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« Reply #2655 on: Wednesday, November 1, 2017, 16:19:30 »

It's also gone a bit wrong with regards to capitalism, which it now appears everyone agrees with, but somehow the right wing has moved towards it only being good when it is within the confines of your own country, but free trade is now bad - competition from abroad is not good, but competition from inside is good.  Free markets work when they are not free, but they are now broken when they are truly free.  It's all very peculiar, but it essentially ends in an argument about whether or not Transgender people want to molest young girls in public bathrooms.  That is odd enough - everyone knows to avoid public bathrooms.
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« Reply #2656 on: Thursday, November 2, 2017, 19:00:02 »

Talk Talk is that you?

 

What a deeply unpleasant point of view. Really not worth engaging with though if "RAH LIBERALS YOU HAVE TINY DICKS" is the extent of the discourse.
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« Reply #2657 on: Thursday, November 2, 2017, 19:30:41 »

FALSE NEWS!!
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« Reply #2658 on: Thursday, November 2, 2017, 19:33:07 »

It certainly is, my dick is massive.
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« Reply #2659 on: Thursday, November 2, 2017, 22:24:22 »

I’m a liberal and my dick is tiny so take that
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« Reply #2660 on: Friday, November 3, 2017, 13:34:45 »


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41854482

Disgraceful attempt at denying someone their right to freedom of speech.  Wink
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Why don't you knock it off with them negative waves? Why don't you dig how beautiful it is out here? Why don't you say something righteous and hopeful for a change?
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« Reply #2661 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 12:30:51 »

Even by its usual standards, our politics appears to have gone entirely batshit mental.

The foreign secretary has accidentally gotten a British national jailed abroad

The international development secretary had a series of secret meetings with Israeli ministers without telling anyone else in the government

And neither can sack/will resign because the government is already having to deal with the stunning fact that a bunch of creepy old men with near absolute power can't keep their hands/comments where they're wanted

All of this whilst they try and negotiate the most complex constitutional change in the UK's history without a majority in parliament

Oh, and absolutely nobody rich appears to have paid any tax, ever
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« Reply #2662 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 12:37:19 »

Its great isn't it, you have to wonder why so many wealthy Tories want to see Brexit through ASAP, I am sure the fact that the EU is trying to crack down on tax avoidance is entirely coincidental.

This is shamelessly nicked from the interweb....

This is just summary for todays cancelled(?) cabinet meeting:-

AWKWARD: Theresa May will chair a meeting of her Cabinet this morning. It may not be the happiest of gatherings. Sitting around the table will be:

— Her first secretary of state, Damian Green, who is under investigation by the Cabinet Office over allegations, which he denies, that he made unwanted advances towards a young Tory activist and had “extreme” pornography on an office computer.

— Her foreign secretary, Boris Johnson, whose latest verbal blunder could see a British citizen spend a further five years in jail in Iran. (PS and the disgraced minister Fox said this morning "it was just a slip of the tongue !")

— Her chancellor, Philip Hammond, who she planned to sack five months ago and with whom she reportedly can hardly bear to share a room.

— Her new defense secretary, Gavin Williamson, whose promotion from chief whip last week following the resignation of her disgraced ally Michael Fallon sparked more fury among her parliamentary party than any Cabinet appointment in recent memory.

— Her Commons leader, Andrea Leadsom, who is accused in today’s Mail and Telegraph of failing to act on a rape claim by a Tory aide, and by some of her own colleagues of ending Fallon’s career in order to save her own. She too denies all the charges.

— Her international development secretary, Priti Patel, who went behind her back to hold secret talks with a string of senior Israeli politicians and a Tory donor — and then tried to mislead the press when she got found out.

— Her party chairman, Patrick McLoughlin, whom most of her party want fired for his handling of both the disastrous general election and last month’s conference security fiasco.

This is from:
https://www.politico.eu/newsletter/...k-cabinet-in-crisis-dd-in-rome-talking-trade/
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« Reply #2663 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 12:49:35 »

Johnson's latest fuck up in particular, and the "defence" of it by the equally ludicrous disgraced Fox, demonstrates why he should never have been anywhere near the Foreign Office even as a junior minister, much less Foreign Secretary.
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« Reply #2664 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 16:36:39 »

He dropped Priti Patel in it too bu confirming she was in Israel on business.

Would be a real shame for her if somebody were to make an FOI request for her expenses for that period.
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« Reply #2665 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 16:57:21 »

The international development secretary had a series of secret meetings with Israeli ministers without telling anyone else in the government

100th anniversary of the Balfour Declaration  Hmmm

November 1917... 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution



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« Reply #2666 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 17:08:53 »

He dropped Priti Patel in it too bu confirming she was in Israel on business.

Would be a real shame for her if somebody were to make an FOI request for her expenses for that period.

Did he, I missed that bit....

Glorious.....
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« Reply #2667 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 18:09:39 »

The Priti Patel story doesn't add up.  To go on holiday and to arrange one or two meetings while there - I could understand that, even though it would have broken the ministerial code just the same.

But to arrange 12 meetings!?  What kind of 'holiday' was this?
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« Reply #2668 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 19:01:06 »

Priti Patel's holiday transcript just in:

“If you kids don’t shut up, I’ll turn this car around and there’ll be no Benjamin Netanyahu for anyone.”
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« Reply #2669 on: Tuesday, November 7, 2017, 19:15:25 »

Quote from: Ardiles
But to arrange 12 meetings!?  What kind of 'holiday' was this?

are you suggesting a politician might be lying? my view of the world has been shattered.
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