This Just In: Rolling UK News Thread

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even his t-shirt wants to punch him in the face

it's fun to sometimes pretend that an actual left-wing exists

wistful truth bomb

well I didn't make it cuz my sleep is a disaster but I suppose that saved me from getting arrested - Met Police have extended the timeframe of the BNP march but NOT the timeframe for demonstrating against it, so cue a flurry of section 14 arrests.

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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/473597/20130601/bnp-edl-hate-fascist-badgers.htm

Young women dressed in fake fur were seen chasing doughty nationalist supporters down London's Whitehall as a large number of security forces in iridescent jackets looked on from police lines.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2334483/No-10-rocked-secret-love-affair-Stunned-PM-holds-crisis-talks-fears-tryst-blow-political-agenda-water.html?ico=home^headlines

David Cameron has held crisis talks at Downing Street after being told of allegations of a sensational love affair which has potentially significant political implications for him.

This revelation is dynamite. None of us could believe it when we first heard it. Then we just thought, “What a complete mess”.’
The source added that, apart from the political implications, the revelation had caused ‘great personal distress to innocent parties’.
It is understood that the Prime Minister was told of the relationship - which does not involve anyone serving in the Cabinet - within the past few weeks.

I know it's the Mail and all, but I'm just wondering who it could be? Royals? Cable? Boris?

argh, part of that quote missing, but ya get the gist.

In unrelated news, typing in "rebekah brooks and" into google search bar breaks superinjuction, wonder who will serve a writ on the search enjin?

I'm not sure there is a superinjunction out on this one. If there were, a newspaper couldn't have printed any stories they might have.

Risk of prejudice to ongoing prosecutions is more the thing here.

All I get is Andy Coulsen, David Cameron, and her hitting Ross Kemp (which is not news, surely?)

That narrows it down. Now discount the two that she might not be having an affair with..

http://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/antiterror-police-probe-muswell-hill-mosque-blaze-amid-fears-firebomb-is-woolwich-revenge-8645356.html

A prominent member of the far-Right protest group English Defence League said: “Just because EDL is written on the wall, you can’t point the finger at us. It could have been anyone. The Government is not doing anything so people are taking things into their own hands. I don’t condemn this.”

So it's ok to firebomb mosques because the government isn't?

i like this EDL stance on not tarring all the members of a diverse community with the same brush

Tarring the walls of mosques with a brush is more their style

... then setting fire to it

What we need now is someone to set fire to a food bank or job centre and daub 'Labour Party' on the wall

but the guy is right - anybody could commit a criminal act and then decide to associate themselves with a well known group just to legitimate it

did the prominent member mean condone or condemn?

Is he suggesting the govt should be burning mosques?

I mean, he's clearly a moronic cunt, but what does this moronic cunt even mean?

This whole thing is bizarre:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk-news/2013/jul/20/mosque-arrest-midlands-suspicion-murder

Two Ukrainian men have been arrested for a string of mosque bombings and a separate murder in the Midlands.

they clearly decided they weren't going to complete with dnipropetrovsk maniacs in terms of domestic lunacy

It's apparently strongly suspected that the Kenyan mall attack was orchestrated by Samantha Lewthwaite.

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/white-widow-samantha-lewthwaite-dead-2296551

The Brixton slavery story is straight up fucking grim, obviously, and I hope the women can find some way of living well or happily now it's over, but I am developing the worst kind of fascination now that it's tangled up in Maoist collectives & hard-left faction history.

Intrigued to learn that Brixton in the 70s had a Mao Zedong Memorial Centre.

It just seems to be the case that this is the kind of situation where any attempt at "Communism" ends up. It also serves as a reminder of how the hard Left more often than not dovetails perfectly with the hard Right.

I hope that whatever kind of plan for an alternative society Russell Brand has in mind, it isn't this kind of "society."

Not crazy about Russell Brand but I'm pretty sure he's not a Maoist.

i am a maoist

Somewhat partial account of the closure of the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre in 1978:

http://www.marxists.org/history/erol/uk.hightide/closure.htm

The masses can clearly see that this revolutionary style of work is a decisive break from the opportunist politics that is so prevalent in the “left” in Britain, characterised by the masses as: “flashing in and flashing out with the bloody elections”, “blind leafletting”, “selling papers like selling Daz”, “loud-hailer antics” and “generally trotting around”.

The centre was the inspiration for Citizen Smith, apparently.

It's the bloody BBC again!

Hari Kunzru already found out that the Times article about the centre used to justify the claim appeared a week after the premiere of Citizen Smith so, impossible.

The name of its front organisation, the South London People's Front (like Tooting Popular Front), convinced me but they didn't stand until 1978 so that doesn't fit either.

Lots of good links on this Urban 75 thread from July.

http://www.urban75.net/forums/threads/maoists-in-brixton.313187/

Chairman Mao was probably the closest thing to Plato’s Philosopher King that the world will ever see. He was a brilliant peasant autodidact who played up his thick Southern accent, spat, belched and scratched himself. He wrote great poetry in the classic Chinese forms, and later banned those forms. In a country he had made puritan, he was an inveterate womanizer. His enemies destroyed one another; millions died who opposed his thought.

But he was still no Harry Styles.

In time his victories could not easily be counted

Just mentioned this story on the Cornelius Cardew thread, they were both members of the Communist Party of England (Marxist-Leninist) (no doubt, with about 3 other people)

As I said on the other thread, I wonder if there are people currently in the news who could help with details regarding the as yet unsolved hit-and-run "accident" which cost CC his life back in '81.

Cardew seems such an unlikely, marginal target for state-sponsored removal and yet one can't shake the feeling that there are people within the intelligence community whose grasp on the realities is kinda tenuous

yeah I could buy it as a late flourish of the Wilson-Callaghan golden age of left/right paranoia

If AMM haven't played at the Mao Zedong Memorial Centre I'll be hugely disappointed.

kudos to the fast-thinking folks already working on their "you cost me thousands of pounds cos i couldn't use a cashpoint for 6 hours" claims

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2528435/Wearing-heart-thigh-Lee-Rigbys-fiancee-giant-tattoo-dead-soldier-inked-leg-includes-face-English-rose-St-Georges-flags.html

These guys were guilty huh

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2678209/Woman-dubbed-Angel-Woolwich-confronting-Lee-Rigbys-killers-detained-Mental-Health-Act-race-rant-pharmacy.html

what dyou expect she's half french

There's another end of season finale coming

Wasn't Danczuk going to name names last week?

Leon Brittain ... better not post anything in case I get arrested but hands up who is surprised?

In the interests of balance there is a veteran Labour MP whose reputation is much more of an open secret