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Author:  Cavey [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 16:51 ]
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Yeah, we ‘sorely miss’ Blair about as much as piles.

Most hated and reviled man in Britain, bar none. Rightly so IMO. Twat.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:03 ]
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Uh oh, is this the horseshoe theory?

Author:  LewieP [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:04 ]
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That must be why the current government are wiping their arse on the good Friday agreement.

Can't wait for them to eradicate minimum wage.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:18 ]
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LewieP wrote:
Can't wait for them to eradicate minimum wage.

No need. Just sit around with your thumbs up your arse while a housing crisis brews and inflation rises, driving up the cost of living to the point where the minimum wage loses all meaning because it's not longer enough to live on. Bish bash bosh, say hello to the hottest new strata of society: the working poor! Work two zero-hour jobs and still rely on a food bank to feed your kids on the days your "employers" don't deign to call upon you. It's a modern utopia for the one percent, my good friend! If you're not part of them, well, what are you waiting for? Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Or are you too feckless and lazy, hmmm?

Author:  LewieP [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:21 ]
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Aye, I agree entirely, but if the tories actually thought it was a bad idea they would have officially eradicated it rather than destroying the economy in order to fuck over the poor. They obviously believe in it in principal.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:21 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
LewieP wrote:
Can't wait for them to eradicate minimum wage.

No need. Just sit around with your thumbs up your arse while a housing crisis brews and inflation rises, driving up the cost of living to the point where the minimum wage loses all meaning because it's not longer enough to live on. Bish bash bosh, say hello to the hottest new strata of society: the working poor! Work two zero-hour jobs and still rely on a food bank to feed your kids on the days your "employers" don't deign to call upon you. It's a modern utopia for the one percent, my good friend! If you're not part of them, well, what are you waiting for? Just pull yourself up by your bootstraps! Or are you too feckless and lazy, hmmm?

How would centrism help this exactly? Blair was just as much in thrall to the City as the Tories are.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:22 ]
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Perhaps they fear there are some limits in their ability to get people to vote against their own interests.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:23 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
How would centrism help this exactly? Blair was just as much in thrall to the City as the Tories are.

Under Blair we went from no minimum wage to a meaningful one. Seems like that was a step forward to me.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:26 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
How would centrism help this exactly? Blair was just as much in thrall to the City as the Tories are.

Under Blair we went from no minimum wage to a meaningful one. Seems like that was a step forward to me.

What worked at one period or another doesn't necessarily work in another. See capitalism for example.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:29 ]
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If Blair was so much "in thrall to the banks", why did he push for minimum wage, to considerable controversy at the time? Businesses where heavily opposed as I recall.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:31 ]
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You act like the minimum wage was some kind of panacea. It was a good first step, but we've gone backwards since then.

Author:  Cras [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:32 ]
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Lack of wage increases and zero hour contracts have bugger all to do with the City. You can thank retail and the service sector for the majority of that.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:32 ]
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No, I said it was a good step made against significant opposition. I don't believe I said it was a panacea. So it seems we are in agreement, good.

Author:  MaliA [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:33 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
How would centrism help this exactly? Blair was just as much in thrall to the City as the Tories are.

Under Blair we went from no minimum wage to a meaningful one. Seems like that was a step forward to me.


Currently, due to the living wage and a surplus of jobs, getting people to come in day after day is a pain as there's less hassle work.available for same money.

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:36 ]
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Cras wrote:
Lack of wage increases and zero hour contracts have bugger all to do with the City. You can thank retail and the service sector for the majority of that.

I blame capitalism as a whole.

Author:  LewieP [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:36 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Cras wrote:
Lack of wage increases and zero hour contracts have bugger all to do with the City. You can thank retail and the service sector for the majority of that.

I blame capitalism as a whole.

We should stop that somehow.

Author:  Cavey [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:42 ]
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:DD
I’m off the gym methinks

Author:  MaliA [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 17:49 ]
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Cavey wrote:
:DD
I’m off the gym methinks


Please work on the twitch fibres as when the Glorious Day comes they are considered the tastiest.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:15 ]
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Squirt wrote:
So, what is everyone's predictions for the actual state of Brexit come March 2019?

MOST LIKELY BY A WIDE MARGIN: a transition period that is very similar or identical to where we are today, with no significant progress made on answering the burning questions about how Brexit is actually going to work. [1] Most of the hard questions still outstanding, so kick the can down the road for 2-3 years, maybe even into the next Parliament. This might be constructed as an extension of the Article 50 notice period, rather than a formal transition agreement, in order to make it politically more palatable but it's very similar in practice.

LESS LIKELY: a cliff-edge crash out onto WTO rules. Becomes significantly more likely if May faces a leadership challenge, as we're then much more likely to see a hard Brexit fan like Rees-Mogg, Fox, Davis [2], Johnson [3], or the like elevated. The voices in the Tory party that might bring some sense to the EU negotiations -- like Ruth Davidson or even (fucking hell) Rudd -- will stay well clear of the poisioned chalice of leadership at this point. Varying degrees of disruption to everyday life depending on how many of the details of things like Clear Skies, Euratom, customs inspections for imports, etc have been resolved but the general consensus is it's already too late to implement most of them properly so the amount of disruption starts at "serious" and goes up.

EVEN LESS LIKELY: actual meaningful progress towards a shared understanding between the UK, the EU, and the UK electorate about what Brexit looks like ie. answers to the stuff in [1].

EVEN LESS LIKELY AGAIN: shared understanding and broad agreement from the stakeholders.

EVEN LESS LIKELY AGAIN: cancelling the whole thing.

TOTALLY NOT GOING TO HAPPEN: a formal, final agreement that wraps the whole thing up, trade, immigration, the works. The "easiest deal in the world" as one of our fucking stupid ministers put it. I can't even be bothered to look up who because it's too depressing.

MOST LIKELY OF ALL: extended periods of heavy drinking and light sobbing from anyone with half a clue.

[1] In other words squaring circles like:
a) are we going to have a customs union, and will we be in or out of the Single Market?
b) how is the NI border going to work
c) how are we going to replace our significant goods trade deficit
d) are we going to let our services trade surplus be cut off
e) are we going to continue to be under the jurisdiction of the ECJ
f) are we going to pay tens of billions in the "divorce settlement"
g) what the hell are we going to eat if we can't import EU food
h) what are we doing about the EU citizens who live here
etc etc. A lot of this amounts to "how many of May's idiotic redlines is she prepared to let go." She appears to be getting ready to blink on some of them, based on the press this week about paying the EU €40bn.

[2] fans on ideological grounds ie. fucking idiots

[3] possibly a fan because he is so obsessed with Churchill he needs a great enemy to make stirring speeches about, as that's much more glamorous than actually doing all the boring fiddly bits of politics, he's exactly that fucking shallow, and the EU is all he's got to rhetoricise about.

Author:  MaliA [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:19 ]
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What the good Dr said.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:21 ]
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https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status ... 7064273921




Sobering watching. We're certainly not getting any sort of Brexit that will satisfy these Leave voters, which kinda makes you wonder what the fucking point is.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:29 ]
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I just realised we are one week short of six months since the Article 50 notification was issued. In 25% of the precious notice period, we have made pretty much 0% progress in the most crucial negotiations of, I dunno, a decade? Our lifetimes? Somewhere inbetween? Pretty important, anyway. Good job, government. You're nailing this.

Author:  MaliA [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:32 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
https://twitter.com/Channel4News/status/921330517064273921

Sobering watching. We're certainly not getting any sort of Brexit that will satisfy Leave voters, which kinda makes you wonder what the fucking point is.


The real punch line is that any deal with the sub continent will be dependent on loosening visas into GB.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:34 ]
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MaliA wrote:
The real punch line is that any deal with the sub continent will be dependent on loosening visas into GB.

A very large number of Leave voters were sold a very large lie, and they swallowed it whole, and I can't see it ending well when they realise the reality won't be remotely close to what they thought they were getting.

Author:  LewieP [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 18:39 ]
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"Being British, it's like being foreign, but better.

Author:  Kern [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 21:04 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
g) what the hell are we going to eat if we can't import EU food
h) what are we doing about the EU citizens who live here


Paging Jonathan Swift ...

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 21:58 ]
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SOYLENT EU IS PEOPLE
SOYLENT EU IS PEOPLE

Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 22:07 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
You act like the minimum wage was some kind of panacea. It was a good first step, but we've gone backwards since then.


So you're saying that 'Blairism' made better steps towards helping people and successive Tory governments have been worse for poor people?

So against his hated centrist ways...

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 22:09 ]
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Lol, liberals

Author:  Curiosity [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 22:20 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Lol, liberals


Are you just attempting to be a cliche?

Author:  myp [ Sat Oct 21, 2017 23:18 ]
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Hey, Mussolini made the trains run on time

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:30 ]
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Good Friday agreement, Human Rights Act, Equality act, FOI act, Surestart, free entry to museum.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 7:59 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Good Friday agreement, Human Rights Act, Equality act, FOI act, Surestart, free entry to museum.


Romanes eunt domus

Author:  Cras [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 18:00 ]
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Holy shit. Researcher investigates to find out the only country on the face of the earth that actually trades solely under WTO rules.

https://medium.com/@MrWeeble/who-actual ... 6127ce33c6

Author:  Curiosity [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:04 ]
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Stop talking down the country, Cras!

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:06 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


Such a traitor!

Author:  Curiosity [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:07 ]
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MaliA wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


Such a traitor!


He's almost as bad as Tony Blair

Author:  Cras [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:24 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


I happen to really like Mauritania.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:24 ]
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Cras wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


I happen to really like Mauritania.

Because of the slavery? It's the slavery, isn't it.

Author:  MaliA [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:29 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Cras wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


I happen to really like Mauritania.

Because of the slavery? It's the slavery, isn't it.


Bipedal Work Units is the preferred term, you monster.

Author:  Cras [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:29 ]
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Complain about minimum wage now, fuckers

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:31 ]
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We're going to incentivise vital economic growth in the gig economy by adopting max-hours zero-pay contracts.

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 19:32 ]
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Brexiteers keep talking about a return to the great glory days of the British Empire, when we made a fortune by transporting slaves across the Atlantic. Maybe that's the key.

Author:  myp [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 20:18 ]
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Curiosity wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


Such a traitor!


He's almost as bad as Tony Blair

Whoa, let's not go that far. Some things we should not joke about.

Author:  Cavey [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 20:32 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


Such a traitor!


He's almost as bad as Tony Blair

Whoa, let's not go that far. Some things we should not joke about.


Yup, hard to imagine a *worse* political legacy than Blair’s; universally abhored by all except a few deluded SELs; the blood of hundreds of thousands and lest we forget him and Brown, like modern day grotesque parodies of King Canute, standing on the beach with “no more boom and bust” as the Country was engulfed by the worst Depression since the 30s... good grief. I mean, at least Brown had the excuse of being a bit thick and promoted beyond his abilities?

Honestly, if you started going on about how much the Country supposedly missed Blair in a pub, I reckon there’s a fair chance you’d get decked. The guy is universally just loathed, and for very good, self-evident reasons.

Author:  Curiosity [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 21:17 ]
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Lonewolves wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Curiosity wrote:
Stop talking down the country, Cras!


Such a traitor!


He's almost as bad as Tony Blair

Whoa, let's not go that far. Some things we should not joke about.


Iraq War aside, it is amusing that you appear to reserve so much hatred for the PM in your lifetime that had been closest to your own politics.

Author:  myp [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 21:24 ]
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You would say that, you centrist scum

Author:  Doctor Glyndwr [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 21:38 ]
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You know who else said he had politics very similar to Blair?

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politic ... ation.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/po ... 78494.html

Author:  Kern [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 21:41 ]
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Cavey wrote:
Yup, hard to imagine a *worse* political legacy than Blair’s.


Eden? Chamberlain? North?

Author:  myp [ Sun Oct 22, 2017 21:42 ]
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Doctor Glyndwr wrote:

They're both awful.

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