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and don't forget the bugs. Like rats, they're globalists.
https://twitter.com/thatdutchperson/status/827283588752171008?lang=en
I give up. Aren't cartoons supposed to be funny?
The chapter about the people under the trapdoor in particular is a masterpiece; it is the most horrific piece of horror you will ever read, but all done by implication so cleverly that you could read it to a class of 5 year olds without upsetting them.
Well thats unfortunate...
If we were lucky.
Remoaners dont know their born
The Road is worth both reading, and seeing.
could only use one y and half a ' per decade!!!
However, he can't draw particularly well (though better than me), nor does he use caricature to give a wider impression of the subject.
He is the Bob Monkhouse of cartooning.
Brexitter
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New words by Sunil, original "Bedsitter" music by Almond & Ball.
Friday morning going slow
I'm watching the election show
Lots of Ladbrokes slips on the floor
Memories of the night before
Out knocking up and having fun
Now I've stopped reading The Sun
Waiting for the results to show
But why I voted no one knows
Voting, polling
Blogging, trolling
And now I'm all alone
In Brexit Land
My only home
I think it's time to write a thread
To vent the bemusement in my head
Spent my money on online bookies
Got nowt here but all the cookies
Clean my suit and my rosette
Election promises to forget
Start campaigning all over again
Kid myself I'm having fun
Voting, polling
Blogging, trolling
And now I'm all alone
In Brexit Land
My only home
Looking out from my worldview
I've really nothing else to do
Seems like I have started fretting
Let's read Political Betting
Forget The Mirror and The Times
The battle bus with such great lines
Look around and I can see
A thousand punters just like me
Voting, polling
Blogging, trolling
And now I'm all alone
In Brexit Land
My only home
Voting, polling
Blogging, trolling
And now I'm all alone
In Brexit Land
My only home
(I'm waiting for Brexit
Or am I wasting time)
The premise that "It’s possible that LAB could’ve fared better with a unequivocal Remainer as head" is frankly pure wishful thinking and does not follow from Rob Ford's analysis.
Having been the local Constituency Labour Party Secretary at the last GE, I can tell you that the entire GE strategy followed in Labour literature here and elsewhere was to simply play down the salience of Brexit along the following lines: Brexit was basically going to happen in one form or another; the only question was the terms on which it happened; no explicit talk about single markets etc; plenty about a "reckless" Tory approach threatening jobs, working conditions, the environment etc; even an 11th hour change of tack on immigration sought to defuse that issue. In no election leaflet or mailshot that I signed off was Brexit anything other than a relative footnote.
There was an expectation that Labour might nonetheless pick up some votes of disgruntled Remainers on the back of its actions in 2016. That did indeed happen, especially where it mattered in tactical voting terms. The bigger worry was the need to retain those "Leave" voters who naturally looked to Labour but who were at risk of deserting in response to the party's previously unequivocal Remain stance. That by and large did not happen, at least not to anything like the extent feared, and the reason it did not is because of the stance above. There's every reason to think that large scale desertion of Leave voters was a bullet that Labour dodged, such was the scale of working class votes for Brexit in 2016. There's nothing in Rob Ford's analysis to suggest that the bullet would not have hit home if Labour had copied the Lib Dems failed tactics in GE 2017.
But there's a further point. Labour achieved a net swing because by playing down Brexit, the party was then able to focus on problems that people cared about and directly affected their day to day lives, Corbyn eventually being rightly seen as being far more in touch with peoples' concerns than May as a consequence. Had Labour instead also followed the Tories and Lib Dems by making the GE a re-run of Brexit, which is what an unequivocal pro-Remain approach would have done, the GE would have been fought on ground of the Tories' choosing.
Tallies with my experiences.
The idea that Make a success of Brexit/Make a disaster of Brexit will lead to the decline of Corbynism is so much wishful thinking on the part of his opponents.
Whether Brexit is/is not the most important issue cited is irrelevant.
The other issues raised by Labour don't go away, regardless of Brexit, or of who leads Labour or the Conservatives.
As for the Remoaner's predicted disaster of exiting the EU with no deal and trading on WTO rules, there are many successful economies that trade under WTO rules. Look back at the high growth rates of the 1960's when trade tariffs were much higher than the current WTO rules. And on the government's own economic figures, economic growth peaked in 1973, and has been successively lower at the peaks of the business cycles since then. I really do wonder whether the Remoaner's are Martians in disguise. You do seriously wonder what planet they come from, its just so easy for them to be hoodwinked.
(Yes, I'm including May herself, with her tempting fate words on Brexit, seemingly designed to rile up the hardcore Brexiters)
I have seen mouse kebabs on sale in Malawi, rather like these ones:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1205259/Making-meal-mice-Malawi.html
Apparently the burnt fur adds to the flavour.
Personally I drew the line at deep fried flying ants, which were reasonably pleasant, but not so enjoyable that I would seek them out.
Comes from working for the earnest paper, I spose.
https://morningstaronline.co.uk/
One problem. Why did he restrict himself? 36 genders...seems a shame to limit oneself.
Fucking Puritans...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4971192/FBI-Harvey-Weinstein-probe-ordered-Trump-Justice-Dept.html
I won't be surprised if we start to hear chants of "Lock him up" at Trump rallys.
Once you understand the Guardian's slant on issues it is very easy to use it as an informed source of news by just ignoring the spin.
Jackie Doyle-Price said it was “unfair” for younger taxpayers to “prop up people to keep their property” when it could be sold to help pay for their own care needs."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/11/pensioners-told-homes-not-assets-pass-offspring-minister-revives/
IMO, they have 2 options;
1. Extend their client vote to capture even more working class pensioners/pre-pensioners.
2. Liquidize a proportion of their client vote in order to reposition conservatism as an intergenerational ideology once more.
Despite TM's steps to toward the centre in the manifesto/conference speech, I can't see how 2 happens, before the tories are kicked out. Any replacement leader will be forced to go with 1. The membership will not accept any replacement with even a sniff of the dementia tax about them.
After all, who is the pussy grabber in chief to criticise anothers sexual assault!