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 (thanks Pesky Splinter) It's Happening! Or maybe it isn't. This is the month where Brexit deadline happens, where the Meaningful Vote Battleships Petropavlovsk and Sevastopol, March 1921, Kronstadt posted:Our country is enduring a difficult moment. Hunger, cold and economic ruin have held us in an iron vice these three years already. The Communist Party, which rules the country, has become separated from the masses, and shown itself unable to lead her from her state of general ruin. It has not faced the reality of the disturbances which in recent times have occurred in Petrograd and Moscow. This unrest shows clearly enough that the party has lost the faith of the working masses. Neither has it recognized the demands presented by the workers. It considers them plots of the counter-revolution. It is deeply mistaken. In The News  • Arron Banks's Leave.EU and Eldon Insurance are fined £120,000 over data law breaches. • Apetito and Bidfood, major suppliers to care homes and hospitals, report that they are stockpiling food in case of disruption caused by Brexit. • Theresa May suffers another defeat in the Commons on her Brexit strategy, losing the vote by 303 to 258, also pushes back the 'Meaningful' Vote to mid-March. • Thousands of school pupils around the UK go on strike to push for action on climate change. • Seven Labour MPs resign to form The Independent Group and immediately do racism and GDPR violations everywhere. Three Tories later join them. Other very important minds resign. • Sajid Javid announces that he will cop out of dealing with so-called ISIS Bride Shamima Begum, preferring to fob her off on whatever country can be forced to have her even if it violates international law, the chicken egg coward fucker. • Corbyn • New genius plan is to use the KFC chicken logistics guys to deliver medicines for the NHS post-Brexit. • It's hot. Earth is dying again. • Simples   All Sports March UKMT February 2019 - Mermaids are coming for their sons genitals/I loving hate centrists UKMT January 2019 - I think it might be satire but it's impossible to tell/What a loving mess All Previous Threads (thanks Pesky Splinter) Emblem of Unity March Europol Thread Scotpol Thread Trainchat Thread Political Cartoons Thread BYOB: UKMT March of the Soviet Tankmen Venezuela Thread For Discussion of Venezuela High School Cadets-March Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. The Signaller's March Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – Malatesta The Method of Freedom – Malatesta In Praise of Idleness – Russell Political Ideals – Russell Declaration – Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo God and the State – Bakunin The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg Violence – Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Crashed: How a Decade of Financial Crises Changed the World – Adam Tooze Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons UKMT CLP Commissars (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto and UKMT goons) Join us on synIRC for Question Time Awfulness and Stuff #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Lightning Knight posted:
learnincurve posted:Need something added to every OP. DWP have been told not to tell sanctioned people about this.  https://twitter.com/archivetvmus71/status/1090310637102747648 Dawn of March 1st. 28 days remain. 
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Also after discussing it with CB and amongst ourselves, we’ve decided we won’t punish people just for mentioning pissflaps anymore as long as it doesn’t cause an extended derail. What constitutes “an extended derail” is up to interpretation. 
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Many thanks to the previous thread for teaching me that Blue Labour exists. I've seen individuals and politicians advocate for Labour to "appeal to the working classes" but I never knew it was an organised thing.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:12
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Bloody hell it's March
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Ok so what the gently caress is the thing with the parachute and the burning Union Jack?
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I GOT A SUGGESTION IN THE OP, I CAN DIE HAPPY WHEN THE BREXIT COMES!Pershing posted:Ok so what the gently caress is the thing with the parachute and the burning Union Jack? vegan sausage roll
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Vegan sausage roll
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Mar 1, 2019 01:17
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A vegan sausage roll presenting as femme.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:17
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OwlFancier posted:A vegan sausage roll presenting as femme.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:19
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I'm truly sorry your government doesn't know how to not kill you all.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:27
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I’ve been in Germany this week, it’s been fun seeing the wide eyes and shocked expressions of my German friends as I explain Brexit to them. “Yes it’s always been within our power to cancel it” got the biggest reaction. I was shocked by the low (ie similar to Britain pre-2010) number of homeless people in Leipzig, I guess I had got used to passing 5 or 6 homeless people on my 15 minute walk to work. And thanks Shakey Beef for the Leipzig DDR museum recommendations, very interesting experience since I’m largely ignorant of that period in Germany.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:32
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Great Britain is an awesome place for cool dudes. OK thx bye
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:I'm truly sorry your government doesn't know how to not kill you all. They know. They just don't care enough to do it.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:33
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Posting on the first page of the UK last thread Looking forward to next months England + Wales MT
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Great Britain is an awesome place for cool dudes. OK thx bye Stop lying about my country.
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Darth Walrus posted:They know. They just don't care enough to do it. Have you considered dosing them with anti-depressants on the sly?
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Vincent Van Goatse posted:Have you considered dosing them with anti-depressants on the sly? Oh, they're already very happy and satisfied with their New Zealand doomsday bunkers.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:37
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Ignorant American here - I read about these independent group dummies, are they actually running a full slate of candidates or are they just playing spoiler in the particular districts where their members defected?
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JosefStalinator posted:Ignorant American here - I read about these independent group dummies, are they actually running a full slate of candidates or are they just playing spoiler in the particular districts where their members defected? Theres nowhere for them to run yet
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JosefStalinator posted:Ignorant American here - I read about these independent group dummies, are they actually running a full slate of candidates or are they just playing spoiler in the particular districts where their members defected? They'll probably look to expand into a proper party, but if they can't do that, their plan is to run in Labour marginals, not their own seats (because their own constituents hate them).
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Mar 1, 2019 01:39
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why is the tater tot british anyways?
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Mar 1, 2019 01:39
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At the minute they're going to nando's and giving themselves titular pats on the back.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:39
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Mantis42 posted:why is the tater tot british anyways? It's not. The vegan sausage roll, on the other hand, is extremely British.
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Woot! Thank for including my lazy Brexit Evony banner. Also don't think I didn't notice the "simples" at the end of the first paragraph  Shamesless self promotion on the breakdown of the The Independant Group people for people wondering who these loving nobodies are. Mantis42 posted:why is the tater tot british anyways? U wot m8 [e]: Ooooh, the Pesky Splinter fucked around with this message at 01:48 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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Mar 1, 2019 01:44
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I did not like the vegan sausage roll. And greggs veg slices are shite. It, and Costa, can gently caress off. Fight me.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:53
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lol at us forever
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Mar 1, 2019 01:54
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I mean lol @ us for most of the month I guess. Then probably screaming.
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Mar 1, 2019 01:56
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Finally bit the bullet and got off my rear end. Membership paid for the labour party for one year. I live in fife, scotland. Anyone got any knowledge of the CLP there or whatnot?
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Mar 1, 2019 01:57
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I have coeliacs disease. I have never been to greggs.
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JosefStalinator posted:Ignorant American here - I read about these independent group dummies, are they actually running a full slate of candidates or are they just playing spoiler in the particular districts where their members defected? It depends. If there's a general election in the next 12 months I think it'll basically be the current TIG MPs. And the rumour is they won't actually run in the seats they currently hold, instead they want to run in potential Conservative to Labour swing seats purely to stop Labour from picking them up. But if there's no election before the next mandatory date of 2022 then yeah, I'd suspect they'll run as many candidates as they can muster, which probably still won't be a full slate because who the gently caress wants to be in the Stop Brexit Party years after we've already slipped out of the EU with No Deal, assuming they even still exist and haven't just merged with the Lib Dems. But it's also hard to work out because they keep insisting they don't stand for anything, which is new politics apparently and not totally vapid bollocks Iymarra posted:Finally bit the bullet and got off my rear end. Membership paid for the labour party for one year. There'll be multiple in Fife I'd have thought, but you shouldn't need to worry, you should get a membership card which if I remember right contains constituency party info (mine hasn't been out of my wallet in forever and I'm about to go to bed so can't confirm) but I also got an email from the Secretary of my local CLP when I joined so I'd imagine that's normal. forkboy84 fucked around with this message at 02:18 on Mar 1, 2019 |
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What the gently caress is going on in this cartoon btw? https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2019/feb/28/steve-bell-on-tom-watsons-response-to-antisemitism-cartoon
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I would assume it's a reference to a postwar demob poster, presumably with the message "let's deflate tom watson"
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Mar 1, 2019 02:21
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Brexit baby!
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forkboy84 posted:It depends. If there's a general election in the next 12 months I think it'll basically be the current TIG MPs. And the rumour is they won't actually run in the seats they currently hold, instead they want to run in potential Conservative to Labour swing seats purely to stop Labour from picking them up. But if there's no election before the next mandatory date of 2022 then yeah, I'd suspect they'll run as many candidates as they can muster, which probably still won't be a full slate because who the gently caress wants to be in the Stop Brexit Party years after we've already slipped out of the EU with No Deal, assuming they even still exist and haven't just merged with the Lib Dems. This makes sense. Given what you've said, it also sounds like there's a non-zero possibility that with enough time they just totally fizzle out and barely have any impact, but it sounds very goddamn stupid. I'm sorry that our (US) politics are doing their best to one up each other in how loving stupid they can be.
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Mar 1, 2019 02:36
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Strapping in for a fun month on the Brexit ride to hell. 
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Mar 1, 2019 03:04
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Mar 1, 2019 03:07
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Hey it's my birthday this month, and my next dentists appointment isn't until April. You know, other than Brexit loving destroying everything at the end of the month i'd say things are looking up. OwlFancier posted:second referndum and leave wins again This is what would happen.
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OwlFancier posted:second referndum and leave wins again If it doesn't there'll be tiki torches in the streets.
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