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Dogkennelhillbilly

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  1. It's not fair to hold Corbyn's brother's views against him when he has never explicitly or implicitly endorsed them. And he has enough of his own terrible positions to criticise anyway.
  2. For every person like OP that moans their doorbell was rung and there was a knock on the door, there's someone else moaning that they didn't hear the delivery drivers. If you've ever done delivery work you'll know that loads of people's bells don't work. The delivery drivers probably goes to a hundred doors a day: press bell, knock door, drop package, move on. If you don't like delivery drivers, insist on delivery by Royal Mail where the workers have wages and a union - or just stop ordering shit online that's artificially cheap. But most of us (me included) don't want that
  3. Everyone gets the point that Corbynites try to make with the "total number of votes cast" statistic, it's just a specious one. In 2017, Corbyn's Labour got fewer votes than May's Tories (both the percentage of votes and aggregate number of votes). In 2019, Corbyn's Labour fewer votes than Johnson's Tories (both the percentage of votes and aggregate number of votes); and he managed to drop 2.7 million votes or 6.9% of vote share between the two elections. I repeat, he got trounced by Boris F***ing Johnson and the Tories after the Brexit omnishambles. It is not true that a "fairer" electoral system would have seen Labour beat the Tories: Labour simply got fewer votes than the Tories. Corbyn lost twice. There is no metric by which he won the general election. His failure to win was a disaster for the UK, and let Johnson and Truss and Sunak into office. Corbynites have to let go of this delusion that Corbyn but really won somehow if you squint in a certain way. It is completely irrelevant that Labour under Corbyn got more votes than Labour under Starmer. It is like saying Hull City was more successful in its 2014 FA Cup Final than Chelsea was in its 2018 FA Cup Final, because Hull scored 2 goals when Chelsea only scored 1. But guess what - Chelsea won its game and Hull City lost. Corbyn's fans turned out to vote for him - but an even larger group of people who found him repellant were motivated enough to show up and vote Tory.
  4. OP, you've got to relax a bit. Multidrop delivery is a total nightmare and the delivery drivers are woefully underpaid. We as a society all want to order stuff online and for it to be delivered quickly and cheaply. The square gets circled by allowing companies like Evri to have sham contracting arrangements. None of this is your fault OP but the delivery person is just trying to get through their workload as quickly as possible. Delivery is not, historically, an industry with large profit margins. “The only way it can be profitable is if you underpay the person who is the courier, by not treating them as an employee, by not paying taxes, by not paying their insurance, by refusing to give them sick pay or cover them if they have an accident or train them,” says Prof Annabelle Gawer, the director of the Centre of Digital Economy at the University of Surrey. “That is where the ‘savings’ are coming from.” https://www.theguardian.com/society/2022/mar/01/the-hidden-life-of-a-courier-13-hour-days-rude-customers-and-big-dreams
  5. There wasn't any chaos at the council: bins were collected, social workers supported people, elder care was paid for and all the rest. There was a few days of furious bickering among local politicians on one side of the chamber. Nothing new there...
  6. Too many American YouTube videos. The problem isn't the lack of an offence, it's the lack of police resources to respond to it.
  7. A far left coup? This bunch can't even decide if the People's Front of Judea is actually going to be a political party, let alone who's going to lead it. I don’t think you need to worry about Corbyn and Co seizing Woolwich barracks to recreate Kronstadt any time soon.
  8. Reading this sort of stuff - it's tiring. It's a weird focus on marginal English politics instead of the mainstream and instead of UK politics. How do you use 4 ex-Labour MPs getting elected an example of a supposed trend but ignore the election of 411 Labour MPs in the same election? How do you waffle on for several hundred words about the prospects of new left parties without mentioning what's been happening in this area for the last 20 years in Scotland and Wales?
  9. Naaah, it's rubbish - it would be a change of use so would need planning. https://www.planningdirect.co.uk/planningappeals/affordable-planning-applications/change-of-use/commercial-to-takeaway-change-of-use There's not enough footfall for a McDonalds, anyway, and they're quite picky about their sites
  10. Waze can alert you if you're speeding. Settings -> Alerts and Reports -> Speedometer. Then select "show speed limit - always"; "speeding threshold - at speed limit"; "alert when speeding- on". At least that's how it works on my version.
  11. Least said, soonest mended (or prosecuted).
  12. That jumper has a lot of sentimental value for him: Arthur Scargill knitted it using wool that Erick Honecker donated to the miners.
  13. The heat is really getting to some people... "It's quite simple: James McAsh was born as Jaime Maccas in Cuba, served in Che Guevara's militia, spent 5 years in East Berlin perfecting his knowledge of English, bought Shergar from the IRA, traded it to Kim Jong Il in exchange for biological weapons training in Wuhan, perfected the COVID virus, brought it to London and used it as the pretext for CPZs! The answer has been staring at us in the face all along!"
  14. I think you should stand in local council elections. You've got very strong opinions and a lot of time on your hands. Being a councillor would be a great way for you to work for the community and channel your frustration into productive action. There'd be no technically incorrect references to seasons on your watch.
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