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  1. BBC Breaking News ‏@BBCBreaking 6m6 minutes ago Shadow education secretary @PatGlassMP resigns, days after being appointed. Follow @BBCPolitics for latest http://bbc.in/29o8WcI
  2. Pat Glass resigns two days after being appointed shadow education secretary What a bunch of shits the Labour party now is Have given the Tories a free pass over putting the country in dire straits The tories could have been toxic for a generation if they had played this right
  3. Per twitter a senior Turkish official says that there are around 50 dead
  4. We are not going to leave the EU regardless of all thats happened Peter Hitchens was right many months ago that it was all horseshit Merkel is giving the UK space for it to change its mind Blundering Boris is now mellowing and realises he has been a dick We have already had suggestions that Parliament might ignore the referendum being quashed but now we are getting Jeremy Hunt saying we should renegotiate and have another referendum or renegotiate then have another general election This Tory coup has caused some amount of carnage throughout Europe though with £ billions lost - not to mention how it's going to affect our food prices , pensions and public services
  5. http://www.thedailymash.co.uk/sport/sport-headlines/scotland-dies-laughing-20071121549
  6. Doubled Italia with England -2 Dick
  7. Spain and the likes of Belgium look great against teams that are not expert in the art of defence Im not talking about Craig Levein's type - The real type Only time the Italians look ordinary is when they play against a defensive minded team Forza Azzurri
  8. BBC Breaking News ‏@BBCBreaking 9s9 seconds ago Deputy Labour leader Tom Watson tells Jeremy Corbyn to resign, after spate of UK shadow cabinet resignations
  9. Reports that Tom Watson is going to advise him to chuck it There are Lords "resigning" as well seemingly lol I predict he wont be in charge by the time Iceland kick off against England sadly
  10. Maybe when the arse falls out of the markets as well as sterling tomorrow the MSM will focus less on Jeremy Corbyn .........unless they can find an angle to blame him for it obviously
  11. Chris Bryant gone now too Where's Boris ? Where's Michael ? Where's Davey ? Where's Gideon ? Oh look - theres a Corbyn squirrel
  12. http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/eu-referendum-racism_uk_576fe161e4b08d2c56396075
  13. Scotland needs to get away from this English madness quickstyle We are in real fooking bother and the MSM are only concerned about Jeremy Corbyn and Labour There are calls from some to let Boris have an uncontested leadership election (like Michael Howard had) in 2003 so he can be in charge by the end of next week The next few days and weeks are going to be in turmoil and it is going to kick off somewhere The racism in England since the vote is shocking. The NF and BNP clearly think that they have been given a mandate
  14. Say what you like about Nick Clegg - but he wrote this on Wednesday https://inews.co.uk/opinion/comment/will-wake-vote-leave/
  15. Had France -1 Hope they win shit all the useless turds
  16. Looks as though they (with the aid of the MSM) are going to hound him out
  17. http://www.michaelshermer.com/2003/05/show-me-the-body/ Published 2003 Purported sightings of Bigfoot, Nessie and Ogopogo fire our imaginations. But anecdotes alone do not make a science The world lost the creators of two of its most celebrated biohoaxes recently: Douglas Herrick, father of the risibly ridiculous jackalope (half jackrabbit, half antelope), and Ray L. Wallace, paternal guardian of the less absurd Bigfoot. The jackalope enjoins laughter in response to such peripheral hokum as hunting licenses sold only to those whose IQs range between 50 and 72, bottles of the rare but rich jackalope milk, and additional evolutionary hybrids such as the jackapanda. Bigfoot, on the other hand, while occasionally eliciting an acerbic snicker, enjoys greater plausibility for a simple evolutionary reason: large hirsute apes currently roam the forests of Africa, and at least one species of a giant ape — Gigantopithecus — flourished some hundreds of thousands of years ago alongside our ancestors. Is it possible that a real Bigfoot lives despite the posthumous confession by the Wallace family that it was just a practical joke? Certainly. After all, although Bigfoot proponents do not dispute the Wallace hoax, they correctly note that tales of the giant Yeti living in the Himalayas and Native American lore about Sasquatch wandering around the Pacific Northwest emerged long before Wallace pulled his prank in 1958. In point of fact, throughout much of the 20th century it was entirely reasonable to speculate about and search for Bigfoot, as it was for the creatures of Loch Ness, Lake Champlain and Lake Okanagan (Scotland’s Nessie, the northeastern U.S.’s Champ and British Columbia’s Ogopogo, respectively). Science traffics in the soluble, so for a time these other chimeras warranted our limited exploratory resources. Why don’t they now? The study of animals whose existence has yet to be proved is known as cryptozoology, a term coined in the late 1950s by Belgian zoologist Bernard Heuvelmans. Cryptids, or “hidden animals,” begin life as blurry photographs, grainy videos and countless stories about strange things that go bump in the night. Cryptids come in many forms, including the aforementioned giant pongid and lake monsters, as well as sea serpents, giant octopuses, snakes, birds and even living dinosaurs. The reason cryptids merit our attention is that enough successful discoveries have been made by scientists based on local anecdotes and folklore that we cannot dismiss all claims a priori. The most famous examples include the gorilla in 1847 (andthe mountain gorilla in 1902), the giant panda in 1869, the okapi (a short-necked relative of the giraffe) in 1901, the Komodo dragon in 1912, the bonobo (or pygmy chimpanzee) in 1929, the megamouth shark in 1976 and the giant gecko in 1984. Cryptozoologists are especially proud of the catch in 1938 of a coelacanth, an archaic-looking species of fish that had been thought to have gone extinct in the Cretaceous. Although discoveries of previously unrecorded species of bugs and bacteria are routinely published in the annals of biology, these instances are startling because of their recency, size, and similarity to cryptid cousins Bigfoot, Nessie, et al. They also have in common — a body! In order to name a new species, one must have a type specimen — a holotype — from which a detailed description can be made, photographs taken, models cast and a professional scientific analysis prepared. If such cryptids still survived in the hinterlands of North America and Asia, surely by now one would have turned up. So far all we have are the accounts. Anecdotes are a good place to begin an investigation — which by themselves cannot verify a new species. In fact, in the words of social scientist Frank J. Sulloway of the University of California at Berkeley—words that should be elevated to a maxim: “Anecdotes do not make a science. Ten anecdotes are no better than one, and a hundred anecdotes are no better than ten.” I employ Sulloway’s maxim every time I encounter Bigfoot hunters and Nessie seekers. Their tales make for gripping narratives, but they do not make sound science. A century has been spent searching for these chimerical creatures. Until a body is produced, skepticism is the appropriate response.
  18. Rejoining the EU is going to be a very tetchy argument particularly with the economies of Greece, Italy, Spain and France just about bust A bit of non propaganda from Max
  19. There is absolutely no chance of a second referendum It seems those on the remain side are going through the stages of grief - a second referendum being denial There is a possibility that Parliament may overrule the referendum result but if they do they would have to hold another general election where parties can stand on implementing the referendum result or not Anything else could cause massive public unrest
  20. This is what i imagine Sturgeon will be talking to EU nobs about rather than Scotland (and NI) continuing EU membership whilst England and Wales leaves Id guess she will ask for them to make some positive public clarification if a 2nd indyref takes place rather than the obtuse cack that happened the last time
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