DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

BONGO BINGO from GB Games
A fun family game to play with your sad old racist uncle round the Christmas dinner table. Each player represents a member of the European Parliament. When one of the following catchphrases pops up, tick it off your sheet:

"It's a generation thing"
"There's nothing unpleasant about it"
"Of course you can't say that kind of thing these days"
"They won't let you say anything these days"
"No offence meant by it"
"I'm sorry if this offends you, but.."
"I don't see what's so controversial about it"
"It's just a game"
"It's only a joke"
"I don't like these black boys"

Those devious Africans, always exploiting and ripping off the us poor white Europeans.

lol@this:

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1. Godfrey Bloom expresses 'sincere regret' for 'bongo bongo land' remarks
2. Ukip tells Godfrey Bloom to stop referring to 'bongo bongo land'
3. Ukip's Godfrey Bloom will not apologise over 'bongo bongo land' comments
4. Ukip MEP Godfrey Bloom criticises aid to 'bongo bongo land'

to clarify,lol because the top four most viewed stories function as a condensed timeline in reverse of the whole stupid story, with Bloom making an asinine remark, insisting he will not apologise, getting bollocked by his party and suddenly realising he sincerely regrets what he said, not because i find anything particularly amusing about the phrase 'bongo bongo land', just to be clear.

Sorry for sounding shifty and defensive.

too late ur card's marked

The "generational thing" is such a pile of arse-canard. Man was born three years after my own father and I know for a fact that his 'generation' weren't all a bunch of slimy racist toe-rags. Being an old git is one thing and maybe, yes, it was once acceptable to say "Bongo Bongo Land" in polite company without anyone batting an eyelid (I remember the juice adverts on TV as well) - but flaunting the fact you're an old git and unapologetically insisting on the right to be utterly out of touch with the sensitivities and sensibilities of the modern world BECAUSE you're an old git is not an acceptable excuse for an influential person who is in a position of power. In fact it's completely irresponsible and totally pathetic. I'm sure GB would say that he's fighting for free speech, smashing down the Orwellian newspeak blockades of political correctness that have had us all in chains for god-knows how long. I say to that, what a hero. What a trooper for showing the world that you can say whatever the hell you like on a public platform and then turn around and say 'I'm allowed to call this group of people this derogatory term because that's what we used to call them in the sixties'. News fucking flash: It's not the sixites any more. Apartheid is over. Enoch Powell is dead. Minstrel shows are no longer amusing. We've come a long way in a short time, but apparently not far enough because when a grown man with enough wherewithal to get into the European Parliament can't work out why 'Bongo Bongo Land' is racist, it only goes to show how fantastically out of touch he and his party's policies actually are.

*breathes*

The 'old buffer not realising it's not OK to use certain words/phrases anymore' factor doesn't really apply here, i don't think, they're so blatantly using this kind of language because they know it's not 'OK', that it winds people up, everything about this smirking tool just screams that, and as you suggest he was born in 1949, he's not even that old.

jesus. i know it's august but...

m white otm http://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/2013/aug/07/godfrey-bloom-bongo-bongo-land-ukip

yes, it was once acceptable to say "Bongo Bongo Land" in polite company without anyone batting an eyelid

When, 1907?

Quite

I think by 'polite company' he means 'the company of old racists' so he'll be delighted to find it's probably still fine.

The "caused any genuine offence" line is such bollocks. He thinks it's all faux-offence and that everyone's an old racist really, they're just all ordered not to seem like it by their bosses.

so much insight

― Nilmar Honorato da Silva, Saturday, August 3, 2013 12:08 PM

Ooh I missed this! If it makes it any clearer I completely messed up the formatting. I should have quoted him and put my 'translation' in italics; whether that would have please the gatekeeper of insight is doubtful, but let's be honest it contains about as much insight as your next post.

http://www.independent.co.uk/voices/the-daily-cartoon-8117874.html?action=gallery

http://uk.mfa.lt/index.php?453079048

Lithuana otm. Newspaper cartoonists are so shit.

'HMS Rattling Sabre' makes no sense, since those ships were scheduled to visit Gibraltar months before this current trouble.

With Royal Navy warships due to set sail for the Mediterranean on a scheduled deployment, Mr Johnson said: “Perhaps it really is a coincidence - as the Foreign Office claims - that we have just sent a fleet of warships to Gibraltar.

Maybe it's just a fluke that HMS Illustrious is about to bristle into view on the southern coast of Spain, complete with thousands of Royal Marines and other elite commando units.

”But I hope not. I hope that one way or another we will shortly prise Spanish hands off the throat of our colony, because what is now taking place is infamous.“

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/02643/egg-miliband_2643705c.jpg

SATIRE

looks like the yolk's on him etc.

Can't even manage to get egg on his face.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-23696920

"This is not the first time it's happened to me, I'm sure it's not the last," says Mr Miliband.

He'll be here all week. Try the veal.

Just watched the clip. Not that it matters, but he really in no way possesses anything remotely resembling a common touch.

"They should stop giving favouritism to the banks. They do nothing. The government do nothing. The shadow government do nothing," he said.

"I don't believe him at all. If you are poor, you are considered a burden. All they care about is the banks."

he ain't cogent, but he ain't wrong

he really in no way possesses anything remotely resembling a common touch.

The perfect candidate to go up against the Tories then.

In a fight-fire-with-fire way, you mean?

http://www-static.weddingbee.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/07/20/rock-pa.jpg

Just watched the clip. Not that it matters, but he really in no way possesses anything remotely resembling a common touch.

i think it matters quite a lot. daft qu maybe but is there any chance of him being booted out between now and the next election or is it too late for labour to do and dust itself down? i have a pretty limited knowledge of politics but it does seem like andy burnham is setting himself up to take over, don't know much about him but he does seem to have 'the common touch', doesn't seem useless, seems to be in it for the right reasons etc (or have i been spun?)

he will never be pm

there i said it

The Tories definitely have a common touch at the moment.

Who doesn't hate people on benefits, and fat cat public service workers? Here I am, trying to bring up my kids, getting screwed over by tax to pay for people who can't be bothered working, etc.

Who doesn't hate people on benefits, Here I am, trying to bring up my kids, getting screwed over by tax to pay for people who can't be bothered working, etc.

Must be tough being a model citizen? I hope you don't teach your children to hate so easily?
The daily mail's waiting for your comments!

By which I mean, there's a large body of people, enfranchised enough in the political system to vote, whose attitudes and concerns align more or less entirely with current tory policy. Real people - who vote but aren't interested in 'politics', or what some economist has to say about whether or not austerity will work. It's like a family with a credit card, yes?

NMV upthread, of course.

Negative solidarity is definitely a real phenomena - if I'm being screwed over at work, with wage cuts and hour cuts and precarity, and an improvement to my situation looks extremely unlikely, then my almost inevitable response is instead to want everyone else to have it just as bad as me.

lol the english character in a nutshell

my almost inevitable response is instead to want everyone else to have it just as bad as me.

As a squeezed middler I'm not sure I agree. I can pissed off about my own situation (year after year of pay freezes, increased pension contributions, increased transport and fuel costs, cuts to my tax credits, ever present spectre of job being cut) and still oppose bedroom tax and corrupt welfare to work practices and cuts to disability benefits and racist vans.

frankly bizarre

Asked whether he and his brother are “like” the Milibands, Boris Johnson said: “Absolutely not. We don't do things that way, that's a very left-wing thing ... only a socialist could do that to his brother, only a socialist could regard familial ties as being so trivial as to shaft his own brother.
“I mean, unbelievable. Only lefties can think like that ... they see people as discrete agents devoid of ties to society or to each other, and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people.”

this is perhaps more terrifying though:

In an interview with The Australian newspaper, Boris Johnson was asked whether his brother could become Prime Minister before him. He replied: “I think it very likely and I think he'd be brilliant.”

kill them all

and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people
and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people
and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people
and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people
and that's how Stalin could murder 20 million people

lol boris amirite

Something something marital ties, something something shaft Petronella Wyatt....

It seems futile to pick him up on his ramblings at this stage, though.

i dont really think of johnson as a person so much as the incarnate wish-fulfillment of the evening standard and the bloodless vermin that predominate in the lower reaches of the city

yep

only a socialist could do that to his brother, only a socialist could regard familial ties as being so trivial as to shaft his own brother.

Wives are a different matter though, eh Boris?

Only lefties can think like that

is Godwin's Law still a thing and which subsection mentions Thatcher bcz

(things which didn't need posted but I had to give some kind of futile shrug to the ILX-choir while we're still in the vestry putting on our surplices away from the eyes of the LOL BORIS LEGERND congregation, or uh something)

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/aug/24/ed-miliband-labour-opinium-poll-ratings

on one level this is just a manifestation of the moronic TV personality non-democracy that passes for our political system

and on another level well the Labour party is dead lol who gives a shit

BUT how long is it going to take to realise that EMil is just never going to go over with vast swathes of ordinary, hard-working, pig-thick wankers who are allowed to vote for some reason?

the prospect of a working Tory majority after the next election is so horrible that everybody who isn't a dyed in the wool libertarian mentalist should be doing everything in their power to find some kind of credible opposition, and i don't mean sticking a flat cap on Ed and making him watch football

Two days left on the Migrant access to the NHS consultation. Act now to keep those awful people out of our GP surgeries.

http://consultations.dh.gov.uk/overseas-healthcare/migrant_access