>>66094>>66095 I had this thought a few years ago when I watched a documentary about Parliament. It was uncanny the way they had to go from room to room on a set schedule and various other trappings. I think it's a big part of why so few of them appear to take the gig seriously.
I'm convinced going to one of those posho public schools or boarding schools is guaranteed to turn you into a right deviant, too.
I remember reading some autobiographical book by roald dahl or someone, that went into detail about all sorts of weird domineering bullying practices, like being made to sit on the toilet to warm the seat up for a prefect and such.
I can only see formative experiences like that turning you into a wrong 'un, frankly.
>>66100 The French used to refer to BDSM as 'the English disease'. The boarding school upbringing of much of our international gentry must have been a factor in this.
>>66104 The Germans have the same where spanking/caning is referred to as 'doing English'. I blame the fact that corporal punishment remained in our boarding schools long after it was abandoned by continentals.
What will be interesting is to look at whether BDSM is even more popular in Singapore given caning is a national pastime for them.
>>66107 If I had a penny for each time I'd accidently pressed the "delete every single piece of social media I have ever had" button I'd have no pennies because it doesn't exist and entirely coincidentally I'm not a rapist.
>>68973 Imagine being a gay twentysomething Conservative activist, and being told, "Nope; you're still too alluring." It would be like Bruce Willis winning Hair of the Year.
Charlie Elphicke has been released from prison and The Mail are reporting his wife has taken him back. Reckon their separation was for show so she could take his seat?
>A senior Tory MP is caught up in allegations swirling around Westminster that he plied four victims with date-rape drugs.
>It is claimed the man used the substance on a fellow Conservative MP, who awoke to find his nipples being liked. It is also said a Labour MP was abused after the man administered the drug to him – while the flatmate of another Tory MP claimed to friends he had a similar experience.
>A fourth man also claimed he had rebuffed his advances, and had suspicions his drink was spiked.
>>71034 I think the smell he's referring to is fake tan. It's a lovely smell, but you don't encounter it so much with older women (except maybe Nadine Dorries she seems the sort).
>No 10 refuses to deny PM referred to disgraced MP as 'Pincher by name, pincher by nature' before making him deputy chief whip
It's pretty incredible just how abominable this government is. The nadir of it all must be somewhere, but so far we just keep falling.
I don't really expect anyone to know, but is there any other western government where shit like this just keeps happening? I say the west only because men like Paul Kigame and Ferdinand "Bongbong" Marcos Jr have to be judged on their own sliding scale of shit, but Johnson does feel like he's edging closer and closer to that division as time goes by. Sure, he's not had anyone killed yet, but the permissive attitude to sexual assault and corruption might mean that's only because he (probably) wouldn't get away with it. I'm sure the Mail on Sunday would have his back. Getting people killed doesn't count by the way, I'm talking targeted assassinations or encouraging mob violence that leads to killings. Anyway, if either of you know somewhere else where this happens do tell, but I don't think this is normal, I think they just want me to think it's normal so I turn into one of those "well, they're all the bloody same, aren't they?" people.
>>71177 These particular problems are usually only seen in Italy under Silvio Berlusconi, but there are other political problems that this government doesn't have which other countries do have. For example, Belgium went over a year with no government at all (similar to Northern Ireland under this government), and they have also had some shockingly obnoxious politicians. Belgium is very sensitive over the language divisions between Dutch/Flemish-speakers and French-speakers, so when a French-speaking government minister was asked to sing the Belgian national anthem, Elio di Rupo's attempt at La Marseillaise was really, really not well received.
Some recent French president of France, possibly Nicolas Sarkozy, is looking at jail time for corruption as well.
Can I just say I really like this sex scandal, compared to the last few, because it was blokes what he felt up, so the radio 4 Woman's Hour period power brigade can't make it all about themselves for once. And as it turns out, that makes people take it more seriously.
>>71178 Yeah, see, that's really concerning to remember that this is a Berlusconi-tier government. Not least because he's still fairly popular and as far as I know, has never suffered a day in his life for any reason ever, let alone his debased morallity.
>>71179 YOU TWITTER LOVING SCUM-FUCK, that's a very interesting read. It actually sounds quite familiar to me because of a conversation I had with a friend after Allegra Stratton (pictured here, centre, crying in the Build Engine) sacrificed herself for World-King Johnson I. I began denouncing the Oxbridge-PPE elite and their pally politics, but as my mate had studied PPE at Cambridge he pointed out how the alliances, interests and mindsets actually form in these people's school years. Of course, maybe he's one of them and was trying to throw me off the scent, didn't want the likes of me poking around where I don't belong... but given how he's basically normal and we mostly attended the same schools, I believe he, and your Twitterhead, are correct. It's horrible!
I remember reading some time ago that something like two-thirds of all wealth in Italy had been controlled by the same families since the fourteen-hundreds. I can't find the article now, so maybe the details are wrong, but the point is it's very hard not to feel maddeningly angry or utter hopeless much of the time. It's like we're living in the Bart Simpson universe and somewhere beyond time and space there's a Hugo Simpson universe we were supposed to be in, but everything got mixed up. Dr Hibbert sent us the wrong reality.
>>71180 I can't get into this right now. I can't do gender politics and face up to the fact that Britain is governed by a cabal of incestuous hyper-poshos dating back to the time of the Druids. Meet outside the sociology department tomorrow, ten-past-three sharp.
Tories cut funding for the delete feature back in 2018. You just have to report yourself to a mod now, like a homeless person getting locked up to spend a night in the warmth of the cells.
>>71179 Thanks for posting this. This was quite the read. I thought the whole "emotionally traumatised Lord, clinging to power because unloved" thing was just a cartoon thing (e.g. Azula from ATLA) so that's quite disturbing. Like, I knew it was probably real to some degree, but I guess I never really internalised just how real it could really be.
In light of this, Neo-Nazis look even more ridiculous. The Lords are racist, yes, but the idea of a Lord looking at a white peasant Neo-Nazi as a "fellow brother" is genuinely the funniest part I've managed to extract from all of this.
