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[Daggers]

49 minutes ago, Sampson said:

Her interviews are just always so incredibly weird, it’s like something a 14 year old boy would say in the schoolyard to try and convince his friends he’s not gay. I’m pretty convinced by this point she is pretty strongly autistic, like she doesn’t seem to understand adult social conventions.

It’s not autism, it’s the knowledge that’s she’s desperately inept and is always attempting to project a vision of competence, strength and control. She’s a deeply wounded child who had no friends and was subjected to bullying. Like all Tories, she’s emotionally flawed - it’s why she can’t empathise.

[jgtuk]

23 minutes ago, Sampson said:

The polls have been showing it for years. Sadly I think the political appetite from the Labour Party isn’t there. Starner bizarrely said the UK wouldn’t rejoin “any part of the EU or customs union or have freedom of movement… in his lifetime” despite the fact his parties voters overwhelmingly support it. It’s the reason he turned me off Labour I voted LibDem over Labour the last election.
 

Fair enough in the short term it’s not going to happen but the guy is 61 and could live for another 30 years, to rule out moving even slightly back towards the EU within 30 years struck me as bizarre given his voter base - that’s a hell of a long time in geopolitics, I mean think about the difference in Japan or West Germany from 1945 to 1975 or the difference in the Baltic countries from post-recovering ex Soviet states in 1994 to some of the happiest and highest UN index countries in the world today. Russia and Turkey could’ve embraced democracy and have joined the EU by then for all we know.

I realise this, and probably selfish on my part but it couldn’t happen soon enough for me. 

[Sampson]

6 minutes ago, jgtuk said:

I realise this, and probably selfish on my part but it couldn’t happen soon enough for me. 

Agree with you 100%. There is a chance that if their numbers are way down and they need a big play come 2029 that Labour go all in on a pro-EU campaign but there’s an awful lot of things that will happen before then which will change the mood of the country. Not least with Ukraine and Russia, which has probably been the major factor driving British people away from America and towards Europe over the past few years.

Edited 13 December 2024 by Sampson

[Sampson]

13 minutes ago, Daggers said:

It’s not autism, it’s the knowledge that’s she’s desperately inept and is always attempting to project a vision of competence, strength and control. She’s a deeply wounded child who had no friends and was subjected to bullying. Like all Tories, she’s emotionally flawed - it’s why she can’t empathise.

I’m not disagreeing with you tbh apart from the last bit, I think there’s plenty of Tories who come across as actual adults. But there is definitely something in her that seems like she feels like she has to massively overcompensate how strong and how much control she has, to the point it comes across as very silly and like someone who never grew out of their teenage emotions, like she’s desperately trying to fit in with secondary school cliques.

[grobyfox1990]

28 minutes ago, Daggers said:

It’s not autism, it’s the knowledge that’s she’s desperately inept and is always attempting to project a vision of competence, strength and control. She’s a deeply wounded child who had no friends and was subjected to bullying. Like all Tories, she’s emotionally flawed - it’s why she can’t empathise.

Yeh agree. Not everything has to fit into a pre-packaged and labelled condition. She's got emotional issues that she hasn't dealt with. 

[Mike Oxlong]

Coming soon - Kemi accuses the PM of having a weak stream and challenges Keir to a How Far Can You Piss contest 

[The Horse's Mouth]

Corbyn was a legitimately better leader of the opposition than Kemi.

[Zear0]

Next week, Kemi explains why eating breakfast is gay. 

[Samilktray]

Just now, Zear0 said:

Next week, Kemi explains why eating breakfast is gay. 

Something I've always suspected is the case

[HighPeakFox]

13 minutes ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

Corbyn was a legitimately better leader of the opposition than Kemi.

Corbyn was a highly decent, if flawed and limited leader.

[The Horse's Mouth]

34 minutes ago, HighPeakFox said:

Corbyn was a highly decent, if flawed and limited leader.

I loved Corbyn but he wasn’t an effective leader of the opposition with any stretch of the imagination, didn’t help his party was always trying to launch a coup on him.

[HighPeakFox]

2 hours ago, The Horse's Mouth said:

I loved Corbyn but he wasn’t an effective leader of the opposition with any stretch of the imagination, didn’t help his party was always trying to launch a coup on him.

Agreed 

[ealingfox]

5 hours ago, Sampson said:

Her interviews are just always so incredibly weird, it’s like something a 14 year old boy would say in the schoolyard to try and convince his friends he’s not gay. I’m pretty convinced by this point she is pretty strongly autistic, like she doesn’t seem to understand adult social conventions.

 

My honest assessment of this is that she was at a point in the interview where she felt to needed to rail against something 'woke' and started off down that road at this juncture. She has the recent Daily Mail article about how apparently young people's idea of sandwiches are somehow woke in her head. 

 

She realises just after starting that she can't carry this to its conclusion because she'd look completely mental so tried to abort and only partially succeeded.

[SpacedX]

4 hours ago, HighPeakFox said:

Corbyn was a highly decent

I'm inclined to disagree.

 

His stance on the EU was actually well informed and as an acolyte of Tony Benn was a staunch Brexiteer owing to many well articulated and evidenced ideological laws and political shortcomings of the EU which the leave campaign lacked, being predicated on scaremongering and lies. However, he compromised this, made overtures and paid lip service to Labour supporting remain, but refused to take a personal stance on the EU himself not wishing to jeopardise his leadership or his future electoral prospects.Corbyn is a lifelong Eurosceptic. He voted against Britain’s joining the European Economic Community in 1975 and barely lifted a finger to campaign against Brexit 40 years later. Perhaps the heady memories of 60,000 sixth formers chanting his name at Glastonbury the following year deterred him from alienating the youth further, but I think this is why as leader of the opposition he didn't work harder to mobilise the 18 - 20 demographic during the 2016 referendum - because he knew that the majority would be pro-remain and these could be instrumental in his ambitions to become Prime Minister. In the event, they weren't although his high watermark was 2017, in which he exceeded all expectations by winning 40% of votes nationally. Pointedly he opined the  perceived entryism was in fact lots of young people who were hitherto not very excited by politics, coming in for the first time. Had he appealed to this generation, the shit-show of Brexit may have been averted, such was his popularity at the time. 

 

A year before Labour’s 2015 leadership election, the party replaced a process that granted equal weight to MPs, union representatives and dues-paying members with a “one member, one vote” system. Voting rights were simultaneously extended to anyone willing to pay £3, leading to an influx of “entryists” from further-left groupuscules that long supported Corbyn. As a result, he won in a landslide.

 

In the proportional representation systems favored by most European countries, Corbyn and his ilk would have been concentrated in a far-left party with minor parliamentary representation (if any at all) — not the mainstream center left. Labour’s large membership roll under Corbyn was deceptive, indicative not of a party with broad and deep support across British society but a personality cult. His base of loyal supporters protected him from the sort of blunders and insurrections that would have undone most any other leader, such as a 2016 vote of no confidence in which 172 of his 229 fellow Labour MPs voted against him. It has also had a distortive effect on British politics as a whole, dragging the party so far left as to hinder its competitiveness. 

 

In 2016, I recall Tom Watson openly challenging him over concerns surrounding the radical affiliation of Momentum and in particular, the growth of anti-semitism under his watch - which again, he did little to avert. 

 

 

Edited 13 December 2024 by SpacedX

[foxy boxing]

6 hours ago, Sampson said:

Her interviews are just always so incredibly weird, it’s like something a 14 year old boy would say in the schoolyard to try and convince his friends he’s not gay. I’m pretty convinced by this point she is pretty strongly autistic, like she doesn’t seem to understand adult social conventions.

there's nothing wrong with her if she is autistic, she as many autistics my self included always come of as what people would call weird, different, unusual. if everyone was the same it would be a boring world. judge her on her policies and not if she is or is not autistic.

[Sampson]

14 minutes ago, foxy boxing said:

there's nothing wrong with her if she is autistic, she as many autistics my self included always come of as what people would call weird, different, unusual. if everyone was the same it would be a boring world. judge her on her policies and not if she is or is not autistic.

That’s entirely fair and I take back what I said as insensitive. I will instead say that she is simply a weirdo who spends way too much of her life pre-occupied thinking about immigrants and woke people, and seems like she’s constantly trying to overcompensate in how “hardline” “anti-woke” she is to the point it comes across as silly. 

[Silebyfox_89]

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cwyx0pggz8eo

 

£36,000 for harassment, lawyers have played a blinder here.

[leicsmac]

After the false start last week, Yoon impeached.

 

Joins the storied history of Korean presidents who have had the same happen to them - they're not shy about addressing wrongdoing and corruption from their senior figures.

[casablancas]

Anyone been following the strange ‘drone’ phenomenon in the states? Mainly NJ? I can’t actually decide where I sit in this but some of the stories are insane. 

[Nick]

1 hour ago, casablancas said:

Anyone been following the strange ‘drone’ phenomenon in the states? Mainly NJ? I can’t actually decide where I sit in this but some of the stories are insane. 

Whoosh!

[NJFox]

1 hour ago, casablancas said:

Anyone been following the strange ‘drone’ phenomenon in the states? Mainly NJ? I can’t actually decide where I sit in this but some of the stories are insane. 

It’s all that people are talking about here, but the reactions are intensifying into more and more outlandish takes. I’ve been sent videos from friends that look and sound like commercial aircraft over their houses. Though I haven’t seen anything myself, commercial flights aren’t being impacted, and pilots don’t seem bothered. Deductive reasoning says that the government likely knows what it is, and it’s likely something of their own creation that’s being tested.
 

We live 5 minutes from an AEGIS combat systems development/test site. If they’re not worried, I can’t be bothered.

[casablancas]

Just now, NJFox said:

It’s all that people are talking about here, but the reactions are intensifying into more and more outlandish takes. I’ve been sent videos from friends that look and sound like commercial aircraft over their houses. Though I haven’t seen anything myself, commercial flights aren’t being impacted, and pilots don’t seem bothered. Deductive reasoning says that the government likely knows what it is, and it’s likely something of their own creation that’s being tested.
 

We live 5 minutes from an AEGIS combat systems development/test site. If they’re not worried, I can’t be bothered.

That’s interesting especially with your location being so close. Any chatter over there about the drones over bases in the uk etc?

[Wymsey]

1 hour ago, casablancas said:

Anyone been following the strange ‘drone’ phenomenon in the states? Mainly NJ? I can’t actually decide where I sit in this but some of the stories are insane. 

It could be China involved (as they, allegedly, sent massive spy balloons over the US last year or whenever it was)?..

Edited 14 December 2024 by Wymsey

[NJFox]

17 minutes ago, casablancas said:

That’s interesting especially with your location being so close. Any chatter over there about the drones over bases in the uk etc?

Not much reporting about it, but it’s out there. Here’s a good (if not long) breakdown on all the NJ sightings and government response. 
 

Suffice to say, our state doesn’t have the best track record of handling mass hysteria from above.

[Dreadnought]

Surely it has to be American technology otherwise they would have been shot down a long time ago.