'Nothing short of a dictatorship!' Starmer rocked by local revolt as councillors quit after PM 'abandons Labour values'

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And it's not claiming there's a dictatorship or including the other hype in the GB News article.

Good on the councel members to quite rightly complain about the new Labour party, and notes in the Guardian article almost get to the reasons for their concerns.

...That 10 members of the group were blocked from standing as county council candidates in May’s local elections after openly criticising the winter fuel allowance cut.

This kind of brutal management of the party, while also suspending or blocking others in Labour who disagree, is absolutely unforgivable. Tories did it to their own, but Labour shouldn't be this fascist. Those who are quitting the party are low-level local councel members, but their actions are very good, and essential for sending a message to the rest of the party. MPs have been suspended by Labour for noting their concerns regarding the cutoff of winter fuel assistance. (Though the pensioners effected should have received a raise in benefits recently, which was expected to offset winter fuel expenses in the same manner as the extra winter fuel allowance of £450, or something in that range. It's a complicated problem brought about by Big Oil's price gouging during the Tory leadership, earning 100s of billions in profit while raising rates an extra several hundred £ per year for many. Many pensioners can't afford it. Labour have also had to find £20 billion to address a deficit hidden in the previous Tory budget. Some of the budget desicisions were ill-advised, but they balanced the budget. Pissing off pensioners like this was stupid. Pissing off Labour party members who disagreed with aspects of the budget is also stupid. But like everything in British politics, this will pass and most people will forget about it. It's still fiscally better than 12 years of Tory corruption.)

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It's not my fault you MAGAT limp dicks are retarded.

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Except Trump's followers think he's Jesus. You can also get several t-shirts that claim this.

The Republic should prosecute him for impersonating Jesus.

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Nothing here indicates I'm a Brit or liberal, moron. And the last time you saw a pussy it had ears and a tail.

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You realize that GB News is a FAR RIGHT DISINFORMATION publication, right? It's bloody obvious in the UK. Moreover, look up their claims, which are of course false when one considers political business as usual in the UK. Starmer receives criticism like all of his predecessors received it. It's normal politics in the UK. Brits are a winging (complaining) society. Recent surveys show that voters would rather have the current asshat than return to the CORRUPT AF Tory leadership. Worthy of a 😄 vote.

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I think the debunking nerd is picking an incredibly dumb video to debunk, as it doesn't appropriately specify what was inventive about each of those inventions. For example, anyone introducing the first invention would merely note that an improvement to the automatic gearshift was invented, not the first automatic gearshift itself. And wooden clocks have been around for 700 years, so one would have to specify which variation on a wooden clock was invented. And as admitted by the nerd, Miles improved on the automatic elevator door with his invention, though he didn't invent the automatic elevator door. Most inventions are improvements on previous inventions. One could make videos all day debunking idiots who make false claims without managing to debunk the claims to original inventions/improvements on stuff.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9rOgFHvnVA

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Yeah that would be nuts.

1999 national debt: $5,656,000,000

2024 national debt: $35,460,000,000,000

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The president doesn't rebuild anything. In fact, he did nothing for New Orleans after Katrina, nor did he care. He also supported one of the worst wars in American history, based on Mosad's false evidence he, Cheney Rumsfeld knew was fake, while they and investors in the military industrial complex profited in the billions.

Also: New Orleans homeowners still in financial storm 18 years after Katrina

Many organizations and individuals helped rebuild New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina, including:

New Orleans Area Habitat For Humanity: A Christian-based organization that has built or renovated over 800 homes since Katrina

Frederic Schwartz: An architect who was selected to replan one-third of the city

U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE): Created the Hurricane Storm Damage Risk Reduction System (HSDRRS), a flood protection system that includes levees, floodwalls, floodgates, and storm surge barriers

NOAA Fisheries: Provided $1.2 million to restore wetlands and revitalize communities in the Lower Ninth Ward and St. Bernard Parish

Workers from around the region: Flocked to New Orleans to help with clean-up and construction projects

The U.S. government: Suspended certain regulations to allow workers whose documents had washed away to be hired for federally-funded construction projects

Other efforts to rebuild New Orleans include:

The Musicians' Village, a community project spearheaded by musicians Harry Connick Jr.

Preserving the city's cultural heritage

Revitalizing the economy

Educational initiatives and community engagement

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You can look that up if it's not already apparent. All of N.C. is not in 'ruins'. Small areas where residents received compensation will require years to recover. Look at what's happened in all areas in the US that suffered from massive storm damage. In some cases, residents take the FEMA money and the owner of the land sells that land to developers. That takes years to develop. If you wish to rebuild your home, there are infrastructure requirements that stall the process until the house can be built (eg. roads covered in deep mud, downed electricity lines, damaged bridges &c).

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Meh - you can look at the link I provided. 40% is ridiculous.

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Not in the least, dickhead.

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Bullshit. Not my responsibility to find his sources. Your evidence is here: https://take-me-to.space/Og0LBOWf.png Also, think for a second about the statistics I provided further above.

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Not for a destroyed home, lol.

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https://duckduckgo.com/?t=h_&q=Peter+A.+McCullough+vaccine&ia=web

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You know there's no comparison between US geopolitical commitments to NATO and a few people who got their ankles wet in N.C.

But do tell your congresspeople that you want a more isolationist policy for the US (though this would weaken the dollar, remove the US from international political influence, reduce US trade with other countries, kill military industry jobs, and much more, reversing US post WW II policy). It's worth a shot.

First on the complaint list should be Israel, however. They don't need one red cent from the US for their genocide and ethnic cleansing.

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No, the chart is fiction. The source is not provided.

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Also kills viruses, though with a one side effect.

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People have to apply to FEMA for the money, which is used to buy another house, or to repair a current property.

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Good question. My reading of his work - including the Silmarillion - is that he tried as much as possible to write actual histories that could not be easily simplified into allegories. Readers naturally referred to his works as allegories, which he considered annoying because they were histories to him, grounded in actual history. Though they were also allegorical, they could not be simplified as to the specific allegorical messages they may have been, as his histories are built up from a past that extends hundreds if not thousands of years, in actual history. Middle Earth was thus - for example - it's own historical world that could not compare 1:1 with another history, but rather tha many other histories.

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LOL

Climate Change is also 'fixing' a number of US regions hit by extreme weather events. (And I'm sure Trump will be worried about climate change, lol.) N.C. got extra support, which surpassed $100 million last October](https://www.fema.gov/press-release/20241017/fema-support-north-carolina-surpasses-100-million), which is a lot for FEMA. And there are other ways states are helped with disaster relief.

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I'm surprised anyone thinks he despised allegory. There's been a lot of discusson on the way in which the Hobbit and LOTR are based on the circumstances of the English, of the 20th c, or 18th c, or of Anglo-Saxon England, or all three. It's part of what makes the 'everyman' in those series much like the English common man, and is part of their success as novels.

Tolkien described hobbits as "rustic English people" with a combination of small imagination and great courage. He also said that hobbits are a "variety" or "branch" of humanity, related to humans but considered a separate people.

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It's always been required that SARS vaccines have been fully tested before going to market (ie. scientifically tested against placebos &c). SARS vaccines were tested for 20 years before testing began on SARS-CoV-2 vaccines. Following that, 12.7 billion shots have been administered, and were proven to have similar results as in the tests.

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Thanks for the compliment.

Closing NYSE for a day is merely a committee decision, and certainly not required (per my note). As for the working classes, they'll of course return to their pizza delivery jobs.

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This 40% chart is obvious bullshit.

There are 85 million Germans, 12 million of them are foreign born, 8.4 million of which are European-born, 3 million of which are Asian. American-born and African-born number are only one million in Germany.

That 13% is the same as the US 13% of foreign born residents (46 m in 350 m).

Leading economies have diversified by a SMALL margin. Germany isn't almost gone ffs.

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