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Post by rcronald on Jun 18, 2024 13:31:19 GMT
Labour is very different from the Democratic Party, and the GOP is very different from the Tories.
Both Dems and Reps are culture war obsessed, while Labour and the Tories at least pretend to focus on the economic well being of voters…
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Post by right on Jun 18, 2024 13:35:38 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2024 14:05:24 GMT
Rotherham = Mahoning County, Ohio
Rother Valley = Trumbull County, Ohio
Hope that helps.
Understand US politics and you understand more than most people here.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2024 14:51:41 GMT
Seriously give it up already
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Post by Defenestrated Fipplebox on Jun 18, 2024 17:02:52 GMT
Seriously give it up already He can't he's welded to the idea. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2024 17:17:35 GMT
Seriously give it up already I've made the point, but this is the only part of the UK that you can legitimately call 'rust belt' because of the steel industry, along with Scunthorpe and Aberavon. |
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Post by rcronald on Jun 18, 2024 17:28:41 GMT
Seriously give it up already I've made the point, but this is the only part of the UK that you can legitimately call 'rust belt' because of the steel industry, along with Scunthorpe and Aberavon. Most of the American Rustbelt didn’t have any steel industry. The rust refers to the abandoned factories that eventually turned rusty and general decay, rather than any actual presence of the steel industry. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jun 18, 2024 17:30:03 GMT
Seriously give it up already I've made the point, but this is the only part of the UK that you can legitimately call 'rust belt' because of the steel industry, along with Scunthorpe and Aberavon. Ravenscraig says helluw (in a Motherwell accent). |
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Post by John Chanin on Jun 18, 2024 17:41:44 GMT
I really can't believe there are 7 pages on Rotherham, when there are probably several hundred more interesting seats.
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Post by stb12 on Jun 18, 2024 18:03:53 GMT
I really can't believe there are 7 pages on Rotherham, when there are probably several hundred more interesting seats. The Tories failing to field a candidate was always going to be fairly notable but I certainly never expected 7 pages already… |
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Post by greenhert on Jun 18, 2024 20:40:14 GMT
I've made the point, but this is the only part of the UK that you can legitimately call 'rust belt' because of the steel industry, along with Scunthorpe and Aberavon. Most of the American Rustbelt didn’t have any steel industry. The rust refers to the abandoned factories that eventually turned rusty and general decay, rather than any actual presence of the steel industry. Our equivalent is more the Black Country boroughs anyway. |
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Post by Devil Wincarnate on Jun 18, 2024 20:49:52 GMT
Parallels with the Rust Belt in the UK make little sense.
Unless you can also find a Sun Belt, an Empty Diagonal, a Blue Banana, a White Sausage Equator, a Rösti Ditch, a Barassi Line, a Whisky Belt....
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Post by J.G.Harston on Jun 18, 2024 21:06:25 GMT
Parallels with the Rust Belt in the UK make little sense. Unless you can also find a Sun Belt, an Empty Diagonal, a Blue Banana, a White Sausage Equator, a Rösti Ditch, a Barassi Line, a Whisky Belt.... Careful, or you'll be in Nidd. |
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Post by johnloony on Jun 18, 2024 21:07:25 GMT
Parallels with the Rust Belt in the UK make little sense. Unless you can also find a Sun Belt, an Empty Diagonal, a Blue Banana, a White Sausage Equator, a Rösti Ditch, a Barassi Line, a Whisky Belt.... Careful, or you'll be in Nidd. Equestrian Cement! |
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Post by carlton43 on Jun 18, 2024 22:23:13 GMT
I've made the point, but this is the only part of the UK that you can legitimately call 'rust belt' because of the steel industry, along with Scunthorpe and Aberavon. Ravenscraig says helluw (in a Motherwell accent). And Sunderland, Middlesbrough, Redcar, Skinningrove and a lot more of South Wales with Sheerness/Medway, Dagenham, Birmingham/Black Country and other places. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 18, 2024 22:43:34 GMT
Parallels with the Rust Belt in the UK make little sense. Unless you can also find a Sun BeltGibraltar. |
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Post by markgoodair on Jun 19, 2024 2:25:05 GMT
Parallels with the Rust Belt in the UK make little sense. Unless you can also find a Sun BeltGibraltar. Isn’t voting in this election so what exactly is your point? |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 19, 2024 2:55:14 GMT
Isn’t voting in this election so what exactly is your point? Nice weather? I don't fucking know. |
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Post by gwynthegriff on Jun 19, 2024 11:09:45 GMT
Isn’t voting in this election so what exactly is your point? Nice weather? I don't fucking know. "Liked" for the second sentence. Which confirms a widely-held suspicion. |
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Post by Clark on Jun 19, 2024 11:22:02 GMT
I really can't believe there are 7 pages on Rotherham, when there are probably several hundred more interesting seats. Totally agree. Quite often on threads, conversations go off on a tangent between 2 or several people, all of which has very little to do with the topic of the thread and therefore should be deleted. Moderation on forums like this can be challenging though so I suspect these will unfortunately continue. |
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