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I don't know how many more times I can go through the euphoria of ousting a truly awful Tory PM before falling into despair at the sight of who's lining up to take over.

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it's all so grim - if only we didn't distrust "the left" so much as a nation there might actually be a chance of things getting better

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basic honest view

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more of that please

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I like the way the Tories have already lost interest in replacing Boris during the interim period.
And I thought I had a short attention span.

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You know what it does? It makes me seethe!

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There are two questions that occupy my thoughts.
1) Since we reached the carrying capacity of the planet already (currently on 1.75 earths required to support us) what's the plan vis a vis growth as a sensible model for anything?
2) How do you increase public spending by cutting tax?

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Ah here we go:
Mistakes Were Made (but Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions and Hurtful Acts (2020 edition - updated and revised) Paperback – 4 Aug. 2020
by Carol Tavris

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I also want to see journalists asking people what they mean when they do this vox pop business. So when someone says - he did a great job because "he got Brexit done" can they please ask them what they mean by a) Brexit and b) done.

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I think the thing that irks me most is people's continued desire to be shafted by psychopaths. That some people ever supported Johnson was beyond me; that they continue to support him (voters I mean) is why we're ****ed specieswise. Is there a self-help book on recognising and dispelling cognitive d...

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Hello

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See. I rest my case.
Excellent to hear the world has - against all odds - found a use for ex members of Mumford and Sons.

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You're the QT whisperer.

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You can do it.

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(ye po-faced puritan)

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In just a couple of generations* we've managed to take civilisation to the point of implosion.

*various defnitions thereof being available

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Morning.

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well i certainly do.
Eventually Major Clanger might build a rocket from it.

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Interesting how the PR issue is one of his arguments for staying. ie: he's made it abundantly clear that ensuring the population is never properly representated by its government is a fundamental Tory goal. Let's not forget the Labour Party, as of now, don't support bringing in PR either. Though it...

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Interesting how the PR issue is one of his arguments for staying. ie: he's made it abundantly clear that ensuring the population is never properly representated by its government is a fundamental Tory goal.

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He still thinks it's a game.

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(cf:Sky's post from last night)

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I think the only reason to vote for anyone is to get (almost) anyone but the Tories in power.
And then the main task for them would be to put PR in place.

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Morning.

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No danger of that I'm afraid.

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Let's hope so

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Hello there.

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Oh very good.

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I should add that "interesting" doesn't necessarily convey agreement; more that it triggers thought processes ("interest")>

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RFM - I don't have the answers to this. I just found it an interesting read. I actually think it's OK for people of my (age, gender, background, education etc etc) to be not 100% clear on this stuff at this point. Don't read this as antagonistic - it's absolutely not - but I can't be told what to th...

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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfr ... inist-case

I found this interesting.

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RogerOThornhill wrote: ↑Tue 28 Jun, 2022 5:11 pm Oh hello.

I had a PC failure a couple of weeks ago which meant all my links/passwords were inaccessible...and I've only just realised I had it on my laptop. That is my old laptop since I have a shiny new one to go with my shiny new desktop which arrives on Thursday.

So, what's occurring?

Hello!

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The key question here is ... over to Sky. I can't do it.

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It's a gift.

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Sun 26 Jun, 2022 10:23 pm (Edited because I said 'face' twice in the last couple of lines, which scanned badly so I had to take a face off, which is actually true and not a Nicolas Cage in-joke).

Wise move - or else PF would have been all over it.

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https://m.wikidata.org/wiki/Q17600948
Have found someone to play SKS so he doesn't have to.

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I see it everywhere - some (public) organisations are so afraid of trial by twitter that they have become over-reactive to/conciliatory towards the more deranged end of the spectrum.

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The BBC has a lot to answer for I'm afraid.
And it's all been in vain - their race to the bottom has failed to save them.

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(@PF: Highly envious Clanger emoticon)

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https://www.independent.co.uk/voices/br ... 26005.html

"My application has been rejected and we are on our way home – my wife is in tears,” said Costa-basted Brit Shaun Cromber, who admitted to voting Leave without “realis[ing] it would come to this”.

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Asked whether, with hindsight, he would vote Leave if there was a referendum today, Betts says: “I think on the basis of what has happened, I would say No.”

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On 23 June 2016, Geoffrey Betts, the managing director of a small office supplies business in Marlow, Buckinghamshire, had high hopes for his firm, and the British economy, [*][*] when he voted for Brexit. “I thought we would be like … ‘here we go, here we go. We are going to become the most compet...

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And for all of (us) out there:

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What fun we had.

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Sky'sGoneOut wrote: ↑Fri 24 Jun, 2022 1:54 am Apologies if that wasn't up to my usual standard but my mums's been taken to hospital and I've not had a lot of sleep.

Late stage Alzheimer's.

It's a bugger.

Very sorry to hear that.

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Presumably anything that has already happened is increasingly historical. Very true, unless brexit happened at the event horizon of a black hole where from the point of view of an outside observer it would be trapped in time forever smeared across a vast expanse of nothingness...so a bit like livin...

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Presumably anything that has already happened is increasingly historical.

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