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>> No. 85774 Anonymous
22nd May 2019
Wednesday 9:57 am
85774 Election
It's coming lads. Dawn of a new era.
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>> No. 85892 Anonymous
23rd May 2019
Thursday 10:44 pm
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>>85869

>There has been a loss of confidence in the two major parties because they currently have shit leaders

Do you really think that's all it is ladm9? Come on now.
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23rd May 2019
Thursday 11:23 pm
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>> No. 85939 Anonymous
25th May 2019
Saturday 11:41 pm
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>> No. 85940 Anonymous
26th May 2019
Sunday 10:43 pm
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The North East have declared: 2 seats for Brexit Party, 1 for Labour.
>> No. 86028 Anonymous
30th May 2019
Thursday 11:12 pm
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https://yougov.co.uk/topics/politics/articles-reports/2019/05/30/lib-dems-lead-polls-they-start-become-party-48

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>> No. 85447 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 4:50 am
85447 lmao brexit
Here's your future British Isles bro

(A good day to you Sir!)
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>> No. 85451 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 12:44 pm
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>>85450

The bikers.
>> No. 85455 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 9:12 pm
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>>85450
That's a fair point. It's a protectorate with its own currency, it isn't a member of the UK. I imagine they'd probably vote to become independent though if the pound crashed through the floor, as their interests might be better served by Holyrood or Stormont at that point. The Scots have vastly more experience at accommodating the needs of island communities, so that would be my guess.

Assuming the above is an inevitability.
>> No. 85456 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 11:24 pm
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>>85451
Nah, that place is going to us Hindists

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ocHeJG5o8N0.

Bikers are allowed, but never shall his sacrifice be forgotten.
>> No. 85457 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 11:27 pm
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>>85456

RIP doctor Hinds. Road racing will never be the same without him.
>> No. 85728 Anonymous
20th May 2019
Monday 6:49 am
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>>85449
I think it's down to Wales whether or not they want an independence vote.
There's still mixed views so far, the majority voted to leave the EU although there's been a growing movement for independence since the protest in Cardiff.

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>> No. 85368 Anonymous
23rd March 2019
Saturday 10:09 pm
85368 How accurate is this article?
I'm not British, sorry about that. Is this editorial at all within the realm of reality or is it just character assassination?

“She was dealt a bad hand.” “She took a poisoned chalice.” From a great distance, it is possible to feel sorry for British Prime Minister Theresa May. She seems so dignified. She seems to be trying so hard. The circles beneath her eyes have grown so much deeper since she became prime minister back in 2016, following the surprise result of the Brexit referendum, the resignation of her hapless predecessor, David Cameron, and an ugly leadership squabble, during which several of her male colleagues metaphorically stabbed one another in the back. Since then, she has always seemed to outsiders the sensible person in the room, the adult who knows what she is doing, the sane person in a madhouse.

Alas, she is not any of those things. She is not sensible, she does not know what she is doing, and, increasingly, she doesn’t seem to be entirely sane either. Outside of Westminster, the extent of May’s responsibility for this crisis might not be fully appreciated. But in truth, almost everything about Brexit — from the nature of the deal she negotiated to the divisions in her party and her country — is very much her fault. The latest development — European leaders have told her that the United Kingdom can have a Brexit extension until May 22, if May can get her withdrawal agreement passed in Parliament, but must crash out of all of its trading arrangements on April 12 if not — underlines this bitter truth. She is not to be pitied: She is the worst prime minister in living memory, presiding over a crisis of her own creation.

The list of her mistakes is not short. She did not have to trigger Article 50, the legal mechanism for leaving the European Union, before making a plan on how to do so: That decision set a two-year clock ticking and has resulted in the cliff edge the country would have reached on the 29th of this month if an extension had not been granted. She did not have to call an unnecessary parliamentary election in 2017, one which resulted in the loss of her majority and forced her to rely on a small, radical, Protestant Northern Irish political party, as well as the extreme anti-European faction within her own party, in order to stay in power.

But her errors go even deeper. In fact, all of the events of the past two years have been shaped by a decision she made, by herself, following bad advice, at the very beginning of this process. Remember that the British did not vote for any particular form of Brexit: Thanks to Cameron’s simplistic, open-ended referendum question, they chose to “Leave” the European Union but did not express any view on what should happen next. When she took office, May could have observed that the vote was very close, that Britain’s commercial and political ties to Europe were strong, and that it would make sense for the United Kingdom to stay within the single market, the pan-European free-trade zone that Britain itself did so much to create — or at the very least within a customs union.

Instead, she chose to leave both of those institutions, a decision that immediately triggered the problem of the border between Northern Ireland and the Republic of Ireland, which was eliminated thanks to E.U. trade treaties but will, if customs barriers are put in place, need to be built back. Her decision also created potential problems for anyone who trades with Britain or works with Britain — and for Brits who trade and work in Europe. But she was not sorry: She accompanied her decision with a speech that called “a citizen of the world” nothing more than “a citizen of nowhere” and immediately alienated a large part of the country.

She went on to alienate almost everyone else. Until this week, nearly three years after the referendum, she made no effort to reach across the aisle and include opposition parties in the planning for this momentous national change. Although the E.U. has been entirely transparent about its negotiating goals from the beginning, she kept hers secret. She tried, and failed, to prevent parliamentary scrutiny of her deal. She does not respond to pleas, advice, suggestions. Columnist Matthew Parris has described her as “the Death Star of modern British politics,” a black void that sucks in people and ideas and never provides a response.
Her secrecy and incompetence have created ill will in Europe, and real anger in the House of Commons, some of whose members have belatedly tried to take control of the Brexit process. They have begged her to try a series of votes, to try to find one version of an exit plan that could pass the entire chamber. John Bercow, speaker of the House of Commons, produced a decree from 1604 in an attempt to prevent yet another vote on her deal, after two had already failed. But she seems to take none of it in. On Wednesday evening, she made a bizarre, crypto-populist appeal, over the heads of Britain’s elected representatives, to the nation: “You the public have had enough,” she declared. “You are tired of the infighting. You are tired of the political games and the procedural rows” — as if the political games and procedural rows were not all entirely her fault. “It is high time we made a decision,” she said — as if she were not the one preventing Parliament from doing exactly that.

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>> No. 85478 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 10:32 pm
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>>85477

>Huel powders

I think you'll find yourself opting for long pig pretty quickly. That stuff is like drinking someone else's puke.
>> No. 85479 Anonymous
28th March 2019
Thursday 10:37 pm
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>>85478

It doesn't really taste like anything to me, even with the flavouring powders. I'd get bored of it, not disgusted.
>> No. 85480 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 12:48 pm
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>>85477

Hope your hiding behind a VPN, if the rozzers see your comment you rapidly won't have a firearms license
>> No. 85481 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 12:48 pm
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>>85477

Hope your hiding behind a VPN, if the rozzers see your comment you rapidly won't have a firearms license
>> No. 85482 Anonymous
29th March 2019
Friday 12:51 pm
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>>85480

I don't have one anyway. This is the internet, mate.

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>> No. 85439 Anonymous
25th March 2019
Monday 10:11 pm
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https://euworthit.uk

This is a nice site. I feel like I should probably be moaning about the welfare state a bit more, but the rest I am fine with.
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>> No. 85442 Anonymous
25th March 2019
Monday 10:50 pm
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I thought it a bit off that the UN wasn't on that but as it turns out we've forgotten to pay our subscription.
http://www.un.org/en/ga/contributions/honourroll.shtml

Anyone fancy chucking £20 in before they send the bailiffs round?
>> No. 85444 Anonymous
25th March 2019
Monday 10:58 pm
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I know we're all just LARPing here, but it's odd how many of us are top tax bracket. Maybe we should start a prize fund for POTY.
>> No. 85452 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 5:43 pm
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>>85444

I don't know, we do have a lot of arseholes. I've noticed that having too much money is often a big contributing factor towards being an arsehole, so it kind of makes sense.
>> No. 85453 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 6:25 pm
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>>85452

I was an arsehole long before I had money, though.
>> No. 85454 Anonymous
26th March 2019
Tuesday 7:31 pm
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I'd be nicer if I had money.

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>> No. 84569 Anonymous
12th December 2018
Wednesday 7:57 am
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Theresa May to face leadership challenge

UK Prime Minister Theresa May will face a vote of no confidence in her leadership later on Wednesday.

Conservative MPs will vote between 18:00 GMT and 20:00 GMT.

The challenge to Mrs May's position comes after the required 48 letters calling for a contest were delivered.


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-46535739
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>> No. 85271 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 7:08 pm
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>>85270
What now then? Shit's weird.
>> No. 85272 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 7:58 pm
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>>85271
We're not getting Meaningful Vote 3: Vote Meaningfully With a Vengeance until there's some substantial change on the table, so after the EU summit at least. Literally any and all options are on the table, up to and including a tactical nuclear strike on Luxembourg.
>> No. 85273 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 8:41 pm
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>>85272
You've got my vote.
>> No. 85274 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 8:47 pm
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At this rate, we're basically fucked, so all we need to figure out is whether we stay or go. I say we relocate to the Costa del Sol since it already might as well be a British colony and we'd be bringing jobs to Iberia which already has crippling unemployment. Obviously we salt these islands before the Germans inevitably try planting a towel in them.
>> No. 85275 Anonymous
18th March 2019
Monday 9:30 pm
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>>85270
He's going on some nutter's list, that's for sure. I like that we have this rule though.

>>85274
Like the Huns and the Vandals? Just roam around the nice bits of the EU ruining them for everyone else? I'll get my vacuum flask.

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>> No. 85229 Anonymous
15th March 2019
Friday 9:48 pm
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I'm yet to see a better solution to knife crime.
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>> No. 85230 Anonymous
15th March 2019
Friday 10:39 pm
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And quiet bat people to monitor them!
>> No. 85237 Anonymous
16th March 2019
Saturday 12:08 pm
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>>85229
Spoken like a true ex-postie and fairly typical of the thinking we have come to expect from North Cornwall.

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>> No. 84886 Anonymous
8th February 2019
Friday 5:22 pm
84886 Right I'm fucked and I've sussed Brexit
Now I'm just a simple lad but it seems to me that the problem really is that some people don't want it and some people do, and those are themselves split into groups about what specifically wanting and not wanting it means; we just can't come to a proper agreement about what Brexit should look like because we all want different things.

So it seems to me that the real issue is that the nation is far too big now to properly represent the wishes of its population. We need more granularity!

I propose that we divide the UK into a number of smaller client kingdoms, all of which are inherited by the current monarch. The boundaries of these client kingdoms would reflect the historical cultures of their inhabitants, for example my idea of a Kingdom of Dál Riata would comprise mainly of those areas of Scotland with high levels of Gaelic speakers, the same for Gwynedd and Kernow (Northern Wales & Cornwall). They have their own languages and peoples, we should let them run their own affairs.

We can then become the United League of Kingdoms of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the ULK. This would take the form of a confederacy in which a Grand Parliament in London would control matters of defence, currency and internal trade.

As a successor state to the UK, we should retain our membership of the EU (with all the concessions and special rights negotiated by the UK) and as a confederacy, it would be down to each individual kingdom to choose whether to (re)invoke article 50 or not, and thus to retain or withdraw membership of the European Union, and could each come to the decision whether to make a Withdrawal Agreement or not. Trade between the kingdoms would be tariff-free except to the EU-remaining ones, where mandatory EU tariffs would apply for imports. This would be okay because these areas will benefit from tariff-free trading with other EU states, whilst non-EU areas would be able to waive tariffs on imports from the EU and would benefit from loosened regulations and increased autonomy which would enable further trade with the rest of the world.

Please let me know your thoughts on this idea otherlad, and don't be insulting now. I've hit a vein of solid fucking gold here and I want to refine it in the smelting pot of britfa.gs /pol/.
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>> No. 84974 Anonymous
19th February 2019
Tuesday 12:34 am
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God bless whoever wrote that in.

Double-edged sword mind, if the Contractor doesn't know what they're doing they'll have put the butter in the fridge and just shredded the bread with lumps of it while preparing the sandwiches. You can't trust anyone.
>> No. 85062 Anonymous
26th February 2019
Tuesday 7:01 pm
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Bumping because I've had another Brexit solution.

We should start our own EU and invite Ireland, France, Germany and Denmark. We can call it the West European Alliance and make it much better and richer than the EU because we won't have all that dead weight from the other countries.
>> No. 85063 Anonymous
26th February 2019
Tuesday 7:49 pm
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>>85062
What if they laugh the UK out of the room?
>> No. 85064 Anonymous
26th February 2019
Tuesday 7:59 pm
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>>85062
Germany likes the dead weight; their industries have benefitted massively from taking advantage of a relatively undervalued currency.
>> No. 85065 Anonymous
27th February 2019
Wednesday 5:32 pm
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>>85062

You want rid of the dead weight but you're inviting Ireland?

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>> No. 84732 Anonymous
8th January 2019
Tuesday 11:44 pm
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There isn't a single Trump quote that you can't find a corresponding Zapp Brannigan image that fits it perfectly.
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>> No. 84854 Anonymous
23rd January 2019
Wednesday 1:40 pm
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>>84851

Okay mate. He literally threatened to nuke NK via Twitter. If all you can do is point out that my scenario (said tongue in cheek, but you knew that) is inaccurate, then well done, you win. I'm sure the lad is as stable as he claims.
>> No. 84855 Anonymous
23rd January 2019
Wednesday 1:44 pm
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>>84854
He managed to meet up with Kim, better than most Presidents have achieved.
>> No. 84856 Anonymous
23rd January 2019
Wednesday 1:54 pm
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>>84855

What a bizzare reality we've come to live in.
>> No. 84857 Anonymous
23rd January 2019
Wednesday 2:39 pm
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>>84856

That feels like the most believable part "only nixon could go to china" as they say.
>> No. 84858 Anonymous
23rd January 2019
Wednesday 2:42 pm
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>>84855
Probably because he loves dictators though.

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>> No. 84823 Anonymous
22nd January 2019
Tuesday 8:05 pm
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>Diane Abbott has accused BBC Question Time of legitimising racist abuse after claims that the shadow home secretary was singled out before and during Thursday night’s episode of the political discussion programme.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jan/18/diane-abbott-accuses-bbc-question-time-of-legitimising-dolphin rape

Does that massive sheboon Diane Flab-butt receive a lot of flak because of the colour of her skin or because she's a massively incompetent pompous hypocrite?

(A good day to you Sir!)
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>> No. 84832 Anonymous
22nd January 2019
Tuesday 9:51 pm
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>>84831
I'm not sure you've grasped the context of that idiom.
>> No. 84836 Anonymous
22nd January 2019
Tuesday 10:40 pm
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>>84832
/pol/'s always had an element of casual dolphin rape to it, hence all the wordfilters, but it's typically seen as acceptable as long as you say it firmly tongue in cheek 👅. For example, I can't recall anyone being banned for mentioning the absent black father trope.
>> No. 84840 Anonymous
22nd January 2019
Tuesday 11:18 pm
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>>84836
Certain posters have had a Cetaceous bent, for sure. This site is overwhelmingly left leaning and overt racist bollocks has always been banned and filtered because, ironically, racists aren't learning animals.

Making a joke, in context, is not something I'd ever ban someone for. This thread ain't that.
>> No. 84841 Anonymous
22nd January 2019
Tuesday 11:43 pm
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I'm sure glad we got rid of the original thread and replaced it with this meta shitshow. This is exactly the kind of thread that belongs outside of /iq/.
>> No. 84842 Anonymous
22nd January 2019
Tuesday 11:48 pm
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>>84841

Good point.

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>> No. 84757 Anonymous
15th January 2019
Tuesday 8:50 pm
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The beginning of the end of Brexit.

He's right.
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>> No. 84810 Anonymous
18th January 2019
Friday 7:53 pm
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>>84809
Corbyn won't do anything because leaving with no deal suits his purpose.
>> No. 84811 Anonymous
18th January 2019
Friday 8:23 pm
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>EU was clear with May after sealing the deal , it's that or nothing

Just jumping in to say that the actual line was this is the deal we're getting based on the red lines we came in with. The most consistent Labour argument I've heard is scrapping the immigration control for customs union which would be wholly consistent with EU pillars.

>And let's stop repeating "EU needs more from us than us from EU" that's completely bollocks and debunked by economists.

I'd say it is equally dangerous to play up the EU as a merciless poker player eyeing our trousers. Everyone just wants to get a workable deal and the sides are close allies whose fates are irrevocably tied no matter what happens.

It'll be interesting in a few months if we're out electing people to European Parliament.
>> No. 84812 Anonymous
21st January 2019
Monday 2:51 pm
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>>84809
>And let's stop repeating "EU needs more from us than us from EU" that's completely bollocks and debunked by economists.

I think you mean debunked by the lugenpress.
>> No. 84813 Anonymous
21st January 2019
Monday 4:22 pm
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>>84811

>I'd say it is equally dangerous to play up the EU as a merciless poker player eyeing our trousers. Everyone just wants to get a workable deal and the sides are close allies whose fates are irrevocably tied no matter what happens.

We need a good deal; the EU would prefer a deal, but they're willing to take a knock if the only deal on offer is too favourable to Britain. The consequences of losing their trading relationship with Britain are much less severe than the risk of spawning Greexit and Polanexit. The only deal that the EU are prepared to offer is one that is demonstrably worse than our current status; our parliament may be unwilling to accept such a deal.
>> No. 84814 Anonymous
21st January 2019
Monday 4:47 pm
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>>84813
Several Tory MPs wrote in their letters to Graham Brady "She just doesn't listen". There are three options on the table. Take the deal, extend or revoke the Article 50 notification, or put the matter to the people. Both houses have now rejected the deal. Meanwhile, May is still ruling out the other two options.

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>> No. 80531 Anonymous
27th November 2016
Sunday 11:01 am
80531 Corbyn Mk III: Electric Boogaloo
I think it's time for a new Corbyn thread.

The previous thread (>>73072) is reaching critical mass. In combination with the original thread (>>64990) we've had over 4,700 posts on Dear Leader since August last year. That's a lot of shitposting. Keep up the good work, lads.
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>> No. 84521 Anonymous
30th October 2018
Tuesday 11:37 pm
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>>84520
Could you learn how plurals work in English?
>> No. 84789 Anonymous
16th January 2019
Wednesday 6:48 pm
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I'd vote for Tom Watson.
>> No. 84790 Anonymous
16th January 2019
Wednesday 6:56 pm
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>>84789
I think I'd vote for Gove given that speech. Fucking hell.
>> No. 84791 Anonymous
16th January 2019
Wednesday 6:56 pm
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>>84790
Gove is also excellent here. One trip over the numbers but otherwise very good.
>> No. 84794 Anonymous
16th January 2019
Wednesday 8:07 pm
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Pob has got some serious Big Dick Energy today.

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>> No. 84560 Anonymous
24th November 2018
Saturday 1:09 pm
84560 Our government isn't totally incompetent
https://www.cyberguerrilla.org/blog/operation-integrity-initiative-british-informational-war-against-all/

Someone up in there's still playing statecraft properly. Even if this piece has been busted by some Anons.

https://www.scribd.com/document/392195802/The-Integrity-Initiative-Guide-to-Countering-Russian-Disinformation-May-2018-v1 is a nice brief on modern disinformation tactics.
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>> No. 84726 Anonymous
31st December 2018
Monday 11:55 pm
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>>84725
Good work, comrade. 5 rubles have been deposited into your account.
>> No. 84727 Anonymous
1st January 2019
Tuesday 12:49 am
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>>84726
Traditionally it's 15 rubles, actually.
>> No. 84728 Anonymous
1st January 2019
Tuesday 12:51 am
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>>84727
Budgets are tight, and train tickets to Salisbury aren't cheap.
>> No. 84729 Anonymous
1st January 2019
Tuesday 4:23 pm
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>>84726

Was this the last post of the year? That's somewhat disappointing.
>> No. 84730 Anonymous
1st January 2019
Tuesday 4:36 pm
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>>84729
Half past two.

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>> No. 84498 Anonymous
17th October 2018
Wednesday 6:56 am
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Why is politics so much less fun these days?

It feels like the time of spectacular gaffes, John Prescott walloping someone for throwing an egg at him, Gordon Brown's live reaction to finding out he'd been recorded calling someone a bigot, Ed Miliband and his EdStone, are over. It seems as though we're now instead in the time of conspiracy theorists and the tinfoil hatters have taken over the mainstream or that perhaps social media storms are sucking the fun out of everything.
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>> No. 84504 Anonymous
18th October 2018
Thursday 12:05 am
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>>84503
Judging, surely, is the prime adjective of the judge?
>> No. 84505 Anonymous
18th October 2018
Thursday 10:22 am
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>>84498
A lower calibre of politician. Even in 1997, The Times was calling Theresa May out on being a Robo-Politician.
Blair, Brown and Prescott were equally a step down from men like Callaghan, Healey and Benn who'd fought in the war, and even they were the B-team to Attlee and Churchill.

The other problems are economics and time. You've already got weaker raw material (political personalities), now you've got to satirise them on a shoestring budget, and you need to have the whole thing written, filmed, edited and on telly by next week because we want it to be topical and even on this timescale, by next week your satire is going to seem dated. Under these circumstances, is it surprising you get so many out-of-touch, received wisdom, this-isn't-very-funny takes on Trump, May and Corbyn from people in the same social circle?

>>84499
I think even apart from alternative news, it's partially the collapse of mass media. Even if you stick to a single news site, the non-linear way you can explore it means we could both come out of a visit to the BBC News site with a completely different impression of the world. Compare with television where you'd got 4 broadly similar channels and you had to pick one of them even if it meant sitting through a documentary about flower arranging.

>>84501
On Trump, I like the line a friend gave me from the Simpsons: The pie gag only works when the sap's got dignity!
The Clinton campaign shooting itself in the foot was quite funny, if you're a bit of a political wonk type of a certain persuasion, but Trump clowning around wasn't funny because he was just an undignified clown. He couldn't lower himself, and Bush had already lowered the office.
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18th October 2018
Thursday 11:15 am
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>>84505
>You've already got weaker raw material (political personalities), now you've got to satirise them on a shoestring budget, and you need to have the whole thing written, filmed, edited and on telly by next week because we want it to be topical and even on this timescale, by next week your satire is going to seem dated.

HIGNFY gave up long ago and is now largely "here's some things we hastily found on Twitter."
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18th October 2018
Thursday 4:47 pm
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>>84505
> Even in 1997, The Times was calling Theresa May out on being a Robo-Politician. Blair, Brown and Prescott were equally a step down from men like Callaghan, Healey and Benn who'd fought in the war, and even they were the B-team to Attlee and Churchill.

Hear, hear.
>> No. 84641 Anonymous
19th December 2018
Wednesday 1:38 pm
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Got a visa, lad?

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>> No. 84431 Anonymous
31st August 2018
Friday 12:01 am
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This man is going to be the next Prime Minister and it's going to be fucking awesome.
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31st August 2018
Friday 12:22 am
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>>84431
You really know how to hurt a guy.
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31st August 2018
Friday 4:01 pm
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Can Labour just stop being twats? It's beyond tiresome.
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2nd September 2018
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Everything will be free in the utopia
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2nd September 2018
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