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^^^ & ^^^^ - yeah. It's still entertaining in this case.

the drawback of being born into extreme wealth

Check your privilege, peasant - You have all the advantages of not having all the advantages. Poor ZG has all of the disadvantages of having all of the advantages.

#triggered

Cycle highway collapse in Rio (built for the Olympics), possible missing users. Video on twitter looks serious

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36106308

You dont like the Tories, I get it - pretty sure on LFGSS you are in a 'safe space' on that front but let's ease up on teh rhetoric, especially considering who you are comparing them too.

If you live under IS your life is in danger if it is suspected you have any views sympathetic with the west, and if you do not subscribe wholeheartedly to their ideology. The tactic I'm referring to is the branding as evil or 'other' anyone you don't like through spurious association with an unseen enemy, the spreading of hysterical suspicion.

Irony is I'm usually the one on here complaining about lazy stereotyping of the tories, and getting abuse in return.

Edit: Moved to the RIP thread.

Irony is I'm usually the one on here complaining about lazy stereotyping of the tories, and getting abuse in return.

That's not irony. It just means you're always wrong.

/irony

Canadians, they make one song about a word and all of a sudden they act like they own it.

nice

Hang on the Tory politicians we all bitch about on here (Cameron, IDS and a few others) aren't all neolibs that don't care about people outside their own social/income circle?

Mind blowing. Citation also needed ;)

Isn't it ironic?

thick, fatuous tory in racist jibe non-shocker.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/boris-johnson-suggests-part-kenyan-obama-may-have-an-ancestral-dislike-of-britain-a6995826.html

johnson, cameron, goldsmith... the masks are slipping and the inherent racism of the tories is on display for all to see.

What's amazing is that johnson thinks the President of the USA gives a flying fuck about anything a mediocre, know-nothing bigot like johnson says.

The Mayor said that the US would never dream of engaging in an arragement similar to the EU.

It would never create a federation of states with a common currency, free trade and freedom of movement, and a mix of centralised and sovereign powers?

No, probably not.

well observed.

The problem with the EU situation is it's unlikely to be resolved to a tight knit federation. If you don't believe in a Federal Europe, don't belong to the common currency and your population dislikes the freedom of movement (which is a debatable point, since we have more citizens in Europe than European immigrants) then why stay committed to a looser union that may be forced to try and resolve to a tighter federal union.

So Boris is right, the US wouldn't sign up to a halfway house as they already have the complete package. They also wouldn't join a federation with S. America and Canada.

There is a distinct possibility that the next phase of the EU and Euro will be a need to create Federal Europe brought on by the effects of a single currency.

I continue not give a shit that some of you don't like Nick Cohen - he takes Johnson to pieces beautifully here:
http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/barack-obama-wants-boris-johnson-prefer-gutter/?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter

Yung Hugh Hefner

Interesting piece, and I agree that the reference to heritage is a nasty piece of low gutter sliminess.

http://www.buzzfeed.com/jimwaterson/africans-for-britain-group-quits-anti-eu-campaign-over-boris?utm_term=.scEDNvxnQ9#.dqpQ6zbE0G

https://twitter.com/Africa4Britain

Can't imagine it's the most important event in the referendum, but interesting nonetheless.

She could have made a fortune if she'd gone into the movies:

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-woman-vaginas-wombs-mother-miracle/story-29158707-detail/story.html

New Jeremy Hunt board game

http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/junior-doctors-strike-operation-jeremy-hunt-edition_uk_571f34dbe4b0a1e971ca5a79?eppve3k04t1fc4n29

Times and Sun are the only papers that don't have Hillsborough on the front page.

I was really glad to pick up the Standard tonight, whose headline was 'Hillsborough: Justice for 96'.

It's unbelievable that it took 27 years when the defamatory claims were built on such flimsy foundations:

http://www.theguardian.com/football/2016/apr/26/how-the-suns-truth-about-hillsborough-unravelled

Truth and solidarity. How I wish we could hear these words together more often:

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/26/the-guardian-view-on-the-hillsborough-verdicts-a-triumph-for-truth-and-solidarity