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You're sitting alone at home, the lights are off and your face is illuminated only by the sickly glow of your computer screen. Your phone buzzes unexpectedly, jarring you. Unknown Number. You answer uncertainly. "Hello?" "Hello." "Who's this?" "It's Hope." But hope died years ago. OooooOooooooo!   Welcome to the UKMT, where the Spectre of Marxism fights the animated corpse of neoliberalism. And Oberleutnant writes us a spooky reading list. (Also UK Mega Thread; UK Manga Thread; Undead Kuomintang  ) Answer: No.  That has been the theme of the past month as we approached the annual Labour Party Conference, and now we wait to see what petit sabotage Corbyn's increased leadership mandate will bring. In The News  • David Cameron resigns from the House of Commons shortly after stepping down as leader and shortly before picking up a cushy job somewhere probably. • Ex-SNP MP Natalie McGarry is charged with multiple counts of fraud because of all the fraud she did. • Diane James is elected the new leader of post-relevance UKIP. • Manchester have planned to 're-negotiate' the contracts of the entire fire department, without asking the union. There's no way that this will turn out terrible. • Brexit may have devastating consequences for Sunderland as Nissan wants compensation for any tariffs levied by Europe. • Keith Vaz is widely exposed in the press for his • Theresa May forgets that meritocracy is not a complement and announces new grammar schools, as well as looser restrictions for faith schools so that they can teach kids about creationism and fetal personhood, but probably not Islam. • In conjunction with the above, the Conservative Party announces plans to deregulate child protection, allowing Local Authorities to opt-out of almost any duty imposed by children's legislation passed in the last 80 years. • After the resignation of another senior figure from the investigation into historic child abuse, the Sun and Mail both call for it to be scrapped. TomViolence posted:Was this country just built from the ground up (or more likely from the very bowels of hell itself up) expressly for the purpose of fiddling taxes and diddling kids? Is there something down there, something dark and nameless and ageless and faceless growing fat on our misery, waiting until it's time to emerge? Are we retaining trident not to deter other nuclear powers, but instead as a final failsafe in case the dark heart of Great Britain should some day wake?  Halloween News • Eerie episodes of corporate incompetence as Concentrix accuses woman of cohabiting with a spooky ghost   A Compendium of Strange and Dark Tales  Witness the Fall of a Nation! The hubris of Albion!UKMT September 2016 UKMT August 2016 UKMT July 2016 UKRIP June 2016 Brextravaganza! UKMT May 2016 Behold the men who worship numbers battle those who see imaginary hordes!Brexit Financial Crisis Thread Gaze upon an Alien Land where the tonic of mad monks intoxicates children!Scotpol Thread Watch as hardened skinheads run from the grandma with a socialist signboard!EDL/Fash Thread Tremble as the living patchwork corpse of nations says some pretty racist things!Europol Thread Uncover the terrible open secret of the Seventies (and Eighties, and today)!Paedogeddon/Press Corruption Thread Awe at the CCTV footage that should not have been released!Trainchat Thread See spear-throwing cannibal savages and other things that Stanley 'Mac' McMurtry thinks it is acceptible to draw!Political Cartoons Thread Visit the 80s chat protocol that will not die!#ukgoons on synIRC. It's mostly active during Question Time, but there's always some people around (thanks crispix). Be a decent human being!quote:1. It's not a person's fault if they are poor;  
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Nuclear power is good
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Oct 1, 2016 00:08
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Just putting that out there
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jabby posted:So Jackie Walker has been suspended from Labour for her appallingly poorly-judged comments about anti-Semitism and Holocaust Memorial day. Apparently there's also a Momentum meeting on Monday that will probably kick her out of her vice-chair job. Because she exists within a political milieu where claims about the present existence of antisemitism are reflexively attacked and dismissed as sinister attempts at intimidation, and is constantly affirmed by her political allies in the belief that insisting that Jews were behind the slave trade or that Hitler was a Zionist is just a "historical fact" and anyone expressing the view that it's bigoted or problematic is a cynical attempt to silence them?
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Oct 1, 2016 00:09
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Nuclear power is good
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Oct 1, 2016 00:11
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Guavanaut posted:Nuclear power is good. Nuclear Powers are generally not. It wasn't connected to the quote in the op, op
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Oct 1, 2016 00:12
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It's not October yet. E: Ok no it is but my computer has apparently been running 30 minute slow, I blame the EU.
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Oct 1, 2016 00:16
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Goddammit Guav your threadlock ate my post  tl;dr: OwlFancier and Jakiri, I am aware of duck problems. I don't particularly care about the specific incident the paper chose to lead with, I just thought it was an interesting miniature example of one of the main reasons why unregulated privatisation is shortsighted and dumb.
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OwlFancier posted:It's not October yet. Renaissance Robot posted:Goddammit Guav your threadlock ate my post  But surely you see that incentivized private employees will work harder and not just go after the easiest and stupidest cases instead of spending time and effort dealing with fly tippers and serious litterers? 
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Renaissance Robot posted:tl;dr: OwlFancier and Jakiri, I am aware of duck problems. I don't particularly care about the specific incident the paper chose to lead with, I just thought it was an interesting miniature example of one of the main reasons why unregulated privatisation is shortsighted and dumb. Oh I know full well that it doesn't justify anything (especially non-duck related incidents), I just found it amusing to imagine that they did
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Oct 1, 2016 00:32
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Feeding ducks in a no-duck zone, 5 months isocube.
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Oct 1, 2016 00:35
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Guavanaut posted:Does it not regularly update your clock from a network time server? I thought all OSes did that now. It's supposed to yes but until I told it to do it just now it apparently hadn't in a while, might be cos my bios battery is dead so whenever someone cuts the power to the case it buggers the clock up.
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http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1201FKquote:Jaguar Land Rover (TAMO.NS) will "realign its thinking" on investment after Britain's vote to leave the EU and if Nissan gets a Brexit compensation deal then other automakers would need a level playing field, Britain's biggest carmaker said. I wonder if Solihull and Liverpool votef Leave like Sunderland did.
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Oct 1, 2016 00:38
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Top title.
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Oct 1, 2016 00:40
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https://twitter.com/parliawint/status/779747279037198336
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Oct 1, 2016 00:44
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Zephro posted:http://mobile.reuters.com/article/idUSKCN1201FK Liverpool is still pretty left wing and hasn't fallen to ukippery, they voted remain Solihul l on the other hand voted leave because it's in the Midlands and bad
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Oct 1, 2016 00:51
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Workers appropriate the factory and machinery when company leaves. Local community piles on to fend off the authorities. Workers form co-op to design and manufacture own vehicles. Do it. I dare you.
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Oct 1, 2016 01:12
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that would be awesome but it looks more like they are just going to bitch at the government to bail them out from the consequences of their actions which would probably still be the sensible thing to do, much as I think they can go gently caress themselves, subsidising nissan is probably cheaper than economically devastating sunderland too bad we have a tory government, maybe they should have noticed that before jeopardising their own (and a lot of other peoples) future
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Oct 1, 2016 01:20
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I give it 2 weeks before Corbyn is accused of something bullshit and the media will uncritically declare he not only did it but also declared Death To Israel as he did.
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Oct 1, 2016 02:07
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That optimistic? 5 days past the weekend at best IMO.
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Oct 1, 2016 02:52
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Ducks loving love to eat bread
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Oct 1, 2016 03:05
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I think its great that Corvachev is putsching the blairitis and returning order to the left in his own image.
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Oct 1, 2016 03:27
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When is he going to murder all the loving arabs loving up our country and making us all poor and stupid? WHEN?
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Oct 1, 2016 03:29
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MrL_JaKiri posted:Nuclear power is good I think you mean spooklear power
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baka kaba posted:I think you mean spooklear power https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjq-9sdcY0U
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Kokoro Wish posted:Workers appropriate the factory and machinery when company leaves. Local community piles on to fend off the authorities. Workers form co-op to design and manufacture own vehicles. Do it. I dare you. I know that when I buy a car, I certainly look for the manufacturer who cannot obtain any legal enforcement of its contracts with suppliers or indeed give a poo poo about any quality commitments it would have with me
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Oct 1, 2016 06:40
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Cars are a symbol of bourgeois excess and individualism. Surely it'd be much more Correct to have proper public transport and mass transit.
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Perhaps. There is an obvious tension between endorsing the right of transport labour to strike as their primary means of defending their interests, versus having town and social planners prescribe it as the primary mode of transport. You cannot run an industrial city of tens of millions conditional on fifty odd thousand resisting fits of pique. Other countries may go with one or the other. I suspect that by the time British society sorts that tension out, it would be moot anyway, and the greater cultural struggle would shift to whether it is alright to further enclose roads from pedestrians and cyclists so that the flow of self-driving cars is not unduly delayed.
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Oct 1, 2016 07:07
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JFairfax posted:Ducks loving love to eat bread
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Oct 1, 2016 07:11
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Good job on the OP, Guavanaut. 
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Oct 1, 2016 07:48
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Worth a read (if not depressing for a saturday morning). http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-37517619
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Oct 1, 2016 08:26
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That OP was brilliant Guavanaut, nice work!
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Oct 1, 2016 09:32
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XMNN posted:Liverpool is still pretty left wing and hasn't fallen to ukippery, they voted remain The only good thing the Sun has ever done, in a manner of sorts.
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I can't get enough of are Dan
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ronya posted:Perhaps. There is an obvious tension between endorsing the right of transport labour to strike as their primary means of defending their interests, versus having town and social planners prescribe it as the primary mode of transport. You cannot run an industrial city of tens of millions conditional on fifty odd thousand resisting fits of pique. I would argue London is already primarily reliant on public transport. By and large it works out OK.
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Tory government in policy that DOESN'T poo poo on the sick shocker http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37526324
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Marmaduke! posted:Tory government in policy that DOESN'T poo poo on the sick shocker http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37526324 Good job, Tory scum
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feedmegin posted:I would argue London is already primarily reliant on public transport. By and large it works out OK. I agree, with caveats. One is that "reliance" is not measured in terms of a plural majority in volume terms (which is not yet a reality in central London, never mind outer London), but instead in that disruption would nonetheless be substantive if its (large) minority share were impacted. The other caveat is that significant legislative and policy action has gone toward weakening the strike powers of rail and bus workers since the 1980s. Atop that the labour bodies seem to absorbed the idea that 1) calling for country-paralyzing general strikes does not make them more popular, and that 2) yes, when organized labour makes itself sufficiently unpopular, the country will vote for Thatcherite figures to openly denounce strikers as the enemy within and then destroy them, and 3) contra rhetoric, labour does not actually win those resulting confrontations. 1980s-vintage internal agitprop makes for morbid reading, with the benefit of hindsight. The pattern of 1-day strikes nowadays is not an accident - it is a gesture to demonstrate commitment but limit disruption-induced unpopularity. But I digress. The point is that the growth in reliance and policy embrace of mass transit has gone hand-in-hand with gentrification and limitation of the frequency of disruption. ronya fucked around with this message at 10:37 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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HJB posted:The only good thing the Sun has ever done, in a manner of sorts. Agreed. Can't help but wonder what Liverpool would be like today if it wasn't for Kelvin McKenzie's utter bullshit. And let me join in on complimenting Guavanaut (or for Halloween month should it be Goveanaut? Because nothing is scarier than Sarah Vine's columns describing her sex life with Michael Gove) on the OP.
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forkboy84 posted:Agreed. Can't help but wonder what Liverpool would be like today if it wasn't for Kelvin McKenzie's utter bullshit. relative Labour strength in Liverpool led to an exceptionally New Labour-aligned government focused on urban regeneration and undermining the prominent dock strike of the 1990s. Left-leaning disenchantment with this style of government led to a Lib Dem surge that would last more than a decade. The Lib Dem government of course doubled down on even more urban regeneration, and all the enormous effort of the strikers into garnering support from allied youth protest groups evaporated into a middle-class campaign celebrating itself as a victorious social movement, despite not actually obtaining any concessions. 1979 this was not. decades of policy focus on urban regeneration would culminate in a relatively successful and cosmopolitan city, nonetheless ronya fucked around with this message at 11:07 on Oct 1, 2016 |
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op extra spoopy 10/10
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