It's possible I've missed part of the social media exchange here but I'm still not making the connection between McTernan/Lemmey and Owen Jones (unless McT is just taking it as an opportunity to throw indirect shade on OJ).
― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:47 (three years ago) link
That’s it exactly.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
Can’t believe xyzzzzz_ revealed himself to be a melt by not softblocking John McT when he followed btw (as I did).
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
softblocking john mct is bad praxis, this is canon
― mark s, Sunday, 13 September 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
Perhaps ILX lurker John McT could explain this for himself.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 September 2020 12:14 (three years ago) link
If only he'd restricted himself to lurking
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2020 12:22 (three years ago) link
If you want a remarkably straight-forward explanation of Labour's organisational aims and electoral strategy under Keir Starmer, check out Bridget Phillipson's comments at the Labour to Win conference this morning: https://t.co/hbyjz9DEUE— Sienna Rodgers (@siennamarla) September 13, 2020
"Our language and our framing must reflect the world as our electors see it, not as how we might discuss it at a GC" & "we cannot be thought of as a party whose reaction to every problem is more spending. It’s a habit we got into, and it’s a habit we need to break"
the fiscal conservatism or "austerity lite" of Miliband Labour is back on the agenda, because it was so popular with the electorate in 2015. Tt would have been polite for this cunt to mention this was going to be the direction he'd take the party in back in Feb.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 12:33 (three years ago) link
next time the exit poll drops and Labour are facing a complete annihilation, I'm going to disguise my absolute glee worse than Jess Phillips did in December.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 13:19 (three years ago) link
Randox, a Northern Ireland firm, pays Tory MP Owen Paterson as a consultant. It won a £133m testing contract unopposed at the start of lockdownIt disposed of 12,401 used swabs in a single day on 2nd SeptThe firm has voided more than 35,000 used test kits since August (3/5)— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) September 13, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:09 (three years ago) link
don’t make me tap the sign⬇️nothing will happen
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:13 (three years ago) link
Btw, the criticisms of OJ are also coming from the left.
"The actual existential danger to Labour’s left is resignation and disengagement" not failing to engage constructively with the leadership argues Nicky Hutchinson. https://t.co/NIMbBeH1Dn— New Socialist (@NewSocialistUK) September 11, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:29 (three years ago) link
I’m wondering which MP is ‘Nicky Hutchinson’ but can’t identify one off the top of my head that’s from the SCG *and* writes well.
― santa clause four (suzy), Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:36 (three years ago) link
I didn’t think that was an MP? I think Nicky Hutchinson is a general pseud the NS uses for people who are published there.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:44 (three years ago) link
Yeah it's almost certainly a left twitter person.
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:47 (three years ago) link
lol i thought you meant "generally a pseud" on my first read.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 20:49 (three years ago) link
Bizarro journalism, in which people are asked questions and then the interviewer attempts to stop them answering. pic.twitter.com/W3uagpJLb8— barney farmer (@barneyfarmer) September 13, 2020
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:00 (three years ago) link
Urrrrrrgh I hate sympathising with the fucking blueshirts
― scampo italiano (gyac), Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:03 (three years ago) link
that's one of the most despicable elements of this culture war - you end up agreeing with melts occasionally!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:06 (three years ago) link
just spend a few hours listening to a few Times Radio shows and then follow that Today or PM on R4 and tell me what the difference is pls
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:11 (three years ago) link
only if you really despise yourself and have nothing to live for anymore I should have added!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:15 (three years ago) link
Lol I was getting the ads for Times Radio on Facebook and that was enough thanks
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
they use the same cast of dismal melts for *balance* on Times Radio, but the difference is they let people slag off the current Tory govt without interruption or as Marr would have it with impartiality!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:30 (three years ago) link
when I was dying in bed of the 2010 swine flu once I fumbled about with the radio and became hostage to Talk Sport for a few hours. I was too fatigued to get up and change channels - that was a similar experience to me with Times Radio today with a severe hangover.
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
but listening to it is becoming a habit I'm noting with some concern!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 21:36 (three years ago) link
Shortly after it launched I asked my "smart" speaker to play Times Radio and it played Radio X
One is a bunch of arrogant cunts stuck in the past etc
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:05 (three years ago) link
One of the Times Radio ads was about their presenters's favourite albums, that was enough without factoring in the politics
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:07 (three years ago) link
Are literally all of you listening to Times Radio? I don't even know what to make of this thread any more.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:13 (three years ago) link
I don't want to know about Tom Newton Dumb's fave albums, although would like to hear him talking 'bout what it is like to lick Murdoch's boot polish for fifty guineas but be cursed forever!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:16 (three years ago) link
I don't even know what to make of this thread any more.
"know your enemy" but everybody's the enemy
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:18 (three years ago) link
I put it on one day on the portable DAB to hear Hunter Davies doing his tiresome repertoire of Paul McCartney anecdotes and I was just completely hooked!
― calzino, Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:22 (three years ago) link
Does it have segments that are just people sitting around talking about cookery or travel or sport or whatever because you would usually trust Tory broadsheets to do that shit better than the Guardian but I couldn't for the life of me imagine wanting to listen to David Aaronovich sitting about talking politics with Hugo Whathisname.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 13 September 2020 22:25 (three years ago) link
Where is the lie
International law is a ‘political construct’ and breaking it is ‘routine’, Tory MP says https://t.co/Qvdy5XeHzU— Jon Stone (@joncstone) September 14, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 September 2020 09:14 (three years ago) link
Are literally all of you listening to Times Radio?
Nope. I attempted to put it on once to see where it was on the Talk/LBC/R4 scale and ended up on an indie landfill channel instead. For 5 seconds.
― here we go, ten in a rona (onimo), Monday, 14 September 2020 09:23 (three years ago) link
One of the kids in my son's year 9 tests positive over the weekend. The school tries to contact Public Health England to ensure they track and trace correctly. They CAN'T GET THROUGH to Public Health England, and today have had to send the whole year home.https://t.co/1PYTXcS9C1— David Allison (@DavidHAllison) September 14, 2020
I suspect things like this are happening all over the country right now. Absolute shitshow doesn't even begin to cover it.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 September 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
I wonder what proportion of the Cabinet would privately admit even to themselves that they are in way way way over their head and fundamentally not capable of doing their jobs.
― Matt DC, Monday, 14 September 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
What portion of the Cabinet's idea of "doing their job" would coincide with yours or mine?
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 14 September 2020 10:45 (three years ago) link
i always hold to the "Tories know what they're doing" line as far as economic destruction is concerned but this is somewhat different, one of the unpleasant side jobs of governing a country is supposed to be dealing with shit like this and much as they don't really care they *are* also really incompetent to do that
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 September 2020 10:49 (three years ago) link
New. @Keir_Starmer is self-isolating for Covid. Spokesman: “This morning Keir Starmer was advised to self isolate after a member of his household showed possible symptoms of the coronavirus...— Paul Waugh (@paulwaugh) September 14, 2020
― stet, Monday, 14 September 2020 10:58 (three years ago) link
god speed comrade rona
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 September 2020 10:59 (three years ago) link
No ifs, no buts!
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:00 (three years ago) link
The creatures outside looked from virus to Kieth, and from Kieth to virus, and from virus to Kieth again; but already it was impossible to say which was which.
― how do i shot moon? (Noodle Vague), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Eh3tun4WsAAxM04?format=png&name=large
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:01 (three years ago) link
praying for Rona!
― calzino, Monday, 14 September 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
Rona the knight-slayer!
― calzino, Monday, 14 September 2020 11:10 (three years ago) link
I’m nearly sure this must be one of his children and like bitter bitter laughs
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:14 (three years ago) link
Good things are possible
― xyzzzz__, Monday, 14 September 2020 11:18 (three years ago) link
Or are they
'I think we should call the authorities, yes, all of us have a responsibility to act'@Ed_Miliband tells @shehabkhan he would call the police on his neighbours if they were having a party and encourages the public to do so too https://t.co/nQI5BVmo5T pic.twitter.com/JVrGxGzudy— ITV News Politics (@ITVNewsPolitics) September 14, 2020
― scampo italiano (gyac), Monday, 14 September 2020 11:46 (three years ago) link
The party of curtain twitching narcs is back
― calzino, Monday, 14 September 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
All the way through the initial months of the lock-down I could often hear loud groups of pissed up people in houses. How does a f/t narc work out how many people are in the house?
― calzino, Monday, 14 September 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
The Six are absolutely selling the rest of us out in some form or another, can hardly be a coincidence that the latest transgression you can be fined for is breaking “the rule of six”
― Gab B. Nebsit (wins), Monday, 14 September 2020 12:05 (three years ago) link