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Reply | 2 children drowned in the Channel today
at 16:54 11 Sep 2025
"Most people can get a holiday visa" is utter nonsense.
People coming from the countries in question would find it very difficult, if not impossible to get a holiday visa. My Chinese partner's mum has been denied a visitor visa in the past (because she's not working, which shouldn't be a surprise given she's over 70). |
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Reply | Banksy
at 16:47 11 Sep 2025
'middle class' is the new 'champagne socialist' |
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Reply | Some murders should not be mentioned ...
at 16:28 11 Sep 2025
I appreciate logic and reason have no place in American politics, but I'd be interested to know how that incident justifies removing public transport subsidies. |
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Reply | People considering voting Reform
at 16:33 9 Sep 2025
Aren't Reform proposing massive tax cuts that would hugely increase the government deficit (like Trump has done)? |
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Reply | Democracy in action?
at 16:21 9 Sep 2025
IMO this is why the government is coming unstuck - the Labour right don't seem to have any principles other than being in power, which means when they get it, they don't really know what to do. |
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Reply | Rayner resigns
at 21:13 8 Sep 2025
This is a bit different isn't it?
What she's done here is tax evasion (i.e. breaking the law), not tax avoidance (which I'd personally define as a legal but convoluted and morally questionable scheme to get out of paying tax). |
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Reply | Reform v The Greens
at 19:18 7 Sep 2025
The Green Party has always had those types of policies – they just haven't been front and centre of their campaigns. If anything the party's view on NATO is more positive than it used to be (until 2023 it was policy to leave NATO). [Post edited 7 Sep 19:22]
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Reply | Very good on Angela Rayner
at 04:26 6 Sep 2025
I'm pretty sure a large part of the reason for rigging the selections prior to the last election was to ensure there were not enough left-wing MPs to get a left-wing candidate in the ballot paper in a future leadership election. |
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Reply | Farage is a traitor
at 20:29 5 Sep 2025
I would imagine it may also depend on your reach. If an account with one follower tweeted something calling for violence, I would not expect it to be given the same attention that one that has 630,000 followers (like Linehan does), even if it was worse. |
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Reply | Rayner resigns
at 15:10 5 Sep 2025
The 'Corbyn's a millionaire' is really such a tired old thing to trot out.
He owns a fairly bog-standard terraced house in Islington. If he bought it in the 1970s or 1980s, it probably didn't cost that much (the council bought thousands of Edwardian terraced houses in the borough in the 1970s because they were dirt cheap at the time), but because of the London house price boom, it is now worth silly money.
And then he's been an MP on an extremely good salary for forty years. If he's saved wisely (and he doesn't seem to have lavish spending habits), he could easily have accumulated hundreds of thousands of pounds in savings. |
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Reply | Oh the irony Wes!
at 02:04 5 Sep 2025
It's been the modus operandi for quite a while now to claim that attacks on the Labour right are classism by the left, whereas in reality it's almost always simply the fact that people just don't like their policies.
Journalists like Lee Harpin regularly attempt to disparage anyone with vaguely left-wing views by claiming they're middle class. |
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Reply | Very good on Angela Rayner
at 14:12 3 Sep 2025
TBH I still find her purchasing a council home under RTB a more distasteful act for a Labour politician. That fact that she's in charge of housing policy after having done her own bit to deplete the social housing stock is not good. |
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Reply | Toxicity
at 16:23 14 Aug 2025
TBH I don't think it's the glory hunters. We had people on here having meltdowns at points during both promotion seasons. |
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Reply | National anthem booed
at 13:59 11 Aug 2025
But the real question is - is it ok to eat your sausage roll during the minute's silence? |
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Reply | UK to recognise Palestine in September unless certain conditions are met
at 19:36 31 Jul 2025
Israel doesn't define nationality by religion - Israel has significant Muslim, Christian, Druze populations. But I think some other countries do - all Saudi Arabian citizens must be Muslims. Also, Jews are an ethno-religious group and not purely defined by religion. Many Jews are athiests (like Ed Milliband).
But you are completely right about the Israeli government and the influence of lobbyists and donations in British politics. It should now be abundantly clear to everyone why the Israeli government put so much money and effort into undermining the former leader of the Labour Party - it certainly turned out to be a worthwhile investment for them. Netanyahu must have been delighted when Starmer told LBC that Israel had the right to cut off supplies to the Gaza Strip. |
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Reply | UK to recognise Palestine in September unless certain conditions are met
at 18:25 29 Jul 2025
We could have just recognised them without any conditions, like most other countries have.
I think it reflects pretty poorly on the UK government that we are not willing to recognise Palestine because it's the right thing to do, but to punish Israel, and that if Israel does what we want, we won't grant them recognition. |
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