urban.spaceman

NOW THEIR TORTURIN ARE TOMMEH

I stopped taking antidepressants after about 7 years in the middle of the pandemic. I'd started on Sertraline, then Shitalapram (loathed it), Amitriptyline (hated it cos I couldn't drink and I was a raging alcoholic at the time), then a few years on Fluoxetine. The latter was great, it stopped some very dark thoughts I'd been having around 2019/20 including intrusive thoughts, and a suicidal 'impulse' I had roughly 5 years ago last week. But they weren't helping any more by late 2021, so I stopped taking them entirely. I stopped drinking in 2023 and signed up for my course. I was doing really, really well without them and without alcohol. Then I finished my course in September and the inevitable come-down happened. Goldsmiths let me down with my grade (long story), so I appealed it. They didn't take it seriously and blocked me from appealing again. So I complained, which they then rejected again, lied about my other grades to make me feel better, and misrepresented my appeal/complaint to justify rejecting it. They destroyed my confidence and made me feel like the whole thing was a waste of time. At the same time, the direct payment company (let's call them 'P') who pay me for the work I do as a carer, decided to close down their office and go fully remote. The mother of the person I work for is a complete technophobe and genuinely can't cope with taking a photo of my timesheet and emailing it to them. She forgot to send my timesheets in on time in November and December and I had to fight 'P' to get paid for the work I'd done. Christmas was ruined as I couldn't buy people their presents on time. January payday came around and yet again, I didn't have a payslip. She'd forgotten again, and 'P' refused to process my payment because (they claimed) they'd get a fine from HMRC for paying people outside of a normal payment window. Then they went 'dark' and were completely uncontactable. A dozen emails unanswered over the last month, phones just ringing out or reaching other regional offices, promises of being called back but having nothing in return. They finally paid me for January last week but it was £200 short with no explanation and again, no way of contacting them. For 6 of the last 10 weeks I've had about £25 to my name. I've had to cancel plans for a holiday with friends, put off upgrading old and defunct devices, and worse, had to indefinitely put off paying for certain things that will help me progress in my writing career, like script coverage and high profile events. I can't even travel down to London to spend time with my writing friends because trains and accommodation are so ****ing expensive. I've been practically housebound for the last 2 and half months with constant bad news, bad luck and people just relentlessly letting me down and messing me about. I've also got a 'milestone' birthday coming up next month that my family want to celebrate, which I just can't, because the last decade has been a complete disaster from start to finish and every time I try to make some progress it just blows up in my face. I'm back to being extremely low again. The psychological trouble is back and despite Goldsmiths finally deciding to take my complaint seriously and 'P' finally paying me for the last 2 months last week (though still £15 short), I can't get out of the funk and I'm mentally just going round and round in circles. I can't be creative like this. I can't live like this any more. Went to the doctor today (new guy - my old surgery let me down so badly last October that I stormed out and left that surgery after being with them my entire life) and I've agreed to go back on Sertraline and I genuinely don't know what to expect from it this time around. I just know this depressive cycle needs to stop.

David Frost isn't available for interviews?

We’re just an extremely passive fan base.

Poor old Tommeh is having a rough time in solitary. I mean... He quite literally requested that he go in solitary confinement but that's not the point. He shouldn't even be in jail in the first place. I mean... He quite literally pleaded guilty to his crime despite taking hundreds of thousands in donations for his legal defence, but that's not the point. He shouldn't even have been on trial in the first place. I mean... He was only on trial because a judge explicitly told him he would be on trial if he screened a film repeating his baseless lies against a Syrian child refugee, but that's not the point. I guess what I'm getting at is that Tommy Robinson is a ****ing idiot and deserves everything he's getting.

Second series of The Undeclared War coming soon! https://www.instagram.com/p/DF-ekJ-sdzv/?igsh=bWNmY2thd3ozMWxu

Good. Nobody should buy a Swasticar.

He’s one of our own

Vance: Free speech is in retreat in Europe. Trump administration: Associated Press is now banned from the White House indefinitely because they referred to the Gulf of Mexico as the Gulf of Mexico. They’re ****ing psychopaths.

Which is fine, they're only 7 months in and are still getting the unpopular decisions done. None of their policies have really taken effect yet - it will be a couple of years before people notice a real improvement. It also doesn't help when we had racist riots incited by the likes of Farage and Oaskeshott just a few weeks after the election, or confected media 'scandals' like the donations nonsense; the mostly Tory owned media has been an utter disgrace. The next election isn't for another 4 and a half years, by which time the approval rating will swing right back up.

Ban Americans from owning football teams? Liverpool, Chelsea and Arsenal would be ****ed. Which would be nice.

I love how "going through people's lies and pointing out where they're wrong" has now become "drinking the koolaid". In fairness 14 years living under the Tories felt like 40 ****ing years so I can forgive her for rounding up a bit from 2 (or 4) decades ago. This is hardly the scandal of the century, is it? Especially when the current Leader of the Opposition openly admitted to committing an ACTUAL CRIME by hacking a political rival's website.

I was going to reply immediately but then I went to see The Brutalist which is roughly 17 hours long.

They said very explicitly in their manifesto that they were not going to raise these taxes on working people: Income tax National Insurance VAT They have kept that promise. From the manifesto: Supporting British farmers Labour recognises that food security is national security. That is why we will champion British farming whilst protecting the environment. We will set a target for half of all food purchased across the public sector to be locally produced or certified to higher environmental standards. We will introduce a land-use framework and make environment land management schemes work for farmers and nature. And we will work with farmers and scientists on measures to eradicate Bovine TB, protecting livelihoods, so that we can end the ineffective badger cull. Which they're doing. Which they're doing - do you really think it's possible to do such a thing in just 7 months given the state of things left behind by the Tories? From the manifesto: Our system of state, private, and workplace pensions provide the basis for security in retirement. Labour will retain the triple lock for the state pension. We will also adopt reforms to workplace pensions to deliver better outcomes for UK savers and pensioners. Our pensions review will consider what further steps are needed to improve security in retirement, as well as to increase productive investment in the UK economy. Which they're doing. There was no promise to WASPI women in the manifesto. See #3. They said they wouldn't change council tax bands. They're not changing council tax bands. Sure you didn't pull them from somewhere else? Alleged lies, which Reeves has denied and explained as an administrative error by her team. The fact we've gone from "Prime Minister promoting a man who knew was a sex offender then lying about knowing that he was a sex offender", or "Home Secretary who had to resign because she'd sent official government emails to her own personal unsecure email account, is rehired a week later by a different PM" or "MP gives out fellow MPs personal phone numbers after being caught in honeytrap scandal" or "Prime Minister's Chief of Staff, Personal Private Secretary, Secretary of State for Scotland & 7 Met Police members of his security team caught placing bets on the date of the General Election when they had insider knowledge"'; to: "Rachel's done a typo", suggests to me they're making progress.

I’m literally adding extra lies to my CV as we speak.

You’re not seriously comparing an alleged CV discrepancy to a Prime Minister breaking his own law repeatedly then lying about it to the public, the police and in the Commons repeatedly for months on end?

FTFY

Many of those I mentioned had little to no relevant experience before becoming chancellor and none of them faced this level of scrutiny. One was involved in a deal that bankrupted RBS which Labour had to bail out during a global financial crisis; his wife was later found to be avoiding tax for years; his government also negotiated government deals favourable to her father's businesses; not to mention billions spent on dodgy PPE, VIP lanes, track and trace; the writing off of billions in COVID fraud. Another avoided tax then negotiated a deal with the HMRC while he was chancellor. Another crashed the economy in one afternoon. It's not being tetchy for wanting a basic level of accountability. Some of these people, as well as Johnson, should absolutely be in prison.

Wonder who's to blame for that?

Oh look she's growing the economy https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c1jg4enkr3lo

If only we'd had this much scrutiny on the economic credentials of Hunt, Kwarteng, Zahawi, Sunak, Javid; some of whom should be in actual prison.

I would make a prediction and say 'bookmark this' but we all know this thread will never survive until 2029

April 18th 2021.

Here's one for you