DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

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Does ilx just not have a norway massarcre thread? Or am I being dense looking at sna?

I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:48 (twelve years ago) link

2011 Oslo/Utoeya Norway attacks

Gukbe, Monday, 25 July 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link

Cheers.

I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Monday, 25 July 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link

What an amazing old duffer:

A DISTINGUISHED barrister has called on Theresa May to ban “left-wing” marches in Piccadilly after damage to the Ritz at anti-cuts protests earlier this year.

John Beveridge QC (pictured) co-founder and chairman of amenity group the St James’s Conservation Trust, said such marches attracted “ragtag” protesters who “become violent and urinate all over the place”.

He added: “I have written to the Home Secretary, who has responded in the usual pusillanimous and ambiguous way, that these marches should be sent on routes that don’t take them past Fortnum and Mason and Cartier and the Ritz, that pass ordinary shops that won’t so inflame them. There’s no fun for them in attacking Safeway or Costcutter, but they love beating up the Ritz.

“The Home Secretary should have a bit more political guts and say that this type of march must be diverted elsewhere.”

http://www.westendextra.com/news/2011/jul/keep-activist-protests-away-ritz-says-john-beveridge-qc-common-sense-restrict-marches

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 06:33 (twelve years ago) link

ahem, safeway haven't existed in the UK for a decade or thereabouts?

i'm not a lawyer, but i play one on a messageboard (stevie), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:05 (twelve years ago) link

Think the 73 year-old barister might be a little out-of-touch.

James Mitchell, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 07:14 (twelve years ago) link

Personally I want my protesters to be urinating everywhere!

I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 08:56 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-14315442

Once Were Moderators (DG), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 19:37 (twelve years ago) link

can't wait for the next series of the thick of it:

Steve Hilton, David Cameron’s enigmatic strategy director, has startled colleagues by proposing the abolition of maternity leave and all consumer rights legislation, as part of an initiative to inject life into Britain’s sluggish economy.Mr Hilton’s crusade against employment legislation also saw him suggest that Mr Cameron just ignore European labour regulations on temporary workers, prompting an exasperated exchange with Jeremy Heywood, Downing Street’s permanent secretary.
“Steve asked why the PM had to obey the law,” said one Whitehall insider of a meeting in March to discuss the government’s growth strategy. “Jeremy had to explain that if David Cameron breaks the law he could be put in prison.”
Mr Hilton is highly admired by Mr Cameron for his original thinking, but the shaven-headed policy guru’s friends admit that three-quarters of his ideas fail to get off the drawing board – to the relief of colleagues.

even the FT raising an eyebrow there.

joe, Wednesday, 27 July 2011 21:54 (twelve years ago) link

but they love beating up the Ritz.

If you're blue and you don't know where to go to
Why don't you go where lefties have fits
Beating up the Ritz.

Keep shouting sir, we'll find you (DavidM), Wednesday, 27 July 2011 23:28 (twelve years ago) link

holy shit the thick of it best come back now

I am Louise Boat (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 28 July 2011 07:55 (twelve years ago) link

That Thick of It special must have been thrown off course so many times in the last 18 months or so. The level of rewriting going on must have been ridiculous.

Matt DC, Thursday, 28 July 2011 08:47 (twelve years ago) link

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2011/07/blue-labour-conservative-mood

These people are the most appalling cocks.

Matt DC, Friday, 29 July 2011 10:39 (twelve years ago) link

who? the SWP, Blu Labor or Mandy?

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link

i know what the answer is really :)

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Friday, 29 July 2011 10:41 (twelve years ago) link

'all of them' iirc

only bad dog on the street (history mayne), Friday, 29 July 2011 12:12 (twelve years ago) link

Conservative MP Jacob Rees-Mogg, who was at Oxford University at the same time as Mrs Mensch, insisted he had only ever witnessed her enjoying a "small glass of sherry".

MY WEEDS STRONG BLUD.mp3 (nakhchivan), Saturday, 30 July 2011 02:24 (twelve years ago) link

Presumably the stern, disapproving glare of Jacob Rees-Mogg's nanny ensured that she behaved appropriately when in his vicinity.

HIS BODY IS FAT BECAUSE HE HAVE BIG HEART (ShariVari), Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:26 (twelve years ago) link

class bigotry is a terrible thing so i take no pleasure in wanting to set Jacob Rees-Mogg's tweed suit on fire

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:28 (twelve years ago) link

"I saw her taking snuff occasionally but what's wrong with that?"

a more annuated ilx user (Ned Trifle II), Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:56 (twelve years ago) link

oh jacob she was never gonna share her coke with you ;_;

lex pretend, Saturday, 30 July 2011 07:59 (twelve years ago) link

tottenham appears to be burning

lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:01 (twelve years ago) link

needs more 'comedians' with pies.

Mark G, Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:06 (twelve years ago) link

i agree, they are needed, right in the middle of the flames

lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

all of them

lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:09 (twelve years ago) link

the guardian article on it is so (maybe understandably on account of haste &c) weirdly written and sorta funny? it has lots of parts that are like Some were sighted with a television and an electric guitar, and quotes some guy being all 'looks like this is going to get pretty tasty'

(oboe interlude) (schlump), Sunday, 7 August 2011 01:21 (twelve years ago) link

http://i.imgur.com/G95ym.jpg

http://www.flickr.com/photos/nicohogg

nakhchivan, Sunday, 7 August 2011 02:50 (twelve years ago) link

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0689dhH0un55L/x610.jpg

caek, Sunday, 7 August 2011 03:55 (twelve years ago) link

http://cache.daylife.com/imageserve/0dAI3PGgaa10N/610x.jpg

caek, Sunday, 7 August 2011 03:56 (twelve years ago) link

RIP Wood Green Shopping City.

James Mitchell, Sunday, 7 August 2011 05:23 (twelve years ago) link

80s revival complete then.

Meanwhile:

A government minister has claimed that opposition to proposed planning law reforms is driven by "left-wingers" within pressure groups "picking a fight with the Government".

Organisations like the National Trust and the Council for the Protection of Rural England (CPRE) have spoken out against the planned changes.

The National Trust has signalled its "grave concerns" over the planning reforms, warning that the proposed changes "could lead to unchecked and damaging development in the undesignated countryside on a scale not seen since the 1930s".

And the CPRE has warned that the planning system is "under attack from the Government's planning reforms", which would lead to the protection of precious countryside being "seriously weakened". The reforms are designed to streamline the rules surrounding new developments, cutting the current 1,300 pages of national planning policy to just 52. Councils will be told there should be a "presumption for development".

The CPRE has warned that the changes represent "the biggest shake-up of planning for over 50 years" and will "place the countryside under increasing threat and leave local communities and planning authorities largely powerless in the face of developer pressure".

Asked about opposition to the changes, planning minister Bob Neill told the Daily Telegraph: "This is a carefully choreographed smear campaign by left-wingers based within the national headquarters of pressure groups. This is more about a small number of interest groups trying to justify their own existence, going out of their way by picking a fight with Government."

First that one dude wants to abolish maternity rights, now this guy thinks the National Trust are Marxist insurgents. Shaping up to be one of the great Tory governments.

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:19 (twelve years ago) link

lol Nick Cohen

James Mitchell, Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:41 (twelve years ago) link

haha yeah

caek, Sunday, 7 August 2011 07:55 (twelve years ago) link

events dear boy, events

Neil S, Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:18 (twelve years ago) link

lol poor nick cohen, i kind of feel for him (but not that much cuz it was a dumb argument to be making in the first place)

lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link

like, nothing about this should remotely come as a surprise.

lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link

not sure this riot is about the_recession tbf

sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:28 (twelve years ago) link

obvi i can see laurie penny or paul mason saying it is...

sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:31 (twelve years ago) link

not sure this riot is about the_recession tbf

think we can file this one under broken britain

(oboe interlude) (schlump), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:32 (twelve years ago) link

p interested in the backstory about the incident in which the guy got shot; like potentially another roaring PR success for the police?

(oboe interlude) (schlump), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link

people are out there fighting to bring about a new socio-political order and you're here quibbling. for shame.

i'm sorry for whatever (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:33 (twelve years ago) link

i still don't know what it's ~about~, i wasn't there and there seems to be a lot of...agenda projection going on. but it's not a surprise that kids who don't have much, and who don't have much to do, both of which have been exacerbated of late, and who have been seeing rioting and/or protesting become a possible action, an option to vent their anger (whatever this anger is actually based on), will do this.

lex pretend, Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:36 (twelve years ago) link

I'm not shedding too many tears for owners of e.g. PC World, but then on the other hand having your already poverty-stricken neighbourhood trashed by looting doesn't sound much fun. All the predictable Twitter schadenfreude is pretty disgusting too.

Neil S, Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:38 (twelve years ago) link

I'm watching the news right now and the BBC just finished interviewing an excellent youth worker called Symon who pointed out the difference between 'remembering long-ago events' eg Broadwater Farm and the 'collective memory' experienced by the locals. He also explained it all kicked off when a 16-year-old girl got truncheoned by the cops at the vigil held by the dead man's family, which media are trying to bump back to 'rumours'.

Also SMH at the media's use of the term 'community leader' as I've never, ever known it to be applied to a white person.

murdoch most foul (suzy), Sunday, 7 August 2011 09:40 (twelve years ago) link

Recessions in popular memory mean 3 million or more out of work. Britain's unemployment figures have remained low.

ok this is a pretty fuckin' weird statement from cohen. official unemployment is about two and a half million. that's not low, it's scandalous, probably the biggest standing condemnation of british policy-makers and business elite going.

sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Sunday, 7 August 2011 10:08 (twelve years ago) link

Can't believe Nick Cohen would write fatuous bullshit....

Matt DC, Sunday, 7 August 2011 10:40 (twelve years ago) link

At Wood Green now. Targets were carefully selected for economic value - phones, cosmetics, etc. One exception was Brook Brothers employment agency which had its windows smashed in. Not sure what significance that may have.

Slice Me Nice (ShariVari), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:05 (twelve years ago) link

what dyou mean? by any of that?

sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:08 (twelve years ago) link

(they 'carefully selected' a shop beneath where one of my fbook friends lives; she was evacuated and the street is still off-limits.)

sarahel hath no fury (history mayne), Sunday, 7 August 2011 11:16 (twelve years ago) link


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