Psychoactive Substances: Rolling UK Politics in The Neo-Con Era

That was a hell of an article

His seat, or his cabinet position? I WANT THE FULL SCALP. xp

Stevie, find a friendly newspaper and sell that story.

Sort of more proof that people join the Tories because they're horrible people and the Tories fight the corner of horrible people

^^Clarke did in fact oppose Sadiq Khan in Tooting, so if this is how he was behaving under those circs....

Suzy, I remember it too vaguely and worry too much that my mate might get in trouble! I seem to remember Clarke saying some racist shit about Khan that night too though.

Fuckin' Tories in Tooting... the 21st Century is a weird weird place...

Shapps hasn't quite resigned yet, it seems.

never forget "Michael Green" http://www.theguardian.com/politics/shortcuts/2015/mar/16/grant-shapps-business-mp-conservative-chairman-michael-green

not sorry to see Shapps go but the angle that this letter from Lady Warsi contradicts his claim that he had not received any complaints about Clarke's alleged bullying and abuse seems sort of odd to me, what Warsi is complaining about in the letter seems pretty significantly different than the other shit Clarke was apparently getting up to?

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/nov/27/lady-warsi-letter-warning-tory-party-chair-grant-shapps-of-bullying-by-aide

A thought occurred to me, a week or so too late. Which of these men is Grant Shapps, and which is Robert Webb?

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02319/sch_2319637b.jpg https://i.guim.co.uk/img/static/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2010/7/8/1278599731310/robert-webb-006.jpg?w=620&q=85&auto=format&sharp=10&s=e28f0acae34e7f70f3c3b5389daec359

trick question!

It must have been a very strange experience to be part of that young conservative campaign group. My little meltdown upthread about how one could imagine people being bigoted against benefits claimants was ... one thing, l'm only mentioning it again by contrast to how difficult it is to imagine being a late teen/early 20s person and being fully if naively invested in the Conservative Party (as opposed to conservative ideas) in 2015.

Reading this story now and this detail on YBF is just:

In 2003 Blaney founded the Young Britons’ Foundation, a conservative training, education and research thinktank established to “help train tomorrow centre-right leaders and activists today”. YBF is proudly cross-party. Its executive director, Matthew Richardson, is also the party secretary of Ukip. Blaney has called YBF “a madrasa” that radicalises rightwing conservatives and embraces American-style “attack-dog” politics. YBF claims to have trained thousands of activists, taking them on trips to America where they met neo-conservative groups and visited a shooting range in Virginia to fire submachine guns and assault rifles.

Found the references to the "right wing movement" fairly chilling tbh.

yeah I was wondering "what kind of people would want to be a Young Tory?" but after that bit it struck me "aha that kind of people"

Logically, national security agencies like the MI5 should be monitoring extremists like this.

The pedantic apostrophe in Britons' is the scariest bit. These people will kill

wut

Imago is a writer - every comma matters.

List of murders committed by the Writers' Guild

It must have been a very strange experience to be part of that young conservative campaign group. My little meltdown upthread about how one could imagine people being bigoted against benefits claimants was ... one thing, l'm only mentioning it again by contrast to how difficult it is to imagine being a late teen/early 20s person and being fully if naively invested in the Conservative Party (as opposed to conservative ideas) in 2015.

― cardamon, Sunday, November 29, 2015 12:09 AM (16 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

is it, though

They all seem like awful, awful people, but there are a lot of awful people about, and maybe who am I to judge?

(xp) Indeed.

Even when London becomes annexed by the North Sea, there will still be young tory twats. There wasn't some magic 2015 enlightenment where people could no longer be inured to the shittiness of our current government.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CVAu-zqWIAEW_99.jpg

"I'm not having that."

That's bang out of order.

my own citizens

are those the leadership qualities we're told corbyn lacks

"I'll do time," Cameron said.

I'm going to fucking do him.

David Davis wading in - "leeeave it, he ain't worth it".

What I've seen of Corbyn on Marr yesterday was clear with no intention of going anywhere. A lot of Blairites saying Corbyn isn't even attempting to convince but how can you do that when the shadow Cabinet are talking to the press (lol shadow cabinet sources) like there is no tomorrow?

"I'm not having that."

(xp) I bet he had his shirt sleeves rolled up when he said all that.

They have their shirt sleeves rolled up all the time now. That's Major's legacy.

Not at all, Cameron had to be schooled in the rolling up of the shirt sleeves during the election campaign.

yeah, and now it's 'now'.

Training briefly abandoned after he rolled a cigarette up into the sleeves and stuck a pack behind his ear.

"with brimstone, decapitation raids are more likely to be authorised"

aside from stray use of the word decapitation in a story about bombing a terrorist group who decapitate people, can anyone decipher what this means? with this fancy tool we will allow ourselves to... do "decapitation raids"??

protect ya neck

"these Isis geezers really do me 'ead in" Cameron told aides

Looks like Corbyn's offering a free vote on Syria. Be interesting to see how many of the MPs voting in favour also abstained on the welfare cap for reasons of 'party unity'.

also keen to see how many voting for bombs are willing to give a number on how many refugees they'd welcome as a theoretical result

Almost certainly going to get air-strikes now. Corbyn wants a two-day debate so he is not exactly afraid of amplifying disagreements.

— George Eaton (@georgeeaton)
November 30, 2015

Shadow cabinet member told me that free vote would leave Labour "unfit for government".

Why doesn't this Shadow Cabinet member resign?

@TristramHuntMP
Beyond excited that #StokeOnTrent is finally going to get a @PizzaExpress

At this point I just want Corbyn to put himself out of his misery, watch them elect some ultra-Blairite cunt because they're the only ones allowed on the ballot, and then sit back and watch them lose anyway.

Milne will shoot 'em down Matt don't worry just give him time.

i've said from day one the most important thing Corbyn can do is take the party away from the hands of these vermin rather than worry about the next election, maybe this is part of his strategy to offer them enough rope

otm, mostly important to re-orient Labour and its a long-term project (so equally important that Corbyn stays for as long as poss).

What we are seeing is a major party in anti-imperialist mode. That's significant.