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 (Courtesy of Guavanaut) We're now full swing into election campaigning so look forward to month of promises that won't be kept and politicians hurling blame like monkeys throwing poo poo. With the likelihood of another coalition there is also the added fun of watching politicians try and bitch about each other but not so much that it will be embarrassing when they are holding hands at the podium after election day. Nick Clegg will possibly lose his seat. Labour will possibly lose Scotland. UKIP will almost certainly lose a few more party members when it is discovered they are racist/sexist/homophobic/batshit insane. And David Cameron might lose his kid in a pub again. Lizard people don't make the best parents. In other news we lost a British institution, shot down by political correctness gorn maaad. Some fans are not taking it well. Sadly we did actually lose someone worth a drat last month. GNU Terry Pratchett. Edit 2015 UKMT March 2015 Thread UKMT February 2015 Thread UKMT January 2015 Thread 2014 UKMT December 2014 Thread UKMT November 2014 Thread UKMT October 2014 Thread UKMT September 2014 Thread (OP includes links to previous threads going back to 2012(Also topless Scots)) UK Paedogeddon Thread Scottish Independence/General Politcal Talk Thread hookerbot 5000 fucked around with this message at 21:24 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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I propose a ban on: (1) Chicagoans (2) Americans talking about food (3) Private property
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Apr 2, 2015 09:57
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Wy4Vh-4bM Miliband actually comes across as mildly human in this one. Vote for the (most) human this May! Edit: We have the same taste in curries 
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Apr 2, 2015 10:30
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Kegluneq posted:Don't forget the With seven of them up there I'm assuming it's just going to be an almighty rabble of people shouting over each other and no one saying anything worth anything. Then David Cameron will look smug and say that that's why he doesn't want to lower himself to taking part in such an undignified spectacle (ignoring the fact that Prime Ministers questions is like a school playground). I feel so sorry for the moderator.
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When the official name for something is 'free-for-all' you know its going to be a cluster gently caress
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notaspy posted:When the official name for something is 'free-for-all' you know its going to be a cluster gently caress A bun fight
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Pissflaps posted:A bun fight
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Guavanaut posted:Where does that fall on the fracas-rumpus-kerfuffle scale? More of an excitable farrago with an element of horseplay than anything else I'd say.
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Apr 2, 2015 11:18
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http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-10148897.html The independent looked into the business leaders who signed that letter. 18 of them have received an MBE/OBE/CBE from the current government and a third are Tory donors
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Apr 2, 2015 11:37
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 conservative_government.jpg hookerbot 5000 posted:With seven of them up there I'm assuming it's just going to be an almighty rabble of people shouting over each other and no one saying anything worth anything. Then David Cameron will look smug and say that that's why he doesn't want to lower himself to taking part in such an undignified spectacle (ignoring the fact that Prime Ministers questions is like a school playground). And in completely unrelated news, you're the official thread moderator now! Look at that shiny name
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I thumbed through The Sun on Sunday at work and it seems they are doing a lot of the Tories' dirty work. There was a spread on the economy. From what I read, I understand that the economy is a big monolithic entity that is somehow the country but is also a sort of car that David Cameron and George Osborne skillfully steered away from the brink after Gordon Brown and that eyebrow bloke tried their damndest to drive it off a cliff like Thelma and Louise in a bid to make us just like Greece. The economy also has keys, presumably on the same key ring as old ten downingstreets and they must not be given back to Labour or all the tough decisions that were taken and the hard work we've put in and the sacrifice we've made will have been for nothing. There were maths graphs but they showed stuff about the economy? In the blue ones the bad things were going down and the good things were going up and the red ones showed the bad things going up (but like, in the future if Labour get in) and the good things going down. I wasn't too sure about the numbers but the blue graphs had big words splashed about them like STEADY GROWTH and the red ones had things like DANGER, and if you think about it red is actually the colour of danger? So i'm inclined to believe the data. The paper was chock-full of photos of David Cameron looking like a Prime Minister with the proper hair and face and everything and a lot of them were juxtaposed with pictures of Ed Milliband mid-blink with his mouth agape and his arms everywhere. From what I gathered, Ed Milliband lives his life in a permanent state of orgasm so probably wouldn't be great as prime minister of Britain. It wasn't all just election fever though, there was some well insightful social commentary. I read a piece about people who were too fat to get jobs. There was one bloke who was JOBLESS and had been claiming HANDOUTS for YEARS and admitted to FEASTING on hotdogs and cheeseburgers DAILY. Really though, I do wonder how much of an impact this kind of tripe will make on an election in this day and age
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A sledgehammer, seems fitting. quote:
Nah, if the thread starts getting lairy I'll blame Loving Africa Chops for not getting the thread whipped into shape last month.
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the worst stewie posted:I thumbed through The Sun on Sunday at work and it seems they are doing a lot of the Tories' dirty work. Please continue with this astute political analysis in the runup to the election.
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Do they have "themes" for each debate or is it just a free for all?
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Biggus Dickus posted:Please continue with this astute political analysis in the runup to the election. It'd been years since I'd read a tabloid, I wasn't sure what was going on in them now that we're living in the future. Since you've requested, I'll try to post a digest of the tabloids every week from now until after the election 
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the worst stewie posted:I thumbed through The Sun on Sunday at work and it seems they are doing a lot of the Tories' dirty work.
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Kegluneq posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Wy4Vh-4bM He does come across really well here. When he's dealing with more political interviews he adopts this extremely earnest posture which is weird and obviously an act. If he could find a way of acting normally in those contexts it would be much harder for the Tories to paint him as an out of touch geek. Jose posted:http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...s-10148897.html The Guardian has been running a similar story, but I honestly can't see what's so damning about this. People who make a statement supportive of the Tories are largely Tory supporters!! Shocking! It's a weird line of attack. It's also weird to say that the letter is somehow less credible because the Tories organised it. Why does that make it less credible? If Labour could not do the same then it tells us that big business generally favours the Tories over Labour. So if we should care about the views of big business, then this letter suggests we should support the Tories over Labour. Of course the reasonable response to this letter is to say that it's hardly surprising that people who stand to benefit from lower corporation taxes and other pro-business policies support a party that has lowered corporation taxes. And there's no reason to think that these 100 business leaders are uniquely insightful about what is best for the country. So we shouldn't really care too much about the views of these big business people. That response makes sense. The whole thing about them being Tory supporters isn't a big deal.
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the worst stewie posted:It'd been years since I'd read a tabloid, I wasn't sure what was going on in them now that we're living in the future. Since you've requested, I'll try to post a digest of the tabloids every week from now until after the election
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Whitefish posted:The Guardian has been running a similar story, but I honestly can't see what's so damning about this. People who make a statement supportive of the Tories are largely Tory supporters!! Shocking! It's a weird line of attack. I was more interested in the breakdowns really since it was obvious that they'd be tory supporters
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the worst stewie posted:I thumbed through The Sun on Sunday at work and it seems they are doing a lot of the Tories' dirty work. Oh sure, they're hardly subtle about it. They even posted their Sunifesto at the start of the year that might as well have been written by CCHQ. Sunifesto posted:Stand up for pupils’ rights over those of teaching unions. 
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Pissflaps posted:Was being talked about here a few days ago: Labour will scrap tribunal fees if elected. Good to hear. See, Ed, you can make a good decision when you try!
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Apr 2, 2015 12:13
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That and the reduction in zero hours contracts are things I'm liking the sound of.
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hookerbot 5000 posted:A sledgehammer, seems fitting. Thats a lump hammer, not a sledge. What this country needs more of is Enochs.  
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Jose posted:I was more interested in the breakdowns really since it was obvious that they'd be tory supporters The letter was meant to be seem impartial, that the business world is saying that the Tories are best for country. That these are all Tory supporters supporting the Tories make it a farce.
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notaspy posted:The letter was meant to be seem impartial, that the business world is saying that the Tories are best for country. That these are all Tory supporters supporting the Tories make it a farce. Both the gong-winners and the Tory donors are minorities of the full 103 signatories. Two-thirds of them are not Tory donors, and four-fifths did not receive honours from the present government, so saying that they're all Tory confederates is just false. kapparomeo fucked around with this message at 12:36 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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Apr 2, 2015 12:26
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Whitefish posted:The Guardian has been running a similar story, but I honestly can't see what's so damning about this. People who make a statement supportive of the Tories are largely Tory supporters!! Shocking! It's a weird line of attack. Because it's not been presented as 'Tory donors support Tories', it's presented as 'important experts on business warn that Labour will damage the recovery and make everything worse for everyone'. And it's definitely not being presented as the astroturfing that it really is Businesspeople are elevated in our society to the role of experts, neutral ones even, which is exactly why this kind of thing works and gets uncritical media coverage. It would be nice if everyone was already aware of that, but that's not the world we live in, so articles like the Independent one are breaking down exactly why these people have vested interests and why their 'social good' justifications are ridiculous. The fact they're Tories just makes it clear how much of an organised political stunt the whole thing is
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General China posted:What this country needs more of is Enochs.
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The very same day as the 100 business leaders letter there was a survey of economists released of whom two thirds said they thought austerity had damaged the economy but the business leaders was much bigger news despite business leaders having a more obvious bias against labour (labour want to slightly increase corporation tax, in fact this is the only policy mentioned in the letter). Making sure people are aware of this bias is a perfectly valid response. E: in fact the labour response to the letter was surprisingly politically astute - they released their own letter signed by 100 people from a much broader cross section of society and then put the letter online and encouraged people to sign it Phoon fucked around with this message at 12:49 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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General China posted:Thats a lump hammer, not a sledge. It's almost as if you've never held a lump hammer before!
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I sorta know one of the guys on the list, James Wates, and would have put him squarely in the nu-labour camp. He is poo poo hot on being a good employer and having a company that puts back into the local community but turns out he just likes money
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Lol two of the telegraph letter signatories have been shopped for failing to pay the minimum wage https://twitter.com/Kevin_Maguire/status/583593379801522176
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Kegluneq posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Wy4Vh-4bM Talking about Manic Miner is the most enthusiastic I've ever heard Miliband.
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tdrules posted:Oh sure, they're hardly subtle about it. I like how they mix in 'more ethnic minority MPs' with 'Foreigners must not elevate the traditions of their homeland over ours.' to make it seem like they're not racists. Very clever.
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Kegluneq posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Wy4Vh-4bM Do you also like miners?
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hookerbot 5000 posted:UKIP will almost certainly lose a few more party members when it is discovered they are racist/sexist/homophobic/batshit insane. Ukip parliamentary candidate Alan Harris says hackers posted racist and homophobic messages on his Facebook page   quote:Harris said: “I’m absolutely disgusted. My account has been hacked – again. You know what Facebook is like. I wouldn’t say anything about gay people because I have a gay son. I’ve got lots of Asian friends. I never said any of this.”
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Jedit posted:Do you also like miners? Only when I'm guiding them into a dark tunnel to a techno soundtrack. dispatch_async posted:Ukip parliamentary candidate Alan Harris says hackers posted racist and homophobic messages on his Facebook page 
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dispatch_async posted:Ukip parliamentary candidate Alan Harris says hackers posted racist and homophobic messages on his Facebook page Classic UKIP.
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Kegluneq posted:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=14Wy4Vh-4bM Just got round to watching this and it is decent - mostly softball questions but he is affable, straightforward and open and he handles the immigration question quite well Also some funny bits, the octonauts bit at the end is great E: lmbo @ ukip guy blaming hacking for comments that were posted years ago and still there until recently and are two years apart Phoon fucked around with this message at 13:47 on Apr 2, 2015 |
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I'm excited for the 7-way shitathon tonight and hope that Farage makes a total dick of himself in the face of reasonable opposing opinions from the fine ladies of SNP/Plaid/Greens. Also according to 5 Live this morning the podia (or podiums) are all tiny so the men will look like they're standing uncomfortably close together at urinals or something. Cameron is standing on the far right (heh) due to the drawing of lots, which means he'll speak last in the closing speeches and get to be all Prime Ministerial. Milliband is in the dead centre (heh?) so is going to be constantly looking from side to side answering questions like it's loving Wimbledon or something. Not sure on the positioning of the others. Hopefully it throws up more entertainment than the weird "not talking to you" thing with Paxo.
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