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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Well, this is less than ideal:

https://twitter.com/allisonmorris1/status/1455097892717436933?s=21

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/solhugheswriter/status/1454749733390622720?s=21

I mean, we all knew it, but we didn't know know it.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1455612648259735559?s=21

Stay as safe as you can, folks. This is getting worse before it's getting better.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

kingturnip posted:

Unsurprisingly, the Tories are planning to try to prevent Owen Paterson getting suspended for being corrupt:

Things like this are why I don't call them the Conservatives any more - because their reverence for tradition and precedent gets thrown right in the bin as soon as tradition and precedent starts to have a negative impact on them.
It also makes it pretty clear how many other MPs are doing exactly the same thing as Paterson but just haven't been caught yet.
And yeah, of course that ghoul Leadsom would be involved somewhere.

None of those regulatory bodies predate the cash-for-questions affair of 1995. This is absolutely about restoring the traditions and precedent of ordinary parliamentary conduct against more recent impositions, and bringing back the good old days when you could earn a bit of extra cash helping out your mates without people throwing around nasty words like 'corruption' or 'bribery'.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/lloyd_rm/status/1455954689669926919?s=21

LRM is mildly notorious as one of the most melty members of the Socialist Campaign Group, but he did a very good thing here.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Guavanaut posted:

20 April - Watched an awful video about an ogre who wallows in his own turds and makes all Scots look bad.

6 May - Suspended him from Labour

lol if you think the Labour disciplinary process works anywhere near that fast.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
https://twitter.com/lewisjwarner/status/1456267869084274693?s=21

Looks like this was actually just him throwing a tantrum and storming off after being asked to face consequences for once.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Szmitten posted:

Did Lowtax seriously loving die on Remembrance Day.

Guess the forums really were his phylactery after all.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

keep punching joe posted:

Ah when the British right forget that the general public are on the whole miserable cunts who hate the idea that someone else might be catching a break at their expense .

It's the economy, stupid.

Seriously, though, this is the sort of mindset that only really mainstreams in a rentier economy based around securing ownership of scarce, high-value assets and then charging people to use them. 'gently caress off, we're full' is the battlecry of a country that's stagnated so long and so hard that it's started to like it.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

ThomasPaine posted:

How the gently caress did that moron manage to die at 45

e: please quote this when I also die in my 40s lol

For anyone else wondering - it's fairly grim, so I'll spoiler it:

LadyAmbien posted:

I have been sitting for hours debating whether or not to disclose this, and I feel like it's something I do need to get off of my chest.
Frankly, I'm tried of being quiet. I've mostly had to stay quiet for years about things happening behind the scenes. I've held things inside so long and so hard my chest physically hurt the same way it is now.

I considered not sharing this out of respect for Rich's parents and sister, but after thinking on the incredibly vitriolic wall of text Rich's Mother sent to me this morning, saying upon many other things, that his blood is on my hands, I need to share it to regain some sense of control over what's taken place in the past 48 hours.

Yesterday I recieved a divorce ruling that would help me and my daughter stay in our home in Canada and allow me to provide a good life for her as well as pay back numerous debts that had accrued during the past two years when I was receiving $350 a month in child support.

In the divorce ruling the judge found that Rich had willfully spent down the martial fund, confirmed his treatment of me was Domestic Violence and put together a plan to pay for the attorney fees etc. He would still retain custody settled on previously in mediation. He was due to get our daughter for Christmas.

An hour later I was contacted by my attorney who informed me that Rich had shot himself earlier in the morning.

So. There it is.
His other ex and I got to tell our children that their father died without saying goodbye to them, or that he loved them, or to my knowledge, left a note for them.

If you've made it this far thank you for giving me space to let this go so I know longer have to hold onto it.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

The Perfect Element posted:

I find the BBC going after LGBT people really baffling. Like, I thought that battle was won. We like gay people now.

I would have thought it would make more sense to weaponise them against scroungers, immigrants and lefties.

The UK's a rentier state, so whenever we get too tolerant of trans people, the old money steps in to protect strict male primogeniture.

https://twitter.com/femme_thoughts/status/1458479790068047878?s=21

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

therattle posted:

I think if Murdoch made a suggestion to me while “dandling” my child on his knee I’d take it as a blood-chilling threat.

It's Johnson. He has spares.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Bobby Deluxe posted:

After an unfortunate autocorrect error, we have instituted fully automated luxury catholicism.

The path to 40K continues apace.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

OwlFancier posted:

Thank you for the horrific concept of a politics themed brothel, which is now in my head and also everyone in it has alistair darling's eyebrows.

Isn't that just... a brothel? They've always played a major role in national politics.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Ravel posted:

The YouGov polls seem to indicate it's much more strongly associated with age than with wealth. Labour loses in all income brackets and NRS social grade class.

NRS has been horribly outdated for decades. We're a service economy now. The working class doesn't look like that any more.

Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012

Failed Imagineer posted:

That's appropriate for the navy though

Hey now, the British Navy may have many faults, but rum, sodomy and the lash are three things it famously never skimps on.

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Darth Walrus
Feb 13, 2012
Mainly posting this because holy hell, he's put on weight. He's got a proper pear-shaped face now. Genuinely astonishing how fast his personal appearance has gone downhill.

https://twitter.com/keir_starmer/status/1464988311337029646?s=21

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