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goddamnedtwisto posted:So the Queen *has* to be - at the very least - on her way out, right? The rumour was always that Blair never got the knighthood that used to be part of the pension for retiring PMs because the Queen loving hates him, and they've even moved the announcement forward 4 months. The Queen may hate Blair personally but his legacy at this point has ensured that she isn't the last ruling monarch of the UK so he is owed it due to direct service to the monarch and monarchy.
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crispix posted:so official covid policy is now let 'er rip, eh The SAGE documents were pretty stark - the government needed to increase measures on the 28th of December and keep them in place until February or March to make a dent in the case rate and the resulting consequences so they didn't pull the trigger and now we're all on Bojos Wild Adventure.
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The UK has our own scheme about reporting health issues after vaccination including the covid ones called Yellow Card. Perhaps it would be better using our figures considering the vast health and vaccine differences between the UK and USA? https://www.gov.uk/government/publi...-card-reporting
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Jan 6, 2022 14:56
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A party for renters against landlords, public entertainment venues against megachains, more and better public green spaces and for increased public transportation across the country. It's called the House Party and all members have to hold a can or glass of unidentified liquid whenever they're giving a televised interview or statement.
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ThomasPaine posted:Or would they be designed to be fired specifically by mobile infantry? You fire it from the back of a land rover and then hoof it in the opposite direction? Actually they were famously fired from a helicopter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LzVIWiiHEw
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serious gaylord posted:Also call me cynical but this has clearly been announced now to try and distract the blue tick brigade from Johnson and his partys. Oh yeah the raft of things coming out is all Operation Save Big Dog, it's just unfortunate that they matter independantly of that as well. Ending the licence fee is set for after the next election so that's something they can 'worry' about come manifesto time but more military ships patrolling the channel doing pushbacks or whatever else is planned is very bad now.
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Jan 16, 2022 18:10
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The various liberal people and groups mourning the BBC are more than welcome to try to organise some method of saving it and if they find they need the support of the left to make any sort of impact then alls the better as they'll have to make some sort of effort to attract us to the campaign, some carrot about how the BBC would operate in future to make it worthwhile. Until then though I'm openly neutral to the end of the BBC, it's a shame on the cultural and educational fronts but this is political and it's simply not a good thing to have socialists bending themselves into all kind of knots defending liberal institutions which are coldly neutral at best to leftwing politics. Anyway, hopefully the proposal wasn't enough to get the press off Johnsons back and he'll still get driven out.
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Jan 17, 2022 19:33
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It's use to mean 'aware of structural bigotry driven by society and class interest' was good for a time but much like 'fake news' the overarching capitalist liberal paradigm of western society rendered the concept powerless as capitalism relies on those mechanisms too much to ever allow structural critiques to establish themselves. Once the phrase was popular the liberals had to make it toothless and superficial and so the right wing then overpowered that to their own ends and so woke is now just the new PC - minorities exist in popular consciousness with semi-independant existences and clout and that's bad.
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Pistol_Pete posted:What does the thread think of the Breakthrough Party? I want to start putting some energy into politics again, are they basically ok? They seem no worse than the various other reformist left groups. The problem is why will they do better than the various other reformist left groups?
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