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Previous hypos throughout history would no doubt been actively against education for all - we can’t afford it, healthcare for all - we can’t afford it. State pensions, unions and workers’ rights - business owners will go bankrupt. Same argument trotted out against taxing wealth - ‘envy’, ‘they’ll leave the country etc. - all scare tactics to avoid having a fairer society. Imagine if Facebook and Amazon had to shed a few billion in to the Treasury - catastrophic eh
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We would be much better off if the gullible thick cunts like you didn’t get hard ons for language like ‘surrender’, ‘humiliation’ , ‘sell-out’ etc - comical how fucking little you understand about these things. Regardless of how many Spectator or Andrew Neil podcasts you listen to
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Maybe he is the lovechild of the affair that was about to break that would bring down Starmer, and just wants dad’s attention?
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Yin and Yang https://news.sky.com/story/tommy-robinson-due-to-be-released-from-prison-in-days-after-sentence-reduced-13371388
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Kelly Cates looks amazing for 49 even if you get glimpses of her dad at times
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It’s is largely to do with the media constantly doing hit jobs on him because his political views don’t align with theirs. Quality presenter but far from irreplaceable.
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Hilarious stuff. Didn't even know Liitlejohn was still around. Thought the old cunt must be in a care home after a couple of strokes. Andrew Neil lol - who listens to him? Thought he went off air with Noel Edmond’s. Bless the Mail they still think it’s the 1980s when they had influence. Thankfully not long to all the readership pop off
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What you running from Nic?
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Water bill has literally fucking doubled this month onwards. Great to see privatisation working so well
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Going to this one and cannot recall a game I cared less about the result. Saturday night in Liverpool is the appeal though. Disappointed that seems like won’t have the additional entertainment of watching scousers loot Goodison.
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Nearly half a million followers on TikTok. Surprised the Mail et al are doing their hardest to discredit him but he was the star at Citibank and the brightest of his LSE year so not really the charlatan they would want us believe Starmer shoudl give him a role assisting Reeves. They need to think bigger
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Hypo would be better off following Gary Stevenson for a more incisive take
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Trump’s ability to dominate UK news is ridiculous. Headline now is that he has landed in Saudi Arabia and shaken Salman’s hand. Nothing more the British public could be interested in this morning?
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University research on the influence of Andrew Tate on masculinity
whelk replied to theacademic's topic in The Lounge
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Island of strangers does resonate. Obviously going to go down so badly with many of the wet Asian MPs. Problem is with Starmer you often think he is just reacting to outputs from focus groups.
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Fuck knows what people were expecting. ‘We were so shit last season so STs will be £300’? I think they could throw in home cup games if we get any as a bonus
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I knew you’d like that one😀
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Think we all agree immigration is a problem that needs priority but there were many other factors in why people voted Labour - not ideological but they hoped society and the country would be better
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“I didn’t like that <insert party name > didn’t solve immigration issues so I voted Nazi. In no way is it my fault, it’s on them”
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I do think that is the key factor. Obviously they will have all the lobbyists telling everyone that they will leave the country etc etc. we have not addressed that industry has changed and still relying on income as main source of tax when wealth gap is widening by the day. So many companies are avoiding tax, Facebook, Amazon, Netflix when we used to collect revenue from newspapers, shops and cinema. fuck know why we can’t put a digital tax of 10% on every sale Amazon makes in the UK? Services need funding and key factor of the Labour win was the public want better public services - good luck with that with Reform
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Yes a lazy stereotype but social media has made it so much easier to influence the less curious and so compounded the issue of idiots voting for clowns. Do any of the Reform voters take notice of what Truss’s mini budget did to the economy? And realise Reform are far more extreme? Pub bores moaning about immigration doesn’t translate to smart economists.
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You pushed line for Trump too. Obviously if the option isn’t appealing then parties lose but there are many super thick people who are responsible who just think there is a switch to milk and honey and vote simply. Good to see Cooper seemingly giving a tougher message as the penny needs to drop with Labour - it is not sustainable. But none of the parties are willing to have a bipartisan discussion to funding social care so we are in a spiral where voter can simply point to those in power and query why haven’t they sorted - valid question but far from simple
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Another 4 more in the first half against Real Madrid
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All he’ll care about putting his tenant’s rent up
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He’ll be quoting the Tax Payers Alliance on fiscal issues or the IEA as economic experts. Full disclosure didn’t listen to the bloke due to poster credibility.