She's gone in on the religion too (connected to the above).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.
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- Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 9:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
Fingers crossed (new poll)
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 2:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
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Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
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...
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:51 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
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- Views: 2119560
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
Betrayal?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.
- Fri Jan 17, 2020 8:37 am
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- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
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Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
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?...
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
Good interview with Nandy by Andrew Neil earlier - worth a watch on iPlayer.
- Wed Jan 15, 2020 8:18 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
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Re: **OFFICIAL** English Rugby Thread
I think we'll regret not capping Tompkins - always rated him.
- Tue Jan 14, 2020 11:29 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Hubble is 25
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4581
Re: Hubble is 25
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...
- Tue Jan 14, 2020 4:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Hubble is 25
- Replies: 51
- Views: 4581
Re: Hubble is 25
Ever seen this? It's on Amazon Prime and maybe Netflix as well I thinkThings 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.
The Farthest
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6223974/
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 10:50 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 9:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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.
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 7:08 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 6:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Mon Jan 13, 2020 5:21 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
Apart from hustings/meetings for members does anyone know if any of this is going to be televised or streamed?
- Sun Jan 12, 2020 3:04 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
- Replies: 40970
- Views: 2119560
Re: OFFICIAL Brexit Thread
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 ...
- Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:54 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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.
But as you say, now some of the "heartlands" are Tory.
- Sat Jan 11, 2020 12:53 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:26 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dance Music Thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 28013
Re: Dance Music Thread
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...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:22 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:01 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dance Music Thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 28013
Re: Dance Music Thread
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 ...
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 10:19 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dance Music Thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 28013
Re: Dance Music Thread
Some hard house
Equinox - Immure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrSryjkpDY
Many remixes available but the origial is still the original!
Equinox - Immure
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9VrSryjkpDY
Many remixes available but the origial is still the original!
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 9:58 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Dance Music Thread
- Replies: 202
- Views: 28013
Re: Dance Music Thread
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.billy nasty
- Fri Jan 10, 2020 11:18 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Instagram
- Replies: 79
- Views: 5937
Re: Instagram
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"
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ‘Come out Ye Black and Tans' now top of the UK iTunes charts
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2329
Re: ‘Come out Ye Black and Tans' now top of the UK iTunes ch
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.
Maybe everyone does this.
- Thu Jan 09, 2020 7:30 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: ‘Come out Ye Black and Tans' now top of the UK iTunes charts
- Replies: 19
- Views: 2329
Re: ‘Come out Ye Black and Tans' now top of the UK iTunes ch
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...
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 8:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
Calm down everyone, Barry Gardiner is running.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:34 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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.
You may as well start - even if completely pretending - getting some enjoyment out of the next 15 years.
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:31 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 2:15 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Suicide
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- Views: 8106
Re: Suicide
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...
- Wed Jan 08, 2020 12:11 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
- Replies: 8736
- Views: 413952
Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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 ...
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 6:28 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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.
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.
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:49 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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....
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 4:20 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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 ...
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 2:59 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Tue Jan 07, 2020 12:42 am
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
Lavery not standing so it's basically Long-Bailey vs everyone else
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:59 pm
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- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
She's really gone for it there - it's full "radical movement" Continuity Corbyn
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 11:41 pm
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- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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- Mon Jan 06, 2020 9:23 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 6:46 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...
- Mon Jan 06, 2020 2:42 pm
- Forum: Rugby Forum
- Topic: Official Eldanielbore and Unseenbrain Quarantine Zone
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Re: Official Marxist Re-Education Thread
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...