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Even in this country there is a long history of the army being sent in to respond to similar situations, and it very rarely ends well. The police have many faults as well, but barring an all out fascist insurgency all efforts should be made to keep the army off the streets.

This is symptomatic of the whole problem. The right is desperate to jump on examples like Venezuela despite there being very little relevance given the difference between their and our economies, and at the same time refuses to engage with the fact that their favourite economic metaphor is built on a total lie.

Lazy, tired and inaccurate analogy. Labour's spending plans would restrict day to day spending to current levels and the big investments would be in infrastructure, which is clearly in need of it and has been shown to generate more money than is ploughed into it. Even the relentlessly low-spend, anti-government Republicans in the US are preparing an infrastructure bill which would see trillions spent on new schemes.

^ What he said. I'm hoping that the next few years sees more areas being able to take TfL and ScotRail's lead and run services regionally. I've heard nothing but good things about the London Overground, would be interested to hear what our resident Scot's take is on the situation up there.

You know full well that investigations like this take years. The evidence that has already emerged is pretty damning - I daresay that if it were Clinton in the same position, you wouldn't be so desperate to wait until it's all finished.

Not that your lovely stereotyping really merits a response, but to build on the earlier point about private tenants - Labour did a lot better in 2017 among socially liberal middle class voters, who didn't mind Cameron too much but thought May was presiding over a nasty government of Little Englanders. 1950.

What on earth does ISIS have to do with it?

Displaying an impressive lack of knowledge of America's economic and cultural geography, there.

Oprah has confirmed she won't be running and the world and his wife know that Harris probably will be. I don't need to search inside Trump's anal cavity to find a mediocre TV personality to tell me false / obvious information.

They're government studies written presumably by civil servants...

We've got too many one-dimensional strikers already, I'm not convinced he'd be much more useful to us than Chicharito has been. Great player, but needs teammates buzzing around the box and creating chances for him which we won't do consistently even against weaker teams. We've been linked with a few including Smolov from Russia and Graziano Pelle as a Sakho/Carroll replacement. Assuming that Arnautovic will continue to play up top when he's fit, he's been very good the last few months.

Yeah definitely, objectively speaking it's a good buy but it does seem to be a face saving exercise as much as anything else. Diafra Sakho joins the long list of strikers having left West Ham in disappointing circumstances. He did score more than about the last 30 combined.

Can't help but think that Aubameyang would be a curious one for Arsenal. They've spent £60m on Lacazette, who has done well if not amazingly, and Giroud is an excellent Plan B. Aubameyang is better than either, but he's also notoriously disloyal and won't want to play wide. They need a direct winger really, which is why the rumours of Lucas Moura and Malcom made so much sense.

The Democrats are basically the former with the voter base of the latter. As for the article - it's a very odd conclusion to make. Given the salience of immigration during the referendum and the extreme rhetoric that was being peddled, and given that the fallout from the result has dominated the news cycle ever since, it would be perfectly reasonable to assume that people were thinking about it more.

You seem to be thinking of the US definition/understanding of 'liberal' as in anyone even slightly left of centre. Not the same at all as what is usually meant by the term in the UK.

It's come out today that Trump tried to get special prosecutor Robert Mueller fired last June, but his counsel refused and threatened to resign rather than carry out the order. Not suspicious at all...

That's because they're not funny.

If you don't engage with other people's arguments, why do you expect us to engage with yours?

Are you denying that it's a reality of our society?

As has been pointed out before, the result has been superseded. Whatever makes you feel better, though...

Because that's not how structural discrimination works. Structural discrimination is white people being proportionately better represented in politics than non-white people. Steps to rectify this are positive discrimination. Any attempt to make it worse would be racism.

That's because it's a load of balls.

Interesting how you're suddenly concerned about anti-discrimination laws as soon as you think white people might have been discriminated against.

Well I for one am shocked.

Arguably, yes. It would still be absurd.