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NotJustANumber99 posted:what inspired your username? I had a shock a few years ago when I realised it was now plausible that I might have been born in '04 and posting online and I would have to clarify.
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Johnny Mercer has been relieved of his position as Minister for Having a Normal One, but lest anyone question his commitment to the cause:
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Sep 6, 2022 18:42
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It's like imaginary numbers, multiplying a centre-right party with a centre-right party gets you a progressive alliance.
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Sep 7, 2022 16:49
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clear poo water between us and labour
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Sep 7, 2022 17:57
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Anyone know how long the Queen would be at Balmoral in the case where she lies in state there for a while?
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Sep 8, 2022 15:21
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FishBulbia posted:This is reminding me of when Abe was "alive" in the hospital with no vital signs for 7 hours. They're certainly not making any serious moves to reassure people that she's not dead.
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Sep 8, 2022 16:05
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smellmycheese posted:Christ. Brandreth’s arrived Speaking on the Queen without hesitation, repetition or deviation. NotJustANumber99 posted:Can we get the UK threads made black and white? I've taken the liberty of forwarding this one to the admins for maximum #respect
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Sep 8, 2022 21:23
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Mega Comrade posted:You know she had no say in any of that right? The evils of the empire of the last few centuries has nothing to do with our royal family, we would have done all those atrocities regardless. Actually I think we can say that the evils of the British Empire are directly connected to the British Monarchy? I think it's incredibly easy to say that and really very ridiculous to say otherwise?
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Sep 9, 2022 09:13
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Nothingtoseehere posted:If the Queen had come back from Aden demanding that the empire was awful and Aden should be freed, she would have been ignored. And as the British Empire pulled out of Aden, her demands to stay and keep the british army involved to pacify the country would have similarly been ignored. The British Empire was not controlled by the monarchy, and pretending the Queen is the source of that evil is just sparing the politicians and establishment which did perpetuate the Empire. Who is "the establishment" here if it doesn't include the Queen and the Royal Family?
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Sep 9, 2022 09:39
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feedmegin posted:And be abolished two minutes later. That just isn't how our monarchy works. This is one of those things that's drummed into you as absolutely fundamental to the British state but it's just not true. Can you actually imagine, for instance, Boris Johnson tearfully informing the country that he was severing all ties to the Royals? quote:First the newspaper reported that her private lawyer pushed the British government into an amendment that helped hide her wealth in 1973, on a law relating to transparency in companies. https://www.newsweek.com/queen-elizabeth-accused-lobbying-uk-government-royal-consent-1567864
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Sep 9, 2022 12:18
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darkwasthenight posted:I think my favourite bit is that this clearly wasn't an overnight job, so somebody has been storing it somewhere in prep. That's a rapidly repurposed Platinum Jubilee post box topper.
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Sep 10, 2022 09:36
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https://twitter.com/standardnews/status/1569270901685862403 Got to say, this stuff absolutely boils my piss. Sick country.
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Sep 12, 2022 12:10
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Don't even need to click the tweet to know that someone will have photoshopped that in the replies already.
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Sep 12, 2022 15:16
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Zero instinct for self-preservation, we love to see it.
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Sep 13, 2022 19:38
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If only there was a way to limit entrance to an event other than having everyone who wants to do it stand in one big line. Oh well we'll never know.
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Sep 14, 2022 16:22
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Had a gander at the queue down on the South Bank this morning. Pretty dull, not even any people selling Queen memorabilia out of a tray.
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Sep 15, 2022 10:23
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"I can't believe the functions of this literal monarchy aren't more egalitarian!"
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Sep 15, 2022 12:53
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Scientastic posted:How do you close a queue? Are they going to have police at the end of the queue, telling people to gently caress off? What do they plan on doing if people ignore them? Can you be arrested for standing on a street in London? So many queuestions You need to get a wristband to stand in the queue. Yesterday when I came past they were preventing people from joining the actual end of the queue and making them do a short length of extra queue route that didn't have anyone in it first. And yes, an army of stewards and cops.
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Sep 16, 2022 11:19
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Cooking up a contrived "hollow plinth" theory about how they're keeping the Queen safe while she's nominally on display. Think the earthquake bed.
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Sep 16, 2022 22:20
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That's the ticket.
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Sep 16, 2022 22:29
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crispix posted:i'm really worried that i've still not seen a ladybird since i realised i hadn't seen a ladybird in years a fair while ago I moved into a new flat at the start of the year and for the first few weeks it was rammed with them. So that's where they've been, my flat.
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Sep 17, 2022 01:19
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Tired: Independent Scotland Wired: 
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Sep 17, 2022 12:57
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InspectorCarbonara posted:I would absolutely vote for the current labour party if they were led by a cursed suit of armour. Ser Robert Stong is the sensible leadership this country needs.
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Sep 19, 2022 11:31
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If it's any solace, this government's power to do anything but chip away at the ediface that bears it is likely to be very similar to that of the last two governments. Late and somewhat inadequate responses to crises and little else besides.
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Sep 20, 2022 00:38
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Yeah but who's deciding to watch a live funeral on catch-up?
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Sep 21, 2022 11:37
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A regency council of other children seems counterproductive though.
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Sep 21, 2022 19:13
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Will Labour whip to abstain, that's the question.
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Sep 23, 2022 13:03
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Love that the pamphlet has David Evans' name on it.
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Sep 25, 2022 12:30
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It's very efficiently letting people know who you are, to be fair.
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Sep 26, 2022 10:42
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smellmycheese posted:Who had money on another Tory leadership contest before Xmas? I've been telling people I didn't expect Truss to last particularly long but I can't say I was expecting this. Very funny that they ran that huge leadership contest with TV debates and pundits and all that and the prize might be getting an Admiral Dönitz-length term.
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Sep 26, 2022 12:05
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Bobstar posted:What's the name of that comic with the small girl with the black spiky hair? She's got a friend with a flat cap I think. Nancy, of banker.bmp fame.
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Sep 26, 2022 12:10
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forkboy84 posted:I really hope Brittania unchained is on Libgen. I want to read it but would never ever buy it It's on this dodgy pdf download website.  Weird thoughts.
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Sep 26, 2022 12:42
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Ash Crimson posted:people are dying and this is what you say to me?? You're still posting when you could be laying out granaries.
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Sep 26, 2022 13:27
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Darth Walrus posted:OK, walk me through this. Why is bond yields getting more profitable a sign of economic meltdown, and what mechanism makes them more profitable? Not a section of macroeconomics I'm super versed in. Apparently it means people are willing to take a loss to get rid of them because they believe the interest rate is going up.
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William Bear posted:Thanks, IMF. Thimf.
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Hobo posted:Oh and the thing that’s really comically dumb is that pretty much everyone in every income tax bracket is going to be poorer as a result of all this, so even the premise of people spending more money is just not a thing that will happen. Or indeed the idea that the Tory base will get more money. Which is obvious to seemingly everyone aside Kwarteng. Have you considered that this might be Britannia Unchained, and therefore good?
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Sep 28, 2022 17:19
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This should be pretty funny because Truss clearly thinks these will be podunk nowhere journalists bowled over by getting to talk to the PM, when it's even odds that they're decent journalists frozen out of the london clique whose rear end-kissing she apparently considers insufficient.
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josh04 posted:This should be pretty funny because Truss clearly thinks these will be podunk nowhere journalists bowled over by getting to talk to the PM, when it's even odds that they're decent journalists frozen out of the london clique whose rear end-kissing she apparently considers insufficient. lol. lmao. https://twitter.com/dinosofos/status/1575395660018368514
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Sep 29, 2022 09:21
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keep punching joe posted:From media types on Twitter this local radio run happens yearly the week before party conference, and would have been pre booked before any of this poo poo happened. What's that tweet about how engaging with politics is just repeatedly being told that things no-one has ever heard of are actually the most important national traditions?
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The walkers hot wing flavour crisps are pretty good. I felt right hacked off when they got rid of the KFC branded ones and immediately replaced them with a different chicken flavour that tasted nothing alike though.
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