>>444564

It's a 14'' Lenovo IdeaPad 3i.

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-3-14-laptop-amd-athlon-gold-128-gb-ssd-grey-10207999-pdt.html

It was £349 when I bought it, they must have adjusted the price a little.

I've got standard warranty, which naturally doesn't cover accidental damage caused by the user. And no insurance.

Curry's say on their web site that labour is £60 for computer repairs, and for that kind of money, I don't think it's worth doing it myself, with an uncertain outcome.

>>444565

Sorry, wrong link. The one above has an AMD CPU, mine has an Intel CPU, hence the model designation "3i".

https://www.currys.co.uk/gbuk/computing/laptops/laptops/lenovo-ideapad-3i-14-laptop-intel-pentium-gold-128-gb-ssd-blue-10212838-pdt.html

(Firefox still doesn't let you delete posts)

I'm well into the latter half of my twenties and I've only just realised the reason I stumble over my words so often is not just that I have a fish fillet for a tongue, but also that I try to speak at a hundred miles an hour, especially if I'm reading something out loud.

>>444566
>(Firefox still doesn't let you delete posts)
Just do what I do and never be wrong ever. It's easy once you know how.

>>444563

That's totally fixable as a DIY job. Pure water isn't really conductive - it's the dissolved minerals that make it conduct electricity. When the water evaporates the minerals are left behind on the PCB, which can cause the kind of erratic behaviour you describe.

Remove the keyboard and wash the PCB thoroughly with a toothbrush and a generous amount of isopropanol. Take care when removing the keyboard to avoid snagging the flat-flex cables connecting it to the motherboard. Pay particular attention to any areas on the board with lots of closely-spaced solder joints (the controller chip, the flat-flex connector) and don't forget to clean the tip of the flat-flex.

>>444568

From what I've been able to gather online, it'd really be a bit of a do, in that you have to melt off dozens of plastic weld spots in order to get the actual keyboard out.

https://www.insidemylaptop.com/replacing-only-keyboard-without-full-top-case/

As I understand it, too many things can go wrong for the hobbying layperson. Also, the finished job will probably look like kind of a hackjob, which isn't great if I ever have to send the laptop back in for other faults which might be covered by the warranty. If I let Curry's fix it, then it will not affect the warranty in any way.

>>34178
>Maybe the assumption that it was "just a flu" caught too many people, including governments, on the wrong foot.

If by caught on the wrong foot you mean 'actively pursuing a herd immunity strategy' before March. There's no excuse - I remember by February reading testimonies from British people living in China who had had the disease and described in horrific detail what it does to you. The other poster is absolutely right, the failure here is not China's, notwithstanding their attempt to cover it up in 2019.

>>34180

>If by caught on the wrong foot you mean 'actively pursuing a herd immunity strategy' before March.

It stands to argue that that was done exactly because BoJo thought it was little more than "just a flu".

I just talked to a friend who has an autoimmune disorder and is on permanent immune suppressants. He was in one of the highest priority groups, but a good few weeks after his second jab, he did an antibody test on the advice of his GP, and it came back negative today, i.e. his immune system did not respond to the vaccine at all.

Which is really bad news for somebody like him, because in addition to not having antibodies now, it means that he'll be much more vulnerable to serious symptoms to begin with from an actual covid infection.

>>34177
Again, whataboutism, China made a hash of thing and Britain made a hash of things. It's not either or, stop trying to deflect from the fact that the Chinese government is a fuck up.

>the countries that responded promptly and effectively to the WHO announcement (Vietnam, Singapore, Australia etc) did fine, while those that waited until the disease arrived on their doorstep totally fucked it.

Vietnam had outbreaks prior to the WHO announcement of a pandemic and even before the WHO had announced Covid as a cause for international concern. So no, people still died because the international response and monitoring wasn't good enough.

https://dominiccummings.substack.com/p/the-pm-on-hancock-totally-fucking

France are scary as fuck. It's going to take something special to get the beating of them.

>>9213
Well, they are the tournament favourites. But if they're anything like my Euro 2021 fantasy football team, and they very much are, you can really screw them up by disallowing two of their goals for offside even though the rest of my team has done absolutely bugger all so far.

>>9214
Not to mention being denied a clear penalty. What a burst of pace from Mbappé.

>>9213
They seemed to be going at about 75% too, which is probably just how Deschamps wants them to play this early on. Germany are a bit rough around the edges and France only won with an OG, but that Mbappe fella' is someone I don't wan to see in a foot race with a not-quite-fit Harry Maguire towards the England goal any time soon.

Fucking Keown, Jesus Christ. I'd rather have that photo of a shite OtherLad posted on co-commentary.

>>93996
Not even remotely, no.

It is not the movement's fault if privileged people find it annoying or uncomfortable. That's the entire point of those movements. If you choose to not confront that discomfort but instead dismiss it, that's not on them; it's on you. They didn't drive you away. You drew yourself towards something else.

This very thread is a stark demonstration of how counter-productive identity politics zombies are to the left (in so far as they relate to it at all in any meaningful sense.) The tone is never one that will actually persuade or win support, it just provokes hostility and disengagement and everyone leaves with a more negative impression than they started with.

It's the discussion equivalent of being on a bus and someone shits their pants. The smell gradually wafts up to the back seats, and everyone has to decide if they can stomach it or if they're just going to get off early and walk the rest of the way. One by one people surrender, and before long the pant shitter is left as the sole passenger, who then concludes everyone who got off must have been a racist.

The fact is the lefty ones are more annoying because you know somewhere, underneath all their valorising and shipping forecasting, is a valid point that they're making a complete mess of delivering. The right wing ones don't matter, because they're nutters arguing for nonsense; but the lefty ones are actively harmful to the concept of progress.

The reason why "it is okay to be white" posters is such a good recruitment for alt-right groups is that woke groups fall into the trap every time and that obviously it absolutely is okay to be white, and by fighting against that statement implies a cryptic racism towards white people is seeded through woke politics and most people aren’t willing to accept that level of self-loathing that they should feel collective guilt, I certainly don’t.
The protesting of the signs by the-woke politics own logic of macroaggressions absolutely demonstrates the-woke groups are racist... *except* (as they will defend themselves) that it is impossible for them to be racist of course. Which is a hypocrisy so transparent all can see, "I'm not systematically racist I am merely think it is not okay to be white"…
Alt right crucially doesn't set itself up as pro-racists merely anti-woke, and the woke groups doubling down that; they are racist, and to be left wing you have to believe in their views, proves the point of those in the alt-right.. That the-woke believe anyone who disagrees with their flavour of politics regardless of their own personal beliefs is a racist.
Until woke groups are willing to accept that it is okay to be white as a benign statement and co-opt such statements for themselves the alt right will have a point.

>>93997
>It is not the movement's fault if privileged people find it annoying or uncomfortable.
But that's saying that as long as a movement portends to be about a particular issue, then it's beyond criticism. That's flawed, do you see that?

>They didn't drive you away.
Without their influence these people wouldn't have ended up in the same place. Likewise, if that place didn't exist, they couldn't have ended up there. And of course their own agency plays a part, but you have to acknowledge that your agency does too and you have an impact on other people. You don't need to be a cunt, you choose to be because you believe you're in the right, and if anyone disagrees with you then they're in the wrong, and that clearly colours the way you address them.

>>93999
All lives matter. Wait, shit, I'm a racist. I could of course state "All live matter, but currently we need to focus on black lives, as they are under the most institutional threat at the moment", but then that would imply there was something wrong with the statement 'All Lives Matter', which there isn't. The only people who have a problem with it are those on the left who have made that statement a dirty phrase associated with those on the far right

>>30846

This is the worst troll I've seen on emo it offers nothing constructive, people have made ample attempts to understand this woman but their motives are obfuscated by the small lenses we have to view them, you hand wave those off as 'no one is thinking of the woman invoved' where as you presume to know the inside of her head (there doesn't have to be something wrong with her she can just be incompatible with OPs and their needs be different but you hadn't considered that idea valid in your infinite wisdom) and offer nothing constructive just sneering presumption that everyone else's view is bias and wrong except yours

>>30847
OP hasn't responded for the entire thread yet, hopefully he's ok. The thread is just a dozen posts about people working themselves up about their own experiences with women. We need OP to come back and provide more information.

You seem to have taken some personal offence at my post, and I'm sorry for that, there's no 'sneering'. I'm comparing the advice given here to the advice on similar issues I've seen on other sites, and it seems lacking. There was nothing wrong with the below post, it is constructive.

>>They're having sex, it just sounds like she isn't enjoying it. If that's a dealbreaker for him, then it is. If he's making her cum (actually, are you actually making her cum?) and she's still not enjoying it then she might just be asexual.

I want to help OP and since they haven't responded yet, it's quite hard to actually do so as these questions need answers. With the lack of information, it's just coming down to you filling in the gaps in your imagination, which lead to irrelevant statements like...

>If this was in reverse she'd be pestering you like sex is some sort of human right

...are not helpful, they're presumptuous, and if OP will respond to fill in some more information, I'll be able to provide better advice.

I hope you understand, please be more reserved on emo, it's not for shitposting or trolling, it's for OP, whom we're all here to help. Don't start fights here.

>>30846

The fact she flipped out at him for trying to raise the issue in conversation is what pretty much invalidates that perspective. In any other circumstance I'd probably be on board with you saying "let's just think about how she feels for a minute", but the fact is if the OP can't even approach the situation without causing a shit storm, he's at a complete dead end. Communication and understanding is the only way to address relationship issues properly, so when you can't have that, you can't fix the problem.

What can he do if they can't talk about it? It's a non-starter and in all my years I've never seen a positive outcome from that kind of fundamental roadblock.

>>30849

It is possible he raised the issue in the wrong way and hurt her feelings when there may be a better way to approach it. I say this with the disclaimer that even if that's so I think him moving on may be the right thing to do.

>>30850

It's possible, but as this is /emo/ we should at least give the OP the benefit of the doubt. It doesn't seem fair that an OP can come to us with a legitimate problem and for our reaction to be to suggest he's raised the issue poorly.

>>15781
I don't identify as that ID anymore, stop stalking me bigot.

I just posted what I thought was a rather droll original creation, in response to >>/IQ/68911

>Back when it was announced I actually remember my friends disappointed that you have to play a black guy

It was a picture of a group of young Aryan lads with 'The Hitler Youth - The young men of the third reich', but with 'Hitler' clumsily scrubbed out, and 'third' roughly replaced with 'friend', because I was making a joke about him being in the Hitler youth, because his friends sound racist, and I'm not patient enough to make good shitposts.

Is this some miscommunication or is that genuinely a dangerous kind of thing to post nowadays? I just wanted to make people laugh at the idea that that chap was in the Hitler youth, which is obviously impossible. "Fashy memes"?

>>15791
/iq/ is serious business.

>>15792
Now you've done it.

What happened here, is this some sort of peado code?

I genuinely quite enjoy using my water flossing thing.

>>30829
It's no substitute for flossing. And using an interdental. And regular visits to the hygienist. You don't get enough water pressure innit.

Goddamn, I'd give every penny I have to escape this nightmare.

Not meaning to rub it in, but this is a stark reminder that health is really the most important thing. Appreciate the bodies you have, lads, take care of it. It's the only thing we ever truly own.

But to your situation, OP, have you considered any kind of surgery, or are you well before that stage? I'm not an expert but I understand there are some surgeries that can prevent further bone loss. It may be worth looking at private dental practices. I love the NHS, but resources are limited for NHS dentists and many options are off the table unless you're willing to pay privately.

>>93952
I'd rather have a tub of own-brand brownie bites or something like that.

>>93953
Problem I always found with 'mini' anything is that I'll soon eat the whole tub just by grazing. Or someone else will.

>>93953
But I'm told it all comes from the same factory?

>>93955

Doesn't mean it's made to the same recipe or quality control levels.

>>93956
That's true. Just look at Charles and Andrew.

>>4923
What has humanity become?

>>4924

Sexy, in an array of extremely specific ways.

>>4923
I see it has already been endorsed by Hitomi Tanaka.

I for one look forward to the new normal of twitch thots incorporating shitting coffee beans into their 100 new subs squat routine.

And how the rules will bend to treat this as if it was always fine.

>>31876
The cheeky fucker tried to claim he'd delivered it. Just ordered from Maccies and they didn't have any fruit bags (dead healthy me) so they let me order whatever item I wanted off the menu for free as a replacement.

Glad I'm invested in Maccies, we should do away with democracy and just let the clown run things.

>I know it's difficult but if you are not a robot click on the play button
I clicked the play button a dozen times already your software is fucked you stupid patronising fuck.

I hate the current trend for majestic, trumphant orchestral music of the kind you'd find in a family film being used in an ad for a supermarket hawking pork loins.

I keep noticing more and more websites that are completely (or almost) AI/algorithm managed. I understand some of the sites are huge, but it's still frustrating because these things are still not much more advanced that a novelty chatbot from a few years back beyond the scale of what they're doing, as best as I can tell. Having said that I still find myself thinking, from time to time, "was this page put together by someone with English as a second language or a robot?", which I'm not sure really counts as passing the Turing Test.

For example eBay just suggested I list the packaging for an item I'm selling as "blister pack, bottle or syringe". The item in question is a motherboard.

>>31879

Sorry about that. Modern sampling technology means that it's now cheaper to hire one bloke to do a complete orchestral arrangement than it is to license a crap pop song. It's a miracle of technology, but it's also quite annoying.

>>8863
>They'd do it at home for free if they could, and that's why they're good enough at it to get paid more than we do.
You've got a rosy worldview. How are you managing to avoid working, or even hearing people whinge about jobs with cronyism or lazy and incompetent management?

I distinctly remember watching some video of some quality control people on an assembly line in the 70s or 80s testing electronics and thinking that if they had the radio on it would be my ideal job: boring, predictable, rote actions (plug it in, if it loads then box it, if it doesn't then chuck it) that you could do while daydreaming away to yourself. Unfortunately jobs like that no longer seem to exist (insofar as they ever did), so you're stuck with stuff that demands a much higher level of engagement and awareness, making it much more difficult to just compartmentalise away work and then come home to live your life.

Something like that seems much preferable to me (as a would be "creative" type) than the very popular idea of making your job your hobby. I've never liked that, since it would seem to logically follow that the opposite is also true: your hobby is now work. You can't take a break from it for a while and do something else, you can't pursue your own interests on a whim, you can't compartmentalise it as an escape from the bills and boredom of daily life. When you can't be bothered anymore, you're not just sick of work, you're sick of something you once loved.
Especially in the internet age, where you can make a living by streaming, or doing art, or whatever. You wind up piling on extra problems: You have to create for an audience and for an algorithm, rather than purely for yourself, and people who make a full time job out of their hobby can wind up crowding out those who're only in it for fun since they can afford higher production values, pushing everything in a more homogeneous direction as a result, discouraging people from taking a go at things themselves when they could just get a job and then pay someone else to do it on their behalf.
I suppose what I'm saying is: bring back the work-life balance and tedious manufacturing jobs. A very original and no-doubt unpopular proposal, but not one that's likely to make anybody rich.

>>8866

I'm a very important highly educated science person at the forefront of the covid response but the reality of my job is very much like that. Pipette this here, pipette that there, put that tube in that rack and that one in that rack. And that's hands on as far as lab work is concerned these days.

Re: the broader gist of the thread, or at least, the direction the OP wants it to go in:

I think you are missing the wood for the trees a bit here. You are asking how exactly people go about acheiving their fortune, but the point is when so many people are telling you it's all pretty much up to the cold, unfeeling personified concept of entirely random chance (or quantum determinism or whatever hair splitting rationale you subscribe to) is that there is no single, reliable way. A lot of different people just got extremely lucky because of the way entropy as a concept affects economic systems and game theory and all that high level wank.

The point is there's really no way to intentionally break into the realms of the Elon Musks or the Jeff Benzos. You can do pretty well for yourself if you put your head down and study and you know the right places to go to do it and you know the right places to go after that. But you're not going to make your genetic line into aristocracy by concious effort, and that's basically the end of it.

>>8865
They don't like the office politics, but they like the actual job responsibilities. If they were doing the job for free at home, like I mentioned, there would be far less politics. Checkmate, atheists.

>>8866

>Unfortunately jobs like that no longer seem to exist

Search Universal Jobmatch for "production operative" or "manufacturing operative". Everyone's desperate for staff because the Bulgmanians have gone home and the natives would rather sign on.

I don't watch much anime, but I started Highrise Invasion. It's very stupid, and one of the principal characters was obviously designed by a 15 year old autist, but it's so silly that it becomes intriguing.

>>23766

You know that anime by and large is designed for 15 year olds right? I'm not saying that as a pejorative, that's is point. That's why the protagonist are all about that age, it will if you approach it from any other perspective seem a bit ridiculous.

There is some stuff that elevates itself beyond that, Akira is a good example where the fact that it is teenagers acting like teenagers becomes an integral point. But you can't hold many things to the standard of Akira really without it looking poor in comparison.

>>23767

This is broadly my problem with anime, I've seen stuff like Akira and Ghost in the Shell which have phenomenal artwork and some quite mature, high concept themes going on. They're great sci-fi films in their own right, that just so happen to be beautifully animated. Then the rest of anime is for kids. Or at least, it's family friendly in the case of Ghibli stuff. It's really quite a waste of potential.

I want an anime directed by Paul Verhoeven.

It's been recommended already but Legend of the Galactic Heroes. It won't be everyone's cup of tea and it takes a few episodes to really get into it, but since some of you are bring up that "anime is for kids" if you haven't watched it I'd give it a go. The main story is 110 episodes and there is more OVA episodes that precede the main series but are better watched after. If you have an hour to spare you can watch the movie that builds up to the start of the series below.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH_dHr9qYCc

Gantz is fucking amazing, but the anime only did 2 seasons and didn't get to best bits. Nihilistic and ultraviolent, there's a lot of angsty protagonists but you seem some genuine growth in the characters.

Last Exile is a pretty beautiful airship anime, bit steampunky with revolutionary era aesthetics.

Cowboy Bebop is plain fun with an amazing soundtrack.

Noir has a cracking soundtrack too, enjoyable 'secret societies and assassins' stuff, somehow with no blood.

Log Horizon is a fun exploration of "What would happen if you got trapped inside World of Warcraft".

Initial D has that pounding eurobeat soundtrack and some great driving scenes.

>>34122
>Owns

Sounds like he played right into his hands on that one.
I get it though, teenagers can fuck right off. Shame ITV apologised and the presenter is probably out of a job for what is just a loss of temper.

>>32945

I mean, when the Christians acheived political hegemony in their locale and epoch they did the Crusades and the Inquisition, so we have the secular neoliberal version of that to look forward to.

>>34129
Wasn't that what the Iraq War and that ghastly "future of work" exhibit at the Millennium Dome were for?

>>34124
Of course he owned him, he suggested that he works at either Footlocker or McDonald's. You don't get more cutting than that.

TBF I'd take a much greater interest in my local news if it was presented by a man in skinny jeans who kept threatening to bang people out.

>>444545
>And yeah, lengthy essays are pointless, but there's a big difference that and 2-3 sentence paragraphs. If you can't communicate with that basic level of nuance that an extra sentence allows, then surely you can't actually get anywhere. Is that meant to be the point?

This fundamentally misunderstands what internet arguments provide imo. There's a time and a place for it but lengthy essays that confer information to the readers are valuable and its a sign of quality. I'm unsure if I've encountered a massive essay of text that wasn't at least somewhat informative without being immediately apparent as word soup.

I can see these technicalities start to pop up from people who think that you can 'win' internet arguments. Maybe on the same logic as using sassy one-liners.

>>444546
I'm not sure if 'entitlement' is the right word. There's an expectation that someone stating a position in this environment would address scrutiny, maybe because wasting someones time or mental energy is the essence of trolling.

>>444548
IMO lengthy essays written by people who aren't good at it are a waste of time, they're often just attempts to convert someone, or premised on the underlying assumption that the writer is correct, which defies the fundamental aspects of balanced writing that I've been taught. They can be great if written well, but relatively few are.

It's definitely linking in to the framing of 'winning' internet arguments. These engagements seem often adversarial or masturbatory, whereas if they were cooperative it would be, well, much nicer.

>>444549
>There's an expectation that someone stating a position in this environment would address scrutiny
That's the thing though. You can just sense from the tone they're going to keep going as everything turns in to essay-like endless posts of >quoting each other. I'm positive that a lot of people genuinely believe they're "winning" internet debates on the basis of their intellectual arguments, not realising they're just brow-beating people into not bothering to respond.

>>444549
>It's definitely linking in to the framing of 'winning' internet arguments. These engagements seem often adversarial or masturbatory, whereas if they were cooperative it would be, well, much nicer.

I think there's a half-truth we have to accept somewhere along the lines here. Two people are going to feel an irresistible need to 'win' the internet argument which just isn't possible and they will both get into a cunt-off spiral as a result, that's just a fact of internet discussion. They should be mocked for breaking standards, inventing bullshit rules or in general trying to be in a position where they can win but the game doesn't have an end until you get tired.

The actual quality though is for the outside reader who is picking things up or at least being entertained. In a way purple is exploiting us, he's paying the server bill and running the site allegedly but he does so for his own twisted thrills.

There's a sub-rudgewick you might all enjoy called The Motte which is dedicated to cunting off debating without resorting to any cheap tactics, bad faith positions or logical fallacies.

It's hard to tell if there's any political bias at play there, which is a healthy sign in my opinion; but it might just be because when you actually debate sensibly nobody ever ends up winning and everyone just gets bored before anyone takes the prize. It's also filled with exactly the sort of people you'd expect on a sub with that concept, but on the other hand... I am one of them, and so are you lot.

>>8747

Deposits are not the problem. All this willndo is push prices up even further.

>>8747

Deposits are not the problem. All this willndo is push prices up even further.

>>8749
You make it sound like that's unintended.

>>8747
I'm intrigued yet sceptical. Having crunched the numbers previously on this that extra borrowing and attached rise in the interest rate can be quite ruinous - or at least annoying. You'll own a home but it'll be like the ban has mandated that you always have hung up 'live, laugh, love' wall art.

>>87497
I agree that this could push prices up but I think the actual intention isn't to sooth the 5% market at all but encourage better offers in the 10% range.

>>8777
Now I see why this policy is so good they must buy in pounds, borrow in pounds for incentive rates, why not? The houses will still be internally owned. I do see why this runs got legs

I'm sure by 7x $2-trillion means conversion rate from us dollar to yuan.

Send this to Xi Jumping, they need to complete more government projects.

Actually, a more exact estimate of what the total national Chinese budget deficit should be is closer to 9-trillion Yuan or something around $1.2-trillion.

Who do you think they owe the money to?

>>8777chairman mao

That circle the streaming sites put over the show's thumbnail with a number in to indicate how many episodes there are is unfortunate here.

>>23751
That's a corporate apology in the making there.

>>23646>>23647
My lass got me into it too. Lasses like it, so I think maybe there's an emotional appeal here.

Watching it a third time, I think a lot of my enjoyment is in the pathos. If you're so inclined, there are many opportunities to feel the absurdity of what the characters are experiencing. All the silences and moodiness, provided you're already a bit immersed, is room to dwell on the thought of meeting your parents as children, or your future self.

I can see the similarities to Donnie Darko in the time loop and the motif of inevitability and sacrifice as such, but with more time and more characters, it offers different perspectives. For example, Jonas dedicates his life to changing his future and repeatedly becomes Adam, while Noah is already prepared to kill his father when we meet him, and he strives to step deeper into the role of the villain, but with 'reasons'. I suppose they're a bit similar there.

They packed a lot of detail in, it's not watertight but the effort is appreciable.

Apple and Onion

>>23764
Food review thread's that way, mate.

>>93793
She's absolutely right, but she sounds like a Conservative when she says it.

>>93798
The problem is that, to Labour, almost everyone sounds like a Tory.

>>93793
Not more bloody 'real people' trying to become MPs. And this time it's a 'campaigner and personal trainer' - that just sounds awful and not merely because she's sidestepping Brexit where the areas former UKIP voters could flip it Blue.

How about trying a sociopathic technocrat with no qualms of voicing his distaste for the unwashed masses and establishment alike.

On the terraced streets around Warwick Road in Batley, an election campaign is in full swing. To an outsider, there might be no signs that polling day is just weeks away — there are no posters in windows, or groups of canvassers going door to door. But here, in the heart of the town’s south Asian community, political messages are spreading like wildfire on voters’ phones.

Batley and Spen, where Labour won in 2019 with a majority of just 3,525, is in the top 15 constituencies where Muslim voters are most influential. The Muslim Council of Britain estimates the number of Muslim voters likely to turn out in the by-election to be about 8,600 — more than twice the Labour majority.

Labour hopes sentiment will help its candidate Kim Leadbeater on July 1. She is the younger sister of Jo Cox, the MP who was murdered by a white supremacist in the constituency in 2016. The by-election was triggered by the resignation of Labour’s Tracy Brabin after her election as West Yorkshire metro mayor.

It is Muslim votes that may ultimately decide whether or not Leadbeater is successful. While, of course, south Asian voters do not vote as a single block, it remains true that in Batley — and across West Yorkshire — these voters have historically secured seats for Labour. Yet now, that support is crumbling as once-loyal south Asian voters turn away from the party, disappointed by Sir Keir Starmer’s failure to speak up over international issues and angered by what they say is years of being taken for granted. In Batley, populist firebrand George Galloway — a vocal supporter of Palestine and vociferous critic of the Iraq war who was exiled from Labour almost two decades ago — has swept in, ready to pick up their votes.

YouTube videos of Galloway’s speeches and anti-Labour memes are flying through cyberspace at an infinitely faster rate than Leadbeater can knock on doors. Many here acknowledge that they will be casting a protest vote, to send a message to the Labour leadership.

Starmer’s “on-the-fence” approach to Israel and Palestine, and in particular his cautious and infrequent statements during the most recent violence in Gaza, have angered Muslim communities. While Starmer has taken a tough stance on antisemitism, some feel he has not been as robust in condemning Islamophobia. And his decision to remove the whip from Jeremy Corbyn — seen as an ally here on Middle East issues — has not gone down well. While Corbyn’s leadership cost Labour nationally at the last general election, this is one of the few seats where the change of leader could hurt the party. Starmer’s description of Kashmir as a “bilateral issue” has also caused controversy — the Labour conference had passed a resolution in 2019 which was critical of India’s actions towards Muslim-majority Kashmir.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d14467f2-c564-11eb-a80c-dfb0d2172f4f

This man is going to be the next MP for Batley & Spen and it's going to be fucking awesome.

>>93886
>Keir Starmer has been warned not to take Muslim voters for granted, as polling shows support for the Labour party, and his personal ratings, falling among Muslim communities.

>Muslim voters have traditionally been strongly aligned to Labour, with constituencies with large Muslim populations considered among the party’s safest seats. But since the end of Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership, amid a swing to the right in domestic and foreign policy, and concerns over Starmer’s willingness to tackle Islamophobia in the party, that historic alignment is being increasingly called into question.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/14/muslim-support-for-labour-party-falling-polling-shows

It's happening. George Galloway is either going to win in Batley & Spen or take enough votes from Labour for the Tories to take the seat.

>>93913
>How can we open this anon "EU's" eyes to show him we are doing our best to meet him/her somewhere to figure out this Brexit
First, we could maybe actually try and do our best to meet them somewhere instead of stamping indignantly like a petulant child as we've been doing for most of the past five years.

>>93918

There's that "Royal We" again.

>>93930
Classic english

>>93943
Please stay in the /zoo/.

>>93946
I can't escape the safari zone

>>93256
and has exactly one tree in the middle.
just get sheep*

*caveats. So many caveats. And, in case our resident deviant is reading, don't fuck them. They don't like it. And it's quite illegal.

>>93257
>They don't like it.

They might do if you take them out for dinner first and compliment them on their fleece. I can't imagine many beastophiles engage in foreplay and instead ram their knob straight up that poor sheep's unsuspecting clopper.

Flash sale on robomowers. I'm starting to suspect Big Mower is behind all of this.

https://www.myrobotcenter.co.uk/en_gb/gardena-sileno-minimo-250

Correct, why they will do anything to increase consumption boggles the mind. It creates lower wages, more pollution.

The only thing better than communism is socialism. Instead of sharing a lawnmower you could have a community vote of who the community likes the least. Then this person could be made the slave laborer and could mow everyone's lawn for free until they die of starvation. Then after that the community has the next vote for lawnmower.