Sean, is this your last hurrah before your new account signs on?
We can't have a war, think of the carbon emissions xr will go ballistic
I see you've been given your Internet privileges back
Never lost them unlike some though I don't spend all day every day here. I have something called a life
In real life I think of you like this:
Ah so you are happy to assume my age, gender and sex on no evidence whatsoever?
You can give - but you can't take it
Shrugs I wasn't aware you were giving anything to be honest merely caricaturing your normal "We mustn't make assumptions" stance. I can assure you if it was a barb then it failed to strike home
The better your hygiene and the more you avoid purposeless risk, the more normal stuff you can do safely. It is that simple. We don't need moonshots. We need boringly consistent policy...
You make light of a solemn moment. That's a fine piece of satire, but this is the real world. And it has taken a very frightening and inevitably warlike turn.
This is our time to fight, our generation cannot shun this any longer. We will need to shed blood for our independence - take on the Belgians and the Irish, and die in the doing so - or we shall die like vile poisoned rats, writhing in the sewers of our surrender.
I say we resolve this like the rebels at Masada by the suicide of every man, woman and child in the UK. That'll show them.
I'm with you, bruh,
Who else has the manliness and the guts to join us in our noble, vital and spectacularly futile act of mass national self harm?
Come on. Let these refusenik cowards show their colours.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
Interestingly american nukes now use a more eco friendly fuel.....I am not sure the person who thought that up had a good grasp of what nukes are for
Another day, another lurch towards covid authoritarianism. Politicians read this site. Someone somewhere, please stand up against this insidious dangerous nonsense. There’s a growing body of public opinion that will hail you as a hero because right now, no one is speaking up for them.
I'm certainly increasingly worried where this is heading and the process for ending it.
Many years ago I watched a docco about the Khmer Rouge. It featured a psychologist who said to the effect: give me closed borders and control of the media and in 18 months I could turn even Britain into 1970s Cambodia.
At the time I thought what a load of nonsense. But now I’m not so sure, when I see polls like this and understand just how easy it is to sedate people’s critical and moral faculties with a bit of fear. And all for a pandemic that when all is said and done, will cause perhaps only 2 months worth of excess deaths.
Fieldwork 7-8 September. If you think 37% is low, just wait till the Rule of 6 feeds in to the polling.
Is this Johnson's worst day in office as PM?
The level of shambles, duplicity and miscommunication is off the scale.
Actually on covid it has probably been one of his better days
Also on PMQs amazingly Starmer did not mention beaching the treaty and as a result Boris was better
It does not alter my opinion that Boris should go, but neither does it alter my opinion that we brexit with deal or no deal with no extensions, and I remain in the conservative party
(There's a serious point here. The fact that people like Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, IDS et al think this version of Brexit is a good idea, and people like Rory Stewart, Nick Soames, Justine Greening and Ken Clarke don't ought to make some red lights flash... but apparently not.)
You make light of a solemn moment. That's a fine piece of satire, but this is the real world. And it has taken a very frightening and inevitably warlike turn.
This is our time to fight, our generation cannot shun this any longer. We will need to shed blood for our independence - take on the Belgians and the Irish, and die in the doing so - or we shall die like vile poisoned rats, writhing in the sewers of our surrender.
I’d rather surrender than fight in your insane hypothetical war.
So you are literally a traitor. An appeaser. A pacifist who will not stand up for Britain, why? Because you love to lick the boot of Brussels, and you live to invaginate the weird knuckled fist of Washington.
You are an insect. No, worse than an insect. You are the parasite on the feces of an insect. No, worse than that. You are the micro-maggot inside the anus of a parasite that feasts on the excreta of an insect inside the prolapsed colon of a shrieking, mange-ridden weasel. I will stop there, before I go too far.
(There's a serious point here. The fact that people like Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, IDS et al think this version of Brexit is a good idea, and people like Rory Stewart, Nick Soames, Justine Greening and Ken Clarke don't ought to make some red lights flash... but apparently not.)
Good point - and the latter list have all been "fired"
You make light of a solemn moment. That's a fine piece of satire, but this is the real world. And it has taken a very frightening and inevitably warlike turn.
This is our time to fight, our generation cannot shun this any longer. We will need to shed blood for our independence - take on the Belgians and the Irish, and die in the doing so - or we shall die like vile poisoned rats, writhing in the sewers of our surrender.
I say we resolve this like the rebels at Masada by the suicide of every man, woman and child in the UK. That'll show them.
I'm with you, bruh,
Who else has the manliness and the guts to join us in our noble, vital and spectacularly futile act of mass national self harm?
Come on. Let these refusenik cowards show their colours.
Piss off, if you want to kill yourself while singing Rule Britannia its your gig, not mine, nor the gig of the majority of other Britons.
People asking on Brexit: did it have to end up like this? I think the answer is yes, once May took the decision to leave the single market in order to control immigration. Everything else has stemmed from that. The need to put up a border either in Ireland or in the Irish Sea has left the government staggering from one unpalletable alternative to another, the latest being to ignore international law. Once you leave the single market you have to seek advantage elsewhere to offset some of the economic cost, hence the fight over state aid, the likely shredding of standards and the pursuit of a deal with the US, all of which makes an FTA with the EU so much harder to achieve. The remorseless logic of leaving the single market, which was a decision made entirely by the Conservative Party and on which there has never been any willingness to compromise, is why we are here now. I honestly don't think any of the Remainers' many mistakes, apart from losing the referendum in the first place, has made a material difference. Similarly the EU, short of tearing up the carefully developed rules governing the single market, could not have prevented us ending up here.
You make light of a solemn moment. That's a fine piece of satire, but this is the real world. And it has taken a very frightening and inevitably warlike turn.
This is our time to fight, our generation cannot shun this any longer. We will need to shed blood for our independence - take on the Belgians and the Irish, and die in the doing so - or we shall die like vile poisoned rats, writhing in the sewers of our surrender.
I say we resolve this like the rebels at Masada by the suicide of every man, woman and child in the UK. That'll show them.
I'm with you, bruh,
Who else has the manliness and the guts to join us in our noble, vital and spectacularly futile act of mass national self harm?
Come on. Let these refusenik cowards show their colours.
Piss off, if you want to kill yourself while singing Rule Britannia its your gig, not mine, nor the gig of the majority of other Britons.
Perhaps joining the Judean People's Front Crack Suicide Squad might be an option?
That figure looks way too high. A rapid antigen test, produced on a mass scale for self testing, ought to be £2-3 a pop. 10 million every day for a year comes to about £10bn.
Hello again everyone. Been away a while. New phone.
I very much doubt Trump is skipping preparation.
What is everyone's headline prediction (12 words or fewer) for US elections? Broadly mine is 'Biden to squeak it because Great Lake states turn blue'.
"Trump out in Dem landslide but Florida stubbornly stays red".
That's about my take, though maybe less of the 'landslide'. It should be comfortable enough but Florida is different and will probably stay red.
Yes - decisive win would be a more accurate description. I'll be calling it a landslide though if I possibly can. ☺
If Texas flips, it's a landslide. Otherwise it's a normal win or a damn close thing.
I don't honestly think Texas will flip, but if it does the ECV distortion switches too. Instead of the ECV system favoring the GOP, it will then favor the Democrats. Cue bitter complaints about the system's unfairness!
What do you mean by Texas "flipping"?
If Biden wins by a massive landslide that includes Texas this year, then any distortion in the translation of the popular vote to the Electoral College Vote is neither here nor there.
If, at some point in the future, Texas flips in the sense of being won by the Democrats when the national vote is even, then that would result in a lot of wasted Republican votes in Texas - but would it necessarily result in the system as a whole being distorted in the Democrats favour?
You might expect it to be balanced by some other States trending away from the Democrats - perhaps mid-sized States in the Mid-West. That would increase the Republican advantage in the Senate, and it's by no means guaranteed that the Democrats would have an advantage for the Presidency.
True. But I think you can nonetheless guarantee bitter Republican complaints about unfairness, should they lose Texas.
You make light of a solemn moment. That's a fine piece of satire, but this is the real world. And it has taken a very frightening and inevitably warlike turn.
This is our time to fight, our generation cannot shun this any longer. We will need to shed blood for our independence - take on the Belgians and the Irish, and die in the doing so - or we shall die like vile poisoned rats, writhing in the sewers of our surrender.
I say we resolve this like the rebels at Masada by the suicide of every man, woman and child in the UK. That'll show them.
I'm with you, bruh,
Who else has the manliness and the guts to join us in our noble, vital and spectacularly futile act of mass national self harm?
Come on. Let these refusenik cowards show their colours.
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.
I thought the idea was we sit tight and nuke ourselves ?
Hello again everyone. Been away a while. New phone.
I very much doubt Trump is skipping preparation.
What is everyone's headline prediction (12 words or fewer) for US elections? Broadly mine is 'Biden to squeak it because Great Lake states turn blue'.
"Trump out in Dem landslide but Florida stubbornly stays red".
That's about my take, though maybe less of the 'landslide'. It should be comfortable enough but Florida is different and will probably stay red.
Yes - decisive win would be a more accurate description. I'll be calling it a landslide though if I possibly can. ☺
If Texas flips, it's a landslide. Otherwise it's a normal win or a damn close thing.
I don't honestly think Texas will flip, but if it does the ECV distortion switches too. Instead of the ECV system favoring the GOP, it will then favor the Democrats. Cue bitter complaints about the system's unfairness!
What do you mean by Texas "flipping"?
If Biden wins by a massive landslide that includes Texas this year, then any distortion in the translation of the popular vote to the Electoral College Vote is neither here nor there.
If, at some point in the future, Texas flips in the sense of being won by the Democrats when the national vote is even, then that would result in a lot of wasted Republican votes in Texas - but would it necessarily result in the system as a whole being distorted in the Democrats favour?
You might expect it to be balanced by some other States trending away from the Democrats - perhaps mid-sized States in the Mid-West. That would increase the Republican advantage in the Senate, and it's by no means guaranteed that the Democrats would have an advantage for the Presidency.
True. But I think you can nonetheless guarantee bitter Republican complaints about unfairness, should they lose Texas.
It is a bit of a myth that Texas always vote Republican. The Democrats carried the state in 1960 , 1964 and 1968 - and in the latter year Humphrey won there.despite losing nationally to Nixon. Carter also won in 1976.
Fieldwork 7-8 September. If you think 37% is low, just wait till the Rule of 6 feeds in to the polling.
Is this Johnson's worst day in office as PM?
The level of shambles, duplicity and miscommunication is off the scale.
Actually on covid it has probably been one of his better days
Also on PMQs amazingly Starmer did not mention beaching the treaty and as a result Boris was better
It does not alter my opinion that Boris should go, but neither does it alter my opinion that we brexit with deal or no deal with no extensions, and I remain in the conservative party
The press conference speech was very good until he got to the "space cadet", or whatever it is called ( moon landing? reach for the stars? I don't know?) stuff. From that moment I knew the man was as mad as a March hare.
You make light of a solemn moment. That's a fine piece of satire, but this is the real world. And it has taken a very frightening and inevitably warlike turn.
This is our time to fight, our generation cannot shun this any longer. We will need to shed blood for our independence - take on the Belgians and the Irish, and die in the doing so - or we shall die like vile poisoned rats, writhing in the sewers of our surrender.
Does anyone, anywhere, with even the slightest humanity support the authoritarian morons who purport to lead us?
Yes.
The labour party. They 100 per cent support it.
And the press.
Who are more worried about upsetting Michel Barnier.
The great thing though, is that a crusade for liberty might unite many of us on here. People tearing each other to shreds would unite to retain the right to tear each other to shreds.
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At the time I thought what a load of nonsense. But now I’m not so sure, when I see polls like this and understand just how easy it is to sedate people’s critical and moral faculties with a bit of fear. And all for a pandemic that when all is said and done, will cause perhaps only 2 months worth of excess deaths.
Also on PMQs amazingly Starmer did not mention beaching the treaty and as a result Boris was better
It does not alter my opinion that Boris should go, but neither does it alter my opinion that we brexit with deal or no deal with no extensions, and I remain in the conservative party
(There's a serious point here. The fact that people like Dominic Raab, Priti Patel, IDS et al think this version of Brexit is a good idea, and people like Rory Stewart, Nick Soames, Justine Greening and Ken Clarke don't ought to make some red lights flash... but apparently not.)
‘Covid Marshalls’
Threats of curfews
Demonising the young
Does anyone, anywhere, with even the slightest humanity support the authoritarian morons who purport to lead us?
If it were easy to be Singapore then there would be lots of them in the world.
The need to put up a border either in Ireland or in the Irish Sea has left the government staggering from one unpalletable alternative to another, the latest being to ignore international law. Once you leave the single market you have to seek advantage elsewhere to offset some of the economic cost, hence the fight over state aid, the likely shredding of standards and the pursuit of a deal with the US, all of which makes an FTA with the EU so much harder to achieve.
The remorseless logic of leaving the single market, which was a decision made entirely by the Conservative Party and on which there has never been any willingness to compromise, is why we are here now. I honestly don't think any of the Remainers' many mistakes, apart from losing the referendum in the first place, has made a material difference. Similarly the EU, short of tearing up the carefully developed rules governing the single market, could not have prevented us ending up here.
A rapid antigen test, produced on a mass scale for self testing, ought to be £2-3 a pop.
10 million every day for a year comes to about £10bn.
But I think you can nonetheless guarantee bitter Republican complaints about unfairness, should they lose Texas.
Why?
The labour party. They 100 per cent support it.
And the press.
Who are more worried about upsetting Michel Barnier.
The great thing though, is that a crusade for liberty might unite many of us on here. People tearing each other to shreds would unite to retain the right to tear each other to shreds.