10-11-2021 03:11 AM
#1801
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10-11-2021 03:13 AM
#1802
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10-11-2021 06:01 AM
#1803
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According to the Leave campaigners in 2016, Turkey was on the verge of joining the EU any minute, followed immediately by an influx of a million or so Turkish immigrants to the UK alone, most of which would presumably have been terrorists. | |
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10-11-2021 06:03 AM
#1804
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10-11-2021 06:56 AM
#1805
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Well tbf I never followed their join process too closely, but seems like they applied in 2005, and "out of the 35 Chapters necessary to complete the accession process only 16 had been opened and one had been closed by May 2016." After that the negotiations stalled completely. So doesn't seem like they were anywhere near getting a membership at any point, but I guess it would have been rude to just immediately tell them to piss off. | |
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10-11-2021 08:53 AM
#1806
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10-11-2021 09:40 AM
#1807
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Not as mature as your remark that the left tolerates religious intolerance from Muslims but not from Christians. I think in reality, it's the far right that has the most to answer for as far as putting up with if not encouraging Christian wackyness goes. | |
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10-11-2021 09:41 AM
#1808
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And yeah, it was a real thing they used to get people worked up into voting Leave. | |
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10-11-2021 09:52 AM
#1809
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The left have a tendency to scream "racism" is someone dares to say "I don't want Islamic immigration because they are homophobic and treat women like slaves". Even though Islams ins't a race. | |
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10-11-2021 09:54 AM
#1810
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Yes I said Christianism not Christianity. Fuck me. | |
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10-11-2021 11:02 AM
#1811
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You're twisting things a bit there. Some people on the left assume Islamaphobia has something to do with race and /or xenophobia because a) a lot of muslims are brown; and b) a lot of islamaphobes are also racists, so its' hard to disentangle their objection to Islam from their more general objection to anyone who isn't the same colour as they are. | |
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10-11-2021 12:25 PM
#1812
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10-11-2021 01:54 PM
#1813
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Is it illegal to help drowning homeless people now? I didn't know... | |
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10-11-2021 05:42 PM
#1814
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10-11-2021 07:08 PM
#1815
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re: Cruela | |
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10-11-2021 07:10 PM
#1816
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10-11-2021 07:13 PM
#1817
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lol please stop quoting the Daily Mail as if it were factual reporting. | |
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10-11-2021 07:46 PM
#1818
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Goddamn Eurolibtards and their freedom-hating public health measures! | |
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10-11-2021 09:20 PM
#1819
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10-14-2021 05:14 AM
#1820
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Cruela hoping to give immunity to border force personnel who contribute to death of refugees. #MEGA | |
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10-16-2021 07:24 AM
#1821
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Take that, Finnish Eurolibtards! No more British products for you! | |
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10-16-2021 07:29 AM
#1822
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Our best and brightest. #MEGA | |
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10-17-2021 03:13 PM
#1823
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So much for replacing those xmas turkeys with wallabies. | |
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10-18-2021 04:33 PM
#1824
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Good question. £30/hour is a pretty good wage. | |
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10-19-2021 02:37 AM
#1825
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10-19-2021 02:38 AM
#1826
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10-19-2021 08:15 AM
#1827
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The important thing is we've exercised our sovereign right not to sell things to you. | |
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10-19-2021 11:14 AM
#1828
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10-19-2021 06:18 PM
#1829
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https://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/...ally-earn.html | |
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10-19-2021 07:30 PM
#1830
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Yeah that was the first article I read when I tried to find an actual vacancy being advertised. | |
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10-20-2021 06:17 AM
#1831
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Are you getting to do this? Don't know if you're on UC or it's called something else. | |
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10-20-2021 09:21 AM
#1832
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Yes I'm on UC. I read that story this morning, and no I've never been asked to do such a thing. It's ludicrous. From what I can gather, this is an insane requirement to "prove" your identity when face-to-face meetings are not possible. That shouldn't be the case any more, I am having to attend the jobcentre every two weeks again. If the jobcentre is not yet capable of running at full capacity, they should prioritise new claims rather than old claims. New claimants are more likely to get a job, plus they are more likely to be fraudulent claims. | |
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10-20-2021 12:42 PM
#1833
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It does seem a bit OTT. | |
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10-20-2021 01:59 PM
#1834
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What bloody massacres are happening in France? | |
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10-21-2021 10:42 AM
#1835
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I had to buy Tesco brand choccie hobnobs because they'd run out of McVities. Saved a whole pound, and they're just as tasty. Brexit for the win! | |
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10-22-2021 03:16 AM
#1836
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Daily Mail readers disagree. | |
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10-22-2021 07:26 AM
#1837
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Well that's helpful. No indication of sample size, no indication of what the missing 19% voted for, and no chance of it happening anyway. If it did, what if these mind changers happen to have another change of mind two years later? Yet another vote? | |
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10-22-2021 07:56 AM
#1838
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You think the MoS ran a poll and only asked three people? I mean it's possible but if you're going to do that, you might as well just make up some results and not even bother asking anyone. | |
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10-22-2021 08:01 AM
#1839
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From the full article: | |
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10-22-2021 09:08 AM
#1840
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10-22-2021 09:12 AM
#1841
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It's really easy to skew a sample size of 3000 people. Just go and ask people in the street in a city where they voted clearly to remain. | |
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10-22-2021 09:37 AM
#1842
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You have different variances in different domains. Just like you have more variance in NL than LHE, for example. The variance in any form of poker is waaaay more than the variance in opinion polling. | |
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10-22-2021 09:38 AM
#1843
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10-22-2021 09:47 AM
#1844
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I agree it's a somewhat interesting question whether the EU would let us back in or not. I think if we asked today they would; it's in their own best interests to have free movement of labour and goods. | |
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10-22-2021 10:33 AM
#1845
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10-22-2021 10:38 AM
#1846
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btw, I'm confident that the difference between the EEC and the EU is why a lot of old people voted to leave. I can only base this opinion on those I've spoken to, but I know several people who voted in favour of the EEC in the 70s and are deeply uncomfortable with its evolution. | |
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10-24-2021 09:24 AM
#1847
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lol, Andrea Jenkyns, pro-Brexit, pro-Trump blonde bubblehead just canceled herself after getting called out on Twitter for supporting the "dumping of raw sewage into rivers and seas" Bill. | |
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10-24-2021 09:59 AM
#1848
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Let's #MEGA by making it impossible for companies to get the chemicals they need to treat raw sewage, so they just have to dump it in the rivers and sea instead. Brexit ftw. | |
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10-24-2021 11:08 AM
#1849
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The reason for this is lack of HGV drivers, right? But this HGV crisis is not exclusive to the UK. Europe are having similar problems, in particular Poland and Germany. | |
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10-24-2021 11:41 AM
#1850
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Ooh, she's back. But, if you scroll down you see she accidentally included a subtweet quote of someone who completely rebutted her argument. | |
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10-24-2021 04:00 PM
#1851
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Who'da saw that one coming? | |
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10-24-2021 04:36 PM
#1852
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I mentioned earlier in this thread that bus drivers are also underpaid. We take the piss out of skilled drivers, we treat them as though they have an easy job sat on their arses when in fact it's a very skilled, demanding and dangerous job. | |
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10-24-2021 06:09 PM
#1853
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Did you just say driving a bus is dangerous? You're behind a vehicle with 10x the mass of anything you might collide with. How many bus drivers have died on the job? | |
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10-24-2021 06:30 PM
#1854
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10-24-2021 06:41 PM
#1855
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10-25-2021 05:52 AM
#1856
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I could get hit by a bus on my way to work. So I guess my job is dangerous too. Goddamn it, I deserve a raise! | |
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10-25-2021 09:42 AM
#1857
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Only you could find a way to argue with me when I say driving a bus is dangerous. | |
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10-25-2021 10:18 AM
#1858
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Because in relative terms, it isn't. Sure, driving a bus is more dangerous than never leaving your house, but it's generally not considered a high-risk occupation by insurance agencies. A teacher is more likely to be assaulted at work than a bus driver is, for example. | |
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10-25-2021 10:27 AM
#1859
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I clarified what I meant by dangerous. I know the driver isn't likely to himself be seriously injured in an accident but he has greater responsibility than a taxi driver, because the vehicle he drives is significantly heavier. That means the job is more difficult, he requires more training and thus better pay. | |
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10-25-2021 10:29 AM
#1860
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I mean you're basically making the argument that firing a gun isn't dangerous, because you're very unlikely to hurt yourself, unless of course that's your intention. | |
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10-25-2021 11:35 AM
#1861
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I think the word you're looking for is "responsibility," and fine, it's more responsibility than say, being a shop clerk. | |
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10-25-2021 11:53 AM
#1862
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There's a little thing called the EU that means when there's a shortage of labour in one or two countries, it can be filled by labour from the remaining countries. | |
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10-25-2021 11:56 AM
#1863
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Maybe they should have thought of that before things got to the point where we were dumping raw sewage into our waterways. | |
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10-25-2021 12:29 PM
#1864
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Well the same could be said about HGV drivers, assuming they're not driving tankers filled with petrol anyway. But we at least recognise the economic importance of a HGV driver. A bus driver is equally as important, people need to travel for the economy to function properly, and busses provide a low budget option suitable for cities and towns. | |
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10-25-2021 12:36 PM
#1865
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10-25-2021 12:37 PM
#1866
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10-25-2021 12:40 PM
#1867
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And yet we're the only ones having the problems I stated above because of it. It's almost as if the free movement of labour is good for an economy somehow, like when there's a shortage of labour in one type of job. | |
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10-25-2021 12:57 PM
#1868
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10-25-2021 01:37 PM
#1869
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Social media is not a viable source of information. | |
Last edited by Poopadoop; 10-25-2021 at 01:39 PM.
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10-25-2021 01:48 PM
#1870
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The whole dumping raw sewage thing is a good example of a problem caused by Brexit that the gov't is not admitting is caused by Brexit, and so doing nothing to fix. | |
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10-25-2021 02:57 PM
#1871
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Did a long drive on Friday night, not arriving at my destination until gone 3am. Stopped at a couple of services after 10pm and it really hit home how bad we are at providing facilities to HGV drivers. Nothing open, nobody around, scummy shower facilities. That said, I did pass something called Truck Haven, which is presumably better but few and far between. | |
10-25-2021 03:21 PM
#1872
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^ Yup, I'm sure that doesn't help things any. | |
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10-25-2021 04:31 PM
#1873
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Poop posts links to images on social media of empty shelves and then tells me social media isn't a viable source of information. Funny. | |
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10-25-2021 05:36 PM
#1874
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Using social media is just a convenience. I can easily find you a photo from a reputable news source showing the same thing, plenty of them in fact. You can't. That's the difference. | |
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10-25-2021 07:20 PM
#1875
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