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Who is your preferred Conservative Party leadership candidate?

Gove
5
4%
Hunt
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9%
Javid
5
4%
Johnson
37
31%
Raab
11
9%
Stewart
50
42%
 
Total votes : 119

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Postby Tornado Queendom » Thu May 16, 2019 10:36 am

https://pluralist.com/london-mocked-for ... ing-spoon/
This is why this weapon ban is a bad idea, because it leads to situations like this.
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Postby Vassenor » Thu May 16, 2019 10:54 am

Definitely Not Trumptonium wrote:Britain's most popular politician is now Nigel Farage.

Also Tory support at 20%, lowest since June 1999. Albeit back then Labour was at 52% ... now 27%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_p ... l_election

https://twitter.com/Andrew_ComRes/statu ... 4002223104

Brexit Party now at 20% for Westminster polls and 38% for European election polls.

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BXP + UKIP + Cons = 48%

What a time we live in.


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Postby Loben The 2nd » Thu May 16, 2019 12:13 pm

Tornado Queendom wrote:https://pluralist.com/london-mocked-for-confiscating-spoon/
This is why this weapon ban is a bad idea, because it leads to situations like this.

Banning spoons?

What’s next, banning.....Pillows?
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Postby Fartsniffage » Thu May 16, 2019 12:16 pm

Tornado Queendom wrote:https://pluralist.com/london-mocked-for-confiscating-spoon/
This is why this weapon ban is a bad idea, because it leads to situations like this.


Situations where people don't get the joke?

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Postby Loben The 2nd » Thu May 16, 2019 12:20 pm

Fartsniffage wrote:
Tornado Queendom wrote:https://pluralist.com/london-mocked-for-confiscating-spoon/
This is why this weapon ban is a bad idea, because it leads to situations like this.


Situations where people don't get the joke?

A joke for us, a consideration in London’s administration.
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Postby Vassenor » Thu May 16, 2019 12:32 pm

Loben The 2nd wrote:
Fartsniffage wrote:
Situations where people don't get the joke?

A joke for us, a consideration in London’s administration.


And yet the only places reporting it at all are pluralist and infowars.

Not a good sign for the factual veracity of this story.
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Postby Chan Island » Thu May 16, 2019 12:36 pm

Definitely Not Trumptonium wrote:Britain's most popular politician is now Nigel Farage.

Also Tory support at 20%, lowest since June 1999. Albeit back then Labour was at 52% ... now 27%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_p ... l_election

https://twitter.com/Andrew_ComRes/statu ... 4002223104

Brexit Party now at 20% for Westminster polls and 38% for European election polls.

(Image)

BXP + UKIP + Cons = 48%

What a time we live in.


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Tornado Queendom wrote:https://pluralist.com/london-mocked-for-confiscating-spoon/
This is why this weapon ban is a bad idea, because it leads to situations like this.


At least we're all alive to mock them. 8)
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Postby Novus America » Thu May 16, 2019 12:38 pm

Chan Island wrote:
Definitely Not Trumptonium wrote:Britain's most popular politician is now Nigel Farage.

Also Tory support at 20%, lowest since June 1999. Albeit back then Labour was at 52% ... now 27%.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opinion_p ... l_election

https://twitter.com/Andrew_ComRes/statu ... 4002223104

Brexit Party now at 20% for Westminster polls and 38% for European election polls.

(Image)

BXP + UKIP + Cons = 48%

What a time we live in.


Hey, Mr Bones's Wild Ride? Can we stop just about here, I want to get off.

Tornado Queendom wrote:https://pluralist.com/london-mocked-for-confiscating-spoon/
This is why this weapon ban is a bad idea, because it leads to situations like this.


At least we're all alive to mock them. 8)


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Postby Hirota » Thu May 16, 2019 11:37 pm

Vassenor wrote:
Loben The 2nd wrote:A joke for us, a consideration in London’s administration.


And yet the only places reporting it at all are pluralist and infowars.

Not a good sign for the factual veracity of this story.
If you want veracity it's on Regents Park Police's twitter

Still, think people are getting the wrong end of the stick on this one. The charity shop in question was handing these over because they were nervous, not the police demanding them. And I see the comment about diligently keeping a spoon from 'getting into the wrong hands' as sarcasm on the part of the police rather than genuine.

And you could comment about a charity shop getting nervous about them, to which I'd point out charity shops tend to be run by older people who do tend towards caution. I'm sure they've seen the news that there is a knife crime epidemic in London.
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Postby Definitely Not Trumptonium » Fri May 17, 2019 4:22 am

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Postby Duhon » Fri May 17, 2019 4:27 am

cUK's logo is five fucking black bars?!

Dear God it's five fucking black bars.

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Postby The Huskar Social Union » Fri May 17, 2019 4:41 am

Duhon wrote:cUK's logo is five fucking black bars?!

Dear God it's five fucking black bars.

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Postby Old Tyrannia » Fri May 17, 2019 4:42 am

Duhon wrote:cUK's logo is five fucking black bars?!

Dear God it's five fucking black bars.

Four, actually. A barcode is actually rather fitting as a symbol, given that they're a "party" beholden to corporate interests with nothing vaguely interesting about them whose image seems to have been crafted by a particularly unimaginative company marketing team.
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Postby Dumb Ideologies » Fri May 17, 2019 4:46 am

Duhon wrote:cUK's logo is five fucking black bars?!

Dear God it's five fucking black bars.


Well at least the cell window will look comfortingly familiar when they're done for campaign finance fraud.
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Postby Duhon » Fri May 17, 2019 5:08 am



Dunno, but I can at least try (and fail) to enjoy the fact that this particulat article has a comment section.

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Postby Ifreann » Fri May 17, 2019 5:13 am

Definitely Not Trumptonium wrote:Cheer up your Friday


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Postby Bears Armed » Fri May 17, 2019 5:36 am

Duhon wrote:cUK's logo is five fucking black bars?!

Dear God it's five fucking black bars.

Isn't that supposed to be the Sign of the Anti-Christ?
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Postby Duhon » Fri May 17, 2019 5:38 am

Bears Armed wrote:
Duhon wrote:cUK's logo is five fucking black bars?!

Dear God it's five fucking black bars.

Isn't that supposed to be the Sign of the Anti-Christ?
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Nah, can't be; the guy's supposed to dazzle, and cUK's anything but a dazzler.

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Postby Old Tyrannia » Fri May 17, 2019 6:31 am

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Meaningful vote 19.

"Meaningful"

The Brexit process will no doubt prove a fascinating case study for future historians in the twisting of language to mean almost the precise opposite of what it is supposed to.
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Old Tyrannia wrote:
Ifreann wrote:
Meaningful vote 19.

"Meaningful"

The Brexit process will no doubt prove a fascinating case study for future historians in the twisting of language to mean almost the precise opposite of what it is supposed to.


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Postby Vassenor » Fri May 17, 2019 7:41 am

Jack Renshaw: MP death plot neo-Nazi jailed for life

A neo-Nazi who planned to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper in a terrorist attack has been jailed for life.

Jack Renshaw, 23, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, must serve at least 20 years in prison.

A judge at the Old Bailey said Renshaw, who earlier admitted preparing an act of terror, wanted to "replicate" the murder of Jo Cox.

Renshaw made a Nazi salute towards supporters as he was led to the cells from the dock.

He pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to buying a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP and making threats to kill police officer Det Con Victoria Henderson.


So there we are. Another terrorist behind bars.
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Postby Kavagrad » Fri May 17, 2019 8:21 am

Vassenor wrote:Jack Renshaw: MP death plot neo-Nazi jailed for life

A neo-Nazi who planned to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper in a terrorist attack has been jailed for life.

Jack Renshaw, 23, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, must serve at least 20 years in prison.

A judge at the Old Bailey said Renshaw, who earlier admitted preparing an act of terror, wanted to "replicate" the murder of Jo Cox.

Renshaw made a Nazi salute towards supporters as he was led to the cells from the dock.

He pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to buying a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP and making threats to kill police officer Det Con Victoria Henderson.


So there we are. Another terrorist behind bars.

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Postby Liriena » Fri May 17, 2019 8:42 am

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To xplain the xplanation. SJW kinda sorta love Gays, but SJW super doper love Islam, therefore when Terrorists throw Gays off High buildings, SJW insist it is a good thing because it's part 0f their Culture

The fact that some right-wingers genuinely, unironically believe this strawman that they themselves created serves as a testament to the disturbed essence of their ideology and its innate incompetence.
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Postby Liriena » Fri May 17, 2019 8:44 am

Vassenor wrote:Jack Renshaw: MP death plot neo-Nazi jailed for life

A neo-Nazi who planned to murder Labour MP Rosie Cooper in a terrorist attack has been jailed for life.

Jack Renshaw, 23, from Skelmersdale, Lancashire, must serve at least 20 years in prison.

A judge at the Old Bailey said Renshaw, who earlier admitted preparing an act of terror, wanted to "replicate" the murder of Jo Cox.

Renshaw made a Nazi salute towards supporters as he was led to the cells from the dock.

He pleaded guilty on the first day of his trial to buying a machete to kill the West Lancashire MP and making threats to kill police officer Det Con Victoria Henderson.


So there we are. Another terrorist behind bars.

I will always remember him as that one teenager from that BNP youth propaganda video who got tasked with delivering the absolute coup de grace that was citing the "heartless zionists" as one of the causes of Britain's troubles.
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