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They're just copying the Liam Byrne shite, it fits in with them trying to copy Cameron-era shite. Thats where Labour are now. The Tories lead, Labour follows.
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grobbo posted:I guess because he thinks it gives him the unnerving intensity of a man on the edge a la Paddy Considine in Dead Man's Shoes, as opposed to simply a man on the edge of tears. And then you have a fat, bald, stupid oval office whining about pro-nouns in a video game he paid a premium for to get early-access.
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They'll correctly identify certain things that have gone wrong and then in a brief paragraph at the end propose a set of solutions which are literally current government policies that are also supported by Labour.
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For fucks sake Stella this country is loving miserable to live in most of the week, just let people have a cheeky rave so they can enjoy being in the company of others for once.
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The problem with dog chat is that cat owners feel the need to join the conversation due to their jealousy that they picked an animal inferior to a dog.
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Ronnie posted:This thread has loads of lurkers. Probably because we don't have a lot of political knowledge to provide comment.
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I hope we find out in the documentary that some comedian that almost no one likes or has any respect for as a performer is actually completely sound. Like finding out Andy Parsons is kind, charming, consistently books diverse gigs and is very supportive to non-white male comedians to the point where he gets combative if they're being targeted.
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crispix posted:he told his viewers not to vote for Labour in 2015 on his The Trues
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show, in fact he told them not to vote at all, then said afterwards when cameron got a majority and declared a referendum on leaving the EU that it was a bad idea of his
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Brendan Rodgers posted:Dispatches might accuse some other comedians later, or maybe there are other comedians who knew about Brand and were accessory somehow.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:E: Also, when it says "sold out wembley gig," it was iin one of the small conference rooms that's about half the size of your average cinema, not the arena. Not to give Russell Brand credit here, but I will say that its far more than Matt Forde has ever managed in his career. I know thats not relevant, but I wanted to give Forde a kicking too because hes such a loving Tory bellend.
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Angepain posted:Hardly the most important thing in that article, but do you think Brand actually read Lolita, or did he just read the first chapter or so before getting distracted. Boy this Humbert fellow seems like a good chap, I bet things turn out great for him and his understanding of the world is proven entirely right
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Theres always the risk with these things that you end up promoting GB News's engagement online but I honestly don't mind it. Their pitch was clearly "we're Fox News for the UK" only they didn't realise that the entire British media establishment already is Fox News so they're unnecessary and they've been tanking since day one.
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Saw Stewart Lee doing a bit of stand up last week and it looks like his next big show will have a thread going through it that pays off with a routine attacking TERFs and JK Rowling in the manner you'd expect from him.
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Lets not automatically assume that Labour are "the less bad" option here either. Even the most die hard Starmer supporters are openly saying that all the stuff his party is saying is actually just a ruse to get into power. Its just a lovely delusion to accept because the alternative is the reality that they believe everything they're saying.
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I've found it easy just in every day life to push left wing positions by framing them as "common sense". For instance, why do we allow our utilities to be structured in such a way that a significant amount of the money that we pay towards it doesn't get reinvested back into it? That money goes out on things like shareholders and advertising and so on, why not just simplify everything, kick out the middle men and let out money be used on actually maintaining and improving on it? Thats just common sense, right? And right there I've just made a decent case for nationalising our utilities. I doubt this would work as a political message, partly because every right winger would be screaming "thats just like communism where fifty billion people died every second" and every smug New Labour oval office would be dismissing it with "I think what voters would want is more choice".
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BalloonFish posted:This is a good conversational approach but in my experience it usually reaches a roadblock where people will agree that it's ridiculous to try and create a commercial market for water and to pay out dividends while pumping sewage into rivers...but any progressive or socialist solution is still dismissed as either lunacy or idealism. Like the "plant a bunch of trees" stuff that was in the 2019 Labour manifesto. Easily doable and cheap policy that's already been done by countries far worse off than ours even on a bigger scale, but was dismissed as a laughably unworkable idea by the entire press. You can convince people on a one to one basis quite easily but our politics runs on vibes defined by our media establishment.
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You're working class if you have a non-RP accent. Alan Sugar is a working class billionaire. His words are those of the working class. He speaks for the working classes from his private plane.
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We can also go into the British establishment definition of working class too, where you can be genetically working class because you had a parent or grandparent who worked a traditionally working class job. You yourself might have been born into riches, sent off to private school and graduated from Oxbridge with PPE, but your blood inherently understands the struggles of your working class granddad who toiled away at a factory to set up his now household name business.
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I stuck crystal on block ages ago so this threads remained a breezy read to me. I might just start blocking anyone that advocates voting for a lesser evil. Anyone that sounds a bit liberal can just gently caress off my screen.
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That video of Starmer demonstrates that hes an intelligent man, hes someone thats capable of changing his mind. Hes so capable of it that he can do it many times with the exact same issue. It really speaks to his strength of character.
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Pistol_Pete posted:You just nudged me to check Weetman's Twitter account and, god, she's gone from eccentric to completely raving lunatic since I last looked at it. What happens to people to do this
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Oct 6, 2023 20:39
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Its not really a material victory in any sense but it is very funny. Definitely up there with running with a meme so hard that Jo Swinson was forced to deny on radio that she has a powerful bloodlust for squirrels.
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Oct 9, 2023 01:52
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I stopped taking liberals seriously with regards to accusations of anti-Semitism around the time Jeremy Corbyn said the words "Jeffrey Epstein".
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Tesseraction posted:greggs is fine, it's not the bastion weirdoes claim it to be but it provides a baseline level of quality for a decent enough price As far as "cheap and cheerful" options go its the only one left aside from McDonalds. Fish and chips used to be that but thats gotten pricey now.
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You leftists are always criticising Tony Blair over the Iraq war, but its an undeniable fact that the amount of deaths caused by that would be significantly less than the hypothetical ones that would have happened during Jeremy Corbyn's Holocaust 2.0.
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Miftan posted:Look I've said this a million times, artificial fruit flavouring and chocolate don't go together. Sorry. Chocolate dipped strawberries? Excellent, scrumptious, no notes. Strawberry flavoured chocolate, or worse, those strawberry cream things? Terrible, wouldn't feed it a terf, please stop making them. 
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Judging from my own interactions with them, most Starmer supporters would describe him as a lesser evil. Even the most optimistic predictions about his future government are "all of this bad stuff hes proposing is actually just him lying so he can get elected".
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I can understand rebelling against your parents, but imagine rebelling against your parents to become a New Labour MP. Punk rock to these people is going on TV and saying "let me be clear" and following it up with gibberish. Its staring in front of the mirror and practicing the phrase "now is not the time". Or in Nandy's case, its trying to triangulate a position where you can endorse ethnic cleansing while not alienating the base.
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Scientastic posted:It really boils my piss when people bang on about Christmas being ruined. I’m a smug Internet atheist with an atheist wife and two lovely atheist children, and I still celebrate Christmas, it’s fine. No-one has ever told me not to, no-one has ever wished my Happy Holidays outside of my weird American colleagues (they also tell me “he is risen” in Easter, so they’re a land of contrasts) and the only people who make Christmas feel anything other than magical are the loving Gammons banging on about how it’s been destroyed by woke culture warriors. It just hasn’t.
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:I hate to tell you this, but Tippex has gone woke
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I love fireworks. Even my dog doesn't seem to mind them and she's such a coward that she'd bark because she heard a car door being lightly closed three roads away.
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Best thing Musk ever did was limit non-users from seeing the replies to Twitter posts. Now I never get the urge to touch the poop and reply to any of that shite.
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I found it hard to accept that Matthew Perry had died given how important Friends was to me in my youth, but I don't think I can recover from finding out that Captain Tom's family spa will be destroyed.
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mrpwase posted:I can't listen to the radio anymore because I had to turn it off during the news updates, otherwise my blood would boil and evaporate completely. If anyone could invent a device that just completely blocks any news broadcasts then I would happily return to 6 Music. While I'm at it, I don't support the death penalty but I would make exception for anyone that selects Nile Rodgers for radio. I don't have anything bad to say about the man or his music, but come on, we've all heard those exact same tunes about a million times, give it a rest.
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Can confirm that I have tried the Terry's chocolate mint. Its good. I like mint chocolate anyway, I think Mint Aero is too pure for this imperfect world, but its pretty good.
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Just glad to see Co-Op's salt and vinegar flavour getting some respect. They're a potent crisp.
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OwlFancier posted:I genuinely can't imagine cameron would want to come back, what the gently caress could possibly be in it for him? He's wisely stayed the gently caress out of things since the brexit vote, the last tory with a shred of sanity. And his oik mate George has done way better than him out of government, he's probably looking for opportunities to make something extra.
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Brendan Rodgers posted:SMG was always just too high level of a poster for the movies forum to understand, movies don't really teach people such skills
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