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  2. Posted · Edited by Commtech Sio Bibble

    I think he's in serious danger in the no so distant future but he's doing all that he can as king whilst he is still able to, bearing in mind a terminal diagnosis doesn't mean he's immediately in a vegetative state. Also trying to quash speculation.

     

    edit: Mango you can piss off you super royalist twit

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    I find it ironic that mango believes every single rumour about Carter, to the extent he's posted the same thing multiple times and even directed us towards a bloody Wikipedia edit and yet can't even begin to imagine that Charles is in a worse condition that he's publicly saying, despite multiple reliable sources suggesting as such.

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    I use Facebook exclusively for Pokemon Go, it's really the only place that have active local groups. Apart from that the only time I've used it recently is for deadpooling purposes. For keeping in touch with friends it's Instagram or Twitter mainly.

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    Cy Town is unlikely to be getting an obituary at this point, but just for the sake of completion when adding him to the LotL, the latest issue of Doctor Who magazine has given his date of death as March 26th.

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    MP for Birken-Dead

     

    5/50

     

    Profile: Who is Frank Field? - BBC News

     

    23rd April 2024

     

    Veteran Labour politician, Frank Field has finally succumbed to cancer after a decade long battle. Field first entered the realm of politics in 1964 when he became a councillor on the Hounslow borough council but he lost his bid for reelection in 1968 and instead became director of The Child Poverty Action Group. His first attempt to join parliament in 1966 was unsuccessful as he failed to usurp the incumbent Conservative MP in the South Buckinghamshire constituency, however in 1979 he was elected MP for the Birkenhead constituency, where he remained until 2019. Throughout Thatcher’s government Field occasionally sat on the front benches of the opposition, holding minor roles and chairing committees. In 1997, Tony Blair appointed him Minister for Welfare Reform but didn’t last long in the role as he was constantly clashing with other ministers and he eventually resigned after only 14 months, with Blair describing his ideas as “unfathomable”. Upon returning to the backbenches, he became a vocal critic of both Blair and Brown’s governments, even at one point before the 2010 election attempting to have Brown replaced. Field was a strong supporter of Brexit and increasingly lost support from his party and constituents for his views. In 2018 he left the Labour party citing internal racism as his reason, however some commentators have suggested he only left to save the embarrassment of being sacked. In the 2019 election he stood as an independent candidate in his constituency and much to no-one’s surprise didn’t win, but was appointed to the House of Lords in 2020. In October 2021 he announced he had terminal cancer and had been in hospice care; he had initially been diagnosed with prostate cancer around 2013. He died yesterday aged 81.

     

    He was making his third appearance on the Crowdsourced Deathlist, this year at no.9

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    1 hour ago, Sod's Law said:

     

    Yeah, one benefit that was always said about FPTP was that it produced stable one party governments

    I hate this argument because it's never a guarantee, since 2010, 2 of the 4 election haven't produced majority governments (2010 & 2017). And the less said about the debacle in 1974 the better. And then there's 1951 which did produce a majority government for the Conservatives despite them getting 0.8% less of the vote than Labour.

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    9 minutes ago, TQR said:

     

    It's a shame that Starmer et al are so quick to shut the door on changes to the vote system, but if the Tories are still weak come GE 2029 (as they should be) that might be the time for a pro-PR vote. Lib Dem and Green would do very well out of this if the pro-PR movement gained traction.

     

    Frustrating that this is 5 years down the line though innit.

    Unless we get another coalition govt, I doubt it will be attempted any time soon, and even then it'll probably be another attempt at AV, which in my opinion isn't that much better. I studied different electoral systems for my politics A-level and I think the one that I was most in favour of was Single Transferable Vote like they have in Northern Ireland, but I doubt we'll ever get that nationwide.

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    37 minutes ago, Bibliogryphon said:

    Politically the distance between Kier Starmer and Ken Clarke is a lot shorter than it is between Kier Starmer and Jeremy Corbyn or Ken Clarke and Suella Braverman

    It certainly seems that way but to be honest I could not tell you what position Starmer holds on any political issue, if you'd have asked me when he was first elected leader I might have had some idea and would have been a lot more positive towards him but now he's flip-flopped on almost every issue that I don't trust him. A lot of what the Labour party says now is inline with the Tories but I have no idea if that's what they actually stand for or if they're just trying to get Tory voters on side, either way it's not great.

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    1 minute ago, RoverAndOut said:

     

    This is, of course, a perfectly respectable viewpoint. But may I gently point out that if your refusal to vote Labour means the Tories win your seat, then, essentially, you've helped them win. Is it fair? No. But it's how First Past the Post works. (Of course, if another party is in a stronger position in your seat, then not voting Labour makes perfect sense, and you're probably also safe if your seat is a solid Labour seat already - I could vote for any party and Labour will still win here.) I know Labour aren't everybody's cup of tea at the moment, but not voting for them and allowing the Tories back in would be a monumental cock-up.

    I fully understand that, the reason I'm so confident in saying that is because there is no chance at all of the Tories winning in my constituency. My postal vote for the upcoming local elections arrived the other day and because local branches of the parties are quite different to the Westminster branches I felt confident voting on who I thought would make a better councillor/mayor, and I'll probably have a similar mindset going into the GE and vote for who will make a better local representative and not who I want in government, as at the end of the day that is what I'm actually voting for.

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    3 hours ago, The Old Crem said:

    If Angela Rayner is still Labour deputy at the election Labour will not win a majority. It’s Hillary’s email mark 2.,

    No, literally everyone who I've seen outside of the news who has mentioned the Rayner 'scandal' is saying how stupid it is that this is getting all the focus when there are Conservative party members doing much worse on a daily basis and it goes ignored. The only people who care about it are the people who vote Tory. I won't be voting Labour, not because of someone slightly diddling their council tax for a small payout but because I despise Starmer and the current ideological position of the party.

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    As there is no benefit to PMing, I'll just drop my team here and let everyone steal my list of very unconventional picks.

     

    1. Jimmy Carter

    2. Sven-Göran Eriksson

    3. Bob Newhart

    4. William Russell

    5. Linda Nolan

    6. Frank Field

    7. David Graham

    8. Jean-Marie Le Pen

    9. Noam Chomsky

    10. James Whale

    11. Joanne Woodward

    12. Esther Rantzen

    13. Phil Collins

    14. Nigel Starmer Smith

    15. Dennis Skinner

    16. Charles III

    17. Harrison R. Tyler

    18. Pope Francis

    19. Julie Goodyear

    20. Jim Lovell

    21. Jack Hanna

     

    Subs

    1. Albert II of Belgium

    2. Edward, Duke of Kent

    3.  Patrick Murray

     

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    I refuse to read all three pages of argument that I've missed since being on here last night, but as long as Ulitzer has a history of being a reliable source on these things then I trust him

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    14 minutes ago, the_engineer said:

    An explanation by professor Angus Dalgleish.

    I wouldn't exactly trust Dalgleish to be impartial on this issue, during the height of the pandemic he lobbied for certain companies to be given contracts for the vaccine whilst holding shares in those companies plus he has repeatedly claimed that organisations that have disagreed with him are controlled by China, to the extent where he tried to get the UK government to spy on certain scientific organisations. Bearing in mind, he has also previously worked with right-wing lobbying groups and was a UKIP parliamentary candidate in 2015, I would say he would be very biased.

     

    Plus John Campell has a reputation for spreading misinformation on his Youtube channel, and would never be my go to source.

     

    27 minutes ago, the_engineer said:

    A virus clearly created in a lab btw.

     

    It's one very complex, multifaceted theory, something that hasn't properly been disproven but also hasn't been 100% confirmed, and within that theory there are disagreements on if it was accidental or not, the intentions behind it and collaborators. 

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    With the local elections fast approaching, this morning a leaflet was delivered to my door outlining all the candidate's pledges and the such, most of it was pretty standard stuff but the penultimate candidate was an independent who had 3 top priority pledges one of which was to stop any further lockdowns. Firstly it's 2024 I genuinely don't think I've heard the word lockdown in at least a year, it's hardly a relevant issue and secondly does a mayor even have the power to do that. Reading the rest of his manifesto he's just nicked a lot of the Reform party's ideas, so I assume he's either delusional and thinks that we are still at the height of the pandemic or is trying to get the votes of those delusional conspiracy brain nutjobs, or possibly a combination of the two.

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    55 minutes ago, Predictor said:

    If Eva Marie Saint makes it to her 100th birthday in 3 months, where would you rank her among the biggest movie star centenarians ever? Kirk Douglas, Bob Hope, Olivia de Havilland, George Burns and Glynis Johns are arguably top 5 at the moment. She should be up there on their level. Then we have the tier below, with the likes of Luise Rainer,  Gloria Stuart, Marsha Hunt, Norman Lloyd, Janis Paige, Baby Peggy, and so on.

    Of your big 5, I'd swap out George Burns with Gloria Stuart, and if Eva makes it to her 100th I'd say she'd take Glynis Johns place. On the tier below I'd 100% add Nehemiah Persoff, Earl Cameron and maybe Caren Marsh Doll. 

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    Earlier today one of my friends reminded me of a mistake I made a few years ago. For context for one of my A-levels I studied British Politics from 1951-2007, with a key part of that being the troubles in Northern Ireland. One time I came into class and the teacher had put a collage of significant people from the course on the wall, one of whom was Gerry Adams, I sat there for the next five minutes staring at this display wondering why there was a picture of Rolf Harris on the wall. In hindsight they don't look that similar.

     

    Gerry Adams: The Belfast barman who became the face of Irish republicanism | World News | Sky NewsThis Is Your Life: Rolf Harris 1

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