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UK General Election - 8th June 2017 |OT| - The Red Wedding
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I got one...in Islington. Yeah.
Well they already scrapped large parts of Inheritance Tax that would have redistributed wealth after they kick the bucket.
Even if all the rich pensioners get Dementia Taxed that money doesn't go to the Treasury instead it goes to Private Care Providers.
Huw_Dawson
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Preview for the Neil quiz at 7 - http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2017-40124571
If Neil didn't ask about religion I'll be very pleased.
If Neil didn't ask about religion I'll be very pleased.
QuicheFontaine
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Bristol South. I didn't think it was particularly codger-heavy but you learn something every day!
I'm playing catch up with these, in fact I've only gotten around to watching the first (May). Noticed she was wearing Rosa Klebb's shoes, but other than that literally nothing of interest (certainly not a single meaningful answer to a question that was actually asked) was in there.
What a riot, Wokingham is one of the worst funded authorities in the UK
The rest of the leaflet is an attack on Corbyn and Redwood gushing over Brexit
That isn't what the role of an MP is either. MPs have basically no power over government funding even when their IS in power. I do think people fail to understand how utterly powerless the vast majority of MPs are.
People like Jacob Rees-Mogg will be comfortable no matter what happens. He can afford for the UK to go to shit.
That's whats sick in all of this you have millionaires and billionaires playing with everyday peoples lives like it's a sick game.
This is an excellent article:
The summer of discontent: Britains election offers little respite for its woes
The summer of discontent: Britains election offers little respite for its woes
It's beyond parody at this point
No way this is true, right? Please tell me this is not a real interview.
Theonik
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It is real and there is a video of it for that matter.
Reads much like the Andrew Neil interview played out last week, so I would assume it's accurate.
You've heard her speak, right? She's only able to use a few pre-programmed phrases, like on an action toy. Must be to do with the RAM limit on the older models.
Theresa has done it again:
Was scheduled to appear on Women's hour on Radio 4 tomorrow morning (other party leaders have done so this week - probably heard about Corbyn's Interview earlier in the week due to overblown coverage) but has declined.
Justine Greening is the new Amber Rudd and will go in her place.
Was scheduled to appear on Women's hour on Radio 4 tomorrow morning (other party leaders have done so this week - probably heard about Corbyn's Interview earlier in the week due to overblown coverage) but has declined.
Justine Greening is the new Amber Rudd and will go in her place.
Aka Austerity
This should make you happy, Huw: The Economist has endorsed the Lib Dems.
What exactly is so complex about people not getting enough money and their costs being so high that they need food banks? Fucking weird government this.
Air Zombie Meat
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She's like a pull string talking doll at this point. If they're looking at changing strategy then they should do something about that.
Yeah, there is a hint of 'state interference' aka good governance in the air, and Bagehot et al are shitting themselves.
It looks like the Tories are claiming Rudd was always going to do the interview but is now unavailable so is being replaced by Justine Greening.
This substitution just brings Theresa May's scrutiny dodging into light.
Plays well for the ignorant I guess. Not sure why he thinks that's a good thing to put down as he's been MP here for decades and council services are sliding downhill
Huw_Dawson
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I am growing to like the Economist.
Fernando Fernandez
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Judge us on our record says Amber Rudd. OK, so today UK now the worst-performing advanced economy in the world
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...t-slump-election-pound-sterling-a7766286.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/b...t-slump-election-pound-sterling-a7766286.html
Pyroclastic
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I kind of ignore the financial stuff in the economist. bit ridic given it's name but the foreign affairs and science and technology stuff is decent.
anyone want to recommend any decent sites/magazines on foreign affairs?
anyone want to recommend any decent sites/magazines on foreign affairs?
If the £350mil from the EU for the NHS isn't going there maybe the pensioners can have it instead!
The FT do quite a bit of good foreign reporting at times.
I love the economist, been subscribing for a few years now. It's the embodiment of that mythical 'socially liberal, financially conservative' stance - they had a cover arguing for gay marriage back in the 90s, before most of the gay community was onboard with it.
They aren't even that right wing economics wise, it's more 'free trade good' rather than the typical right wing viewpoint. They were against austerity for example, both in the Uk and Europe. They backed Obamas stimulus.
Pyroclastic
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yikes tim
QuicheFontaine
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Still the greatest country in the world though
It's got great in the flipping name
Huw_Dawson
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Good example of how Andrew Neil can be an extremely bad interviewer! What a shambles.
Huw_Dawson
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He hates all Liberal Democrats. He walked around LD conference when Campbell was elected president and asked who LD members would vote for when he stepped down for being too old.
So all Farron did was ignore Neil's attempts to badger him, which is somewhat cathartic as someone who's watched him shout down LDs for about a decade.
Get used to it. With Brexit everything will be worse.
Coriolanus
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you'd be wrong. Automation is already on its way and will render the current model irrelevant.
Plus no way around doing that age change without increasing unemployment.
Royal_Phalanx
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Pretty sure Andrew Neil thinks Brexit will be amazing.
I was really pleased with Leanne Wood during the debate for bringing up the public sector pay freeze for 7 years - and that hasn't affected MPs at all, neither the top earners in those sectors. In it together though right. Tories don't seem to realise that it's people working who are using food banks. Our NHS trust exec Heather Tierney Moore has just had another pay rise. She's also an odious twat.
Look at how messed up Scottish Politics is. Scottish Labour and Lib Dems actively working to keep Theresa May in office.
https://stv.tv/news/politics/1390070-unionist-parties-working-against-snp-in-key-seats/
https://stv.tv/news/politics/1390070-unionist-parties-working-against-snp-in-key-seats/
Didn't realise there was anything on, how did the whole thing go? Aye she's usually pretty dodgy if she can't blame everything on Sturgeon/The SNP.
Huw_Dawson
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Oh yes, I have no doubt.
But there's no way of winning an Andrew Neil interview so I think Farron's point was just to not let himself get bullied.
Called out on her flip flops on Brexit with clips showing she would accept Brexit with Freedom of Movement retained.
Struggled to defend Theresa May as Strong and Stable
Disabled questioners showing the real consequences of Conservative's assessment outsourcing. Ruth did the typical politician thing and said she would take details and look into it. Going to be there a while when up to 20% of assessments are wrong.
Then she got hammered on the rape clause in the government's child benefit cuts for demonising victims and making them beg for support.
killer_clank
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She's good at appealing to unionist voters who don't want #indyref2, and utterly unconvincing and clearly uncomfortable having to defend her Westminster policies
The worst part was when she tried to act as if job centres were getting all these new advisors in to help people with PIPs, thankfully an audience member called her out on this bullshit when in actual fact job centres in Scotland are being closed brutally
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