
......actually never mind the election - we all know what the result is going to be
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 22:43, Reply)

I always think of this when people want to let Labour back in, the party that literally left a note saying "there's no money left".
Proof decades later that regardless of party, people vote for who they voted for regardless of how shit they've been before.
The bit at the end is a perfect denouement.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 10:21, Reply)

It’s actually a tradition for outgoing chancellors to leave notes like this for their replacements.
I expect Theresa left one for Boris too, on the lines of “sorry, there’s no majority left”.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 15:27, Reply)

Liam Byrne, who left the note, was never chancellor.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 17:34, Reply)

Despite the fact that such notes are good humoured jibes between rivals and not meant to be used for political purposes
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 17:37, Reply)

You thought the note was from an outgoing chancellor FFS.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 20:08, Reply)

In fact he was chief secretary to the treasury. I still fail to see what was so reprehensible about it, beyond the political fallout.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 23:20, Reply)

is that there is not a party that has any chance of being voted into power which is not shit.
It is all down to which kind of shit you can bear swallowing.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 15:40, Reply)

because the yanks had fucked the world over with their sub-prime mortgages - so there is that. That's where the money went in case anyone is interested. It wasn't an orgy of brand new libraries, minimum wage, bursaries for nurses, student fees and more bobbies on the beat. It was greedy Tory bankers who bled this country dry and they're at it again with Brexit.

( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 16:40, Reply)

That's ridiculous. Nobody thinks the crash was caused by Wolverhampton having too many libraries. What they do think is that the government of the day was recklessly handling the budget in times of plenty, which bit us in the arse when the economy tanked through external forces.
The economy was a bubble. The money wasn't siphoned off, it literally didn't exist in the first place.
The money that supported the banks protected your savings, your mortgage, your pension, and very likely your job. It has also largely been repaid.
( , Fri 1 Nov 2019, 17:56, Reply)

Ronseal.
Title:
Japanese Take Halloween To a New Level With "Every-Day Situation" Costumes

( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 19:07, Reply)

Massive improvement on any other Halloween shit I’ve seen.
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 21:21, Reply)

from my wretched subconscious.
(Some supernatural dogs, such as the Welsh Cŵn Annwn, were regarded as benign, but encountering them was still considered a sign of imminent death. LOL)
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 15:20, Reply)

Title:
Man faces five years for attacking police with cat

( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 11:42, Reply)

and thought maybe pussy would work in a pinch
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 13:22, Reply)

In 1985, fresh from banning “video nasties”, the British Board of Film Classification experimented with soothing messages after horror films to “settle and reassure the psychologically-fragile viewer”.
Only a small number of Calm Down Britain VHS tapes made it out into the wild before it was renamed to UKalm then shut down, but I’ve managed to get hold of one and digitised it for posterity.
WARNING: features a dancing figure who's haunted many since childhood
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 10:34, Reply)

and I'm not sure if it was ever alive. I don't know what is real anymore. I enjoyed the video though. Or did I?
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 11:39, Reply)

http://web.archive.org/web/*/https://www.york.ac.uk/tfti/~smythe_e/home/uk_censorship/ukalm.html
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 12:33, Reply)

Well done, I thought that ship had sailed tbh
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 13:21, Reply)

When you could get all rapey without a rap song exposing you
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 3:33, Reply)

F*ck the Mainstream. Support Dis-Content
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 3:24, Reply)

As long there is rock hard border with miles and miles of barbed wire, machine gun turrets, minefields and a wall that makes the Berlin Wall look like a kid's sandcastle, I'm well up for it. How's that for a deal, you doss cunt?
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 7:33, Reply)

reminds me of Spitting Image's take on David Baddiel.
/niche reference
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 12:20, Reply)

Much more of this please. None of these thoughts had ever been run by me in the student union before and I wish to fullyunderstand your 'take' on today's toxic neo-liberal miasma. Capitalism and sassenach whigamullery won't destroy itself - I think you're the man for the job.
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2 % funded! Bonnie Prince Bob tears into politicians & visits the Grime cats at 1250 tv to chat to young rapper POCZY
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 3:22, Reply)

Pro tip: if you want to be anti-establishment, don't brag about an endorsement from a rich, old, white, Oxford graduate who's on prime time BBC1 every Friday night.
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 7:58, Reply)

funding reaches 3% Bob tries not to cuss but his parking crimes finally catch up on him
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 3:18, Reply)

poignant insights from Space Hugo, cultural abrasion from Bob & the contributor list from 16/10 to 30/10
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"StarCraft II Has a New Grandmaster, And It's Not Human"
( , Wed 30 Oct 2019, 22:12, Reply)

Skynet would just go full speed
( , Thu 31 Oct 2019, 0:20, Reply)
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