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@Snowy said in British Politics:
@JC It is more traditional at my place to receive gifts on your birthday (of a BJ). You obviously have different rules at yours.
Nice try. We both know there's very little that happens at Chez Snowy that could remotely be called traditional. Unless that tradition is in some way tied to the Bathory dynasty.
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So, Boris is having his cabinet re-shuffle. Biggest shock is Sajid Javid resigning, apparently because Boris insisted "he sacks all his advisers and replaces them with Number 10 special advisers to make it all one team". No room for dissenting voices it seems.
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@jegga said in British Politics:
I love that the leading candidate to take over from Corbyn looks like Titania McGrath
Holy shit, not just looks, acts like her too. Oh please please let her be the new leader. They need one more utter collapse at least before they purge their extremists
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@Rembrandt said in British Politics:
@jegga said in British Politics:
I love that the leading candidate to take over from Corbyn looks like Titania McGrath
Holy shit, not just looks, acts like her too. Oh please please let her be the new leader. They need one more utter collapse at least before they purge their extremists
Last time if you paid five bucks you could join labour and vote, apparently thousands of young Tories did and voted for Corbyn. If they do that this time I’m signing up to vote Titania
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@jegga said in British Politics:
Last time if you paid five bucks you could join labour and vote, apparently thousands of young Tories did and voted for Corbyn
I know a conservative in Northampton who joined 16 times to vote for Corbyn in 2015.
He wished he hadn't from 2017-2019
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@Victor-Meldrew said in British Politics:
@jegga said in British Politics:
Last time if you paid five bucks you could join labour and vote, apparently thousands of young Tories did and voted for Corbyn
I know a conservative in Northampton who joined 16 times to vote for Corbyn in 2015.
He wished he hadn't from 2017-2019
In which case he needs his head examined. The surge in 2017-19 was bugger all to do with Corbyn, more a reflection on the Tory clusterfuck roundabout. Jezza is and was totally unelectable, so much so he couldn't even ruin May's miserable premiership.
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This is the bloke who had police call to 'check his thinking' and had a 'hate incident' recorded under his name because he re-tweeted a limerick written by a feminist that said men weren't women.
Thankfully he won his case.
He goes into further detail about the sheer insanity of it all in this interview.
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@Rembrandt Can't listen to the interview so not sure if it is the complete story yet, but not quite as bad as it could have been. The High Court has ruled in his favour and against the police, ruling their response to his tweet as being unlawful.
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I think his point was that if Corbyn hadn't been elected Labour leader with appalling ratings, May would never have called an election in '17
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The judge was excoriating (well, for a judge), telling the police their actions were like that of the Cheka, Stasi or Gestapo.
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@Victor-Meldrew Ah. Too subtle for me.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt one hour video .... no chance!
Woujd be interested in 30-45 second summary video!
Thank fuck it's not just me....if it's longer than 10 minutes it's pretty rare I'll watch it.
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@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt one hour video .... no chance!
Woujd be interested in 30-45 second summary video!
Aren't you pounding the pavement now? You should be smashing through these 1-3 hour podcasts
In short. Bloke is an ex-copper but now owns some company on the docks. Police call the guy who runs his company in regards to the 'hate incident'. He calls police back. They tell him he has to check his thinking, give him a lecture on how some male babies are born with female brains inside (absolutely serious here) and that a hate incident is now recorded under his name. As an ex cop he does some digging and as it turns out these 'hate incidents' (which are commonly referred to by media) don't actually require any evidence, in addition they come up if say an employer does an enhanced background check on you. They also don't require a victim as such, just someone who thinks someone might be offended.
There's a bit more to it hence the hour long but its a good listen. He finishes by likening the rainbow flag to a modern day swastika, a comparison which might get him in as much trouble as a retweeted limerick..but that'd only prove his point.
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@Bones said in British Politics:
@MajorRage said in British Politics:
@Rembrandt one hour video .... no chance!
Woujd be interested in 30-45 second summary video!
Thank fuck it's not just me....if it's longer than 10 minutes it's pretty rare I'll watch it.
But you listen to podcasts? How is that different?
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