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How will you vote in the 2024 UK General Election?

  • Conservative Party

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Green Party

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Labour Party

    Votes: 14 48.3%

  • Liberal Democrats

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Other (Wales/Scotland/Northern Ireland)

    Votes: 1 3.4%

  • Other Independents

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Other Parties

    Votes: 2 6.9%

  • Spoiled Ballot

    Votes: 0 0.0%

  • Will Not/Cannot Vote

    Votes: 8 27.6%
  • Total voters
    29
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Welp, snoopers' charter, here we come!
 
Your secret thought crimes, hate crimes, racism, pornography and social heresies, all now a matter of public record. It would befit such guilt to transfer your job, property and incomes to a fresh, innocent, deserving migrant or refugee. NOW we have you where we want you! [cackles with mad glee] :rolleyes:
 
Kim Jong Dave gets the DPRK seal of approval:

North Korean news agency KCNA reports that the country's premier, Pak Pong Ju has sent a congratulatory message to David Cameron upon his re-appointment as Prime Minister.

The message expressed belief that the relations between the two countries would develop on good terms, wishing him success in his work for the development of the country.

Foreign minister Ri Su Yong sent a similar message to Philip Hammond upon his re-appointment as UK Foreign Secretary, the North Korean agency adds.
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Good timing after the latest announced crackdowns on 'undesirables'...... :p
 
Liquid
Excuse me?
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This is part of a measure to stop extremism. It probably will just drive it underground and take everyone's civil liberties along with it.

The solution to this threat can't come from Government, but it has potential to instigate the change to come from the necessary sources.
 
Scaff
...in particular the first part "For too long, we have been a passively tolerant society, saying to our citizens 'as long as you obey the law, we will leave you alone"
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But I thought if I had nothing to hide I had nothing to fear?

This is exactly why libertarians are so big on freedom of speech. If you give bureaucrats the power to regulate speech it just never ends.
 
KSaiyu
This is part of a measure to stop extremism. It probably will just drive it underground and take everyone's civil liberties along with it.

The solution to this threat can't come from Government, but it has potential to instigate the change to come from the necessary sources.
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I agree.
 
KSaiyu
This is part of a measure to stop extremism. It probably will just drive it underground and take everyone's civil liberties along with it.
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It won't even do that. They will just cite it as a reason the UK is evil.
 
UKs liberties where gone when you decided to CCTV basically every street.

Now the Government can watch you 24/7 if they want to now.
 
haitch40
It won't even do that. They will just cite it as a reason the UK is evil.
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The equivalent of the Bill affecting Universities already faces strong opposition. What do terrorist sympathisers and the biggest Student Union in Britain have in common?

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The National Union of Students has been heavily criticised for endorsing a controversial Islamist civil rights group, prompting fears of a new wave of campus radicalisation.

The NUS voted to oppose the counterterrorism bill and agreed to lobby against it alongside Cage, an organisation that represents terror suspects and which has been accused of having a pro-jihadist stance.

At its conference, in which the hardline left took four senior positions, the motion on the counterterrorism bill was passed without discussion, apparently to save time.

It included a commitment “publicly to oppose the Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, for the NUS president to issue a public statement condemning the anti-terror prevent strategy and the government’s Counter-Terrorism and Security Act, and alongside civil liberties groups including Cage, to lobby the government to repeal it immediately.”

It goes on to say: “The problem with e.g. Isis/IS [Islamic State] isn’t that it’s radical, but that it’s radically reactionary and oppressive.

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/education/article4429859.ece

"Useful idiots" springs to mind.
 
I'm glad I'm not the only one wary of a return by Farage:

Nigel Farage is 'snarling, thin-skinned and aggressive', claims Ukip's campaign director

Nigel Farage is a “snarling, thin-skinned, aggressive” man and his reappearance as the leader of Ukip leaves it looking like a “personality cult”, according to the party’s campaign director.


In a sign of the internal bickering within the party, Patrick O’Flynn, the Ukip economic spokesman and an MEP, told The Times that he believed Mr Farage had changed from being “cheerful, ebullient, cheeky, daring” under the influence of his advisers.


Mr Farage submitted his resignation following the general election, but has remained leader after the party refused to accept it.


However Mr O’Flynn said: “What’s happened since Thursday night, Friday morning has certainly laid us open to the charge that this looks like an absolutist monarchy or a personality cult.


“I don’t think that even Nigel would say it’s been the most glorious chapter of his leadership.”


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/u...-claims-ukips-campaign-director-10248636.html

For some reason I keep hearing the Imperial March when I'm reading about his "resignation"
 
It's funny that of all the civil liberties groups that the NUS has aligned themselves with on this issue, The Times chooses CAGE as an example. :rolleyes:
 
KSaiyu
He had his shot and democracy deemed him irrelevant in British politics post May 7th. Simple as.
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I'd agree, doesn't seem that he does though. When he gave his "resignation speech" it seemed clear that he had no intention of going. He'll be pacing up and down waiting for a by-election I think, he needs a seat to have any chance of surviving if his bullishness doesn't win out.
 
S_Bridge
The hitchhikers photographed are on the wrong side of the road? That's freaking me out more than it should. :scared:
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Actually, they aren't.

When walking on a road, one should always walk towards the oncoming traffic. That means walking on the right-hand side of the road - unless on a right-handed bend, where doing so would make you less visible.
 
Also, perspective. They could be on the left hand side of the road but the camera might be looking down the road rather than up the road.
 
Famine
Actually, they aren't.

When walking on a road, one should always walk towards the oncoming traffic. That means walking on the right-hand side of the road - unless on a right-handed bend, where doing so would make you less visible.
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But they have their backs to the oncoming traffic in the picture.
 
S_Bridge
But they have their backs to the oncoming traffic in the picture.
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They're looking at the camera... Their direction of travel is the same as the left lane, hence their attempts to hitch from cars on the left.
 
It's clearly not the A1 either. But it is an increasingly appealing idea nonetheless 👍
 
TheCracker
It's clearly not the A1 either. But it is an increasingly appealing idea nonetheless 👍
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An awful lot of the A1 in Northumberland is single carriageway - though I don't think that photo was shot on any part of it.

And no it's not exactly a sound plan. But counties and municipalities need to hold the balance of power far more than Westminster does.
 
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Manchester Utd, Man City, Liverpool and Newcastle joining Scotland eh?

Of course their football teams would have to join the SPFL in the bottom tier of the league. Frankly, I think Man City could learn a think or two from the likes of Arbroath and Annan Athletic. Of course, they would not be eligible for Champions League football for at least four years, but there is always the Scottish Cup 👍
 
Cliches will have to change.

"Ah, Sergio Agüero. Great player but can he do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stoke?"

to

"Ah, Sergio Agüero. Great player but can he do it on a cold Tuesday night in Stranraer?"
 
TenEightyOne
Submariner William McNeilly, described by the BBC as "on the run" has released a document named "The Secret Nuclear Threat" on Scribd. He details what he claims are serious safety oversights in the maintenance and deployment of Trident.
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I have a fishing cabin and boathouse on property very near the Hood Canal Trident base in Washington State, so of course I'm very attentive to these sorts of issues. A few years ago, during a removal of missiles from one of the boomers, an upper stage jammed on a ladder errantly left in the launch tube. Supposedly, a fire and explosion would have risked all the missiles catching fire. Dunno 'bout that, but the base commander was definitely fired.
 

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