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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #600 on: December 20, 2019, 07:14:48 PM »
Some people can be extremely gullible, imo.

I agree!

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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #601 on: December 20, 2019, 10:08:07 PM »
It would be good to actually get a handle on how social media affected voting in the elections - as opposed to msm. It must be confounded by the way that social media channels become echo chambers.

Funny how those with the most money are good at getting the populace to vote to give them yet more.
Yes it's very clever how people with lots of money invest some of it in distracting people with little money into believing that there are more important considerations than money.

Rather than businesses and government having to invest in better infrastructure (that benefits everyone), it is economically beneficial to the wealthy to scapegoat the EU and their migrants to the UK, who pay more in taxes than they take out in benefits.

The end result is that we have UK born voters, who take out more in benefits than they pay in taxes, voting to be economically worse off and to increase inequality because this is less important to them than "taking back control".
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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #603 on: January 03, 2020, 01:00:55 PM »
Gosh, it seems we have an unelected official making far-reaching policy decisions (and ooh, does current employment law allow for people being "immediately binned"...?)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-50978329

And

Zac Goldsmith was rejected by his electorate, but retains his government post via ennoblement.

Everyone happy with this? 

Sorry if either have been discussed previously, I've not had access to the site for a couple of weeks.  Happy new year all.

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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #604 on: January 03, 2020, 01:05:31 PM »
The 'immediately binned' part will depend on the contract. Cummings is just playing a game.




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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #605 on: January 03, 2020, 01:15:11 PM »
Zac Goldsmith was rejected by his electorate, but retains his government post via ennoblement. .
Goldsmith is an absolute disgrace, even by Tory standards. He probably models himself on Alan B'Stard.
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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #606 on: January 03, 2020, 01:26:11 PM »
Goldsmith is an absolute disgrace, even by Tory standards. He probably models himself on Alan B'Stard.
He's never struck me as that intelligent. More a Piers Fletcher-Dervish with some b'stard advisors.

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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #607 on: January 03, 2020, 01:30:21 PM »
He's never struck me as that intelligent. More a Piers Fletcher-Dervish with some b'stard advisors.
P F-D was dim but (for a Tory) decent. Goldsmith and B'Stard are unscrupulous psychopaths, although B'Stard, being fictional, is much worse.
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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #608 on: January 03, 2020, 01:39:27 PM »
P F-D was dim but (for a Tory) decent. Goldsmith and B'Stard are unscrupulous psychopaths, although B'Stard, being fictional, is much worse.
Nah, B'stard is Boris. Zac is a puppet.

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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #609 on: January 03, 2020, 03:54:57 PM »
I'd be interested in the views of people who voted Tory because they are so committed to democracy that a proportionally elected EU parliament didn't meet their requirement.

I think Cummings actions cannot be characterised as "a game".  The fundamentals of our precarious freedoms and protections are being attacked.  I don't think that my health or safety are of any concern whatsoever to the people running the country.  They don't even pretend any more and their lack of concern for consequences scares me (though it could just be the psychopathic mind, they can't ALL be psychopaths, surely).

I've not heard any news since this morning, but I expect Johnson to wholeheartedly endorse Trump's warmongering distraction once Cummings has had the chance to tell him what to think.

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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #610 on: January 03, 2020, 08:08:24 PM »

I've not heard any news since this morning, but I expect Johnson to wholeheartedly endorse Trump's warmongering distraction once Cummings has had the chance to tell him what to think.

I have a similar expectation.  I fear the consequences of a typical ill-considered comment from Alexander Johnson on the fate of Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe.
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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #611 on: January 25, 2020, 03:56:21 PM »
https://amp.theguardian.com/society/2020/jan/25/former-red-wall-areas-could-lose-millions-in-council-funding-review?

To which I can only say to those voters affected, were you really so naive as to trust the words of proven liars?
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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #612 on: January 25, 2020, 10:41:52 PM »
S**t.

It is all so depressing.
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Re: UK election 2019
« Reply #613 on: January 31, 2020, 10:34:58 AM »
And the lies keep on coming:

https://tinyurl.com/lyingliarspt566

Or rather, revealed in all their breathtaking hypocrisy.
Before we work on Artificial Intelligence shouldn't we address the problem of natural stupidity.