Rayvin
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I think parties say what they think they need to RE: austerity. Doesn't mean they would have carried it out. Labour were cowards with their message and not directly addressing the lies told by the Tories, plus they had the wrong leader. Add in Scotland and it was a disaster. It'll be nowt compared to 2020 though.
The referendum is crucial. Another thing Corbyn is weak as piss about. I'm not even sure what he believes about Europe.
He seems to believe that he wants out, but is following the party line on it, hence the lack of conviction. The EU referendum is set up to be an utter shambles across the board, sadly.
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Me? 30.
I was mostly thinking of Gemmill with that post.
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I think we should arrange a toontastic union / night out - so we can all fight each other. United we stand, not in this forum you flaming nutters!
PS. I love you all, except Ewark, whos just nasty to me - but you know what they say - you're always nasty to the people you want to neck with.
I'd be up for a night out with everyone, but I reckon most on here are too old for that shit these days
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Gents, come on.
We can surely all agree that Johnson is a massive fuckwit. What more needs to be said?
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I confess that division in the left is rather pointless. For what it's worth, if Corbyn proves to be a bust I'll head back into line again.
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Maybe you're right, but I have the hope that the further the Tories push this, the more the fringes become mainstream. I suppose you'd argue that's naive. Maybe you're right but fuck it, we're heading down this path now, may as well stay the course.
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There you again, same old shit, implying equivalence between the likes of Burnham and Cameron. Fine, if that's what you believe.
Me, I've worked in the nhs throughout the new labour years and the Tories. I know the difference, as will most users by now. Protection of public services is one area where the Tories and labour (of any variety) have always been poles apart. Like the emperor killing Luke with his lightening, only at the end will you see this.
I'm not implying equivalence for what it's worth. I would have accepted Burnham. I don't think Old Nulabour=Tories.
They still weren't good enough though, the whole bottom fell out of whatever movement they started with. Something new was needed as evidenced by the fact that it happened.
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Yeah but with no credible opposition they'll be doing it well into 2025.
Not disagreeing with that either. But if we continue following pragmatism, based on the evidence of the past 15-20 years, we end up being slowly moved away from the position we all thought we were occupying.
This is the wrong thread for this - but I do fully respect what you're saying. I dunno, maybe you're right and idealists are the problem, but I don't think I would do anything differently.
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Mind, this place is one massive gay sausagefest at the best of times.
Renton looking increasingly correct with this statement.
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At the desk, working on an early morning exclusive.Your efforts, and your avatar, are appreciated.
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Yep, maybe so. Don't see how that's the idealist's fault though. NuLabour's maybe. Not people who're voting Corbyn because they're sick of the same old shit.
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Also possibly for stalking purposes.
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Backing CT on this one, streaming is not covered by any law against the consumer. It is absolutely illegal to broadcast someone else's content, but there's no case (yet) of anyone being tried under copyright infringement for consuming (you're not copying in this instance).
How do I know about this? My country has just put in a copyright law and it was stated at the time that consumption can't really be covered as there's no legal precedent yet.
Which country is that? Out of interest.
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Don't underestimate what a complete set of cunts these people are. That's why I get so worked up about people saying there's no difference between these and the more centrist elements of the labour party. We're now in a situation where there is no credible opposition to the conservatives and the nhs as we know it will be gone as a result. Indirectly killed by well meaning idealists.
Being fair, no matter which way you colour it, it'll have been killed by non-well meaning right wingers. You can't blame idealists for wanting to make the system better. You can blame the people who vote Tory.
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Fucking hell...
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Is ohhh_yeah our official news source these days?
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Pissing off the doctors and causing a morale/staffing crisis is part of the plan.
I very much suspect you're right. I guess if they do have mass walkouts, it might be painted as a crisis that only privatisation can solve.
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He's majorly fucked up that whole thing. There's no winning scenario for the government now - the best hope they had was that he came to some kind of agreement with them, but now there's talk of full on walkouts even across emergency services. How in fuck the government thinks it's going to be able to stand up to people dying for Hunt's ego, I have no idea.
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Yeah I'm looking forward to seeing him play. The longer he goes without playing, the more pointless bringing him here was.
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Ah I guess if you're buying albums... I tend to buy single tracks for about £0.70p and think little of it. I suppose it all adds up.
Google had a service not long ago (which they've since withdrawn, the bastards) where you paid £7/month and could stream youtube music videos on your phone with the screen off, and download them to play offline. They're still running it in the States but it fell foul of some kind of legal thing over here. If it comes back, I think that'd be a good proposition for people like you. Instead of paying £8.99 for an album, you would pay £7 for as many albums as you want each month.
EDIT - That said, I assume that this is what Spotify does too. I've not used it but I'd guess the principle is the same.
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My point was more that it's got to the point where illegally downloading music is more hassle compared to just grabbing it through Amazon. Prime has loads of free music for instance, most of what you want you don't even have to pay for anyway (technically).
The ethics of the situation are entirely up to the individual, but I wouldn't judge anyone for illegally downloading.
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Fuck it, forget I said anything.
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There's always one...
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Just to add in, we have private medical cover at work, and it's almost entirely useless. The insurance company resists paying out wherever possible by attempting to consider everything either a pre-existing condition, or something linked to a pre-existing condition. Privatisation looks to me like it'll have all of us forking out more money to cover treatments that insurance companies won't, aside from the premium we'll have to pay anyway.
It'll transform poor health into even more of a burden than it already is.
Once the NHS is gone, people are really going to miss it.