#354

But it is a bit like a ten-year old explaining how their jelly-powered spaceship works by looking at you like you’re a moron and saying “you just put a jelly engine in it.”

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#355

Oh undeniably. But he did resign as a point of protest about it at the time.

Quite like the idea of IDS going “it’d work if you gave it more money”. That’s every attack line from him on Labour economic policy completely closed down then.

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#356

You’d think, wouldn’t you.

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#357
#358

Following on from this:

#361

Declare end to austerity, do nothing, repeat

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#362

lol

wtf even is a social democrat in 2018

lmao

#363

Been a while since we had a depressing yet unsurprising story about MPs and senior public servants being hideous fucking assholes, eh?

#364

NICE. to combat the loneliness the tories have cause they’re

Announcing an extra £1.8m for community projects, such as creating new community cafes, art spaces or gardens, Mrs May said social prescriptions would reduce demand on the NHS and improve patients’ quality of life.
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#365

Not going to look it up but I’m guessing this is roughly 0.5% of the amount Hammond has pledged to slice off the budget next year.

#366

10p mix up each for lonely people

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#367

I was trying to find some good stats on what that would actually buy, and in 2015 (so adjust for inflation and laugh along with me) £1.8 million would be good for just under 15,000 eight-session mindfulness courses! I got a leaflet for one the other day, so good luck getting on the rest of those.

EDIT - I can’t maths. That’s still pretty poor though for the whole country.

#368

Have we covered Germany?

When the German state on the front lines of the 2015 migrant crisis went to the polls on Sunday, voters were widely expected to abandon the conservative allies of Chancellor Angela Merkel.

They did, but with a twist: Bavarians gave the biggest lift to the Greens, who ran on open borders and the fight against climate change.

The Greens doubled their haul to 17.2 percent, which makes them the second-biggest political force in Bavaria and Germany.

The Christian Social Union, allies of Ms. Merkel, lost a long-held absolute majority, adding to doubts about the stability of her coalition.

Voters also defected to the anti-immigrant, far-right Alternative for Germany party, giving it about 10 percent — enough to enter Bavaria’s Parliament for the first time.

#369

I wish the Greens were the official opposition in the UK.

And I’d be willing to accept 50 UKIP MPs as the price.

  • Agreed :green_heart:
  • Nah, I :heart: Labour

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#370

The Greens aren’t nearly as progressive as I’d want on most issues, tbh.

#371

Nah (mainly for the UKIP bit)

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#372

Labour government with Green opposition? Yes deffo

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#373

Oh I thought this was asking for the ruling party, then I’d take 50 UKIP MPs. Would be a mess but they’d stop brexit and fuck off the fracking. Not even clear Labour would do the former

#374

when/if this ends, we will have helped to kill more people than have died in syria. we probably already have. I know yemenis don’t really matter to us, but death machines will become our main export post brexit. therefore i am going to formally request armed intervention from the EU against the UK, now, before we kill anymore people. let’s see how them home counties fash cunts like it up em.

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#375

I misvoted on this. I thought we were going to sacrifice 50 UKIP members. Change my vote please.