The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Had a bit of a Twitter exchange with Mathew Godwin about immigration and Corbyn. He described Corbyn as outdated and Marxist lol.
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gimesumtruf
pedant fodder
If he doesn't big up the army then he will be walked on. Much as he dislikes it, we do need protection and he especially should shout that.
He wants to get caught.
He wants to get caught.
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
Getaway before Corbyn's speech apparently..
It probably felt like the last flight out of Saigon for them, bless.
gimesumtruf
pedant fodder
agricola
a genuine importer of owls
I thought they would be circling overhead.
If they were flying the helicopters, yes - circling just out of range whilst bleating over the loudspeakers about how everyone must embrace change, "own the now" and other platitudes.
Can we get a timeshare?
gosub
~#
Its the Captian on a sub who gets to press the button, all a PM gets to do is write a letter for the captain to read.
Should of just said in the event of a nuclear war, he wouldn't stand for re-elction. Which is fair enough, very few people would vote for him after that.
He could say he'd resign but that would mean giving up a place in the bunker.
Bernie Gunther
Fundamentalist Druid
Or with 'yes but it needs to be autonomous so we can deter Israel'
Plumdaff
joy in people
Wouldn't pressing the button pretty much always be an exercise of cataclysmic futility in the endgame of a civilisation destroying war? In which case utterly pointless and this is showboating macho bullshit.
Unless we want leaders prepared to use it against a renegade Scout troup or something
Unless we want leaders prepared to use it against a renegade Scout troup or something
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Wouldn't pressing the button pretty much always be an exercise of cataclysmic futility in the endgame of a civilisation destroying war? In which case utterly pointless and this is showboating macho bullshit.
Unless we want leaders prepared to use it against a renegade Scout troup or something
Its basically a way of saying "look, we can end each other with a button, lets stick to proxy wars that way no real damage gets done to anyone that votes"
Its partly why so many countries are so keen on stopping everyone else getting nukes...
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
tridents sposed to be a preventative measure anyways, so those with evil nuclear intent know that there is a retaliation lurking around the ocean somewhere. C-byn wouldn't get consulted on the press because he'd have been nuked.
In fact...
Last I heard, standing orders on a strategic sub were: pop up every few days and see
a) whether you've been sent any orders; and
b) whether you can receive Radio 2; if it goes off air for a fortnight, assume the Home Country is glowing green glass and NUKE!!!
Obvious fail-proof retaliation strategy. No Prime Minister required.
Radio 4's Today programme surely?
Not since the Droitwich long-wave transmitter switched from Radio 4 to Radio 2. As I recall it.
Seems you were right and the switch was the other way around. No mention of the nuclear function at Droitwich Transmitting Station - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
It's still 4 that has the shipping forecast so makes sense to be that.
Be interesting to see how JC's statement of the only thing a sane person should ever say will go down. Pleased he said it.
Grudging respect from BBC political correspondent Ross Hawkins:
"choose not to be so frank" == "are lying cunts"
littlebabyjesus
one of Maxwell's demons
In some ways I hope people do run with the 'potential enemies who leave us alone cos we've got the bomb' line. Who are they exactly?
gosub
~#
no its if you can't hear open the letter. Otherwise Chris Evans ability to negotiate a payrise would be unparalleled
gosub
~#
d) If I told you I'd have to kill you. To maintain the mystique of deterrence. Nothing personal.
gosub
~#
the mystique of deterrence ...in an envelope, in a safe to be opened two weeks after radio contact is lost. Nope, (a-c)
Or helped to unhook her wheelchair from being jammed in the presentation desk. It helps if you have seen the television coverage of this event.
discokermit
Well-Known Member
thats the joke.
gimesumtruf
pedant fodder
Just drone the leaders with little nukes the plebs are not worth blowing up.
danny la rouge
More like *fanny* la rouge!
I don't know what you saw, but she's clearly being manhandled. Look at his eyes: he's up to no good; it's Marxist mischief he has planned by the looks of him, too.
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