Rolling Brexit Links/UK politics in the neo-Weimar era

oh, I didn't notice 'son' and 'William' in the keywords, so answer is yes, presumably

Side note: Hodge's ex-husband and Straw's ex-wife got married and were family friends of mine.

But yes, it started out as code for 'incompetent, didactic hard left control freakery' and morphed into 'cappuccino-sipping middle class' as the area gentrified in the 90s. Corbyn managed to largely avoid being tainted by the negative associations Hodge always had - probably partly because he was never responsible for running the council and partly because he is not a ghastly human being.

A lot of the heat the area got is probably because so many liberal journalists/editors (Rusbridger, Dowden, etc) lived there too.

Who all hate Corbyn.

well tbf the establishment is working out pretty well for them

I hope that Mark S, if no one else, will be entertained to hear that I was at that rally on Blackheath which was addressed by Tony Benn.

I was a few years older than the baby.

http://images.archant.co.uk/polopoly_fs/1.4975679.1492091221!/image/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/landscape_630/image.jpg

Islington 30 years ago, when it was more famous for Joe Orton than political elites.

http://i.imgur.com/7ckBafw.jpg

Yes. I have never forgotten the slogan, though I don't think I have the badge.

OMG Tim Farron. I know in order for the Tories to do badly the Lib Dems have to do well but, call me an old sentimentalist, but I would still love them to be completely annihilated.

'Let's finish the job' ya cause in 1381 they didn't manage to kill every last foreigner in London

(lol joeks, I'm not really 'well actually'-ing the peasants revolt)

What's going on with Farron then?

(I want to say I think he's being 'Corbyned' in the famous video where he can't give an answer but ...)

What's going on is I just saw a clip of him attempting to rouse the Lib Dem troops for the battle ahead, what a state.

Read a defense of his gay sin thing and the (lib dem) blogger who wrote it started it with 'Let's get something clear first of all, I'm a fucking liberal, people can have whatever religious beliefs they want ...' but then did go on to say he has been strongly involved in LGBT initiatives

defending homophobia, that's a win

no fucker in the world is a bigot because of their religion

great coalition opportunities there folks

What have we learnt after a couple of days:

- Corbyn gives good speech
- Corbyn is good with kids
- Corbyn is getting his arse kicked on the 8th June

Can we burn the countryside down and send its population out to sea?

extend Scottish nationalism to Beachy Head

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/apr/22/dont-believe-theresa-may-election-wont-change-brexit?CMP=twt_gu

feel the comparison to paintings by magritte needs work

it does tbh

magritte thatcher

Westminster voting intention:

CON: 50% (+4)
LAB: 25% (-)
LDEM: 11% (-)
UKIP: 7% (-2)

(via ComRes)

Tories hit 50. who are all these fucking people?!

morons and scum

Probably people who like brexit? i.e. nv otm

Morons and Scum -- I agree. Well said.

There is a poll this morning suggesting an 18 point swing to the Conservatives in Scotland.

i guess Team Brexit can grasp the concept of tactical voting too

that said, it's still the combination of hysterical, willfully naive, navel-gazing, smug sub-Canary bollocks littering my Facebook that's most likely to drive me off social media for the duration. Alan Moore thinks you shouldn't vote Tory, fuck me, i bet that's shook 'em

Corbs's Britain's Got Bank Holidays promise is distressingly weak too, surely somebody saw that'll generate more lulz than votes

I think it's quite good. It feels concrete, easy to communicate. When the pub finally opens (I hate Sundays. Oh, and Old Firm game too, ugh) I bet people are talking about it. It's nothing huge, but I imagine it will be popular, and provides a pretext to talk about working conditions lie holidays and productivity etc.

Will people like it as much as UKIP's 'burkha ban'? I hope so, but my cynical side doubts it.

Wee emo blog entry : feeling shiter about how British politics is headed than anything in this fucked world, chin up to all the decent Britons itt.

Yeah, I'd just started getting politically active again, for the first time since the Iraq War, when last year knocked the stuffing out of me again. Very pessimistic.

I am going out campaigning for Labour in an hour!

Good luck!

Nuttall interviews / editorial making it clear he is taking the inevitable step to reposition UKIP as the political wing of the EDL now that their main reason to exist is moot.

Caught a little bit of Corbyn on the Andrew Marr Show, so relaxed I almost expected him to finish the interview by saying, "If you don't mind, Andrew, I'd like to finish with a little song..."

this bizarre national sentiment seems to be a mix of "hooray we've fucked the country" and "well since the country is fucked we prob need the tories in charge"

"we need to be fucked harder" oh wait

Damien Lewis/Tim Farron nausea-time double on Marr next week. Will be giving that a wide berth.

HE WAS GOOD AS HENRY VIII

This is an interesting twitter thread discussion on the Scottish poll nos.

https://twitter.com/AnndraADunn/status/855930664067244032

Despite my Stalinism coming through earlier the poll numbers are as much a reflection on what a rag the Labour Party has been since Corbyn took over. Not saying he would've won but May would not have called an election if they were unified to such an extent that he would be able to push policies he is advocating if he were ever to win.

Pasok etc.

one of the small grim nuggets of amusement from a Labour thrashing at the polls will be that by sheer weight of numbers there'll be a lot of Blairites losing seats

Morons and Scum -- I agree. Well said.

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I am going out campaigning for Labour in an hour!

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Can you let us know how this turns out. Thanks.

lol

one of the small grim nuggets of amusement from a Labour thrashing at the polls will be that by sheer weight of numbers there'll be a lot of Blairites losing seats

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Wes Streeting will be sweeping the floor at a McD's 4evah post-June 8th.

Most people are out, or are very good at remaining very quiet and not answering the door to canvassers.

Some people who answer say they are too busy to talk.

Some people who talk for a moment say they have not made up their minds.

One person grandiloquently said he had been Labour all his life but would never vote for Corbyn who has destroyed the chance of social justice for the working class in this country.

One person was enthusiastic for our MP.

One person might vote LD.

One person will vote Labour but said 'Corbyn is the problem - as I'm sure you're hearing'.