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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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bump_fn posted:

can white people be terrorists in the UK or is it like america

over here they're known as 'quiet gardeners'

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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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boohoohoo there's a new populist in town and his name isn't Nige, boohoohoo

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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TomViolence posted:

I've been assured that Private Eye is the finest purveyor of the most biting and witty satire, but from what I've seen, on balance, Viz does a better job.

Viz is legit, 100% unironically brilliant.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Boris is absolutely a fool, tho

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Vitamin P posted:

Load of handwritten signs in windows saying the M25 Cat Killer is back. Broken Britain.

Gonna go out on a limb here and say that cats probably shouldn't be on the M25 in the first place

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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UrbicaMortis posted:

I thought for sure when he resigned he was going to go down in history as one of the worst PMs ever but May's constant incompetence is giving him a lot of cover.

I think this sorry period as a whole will be looked back on with a mix of amusement, bemusement, and disgust

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Samovar posted:

Who could've guessed that going with simple nationalistic platitudes with nothing else would be... bad?

Sounds like dirty remoaner talk to me. Why do you have such hate in your heart for Roast Britain

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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I hope there's a special circle of hell reserved for these fuckers

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Jose posted:

gently caress off vince this is why nobody votes for you

https://twitter.com/gemmacdoyle/sta...er%3D141%23pti9

liberals are worse than tories

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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bump_fn posted:

liberals are more dangerous than conservatives cause they think they’re good guys

They're reliably unreliable and liable to stab leftists in the back at the worst possible moments. At least tories barely bother to hide their abject shittiness, you know where you stand with them

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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tarbrush posted:

Fucks sake, I'm one of like 20 actual Lib Dems and I wouldn't vote for him if he pulls this poo poo.

Haha wtf why

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Charles Kennedy was a good man.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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bump_fn posted:

i had my first interaction with the NHS today and, well, frankly, lol at america forever

Someone once said the NHS was the British equivalent of the moon landing and it's hard to disagree, it's probably the single greatest achievement of this otherwise benighted little island.

Which makes it all the more galling that the tories are so gleefully vandalising it

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Bryter posted:

Greggs is poo poo

But Britishers are ugly, dour bastards

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Peel posted:

one of the great prospects for a corbyn government is that it will owe the press less than nothing

The prospect of a government that actually enforces press standards and punishes this poo poo is scarcely imaginable, but it would be the biggest change in this country in, like, fifty years

Basically I want the Mail, the Sun, the Express, and gently caress it, the Telegraph and the Times to go the way of the News of the World - permanently in the loving bin

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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I'm tired of all this tory poo poo, stop buggering around and just give me King Corbyn, the writing's on the wall ffs

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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SteelMentor posted:

I may be on my deathbed but I can still gently caress everything up for those drat ungrateful kids! :corsair:

From Hell's heart I stab at thee! For hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee!...Corby Dick...

Barry Foster has issued a correction as of 00:24 on Nov 20, 2017

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Put the loving boot in, JC

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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UrbicaMortis posted:

Love too piss off one of the UK 's largest cities to save a tiny amount of money.

Safe Labour area, therefore as far as the tories are concerned it can sink into the sea

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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The OG Absolute Boy

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Fallen Hamprince posted:

gee I can't image what it is about Meghan Markle that Mail readers don't like

Well, she's....*whispers extremely middle-classly* an, um, an urban

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Hmm, on balance I think I prefer the jam man's response

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Strong ground game from the Absolute Party over the last two pages

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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jose I can help you get rid of that pesky nitrous, and for only a nominal fee

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Yinlock posted:

also after winning he immediately went to a bar then went straight to welcoming refugees

relentlessly absolut

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Marxist-Jezzinist posted:

gently caress off

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Pessimism about Corbyn's chances back in the dark days is fine, it all looked pretty bleak pretty often. It's when people started giving Owen Smith(? is that his name?) the eye and saying 'I hate to say it, I really do, but maybe we need to start considing being sensible...', that's the gulag worthy stuff.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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I thought it was curtains too, though I had no regrets - go down swinging, and all that. Went to bed early because I couldn't bear the strain and tension of watching the exit polls live.

The next morning was loving unbelievable. Very shortly afterwards someone linked this and it made me laugh myself silly

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Vitamin P posted:

The election night was pretty good UKMTing if I recall correctly.

I had to catch up afterwards but Pissed Flaps was a highlight

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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TomViolence posted:

disgraceful and offensive

there's nothing wrong with being mentally ill

being a tory on the other hand is entirely their own drat fault

Not an empty quote. These people aren't insane, they're just loving awful

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Yinlock posted:

a case can actually be made for brain damage via lead poisoning, but otoh they were completely awful even before that so

Yeah, that's fair. I'm totally, unironically on board with the theory that Leaded Petrol Broke Baby Boomer Brains.

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Heavy_D posted:

gonna just park this one here for a special occasion

https://twitter.com/lumpylouise/status/946986731420704768

:hellyeah:

I'd somehow missed out on Toby Young until now, and perhaps I'm only hearing half the story but his unending litany of gently caress ups is farcical.

Also I didn't know that The Other Johnson was an mp as well. The Westminster clown infestation is worse than I feared

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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The fackin' GOOD OLD DAYS!!!

Die swiftly, boomers

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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nopantsjack posted:

Now weed, that's a tricky one to quit

Why would you even wanna?

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Jose posted:

may was doing a cabinet reshuffle with the main intention being to move jeremy hunt from being minister for health and well

https://twitter.com/tnewtondunn/sta...s-politics-live

Bwahahahahahaha

Someone put her out of her misery already, got drat

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Tacky-rear end Rococco posted:

There's no question that, if answered honestly, a majority of the Commons would assert they have no confidence in this government. I wonder if even a majority of Tories have confidence? Or if the only unifying factor is fear of another election.

May is so screwed that if she embraced it she might have leverage. "Defying me means triggering a crisis and an election that we'll lose. Do so and be damned."

I thought I read somewhere that she has said this at some point, or at least that the dominant feeling in the tory party is genuine fear of a Corbyn government (because they may actually believe their own bullshit about his being a merciless Stalinist, rather than a mild-mannered centre left manhole enthusiast)

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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nopantsjack posted:

nah its extremely common for politicians to start beleiving their own propaganda
i think in the same way most tories have internalised that austerity was a cost saving measure not ideological asset stripping they have also convinced themselves that corbyn is genuinely the first step on the road to stalin/mao

see: free markets, compassionate conservatism, bipartisanship etc

like my only tory friend will go "hmmm theresa may is very bad, but i read a book about how mao killed millions" and its like.... what?

This is it exactly. The Tory party is made up of a combination of unrepentant old Cold Warriors and younger PPE aristocrats who have never known anything except Austrian economics and privilege. For both of these groups, Corbynite politics really do appear genuinely dangerous.

Which is why they're so, so appealing to the rest of us :getin:

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Lightning Lord posted:

Did voting Lib Dem make sense when Labour was Blairite because :confused:

Yeah. When Blair was being an authoritarian, warmongering dickhead, the Lib Dems under Charles Kennedy - an actually decent person, despite his liberalism - made a lot more sense.

Now they're just a dying rump party, and good riddance

Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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Corbs exercises regularly, is a vegetarian, doesn't smoke and doesn't drink. He's almost certainly in better physical and cognitive health than most of the Tory backbenches, for a start, and there's no reason he won't be for some time yet.

Yeah, desperation

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Barry Foster
Dec 24, 2007

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I've been putting off watching this because I knew it'd be heavy. gently caress, that's heavy.

This government is intolerable.

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