#38

reckon there might be more appetite for centrism than socialism now, seems like more angry people on twitter in favour of it anyway

#39

Anyway as mentioned before I’m irked by the media pretending they’re actually a thing and that the name means anything

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#41

Obviously the name is designed to be as bland and reasonable sounding as possible, think I mentioned last week that I’d like to see the term Eurosceptic brought back, or even better, bastards

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#42

yeah I don’t disagree I’m just not sure it can or will ever be any different. I mean I’m going to continue supporting Labour and advocating for those policies where I can but I might have to be prepared to live my whole life with none of it coming true. Have to find the right place within myself to be comfortable with that without feeling that my whole life is broken and spiteful which is where I’m at right now

#44

“If May’s deal is to pass, she will first have to convince the Backbench Cunts.”

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#47

sometimes the more I focus on it the more it saps my energy and I just spend the day doing nothing but it’s like an addiction, the urge to know what’s going on and to get some solidarity on here in the face of it.

Sorry this isn’t really what this thread is for I know. Gonna go for a walk :slight_smile:

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#48

Lets not forget yaxley-lennon was telling a crowd of over 3000 people that they need to get politicised this weekend

#50

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#53

A member of a far right group was arrested under terror offences in leeds last week too.

TIG are just their to destroy the left and facilitate a move back to the right and then when a right wing populist walks into power they will repeat the shocked words of the democrats when trump got in verbatim

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#55

In podcast chat, I listen to the UKMT approved “We Dont Talk About The Weather”, which usually do weekly catchup podcasts about the news, but will also occasionally take a couple weeks off to discuss the history of certain issues, which is quite good.

RE: Blair getting wheeled out, from solely the preview of the article, I think this may be a stopped clock moment. Less devolution means more support for independence is hazy, but reasonable - though there’s an argument without the SNP taking Holyrood in the late 00’s, would there be the support there is, but Brexit is heavily pushing Scotland towards Independence.

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#57

Was just catching up with the other thread and saw this move.

“Hahaha please save me from political annihilation”

“Hohoho just resign for fuck’s sake.”

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#58

There’s definitely been a big shift in NI from a united Ireland being a distant far off concept - a misty eyed dream for some and a “for fucks sake can we stop going on about it and just sort the place out as it is” for others - to being an actual tangible idea that feels inevitable and that people are starting to talk genuinely about how to plan for and what it might look like. It’s been the one interesting side of this whole shitshow.

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#60

I think even if we have the softest of Brexits and the border is unchanged, the issue has been opened up now and Brexit has exposed the fundamental impracticality of being tethered to the wrong island

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#61

Mate you NEED to get on History is Sexy podcast

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#62

:hugs: me too! i’ve been pushing them on here for a while now! i also try to retweet their twitter posts to promote them altho i have few followers. great lads. metalheads too, i gather.

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#63

It is utterly bizarre to me that a United Ireland is even being suggested. When I was growing up it was unthinkable. It could work too, though are a lot of obstacles to surmount first.

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#64

For a bit of good news, here’s Paris Lees on glinner being a dumbshit and our boy hbomb saving the day

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#65

I listened to that one you linked the other day about the RCP/LV/Spiked online people. It was nice to hear that the person who’s always nasty on the moral maze has history.

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#66

I love how Vogue seems to have become the most prominent left-wing newspaper

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#67

Certainly and I don’t think it’ll be anytime too soon but it now feels particularly inevitable. Growing up where I did in a heavily nationalist area on the border it’s always been regarded as an eventual outcome but realistically many many generations away if not just a delusion, but it now feels like something we could see NI voting for within a few decades maybe. A lot of ‘happy with the status quo’ nationalists have gone a bit ‘fuck this’ (myself included) as we’ve seen how readily many Tories would be happy to take that status quo away from us again, and unionism is gradually dying on its arse.

Can understand many in the Republic having reservations about taking on the mad shitshow that is the north though.

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