he just imagined he was grovelling in front of the queen tbf
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
The gay marriage thing really poisoned a lot of Tory MPs and parts of the Tory media against Cameron and while that almost certainly enabled and emboldened the Brexit wing of the party it wasn't terminal for him in the way that, say, the Poll Tax was for Thatcher.
The thing is that Tories fundamentally believe in the principle that oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them, and who's to say they are wrong when they see Labour drawing level with them while not doing or saying very much? The solution to staying in power (and in their seats) is to change the government. If Cummings - a sociopath with a hatred of institutions who either doesn't notice obvious pitfalls right in front of him or doesn't care about them - decides to go to war with parts of the Tory benches then it could escalate very quickly.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
ahahaha
No need to bother, Co-op. As of today you are henceforth banned from advertising in The Spectator, in perpetuity. We will not have companies like yours use their financial might to try to influence our editorial content, which is entirely a matter for the editor. https://t.co/Iypkk9Pwrb— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 4, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
snowflake triggered etc.
― Neil S, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
No, you can't dump me because I dumped you first.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
One of the responders has #GrahamLinehane #JKRowling in their Twitter name
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
I wish I hadn't read the responses
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
A lot of people who need a civil and understanding conversation to gently persuade them to change their views
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
count the numbers in their usernames
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
Also a lot of people who don't seem to understand what the Co-op is
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
Actually Neil does seem to have a lot of seemingly real fans who reply to his every tweet with 'Bravo! Absolutely the right response' and 'Finally some real leadership - if only we'd had you in 1938' and 'Yaaas go off king btw your daughter does not look much like you oh it's your wife sorry Sir'
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
Irony of the editor of a magazine that exists to serve the agenda of plutocrats refusing to bow to evil capitalist megacorp the Co-op
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:43 (three years ago) link
It is notable that every time anyone writes anything about anything JC ever said or did - especially when they're trying to make him look bad - he comes out looking incredibly good.
― the pinefox, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
Going out to buy rainbow cones to own Andrew Neil
― scampo italiano (gyac), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
Johnson, JR, Joy Morrissey and the gang no doubt fuming over this latest history erasure
BREAKING: I’ve just heard the ‘Ripper Museum’ on Cable Street, East London, established under the false premise it would be a women’s history museum, has gone bust.GOOD.This was a celebration of misogyny & murder.I’m proud to have been part of the campaign against it. pic.twitter.com/Us5e1uXs5x— Dr Louise Raw (@LouiseRawAuthor) September 4, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
Cancelled by the market
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
can't wait to see how the BBC's new social media policy doesn't apply to Neil
So can I just check that you've not told your agency to desist from placing future ads in The Spectator? And that you are prepared to place ads in the future? https://t.co/WqdFm0WITi— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 4, 2020
― stet, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
Absurd performative outrage from Neil here, the Co-op was never trying to influence editorial, it chose not to advertise and didn't know it was doing so in the first place. He knows this full well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
I could be wrong but Neil is currently not employed by BBC (they cancelled his show and I don't think he does Daily Politics anymore) which explains why he's been far more unhinged and fashy recently.
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
The sheer scale of the support he gets though. This shit plays so well for them, there’s no downside Xp
― stet, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Let me spell this out and end this nonsense. I currently have no contract with the BBC. But if I was to accept a new freelance contract, which came with tight restrictions re Twitter, then I would accept said restrictions as part of contract. Capice? https://t.co/uTAdFufHUw— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 4, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Fucking pathetic backpedal from Co-Op.
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
Feel very bad for whoever was in charge of their social media and presumably has just been hung out to dry here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
There was a Spectator free trial promotion via Time Out emails recently. Unsubscribed from Time Out emails and told them why. No idea how many buy or subscribe to it - not enough for more advertisers to be persuaded to drop it I guess.
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link
Tony Abbott appointment confirmed, zero fucks given
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:31 (three years ago) link
https://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_mdyd1cbIqU1rby04wo1_1280.gif
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:37 (three years ago) link
it's a pity Orbán now has a job for life, he'd make a cracking own-the-libs trade negotiator!
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:44 (three years ago) link
Amusingly, Abbott isn't even the most bizarre or objectionable name on the list. https://t.co/JA4LwTxFxx— David Timoney (@fromarsetoelbow) September 4, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 17:09 (three years ago) link
Daniel Hannan will do a fine job
― Neil S, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more eloquent photographic allegory of contemporary British nihilism:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f08942dab33951c3d5e2a367da2ae58dfee1a91/0_93_1600_960/master/1600.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd271e612a3759e0443e65235535c681
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
christ that’s grim
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Senior Lib Dems maintain that Mr Murray “always gave us enough” to suggest that he would consider switching parties.
“Ian held talks only to discuss how parties could work together to stop Brexit, and when the Lib Dems tried to tempt.......
couldn't copy and paste any more as the words/times paywall faded into insignificance.
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
stoked to read ILX's line on the latest XR protest
― imago, Saturday, 5 September 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
Lol Australian politicians really not happy about the Tony Abbott thing.
Mark Dreyfus, the shadow attorney general of the opposition Labor party, said on Saturday: “It’s up to the Morrison government to explain how a former Liberal PM can now work for a foreign power advising on matters potentially in direct conflict with Australia’s commercial interest.
“And how conflicts arising from Mr Abbott’s intimate knowledge of Australia’s trading interests and strategies, gained during his years as minister and prime minister, will be managed.”
Other parliamentarians went further. Rex Patrick, an independent senator from South Australia, labelled Abbott’s appointment a “disgrace” and called for the former prime minister to be forced to register as a foreign agent under Australia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.
He said Abbott should be stripped of “most” of his travel and office allowance. “Australian taxpayers shouldn’t subsidise a foreign agent,” Patrick said on social media.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
This might be worth it if the government ends up with a trade envoy who can't leave his own country because it wanted to fuck off the snowflakes.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
I take the correct position that XR are generally terrible but did a good thing today.
Fuck Labour. And just so we are clear- Fuck. Labour. https://t.co/HqDtUce5ux— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) September 5, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
someone makes the good point that it's a miracle they succeeded, they are probably so heavily infiltrated by undercover cops.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
Dawn Butler expressed approval for the XR action and then either deleted it or was ordered to by the appalling Labour leadership that cares a lot about the Murdoch press.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
lol the "outrageous attack on our free press" line being used by both main parties.. just seriously fuck this country.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
fuck this country, fuck its political parties, fuck the free press, fuck XR
seems to cover it
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
we need a separate thread for why XR are a pathetic cosplay joke of a nothing but still, i lolled
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
they are awful, but I approve of climate emergency protests that cause disruption to the so called free press, sorry I meant the vile fascist propaganda shit-rags owned by the same few billionaires
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
sometimes they are so bad you'd think they were an elaborate psyop perpetrated by big oil to sullen the reputation of climate activism, but I still approve of what they did today!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
From the Wapping picket line to fighting the mine closures and supporting families affected by the P&O dispute, I’ve always been a proud trade unionist.
“A free press is vital for our democracy. People have the right to read the newspapers they want. Stopping them from being distributed and printers from doing their jobs is wrong.”
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
Who in 2020 is being prevented from reading or engaging with the free press because they can't physically get their hands on a newspaper?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
Kieth is a Kop
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Like this is literally a handful of dyed-in-the-wool Tory colonels having apoplexy because the Telegraph hasn't landed on their doormat.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
― imago, Saturday, 5 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
What's your line on it?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
XR could you not instead takedown their websites jeez
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link