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In the actual spirit of International Worker's DayBertrand Russell posted:The idea that the poor should have leisure has always been shocking to the rich. In England, in the early nineteenth century, fifteen hours was the ordinary day's work for a man; children sometimes did as much, and very commonly did twelve hours a day. When meddlesome busybodies suggested that perhaps these hours were rather long, they were told that work kept adults from drink and children from mischief. When I was a child, shortly after urban working men had acquired the vote, certain public holidays were established by law, to the great indignation of the upper classes. I remember hearing an old Duchess say: 'What do the poor want with holidays? They ought to work.' People nowadays are less frank, but the sentiment persists, and is the source of much of our economic confusion. In Praise of Idleness, 1932
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Guess what, Parliament is all about undermining the opposition and blaming them for failing to achieve things they cannot possibly achieve. https://yougov.co.uk/news/2015/07/28/labour-voters-blame-ed-miliband-not-policy-electio/ First it was Ed's fault, now it's Jeremy's. But before this it was Michael Howard, and before that it was IDS. It's not the only factor at play but it's a big one.
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MikeCrotch posted:Mark Blythe has a great quote about how the greatest trick liberalism ever pulled was convincing the world it was the only game in town If you like this, you should read 'Capitalist Realism' by Mark Fisher.
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Ewan posted:This is a fun thread. https://twitter.com/Bryn__Phillips/status/859370453403672577 Utterly bizarre.
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The funniest thing about those tweets is if you watch the video of Merralls' speech, he clearly is a racist. -- https://twitter.com/daily_politics/status/859375471468789760 Worst day for Labour so far. No wonder May hasn't bothered campaigning. What is the point of this guy giving this interview? LemonyTang fucked around with this message at 13:09 on May 2, 2017 |
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Guavanaut posted:I'd prefer if police didn't have to use foodbanks, because police being poor and desperate has (in international studies at least) shown strong links with corruption. A good post. Poverty is the root cause of many of societies ills. Excessive greed being the other big one.
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JFairfax posted:this is prob worse than abbot's gaffe Wrong, there is nothing worse than incompetence. The Tories are the right government for this country because although they are undeniably evil, at least they are efficiently evil. - the British public
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Theresa May is stamping her personal branding all over the campaign because she is the most autocratic PM in recent history, and we have had some pretty autocratic PMs. We're slipping down the road to an elective dictatorship. She refuses debate, she detests dissent. In her video posted in the thread, she talks about 'My party, my candidate.' It's both her personal popularity and her personal style. She wants to secure HER mandate for Brexit. She will completely own the government in the next five years. May is an authoritarian. "It can't happen here", apart from the study (which is awful) in the OP which showed that 25% of the population are "ethnic nationalists" and 25% of the population aren't far off that.
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mediadave posted:it seems like it's for ongoing future EU expenditure. But, whatever you think of Brexit*, surely when the UK leaves the EU then, well, that should be the end to UK payments to EU programmes? Option B is unilateral abrogation of our outgoing payments, which would surely prompt the same from the EU. A likely consequence would then be widespread disruption and damage to a significant number of business enterprises, research projects, e.g. what would happen to Horizon 2020?
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AP posted:EdStone "Polls tied" A lifetime ago!
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Are we sure John Woodcock isn't the chap quoted in that Guardian report?
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Looke posted:Hmm Actually bad for us all
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I enjoyed this video a lot. Well delivered. And yes - that's not an official Labour twitter. It's momentum ran though?
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goddamnedtwisto posted:It can also collide two trains with a closing speed of over a thousand miles an hour if it loses vacuum, a failure mode even Southern can't replicate. I think you'll find mutually assured destruction has been a hallmark policy of the British government for sixty years.
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If you're in for self-flagellation, you can follow the Council election results here: https://twitter.com/britainelects
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The Mayor of Hereford is standing as an in Independent this year, for my constituency. https://www.facebook.com/jim.kenyon.7/videos/10158465457330198/ Amazing.
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TinTower posted:Three long-standing Labour activists have been expelled from the party for supporting the NHA candidate against Jeremy Hunt. This is a disgrace. Absolute stupidity.
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Labour's Party Election Broadcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dz--_LkzbII
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http://www.chathamhouse.org/livestreamChatham House posted:Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn will outline the key national security and foreign policy positions upon which the Labour Party will contest the country’s general election in June. Blasting the military-industrial complex. Yesssssssss. Actually been a really good, forward-thinking, reflective vision for foreign policy. May well be very welcome when contrasted with Trump. LemonyTang fucked around with this message at 12:00 on May 12, 2017 |
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Ohhhhhhhh Jeremy Corbyn
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