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Post by stuz359 on Jan 15, 2024 23:14:22 GMT
I don't know why/how but this post office Mr Bates thing is so immediately affecting and intensely fury invoking. Within 5 minutes I'm incredibly invested and identifying with all the post masters and harbouring a hatred worse than for a sith lord for any rep from the post office. My favourite description of humans is from 'The Science of Discworld.' Describing us as 'homo Narrativum' or the 'The story telling ape.' A good story affects us far more than a rote fact based timeline. Definitely finish it though, it's great. |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 16, 2024 5:20:44 GMT
General election: Labour would need record swing to win due to boundary changes. www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-67361138As the population ages, I imagine it'll probably get harder for Labour to win anyway, especially with the Welsh and Scottish local parties taking some of their votes. It seems like a few years ago we we talking about how hard this would make it for Labour to win, but then the Tories have been so absolutely shit that it's made a Labour victory seem less of a long shot. |
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Jan 16, 2024 6:07:16 GMT
The adage of "As you get older, you get more conservative." is overly simplistic. It's far more a case of. As you acquire capital, you become more capitalist. With so many young people effectively being barred from acquiring capital, this certainly won't be as true in future. Ironically, Thatchers socio-economic engineering, to turn people into Tory voters, two generations on, is baring people from becoming Tory voters.
And the comparison of the next election with 97, in the article. Compares a swing from a narrow victory, to a swing from a strong, but largely single issue victory. Chalk, say hello to cheese.
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Post by manfromdelmonte on Jan 16, 2024 7:01:00 GMT
Don't get me wrong though. The boundary changes are a damn fine bit of gerrymandering. But the article comes off as BBC makes comforting noise in Tory.
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Post by geefe on Jan 16, 2024 8:44:10 GMT
Also evidence has shown that the "you get more right wing as you get older" is, at best, not holding truth anymore.
Typically, people start to vote more right after 35 but it's not happening. Both here and the US. Other users linked to it before.
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Post by Dougs on Jan 16, 2024 9:43:57 GMT
Don't get me wrong though. The boundary changes are a damn fine bit of gerrymandering. But the article comes off as BBC makes comforting noise in Tory. Yeah, other polls have taken into account the boundary changes and haven't quite expressed it like this. Or I haven't paid enough attention. |
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 16, 2024 9:58:32 GMT
Sam Freedman, a very worthwhile follow, is sceptical.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 16, 2024 10:06:48 GMT
Hopefully he's right.
Voter swings and percentages don't always mean what they seem to mean when we're talking about FPTP and constituencies, even more so when they've changed.
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Post by gibroon on Jan 16, 2024 13:19:27 GMT
Fujitsu confirming they knew the system was faulty and backed up the post office to convict post masters. They are sorry, isn't that nice of them.
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 16, 2024 13:24:05 GMT
Johnson has just come out in support of Anderson, Braverman etc. on the Rwanda Bill.
He might be making a play for the top job again soon...
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 16, 2024 13:37:50 GMT
First he'd have to find a Conservative Association dumb enough to put him up as a candidate, ignoring the party's rules about people who resign as an MP not being able to be short-listed, then it would have to be approved by CCHQ and that's pretty unlikely any time soon.
His time is over, he may not wish it to be so but he shat the bed and he's got to lie in it.
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 16, 2024 13:41:32 GMT
Well, if we're getting Trump back, we might was well go the whole way and get Aldi Trump back too.
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 16, 2024 13:42:18 GMT
First he'd have to find a Conservative Association dumb enough to put him up as a candidate, ignoring the party's rules about people who resign as an MP not being able to be short-listed, then it would have to be approved by CCHQ and that's pretty unlikely any time soon. His time is over, he may not wish it to be so but he shat the bed and he's got to lie in it. I worry non of that would be deemed a deterrent by Johnson |
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 16, 2024 13:42:34 GMT
I don't think he will come back to politics. Even he must realise that between the speaking circuit and being paid a fortune to barf out insightful columns such as 'why can't I burn my Christmas tree?' he now has the perfect balance of income to being a thick, lazy cunt.
As farage demonstrates, its much easier to just heckle from the sidelines.
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Post by otto on Jan 16, 2024 14:26:43 GMT
What does he mean, why can't he burn his Christmas tree? I burn mine?
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Post by otto on Jan 16, 2024 14:27:09 GMT
Well, if we're getting Trump back, we might was well go the whole way and get Aldi Trump back too. That's a slur on Aldi |
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Post by Bill in the rain on Jan 16, 2024 14:30:06 GMT
Waitrose Trump?
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 16, 2024 14:33:34 GMT
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Post by otto on Jan 16, 2024 14:35:20 GMT
Yeah nice try, as if I'd click on a link to a Johnson Fail column
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Post by Vandelay on Jan 16, 2024 14:39:36 GMT
"Burning festive trees produces all sorts of lethal vapours, apparently, including hydrogen cyanide, and apart from anything else they ignite with such magnesium intensity — the pine needles raging like gorse — that you are at serious risk of setting fire to your chimney."
If accurate, this all sounds like reasonable reasons to not allow you to burn a tree.
"But provided you do not live in an area vulnerable to poor air quality, it is not yet illegal to burn your own Christmas tree — or any other logs you choose — in your own home."
Oh, so it isn't illegal then. What was the point of this article?
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Post by otto on Jan 16, 2024 14:41:06 GMT
Well don't burn them in the house, obviously! Jesus FC Johnson. Burn em on a bonfire outside like a normal person.
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Post by technoish on Jan 16, 2024 14:41:22 GMT
Legislation laid by his government lol.
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 16, 2024 14:46:33 GMT
Well don't burn them in the house, obviously! Jesus FC Johnson. Burn em on a bonfire outside like a normal person. The one trick the government doesn't want you to know! |
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Post by clemfandango on Jan 16, 2024 15:23:37 GMT
"When I was a nipper we had no central heating in our Somerset house, or any mains electricity.
We would go out foraging for wood in our beaten-up Land Rover, and as soon as we had a load we would bring it back and resume the struggle to keep warm."
You see he's just like us, he understands the common man...
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Post by Bongo Heracles on Jan 16, 2024 15:27:38 GMT
Yeah nice try, as if I'd click on a link to a Johnson Fail column If it makes you feel any better, if you have ad block turned on, you actually cost them money when you click on it. |
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Post by JuniorFE on Jan 16, 2024 15:32:02 GMT
Yeah nice try, as if I'd click on a link to a Johnson Fail column If it makes you feel any better, if you have ad block turned on, you actually cost them money when you click on it. BRB, setting up my adblocker and a bunch of macros, I'll have the Fail filing for bankruptcy by the end of the month /s |
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Post by JuniorFE on Jan 16, 2024 15:34:00 GMT
Well don't burn them in the house, obviously! Jesus FC Johnson. Burn em on a bonfire outside like a normal person. The one trick the government doesn't want you to know! Tories hate him! Get rid of your trees while sticking it to the law with this one simple trick! |
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Post by Whizzo on Jan 16, 2024 16:33:00 GMT
Can we burn Johnson on some Christmas trees?
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Post by Jambowayoh on Jan 16, 2024 16:46:29 GMT
It would probably solve the heating crisis for a generation.
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Post by askew on Jan 16, 2024 17:00:56 GMT
Bit of crackling?
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