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These are standard practice in other countries. Here's one from Austria - would have loved something like this at school.

OIDA!

This is the very definition of a bad idea

I think the reason Harold Wilson didn't make it to Kate's wedding was on account of his being dead, rather than his political viewpoint.

Also, Wilson got a lifetime peerage, whereas the Thatcher's got a hereditary peerage, meaning good ol' boy Mark Thatcher is now a peer. I suppose he's a good man to have around if you need somebody to clarify some points on international arms smuggling.

The "hidden message" in Blair not getting a knighthood is that the Queen is a 80+ year old woman and about as far to the right as you can expect. Same reason that neither of the two living labour prime ministers got invited to the recent royal wedding; the royal family is as Tory as you get.

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Looking forward to the increasingly fash press whipping up some hate over this bullshit brake excuse, but ignoring the pile of dead people caused by drivers in cars. Sweet.

One of you lot mowed down a 6 yo drunk and fled the scene last night

bit young to be drinking

He's rebuilding a 1960s mixte for 'the missus'

Above: a LFGSS user in his natural plumage.

I feel like the incest jokes just write themselves here. Truly, you are living up to the name of this thread.

Yeah, like, if my first contact with you was reading some bullshit you got out of the 'big book of right-wing opinions' that you posted on a forum, I might think you're a cunt. I suppose. Course, when you move out of your parents house I'm sure your opinions will change.

I guess the brompton electric is more about giving people the option of an e-brompton (and keeping the payment for that in-house) than actually doing it well. They are not going to fuck with the brompton frame to make it better for electrics, because that's the brand AND the one thing the factory is set up to do, and tube-sized motors and batteries aren't ready for the weight yet.

The weight thing is critical, which is why those stupid standing platform 'hoverboards' and scooters make sense at the moment (from a physics point of view). Also, design is important, so where an electric bike like the Vanmoof tricks out the bike and makes it useful, sticking an engine onto a Brompton is just bolting on some 2017 tech to a sweet 1970s frame.

I brought a super-cheap Amazon basics one, and then didn't cry when I drop-kicked it the first weekend I had it. Three years ago, it made a big difference which one you brought, but these days even the cheaper ones are... if not great, decent (ish). If the MiL wants to buy you something nice, and you really want a bluetooth speaker, UE or Bose are good. On the other hand, if she just wants to throw money at you, maybe go out for a nice meal, or a gig. The price difference between a cheap no-name duffbox and a balls-out speakerboxxx can be about the same price as a sit-down tasting menu for two.

Priti Patel, the Conservative... MP?... told the trade organisation for curry houses that a vote for brexit was a vote against immigrants taking their jobs. Now those curry houses and restaurants are going to be paying a minimum of a grand a year per non-UK worker.

Really don't know how the Tories are going to get anyone to listen to them again. Maybe if they gave you a free kitten to hold while a Conservative MP talks at you? Like a cat cafe, or a petting zoo, but with an autoplaying MP telling you how free trade is great and socialism is just this season's fidget spinner

People have tended to vote right-wing as a way of preserving the wealth that they have accumulated (like a house, say), but seeing as the gig economy, student loans, and the lack of housing to buy or rent has fucked up anyone under 35, Boris is going to have to work hard to make voting Tory appealable.

Apparently May has fucked the power-sharing agreement that has been in place since the peace process by aligning the DUP with the Tory party, because now the British Government can't be trusted to be an impartial judge of things over there. Strongly and stablely fucking every fucking thing in sight, it seems.

Perhaps the best thing about this election is that Theresa May and her front benchers have already destroyed any last illusions of competency they might have held with a general electorate. That's why the press has had to run a bunch of attack stuff over the past few days - May's 'strong and stable' pose looks stupid now

I think all of the newspapers are aware that there is a massive cliff coming up, and their readership is dropping off that cliff (or in the case of the Telegraph, their readership is at the bottom of the cliff in a pile of coffins marked 'not to be carried by brown people'). The Guardian would be doing a lot better if it hadn't spent the past ten years chasing the 'information wants to be free' dragon thanks to it's ex-editor, who spunked all their cash up the wall on hosting and that weird-ass paper size.

Banning non-fleet vehicles wouldn't really work, because all somebody has to do is get a vehicle (didn't the French attack involve a stolen vehicle?) and then bingo.

Good job that people held Comrade Corbyn to account on his policy of not killing every last human on earth. When will these lefty scum realise that nuclear missiles create jobs.

This is the specificity fallacy - asking a question that requires very specific facts or figures to answer. And once those figures are given, the interviewer can say, 'but isn't your figure too low? Aren't you not really thinking this through?' The one being questioned is fucked either way. Corbyn's been around long enough to know this sort of rhetorical trap (which is, by the way, a big part of public school education and yet completely missing from the national curriculum - can't let the proles know what we're up to, haw haw)

I think this is one of the times when the 'all politicians lie' attitude is just not helping; you've got an election which comes down to two parties. One party wants to privatise all the things and has mobilised troops on the streets in advance of an election; the other wants your grandmother to be able to keep her house when she needs care. I know, it's a tough call, but you'll have to decide which one is lying in your interest.

Isn't one of the 'things that squaddies do' protecting public buildings from suicide bombers

No, you're thinking of massive blocks of concrete. The explosives used by suicide bombers will tear right through the fleshy bits of a uniformed member of the armed services owing to physics.

My house caught fire back in the 2002 fireman's strike, and a bunch of squaddies came round. Seriously, you do not want a bunch of squaddies doing any jobs other than whatever it is squaddies do.