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Life, food, music, TV chat, clubbing, acid house, former webmaster, night programmer and resident DJ at The End in London, good lunch spots in Ibiza, ancient history, a touch of sane politics/social justice, reasoned football chat, (LFC, Celtic, Scotland)
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Said this in another thread - local make up matters. Larkhall especially is very Unionist, Protestant, Orange order prominent who aren't the most liberal and would be very reform curious. I would deduce the reform rise/tory collapse would be more prominent here than other parts of central Scotland
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You need to also understand the local area as well. Larkhall particularly has a very strong protestant, unionist cohort very much in the orange order. These aren't particularly liberal I would expect and probably gave reform an extra 5-10% of the vote .
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Like this?
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Amazing. Yeah Little Richard did the rounds. Think he also rocked up on the A team as did Boy George!
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Remember watching it and Leonard Cohen, Willie Nelson and Phil Collins being on it.
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Sounds like "oh, I didn't mean you, or your mum or your wider family Zia" worked this time. Looks like the MP for Runcorn hasn't quite got the hang of doing a racist with a nod, a wink and whiff like the master, Nigel in her maiden speech.
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Unfortunately all this is priced in as long as he provides legitimacy to the hard of thinking's piss poor takes on immigration and let's them be unashamedly racist.
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Me and the wife are well into Long Way Around as well. They seem like very affable guys and real pals plus Norway is stunning. Have a pal from Crieff who sees McGregor knocking about, helping his maw etc. Pretty grounded. Charlie's old man, John directed Deliverance FFS!
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Definitely shares an e-scooter with Phil Foden. Both decked out in black technical wear.
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It would blow their tiny minds if they knew that DEI in the UK helps working class in professions in those dominated by the privately educated - especially around imposter syndrome. Saying that they hate social mobility, not proper jobs like 'marketing' and they very much preach 'know your place'.
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Got to change it up a bit sometimes! 😄 Went to Pacha last month with Ame and Dixon and it was surprisingly brilliant. Off to Robert Johnson in Frankfurt in the Autumn. While I love ALFOS at Phonox I was finding it a bit samey. Too much indy dance/nu wave re-edits for me needed more 4/4 electronica.
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Most Reform voters don't even know WTF DEI stands for! Even if they did they only found out about it with all Trump in the last 2 months. DEI in the UK also helps working class kids not discriminated against in professions dominated by the privately educated as well!
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They have tried to do Printworks, Panorama bar,Trouw in Ibiza. Why do a northern European clubbing experience in the med? Opening night was always going to be overly packed with try-hards. Going to check in Aug when its Carl + Green Velvet. mostly interested in seeing/hearing the rig & production.
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Not really a failure. He basically scraped the whole of the US' social security data. He probably got what he ultimately wanted.
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The worst one I have ever seen was when a group had successfully stopped a special needs school being built in their village. In the pic they had absolute glee like their syndicate had just won the lottery. Margaret Smith, 62 said "These types of children are awfully noisy and block pavements etc".
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'Not for the likes of you' Brigade. They would put their foot down and baulk if any of their offspring chose vocational over university. They just really need to fuck off.
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They are so scared to go after wealth. Because 1. The wealthy own and make alot of noise in the media 2. They still perceive Wealth = Investors/Entrepreneurs = Growth which isn't always the case they extract more from the working and middle classes making them poorer than they trickle down.
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A good chancellor also requires a bit of flexibility, imagination and a good antenna for what is politically and morally bad. She has none of those attributes - needs to go. The treasury department itself needs to be cleared out of all the neo liberals and dogmatic computer says no types as well.
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It's was one of the most homo-erotic cartoons ever made. How did they get away with He-man having best pals called Fisto and Ram Man.
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Very sad that we have to do this. But leave any sort of void like what happened with the Southport incident and it gets filled with the worse bad actors from the right and russian bot farms.
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They truly believe in their own marketing and also their stock option in which Clegg still holds a healthy amount in Meta. They have some sort of evangelical zeal that they bring people together and are a community that they are a genuine good for humanity.
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Likewise. Torres hurt at the time especially going to CFC and we were on the slide. At the end of the day as football fans we're the biggest hypocrites going. If he was say Jay Spearing level or his legs fell off in 4 years we wouldn't care if he went.
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I think Jurgen saying he was going to be there and not to boo Trent on the socials helped a lot as well.
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Most of them are just extracting wealth from the lower and middle classes through shareholder dividends and rents from their property portfolios and then offshoring it. Only a small number are entrepreneurs - employing people, creating value.
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Most likely with the new ownership they are looking to boost their online metrics for those PPC ads.
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He's gone to the big kid's company in the sky. He's wiv Camila now
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I heard from a few older heads years ago who worked with JS Porter there and she was very 'tricky'
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Didn't you have a minor BBC Beef with him when you worked there?
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Funny that no one has ever done a real investigative bit of journalism on his finances and income streams. Do they think he's Teflon now? Would any potential Kompromat even touch the sides with the polling?
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Lost cities of gold. Straight from Andy Crane/Phil Schofield's broom cupboard.
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Should be in fucking jail for defrauding the UK tax payer during a pandemic. Not literally lauding it as a lord for 300 a day and a subsidised lunch.
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Yep, but that's the same for every Labour leader though. He just wasn't really liked especially on the doorstep. He just wasn't very good. You need to be fucking amazing salesman essentially to sell socialism to the UK electorate. John McDonnell would have been a better leader.
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Jesus fucking Christ is there absolutely no charismatic, young articulate leader who can affectively sell socialism?? Just constant back to the tired, reheated shite of Corbyn who most of the electorate didn't really like despite the press onslaught
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Indeed. The political calculation they are making is that across the electorate and their red wall fetish is that taking money from pensioners = bad. Child Poverty = not so bad as it is because of feckless parents and not just because of terrible poverty in general.
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Anyone sporting the classic CR Smith top with the 1998 centenary celtic cross badge? Was thinking of going to that with Liam but used all my brownie points going to Ibiza last week
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There's a whole brigade of voters in the red wall. Who think pensioners (like themselves suprise, suprise!) are more deserving because they have worked hard and paid their stamps and child poverty is the result of feckless parents. These are McSweeney's voters - call themselves working class well.
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The only reason he's at odds is because the 2 child cap is actually popular with angry, mealy mouthed old white men in the red wall focus groups who think they are taking the piss by having kids they can't afford/to get a council house blah blah blah
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Getting a Morley's delivered. Almost as worse as 'Activating' Looking for Work on your LinkedIn profile. Means you have really given up on life.
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That's what I was getting at. The only time they will take it to referendum after years of micro-agreements will be actual membership/political representation. Alot can happen between now and then.
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Gove probably should be in jail for funnelling tax payer money during a pandemic.
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Never going to happen as a one off shebang. We will end up very closely aligned through a series of micro-agreements over the next 10 years then maybe have one on the political representation bit to be back as rule makers in the parliament when most brexiters are probably dead.
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It's awful. It's like two drunk people playing Fifa after the pub. They both would have never made the final if 3rd placed Champion's League teams were still relegated to
It. Was never going to a be moment of genius but whose got the biggest mistake in them to win this.
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Nice. I got a delivery of rolls, slice, fruit pudding and a stick of Stornoway black pudding for my birthday.
You been to The Shoap in Angel yet? It's very good. You have a choice of how well fired you want your roll! www.auldhag.co.uk