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    Missed that. Thanks. I'd be surprised if it happened. Wouldn't the supermarkets be exempt?

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      Would gold merchants be exempt?

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        "Hey everyone! Look at the pubs being open! Look at your free vouchers! DON'T LOOK OVER THERE! Look over here!"

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          Mind-boggling thread of penny dropping from the Leave Alliance HQ.

          "One could very easily conclude that the Tories simply haven't the first idea what they're doing, and haven't even begun to understand the dynamics or the complexity of trade. I've been watching closely for any sign of intelligent life but the trade minister is Liz Truss."

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            Obvious from the get go and beyond frustrating they're never called out on it.

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              Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
              "Hey everyone! Look at the pubs being open! Look at your free vouchers! DON'T LOOK OVER THERE! Look over here!"
              So long as they (the Proles) continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern...Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbors, films, football, beer and above all, gambling filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult.

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                Liz Truss's advisers to the Board of Trade include Andrew Mills.
                Andrew Mills is a Senior Board Adviser for Ayanda Capital Limited.
                Ayanda Capital's business lines include asset management, private trading and private equity.
                The Government paid Ayanda Capital Limited a quarter of a billion pounds.
                What for?

                To provide PPE.

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                  @Cassius_Smoke, I had been looking for the quote about controlling the population with alcohol all weekend, even searching a pdf of 1984, because it's becoming so true, but worried the quotes were false, like those Samuel Peyps ones.

                  It's true. Here's the full passage:

                  "The Party claimed, of course, to have liberated the proles from bondage. Before the Revolution they had been hideously oppressed by the capitalists, they had been starved and flogged, women had been forced to work in the coal mines (women still did work in the coal mines, as a matter of fact), children had been sold into the factories at the age of six. But simultaneously, true to the Principles of doublethink, the Party taught that the proles were natural inferiors who must be kept in subjection, like animals, by the application of a few simple rules. In reality very little was known about the proles.

                  It was not necessary to know much. So long as they continued to work and breed, their other activities were without importance. Left to themselves, like cattle turned loose upon the plains of Argentina, they had reverted to a style of life that appeared to be natural to them, a sort of ancestral pattern. They were born, they grew up in the gutters, they went to work at twelve, they passed through a brief blossoming-period of beauty and sexual desire, they married at twenty, they were middle-aged at thirty, they died, for the most part, at sixty.

                  Heavy physical work, the care of home and children, petty quarrels with neighbours, films, football, beer, and above all, gambling, filled up the horizon of their minds. To keep them in control was not difficult. A few agents of the Thought Police moved always among them, spreading false rumours and marking down and eliminating the few individuals who were judged capable of becoming dangerous; but no attempt was made to indoctrinate them with the ideology of the Party."

                  A documentary on iPlayer I've been recommended:
                  Welcome to the post-truth world. You know it’s not real. But you accept it as normal.

                  "HyperNormalisationAdam Curtis
                  Our world is strange and often fake and corrupt. But we think it’s normal because we can’t see anything else. HyperNormalisation - the story of how we got here."
                  Last edited by QualityChimp; 06-07-2020, 09:27.

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                    This is not unrelated to the BLM protests. Why now during a pandemic when it really wasn’t safe? Because for lots of people the endless chore of work, going out at the weekends and lots of other daily life diversions had gone. It was a chance to wake up. If they don’t get everyone back at work and keep throwing distractions at them, it wouldn’t end at BLM. Not by a long shot.

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                      Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
                      Mind-boggling thread of penny dropping from the Leave Alliance HQ.

                      "One could very easily conclude that the Tories simply haven't the first idea what they're doing, and haven't even begun to understand the dynamics or the complexity of trade. I've been watching closely for any sign of intelligent life but the trade minister is Liz Truss."

                      This was blindingly obvious four years ago.

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                        Originally posted by QualityChimp View Post
                        Mind-boggling thread of penny dropping from the Leave Alliance HQ.

                        "One could very easily conclude that the Tories simply haven't the first idea what they're doing, and haven't even begun to understand the dynamics or the complexity of trade. I've been watching closely for any sign of intelligent life but the trade minister is Liz Truss."
                        I'm just reminded of this every time I see that name:

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                          Originally posted by Colin View Post
                          People have started to regularly ask me when collecting their beer if I’ll be reopening the shop fully soon. That’ll be a solid no.
                          What shop do you run now, Colin?

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                            Originally posted by Dogg Thang View Post
                            This is not unrelated to the BLM protests. Why now during a pandemic when it really wasn’t safe? Because for lots of people the endless chore of work, going out at the weekends and lots of other daily life diversions had gone. It was a chance to wake up. If they don’t get everyone back at work and keep throwing distractions at them, it wouldn’t end at BLM. Not by a long shot.
                            1000%. Time at home gives people time to think. Thinking is dangerous.

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                              Will love to know the outcome, used to work pretty much next door to Boohoo and with several ex-staffers. The bosses know precisely what they've been doing and are freaking they're busted.

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                                Originally posted by Neon Ignition View Post
                                https://www.theguardian.com/business...tions-covid-19
                                Will love to know the outcome, used to work pretty much next door to Boohoo and with several ex-staffers. The bosses know precisely what they've been doing and are freaking they're busted.
                                So reading between the lines, Boohoo doesn't seem to know where it's clothes are coming from.

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