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Kid's stuff... You should see my real work...

Oliver's ponytail is a whig

ftfy

I thought all design work/drawing/colouring-in was kid's stuff.

Jesus, Hopkins and her herd are mouthing off about the falling F being a deliberate act of sabotage against the PM.

f off ?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2017/oct/04/boris-lion-king-to-theresa-may-p45-malarial-week-tory-conference

Brutally funny (if also quite depressing)

Even bits of the set were trying to escape.

Last year, the Tories were bedding in for a good 15 years of uninterrupted rule; this year, they were coming to terms with the fact that the bed had been shat.

lol

Typhoid Mary

Yes

Eddie Mair of Radio 4 has just surgically eviscerated Rudd on Boris, not quite available to listen again yet but worth sniffing out.

"Do you think people want Bernard Manning as Foreign Sec?"

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b096gjrb

I love (and share) Eddie Mair's intolerance of Boris' bullshit.

may's bracelet tho... featuring a woman who dated Leon Trotsky...

I just keep thinking back to Cameron's resignation and that little whistle, presumably realising some of this was in the pipeline

That, but also the fact that just over ten years previously they had literally defeated (what they saw as) an oppressive government, with the help of a militias and basically citizen soldiers.

John Locke had influenced the 1689 Bill of Rights, but was also a huge influence on Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, writers of the US Declaration of Independence and the US Bill of Rights respectively, so there definitely is a lot of influence and overlap, but it also stemmed from (very) recent experience.

Brief version of something it takes me 4 months to teach in detail: after the British passed the Coercive Acts to punish American colonists for the Boston Tea Party, one of which prevented the Massachussetts Assembly from meeting, they set up an extra-legal assembly in Suffolk County, outside of Boston. This passed the Suffolk Resolves, which was then ratified by the First Continental Congress, a meeting of 12 of the 13 colonies which later declared independence. One of the Suffolk Resolves' articles was recommending each state raises a militia in case of further oppression by the British. It was one of these armed, 'well-regulated' militia groups that clashed with Britain at Lexington Green in April 1775, and the rest is 'merica.

Amazing

aaaaaand a bunch of lines in her speech are lifted wholesale from the pissing West Wing. aaaah it's the gift that keeps on giving.

can anyone suggest a reason as to why a normal human being needs

Cars like these

Drugs like these

Bikes like these

Etc.

The counter point is that you should have the freedom to own what you want regardless of other people's reasonableness tests. Starting from the pov "I don't think you should be allowed _" isn't going to get you anywhere.

aaaaaand a bunch of lines in her speech are lifted wholesale from the pissing West Wing. aaaah it's the gift that keeps on giving.

Amazing.

T May:

It is when tested the most that we reach deep within ourselves and find that our capacity to rise to the challenge before us may well be limitless.

President Bartlet:

Every time we think we have measured our capacity to meet a challenge, we look up and we’re reminded that that capacity may well be limitless.

I've thoroughly enjoyed following this car crash today. Mind you, she managed to survive the election, maybe she'll keep limping on after this speech.

Wh t orks or Ryon Goslong?

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Watching the speech

fuck them all, they can all die in a ditch for all i care. vile, inhuman shits the lot of them.

Nice of Boris to pick a tie that matches his complexion.

Harm to others innit, those drugs look great, but if people were boshing them all day and killing people they should at least be regulated. People do bosh them all day, don't really kill a bunch of people, although may harm themselves and occasionally others and they are already super regulated. Cars, even shitty ones, cause a pretty large amount of harm and killing, have a bunch of (somewhat lacklustre) regulation already. Guns are made to kill people, they do kill loadsa people and in 'merica are actively made as unregulated as possible.