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On June 03 2017 19:48 bardtown wrote: It's important to know that if you vote for Labour you're voting for the SNP, too. Corbyn would have absolutely no qualms about working with Sturgeon if it meant he could govern. We might even get a deputy PM who hates 90% of the country. Although in that scenario we would also have a Home Secretary who hates 95% of the population.
Oh You!
As for music, I'm not really listening to a lot so perhaps I'm wrong, but the examples given of current great British music thus far has been "early 00s music genre, 90s music genre, KT fucking Tunstall + Show Spoiler +
although the poster might just have been naming scots, in which case I thoroughly approve
" so I feel reasonably vindicated. The British music industry makes money, of course it does. Is it creatively limp? It seems so.
Creativity is there, it's just that broadly speaking the best acts don't make that much money. But I think it's nice that our 'superstars', like Adele and Ed Sheeran, are not particularly corporate. There are indie bands like Bastille, but I can't think of a single great rock band in the last 10 years. Rock is basically an American only genre at the moment, which is a shame.
To bring it back to politics, you could check out Corbyn's link to grime. There was a grime gig supporting him today. Nuts.
On June 04 2017 08:10 FueledUpAndReadyToGo wrote: Pfff hope it's just media overreacting as reports aren't very accurate so fast after something happens but it sounds bad
The link i gave isn't media, its the police, should be pretty accurate.
Eyewitness accounts on BBC of three men jumping out of cars with long knives and stabbing people while saying "This is for Allah" Explosions at The Sun by eyewitnesses
On June 05 2017 03:59 Jockmcplop wrote: Further evidence of this government's crackdown on dissent (after threatening to jail journalists who publish leaked government files). + Show Spoiler +
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEcMW6RmC_w
Heh, I came here to post this exact video.
What the hell is wrong with western politicians that they refuse to acknowledge the concept of Saudi Arabia funding the spread fundamental Islamic ideologies (wahhabism, salafism) that do not match with secular democratic governments and how this is tied in with global terrorism in the name of that ideology?
And now Ms May wants more control over the internet to crack down on people? How is that going to prevent people from getting in their cars and driving over pedestrians?
That independent candidate for Hastings and Rye is "Mr. Ethical" and he's an interesting cat.
Here's a fairly boring cartoon that does a decent job of explaining how he tried - and continues to try - to blow the whistle on HSBC's use of illegal charges to defraud store card holders of an estimated one billion pounds.
If you explore his site further bits of it looks like a conspiracy theorists bat cave. However it remains fascinating to me because of the shocking nature of his original experience as a whistle blower. The fraud is so clear and the continual foot dragging and covering up so blatant...
EPT
hope it's just media overreacting as reports aren't very accurate so fast after something happens but it sounds bad 
