mason.
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Mar 4, 2021 00:56
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VideoGames posted:I want to join a union but am not sure what the best one is. Has anyone had any experience with GMB or something similar? Usually the first step is to join the union that has recognition in your workplace if there is one. If not try this https://findyourunion.tuc.org.uk/ Also consider joining the IWW as a supplement to that. Always good to have someone more radical in your corner.
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Gorn Myson posted:Awesome, another debate about the political alignment and loyalties of Glenn Greenwald, I haven't seen enough of these online lately. Glenn Greenwald is a man who is absolutely not worth the amount of words written about him. He was always a libertarian which is pretty bad even if it makes him better than neoliberals on certain areas like civil liberties & global forever war, & like many libertarians he's gotten a bit too close to the sun & the glue has melted & now he is if not a fascist then still very comfortable around fascists. That said, claiming he's a Strasserite is reductionist drivel, as is the case 99% of the time someone labels someone a Strasserite as if it as a term as any meaning whatsoever. Darth Walrus posted:You could click through and read the article. It contains gems like this: I mean, the Attlee government wasn't exactly opening up the borders. (Well, it kind of did to Commonwealth citizens as an unintended consequence of the British Nationality Act 1948 but only 3,000 per year were coming in 1953 so I'm not counting it) There's always been an element of the socialist movement, often closest to trade unions, which regards immigration purely as driving down wages & a negative unfortunately, hardly restricted to just NazBols or Strasserites.
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Mar 5, 2021 15:19
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It's not just the trans posters who think Vitamin P is a oval office. Good to see he's been banned from The Minority Rapport sub since I last read his rapsheet Just put the trash on ignore, report him, all you or i can do unfortunately
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stev posted:What does the P stand for anyway? oval office (He's not very smart)
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The Goon fear of the ignore button is something I have never understood, as someone who didn't sign up here until after I'd had over a decade of posting on other forums behind me. It just saves you from seeing boring people being boring.
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Mar 7, 2021 01:59
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Labour shadow ministers unable to say they support strike action sure makes me proud to have left the Labour Party.
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Mar 7, 2021 11:38
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feedmegin posted:I mean its just back to Miliband, remember 'these strikes are wrong at a time when negotiations are going on' ? Yes, & I was pretty proud not to be a Labour member back then. Hell, I'd never voted for Labour before Corbyn was leader.
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Mar 7, 2021 11:51
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ThomasPaine posted:Went to Aldi today, totally riddled. People standing around nattering in the aisles with some pal they've bumped into. Huge family groups with like 5 kids running amok. Maybe I am being unreasonable but the most annoying people of all are the maskless dickheads with their sunflower lanyards. I would have some small measure of respect for someone just refusing to wear one and fronting it out, but the way they proudly show off their super special snowflake permission slip from the teacher really really gets to me, as if to say I'm the rear end in a top hat for getting frustrated with them and they need everyone to understand just how fragile and vulnerable they are and how everyone needs to be super nice and considerate to them. gently caress off, there is not a single condition on the planet that prevents you wearing a bit of fabric on your face for a few minutes, grow the gently caress up. There are people with one lung and COPD who need oxygen just to get up a flight of stairs who manage. It's totally bizarre to me that any medical professional is indulging this garbage. Eh, people with serious anxiety can have problems with their mouth being covered. Theoretically, autistic people might struggle too. Seems a bit of an over-reaction.
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OwlFancier posted:It is increasingly difficult to have a fun environment when there simply isn't anything to be happy about. There is no worthwhile political advocacy, there is no improvement, there is only everything getting worse all of the time. This hits the nail on the head. There's not a lot of hope floating about between the pandemic and lockdown and the economy worsening and the Tories looking comfortable and the opposition being non existent and so on. We probably all could be more charitable in our reading each other's posts, especially me. I can only say I'll try but sometimes you just want to scream into the void What happened to at least being funny if you buy avs for people? This is just a boring twat.
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Mebh posted:I've just retreated into video games. I've mostly lost interest in games lately, kind of blows. I should really go back to Persona 4 Golden sometime. Or Yakuza 4. But mostly I'm watching more wrestling than ever and being nerdy about it by keeping a poorly constructed spreadsheet with info of all the shows I've watched in 2021 and all the matches and my ratings of them all. I wish I'd also kept a list of all the lengths of matches so I could know how many days I've spent in 3 months watching fake fighting. For whatever reason it's my go to when I've got 2-3 hours to kill. But whatever you enjoy, innit? Well, within reason.
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multijoe posted:You're going to be in more danger than Meghan Markle when they find you've been leaking group secrets to this demon wheat cracker forum Aye, careful driving through tunnels.
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Random Integer posted:Anyone who watched the interview what was Harry & Megs opinion on Warhams? Hazza likes putting Great Unclean One miniatures up his bum & then when removes them tittering "now you really are unclean"
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You're well within your rights to tell me to gently caress off after spending the last year bitching about people still in the Labour Party, but the Labour Holyrood candidate for Glasgow Kelvin has been removed as the candidate because she supports independence. Furthermore, the Scottish Executive Committee intend to impose a candidate. So if you're still a Labour member, & want to see a socialist candidate not get shitcanned for not agreeing with the party leaders on a constitutional issue, sign the entirely pointless petition: https://twitter.com/KelvinLabour/status/1369283490114572294?s=20 It's seems pretty loving shoddy behaviour from ScotLab, which is to be expected at this point, but what stands out is it's loving pointless. Labour actually finished 3rd in this constituency in 2016. But to leapfrog the SNP & Greens, you'd think they'd realise having a pro-indy candidate in a constituency that voted 60% to leave the union wouldn't be the worst idea. But no, ScotLab are incapable of learning.
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https://twitter.com/PeterKGeoghegan/status/1369291520214458368?s=20 loving hell that is a stupid idea
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Total Meatlove posted:It’s actually rather lovely, around 20% cheaper than equivalent sized properties on the mainland, has lots of lovely sunshine and is getting an island wide fibre to the home rollout that should allow for better telecommuting. Historically some issues with education but i think they’re improving. Would rather move to Ryde than Portsea or anywhere in Southampton tbh. Full of Tories though
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Grape posted:People know the Greek monarchy wasn't like, actually Greek right. Yes, every royal family in Europe is German except the Spanish and Swedes who are French. But the House of Schleswig-Holstein-Sonderburg-Glücksburg went to Greece starting in 1862 so really they aren't actually German anymore than your average Bostonian is Irish because their great granny migrated. The Greeks overthrew the previous German monarch (from the Bavarian Wittelsbach house who are the Jacobite claimants to the British crown now) and the National Assembly ended up picking the son of the Danish king. So actually they chose their German/Danish monarch for some reason. The ways of monarchists are inscrutable
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thespaceinvader posted:Zeno hours contract where you are always approaching, but never actually reach, enough hours to actually pay your rent with money to save for a deposit. So what's a Zemo hours contract? When your lovely boss has a mask glued to their face?
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Darth Walrus posted:https://twitter.com/peterayersbfg/status/1360507311249326082?s=21 Sits around wanking into the flag hoping it'll get him votes but won't even buy British whisky.
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Angepain posted:The comedy value of 650 MPs trying to squeeze into a chamber with 129 individual separate seats might be worth it though. everyone pretend you would find it really convincing Jacob is very smart, nanny said so.
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Angepain posted:e: papa roach have two releases worth of greatest hits? My joke was going to be "some cheek releasing a record with just one song on it" but then I noticed it's the second greatest hits so god only knows. Nu-metal is inscrutable.
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Junior G-man posted:New pod's out for your weekend enjoyment: NFTs? Neo Feudal Technocracy mate
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https://twitter.com/Mr_Considerate/status/1370713754959183876?s=20 This is hilarious. The Indy has found someone claiming to be a Marquess of Annaville, a title that doesn't exist, & they clearly couldn't even be arsed checking.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KeQY9-fYYpA When the Political Editor of the Sunday Times does a better job holding the filth to account than the Leader of the Opposition. gently caress you Smithers you worthless little turd.
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therattle posted:“Mistakes were made. Lessons will be learned”. Always in the loving passive voice. “Mistakes” were made by whom exactly? Mistake was not abolishing the police. The lesson learned is we really should abolish the police.
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Jippa posted:https://www.ft.com/content/dc2aaf68-b92e-4c48-8823-e7e4648ccb74 Opium War Part III baby! This time the Chinese force us to buy all their smack
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