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Just now, Swerbs said:

Bring on the Coalition of Chaos!

Tories and SNP, both Murdoch faves and Sturgeon would sell her soul for that independence vote.

11 minutes ago, bobzy said:

 

Why don't people care about what the parties are saying they will do?  Baffling.

I'm going to guess, because they don't believe or trust parties to do what they say. 

I find myself singing this song on a day like today.

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Raise Your Hands (If You Hate Democracy)

by Jonny & The Baptists

 

 

11 minutes ago, TrentVilla said:

I think I've read that previously but don't take any real notice as they are an utter irrelevance in terms of the GE.

I don't think any party is irrelevant, maybe to the actual results. But if that party starts picking up enough votes they will influence policy of the mainstream parties. See UKIP / Tory Brexit vote bribe fiasco. 

26 minutes ago, LakotaDakota said:

It's a bit like asking if you would prefer to be kicked in the balls or punched in the balls. Neither is going to do you much good but hopefully one will hurt a bit less

Shoes or barefoot?

14 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

NHS free parking? thats downwart lying to the public, that is never going to happen and I suspect Corbyn knows this.

Depends on what you mean by free parking? I was driving my brother-in-law to the hospital for treatment recently and as a patient you get a card to put in the car each day to park for free. Which I'm totally fine with. Visitors still have to pay though. How else do you stop people abusing the free parking? They used to do this at my local hospital, people who worked in town would park there free all day, and no patients could ever get a space. 

7 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Miliverse? What a absolute loser

You know that's a parody account? It's about how bland (yet stable) politics would have been if Milliband had won the election. 

Diane Abbott ill.  Russia fed up with Corbyn letting her ruining his campaign. Probably slipped something in her tea.

Damn Ruskies, that's why I only drink grain alcohol and rain water. 

4 minutes ago, Demitri_C said:

Dont worry guys while the rest of us struggle the Queen is getting a nice 3m pay increase 

Seriously just sell a painting, a bit a of jewelry, even one of the many, many houses. She could fund the royal family for years, when the rest of the country is struggling.

12 hours ago, villakram said:

So the FT is now floating a story stating that Qatar paid off AQ affiliated militias in Syria and Iran/Iranian militias in Iraq to the tune of $1B and that is why the Saudi government is so pissed. These were separate deals but are being floated as a joint thing. Just like that time Saddam was allied with AQ I guess.

Neo-cons are to cockroaches as cockroaches are to fruitflies! 

Are the Saudis doing the classic Trumpism of loudly accusing someone else of stuff that your doing in an attempt to deflect?

I actually think they should broadcast Four Lions everytime there's an attack, so we can mock them for the nutjob dimwits they are. The true British way. 

10 hours ago, Jas10 said:

His son Tomy, was at Arsenal at one point let's get him.

At what point will Twitter actually ban him for his consistent targeted harassment of individuals?

10 hours ago, villa4europe said:

thats shit news, really enjoyed it

sense 8 isnt coming back either, neither is the get down

I believe sense8 was one of the most expensive shows ever made, it was going to have to be Game of Thrones style popular to keep going. 

3 hours ago, HanoiVillan said:

Similar to what?

Trump slagging off Khan, because he said now wasn't a time for Londoners to be alarmed, and his "political correctness". Trump does seem to continuously single our Sadiq Khan personally for criticism, but not other British politicians.

Edit: Khan said they shouldn't be alarmed when seeing more armed police on the streets. 

4 minutes ago, Xela said:

I would have thought fighting for ISIS as a UK citizen would be a crime? 

I don't know, just assuming. 

Just checked. Around 40 returning fighters have been picked up and arrested. So yes, and yes they are arrested for it.

7 minutes ago, StefanAVFC said:

I wonder if the mayor of London wasn't a muslim, would he be getting attacked by Trump?

Did Andy Burnham say anything similar over Manchester? Because if so, there's your answer. 

1 minute ago, StefanAVFC said:

In this thread today, we've had 

"arrest terrorist's families"

"I would let the government monitor my calls, emails, post and internet usage in the name of national security"

"Arrest people who have not committed a crime in the UK"

I get that times are bad currently, but we're so much better than this.

Are we?

36 minutes ago, Rugeley Villa said:

I'm not saying I will give up my freedom. We will never completely stamp it out but more needs to be done because we cannot carry on like this. A lot of people moan about having whatever privacy taken away but if it helps against terrorism I'm all for it.

You just contradicted yourself in space of three sentences.

10 minutes ago, peterms said:

Lobby correspondent bravely challenges Isis:

And receives support:

 

Sorry, what?

7 minutes ago, Chindie said:

Theresa has said enough is enough.

Well, that's nice. What liberties can she grab?

I just listened to her speech, she mentioned wanting control of the internet about five times. She also said she wanted to take away the "safe spaces" for terrorists in Iran and Syria with military intervention against ISIS. I'll be interested to see if she realised what she just said, and will take that military action in the middle east.

I just read someone making the point that if you look how successfully Corbyn has campaigned the last few weeks, then you have to accept he didn't give a toss about remaining in the EU referendum. 

1 hour ago, Awol said:

...Or a lot of desperate people who saw 'more of the same' as death by a thousand cuts. I blame the mainstream politicians for abandoning Main St, not the other way around. 

 

No, voters have to take responsibility for the decisions they make. It's not like Trump has changed his stance or got stupider or crazier, since he got elected. 

It's the same in this country, if Brexit turns out a complete cluster***k people who voted for it need to take responsibility and not blame the politicians that they backed to do it. 

Even North Korea signed the Paris Climate Control Agreement.