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SamShark

Ramming Speed wrote:Hats off to RLB for stating her opposition to late stage abortion. Taking a huge risk of alienating her natural supporters to uphold her moral convictions. All too rare. I didn’t know she had it in her.

She's gone in on the religion too (connected to the above).

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Fingers crossed (new poll)

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Big Ben and church bell Bong enthusiasts want to shove their jingoistic celebration and "We won , you lost" gloating at Remainers and foreigners. And this, we are told, will be a great moment of national healing :lol: They get so giddy with excitement about being betrayed, I think just remaining wo...

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bimboman wrote:
The Brexiteers have won - they got their hard Brexit. They can fundamentally change our society for decades. It's happening - surely this is a really satisfying moment for them?

Hard brexit with an agreed withdrawal agreement ? That’s a soft brexit.

Betrayal?

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This Big Ben story really is embarrasing - please lets hope not many people overseas are seeing us make tits of ourselves. The Brexiteers have won - they got their hard Brexit. They can fundamentally change our society for decades. It's happening - surely this is a really satisfying moment for them?...

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Good interview with Nandy by Andrew Neil earlier - worth a watch on iPlayer.

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I think we'll regret not capping Tompkins - always rated him.

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25 years and still no sign extraterrestrial life or extraterrestrial activity. Even radio waves :twisted: :twisted: And wouldn't it be great is an highly advanced civilization (far more advanced than Humans) discovered planet earth and sent us detailed images of the earth. Just imagine. You could s...

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Things like Hubble and the JWST make me proud of humanity and show what we could do if we could just stop being wit kant to each other.

Ever seen this? It's on Amazon Prime and maybe Netflix as well I think

The Farthest
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/

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I backed pretty much any remain scheme in the Commons, but the biggest mistake I ever saw which I felt then and still do now was the Lib Dem and Change UK failure to back Common Market 2.0 in the indicative votes. It could have changed the game - perhaps - with the worst outcome being the best Brexi...

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Well, it's one debate that can be put to bed now. People are going to be able to judge for themselves over the next 2 or 3 years as to whether Brexit was a good idea, rather than bickering over whether to leave or not.

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As for the topic in hand, I'm really doubtful that a candidate's approach to 2nd referendum policy will tell us much about his prospects of success in another election, perhaps 5 years away. Starmer has a sufficiently prime ministerial air about him to make him a plausible challenger for now. I hap...

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You're ignoring, for whatever reason, many Labour voters are pro remain as is the party membership. There was no easy or right path to take that wasn't going to harm them in an election. If they wanted not to be harmed in an election they shouldn't have backed down under the pressure Boris was brin...

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Apart from hustings/meetings for members does anyone know if any of this is going to be televised or streamed?

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I havent really followed the Erasmus issue. I can quite agree participation, or not, is not the biggest issue for the country right now. Why did Parliament vote against seeking to continue membership? If there was a good reason then fine - if it was to signal how Brexity and separate from Europe we ...

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And obviously Labour have always needed to realise that if they want to be a party of national Government, they might have to convince some Tories to vote for them, not just the "base".

But as you say, now some of the "heartlands" are Tory.

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I could set up this video with some of my own narrative/views, but it's maybe not needed. It is however very VERY relevant, and enternaining, to watch this video of Blair in a 1997 pre-election debate, facing questions about what the Labour party means - all the issues that are around today about w...

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Me and my mates were into D&B back in the day, but we were never into Goldie, and Photek and the like - that was kind of the ‘arty’ side of D&B. It was more stuff like: Roni Size - Jazzy I also used to be into Happy Hardcore around the same time :blush: Now that was music that did what it said on t...

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I could set up this video with some of my own narrative/views, but it's maybe not needed. It is however very VERY relevant, and enternaining, to watch this video of Blair in a 1997 pre-election debate, facing questions about what the Labour party means - all the issues that are around today about wh...

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Some tracks by dance music genre, for no particular reason: Speed garage I was quite into the short lived 90s "speed garage" scene. Here's Gisele Jackson - Love Commandments (Loop Da Loop vocal mix) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUEcyUfUks0 Double 99 - RIP Groove will always be THE classic of the ...

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Some hard house

Equinox - Immure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrSryjkpDY

Many remixes available but the origial is still the original!

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billy nasty

Bloody hell that's a name I haven't heard in years. The sound you first hear at about 5 seconds in that track is imprinted in my brain though. Not sure if it's from that track or sampled elsewhere.

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I was listening to a marketing podcast the other day where someone was taking the piss out of brands who pay instagram influencers to advertise products - assuming for instance that their following is similar aged aspirational women, but actually their audience is just men "doing research"

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In fact I seem to remember the singer singing it a few times, and replacing the "And joined the British Army" bit with various comedic references rhyming with "army", to much hilarity.

Maybe everyone does this.

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Some say, the divil is dead, the divil is dead, the divil is dead, And buried in Killarney. More say he rose again, more say he rose again, more say he rose again And joined the British Army! An Irish post-war ditty, This was the first song of it's type I heard, in a pub in Killarney on my first vi...

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Calm down everyone, Barry Gardiner is running.

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If they choose Long Bailey and Burgon I am going to start identifying as a Tory Brexiteer.

You may as well start - even if completely pretending - getting some enjoyment out of the next 15 years.

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Serious question - is bimboman Dianne Abbott?

Diane Abbott MP
@HackneyAbbott
Pleased to nominate Becky Long Bailey for leader and Richard Burgon for deputy leader
@UKLabour

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One of our close friend's daughters has made three attempts. Just to help things, when she split up with her last boy friend, he committed suicide. She is a lovely, lovely girl who seems to have it all. Despite her mother's best attempts her upbringing was awful as her father was a complete barstew...

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You can tell I'm a neo-liberal/Blairite as if I was Labour leader all of my shadow cabinet would come from the blue side, though as it happens I like Rosena Allin Khan and Tulip Siddique. Clive Lewis is OK. Imagine a party where you might look for the most talented people rather than the most loyal ...

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Jarvis definitely rules himself out.

Real shame. Not necessarily well known but is (as far as we know) very hard to criticise for being too leave, too remain, too south, too posh, too left, too centre, too unpatriotic, too linked to the election failure and so on.

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I think we're agreed. Not that I'll probably have a vote - undecided on doing a bimboman - but my ideal candidate would explicitly state that they want a new team of advisers. They will be asked a lot on Brexit and I think a hybrid of Starmer/Phillips Marr position is the only practical way forward....

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But I can't see that the Labour candidates shouldn't be questioned very closely about Corbyn's role, about the problems he imported (how to de-toxify the party in particular) and about the manifesto as an expression of policy and of position on the political continuum. This is the largest party in ...

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Quite a ruthless piece on Jess Phillips. The Spectator pointed out a day ago how Jess Phillips actually has expressed very little vision for what her policies are for all her self promotion. Besides domestic violence there is almost no political angle she has expressed. It's a problem for all of th...

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Lavery not standing so it's basically Long-Bailey vs everyone else

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She's really gone for it there - it's full "radical movement" Continuity Corbyn

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https://tribunemag.co.uk/2020/01/rebecc ... -socialism

Anyone for bingo?

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Both points of view can be right. From a day to day perspective most people won’t come across much if any wokeness. Might be different in, say, a local authority where they’d be likely to have dedicated diversity officers and training programmes and the like, compared with a tyre fitters, but gener...

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We all have different perspectives but where are you hearing about bigotry 24/7 and facing this pervasive woke culture? With TVs, computers and phones everywhere we're likely to hear about vegan sausage rolls, Greta Thunberg, Sam Smith not identifying as a man or woman and Layla Moran being pansexua...

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What are future Labour MPs from the south meant to do? Adopt a mockney accent and say they used to be a market trader? It's nearly as much proof of "getting it" as being northern. It’s hard to imagine Labour electing a leader now or for the foreseeable future who doesn’t have a plausibly gritty bac...

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