love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

can't we replace you with Big Trak, Kier?

Dan Hancox, who is Jewish and writes about him a lot, was not on social media to see or react to the Wiley bullshit but I was heartened by the number of black lefties calling him a crackhead hotep arsehole, because that’s who he seems to be now.

Just feel sad about it

I'm not familiar enough with Wiley to be able to tell, but is this a total surprise? It seems unlikely for someone to go from 0-100 with no previous indicators

He usually bubble

I think he has history of going for big twitter numbers by flaming with Stormzy but the AS stuff is new I think

people have found a minor example from 2010, so looks like he's just been keeping it to himself before yesterday.

It seems weird that an outspoken personality (with penachant for stirring things up?) is able to keep something like this under wraps for a long time with no outwards signs whatsoever?

I would assume either he's had a full on breakdown, he's doing it for the notoriety/attention or he's really trying to piss off his manager, who's also Jewish. But also, if it quacks like a duck for hours on end...

Also no one, let alone an account with half a million followers, should be able to go on a ten hour antisemitic rant without Twitter lifting a finger to stop it.

his management dropped him straight away

BIG TRAK

Starmzy finally comes out with something approaching a policy statement: more jobs for Bezos drones!

Labour are angling to get RT taken off air.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53510838

I’d guess the main reason it hasn’t is that getting rid of a channel with, iirc, an average audience of 1300 isn’t worth the inevitable tit-for-tat expulsion of the BBC Russia service but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.

Interestingly, the government is supposedly mulling over a requirement similar to the US for lobbyists on behalf of foreign interests to register. I can’t see it happening tbh, as I can’t imagine anyone actually wants to lift that rock, but it would be delightful for a certain former Prime Minister to have to come clean about who pays him.

I can't believe a station with Galloway + Salmond has lower viewing figures than Fishing TV

one day later I am here to report that this post really did not age well
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:59 (yesterday) link

Was Wiley ever in grime4corbyn? :)

I'm guessing Fishing TV has an incredibly loyal fanbase who will watch it for hours on end and they've got the advertising market absolutely nailed.

The only thing I've ever seen from Russia Today is that clip where Simon Danczuk tries to ignore a belly dancer for several minutes.

Corbyn’s deleted an old Tweet thanking Wiley for his support so.. yes?

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There aren't many more pandemic-friendly hobbies than fishing either. Perfect for social distancing.

poor Steve "piano-man" Rosenberg, getting unceremoniously turfed out of Moscow because of senseless Starmzy posturing

Corbyn’s deleted an old Tweet thanking Wiley for his support so.. yes?

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― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink

gime4corbyn *shake hands emoji* crank left

It seems unlikely for someone to go from 0-100 with no previous indicators

Going from 0-100 is kind of what he does btw. There was some anti-mask virus truther stuff in there among all the AS as well.

This seems to be connected to some dispute with his manager, who is Jewish I believe.

his manager probably told him to wear a mask

And look at all the publicity Kanye is getting for howling at the moon.

The most prominent Grime4Corbyn voices were people like AJ Tracey and Novelist, a generation below Wiley and more politically engaged in general (Novelist was Young Mayor of Lewisham). JME was involved in the drive to register to vote and met with Corbyn but seemed to back away from offering an explicit endorsement when the attention was on him.

The whole thing appeared to have run out of steam by 2019 by which some of them had switched allegiance to the Greens IIRC.

Don't remember Wiley specifically being involved beyond one "big up Jeremy Corbyn" tweet but even the most shambling and amateurish of campaign managers wouldn't have wanted him anywhere near.

Years back he tweeted racist anti-Asian stuff briefly and dismissed it as "ethnic banter" in an interview on iirc Bobbi Friction's radio show. Plus there is the stuff Dizzee openly alleged about him not too long ago.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdxOhp3XsAAiU10?format=jpg&name=medium

because scoring points against former rivals/factional adversaries is just as important as the serious business of opposing and challenging antisemitism in the social media world of the so called tsar of antisemitism.

John "A Very Sick" Mann

oops it's czar not tsar or some other c-word

considering it was an actual tsar's secret police that put protocols of elders of zion, bit of a fucked up title really!

published I meant

a lot of “hey I just heard of Wiley yesterday but I assume he’s the leader of Black Britain and I assume none of Them are condemning him which is ungrateful considering how not-racist I am so They better not expect any support from me in the future” going on today

I saw Mann being interviewed on Sky earlier and I fully expected him to mention Corbyn, he might have and they might have edited it out though.

@LordJohnMann. Probably a hilarious fake twitter account mind you.

No that is the real account

He got a peerage from the tories for being such awesome opposition

Didn't boris get the nod from Tommy Robinson at some point?

Wiley is a fucking bell end

but fuck the fucking police and this authoritarian anti-black fucking shithole of a country

Police investigate grime artist Wiley's antisemitic tweets https://t.co/7hqVVkpDBC

— The Guardian (@guardian) July 25, 2020

It's that bunch of headbangers, Campaign Against Antisemitism, who have asked the police to get involved.

Wiley is clearly relishing being able to call the whole country "pagans"

have pitchfork learned the difference between paigons and pagans yet? now might be a good time!

Corbyn should not have deleted his 'Thank you' tweet. Not that issuing any public condemnation would make anyone change their mind either way either.

I was thinking about that, I can understand Corbyn not wanting to invite further dishonest bullshit but I wouldn't have deleted it

it isn't a tacit endorsement of AS, he didn't have a gift of time travel hindsight.

but the dodgy mural like probably still haunts Corbyn's thoughts

I can imagine Crombs or his media people thinking "fuck another round of this" tho

Or he could have just been as appalled as the rest of us?

Or probably didn’t want the worst people on twitter repeatedly retweeting and commenting on that old tweet.

What a country

NEW: Department for Transport confirm Transport Secretary @grantshapps is on holiday in Spain.

He will therefore be among thousands of travellers forced to quarantine for a fortnight when he returns to the UK.#COVID19

— Joe Pike (@joepike) July 25, 2020