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'Tory scum' seems fairly reasonable in comparison...

Personal fave:

"These SCUM don't understandie decency, as such, CONFISCATE their bikes upon apprehension & crush them; it's the only thing they understandie !!"

The FN has been doing well for a while focusing on rural areas (which tend to get ignored by Townies and have specific needs) and of course "We don't like Islam" (which now gets them bonus points)

Those groups (bar Wilder's party which is socialism with anti-muslim sentiments) are always stoking in the EU parliament to turn the clock back. FN is no different there, fuck them and the horse they came in on.

french political parties are working together to ensure fn don't get in in specific departements
some candidates pulling out to stop the split vote

hopefully it'll work

fuck them and the horse they came in on.

understandie

Is this from some kind of accent I've never heard about?

dropping bombs on kids is doing wonders for gideon's street cred.

twattish, swaggering narcissism at it's worst, tho entirely in keeping with the decision to drop bombs in the first place.

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14129765.Osborne__UK_has__got_its_mojo_back__with_air_strikes/

vile, tory scum.

:d

toryscum mp libels constituent, makes mind bogglingly inept nonpology, still has job.

what a time to be alive.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/tory-mp-defends-faking-death-threat-over-syria-air-strikes-vote-a6764766.html

Shock, horror.

Politician makes speech geared towards the interests of his audience and profiles himself/his party at the same time.

Sorry but that story is the the flip side of the same coin as all those ridiculously tenuous anti-Corbin stories.

how so? he said it. the fact that he said it to an allegedly forgiving audience is entirely besides the point - it's a peurile, crass turn of phrase that trivialises the potential slaughter of 1000s of people for lols. Childish posturing from a second rate human being.

#toughdecisions

She's an MP for Telford. That's a massive flaw for a start.

I totally agree that making political milage out of other people's deaths is distasteful.

But that's exactly what happens in politics. Same as the antiwar camp.

Same as the antiwar camp.

ok, but last time i checked, no one in the antiwar camp had a) voted for bombing b) was a sitting member of the UK government.

in fact, his follow up statement: "...with you as we reassert Western values" is even more disconcerting.

Again my point about preaching to the choir.

I just don't think there's that much to.

The vote and our "new strategy" is symbolic. I've yet to hear anyone with military insight or experience say that this will fundamentally alter our strategy - it just brings Syria into Iraq. The purpose is diplomatic. Hence the rational for chatting to a US think tank about how aligned we are.

fair do's.

i like to imagine more than a few members of his captive audience thinking "mojo? who is this limey cracka and why is he speaking to me like he's headlining the house of fucking blues?"

cracker-assed cracker

Syria air strikes: Senior MPs back Alex Salmond in disputing David Cameron's claim that seven UK terror plots were planned in Syria

Well, duh, yah think?

Your elected representatives, ladies and gentlemen.

and that terrorist at leytonstone station was actually a person let down by the mental health services and the government cutbacks

independent.co.uk/news/uk/cri­me/leytonstone-tube-stabbing-accused-muh­aydin-mires-family-contacted-police-thre­e-weeks-before-attack-a6764276.html

I went to school with Muhaydin, he was in my form group, he joined us in year 8 or 9, he was a pretty normal kid but had learning difficulties if i remember correctly, after we finished school i bumped into him once or twice he seemed normal, but i know he was smoking a lot of cannabis, i spoke to a friend yesterday who knows him better and he told me that he had "lost the plot" he was apparently chewing chad and smoking cannabis possibly drinking too, he was also begging around the station a lot.
I just hope people don't judge him, and he gets the help he needs. I know they found terrorist material on his phone but this is a guy who isn't well, he hears voices and claims people are following him.

His brother was on TV saying the same

.

This highlights one of the persistent issues that we're going to experience frequently where there's an intersection of mental health and people/communities that are vulnerable to extremism and/or isolation from support services.

Access to extremists and extremist materials online is ridiculously easy. Counter that with the kind of judgement that people with mental health issues experience from broader society and it's easy to see why the perceived acceptance from extremist communities isn't just attractive but very compelling.

Looking at the scenario described by badmanlongtime, there's a lot of warnings there that an intervention by support services should have happened before the attack took place. One of the things that is tied up with society's fear and misunderstanding of mental health is that we avoid engaging with problems when we see them. There's a stigma against taking action and at best we hope that someone else will do it and at worst we just hope that it will go away. There's no rationality to the fear of contacting mental health services to report a risk to public or a person's safety and that's something we need to address urgently. If we don't, there will continue to be incidents like this and people only survive a stabbing by luck, never judgement.

There's a stigma against taking action and at best we hope that someone else will do it and at worst we just hope that it will go away. ..

Guilty of this.

Already over 100,000 signatures (in one day) on the petition to block Trump from entering the UK on hate speech grounds.

https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/114003