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

  1. The RDBD

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    Update the Clinton counter. :)
     
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    Don’t worry, the FBI have taken over the investigation into his “suicide”. Nothing to worry about. Move along.
     
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  3. humanbeingincroydon

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    UKIP have elected a new leader by the name of Dick Braine

    Not to be confused with the leaders of the Tories, Neolib Dems or Nigel Farage Ego Project who can all be described by that same term
     
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  4. PleaseNotPoll

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  5. The RDBD

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    Hardly the level of the Dunny on the Wold by-election voter incident, is it. :)
     
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  6. PleaseNotPoll

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    The head of the DOJ's dad gave Epstein his first job.
    He failed to complete his degree and Donald Barr took him on as a teacher at Dalton School in Manhattan.
     
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  7. humanbeingincroydon

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    So here's the genius idea that Caroline Lucas pitched in a Grauniad column: a cross-party cabinet of her, Jo Swinson, Heidi Allen, Anna Soubry, Yvette Cooper, Justine Greening and others, claiming that her all-female cabinet would bring a new perspective to Britait

    There's so much facepalm in this proposal it's unreal, but let's go for the headlines
    * While saying a female perspective will improve things, she seemingly forgets a woman was captain of the ship between 2016-19 and consistently ****ed up at every turn, either due to her incompetence or thinking she could exploit it to stay in power
    * Leaving off the current Home Secretary and Shadow Foreign Secretary raised eyebrows, while also drawing attention to the fact the entire cabinet that Lucas drew up happens to be white
    * Some of the choices are diabolical: Swinson's sounded completely deranged ever since becoming Neolib Dem leader, Allen and Soubry have both been exposed as talking a big game yet voting for their Tory masters both within the Tory party and without, Cooper is someone the centrist melts of Twitter latch onto whenever Jess Phillips is on holiday but the Labour membership soundly rejected her bid to become leader in 2015, and the best thing you can say about Greening is she isn't quite as bad as Esther McVey...sort of like how tuberculosis isn't quite as bad as emphysema
    * There's also the suggestion that Lucas didn't run this article past the Greens before sending it to the Grauniad to print, which manages to paint both Lucas and the Greens in a poor light as it looks like their only MP will run off and blurt any half-baked idea she has without consulting with her party leader first
     
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    Oh well, there go the Tory Spurs fans...
     
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    So many offended snowflakes in the comments! <laugh>
     
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  10. SpursDisciple

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    This is silly. He can't play for 4 clubs in 1 Parliament. surely there is a rule about that?
     
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    Wow. The comments are not our finest hour, bunch of Tory apologists. I'd have Khan over Johnson any day.
     
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  12. humanbeingincroydon

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    I'd have Attila the Hun over Boris Johnson any day. At least he wouldn't spaff tens of millions of pounds of public money up the wall on his various vanity projects
     
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    There's been a lot of hype about him being a poor mayor in certain sections of the media and internet.
    The Tories have blamed him for a lot of the crime in London to divert the blame from their own policies and people have bought it.
     
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    Exactly. Police budgets are a matter for central govt, not the mayor and the decimation of all local services for younger people are exactly the result of the Tory "austerity" policy to strip local authority budgets down to their minimum (or less if a Labour council)
     
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    Because of course, there was no crime in London when Boris Johnson was mayor
     
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    And if there was, then it certainly wasn't his fault, nor that of the government of the time.
     
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    I wish people would start referring to "austerity" by its proper term "false economy".
     
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    I wish people would start referring to "centrists" by the more accurate term "the near-right" considering the positions of those currently referring to themselves by that term
     
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    "Running the country into the ground".
     
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  20. humanbeingincroydon

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