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Lord of the Llamas posted:Let us not forget that former Scottish Labour leader Johann Lamont said that they tried to run Scotland like a "branch office of London" upon her resignation. Scottish Labour has long been an arms-length thing for the wider UK party. It has its own heartbeat, and its own massive problems, including a whole load of corruption and sectarianism back in the day. It was however a good incubator of competent/ruthless/clever people. Whatever you think them, the likes of Cook, Smith, Dewar and Brown went to a hard school,. There's few like them in politics these days, of any party, and there's no-one in Scottish politics, other than maybe Salmond.
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Oberleutnant posted:Who's betting none of the big outlets will touch this, and that it'll be unmentioned in tomorrow's news? It's a safe bet - they would all have done the same thing.
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Ludicro posted:Did you know that doctors actually have the nerve to go on holidays? The most down-voted comment there includes the somewhat Joycean construction "Jez_bollah Corblimey_Hista". That's really quite remarkable.
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OwlFancier posted:And now you've got me thinking of Phoenix missiles, which cost half a million dollars a shot. And they only work on the F15, and their entire gimmick is that you can fire six of them at six different targets in one volley. F-14, and both plane and weapon were retired a decade ago.
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Jan 16, 2016 13:32
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Tigey posted:This makes it easier for them to gain international support in various fora - such as the OAS, UN, etc, which increases the pressure on the UK/Islands to make further concessions. Just as a data point: The Falkland Islanders are also EU citizens. Argentina's most likely ally within the EU - Spain - agreed to this when it signed the Lisbon Treaty.
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DesperateDan posted:If they are kept i would go with a budget option of redesigning the astute class to carry a UK designed and built rocket/warhead system That's probably not a budget option. Designing and building an SLBM system from essentially scratch is gonna cost ya, and the Astute class is less that half the displacement of the Vanguard class, so that's likely a showstopper too.
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Coohoolin posted:Urgh take nukechat to the loving nukethread. Post more of your songs.
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OzyMandrill posted:The only thing keeping them in business is clickbait now. Someone from Popbitch crunched the numbers on Mail Online. It's an interesting read. http://popbitch.com/articles/Profits_Of_Doom.html
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