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UK PoliGAF thread of tell me about the rabbits again, Dave.
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MarshMellow96
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Wes said:
I for one welcome our new Scandinavian overlords.
Maybe they'll knock some bloody sense into these idiots
Subliminal
Member
They're attacking the treasury. This is disgusting behaviour.
MarshMellow96
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Sage00 said:
Glad we cleared that up!
Subliminal
Member
They're using a fence as a battering ram
Subliminal
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Raxel said:
When our generation is in government i'm sure we will be thanking the current government for the progressive decisions they took
MarshMellow96
Member
Attacking the royals now. Nice...
Subliminal
Member
No. Its just called being mature and looking at things objectively.
UnblessedSoul
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They shouldn't mess up the churchill statue, don't care about the other things
radioheadrule83
Banned
Wes said:
The damage and missiles are bad, the defacing of statues are bad, but the BBC seems dubiously like its trying to make it all out as worse than it is.
That report with that guy in the helmet seriously made me question if the BBC just always has a pro-government slant.
fizzelopeguss
Banned
Ahahahah fuck the police written on the wall.
radioheadrule83
Banned
BBC guy - "I've been assured that both prince charles and camilla are safe"
OH THANK GOD. OH MY DAYS, I WAS SO WORRIED!
OH THANK GOD. OH MY DAYS, I WAS SO WORRIED!
Meus Renaissance
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gofreak said:
I was just thinking the same. Was half expecting a punch coming from the right
And the only objective benefit to this bill is a boost for private business. That's so conservative you couldn't make it up if you tried.Subliminal said:
Does it help students? Uh, no. A flat rate tax increase of up to 3x per year regardless of income. The most regressive thing you could actually do. How long it takes you to pay it back is completely irrelevant. It would be like having income tax set for everyone at the same rate, except giving the poorer people an lifetime extension on their repayments. It does not constitute fair in any manner.
Does it help society? Drop in student numbers, no cost saving due to having to eat the interest on these massive loans. Absolutely no benefit, unless you're a university dean.
The entire thing is a sham. Have any of you actually read the treasury documents, or are you just going on what Baroness Warsi tells you on the politics show? It expects graduates to earn on average almost £100k in order to balance this. The only reasons this exists are all ideological. They are decisions that the Conservative would be making regardless of any economic or education sector situation (and, might I add, the right of the Lib Dems like Clegg, Cable and the other Orange Book authors). Please don't fall for the distraction.
Sage00 said:
I wouldn't say it was progressive, just seems like an extension of the current system - higher fees on one side, balanced by higher threshold to start repayments at a lower rate. All this done to plug the hole caused by cuts to education as a result of the fucked economy.
No party comes out of it looking good. The main reason Universities are so stretched is because of Labour pushing everyone to go through University as a political bullet-point, whether it was appropriate or beneficial to them or not. So University is now seen as an automatic right and something everyone should have, which it was never designed for.
It was unsustainable, the state of the economy just made it break quicker.
The Lib Dems got caught out making promises they would have struggled to deliver even if they'd been the largest party. The Tories have hung them out to dry on the issue, and most of the protests are a reaction against the feeling of being betrayed/lack of trust in politicians with little understanding of the policy itself.
Labour's alternative of a graduate tax is ill-considered, and would hit people at every income level for the rest of their life. A worse proposal that what they are complaining about at the moment.
Education is just in a mess, and none of the parties come out of it good. If blame had to be placed anywhere though it's the changes Labour made which were unsustainable.
radioheadrule83
Banned
Oh God, now Sky is at it
Dear Media,
NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE PRINCE AND THE DUTCHESS OF CORNWALL, STOP PRETENDING THEY DO
Dear Media,
NOBODY GIVES A FUCK ABOUT THE PRINCE AND THE DUTCHESS OF CORNWALL, STOP PRETENDING THEY DO
Meus Renaissance
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Chinner said:
He was right next to a couple of guys watching a window being broken. They came in front of the camera dancing around like prats, their version of beating their chests after their conquest of the window. The cameraman was trying to get them out of the picture and so panned back to the reporter who made a statement about their behaviour to the News Room, not the actual protesters - although they were only a few yards away.
radioheadrule83
Banned
Sky news reporter on Churchill statue:
"it does have a lot of graffiti on it now, some of which is not too polite"
(meanwhile camera pans past base of a statue with a crudely drawn dick on it)
"it does have a lot of graffiti on it now, some of which is not too polite"
(meanwhile camera pans past base of a statue with a crudely drawn dick on it)
The police need to start letting some out now. The longer they keep them contained, the more damage that'll get caused, although you have the problem of the more excitable groups banding together and going on the rampage again.
Also, +1 for the who gives a shit about Charles and Camilla brigade.
Also, +1 for the who gives a shit about Charles and Camilla brigade.
Chinner said:
Masked protestors were around the reporter, sort of jumping around and waving, and started to follow the camera when it turned away. The reporter remarked that 'unfortunately there are idiots trying to get on camera' - after that the cameraman and reporter tried to move closer to people bashing in a window, but they seemed to be being pushed about, and the cameraman was pushed back. They cut away then, saying that the reporter was going to move elsewhere.
Probably doesn't help the reporter that he looks young-ish and posh-ish...
Meus Renaissance
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As long as River Island is safe
Subliminal
Member
Meus Renaissance said:
homo.
MarshMellow96
Member
Subliminal said:
He just likes numbers on all his clothes is all
radioheadrule83
Banned
HJAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAH
they just slapped a sticker with the word 'fuck' on the BBC correspondent
they just slapped a sticker with the word 'fuck' on the BBC correspondent
Meus Renaissance
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I can understand the violence. I wouldn't get involved with it personally, but everyone feels that vote would have passed. Violent protests in the City (presumably to continue throughout the next few weeks and months) is one thing ministers wouldn't have expected, and it is a way of keeping the subject on the front pages of the national media.
evanswolves
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:lol :lolradioheadrule83 said:
Meus Renaissance
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radioheadrule83 said:
You're nothing to me if you fail to get a video of this
