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thehustler posted:A lot of people keep talking about Yorkshire independence now too. Give each EU regional area official status as a province/state/whatever (personally I like whatever combination allows Wales to be called the Welsh Autonomous Zone), drop the 'countries within a country (within a country?)' thing which has only ever found use in sports and loving over the periphery, make the Westminster government federal. Plus it means lots more miniature flags to wave. Pissflaps posted:'UK' isn't an acronym, it's an initialism.
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Undead Hippo posted:That seems like a weird spin to put on it. Wasn't the Regional Assembly plan squelched because people overwhelmingly voted against it?  ' arguments in Yorkshire, which smacked a lot of the 'This baby needs new body armour, not a fair voting system' adverts. I can't remember the midlands or north-east getting any kind of vote.e: I don't think it's controversial to say that the government in the UK (Scotland excepted in the past couple decades) is far more centralized than most other European countries though.
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HortonNash posted:I've been out of the field for four years so I don't know about this proton treatment, but I'm fairly confident that if we don't offer it here it's for a good reason, and not just cost/or the NHS being poo poo (we really aren't when it comes to radiotherapy). e: http://www.cancerresearchuk.org/about-us/cancer-news/news-report/manchester-and-london-proton-beam-therapy-units-confirmed Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 21:54 on Sep 2, 2014 |
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They also gave Erwin Rommel an award for "style in the face of true adversity" in 1999, so it's not the first time they've heaped praise on war criminals. e: vvv The economy has always been at war with Eastasia. Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 12:03 on Sep 3, 2014 |
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Jedit posted:Erwin Rommel was one of the few senior German officers who didn't commit war crimes and was forced to commit suicide after being implicated in Claus von Stauffenberg's plot to assassinate Hitler. But, he was German in 1940 so I guess he was a Jew-hating fascist, right?
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Bozza posted:If you have never had the joy of typing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ts96J7HhO28
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I thought there were exceptions if there are genuine moral reasons? How would it play out for other jobs, like if they tried to pressure a Vegan or Muslim to be a pork butcher? Not that it would surprise me if they were completely ignored because targets!
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I'm sure they don't give a poo poo about having morals, but I thought there was a thing where if there were certain ethical reasons that you couldn't take a job, like having a religious objection to working as a pork butcher, you couldn't be compelled to. Not that it would surprise me if they completely ignored that or just looked for any other shitball reason to sanction the person objecting.
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KKKlean Energy posted:I still can't believe the LibDems went into coalition with the Tories. It boggles the mind.
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ReV VAdAUL posted:In the event of independence Scots will become the new bogeyman.
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mrpwase posted:Who is our spymaster? 
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Zephro posted:I dunno - it seems odd to constantly complain about Scottish parasites and then get all offended when they look like they might leave voluntarily. It's a bit like a guy who constantly belittles his wife then getting angry when she finally divorces him. 
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Zohar posted:So basically what Americans do?
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Chocolate Teapot posted:Sentence Rees-Mogg to a year without a nanny (or other aide), sentence IDS to a year without housing/food/water/money/travel/expenses/etc; I'm sure he can come up with some sort of magical solution, like how he was definitely living on JSA that one time or how many people didn't kill themselves over the bedroom tax.
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thehustler posted:That's the weird thing really. A placebo can work even if patients know it's a placebo.
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KKKlean Energy posted:Can't remember where I've seen it but more expensive placebos are apparently more effective. They're also more effective if they're more painful. If they're on prescription, and so not free in England, does that mean that English homeopathic treatments are more effective than Welsh ones?
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LemonDrizzle posted:Australia regularly tops the international rankings on scales measuring well-being and human development but to read the auspol thread you'd think it was a nightmare hellscape patrolled by mecha-neoliberals who seek out and devour helpless innocents cowering in the blasted wastes. That's what UKIP and the Tories mean when they fetishize "Australian-style immigration controls". They mean offshore concentration camps. Maybe the more naive ones just mean a points system, but I will bet money that Farage longs for private camps full of immigrant children on Alderney.
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Is it any more odd than the lack of a formal written constitution, or the existence of 'parliamentary sovereignty'? The whole thing seems to run on a curve of "well technically we can do all this stuff but there might be hell to pay if we actually do".
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Metrication posted:John Redwood was on Newsnight last night with Peter Hain debating devolution to England and his idea was to have an English parliament based inside the Commons alongside the regular parliament, and they would alternate working days. Or ideally having England as a number of smaller parliaments, more roughly equal to Scotland each, so that the federation isn't incredibly weighted one way or the other.
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Cerv posted:it's the political equivalent of "but why aren't there men only nights at the swimming pool". Not bothering and keeping the status quo seems like it would just maintain the imbalance of power though. ReV VAdAUL posted:Even if he does, this winter is likely to be a severe test of his popularity. Brownouts are a distinct possibility and people who have their iPhone or laptop damaged by a brownout are unlikely to be happy at all. 
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twoot posted:Using the NUTS2 regions could be sensible. Yorkshire and the Humber is the only one that sounds creative enough to be a province. Time for some regional identity movements for Mercia, Anglia, etc that aren't just weird old white people talking about nationalism in pubs?
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The Luftwaffe tried that with Coventry, and it just came back worse.
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Fluo posted:If I painted Edinburgh on my last visit because by chance my friend got a knife in the ribs (survived luckily), it would be dishonest of the city.
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goddamnedtwisto posted:Frequency and voltage variation are a shitload less damaging to the network than shedding load - it's something that happens all the time because about the only things that even use AC directly are electric motors, light bulbs and heating elements, everything else is rectified to DC.
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"the principle that our people were better able to govern themselves than any British government," can be read two ways, either "the Irish are better able to govern Ireland than the British government are able to govern Ireland" or "the Irish are better able to govern Ireland than the British government are able to govern the British government." I can see some merit in both statements.
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Why is the UK still outside of Shengen anyway? Is it just island nation mentality coupled with appeasing the voters who are terrified that next time Hitler will only need a drivers license to attack London instead of an
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Don't be mean. He deserves to sit at the highest seat in Heaven, alongside all the Popes. 
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Pissflaps posted:Also we say Labour 'are' hosed, not 'is'.
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http://www.labour.org.uk/pages/history-of-the-labour-party uses singular throughout. e: It's mostly a style thing though, I'd only use a plural if it looks like one, like "The Conservatives are a bunch of arseholes"/"The Conservative Party is an association for advancing and representing arseholes." Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 17:09 on Sep 14, 2014 |
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TinTower posted:UKIP want us out of the next two World Cups, and FIFA entirely if Sepp Blatter is re-elected. 
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Brussels replaced them with systèmes internationaux de menthe, they're next to the straight bananas.
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Zero Gravitas posted:Correct me if I'm wrong, but didnt Hitler and his Japanese allies have some rather dark plans for Indonesia?   People in Indonesia would probably look at you for displaying Imperial Japanese symbols the same way that most Europeans would look at you for displaying Nazi stuff, but the converse applies too, Third Reich symbols don't necessarily mean "I'm a huge racist fascist shithead" in S.E. Asia. Related, there was a spike in the popularity of Mein Kampf in India a few years ago because of a generation of schoolkids who were taught little about Hitler other than "strict hardline leader who fought against the British Empire in the 40s".
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tooterfish posted:That seems crazy, since Gandhi denounced fascism pretty specifically... and I'm sure they're taught about Gandhi.  go-to guy for evil outside of Europe and North America, for obvious reasons. I'm not sure to what extent students in India are taught about Hitler's fascism, but I'd guess it would be more on par with what most British students are taught about Nanking instead of what British students are taught about the Blitz and Auschwitz. Also I don't know if the Indian students are buying to be ~super edgy~ or not, but I definitely remember some of the Indian business newspapers reporting on it a few years back.
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Ephemeron posted:Because the actual successor to the Soviet Union and its sins has anti-aircraft capabilities, a standing army and a few odd nukes.
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Wolfsbane posted:
You might have more success with more comprehensive property or land value taxes. It's much harder to hide land in the Caymans too. Or targeted drone strikes against anybody with a personalized number plate. e: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad posted:Charge a disgustingly high annual renewal fee on Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 14:27 on Sep 17, 2014 |
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All of the above. 
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Biggus Dickus posted:The looming end of the paper VED disc is bringing out the "put the tax on fuel" brigade again. I did some Googling.
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Serotonin posted:We already do this via the Motor Insurers Bureau, which a percentage of car insurance payments goes towards. That's more equitable than allowing insurance companies to gouge everyone for as much as they want. Autonomous Monster posted:I said this in the other thread, but this entire concept is surreal to me. I refuse to believe that we've backed England into federation.
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