Jeremy Corbyn - Not Not Labour Party(?), not a Communist (BBC)

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Interestingly, in case you are a nerd about such things, that famous quote, in the original text, was different. Here's what it was in the original Woman's Own piece:

"so they are casting their problems on society and who is society? There is no such thing! There are individual men and women and there are families and no government can do anything except through people and people look to themselves first."

The 'no such thing as society' phrase was used further down. Source.
 

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WhatsApp was fundamental in electing the president in one of the world’s largest countries (Bolsanaro).
And the PM of the world's largest electoral democracy (Modi).

But the level of domination and pure propaganda that Modi's party had on whatsapp will be almost impossible for momentum to match i think.
 

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The WhatsApp group will defeat the media moguls Steve!
I’m confused, is the idea that millions of people all join one WhatsApp group chat? How does that work? Do you just get about a billion notifications a minute from all the people sending messages at once, or are only the group owners allowed to post messages?
 

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Its not just some stuff. To the people votes credit they've been while organised but it hasn't made a difference.


So now what ?
When you consider the fact that there are reportedly some Remainers who ultimately feel the result has to be expected at all costs, I'd argue Remain edging it isn't an awful result for them at the most since revoke hasn't explicitly been backed by either of the two parties. The idea of even considering it a couple of years ago would've seemed unpalatable - but if the above figures are true Labour, for example, would almost certainly be campaigning for it in any vote.
 

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Where's Jeremy Corbyn....
Would have expected him alongside thornberry McDonald and starmer at the people's vote march... After all isn't a referendum labours official policy
So... Where's Jeremy Corbyn
 

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From a Modi WhatsApp group:

United Kingdom is made of four Countries :
1. England
2. British captured Scotland
3. British captured Northern Ireland
4. British captured Wales
If you did not know this...... no problem.... . But you know it now.... Educate others too!

#BBC

Please keep on sharing this untill That bloody BBC stops referring to our own Kashmir as India occupied Kashmir.
 

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How much can we sell Scotland for then?

Can we insist that buyer collects?
Well just from memory the yanks paid 7m dollars for Alaska, but that was almost an uninhabited and worthless wasteland at the time, so I'd say a reserve of a couple of grand would be about right, and hope Canada bites, they're a bit Scottish. Or Trump, but I'd wait for the cheque to clear on that one.
 

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Eh? Williamson is an anti Semite and it’s good he has resigned from the party and now no longer represents Labour. His resignation letter tells you all you need to know.
Ok I wasn’t sure if it was aimed at Watson too
 

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Eh? Williamson is an anti Semite and it’s good he has resigned from the party and now no longer represents Labour. His resignation letter tells you all you need to know.
I thought you were talking about Watson.