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the thing is, ‘concern’ about immigration is directly proportional to how much media coverage is focused on immigration, so even assuming Labour reduce the absolute numbers by 2030, the only way that it will make voters happy is if the press decide it should

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You wonder if the ruling happened the way it did just so they could say this out loud in interviews.

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Remember when the nation’s pundits all knew that choral singing had been ruled out at the Proms due to Covid restrictions, and then agreed to spend two weeks pretending that Rule Britannia had been banned, to avoid offending thin-skinned minorities? I do! What conclusions should we draw from that?

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Sorry but I just don't feel comfortable sharing public toilets with transphobes. At any moment they could just demand to have a look at my gennies. The law should protect women's spaces from these creeps.

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Oxford are running their tits off so much more than Cardiff was against Sheff U 😭

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Fuck me, no wonder that young Cardiff fan swears so much.

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They're literally trying to use taxpayers money to buy coal to give to Chinese owned British Steel instead of nationalising it. It makes no sense, but they're so committed to neoliberalism they will do anything but nationalise anything.

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You’ll recall that in 2016, the lads unified and vowed to sniff out and crush the “fake news” inflicting Brexit upon us all, only to instantly discover that would mean fighting against the Sun and the Mail, so they instantly pivoted to squealing in terror about the Canary and Russian Facebook.

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Sure, but this particular wealth-destroying Death Star was constructed with idiotic media panic over pronouns, campus politics, black people who don’t want to be killed by police and billionaires accused of sexual offences. And now, it is going to blow up the world.

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Having lived through the 08 crash, I’d can confidently predict: not only will all these people spend months wailing “However did it come to this?” while fighting like lions to protect all the bullshit hate campaigns that ensured it came to this, they will then double down and get massively nastier

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The play-off push continues #lufc

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Useless pricks #lufc

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My optimism #LUFC

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Fuck off Leeds.

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Haven’t watched Adolescence yet but I see we’re pretending that it’s only kids who are radicalised by their darn phones and not a sizeable portion of the adult population. Including journalists, politicians and your favourite content creators

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The quicker we just admit the correct answer is “because this whole project was a cruel and idiotic fraud right from the moment MacSweeney invited the lobby hacks to the wrecking campaign launch in 2018”, then the quicker we can address the disastrous consequences now stacking up.

submitted 56 days ago • 8 comments

Our political class has been dreaming of turning this country into a declining Dickensian hellhole for decades, and we're so close now! In just a couple of tax-free years, they should be able to see the elderly, sick and disabled dying before their eyes in the gutters outside their gated communites.

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WRT to the abolition of NHS England and ‘direct ministerial control’: I’ve worked on NHS projects on and off for a few decades, I’ve seen countless financial and managerial reforms and procurement schemes come and go. 1/10

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It's funny how the Blue Labour "left economics and social conservatism" types are basically invisible whenever Labour are doing austerity but desperate to yell into any available microphone on culture issues

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It’s fun to remember professional people who presumably rely on public trust for their careers made a point of repeatedly saying words to the effect of “LOL you idiot, they’re only lying to the public to fool them into voting Labour, you arse, you onion”. Just a normal democracy-type thing.

submitted 66 days ago • 6 comments

Why, it’s almost like wealthy people have lots of money and despite all the outraged squawking, they can afford to kick in a few more bucks than, say, people with serious health issues who are on benefits can.

submitted 69 days ago • 4 comments

Well, we're nothing if not predictable #lufc

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People change their minds. And it is, in fact, the job of political campaigns to change them.

submitted 72 days ago • 6 comments

'Extremely poor'. Fella gets paid £1.1m per season of Pointless

submitted 72 days ago • 9 comments

Just discovered I'm blocked by someone decent on here. A day one block too, literally the day I joined when I'd barely posted. So you'd assume it's something I did on twitter, but I follow them on there with no apparent issues. lol nevermind.

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