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Discussion in 'Tottenham Hotspur' started by Wandering Yid, Feb 9, 2016.

  1. PleaseNotPoll

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    I think Freeman's getting it from all over the shop, to be fair! <laugh>
    Even missing out on the number of female characters in Sopranos just suggests that she hasn't seen it.

    As for it being about white American men, I don't think there's a single episode that doesn't mention Italy, Italians or random racism.
    They're explicitly white and non-white, while looking down on other people in the same situation and those that aren't, too.

    It's another show, like The Inbetweeners and Peep Show, where critics talk about who you're supposed to like or look up to.
    Nobody. None of them. They're all ****bags. That's kind of the point.
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  2. humanbeingincroydon

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    Now let's see what Chartwells send to the rich kids...

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  5. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    When you're ship's sinking, debating what colour life belt you'd have preferred is a bit pointless...especially when there's a significant percentage of the passengers who specifically voted for drowning because they were all different colours.
     
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    The problem is that Starmer continues to put a lot of effort into appealing to those who voted to stay put wearing concrete lifebelts while ignoring those who are in favour of heading for the lifeboats. What makes this stand out is that, when campaigning to be leader, he was appealing to the lifeboat crowd and acting as if the concrete lifejacket crowd didn't exist, while now he's doing the exact opposite

    It also doesn't help that he chose this particular moment to claim that there's no interest in freedom of movement...at the exact same time when musicians have a hell of a lot of interest in it due to the EU offering visa-free travel to musicians as part of the deal and the Tories flat rejecting it


    Nice job imposing a three-line whip on your MPs to back this, Keir
     
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  7. "Thanks for that Brian"

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    The rejection of visa free touring was ridiculous and damaging to a significant British industry. I've signed the petition, which I put on the Music Forum...but too few people give a **** to make it worth being a priority for the leader of the opposition. He needs to be hunting Johnson on cronyism, killing people with incompetence and lying at every turn.

    The majority of people are done with Brexit. FFS, they voted Johnson in so that would be the case. In a few years, as it unfolds to be a clusterfuck of lies and incompetence, then it's a stick to beat him and his friends with. Until then...it's a waste of breath and opportunity.
     
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    The issue is that Starmer doesn't have a stick to beat the Tories with when that comes, entirely because he imposed a three-line whip on his MPs to vote for the deal having already pledged to support whatever cobbled-together pile of crap De Pfeffel pulled out of his backside before he'd even read it (and I do recall bringing that up at the time...) As a result, any attempt to criticise the Tories for the clusterfuck will simply see him get accused of making a u-turn and see the "Captain Hindsight" jibe trotted out for the umpteenth time, and it has to be said the Tory headbangers have certainly latched onto that one already. Same goes for the schools fiasco, because Starmer was adamant schools should reopen both in September and January and should have been kept open in December

    This is the biggest issue: rather than having a fixed policy on he comes across as somebody who listens to focus groups and waits for them to change their minds before he changes his, but the issue is by the time the focus groups have changed their minds Nicola Sturgeon has already changed Scottish policy and the Tories have copied it

    And it has to be said, he isn't going in hard enough on cronyism, for example Dido Harding is still getting paid her weekly salary for Serco Test & Trace (and the BBC are still wrongly calling it "NHS Test & Trace" FFS) while Robert Jenrick's been let off the hook for his dodgy dealings to the point he's regularly on media duties instead of being hidden in a cupboard until he needs to don a rosette and wander around his constituency for an afternoon per week
     
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    It's going to be a while before this Brexit deal is revealed to be the utter calamity that it certainly is. By then, nobody's going to care about the 3 line whip. Labour and Starmer need to be going after the lowest hanging fruit and nailing the lying, thieving, incompetent bastards at every turn.

    Someone should have been on the school meal parcel issue before it became one. As soon as the tories involve external contractors, Labour should immediately be pointing out the cronyism, the lack of procurement and then slaying them when it turns out that the only winners are those who (surprise, surprise) donate to the tory party. It's a non-stop, snouts in the trough, smorgasbord. Labour couldn't miss.

    There are so many opportunities because they're so ****ing inept..but right now, Brexit's best left alone until its true horrors are revealed.
     
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    The problem is that there's so many opportunities, yet they never seem to be first to jump on them, hence the jab at PMQs today that Marcus Rashford is a better Leader of the Opposition

    As soon as Chartwells were given the contract somebody should've jumped on it, because the list of controversies on their Wikipedia page says a hell of a lot, not least the fact they have previous when it comes to both pocketing cash from school meal contracts and poor quality food being offered. Oh, and horse meat
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    Turns out that Chartwells were only following orders

    The Tory response? Take down the webpage this was taken from
     
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    Ian Duncan Smith claimed £39.00 for a breakfast and they feed our kids this , wtf cheese and tuna in coin bags half a pepper and tomato topped off with a bit of carrot
    There is nothing to like in this photo , it is just cruel

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    Somehow the cut piece of pepper and tomato are the worst thing about it. It's what many people would throw away. Once cut, they won't stay fresh for 5 minutes.
     
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    The cheese and tuna in coin bags !!!!! What kind of world do we live in to think that this is ok , what hygiene controls are in place where this is prepped, I am so disgusted with the company and government that allow this
     
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    What really sells the cruelty of it in that pic is that it isn't even a whole tomato or bell pepper, but half of one

    Of course, it's not as if casual cruelty comes naturally to Tories...

    Wow, three straight c-words about the Tories, and none of them were the one most people use...
     
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    My daughters friend is a junior teacher, on the lowest rung for a starter , she saw what was on offer for the school food bags and went out and spent £80.00 of her own money to top up the bags , she has been warned by a governor of the school not to do it again , this is a school in Berkhamsted where the average house price is £730'000
     
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    They'd already pocketed the cash from them, so they may as well reuse them. Waste not, want not.
     
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    So there's a new strain of Covid in Brazil, and yet we haven't introduced a travel ban...
     
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    He's not going to get the boot, though.
    Republican Senators will do what they did last time, for the most part, barring a few that see an advantage in going against Trump, like Romney.
     
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