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EvilGenius posted:"Jokes on them! Bones can't be racist anyway!" The recent imprisonment of the EDL guy would disagree.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 12:36 |
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Blacknose posted:Posh wankers unfairly protecting posh wanker 'country sports'? Surely not. Next you'll be saying that the hunting ban isn't enforced and shooting estates don't pay business rates. Anyone would think the aristo pricks value their lifestyles more than the welfare of the nation and it's inhabitants or something. https://twitter.com/MikeBeere/status/681451961837830145
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:01 |
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Is that the same argument that Tories (and a good chunk of Labour) jeered at when talking about drug use?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:08 |
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amazing
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:11 |
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fwiw I agree with him, and think it should be expanded into more areas of lawmaking. All MPs against assisted suicide should try it at least once.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:21 |
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labour 2020: free fox hunting holidays for the working class
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:24 |
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NO gently caress YOU DAD posted:I would say the good ship "badly worded" has sailed when you write in official party correspondence that black people can't be entrepreneurs because they only care about drugs and disco, but there were are. Actually I think you'll find he was congratulating them on their natural revolutionary spirit, in comparison to the lazy white man who can be shat on for generations and never so much as shake a fist in anger. Guavanaut posted:fwiw I agree with him, and think it should be expanded into more areas of lawmaking. All MPs against assisted suicide should try it at least once. Tories are already helping plenty of sick people die faster. Renaissance Robot fucked around with this message at 13:35 on Dec 30, 2015 |
# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:31 |
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Also drugs and disco are p. cool and have created plenty of entrepreneurs of all races.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:34 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:please post this everywhere I'm guessing that would be the defence he would use in order to sue anyone who removes the quotes. I haven't seen the full text yet though, just paraphrased quotes which suggest he hid behind euphemisms until he made the comparison to 'working class white communities'. I'm still completely at a loss as to how you could whitewash what he said as not being intrinsically, massively racist - though the Daily Mail commenters had no such problem. Incidentally, according to the Mail the new documents also show that Maggie tried to block an AIDS-related safe sex newspaper campaign as obscene, and that Reagan recommended a Tom Clancy novel to her as a guide to foreign policy (Red Dawn Rising, apparently). All fox hunters should be hunted by trained dogs themselves, so they can have a fuller understanding of what they are doing. Kegluneq fucked around with this message at 13:50 on Dec 30, 2015 |
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LemonDrizzle posted:She voted against them in parliament and campaigned against them outside parliament. Abstaining isn't voting against. http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/these-are-the-184-labour-mps-who-didn-t-vote-against-the-tories-welfare-bill-10404831.html Yes I'm aware of her voting record the rest of the time. Her response to that vote and the media coverage it received was to claim that her message was "completely lost" by the media. Since then everybody has forgotten that Cooper was completely outmanoeuvred in the media by Corbyn and that Corbyn was able to define the entire terms of debate over what was supposed to be the key policy issue in Cooper's leadership campaign. If Corbyn is bad in the media then how bad must Cooper be? She even had a number of papers backing her but she was still unable to get her message across. ronya posted:The incomparability stems from the fact that it is a projection, which is always going to be sketchy here, especially since 1994-2009 includes events of huge macroeconomic significance. If you pick 2009 as the end date because the GFC has conveniently wiped out a huge chunk of 90% percentile income, then your projection drat well be subject to the same gaming. And really, who knows about the average long-term growth rate 2015-2030, never mind the distribution around it? Inequality (gini coefficient) actually reduced under the coalition (as far as we have figures for anyway) to levels lower than most of New Labour's tenure. For what it's worth according to the IFS the reduction in inequality (before housing costs) over the financial crisis wasn't due to an especially big drop in top incomes. Raw income inequality actually increased. The change happened because the tax and benefits system offset the reduction in lower incomes far more than it did for the highest. Changes in housing cost do flatten out the final picture though since wealthier people were more likely to be owner occupiers who benefited from low interest rates reducing their mortgage costs, and presumably rent increases hit the poorer hardest. This is the welfare system working as intended during a recession and not "spiralling out of control". But you wouldn't know that listening to what many Labour MPs have said about welfare in recent years. Miliband was desperate to distance Labour from the welfare system that softened the impact of the financial crisis, leading to headlines like: We made mistakes on welfare, admits Ed Miliband as he pledges Labour cap on social security spending. Yet for all this playing the media game "Red" Ed was still attacked mercilessly in the press. So what was the point of it? The end result was a lot of people thinking that Labour admitted to spending too much on benefits (and letting in too many immigrants, another of Miliband's "Labour got it wrong" efforts) and that the Tory attacks on Labour overspending must have been true. Graphs from: http://www.ifs.org.uk/uploads/publications/comms/R107.pdf
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:48 |
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:48 |
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Who would write such a thing, what a scamp.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:51 |
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Renaissance Robot posted:Tories are already helping plenty of sick people die faster. Maybe not in their eyes (or sex lives) though.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 13:56 |
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tories don't want people to die more quickly, idiots. They need the grey vote - why else are old folk so bloody well off compared to the rest of us?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:09 |
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once the older generation dies (good riddance), are young Brits more or less conservative?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:22 |
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shrike82 posted:once the older generation dies (good riddance), are young Brits more or less conservative? The selfie generation will become the selfish generation.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:32 |
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shrike82 posted:once the older generation dies (good riddance), are young Brits more or less conservative? more polarised, mostly also there will be a market for the party of tumbler stereotypes wrapped around a core of tory policy
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:32 |
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blowfish posted:more polarised, mostly i predict that similarly to germany this will be the fate of the greens
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:35 |
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tumblers everywhere, hands on head, neatly tucked into balls doing rolly-pollies all over the place
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 14:37 |
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Seaside Loafer posted:Ive just accepted a 3-6 month software development contract for sussex NHS and im taking it it because I need work and have to provide for my offspring but im really wondering why the gently caress they are paying these rates instead of getting a permy for 2/3's of the money and they could, its not that specialist, im honestly confused as why they need to use me, and id rather be perm. And im experiencing socialist guilt. I guess I wont know the why of the politics of it until I start. My mum is doing that sort of thing for the probation service. She gets paid about 1.5 times what the permanents do and her agency uses tax avoidance so she pays basically none, but they can get rid of her at any time. She made a ton of money for about 6 months then they kicked her out and now she's unemployed. tbf it works pretty well for her since she's lazy and likes to take months at a time off work between jobs, like I do She's still with the agency though so she might get another posting somewhere. Welcome to the glorious capitalist future, comrade.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 15:14 |
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e: woops wrong thread.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 15:55 |
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The Saurus posted:My mum is doing that sort of thing for the probation service. She gets paid about 1.5 times what the permanents do and her agency uses tax avoidance so she pays basically none, but they can get rid of her at any time. She made a ton of money for about 6 months then they kicked her out and now she's unemployed. tbf it works pretty well for her since she's lazy and likes to take months at a time off work between jobs, like I do She's still with the agency though so she might get another posting somewhere. I'm in pretty much that situation (including the lazy bit). I've got my mortgage pretty much paid off and can earn good money contracting, so I'm pretty happy doing contracts and having time off between them, because getting up late and mooching about the flat drinking coffee is what life is REALLY about imo.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 16:48 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'm in pretty much that situation (including the lazy bit). I've got my mortgage pretty much paid off and can earn good money contracting, so I'm pretty happy doing contracts and having time off between them, because getting up late and mooching about the flat drinking coffee is what life is REALLY about imo. I am mildly envious. Also, free Ober 1
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 17:19 |
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Pissflaps posted:Why are you asking me to explain? I didn't ask the question. Your response is based on the distinction being important, his question isn't. That they were actually continuing and expanding Tory policy rather than introducing their own bolsters his position if anything.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 17:42 |
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Pistol_Pete posted:I'm in pretty much that situation (including the lazy bit). I've got my mortgage pretty much paid off and can earn good money contracting, so I'm pretty happy doing contracts and having time off between them, because getting up late and mooching about the flat drinking coffee is what life is REALLY about imo. Heh, you should be cripplingly mentally ill like me, you can stay in your bedroom all day wait poo poo
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 19:29 |
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For the most part short term contract works out about as well as 0 hour contracts do. There's a small group which will find them handy, most of the time they're used to totally screw people over and avoid legal responsibilities. If there was any justice in the employment system you wouldn't have contractors but staff on retainer, able to be called up on short notice or seasonally to cover events like this while also allowing longer term staffing retention, lower HR costs and better planning capacity.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 20:27 |
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quote:Not much astonishes Boris Johnson. But when the Mayor of London had a falling out with Oliver Letwin in 2011 over airport capacity, he was genuinely astonished to be told by Cameron and Osborne’s “key fixer” that “we” do not want more families in Sheffield flying abroad on holiday.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 20:41 |
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The mysterious 'fleet-footed' co-author strikes again
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 20:45 |
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Of course it's Iain Martin, what a willie.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 20:51 |
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Chances that the author has actually studied and understood Marx?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 21:08 |
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Mate there's not a chance he reads or understands his own writing. One of the things he claims Corbyn stubbornly hangs onto despite being proven wrong is the Queen. As if opposing monarchy is the archaic view.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 21:12 |
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What pisses me off the most is this narrative that there is one correct way of thinking for different eras. Corbyn does not think the correct way for the modern times! The correct way being exactly what the Tories are doing.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 21:18 |
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Regarde Aduck posted:Chances that the author has actually studied and understood Marx? He's almost certainly read no more Marx than the Communist Manifesto & certainly hasn't tried any actually analysis of the ideas there. If he had he wouldn't run a website devoted to bringing "you the best writing on politics, economics, markets and ideas, making the case for popular capitalism"
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 21:31 |
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I also like that his twitter bio says his next book is on the City but that article fails to mention that it was the banking sector crisis that hosed the economy and not Gordon Brown taking on debt like he egregiously claims in his article. Something tells me that's not going to be a very good book.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 21:36 |
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Gordon Stole the Poonds - A Novel in Three Parts
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 21:36 |
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Cultural problem? What cultural problem?
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 22:22 |
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Lemmy is dead guys. None of this stuff matters.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 22:27 |
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It reads like the "banker-bashing" bit was added afterwards, everything outside the headline and the first paragraph seems to be outlining why everyone thinks it was necessary and stopping it is a bad idea.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 22:31 |
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Quite pleased Charlie Brooker mentioned the fact that cameron hosed a dead pig in his review of 2015.
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 22:41 |
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spoiler alert
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# ? Dec 30, 2015 22:43 |