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aggi

Best news so far of the GE: https://www.bbc.com/news/election-2019-50492998 Boris Johnson Pledges to cut National Insurance Tax for anyone earning £12,500 or under. Great boost for the lowest paid workers in society. Brilliant. Damo is going to be really ****** off about how much this will cost.

aggi

Cryssys wrote: The biggest donor to the Conservatives was its Israeli born co-treasurer Ehud Sheleg, a Mayfair art gallery director who gave more than £1 million in the period between April 1 and June 30.

I've just twigged that I've met this bloke many times but I know him as Udi.

aggi

Certainly highlights the problems with modern labour that taking all that into account they will still get dicked by the tories. Eventually the party will stop blaming everyone and everything else and start looking closer to home I don't view the current labour party as particularly competent but i...

aggi

Just wow... will this Tory government sink any lower...? Surely this is against Electoral Law - it is misleading at best and fraud in my opinion... https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-50482637 I'm sure they will because they are unrepentant about things like this and the doctored Starmer video. L...

aggi

As suspected it's a fake. The message IDs aren't consistent.

I wonder where it came from: Remainers wanting to stir the pot or Leavers wanting to discredit the leaked messages?

aggi

The hack has certainly happened and I've seen a fair few which I suspect are probably true but I'm not convinced by this one. It seems a bit too pat, particularly Raab conveniently signing it off.

aggi

Lancasterclaret wrote:Look, because these things say exactly what you'd expect these daft morons to say is making me a tad suspicious.

Surely even these idiots wouldn't be that blatant?

There are some fakes knocking around. No idea if this is one or not.

aggi

The loon tory guy is talking about persistent problem tenants causing hell on estates so his ranting is fair enough imo. It’s not that unlike the snowflake account of the guy who posted it on Twitter really , who seems to think the Tories are almost the third reich. Though I’m presuming the tory gu...

aggi

Rumours are that Aaron Banks has had his twitter hacked and all his direct messages have been obtained. Could be interesting.

aggi

RMutt wrote:Well. we had our chance in the PR referendum and only 42% bothered voting.

We didn't have a PR referendum though. We had a referendum on a weak compromise that would have done very little to change the status quo.

aggi

Jakubclaret wrote:Let them get on with it, it'll sort itself out, eventually when a certain side recognises it's futile the side will back down, pain is the persuader.

Well that's the end of this thread. Might is right and bravery is stupid.

aggi

I was a bit surprised that ClaretAndy hasn't posted this. I thought he was all over candidates being dropped due to anti-semitic comments

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland- ... d-50468770

aggi

That sound more like stupidity than bravery. I'd say there's often a fine line between the two. Given the fatality rates in the trenches then going over the top and charging a machine gun nest was stupid but undoubtedly also brave. These protesters were trying to occupy the police so that other pro...

aggi

I've been watching the Hong Kong protests and the protesters and police are incredibly mismatched. They've been going up against riot police with tear gas, armoured cars and water cannons protected mainly by umbrellas. You'll see them pushed back by tear gas or the water cannon and then five minutes...

aggi

Having been in the office all day having come out it's definitely escalated near me today. After a lengthy route back from the client to avoid the worst of the tear gas (still ended up with burning eyes and a sore throat) I got back to my hotel to find an armoured car shooting tear gas at protesters...

aggi

From what I was told Blake was one of a few players who behaved very unprofessional towards Laws. I don’t like my boss but he’s the manager so you just get on with it. A few players have said similar things. Poor from the players but also from the manager for not being able to control them (althoug...

aggi

The trouble China has is partly that the rest of the world is looking on and wouldn't, in theory, countenance mainland intervention (although the question does have to be asked whether China cares and whether the rest of the world has the ability to react. You'd expect the UK and US to be at the for...

aggi

Funkydrummer wrote:Is that where he went ? I wasn't aware of that tbh.

At one point he was the league's all time leading scorer.

Edit: he still is, by far

aggi

Top Claret wrote:Don't we all

There's a few on here who are a bit mealy mouthed about their racism but it's good to see that Top Claret doesn't try and hide the fact that he's a racist ****.

aggi

Corbyn supported Black people "going back home" There's a significant difference between "going back home" and "sending back home". I can't say I agree with either idea but if you're trying to convince people that Bernie Grant was racist that's probably going to be a d...

aggi

Currently watching from my window. Protesters trying to protect themselves from tear gas with umbrellas

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aggi

I've not seen much mention of it on here. I've been following it on Telegram and this site https://hkmap.live/ whilst out in HK. It's a weird atmosphere. Bits are much quieter than normal, in part because a lot of the transport is disrupted, and other areas are as bustling as you'd expect. I walked ...

aggi

And THAT is why I said Corbynomics has some appeal to many people. Many feel that public ownership will make things better by eliminating the profit incentive, others feel it would make things worse by removing competition. p.s. I would be interested to know if the public spending supporters like y...

aggi

Lord Beamish wrote:He did well for us. He helped us get Promoted as Champions, doing the double on the B*stards(and scoring against them), then helped us stay in the Top Flight for the first time in 40 years, then went for a tidy profit.

What’s not to like?

Sometimes he didn't clap enough.

aggi

Johnson getting the EU/non-EU immigrant split so wrong is pretty amazing:

https://mobile.twitter.com/tpgcolson/st ... 6722816002

aggi

AndyClaret wrote:New poll for those interested, post Brexit party standing down.

Looking at their sample is interesting. They have 85% of their sample voted in the Brexit referendum as opposed to 72% for the population. I don't know how this compares to other polls.

aggi

All ideas are good that involving people getting something for free, reality is always a bit different. Not long ago students were offered free tuition by the very same people only for them to admit once they had lost that they wouldn't have been able to fund it. If everyone who works for broadband...

aggi

AndyClaret wrote:And you trust a Labour Government who can't protect their own website to do this ? Back when BT was a state run company, you had to wait up to 18 months for a phone line.

I'm pretty sure they could protect their own website. It was attacked, it wasn't taken down.

aggi

Unfortunately there are racists in all countries and that is sad but it will never be eradicated because too many people have an innate fear of that which they see as 'different'. The problem we have here is that the remain voters, in an effort to excuse the 'wrong' result have taken up the racist ...

aggi

dsr wrote:They could at least start with speed cameras. They pay for themselves.

Not for the police though, the money just goes back into the general government pot.

aggi

This is quite funny but did anyone really take them seriously? Maybe one or two lame brains on coke. These are not the reasons people voted to leave (and they did - in their millions). Plenty did and still do. You just have to look at some of the garbage posted on the brexit threads to see how gull...

aggi

norman smith ✔ @BBCNormanS Sounds to me Tories not at all confident they will be able to reduce immigration. Now Priti Patel line is they will "control" immigration. I don't think anyone with a modicum of intelligence will be surprised by that. Just look at what's happened in the past few...

aggi

You really dont see the racial connotations of watermelon smiles and you really think Johnson did not understand its historical context? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watermelon_stereotype Im sorry but if you are taking this position you are either to stupid to be worht a serious debate (you obviou...

aggi

No but something remotely close to what we are looking at would be appreciated. It's an extreme comparison with that basketcase of a country (no offence to any USA citizens on here) guns are so easily available over there & plenty of other differences as well. I'm not sure if you are anti/pro c...

aggi

I consider the Australian based points system as a strong but fair system. If you disagree then kindly put forward your preferred solution to this very important political issue. One big reason why the points based system "works" in Australia is because if you want to go over there for a ...

aggi

AndyClaret wrote:"The Tories are the party of the rich" Oh....

https://twitter.com/Telegraph/status/11 ... 1228337152

Although pensioners, regardless of wealth, are classed as working class in this poll which I imagine has skewed the figures.

aggi

So I'll ask you 5 simple questions 1 Should the deal go through, who will own the scunthorpe steel plant? The tory government, or the Chinese company Jingye? 2 Will the deal have breached eu laws? The same laws that the government's own legal team and Dr Ruth Bender, Associate Professor of Corporat...

aggi

Stayingup wrote:Why do you think they're made up stories? They're not. Get your blue cap off. Haha.

He's right you know. Double decker buses have definitely been banned. Those X43s are just a collective hallucination.

aggi

Dazzler wrote:We're talking The UK,not the USA.

Ah, so you want evidence comparing two identical countries with identical populations at identical times with the solitary difference between the two being one has the death penalty and one doesn't.

You know, I think that could be a little awkward to provide.

aggi

Ox and FInch, and Stravaigin were both very good.

aggi

I’ve just been doing a fag packet working of Labour’s 32 hour week on the NHS. The Tories reckon it will cost £6bn. I think that is way, way too low. Well into double figures annually. The Tories wont have figured out the impact if the NHS cannot find new staff to replace these lost hours (likely t...

aggi

I did mention this on the GE thread earlier but it got ignored,it's :x that both major parties can't deal with anti-semitism and Islamophobia respectively,it's the 21st century FGS not the dark ages. The problem is for a lot of people it's just points scoring rather than an issue they actually care...

aggi

Swizzlestick wrote:Good to see people telling Elon Musk what he really meant to say. Doesn't strike me as the type of person to speak bullshit to be honest.

Utterly moronic.

This is the Elon Musk we're talking about?

aggi

I suspect the only thing that will see Julie Cooper elected is the fact that she will secure the vast majority of the Asian vote. The latest local gov elections would indicate the other wards in the town have had enough of her and the Labour Party. It would be pretty impressive if she got in with a...

aggi

Dazzler wrote:Where is the evidence that it doesn''t?

Post 148 shows some.

aggi

:lol: :lol: :lol: I'm so so glad you "finally put it to bed " aggi!! Is that all you've got left!? :lol: :lol: :lol: As I said back in May, (and ever since I proved you utterly wrong then, it's clearly been eating at your very soul, otherwise why attempt to save some sort of credibility, ...

aggi

Lowbankclaret wrote:Not that I have seen.

Photo shop is great these days.

It's even more impressive the way they controlled his mind to make him say those words

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... -companies

aggi

Can I ask cause I struggle with this. How does Russia sway voters. Have they changed your vote Lancs??? To be honest, you're an excellent example of this. You'll happily read, believe and propagate things on social media that are blatantly untrue (all these things the EU are going to do by 2020, et...

aggi

Immigration isn't a straightforward left v right issue either. There is, and always has been, a raging debate on the left as to how to approach immigration. Here's Bernie Sanders, for instance: Open borders is a Koch Brothers policy... a right wing policy... it would make everyone in America poorer...

aggi

Lowbankclaret wrote:That’s how naive you are.

Ask the people of China or Hong Kong .

He did mean it, for sure.

I've just asked 3. The response from them all was "Eh, what?"

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