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UK PoliticsERA |OT1| - Strong and Stable Government? No. Coalition Of Chaos! PART 2
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It's mainly people saying a boycott is stupid from what I can see. It's the usual twitter thing where a small number of people have a spicy take on something, and then it's the reaction against it is what perpetuates it.
Still, if that report is what started this then it's a shame that's not what is being discussed.
Still, if that report is what started this then it's a shame that's not what is being discussed.
Oh yeah, of course. But I can't see much attention on Twitter either, just people sniping about boycotts.
The Guardian were hosting the NUJ-organised Claudia Jones memorial lecture at their offices, which was being performed by The Canary's editor-in-chief Kerry-Anne Mendoza. There was an internal email within the Guardian which got leaked, in which the (unknown) sender expressed how disappointed they were with the choice of speaker, and invited others to pressure the NUJ into ditching her, and was looking for a procedural way to rescind the use of their facilities.
I had to spend a while tracing through tweets to figure it out!
Edit: Oh, but to make things more confusing, The Canary were also planning a 'Twitterstorm' under the #BoycottTheGuardian hashtag, for the newspaper's criticism of Corbyn. This (presumably) coincidentally happened to be at the exact same time that the other news broke, so it gave both causes a single banner to rally under and ended up getting more prominence than it would have otherwise.
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Any thoughts on the Tory choice for Mayor of London? I won't vote for him for many reasons but primarily because he's a Tory
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/28/shaun-bailey-is-tory-candidate-for-mayor-of-london
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2018/sep/28/shaun-bailey-is-tory-candidate-for-mayor-of-london
I think he can look forward to getting absolutely trounced.
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-mayor-tory-party-conservatives-a8558521.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/...-mayor-tory-party-conservatives-a8558521.html
There is an entrance fee to party conferences in the UK? Or is this just the Tories?
This is insane to me... Definitely not the case in Germany.
This is insane to me... Definitely not the case in Germany.
If the Tory's anti-porn laws had come into effect by now, that'd officially make their conference app an easier venue to access porn than mainstream porn sites.
They're going to get a £2m fine apparently.
Johnson wants to build a bridge to Ireland...
Boris has a thing about bridges.
Didn't he spend about £10m on a bridge that never got passed the planning stage?
I thought it was more when it got cancelled, I don't know how he got away with that one, building a bridge for a school chum.
Sorry you are right, it was actually £45m roughly.
Absolute scandal that nothing happened because of that.
Easy victory here for Labour. We should be building bridges with Europe in all ways, not just across the Irish channel. Besides the logistics of linking Ireland to the U.K. would be incredibly expensive and disruptive to marine life but hey. Let's float a stupid idea tho.
How can the Conservatives win back the under-45s? Conservative conference fringe event Twitter thread from the political editor of Business Insider:
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1046365901627564032
The Tories are structurally set up to not appeal to younger voters. Plus they are utterly without vision or ideas.
They do make a good point in that list that if tuition fees were called a graduate tax then the tories would want to cut it. But that says it all, doesn't it?
They do make a good point in that list that if tuition fees were called a graduate tax then the tories would want to cut it. But that says it all, doesn't it?
I wonder if pushing through Brexit is the right wing Tory attempt to regain control from the younger voters, a last attempt to mould Britain, push it back to the old guard for as long as possible. Tories might lose out either way but you never know what the fallout will be like that make people vote stupid.
You do still see a young tory here and there, frightening bunch.
Tories still get a lot of votes so people are replacing the dead ones.
You do still see a young tory here and there, frightening bunch.
Tories still get a lot of votes so people are replacing the dead ones.
Young people in the cities don't want families? Or could it be... that we can't afford to have children as its impossible to raise a family on a single wage, and childcare costs are insane?
Nah, we obviously just don't want kids and should buy less Avocado toast.
Nah, we obviously just don't want kids and should buy less Avocado toast.
Aside from all the practical issues and costs, the thing about a bridge to Ireland is that the only real 'viable' route is via Kintyre. And frankly you'd be quicker get a ferry from Cairnryan from pretty much anywhere than trying to get the Mull of Kintyre (roughly a distance of 14-15 miles). And even then it only gets you to the very northern tip of NI. You'd be looking at massive road infrastructure at either end.
I mean it might be more feasible* to go for a bridge Portpartick- Islandmagee (which is roughly 22-24 miles) because at least that way you'd be going some where central. But that route would be the largest continuous road bridge in the world, just slightly longer than the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, but you're talking about crossing open sea not a relatively sheltered and shallow lake (average depth is only 12-14m)
*obviously not feasible at all.
I mean it might be more feasible* to go for a bridge Portpartick- Islandmagee (which is roughly 22-24 miles) because at least that way you'd be going some where central. But that route would be the largest continuous road bridge in the world, just slightly longer than the Lake Pontchartrain Causeway in Louisiana, but you're talking about crossing open sea not a relatively sheltered and shallow lake (average depth is only 12-14m)
*obviously not feasible at all.
"One of the problems is we vilify landlords". *Applause from the audience*
Jesus wept.
Yes, the party filled with landlords and who push landlord benefiting policies, apparently vilify them....
Are these people living in the real world?
Next on the agenda: legalise guns again.
I know this is a rhetorical question but i'm going to answer anyway. No. They are all white, 50+, wealthy and homeowners, with no conception at all of what it is like for the vast majority of this country. So fucking clueless.
I saw this thing going round twitter which I can sadly can't find right now, and might have been bullshit anyway because I couldn't see the original source. But it was a pic of JRM with the caption that he was claiming any economic downturn from brexit could be weathered with a person's savings and stocks and bonds etc etc. Could well be made up, but also exactly the kind of thing you can imagine that lunatic saying behind closed doors.
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