Britain - The Official Thread
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Terrorist organisation Extinction Rebellion to launch 11 day drone attack on Heathrow...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48470623
.. okay so I embellished the headline a little, but still... what a bunch of *****. After the debacle last time I think it was only a matter of time until something like this happened.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-48470623
.. okay so I embellished the headline a little, but still... what a bunch of *****. After the debacle last time I think it was only a matter of time until something like this happened.
I really do not like these people, they cause such negativity around something trying to save the planet. It's like vegans trying to scare and terrorise people into being vegan by throwing fake blood on the streets and displaying pictures of animal cruelty... like good way to have your actual message and agenda ignored, pricks.
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The Orange order is not, I repeat not sectarian.
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It's when you realise that we have militant vegans and animal rights carbombers that you realise what a stone cold mother****in superhero a dude like Ghandi is.
I personally ignore and condemn ****ers like these, but like with Antifa, a good idea can survive all the subversion and misapplication idiots will throw at it.
I'm more concerned at the wide group of energy reform type people who are scared of/don't support nuclear power.
A (slightly troubled) woman has stabbed the Trump Baby Blimp, I guess it was always going to end this way... but a little concerning she was able to carry a knife.
Of all the Trump news this is the least depressing I guess
Of all the Trump news this is the least depressing I guess
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I mean, I can tell from the incredible news source you cite, that she's a bad person because she has a Groot tattoo, and has grabbed boob on Facebook... and obviously those news worthy things make her a sub par human being... but aside from that... I'm just wondering the exact reason for calling her a hypocrite?
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have only read the posts here, but perhaps its a reference to the fact that privatising the NHS isn't very socialist?
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Headline (or just Robin's link title perhaps) says she is part of a company that is involved in it.
From the toilet paper with words o- I mean article; "uses taxpayers' money to provide clinical trial coordination at University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, through her profit-making company VLEK Ltd."
sounds like a company that co-ordinates university research and hospital work or something. Not exactly McOpiates TM level of privatisation.
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Yeah.. since the NHS is significantly funded by tax-payers, and the suppliers of nearly every product and service they use (including my company), are also non-nationalised profit making companies.. who I would add, if are UK based companies will pay (a degree of) tax, back to the UK government, thereby helping to fund the NHS - Versus an American/foreign company - that may contribute significantly less (or nothing) back to the economy... it doesn't seem so bad... unless people are advocating the entire NHS supply chain be nationalised for fear of being labelled a hypocritical socialist.
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i feel you pal but asking the daily mail to represent that properly might be something of a lost cause.
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... yet we got to find out about her sisters husbands PTSD battle after serving in Afghanistan.
For all I know she's a first class ****head and deserves everything she gets, but this is non story designed to appeal to ... errr ... Daily Mail readers. If you can't find the balance of relevance in this article to be anything other than laughable, you probably can't read.
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Theresa May has formally resigned as leader of the Conservative Party today, but will remain as 'Acting Leader' (and as UK Prime Minister) until the leadership contest concludes late next month.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48550452
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-48550452
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Just curious. Do other countries now look at Britain and laugh like they do at us and our orange president?
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"now"...? Haven't you been watching the Eurovision Song Contest for the last 20 years?
In all seriousness, though, I reckon the Brexit debacle has caused a great deal of frustration within the UK public and has attracted ridicule from many quarters, though it is definitely not a laughing matter in reality - the breakdown of our political system and the likely consequences for how the EU treats future membership issues are pretty dire... that Brexit has (thus far) failed is a damning indictment of both the UK's ineffective leadership and the EU's unswerving yet needless commitment to punishing the UK for deciding to leave.
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Europeans yes. However a lot of Americans I have talked to support Brexit.... but then some of those Americans also support Trump still.
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The US on the whole doesn't, the majority of countries laughing at us are the ones we are trying to break away from, go figure. It's almost like mocking people for having to navigate the punishment that you yourself have inflicted, all very mature.
To be fair, most foreigners I've spoken to and know mostly feel sympathy for the UK in general. Most of the world all over are experiencing right wing lunacy in one way or another. Though, it's still easy (and funny) to make jokes
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I've good friends in America that voted Trump, I don't mock them - they voted for what they perceived to be the lesser of two evils. I don't even think the American people come in for too much flak over Trump, or at least nowhere near how much Trump invites himself... and that' I think is the difference. Trump is the embodiment of what's being mocked. We don't have that with Brexit, there's not a specific figure that is analogous. My personal observation is also not one of mockery from my European friends, it's more like 50% confusion, 25% frustration, 15% pity, 5% worry and then maybe 5% mockery... but then that's probably because many of them come from much less forgiving cultural backgrounds than we have in the UK.
Personally, it would not surprise me if Americans were keen on Brexit as it will help to strengthen their place in the world... but that's just like my opinion, man.
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I can't find a source for their figures at the moment, but they've been having a laugh since Corbyn took over. Sadly it's also meant that there's no strong opposition to the CDUPs on the other side of the House.
I think they're holding the "10 hours" thing up as a threat to show what will be sustainable in the future rather than making it a core economic plan (Britain has restricted working hours in the past when energy supplies have been low), but I don't know. Nothing surprises me anymore.
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10 hours? I didn't know the monster raving loony party was still going!
I mean, I don't disagree action needs to be taken, but cutting the demand from our rampant consumerist society has to happen as well, not just cutting supply.
I mean, I don't disagree action needs to be taken, but cutting the demand from our rampant consumerist society has to happen as well, not just cutting supply.
