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ml1dch

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  1. You might have to zoom in on Europe.
  2. I've got it - suggest that maybe Brexit might not be a wholly brilliant thing?
  3. The old version is that people saw themselves as being more likely in the future to need a tax break to benefit the wealthy than they were to need unemployment benefit. The new version is probably the aspirational hope that one day, they too might meet the right person to get awarded a corrupt Government procurement contract.
  4. Perhaps. But how are they planning on spending their year? Enjoying travelling the world, or dipping in and out of the thriving jobs market?
  5. Well I guess the real question is why wouldn’t he have a whip on his desk?
  6. To be fair, it was only a U-turn because it had been predicted to be a C-turn.
  7. Because the one thing they haven't moved an inch on, is hating the foreigns. And for your average Tory voter that is still the absolute bedrock of their pyramid of needs.
  8. Sounds like a u-turn is imminent. Announcement at 4pm apparently.
  9. Might be a bit dark, but this would probably work.
  10. Nothing groundbreaking, but this is medium-interesting / insightful from someone who is a decent Twitter follow.
  11. Maybe they're not being fooled. Maybe they're just weighing up neoliberalism versus fascism and thinking that four years of bog-standard crony-capitalism, while imperfect, is still better than whatever incoherent, simple-minded mess this is.
  12. I dunno. Previously you had relatively sensible people in charge who knew they had to say terrible things to keep their terrible supporters onside. Now the people who were once the terrible supporters are now the terrible people in charge.
  13. Good thing she got a helping hand along the way.
  14. Well, not really evidently otherwise I wouldn't have felt the need to ask. Your phrasing of "the hope was" seemed to suggest a broader feeling or analysis that went beyond the personal wishes of people emotionally attached to that particular outcome.
  15. I do remember reading quite recently that the next predicted global food shortage is likely to be milk, as it (and its byproducts) become increasingly popular amongst the growing Asian middle-classes and demand is starting to massively outstrip supply. Although I accept that I might just have been the victim of targeted propaganda by the milk marketing board.
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