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Recent political stuff:
- The vote to see if Britain should adopt Alternative Voting has failed.
- Lib Dems lose lots of councils and councillors, whilst Labour make the majority of the gains in England.
- The Scottish National Party do really well in the elections.
A link to the BBC politics page containing relevant information.
Edited by Mrph1 on Nov 3rd 2023 at 11:15:30 AM
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For once, Barroso is dead on accurate.
As for UKIP...they're not racist, really guv'nor!
Cunts.
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Welts.
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In further UKIP news, their Europe of Freedom and Direct Democracy group in the European Parliament was placed in an awkward situation last week when one of their MEPs defected to the centre-right European People's Party group, bringing them below the minimum amount of countries represented. They've solved this by signing up a far-right Polish party that even the literal neo-Nazis of the Front National decided was too spicy for them.
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Mike Read's insisting that his song "wasn't meant to be racist".
edited 20th Oct '14 12:04:25 PM by Bisected8
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Aren't there other things happening apart from UKIP?
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From that article. I've noted something in bold:
edited 20th Oct '14 12:18:01 PM by Greenmantle
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@Iaculus (post 15700):
Cringe-worthy timing. It's Black History Month, after all.
edited 20th Oct '14 2:47:27 PM by Wyldchyld
If my post doesn't mention a giant flying sperm whale with oversized teeth and lionfish fins for flippers, it just isn't worth reading.
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UKIP probably don't even know it's happening. Most people don't, and fewer care.
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Random News, if anyone wants to know:
- Hurricane Gonzalo: Disruption as remnants of storm hit UK
- MPs to debate voter 'recall' powers
- Ken Clarke: Some Eurosceptic Tories should be in UKIP
- Trafficking Bill: MLAs vote to make paying for sex a crime
- The anarchic experimental schools of the 1970s
edited 21st Oct '14 3:30:34 AM by Greenmantle
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Can we please talk about the utter vermin UKIP have partnered up with in the European Parliament?
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Linked that further up the page. When something can only be saved by allying with people even the literal Nazis find too extreme, it's time to start seriously questioning whether it should be saved.
edited 21st Oct '14 4:19:29 AM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?
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Holocaust deniers. How very patriotic.
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Then again, I can sort of see why Marine le Pen wouldn't be a huge fan of the Congress of the New Right - Janusz Korwin-Mikke doesn't believe women should have the vote.
Regarding the Holocaust, he doesn't deny it happened... he just doubts that Hitler was aware of it, and has suggested that the prisoners of Auschwitz were better off than the unemployed in Poland because they had 'three meals a day and a chance to work'. So that's all right then.
edited 21st Oct '14 4:27:55 AM by Iaculus
What's precedent ever done for us?
Hm.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
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As the Daily Politics noted, like most music produced by Political Parties...
Anybody noticed the "Recall" debate?
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Yeah, I've noticed that too. It sounds good in theory, but there's just so many ways it could be horribly abused.
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The anarchical schools thing is an interesting read, by the way, as a student of Summerhill I'd like to note that the "Beware! Children playing" sign shown at the end when they mention Summerhil was put there by the BBC during the drama, we just left it up afterwards cus we thought it was funny/we're lazy.
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I can't tell if they're being sarcastic or if the Astroturf brigade is out in force.
"Yup. That tasted purple."
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I'm going to say "sarcasm".
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One of them openly mentioned considering it the greatest thing ever despite their being deaf from birth, so...
"Yup. That tasted purple."
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I'm going to lean "possibly sarcastic". 
Only possibly? Yes, many are "Fantastic tells it like it is and raises money" comments, but the more verbose ones are symphonies of sarcasm and irony
This master piece of musical genius must surely be the top contender for the Euro-vision song contest, I love it, and have been playing it non stop all day, to the delight of my friendly neighbours. what a pity this wasn't released earlier in the year, when we could have enjoyed it in the garden while barbecuing our jerk chicken, rice and peas. I have ordered a few copies as Christmas presents,
I had given up hope of ever finding a song that was better than Stairway to Heaven, but... HERE IT IS!!!! - such atmosphere and harmonic sophistication! My girlfriend and I listen to it every night to get us in the mood for some.. umm.. 'amatory activity'. It works a treat!
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...wasn't my obvious enough?
I wouldn't bet money on it reaching the top of the charts...but I would bet money on the official music video involving blackface.
At least they're helping remove any doubt they're a bunch of racist pricks.
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