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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

if you live in Brighton you have a moral duty to grab a couple of mates and go knocking door to door on that street, ask if anybody's seen anything because you want to have a chat with the culprits.
Guarantee you'll knock on the guy's door (doubtless a middle aged coward) and scare him into backing off just with the thought of being confronted.

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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Party Boat posted:

Why is the 48 hour work week still such a big deal? Do people not understand that they can opt out of it if they want?

:cripes:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Guavanaut posted:

And the US has taken in about 2.5k.

Both are shameful but really anyone other than the US has better grounds to slam Britain.

e: Except Saudi Arabia, because they're racist fucks to a degree that even the UK and US look like bastions of humanity.
Yeah but our ambassador can't call out the USA for hypocrisy unless he wants to cause a diplomatic incident.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Tory councillor accidentally sent details of 'smear plot' to intended targets posted:


Conservative member of Portsmouth council Scott Harris was allegedly planning a dirty tricks campaign against women’s rights and domestic violence services

A Tory councillor tried to persuade party colleagues to join him in a smear campaign against local domestic violence services and women’s rights campaigners, a leaked email shows.

Scott Harris, a Conservative member of Portsmouth council, wrote in the email that he had been compiling information on a number of political opponents operating in the city before council elections.

He singles out Aurora New Dawn, a local domestic violence support charity, and its chief executive, Shonagh Dillon, as well as a local chapter of the feminist group Sisters Uncut, who have been critical of council plans for drastic cuts to domestic violence services.

However, they and others named by Harris received the email after it was mistakenly sent out in a chain. The message says: “The elections are coming and the politics are dirty. The tricks by the Lib Dems, the lies and the smear are disgusting.

“Quite frankly it might be a good idea to play dirty this time. I know we shouldn’t go down to their gutter politics but should we continue to stand by and allow this to go on?

“I’m also compiling some stuff on Shonagh Dillion [sic], Aurora New Dawn and Sisters Uncut. Interestingly I’ve found some stuff on [local socialist activist] Jon Woods and the SWP locally which will be useful when the loony left come calling nearer May.”

A Sisters Uncut activist from the city, who preferred to remain anonymous, told the Guardian that Portsmouth council had found itself facing stark criticism from women’s rights campaigners and public opposition when it announced it would slash £180,000 from domestic violence (DV) services.
:commissar:

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2016/feb/05/local-campaigners-tory-councillor-plot-smear-portsmouth

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

OwlFancier posted:

I'm not sure how the "ignore them" approach is really supposed to work, if people seek attention they will get it, that you personally ignore them won't stop them getting attention, but perhaps you can get them the kind of attention which stymies their ideas.

It's a salve for the conscience of people too lazy or cowardly to hit the streets.

"Well I'd only be giving them the attention they want anyway.... better stay in with my animes!"

Not only do they avoid all effort, personal risk, and unpleasantness, but they even claim moral victory and superiority over both the fash/rape-advocate and the Antifa/womens' rights protester.

It's really remarkable.

communism bitch fucked around with this message at 07:58 on Feb 6, 2016

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
First the came for the immigrants, and I did not speak out, because that just gives them the attention they want...

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Jedit posted:

In 1933 nobody knew what the end product of fascism was. Now, they do. If you want to worry about the takeover of fascism it's not the skinhead fuckwits of England First (or whatever they're calling themselves this week) you should be concerned about; it's the encroaching shift in that direction from within the established political movement.

It's never been the skinhead wankers, they always act as the street troops for the political movement. You can oppose both and both can be a threat.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Phoon posted:

I've never seen so many police so co concentrated

Get caught in the kettle?

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

OwlFancier posted:

hail satan

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Robot Mil posted:

This prison reform stuff today is making me so loving mad. Cameron is going on about how 'scandalous' the state of the prisons are but making no mention of the huge increases in suicide, self harm and assaults both on prisoners and staff since 2010... and no-one seems to be talking about the huge cuts (sorry 'savings') that are being made. Why are you so surprised that things are going tits up you utter moron?? Staff numbers have been cut by 30%, budgets by £150 million, the probation service has been privatised and community services around job seeking and benefits to help rehabilitate are hosed.

Naming and shaming prisons with higher reoffending rates will just disproportionately affect local jails that release prisoners on short sentences, private prisons will start refusing to accept anyone that could affect their rating... ugh. It's all BALLS.

A friend of the family is a screw and he tells horror stories about his experience of prisons that are partly staffed privately. I think they get bonuses (or avoid penalties) by reducing contraband, so they just don't search for it properly. They lower violence rates by locking the prisoners in their cells all day, and if something does kick off in the landings they withdraw all the private staff and leave the convicts to it - I think to avoid injury and the resulting comp claims.

The private sector! :v:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

StoneOfShame posted:

People planning to flee the UK, why America? As I said learn to teach English, go South America or parts of Asia earn equivalent of low end British wages but live somewhere where the GDP per capita is basically what you earn in two months, the convince yourselves you aren't exploiting anyone by saying learning English will vastly improve their lives. Just let me get out first so you don't take all the best jobs.


This would be how I would run, can get a lot of oxys with all those fat donations.

I'm gonna go an be an English language teacher in third-world-hellhole USA and get some of that american strange

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Re this gravity business: if the experiment measures ridiculously minuscule variations in reflections of light I'm just as intrigued and impressed by what must be the incredible engineering feat necessary to build such a stable apparatus that (i guess?) needed to be totally isolated from natual vibrations in the earth in order to detect these teeny tiny vibrations only.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

quote:

Local councils, public bodies and even some university student unions are to be banned by law from boycotting “unethical” companies, as part of a controversial crackdown being announced by the Government.

Under the plan all publicly funded institutions will lose the freedom to refuse to buy goods and services from companies involved in the arms trade, fossil fuels, tobacco products or Israeli settlements in the occupied West Bank.
lol.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
I just ate a bacon and egg roll in a packed train carriage. I'm a bad commuter.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Cerv posted:

I don't think playing the game / changing the game is as meaningful a distinction as you.
How do you change the way parliament works without being in in there?

Guy Fawkes had some ideas

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

dispatch_async posted:

36 barrels of gunpowder

E: damnit

:owned:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Hail satab

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

TinTower posted:

To Fidesz's credit, they at least know how to say "kill the gypsies" without saying it.

There's a Hungarian expat who works at my place who seemed to take one look at me and assume I was a cool guy, and wasted no time in telling me about the "loving gypsies and jews" ruining Hungary, and how their president is a "loving gypsy with a jew's name" (or vice versa, I forget). Somehow he still has a job but he doesn't like me anymore because I told everybody he's a racist piece of poo poo.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Vaguely apropos of the ongoing NHS stuff (but mostly my desire to share snippets from work) I'm cataloguing bills and letters from a Mrs Lawrence in 1890, who one of our Dukes hired to care for his severely developmentally disabled, epileptic and blind son. Her treatment of choice was Electrohomeopathy:

quote:

The electrohomeopathic system is an invention of Count Mattei who prates of "red," "blue," and "green" electricity, a theory that, in spite of its utter idiocy, has attracted a considerable following and earned a large fortune for its chief promoter.[4]



quote:

A symposium took place in Bologna in 2008 to mark the 200th anniversary of the birth of Cesare Mattei,[9] with attendees from India, Pakistan, Germany UK, and the USA. Electrohomeopathy is practised predominantly in India and Pakistan (although it is not a recognised healthcare discipline in India),[10] but there are also a number of electrohomeopathy organizations and institutions worldwide.[citation needed]Despite many accusations,its being practised worldwide including the USA,UK,Australia,India,Pakistan,Bangladesh,etc.

:negative:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
The big wide-ranging newspaper (and even online news) format is dead. I won't sub to the guardian online for the same reason I wouldn't buy the paper: 80% of the content (media, sport, celebrity gossip, human interest) is of little or no interest to me. It doesn't feel like value for money.
I'd guess the future is in independent freelance jounalism with narrow fields of expertise so people can pick and choose what they read and support financially.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
First find of the day:



:britain:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
We have somewhere the new anthem that the autistic spergcaptain proposed as a replacement. If I have time at some point I'd dig it out and scan it maybe.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
I just checked the catalogue and it's somewhere in 7 boxes of uncatalogued documents relating to one of the coronations so lol that won't get seen again until some idiot gets conned into cataloguing the series.

welp cya later :yikes:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Yes hello this is how early we get up when the fash are on the march :toot: :suicide:

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
I just wish they'd take a loving day off. Every weekend for the last 5 weeks I've been chasing these arseholes around. I want a lie in.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

ForeverBWFC posted:

Manchester on Saturday lad!

Trip report to Preston - Fash caged in behind 8 foot high steel wall, no one heard or saw anything from any of them. Local Muslim community gave us free brews and food (curry, samosas and all kinds of cake). No fash were bashed, but a pleasant day was had by all!

Yerp. I got your pm by the way. We're figuring out our arrangements this week so I'll get back to you, but we might be sorted already cause some of our lot have mates in the area..

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

big scary monsters posted:

Did you have a nice day out, Ober?
I did, thank you! The only downside is that I've now been awake since Friday morning and feel like :unsmigghh:
Also I wasn't at Preston, we were loving around with our local fash today.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Pie n Mash. I don't think we have many EDL South in our city actually.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

GaussianCopula posted:

Looks like this Boris character (as someone not really that interested in UK internal politics I must say he looks a bit like your version of Donald Trump mixed with Chris Christie) did not follow EU politics all that closely last year and is following a referendum strategy that I would like to call "The Tsipras" - say "no" because that will make the others give you everything you want.


https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/status/701520076143468544

Get the gently caress out of my thread you bigoted, racist piece of poo poo

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Guavanaut posted:

I just read the post that started all that. :dogbutton:

What the gently caress is wrong with EuroPol thread?

Also how did UKMT end up as a thread that regards Marx as a bit centrist and EuroPol ended up as a garbage fire?

I feel that we have Oberleutnant's vigilance to thank somehow.
I'm the UKMT version of Captain Planet. You must keep the thread ideologically pure or I'll die.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

GaussianCopula posted:

They try to overcompensate, just like the cliche secretly gay kid that beats up the openly gay kid to make it VERY clear that he is not gay.

I wish you'd been beaten more as a child.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
I'll swap with you. Portsmouth's really great, you'll love it.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Gonzo McFee posted:

I just think willies are funny.

People are always laughing at mine

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

Guavanaut posted:

Didn't Miliband get called a copper-bottomed poo poo too? When did copper-bottomed become an insult?

Isn't it a reference to copper hulling of late 18th/19th century warships, which were resistant to corrosion and therefore good?
How does that become an insult.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

CoolCab posted:

Pictured: Ober finds GaussianCopula ITT

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i__ztikjTok

Im prejudiced against nazis. If you think about it im as bad as them.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
All the conservative and libertarian shitheads cried off to Something Sensitive I think, and a bunch of LF ended up at Rhizzone and a few other (mostly dead) places I guess. I think D&D now is just kinda boring with the exception of Lenin's Own UKMT

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

OhYeah posted:

I never quite understood if UKMT's obsession with communism is ironic or not.

It is not.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
All these vermin swarming our thread. They're a threat to the ideological unity of ukmt. We must stand firm against the xenophobe hordes.

communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009

GaussianCopula posted:

It looks like I will have to frequent this thread longer than expected in the case "leave" wins.

https://twitter.com/dannyctkemp/status/701795455529852928

I hope a refugee stomps on your jaw until it's a shattered mass of meat and bone peppered with teeth.

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communism bitch
Apr 24, 2009
Get back in the europol slum you created for yourselves.

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