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To be honest I get a small comfort from the fact we didn't get the first left-wing government in decades only for them to IMMEDIATLEY have to face a once in a lifetime crisis which the neo-lib shits before them had barely needed to contemplate. Edit: Dogammons ![]() escapegoat fucked around with this message at 21:37 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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parallel universe Corbyn has a coalition government, mind you, given the numbers you can tune into Spanish politics right now for a sample of the PSOE-Podemos coalition govt fending off the right if that experience is any indication, the SNP would be similarly putting any showdown plans on hold (reading, likely correctly, that a showdown amidst a crisis would be negatively perceived) and thus being mainly preoccupied by internal dissent over this course. Farage would be playing the equivalent of Vox in fomenting anti-mask paranoia, and the Tories would be happily playing along by darkly hinting that, well, maybe they don't really endorse that kind of ugly talk but where there's smoke there's fire y'know permitting mass protests would be a much bigger political football (as it is in Spain) but it would still largely be intelligentsia fodder ronya fucked around with this message at 21:53 on Sep 26, 2020 |
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escapegoat posted:To be honest I get a small comfort from the fact we didn't get the first left-wing government in decades only for them to IMMEDIATLEY have to face a once in a lifetime crisis which the neo-lib shits before them had barely needed to contemplate. Honestly, yeah. ![]() sebzilla posted:Labour actually led a poll? He really is though, even to the Tories. I mean, just look at the papers that have turned on him. I'm seriously thinking he'll be gone/going inside of 6 months now. After the no-deal deadline, he can retire for 'health/covid reasons' and 'to spend time with his child (for the first time).
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https://twitter.com/BlueTapesUK/status/1309942911077879808?s=20 Extremely good content
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Red Oktober posted:He really is though, even to the Tories. I mean, just look at the papers that have turned on him. I'm seriously thinking he'll be gone/going inside of 6 months now. After the no-deal deadline, he can retire for 'health/covid reasons' and 'to spend time with his child (for the first time). And going down as the worst PM in history. Til he gets in the Lords and starts making GBS threads on the seats.
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Bobby Deluxe posted:i used the reality stone to look into 14,000,605 futures and in all but one jaremoy corben reduces the earth to jam in a grey goo scenario its what we deserve i vote raspberry
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Bobby Deluxe posted:i used the reality stone to look into 14,000,605 futures and in all but one jaremoy corben reduces the earth to jam in a grey goo scenario Is there one where I have any sort of relationship or sexy times again? Because if not, I'll take the jam grey goo
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What is being turned into jam along with the entirety of the rest of the planet if not extremely horny?
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Bobby Deluxe posted:https://twitter.com/Independent/status/1309775211961683969?s=19 Yang gang rising etc but Yang kind of highlighted that it isn't actually a left wing concept when he completely failed to answer the Landlord Question. A UBI is a really good idea if it's applied holistically and can't just be drained by rentiers, but if not it's only to going to fuel inequality because people that were already getting by enough to have savings will still get by but now they have yangbux too while people who were struggling will see their yangbux evaporate into the absolutely inevitable cost of living increases. And even worse it completely damns people that aren't documented; now already very vulnerable people also have this huge extra impediment that they aren't getting the yangbux while everyone else is, it's formalising the existence of a perpetually desperate underclass. UBI is a great idea but only if the basics of living are already secure, and even then it should be limited so someone can save enough yangbux for a really good honeymoon, for example, but after a certain level of savings it's Use It Or Lose it. The policy as Lib Dems would present it is 100% gonna be papering over the cracks in neoliberalism for 3 years maximum, creating an all new poor-hating culture war avenue or most likely just something they can give up on in negotiations to go into coalition with the tories again.
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I think I've decided whether people think catered halls are posh or not. They are in fact posh.
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ronya posted:parallel universe Corbyn has a coalition government, mind you, given the numbers He has a coalition government with a majority of like 1 and half his MPs hate him. Plus Brexit to worry about still in one form or another. It would not have gone well.
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A bunch of the worst Labour MPs would have left Labour and formed their own party or loose coalition so that Corbyn wouldn't have a majority, I reckon.
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feedmegin posted:It would not have gone well. It would have saved an awful lot of lives though. 2017 Labour policy was to break the fake distinction between health and social care which was the main reason we had such a massive death rate from Covid.
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UKMT Autumn 2020 - Give me liberty or make me into jam
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justcola posted:I thought this was some in-game art for a sequel to Frost Punk ![]()
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https://twitter.com/BarristerSecret/status/1309973892728057858
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The photo is the world's most boring father of the bride telling his anecdote at her wedding reception
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Red Oktober posted:He really is though, even to the Tories. I mean, just look at the papers that have turned on him. I'm seriously thinking he'll be gone/going inside of 6 months now. After the no-deal deadline, he can retire for 'health/covid reasons' and 'to spend time with his child (for the first time). I've seen some people say (might have been in here, can't remember) that there's a hefty lifetime pension if a PM makes it past the two year mark, so he'll likely stay for that at least.
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Red Oktober posted:Honestly, yeah. hahaha boris will be re elected in four years
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bump_fn posted:hahaha boris will be re elected in four years In Strictly Dancing? hosed up if true.
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Lungboy posted:I've seen some people say (might have been in here, can't remember) that there's a hefty lifetime pension if a PM makes it past the two year mark, so he'll likely stay for that at least. It's £100k a year less than the "chicken feed" he got for his telegraph column
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Tarnop posted:It's £100k a year less than the "chicken feed" he got for his telegraph column It is, but it's there in the background for life for doing nothing.
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happyhippy posted:Problem is the students most likely signed away their freedom to do this. What are they going to do though, evict them?
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Vitamin P posted:It would have saved an awful lot of lives though. 2017 Labour policy was to break the fake distinction between health and social care which was the main reason we had such a massive death rate from Covid. That's nice, There would have been zero time to do that between the 2019 election and all this, not to mention the legislative priority would be the second referendum.
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Lungboy posted:I've seen some people say (might have been in here, can't remember) that there's a hefty lifetime pension if a PM makes it past the two year mark, so he'll likely stay for that at least. I remember seeing that in the thread but I'm not aware of it from elsewhere - as far as I know they're entitled to 50% of their salary for life (so that would be 70kish [chicken feed?]), but I don't know if it's dependent on lasting a certain amount of time.
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josh04 posted:What are they going to do though, evict them? And kick them from the uni and course they were on. If its uni owned, and they have rent contracts saying they forfeit being there if they don't keep the place clean and 'respectable in the uni's eyes', who knows how far the uni will take it. Pure assumptions here sure.
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Which Sandra bullock posters?
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That implies there are bad Sandra Bullock posters. Unpossible.
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Lungboy posted:It is, but it's there in the background for life for doing nothing. True, but I don't really feel like he's motivated by money. I think he's motivated by power and prestige, and he's the product of a world that laughs at £150k a year and needs 8 or 9 figures to even make an impression
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Tarnop posted:True, but I don't really feel like he's motivated by money. I think he's motivated by power and prestige, and he's the product of a world that laughs at £150k a year and needs 8 or 9 figures to even make an impression And then he finds out...
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sebzilla posted:Labour actually led a poll? Starmer twists the racism dial one last time, notes the position, and locks the box it's kept in like a landlord locking the thermostat.
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I think he looks like the kind of man who likes prawn sandwiches, does Keir Starmer and bovril
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Nothing wrong with a cup of hot bovril, although they are in league with some strange powers.![]() Can't tell if this is a pro-Vatican advert or they're setting themselves up as an antipope.
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Tarnop posted:True, but I don't really feel like he's motivated by money. I think he's motivated by power and prestige, and he's the product of a world that laughs at £150k a year and needs 8 or 9 figures to even make an impression But then there are pieces like this, that suggests he's hosed for cash, so a hefty pension that lets him live in accustomed luxury for zero effort might be very appealing to a lazy toad like him.
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Have you ever been so owned in the online that you form your own political party? Lawrence 'Lozza' Fox has! https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1309953828859580416
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For a man who's apparently being silenced, Lawrence Fox sure never shuts the gently caress up, huh.
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He's gonna be writing columns wailing about being cancelled by the entire country when he doesn't get elected for anything
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I imagine that the pope does have a giant samovar full of bovril shaped like a medieval turret on a special table.
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To be fair if Billy Piper broke up with me I'd probably have a very public breakdown.
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