The idiocy (and selfishness) of panic buying

This gives an idea of the influence and hypocrisy of our press.
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Brightwell Bros. said:
I'm well aware of Geordie Greig, but to call their stance a complete U turn is rubbish. A couple of lefty newspapers got excited when he got the job, but Dacre still has obvious power across all the titles, and while they've softened from the absurd "enemies of the people" extremes they're very clearly a pro-Brexit paper. Take a look at their Brexit page today, or any day, and tell me that is a pro-Brexit paper.
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I'm abroad at present, and just looking at their site and can't see much other than the trucker and fuel usual stuff, but when the new editor came in, their position changed. It's obvious that they weren't going to scream like the Guardian, as the situation is what it is, and the futility of howling at the moon forever was exactly that, futile. You're right, they softened their stance, you believe them pro Brexit still, fair enough, but the editor certainly isn't.
It's all by the by anyway, it matters not what they are, same with all the others really.
 
oldius said:
This gives an idea of the influence and hypocrisy of our press.
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Read the Guardian then, it's completely different, other
than having little influence and more hypocrisy.
Why folk harp on about the press I don't know, well I do really, parts of the free press say things some don't like, and
they hate the fact that others do.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
I'm abroad at present, and just looking at their site and can't see much other than the trucker and fuel usual stuff, but when the new editor came in, their position changed. It's obvious that they weren't going to scream like the Guardian, as the situation is what it is, and the futility of howling at the moon forever was exactly that, futile. You're right, they softened their stance, you believe them pro Brexit still, fair enough, but the editor certainly isn't.
It's all by the by anyway, it matters not what they are, same with all the others really.
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Yeah, fair enough. For what it's worth I think their stance softened because middle England didn't want to hear about Brexit anymore, and the new editor was more attuned to this than Dacre, which leads to head in the sand that you're seeing and pointing out in this thread and neither of the two main parties being able to talk about the B word.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Read the Guardian then, it's completely different, other
than having little influence and more hypocrisy.
Why folk harp on about the press I don't know, well I do really, parts of the free press say things some don't like, and
they hate the fact that others do.
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No. The Guardian Economics editor endorsed Brexit. There were quite a lot of ‘Lexit’ arguments in the Guardian. Owen Jones once argued for Lexit.

Admittedly, they have all gone quiet since we left. Can’t imagine why.

Defend the merits of the Express on its own terms and on what it publishes, instead of a lazy deflection to another paper.
 
Brightwell Bros. said:
Yeah, fair enough. For what it's worth I think their stance softened because middle England didn't want to hear about Brexit anymore, and the new editor was more attuned to this than Dacre, which leads to head in the sand that you're seeing and pointing out in this thread and neither of the two main parties being able to talk about the B word.
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Largely true, people were sick of Brexit, still are. If people never heard of Brexit again they would be happy. The notion that Brexit was done with an oven ready deal was an attractive proposal.

Unfortunately, the real world often intrudes on fantasy, and even if no one will say the word Brexit, everyone knows it’s there and still not finished with us.
 
Fode N The Hole said:
Why are you sharing clips from a racist?

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Comedian Andrew Lawrence is dropped by agent after racist comments in the wake of Euro 2020 final

The comedian tweeted about Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka's penalty attempts from the Euro 2020 final, suggesting it was the colour of their skin which affected their performance.
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Your immediate reaction to anything you don't like is to
revert to ad hominem, and don't fucking lecture me on what I should and shouldn't do. Tell us something relevant when this racist gets jailed for racism.
It's a brilliant piss take of you and yours, every thread is manipulated to include Brexit, anything at all, it's a skit, and it worked.
 
BobKowalski said:
No. The Guardian Economics editor endorsed Brexit. There were quite a lot of ‘Lexit’ arguments in the Guardian. Owen Jones once argued for Lexit.

Admittedly, they have all gone quiet since we left. Can’t imagine why.

Defend the merits of the Express on its own terms and on what it publishes, instead of a lazy deflection to another paper.
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Bollocks, I replied to yet another bad loser that whining about the press, in this case a part of it that unsurprisingly, you despise. It's telling that it's always the same people who moan about the press, they hate freedom of expression that doesn't chime, and that folk read it with their own free will.
Of course it doesn't help that nobody reads what you'd like them to, and all your choices are at the bottom of the list,
instead of whining, find out why.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Your immediate reaction to anything you don't like is to
revert to ad hominem, and don't fucking lecture me on what I should and shouldn't do. Tell us something relevant when this racist gets jailed for racism.
It's a brilliant piss take of you and yours, every thread is manipulated to include Brexit, anything at all, it's a skit, and it worked.
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I didn't actually call you a racist, but I'll take the thin skinned response as an acknowledgment of your true feelings if you like. He has been dropped by his agent and had his gigs cancelled, and as you well know there is no offence of "racism".
 
Continuing the theme...all this disruption is down to us transitioning because of Brexit. Would have been a lot simpler to raise the minimum wage and impose pay and work conditions on the haulage industry. Except that would not have been Conservative policy.

 
Meanwhile in other news :)

‘UK govt has written to thousands of Germans living in Britain to ask them to "consider returning" to driving trucks.
Most of them never had, but were in some database of potential truckers because old German driving licenses could be used for vans’. @independent
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Read the Guardian then, it's completely different, other
than having little influence and more hypocrisy.
Why folk harp on about the press I don't know, well I do really, parts of the free press say things some don't like, and
they hate the fact that others do.
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I hear a lot of this: read something else then, as if it somehow absolves that paper of the need to actually tell the truth. This paper, among others, repeatedly lied to the nation and may have influenced the result of the vote that now sees an economic and social shit show unfurl before our eyes.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Bollocks, I replied to yet another bad loser that whining about the press, in this case a part of it that unsurprisingly, you despise. It's telling that it's always the same people who moan about the press, they hate freedom of expression that doesn't chime, and that folk read it with their own free will.
Of course it doesn't help that nobody reads what you'd like them to, and all your choices are at the bottom of the list,
instead of whining, find out why.
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I assume you are referring to me as a whiner and a bad loser. I find it surprising that you would make those comments about someone you have never met or, to my knowledge, ever had a conversation with. It is not the losing that bothers me, in any way, it is the loss of my social and economic liberty for no benefit, literally none whatsoever. If your only argument is to say that you have won, surely the prize must be one worth winning, but I have yet to hear a coherent argument in favour of Brexit where the results are already evident.
 
Ancient Citizen said:
Read the Guardian then, it's completely different, other
than having little influence and more hypocrisy.
Why folk harp on about the press I don't know, well I do really, parts of the free press say things some don't like, and
they hate the fact that others do.
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We're not allowed to read the guardian didn't you get the memo ?


(For memo read Marvin in the media thread)

But anyone who reads the express, online or in paper form is deranged, our if touch with reality or further right than Farage.
 
BobKowalski said:
Meanwhile in other news :)

‘UK govt has written to thousands of Germans living in Britain to ask them to "consider returning" to driving trucks.
Most of them never had, but were in some database of potential truckers because old German driving licenses could be used for vans’. @independent
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And you believe that ? Do you believe everything that is posted on the Internet?
 
Anyway, the news on my phone is saying Christmas will be ruined because of a shortage of butchers.

No I didn't laugh, I am very worried what will I do without pigs in blankets
 
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