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Pistol_Pete posted:Britain has no independent ability to project force abroad and any assistance we provide to Ukraine will be entirely token. It's just that appearing on the news looking very Serious and Grownup and gravely holding forth on Britain's international credibility and the need to send a "strong message" etc etc is incredibly important to centrist weirdos for some reason. https://twitter.com/shakingstick/status/1485897064014053376?s=21
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Hillary 2024 posted:I'm only an idiot on the Internet but I think they'll just supply (US) equipment to the friendly Ukranians while Putin continues to supply Russian equipment to the bad Ukranians. Then we'll all watch while the poor bastards blow each other to bits. the phrase to look for is "lethal aid"
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No Dignity posted:I'd like to know how the staff rationalise that, knowing they're uncovering the dirtiest poo poo in the world every issue, that nothing is done about it by the british media or political class unless it becomes extremely expedient to do so but also everything is pretty much fine as it is and any threats to it must be ruthlessly crushed lol remember when they insisted on calling boris by his full name legends
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Jose posted:Lol My uncle has a theory that Cressida Dick is really keen on getting into the Lords & with stuff like this I think he's onto something.
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Jan 25, 2022 12:14
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Eagerly awaiting led by donkey's response to these birthday party revelations, gonna be lit guys.
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uh oh they've brought out the politicial heavyweights https://twitter.com/spectator/status/1485922139542851591
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No Dignity posted:I'd like to know how the staff rationalise that, knowing they're uncovering the dirtiest poo poo in the world every issue, that nothing is done about it by the british media or political class unless it becomes extremely expedient to do so but also everything is pretty much fine as it is and any threats to it must be ruthlessly crushed That's the problem with Private Eye, it fosters this corrosive cynicism which is like the evil cousin of sensible centrism and just as damaging to the political discourse, see also HIGNFY they're all the same, everyone's corrupt and incompetent, what else can you expect from politicians, all you can do is laugh right? Now turn the page for a selection of cutting-edge 'X identifies as Y' TERF jokes
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it dont matter posted:I canceled my Private Eye sub because of this. Every issue packed full of incompetence, corruption and crime that nobody could or would do anything about. It was making me angry and depressed. I'd rather just not know. yeah their big investigations on the post office, blood scandal and some others literally started 20 or so years ago and are now only being investigated or overturned in the courts i just read it for the cartoons tbh
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Jel Shaker posted:i just read it for the cartoons tbh When did you get over the head and turned into a vegetable?
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I liked the non-cartoon funnies back when I read it, like Colemanballs and Pseuds Corner
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No Dignity posted:I liked the non-cartoon funnies back when I read it, like Colemanballs and Pseuds Corner I think my favourite part was the little box of contestants on TV gameshows being unbelievably stupid. It was very patronising and smug but still made me giggle. Also the columns on the NHS & railways were good. Street of Shame was useful for confirming my biases about how loving bad our newspapers are too.
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Rotten Boroughs was always my favourite part, seeing just how much utter corruption goes unremarked at local govt level. The book reviews were always entertaining, too.
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Pipski posted:Rotten Boroughs was always my favourite part, seeing just how much utter corruption goes unremarked at local govt level. The book reviews were always entertaining, too. its going to be fun in a general election when its finally in the national news all the corruption labour general secretary dave evans is involved with in croydon
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lmao https://twitter.com/siennamarla/status/1486016322261729283?s=20
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gonadic io posted:uh oh they've brought out the politicial heavyweights Her last defence was of Maxwell so Boris must be fuuuuucked
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get politics out of government lol what the hell kind of thought is that ???
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euphronius posted:get politics out of government lol FBPE is almost exclusively middle class people who thought politics was fine right up until brexit hosed things up
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I've heard what you have to say, and here's the tier list for Private Eye features speaking of, here's Ian and two fellow journalists having a spirited discussion with the standards committee https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a3O8mwDFo4M
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lol he's being talked up to be next labour leader https://twitter.com/flying_rodent/status/1486285332588994570?s=20
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The start of that article is interesting, another promising young socialist the party apparatus chewed up and spat out.
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Must have happened extremely early then. He was known to be a slimy poo poo when he was part of NUS
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euphronius posted:get politics out of government lol there's way too much governing in this government!!!!
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No Dignity posted:I know it probably won't escalate that far but it's very unnerving all the same to hear so many centrist types make extremely prelude-to-WW1 noises about fighting Putin over Ukraine. Has everyone just forgotten what nuclear bombs are and why there were no direct conflicts between the great powers since they were invented? they're still in full war on terror mode lol nukes aside - russia has more tanks and apcs than the uk has individual infanteers, over 10k more
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Flipswitch posted:every single one of these cretins needs to be thrown into the sea Careful, that's considered a death threat now.
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Jose posted:FBPE is almost exclusively middle class people who thought politics was fine right up until brexit hosed things up it's people who had never experienced politics taking something away from them until that moment from about black wednesday through to brexit politics was just a rolling soap opera of things happening to other people
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I decided to listen to PMQs and man Starmer sucks lmao.
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I have had to explain to some of my friends before that brexit wasn't conjured into existence by an evil wizard in 2016 and was the culmination of a decades long culture war, alot of people did just seem to be living in a bespoke John Lewis fitted reality up until the Bad Year
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Flipswitch posted:I decided to listen to PMQs and man Starmer sucks lmao. He can barely keep a lead in the polls for a couple of weeks with all the boostering in the world and the press actively trying to destroy his opponent, can you imagine what's going to happen the first time they notice anything about his personality or political career?
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Jose posted:lol he's being talked up to be next labour leader During the Corbyn years, it was Streeting, colleagues say, who made life most difficult for the Labour leader during PLP meetings, listening quietly, without notes, then reacting to what had been said, often posing questions over the handling of anti-Semitism complaints. Colleagues praise him as a gifted orator, comparing him to Tony Benn, Barbara Castle and Tony Blair. “How many people, really, can walk into the chamber and think on their feet?” one Labour MP says. “We all think we can, but we can’t. Wes can.”
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