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shmmeee

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  • Jul 7, 2023
  • #29,786
skybluetony176 said:

Threads

www.threads.net
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Tried signing up last night. Brand new insta account created. Immediately banned. Like before I’d managed to set my account up it was already banned.

I’ll stick with Twitter for now.
 

skybluetony176

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 7, 2023
  • #29,787
shmmeee said:
Tried signing up last night. Brand new insta account created. Immediately banned. Like before I’d managed to set my account up it was already banned.

I’ll stick with Twitter for now.
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I think they must still have some gremlins. The link is to the most recent opinion polls, not showing it as the page like it does with Twitter on here. Was expecting to show as follows


New YouGov poll gives Labour a *25 point* lead

CON: 22 (-2) LAB: 47 (+1) LD: 9 (-1) REF: 9 (+1) GRN: 7 (=)

If repeated at a general election 317 Conservative MPs would lose their seats, including Rishi Sunak, Jacob Rees-Mogg, Grant Shapps, Michael Fabricant and Andrea Jenkyns
 
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PVA

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  • Jul 7, 2023
  • #29,788
"Any other leader..."
 

Ian1779

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  • Jul 7, 2023
  • #29,789
PVA said:
"Any other leader..."
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With that kind of lead would be pledging stuff a bit more radical and hopeful….
 

duffer

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  • Jul 7, 2023
  • #29,790
shmmeee said:
Tried signing up last night. Brand new insta account created. Immediately banned. Like before I’d managed to set my account up it was already banned.

I’ll stick with Twitter for now.
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And they say we can't trust AI. It's clearly got you pegged as a potential left wing troublemaker mate.

Watch out. It's probably the same algorithm that New-new Labour are using...
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jul 8, 2023
  • #29,791
Hahaha!! Classic!

 
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skybluetony176

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  • Jul 8, 2023
  • #29,792
clint van damme said:
Hahaha!! Classic!

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Desperate stuff. Apparently more people in the UK believe the earth is flat than believe brexit has been a success. It’s time politicians started being honest about it and start banging their heads together to find solutions to the issue it’s created.
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jul 8, 2023
  • #29,793
skybluetony176 said:
Desperate stuff. Apparently more people in the UK believe the earth is flat than believe brexit has been a success. It’s time politicians started being honest about it and start banging their heads together to find solutions to the issue it’s created.
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Or delivering what they promised it would rather than relying on 'positivity'.
Sounds like some holistic nonsense
 

fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 8, 2023
  • #29,794
Vote for us

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clint van damme

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,795
fernandopartridge said:
Vote for us

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Sorry to over use this GIF but

 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,796
Cry me a river you thieving brummie c**t. For the damage that dreadful man has done, he has got off pretty lightly. Awful fucking people.

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fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,797
clint van damme said:
Sorry to over use this GIF but

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You are basically a Tory if you don't vote for them you know

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shmmeee

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,798
fernandopartridge said:
Vote for us

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Neither of them are going to follow this plan TBF. It’s a total fiction.
 

skybluetony176

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,799
Never mind all that. The Woke Banks are coming to get us. According to the front page of The Express. Sort your priorities out lads. The real issue is the über capitalists who have had a road to Demarcus style conversion.
 
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fernandopartridge

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,800
shmmeee said:
Neither of them are going to follow this plan TBF. It’s a total fiction.
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That's ok then

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Sick Boy

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,801
fernandopartridge said:

Jesus

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Fucking hell.
 

clint van damme

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,802
Sick Boy said:
Fucking hell.
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Nailed on he uses the Trussism anti growth coalition at some point.
 
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Sick Boy

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,803
clint van damme said:
Nailed on he uses the Trussism anti growth coalition at some point.
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For a second I actually thought it was a voice-over of Sunak's voice.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,804
fernandopartridge said:
That's ok then

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Not really, it’s pretty brainless tactics to tie ourselves to it when they 100% will not be able to follow it.
 

chiefdave

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,805
Completely uninspiring stuff from Starmer. Don't think there's ever been a point where I have felt no party represents me to the level it is at the moment

‘I hate tree-huggers’ — Keir Starmer explodes over green policy

Ed Miliband gave an animated Powerpoint presentation to the shadow cabinet on his revolutionary energy policies, speaking excitedly of the hope and change h
www.thetimes.co.uk
https://archive.ph/Kn8Yc
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,806
chiefdave said:
Completely uninspiring stuff from Starmer. Don't think there's ever been a point where I have felt no party represents me to the level it is at the moment

‘I hate tree-huggers’ — Keir Starmer explodes over green policy

Ed Miliband gave an animated Powerpoint presentation to the shadow cabinet on his revolutionary energy policies, speaking excitedly of the hope and change h
www.thetimes.co.uk
https://archive.ph/Kn8Yc
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Yeah this would be great if you did talk about economic change, but you don’t, you talk about how hard everything is and how nothing will work.
 

JAM See

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  • Jul 9, 2023
  • #29,807
chiefdave said:
Completely uninspiring stuff from Starmer. Don't think there's ever been a point where I have felt no party represents me to the level it is at the moment

‘I hate tree-huggers’ — Keir Starmer explodes over green policy

Ed Miliband gave an animated Powerpoint presentation to the shadow cabinet on his revolutionary energy policies, speaking excitedly of the hope and change h
www.thetimes.co.uk
https://archive.ph/Kn8Yc
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This, if true is profoundly distressing. Starmer has to play to the Tory press.

The fact is that with two progressive parties and one regressive party, in a FPTP post system, the Tories can split the progressive vote.

FPTP needs to go.

Electoral Reform in Westminster

The way we elect MPs to Westminster means that our parliament doesn’t represent Britain.The link between how popular a party is at the polling booth and how many seats they get i
www.electoral-reform.org.uk
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,808
Just depressing isn’t it?

 
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Ian1779

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,809
Let’s go people…..
 
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chiefdave

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,810
shmmeee said:
Just depressing isn’t it?

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Does the speaker not have the power to make them answer the fucking question they’ve been asked instead of throwing out a random sound bite

if not we might as well scrap PMQs as at the moment it’s a complete and utter waste of time
 
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clint van damme

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,811
chiefdave said:
Does the speaker not have the power to make them answer the fucking question they’ve been asked instead of throwing out a random sound bite

if not we might as well scrap PMQs as at the moment it’s a complete and utter waste of time
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It's Lyndsey Hoyle you're talking about, the very epitome of a wet lettuce
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,812
chiefdave said:
Does the speaker not have the power to make them answer the fucking question they’ve been asked instead of throwing out a random sound bite

if not we might as well scrap PMQs as at the moment it’s a complete and utter waste of time
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Been a waste of time for years
 
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Grendel

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,813
chiefdave said:
Does the speaker not have the power to make them answer the fucking question they’ve been asked instead of throwing out a random sound bite

if not we might as well scrap PMQs as at the moment it’s a complete and utter waste of time
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Its theatre - there has never really been any substance to it
 

shmmeee

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,814
Grendel said:
Its theatre - there has never really been any substance to it
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Theatre makes sense. I have no issues with PMQs being as it is, but the standard of quips is fucking awful. If you can’t think of something relevant to quip don’t try.
 

skybluetony176

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  • Jul 12, 2023
  • #29,815
CCFCSteve said:
Been a waste of time for years
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It allowed Boris’ lies to finally trip him up. It’s not a total waste.
 
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duffer

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  • Jul 13, 2023
  • #29,816
skybluetony176 said:
It allowed Boris’ lies to finally trip him up. It’s not a total waste.
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That's a fair point, but PMQs always seems like the most embarrassing part of UK politics these days.

The committee hearings tend to draw more facts out, but we deserve better from all of our politicians than the braying, pointless, shite, that passes for parliamentary debate these days.

The Tories have no strategy left beyond personal enrichment and Labour under Starmer are scared of their own shadow and more concerned with ditching the left than fighting the right. A pox on the lot of them, frankly...
 
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CCFCSteve

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  • Jul 13, 2023
  • #29,817

Public sector pay: Workers offered pay rises of around 6%

PM Rishi Sunak said the offer to workers was final and there would be "no more talks on pay".
www.bbc.co.uk

Good news and the right call

Ps can’t see the junior docs accepting though
 

shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 13, 2023
  • #29,818
This seems extremely unlikely, there’s been billions in underspend in the education budget? Really?? And it’s consistent enough to cover running costs like pay?

 
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shmmeee

Well-Known Member
  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #29,819
And in health too, just what the NHS needs right now!


All so we don’t have to raise tax on the wealthy.
 
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shmmeee

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  • Jul 14, 2023
  • #29,820
So glad all this pain is for long term gain though. Good job we’ve got the fiscally responsible party in char…

 
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