A Political Thread pt. 2

[Which Tyler]

"two lifelong Tories, sitting in the NatCon auditorium in-between speakers*

"Oh my god. Did she really just say that?"

"tsk. She did. FFS. "

"So, um, National Conservatism..."

"What about it?"

"Well... I mean... It's just.... Well, don't you think it sounds a little bit like National Socialism?

"--- "

"Oh, ****. Are we those two blokes in that Mitchell & Webb sketch?"

 

[Reiser99]

Got a few here:

Firstly, taking back control means paying foreign criminals to leave. Go! Go! Tories!

Albanian prisoners paid by UK government to return home

The BBC hears from offenders offered £1,500 each to end their UK sentences early and be deported.

www.bbc.com

Second apparently filming your teacher being racist means you get suspended in the US.

US student suspended for filming teacher using racial slur

The school says the girl was removed for "inappropriate use of electronic devices", but family wants an apology.

www.bbc.com

Finally, Israel are definitely guilty of war crimes and human rights abuses. However, good luck anyone actually standing up and holding them to account.

Israel-Gaza: Palestinian family left homeless after strikes

Ataf Nabhan took a phone call before afternoon prayers. Five minutes later his house was destroyed.

www.bbc.com

 

[Reiser99]

Vauxhall-maker warns Brexit threatens electric cars in UK

Vauxhall-maker Stellantis is calling on the government to renegotiate some Brexit rules or risk losing electric

www.bbc.com

You mean this incredibly successful Brexit?

 

[ncurd]

I keep asking by what metric anything is better or hell, even simply not worse than it was just over a decade ago. There is nothing. By pretty much every measure, this country has got worse.

Occasionally there is something but they are glimmers in a heaving pile of of excrement.

No-fault evictions to be banned in reform of rental sector

The government is introducing a new law designed to overhaul the rental sector in England.

www.bbc.co.uk

Plus LGBQIA+ rights have expanded by a large margin, shame about the T though who I'm sure 13 years ago no one gave a **** about.

 

[Saintjay]

Got a few here:

Firstly, taking back control means paying foreign criminals to leave. Go! Go! Tories!

Albanian prisoners paid by UK government to return home

The BBC hears from offenders offered £1,500 each to end their UK sentences early and be deported.

www.bbc.com

Second apparently filming your teacher being racist means you get suspended in the US.

US student suspended for filming teacher using racial slur

The school says the girl was removed for "inappropriate use of electronic devices", but family wants an apology.

www.bbc.com

Finally, Israel are definitely guilty of war crimes and human rights abuses. However, good luck anyone actually standing up and holding them to account.

Israel-Gaza: Palestinian family left homeless after strikes

Ataf Nabhan took a phone call before afternoon prayers. Five minutes later his house was destroyed.

www.bbc.com

In all fairness £1500 versus the cost of a year in prison roughly £46000.

 

[Reiser99]

In all fairness £1500 versus the cost of a year in prison roughly £46000

Yeah that is a fair trade off, but it also does highlight how impotent the government is when it has to bribe criminals to return home, some of whom have already told Albanian authorities they will return.

 

[Saintjay]

It was in

Yeah that is a fair trade off, but it also does highlight how impotent the government is when it has to bribe criminals to return home, some of whom have already told Albanian authorities they will return.

The facilitated return scheme was initially brought in by Blair and Labour in 2006 from what i can tell. It's been going on for years.

 

[Reiser99]

It was in

The facilitated return scheme was initially brought in by Blair and Labour in 2006 from what i can tell. It's been going on for years.

Ok didn't know that. Not sure why it's news worthy then if it's been going on for 17 years.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Occasionally there is something but they are glimmers in a heaving pile of of excrement.

No-fault evictions to be banned in reform of rental sector

The government is introducing a new law designed to overhaul the rental sector in England.

www.bbc.co.uk

Plus LGBQIA+ rights have expanded by a large margin, shame about the T though who I'm sure 13 years ago no one gave a **** about.

Ok TBF if they get that going, that will be an improvement. Also during the coalition where they allowed people to take their money out of private pension providers and self-invest them was a good change.

 

[BrokenWing]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65621081

 

[ncurd]

I'd like to say I'm surprised

Prince Harry and Meghan 'paparazzi car chase' was not 'near catastrophic', NYPD officials suggest

A taxi driver who picked up the Sussexes has said "I don't think I would call it a chase" - but added the couple were "quiet and seemed scared" as they sat in the back of his car for around 10 minutes.

news.sky.com

 

[ncurd]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-65621081

Jeremy Hunt hasn't got a clue on this one.

Nobody in my industry would accept a job without hybrid working.

 

[BrokenWing]

Jeremy Hunt hasn't got a clue on this one.

Nobody in my industry would accept a job without hybrid working.

I was going to make that point, but couldn't even get the preview to work so...

"I worry about the loss of creativity when people are permanently working from home and not having those water cooler moments, where they bounce ideas off each other,"

If only people working from home could MEET colleagues online... Sort of REMOTELY.

If only there was some sort of gizmo that could enable people to CHAT via a VIDEO format.

In summary, the man is a complete helmet.

 

[ncurd]

I was going to make that point, but couldn't even get the preview to work so...

"I worry about the loss of creativity when people are permanently working from home and not having those water cooler moments, where they bounce ideas off each other,"

If only people working from home could MEET colleagues online... Sort of REMOTELY.

If only there was some sort of gizmo that could enable people to CHAT via a VIDEO format.

In summary, the man is a complete helmet.

Its definitely a loss, I feel it immensely working remotely with Canada a lot. However that's the entire point of Hybrid working those conversations do happen as you make sure the team is in the office on the same days. We also conduct daily stand ups online as my team is mix of Czech/UK where we encourage discussion of ideas.

 

[Saintjay]

For all your working from home needs. Especially during the RWC. Evidently sales of these have rocketed lol.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Mr Drainpipe getting put in his place.

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

I'd like to say I'm surprised

Prince Harry and Meghan 'paparazzi car chase' was not 'near catastrophic', NYPD officials suggest

A taxi driver who picked up the Sussexes has said "I don't think I would call it a chase" - but added the couple were "quiet and seemed scared" as they sat in the back of his car for around 10 minutes.

news.sky.com

Paparazzi chasing a royal family member leading to dangerous driving? Some serious de ja vu there.

Mr Drainpipe getting put in his place.

We talk about Wokeness all the time so people don't get distracted by Wokeness... The mental gymnastics of these people is astonishing. I question the reasoning skills of a viewer who thinks the Tories endlessly going on their anti-woke crusades is so people won't get distracted by Wokeness and complaining about a few hundred thousand pounds wastage after the billions the government has wasted or corruptly redirected.

 

[Bada-Bing!]

Paparazzi chasing a royal family member leading to dangerous driving? Some serious de ja vu there.

But this time the driver wasn't drunk and I assume they were all wearing their seatbelts.

We talk about Wokeness all the time so people don't get distracted by Wokeness... The mental gymnastics of these people is astonishing. I question the reasoning skills of a viewer who thinks the Tories endlessly going on their anti-woke crusades is so people won't get distracted by Wokeness and complaining about a few hundred thousand pounds wastage after the billions the government has wasted or corruptly redirected.

Great to see her put him in his place and then hurriedly ending it to move onto the next topic. He had absolutely nothing to say of substance in return, which made her point perfectly. Can't stand that Posh Drainpipe.

 

[Amiga500]

For all your working from home needs. Especially during the RWC. Evidently sales of these have rocketed lol.
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I can give you a BASIC script for that if you want - no need to have hardware, and as long as you can open notepad, then you can copy+paste+save then run it (IIRC).

(It just hits a key of your choice periodically)

 

[Ragey Erasmus]

Echoes what I've been saying now, for many the "benefit" is ******* people off and/or causing harm to the "opposition". The anger and the damage are not an unfortunate side effect of trying to achieve something else now, they are being touted as the goal in and of themselves.