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5 minutes ago, banjodeano said:Paid holidays, paid tea breaks,Ā better health and safety standards, shorter working week,Ā
Industrialists eventually realised that there is little point in producing things if most people couldn't consume what was being produced if they were at work all the time, hence time off.
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1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:The abolition of slavery and the emancipation of women were both resisted by the ruling class as was most equal opportunities legislation.
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The working class is simply everyone who earns a wage (or receives some form of benefit) although many who earn a higher wage choose to describe themselves as middle class now.
Sigh, I can't be bothered just now but it isn't as simple as this.
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After looking on YouTube recently, for nostalgia purposes, at some old Megadrive and SNES games, I must say that many of them are not as good as I remember.Ā
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8 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Are you suggesting that writing and thinking donāt count as work?
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Maybe you ought to tell that to J K Rowling (net worth Ā£1.1 billion) and Google (net worth Ā£76 billion).
She is one of the fortunate people that get paid for indulging in their hobby, its not "work" to her in real sense as such.
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5 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Iām still confused.
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What has this to do with Trump telling them to āgo home if they donāt like itā?
Don't perpetuate racial stereotypes and bleat about racism.Ā
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1 minute ago, Top Cats Hat said:By Trump? š²
I've seen their supporters using the term, in YouTube comments etc.
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2 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:I have no idea what your first sentence means.
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So do you agree with Trump that democratically elected politicians who oppose his policy should leave the country?
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There are quite a few Remain supporting MPs who were born outside the UK. Should they also leave the UK?
Those congresswomen have been dubbed "the squad."
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From Urban Dictionary:
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Crew, posse, gang: an informal group of individuals with a common identity and a sense of solidarity. The term is a bit flashy and is more likely to be heard in hip-hop lyrics than in spoken conversation.ĀIts a shame that a group of black women have to be characterisedĀ as a "squad."Ā -
13 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Name one!
Jeremy Corbyn.Ā
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6 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:He certainly wasnāt making a general point.
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His comments then andĀ now, were directed very specifically at four democratically elected congresswoman who were voted into office to make changes that would benefit their constituents. By advising them to leave the country if they donāt like it,Ā Trump is effectively saying that only those who agree with him should have a voice, ie he now wishes to replace democracy with dictatorship.
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By supporting him,Ā can we take it that you also believe in dictatorship?Ā You certainly seem to think that only the views of the minority who voted for Brexit should be considered.
Are you referring to " the squad"? in a black community context that term is an unhelpful stereotype and they and their supporters would do well to avoid using it.
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As for your Brexit comment, you're embarrassing yourself as there was obviously even lees support for remain.
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Just now, Top Cats Hat said:They do. š
Some don't.Ā
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2 minutes ago, Eater Sundae said:In that case, I wonder why he didnāt leave when Obama was bringing in all those āterribleā changes like Obamacare, and treatiesĀ with Iran
I don't recall Trump "taking a knee" during the national anthem at any time do you?
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43 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Are you now suggesting that MPs should only comment orĀ vote on matters of immediately concern to their constituents?
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I would suggest that MP's should mainly concern themselves with matters to do with this country.
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3 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Nothing, other than less than 37% of the electorate and less than 25% of the population as a whole,Ā voted for Brexit so calling it āthe will of the peopleā makes you look deluded and undemocratic.
I can barely believe that someone who seems to be an intelligent person such as yourself cannot see that remain got even less support.
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8 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Two problems with that.
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1. The majority of UKĀ citizensĀ did not vote for Brexit.
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2. The majority of US citizens did not vote for Trump.
You may be technically correct with Trump but that is the anomaly in their electoral college system.
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As for Brexit, of the people that participated in the vote, numerically more people voted to Leave than to stay. What is it about that you find hard to grasp?
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2 hours ago, alchresearch said:Because the people involved in all the troubles Labour are in aren't Shadow Foreign Secretaries.
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They're provincial nobodies who should be concentrating on local issues first.Ā Ā
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Take Chris Williamson for example.Ā He's a big name in the antisemitism row.Ā
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According to his profile, he's MP for Derby North - is that a big Palestinian / Israeli community?
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What about his shadow role? Until recently he was: Shadow Minister (Home Office) (Fire and Emergency Services) (3 Jul 2017 to 11 Jan 2018)
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Again, what has that role got to do with antisemitism?Ā None whatsoever, so maybe he should keep his big mouth shut.
This is going off topic but this reminds me of Irvin Patnick's interventions in the Hillsborough disaster; Hillsborough wasn't his patch so why was he involved?
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Just now, Top Cats Hat said:How on earth can you hate a country?
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A country is ultimately just a line on a map.Ā
Mad innit?!Ā
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12 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Keep digging, lol š
There are plenty of white "progressives" in the US that seem to hate the country they live in, Trump invites them to go and live elsewhere too.
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Over the years many celebrities have threatened to leave the US because of Trump, pondering on a move to Canada. Never Mexico you'll notice. LOLZ!
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1 hour ago, Top Cats Hat said:Ā
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Maybe you could give your opinion on Trumpās latest racist outburst?
I think he was making a general point about anyone of any race that does nothing but criticize America, inviting them to go and live elsewhere if they don't like it, like that horrible poisonous creature Megan Rapinoe.
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9 hours ago, melthebell said:and we arent in the euro cos we used our sovereignty to opt out of the euro š
Britain chose not to go into the Euro when the Euro came into being. I don't think a member state currently in the Euro could come out of it and remain a member state; and I believe a prerequisite of joining the EU now is adopting the Euro as your currency.
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12 minutes ago, tzijlstra said:Ā
https://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johan_Cruijff_Vijfje#/media/Bestand:2017_Johan_Cruijff_Vijfje.jpg
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I can list over a hundred others.
Hey that's cool. Thanks for that.
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14 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:We could put him on the back of a ā¬1 coin instead of the queen!
There are "national sides" to Euro coins for the different member states, but I don't think there are individual people on them.
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1 minute ago, Top Cats Hat said:Not that I know ofĀ but thereās no reason why they shouldnāt be.
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Euro coins are personalised so no reason why notes canāt be either.
Lol, I was right wasn't I?Ā
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If we were in the Euro we couldn't celebrate Alan Turing by putting him on a bank note.
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9 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Why doesnāt it surprise me that a Brexit supporter once again demonstrates that when it come to ā¬urope they know very little. šš¤£š
Are there any notable examples of a Euro bank notes honouring/celebrating a particular person in a particular member state? I'm genuinely interested.
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6 minutes ago, Top Cats Hat said:Why not?
Given that the Euro is a currency used by multiple participating states, I'd be surprised if one of those states could "personalise" it, so to speak.
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(why do I get the feeling you're about to prove me wrong on that?)
Climate Change thread
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The UK really doe get an unfair bad wrap from some but as that chart shows, we're not that bad. What the climate zealots will say though is that the UK has the headquarters of many of the top polluting companies, but if they weren't h3adquartd here they'd only be headquarted somewhere else.