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Presumably there'a a tactical advantage in your troops being injury averse 🤷‍♂️ Same reason humans feel pain presumably.

They did get a little scene in The Pilot at least, that was nice

I did always love that the Movellans were clearly deliberately cast to be extremely ethnically diverse. Considering it was the late-70s and pretty much everyone else on the programme was white, it really stands out.

Hell, one of them was even deaf (the actor rather than the character, but still)

To be fair, the Cybermen aren't robots, they're cyborgs (i.e. part human, part machine)

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Of course he does.

Cancel every single government contract.

Personally, I can't wait to see what happens when the US has to operate in a world where they can't just print infinite dollars without hyperinflation.

In fairness, Biden took over mid-Covid and his "jobs created" is boosted by the economy opening back up.

But yeah, this clownshow has slammed the US economy into a wall, it's only the AI bubble keeping the numbers ticking upwards.

Once that pops the US is generationally fucked.

Well, sure. The media needs better regulating.

Who's job is it to write the regulations again?

It would literally have been my first action in as PM. Like, day one, rip their fucking nuts off with more to come.

And trans rights, on which they are well to the right of Theresa May.

Ooh yeah, my grandmother died recently and left my uncle Keith as the executor of her will.

Which was fun, because according to his birth certificate and ID his name is William, and it took weeks to gather the evidence to convince the solicitor he'd been going by Keith for sixty years.

Hilarious nonsense troll page. Goodbye.

Oh certainly you have to give him a free pass! It's also probably the original reason so many 70s fans have that impression of him as stern and grumpy (and older than he was).

I never quite figured out why it's apparently fine to recast him but nobody else. Madness.

We won't. I'd bet a grand on it right now.

It was tried in the 80s to oust the socialists. It's now needed to oust the Tories.

What this country desperately needs, more than anything else, is the feeling that people's votes fucking do anything.

We need devolution, PR, federalism, local candidates. Bin off the posh boys with briefcases.

I've just finished another rewatch of Hartnell, and it's unrecognisable from any of the later portrayals (and I include Hartnell's own in the Three Doctors).

My theory is that everyone has just seen Unearthly Child 300 times and everything else only once or twice.

I think it's incredibly naïve to assume Mandelson and McSweeney are the only reason the Labour Party are Like That, or that that element is now either gone nor out of control.

The worst mistake of the Corbyn era was to back down on mandatory reselection. PLP desperately needs a clear out.

Honestly? I think Ed Milliband could do well if he wasn't surrounded with the same advisors as the self-proclaimed "Sensibles" like last time.

There is not a force on this earth that will convince me the EdStone and the anti-immigration mugs were his idea.

I cannot even remotely take anyone seriously who excludes bartenders, baristas & shelfstackers who live in rented houseshares from their definition of "working class" but are happy to include folk who own a string of BTL properties, based almost entirely on whether or not they're racist/transphobic

Yes! For some reason Hartnell is always portrayed as being grumpy these days (by Moffat in particular for some reason), but he's clearly having a great time and spends his whole run giggling to himself.

Oh certainly, it would now read as deeply disingenuous.

But if they'd just done that from the off instead of the McSweeneyite "go after the poor, the disabled, the immigrants and trans people" shite, they'd not be staring down the barrel of oblivion after 18 months.

Not least because loads of working class peoples' livelihoods fucking depends on there being a university full of students from around the world being on their doorstep.

I am so fucking sick of this country pretending the only people allowed to be 'working class' have a minimum age of 55.

No. Labour have fucked this. They are owed nothing, and they have listened to nobody.

That is why the country is currently the way it is.

They had a generational opportunity, and they decided to waste it because of Starmer and McSweeney's adherence to the same billionaires as the last lot.

I have a northern accent. Labour is attempting to appeal to anti-immigrant, anti-trans people to the exclusion of everyone else.

Precisely which one of these things are you taking an issue with?

You did not answer the question; who do you class as "working class" if not people on mininum wage?

That would literally win them the 2029 election, but these cunts only want the votes of roundabout painters.

Would you care to elaborate? Because as written, that is nonsense.

What's your definition of 'working class'?

Logically it's "folk who work for minimum wage & rent a room in a shared house", but the UK seems to think those are elites.

So, "Comfortably retired people with a string of BTL properties, a holiday home in Spain, bigoted opinions and a northern accent"?

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Yeah, funny that.

www.politico.eu/article/kama...

This precisely. It's also why they won't touch PR. Literally all they have is "we suck up everything left of the Lib Dems, so if we keep moving to the right we'll increase our vote share".

It no longer works since they told those people to fuck off over the last few years, but it's all they know.

Oh yeah, it was immediately obvious that Corbyn pronounced it that way entirely because *he has seen his name written down way more often than he has heard it out loud*, and not for any other reason.

Corbyn is so obviously a "I think we have a tv, it's somewhere behind that stack of books" guy.