big scary monsters posted:

Based on that Juncker meeting analysis she's certainly what this country deserves.

That said, I myself have been holding Brexit talks of late, and have successfully negotiated a deal to leave the EU I'm moving to Norway this month.

Demiurge4 posted:

Long term renting sucks, landlords who own lots of houses they rent out suck. If you rent a lone standing house for +3 years you should be able to force a buy on it. Landlord can't force you out early unless a court finds you criminally negligent or you commit a serious crime while renting. I'm more ambivalent on apartments.

jBrereton posted:

No, I'm saying that people on HB are more or less like any other tenant, but typically with less stuff to put up as collateral/less chance of successfully getting the money you are owed if it ends up in small claims court. I can understand why banks won't lend to landlords in that instance, and hence why landlords are reluctant to take them on as a result.

More housing being built would help this unfortunate situation.

jBrereton posted:

What an incredibly moronic article.

"In the big cities where local government cuts have been enormous, it looks like Labour is not doing so well in the last few years!!!!!!" yeah no poo poo, what about Big Gid's policy to replace any council houses sold with fresh housing? Oh that hasn't happened whatsoever, Nice.

LemonDrizzle posted:

The Shadow Chancellor addressing the public, today, under the banners of the Communist Party of Great Britain (Marxist-Leninist) and the Assad regime.

TheRat posted:

You have some rather weird priorities.

Spangly A posted:

the tories are selling turkey planes you dumb gently caress

Dabir posted:

You weren't going to anyway.

Spangly A posted:

there really is though

you poo poo your pants at seeing a flag, assuming it means something it pretty clearly doesn't, and claim this is Labour Bad. But actually selling weapons to the regimes you care so much about wouldn't bother you?

What, are you going to vote green or something?


Please don't confuse "really crap at leading a political party" with bad policies. Labour have great policies. They're just led by people really bad at stage-managing national level politics. The party that are really good at this stuff are literal child rapists with a 25 year record of worldwide failure behind their economy.

Ewan posted:

So, who has the best summer BBQ recipes?

Pochoclo posted:

- Since you're European and used to lovely meats

Ewan posted:

Are you American by any chance? Or spent lots of time in America?

Pochoclo posted:

You must have gone to a lovely place. Next time you go there shoot me a PM I'll give you a list of decent places. Also the best asado is the home-made one I'm afraid.

Or alternatively you're just being Pissflaps.

Ewan posted:

https://www.theguardian.com/inequality/2017/may/03/how-do-britains-highest-earners-feel-about-their-income

“Due to the vast absolute difference among the 1%, top income earners experience ‘relative disadvantage’,” the report, A Relational Analysis of Top Incomes and Wealth, states. “They are disadvantaged compared to others at the top, while being aware of their advantage compared to the general population.”

A senior investment banker, who earns hundreds of thousands of pounds a year, said he “just doesn’t feel particularly wealthy” compared with other parents at his children’s private school who, he said, were sitting on £100m-plus family fortunes.

“I feel like I’m fairly well off and I earn multiples of the hundred thousands,” the banker told a researcher from the LSE’s International Inequalities Institute. “But I feel very poor in the context of the classmates [of my children] ... Their parents can spend a lot more time with them, because none of them really work, or some of them work but it’s working on their own terms: they might run a hedge fund but they can take the kids to school.

The unnamed investment banker said earning a few hundred thousand “does not feel that great”.

The investment banker said £100m was a lot of money – but “not a ridiculous amount of money”. He told the researcher he was “fairly confident” that a driven and passionate individual could “start from zero and get to £100m within 20 years”.

Boohoo the poor 1% and their relative disadvantage

JFairfax posted:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-eu-referendum-35943216

Gross payment of about £18bn in 2015, if it's a five year budget that we've agreed to you're up to nearly £100bn gross quickly.

mediadave posted:

In which case, i expect the large majority of Labour MPs to jump to the Co-Operative party or whatever. I honestly don't know who would want to stick around for whatever Corbyn and McDonnel have planned.

Skinty McEdger posted:

It's hard to say that anyone with a less than 10,000 seat majority is safe, but Lewis remains popular locally, has been involved in the local campaign and has good visibility and saw all of the local council seats in his seat get returned comfortably for labour. There's people with larger majorities than him in 2015 that I think are in a lot more danger.

Darth Walrus posted:

Yeah, there's two ways ex-soldiers can go - authoritarian hard-right lunatic or pacifist, socially-conscious lefty. He seems to be the latter variety.

Tortuga posted:

Apparently he was TA not regular. ie a big fat goony COD fan who just wanted to shoot muslims on the weekend, and not a proper hard army man.

and i must meme posted:

who are the people who want to privatise the BBC? why?

jabby posted:

Polling is a snapshot and his approval is still increasing. All I'm saying so far is that his exposure has made him a lot more popular than he was, which is the opposite of what his opponents claimed would happen. Maybe it would be higher if he weren't starting from an artificially low base having had his own party briefing against him for two years.

Spangly A posted:

The only way that's a bad thing to say is if you possess a warped and dangerous view of history

forkboy84 posted:

If you were any denser I'd be afraid you were a neutron star.


You're treating a complex issue in a child-like manner, where everything is black & white, either or. It's not. In the real world issues can be complex and simply saying A GOOD B BAD is entirely unhelpful. You can agree with someone's aims while disagreeing their method of getting there, and you can hope to convince them of the validity of your argument by discussing it with them. Supporting Irish reunification and supporting the IRA & their campaign of terrorism are not the same thing. Engaging in debate with you does not mean I agree with the drivel you are spouting.

Lord of the Llamas posted:

There's lots of headshaking but try 1:14 on this

https://twitter.com/LabourEoin/status/866643469003042820

Kokoro Wish posted:

Just had an Iranian staying with us as a border and the way he talked about his country, it's fairly moderate, largely secular and the education system is pretty good. He's kind of terrified about America trying to gently caress around with them though.

kustomkarkommando posted:

Why would I need Gregg's when I can walk down to my local bakery and order a sausage roll bap

kustomkarkommando posted:

jabby posted:

Odds on Jeremy Corbyn from the main betting sites, which were improving yesterday, are now getting worse. Odds on Theresa May are improving. But thank God campaigning is going to remain suspended for a week so nobody can take advantage of this tragedy.

Lightning Lord posted:

Am I right in remembering they didn't even do anything approaching this crazy poo poo in response to the 2005 tube attacks?

feedmegin posted:

I mean, to be fair the IRA did mortar airports and stuff back in the day, if I recall. Tanks aren't necessarily overkill against a group that literally had stuff like surface-to-air missiles in their shooty collection.

(Also, wasn't it Scorpions? As opposed to, y'know, a proper tank-tank ie Challengers)

Pissflaps posted:

https://twitter.com/PolhomeEditor/status/867387133086052352

Regarde Aduck posted:

That was one guy. Who said sorry about a minute later. So yes I do remember. And I don't think people not wanting it to be a terrorist attack is particularly damning.

LemonDrizzle posted:

Quite the opposite, surely - if you have strong reason to suspect that there may be a bomb-making facility in an area (especially one manufacturing acetone peroxide, which has a bad tendency to detonate at a time of its own choosing), it seems like it'd be pretty irresponsible to just let people come and go as they please until you've either secured the facility or confirmed that the suspicion was groundless.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

I'm 33, and yeah I'm fairly over-qualified (four degrees, two each in maths (specialising in statistics/stochastics) and physics (specialising in nuclear and particle physics, including nuclear power engineering in particular, and as an aside my masters project was on dye sensitized solar cells). I also spent some time as an industrial scientist but am currently back in my ivory tower.

Oberleutnant posted:

Bodyweight exercises are where it's at, my dude.

DesperateDan posted:

if the tories consider may getting heckled and openly laughed at a "victory" then lol

Lord of the Llamas posted:

Also, the sample size was 515 so this isn't even a statistically significant shift. I'd also question how easy it really is to get a "representative sample" of such a niche group that accounts for under 0.005% of the UK population. It seems to me that most of the attempts to smear Labour as antisemitic are targeted at middle class white people and not British Jews.

MrL_JaKiri posted:

If you have a completely random sample

Lord of the Llamas posted:

I never said a sample size of 500 was "bad", I just said it meant that there isn't a statistically significant shift in the Labour support according to the 2015 and 2017 results.

And that's assuming:


Which I think is a dubious assumption. Pollsters find it incredibly hard to correctly weight their polls for the UK national population despite having reams of demographic data and past polls and elections to base it on.

The main takeaway people should have here is that the binomial confidence intervals are the perfect case scenario in terms of accuracy and in practice underestimate the real margin of error.

Oberleutnant posted:

I'm starting to get really interested in Theresa May's future as PM. Assuming she squeaks through the GE with a lower-than-hoped-for majority the entire gambit is going to look like a gigantic fuckup on her part. Her credibility on a personal level has already been shot to poo poo in the last couple of weeks, and in the futue we've got the Brexit negotiations, which aren't going to go well at all.

Will her backbenchers be prepared to leave her in place until 2021 or 2022?
Will May be prepared to resign if the knives come out, or will she force her backbenchers to torpedo the entire government and possibly force another GE in a year or two?

I just can't see her surviving as PM unless she somehow pulls a gigantic majority out of this GE.