the day after the deadline: can the union survive brexit and other deep questions

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This is a terrific read: https://www.lrb.co.uk/v40/n07/james-meek/nhs-sos

In some ways it fills in the detail of what we know - mapping out what the crisis at both health and care services look like. The ending is very powerful, and its a culmination of the number of angles this piece covered, because it isn't just a matter of funding it properly.

xyzzzz__, Thursday, 29 March 2018 19:04 (six years ago) link

Pundits: Tough questions for jeremey corbyn, both personal and organisational, over anti-semitism in labour, there's no easy way for him to take the moral high ground

Alan Sugar: Hold my beer

Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 31 March 2018 11:05 (six years ago) link

I can't remember Sugar sharing shopped pics of JRM next to Hitler after he was caught attending a dinner hosted by actual real pro-Hitler, Neo-Nazis, but getting into thing is so counter-productive. People tweeting pics of 30's Tories next to Hitler in response to this are complete bloody eejits.

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 11:46 (six years ago) link

Wooooooaaah, Lord Sugar
How come you meme so good

Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 31 March 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link

quit buzzing yr tits off cos Palace are winning:p

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 11:54 (six years ago) link

A bad year when we don't beat liverpool. Cancel order for mug if imago tears

Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:23 (six years ago) link

possibility of millwall getting in the playoffs suddenly much scarier than palace surviving tbh

imago, Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link

there needs to be a concerted effort to prevent this at all costs, even Russian help would be appreciated!

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:44 (six years ago) link

Premier league : embarassing to have those tinpot croydon wankers and their twatty fans clinging on for 5 years tbh

Millwall : Hold my beer

Google lobster hierarchies (Bananaman Begins), Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:48 (six years ago) link

ah kids there's no way Fulham haven't got this

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link

That's what I thought last year, they looked unstoppable and then choked bigtime.

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 13:56 (six years ago) link

You can’t discuss London soccer teams in here, this is the anti-semitism thread.

Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:02 (six years ago) link

ffs might to have cancel my membership now Izzard is on the NEC.

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link

Now we know the real reason Corbyn was dragging his heels over this woman.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:17 (six years ago) link

I'd presume the next nearest beaten candidate from the last NEC election is auto choice when an elected committee member stands down, or something like that. They should have got an Izzard Clause in or something, the fucking humanity!

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:19 (six years ago) link

say what you want about Eddie Izzard

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 March 2018 19:28 (six years ago) link

I wish people would slag him off for being a fucking nauseating personality and a Blairite rather than anything else.

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:00 (six years ago) link

Forget Cambridge Analytica, I’m sure his attempts to represent Remain knocked 5% off the vote.

It doesn’t speak well of the health of the right of the party when he was their best choice for NEC representation.

Really honoured to now represent almost 600,000 members on the national executive of @UKLabour - at last the 21st century version of the Socialist party I joined 44 years ago pic.twitter.com/53ot5DMpjO

— Jon Lansman (@jonlansman) January 15, 2018

Which isn’t to say I’m not glad Shawcroft is gone, because I am.

gyac, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:08 (six years ago) link

"I’m sure his attempts to represent Remain knocked 5% off the vote."

gross underestimation there imo

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:10 (six years ago) link

he kept pushing me towards Leave right to the death

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:15 (six years ago) link

well maybe between him Darling/Blair/Brown/Gedolf about 10% of the Remain vote was annihilated.

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:19 (six years ago) link

and that was just the Tory campaign

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link

Xp vastly unfair on Brown to lump him in with the rest. I really liked the short film he made which made a rare positive case for Remain.

gyac, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:40 (six years ago) link

I can vaguely recall a less impressive bit of campaigning by him, but maybe he didn't have his morning blast of Arctic Monkeys that day!

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:43 (six years ago) link

That was so mocked at the time but I read a thing recently that gives it a bit more context:

here’s Damian McBride explaining the widely ridiculed Gordon Brown/Arctic Monkeys answer pic.twitter.com/RjeAmHKQPF

— Jim Pickard (@PickardJE) March 8, 2018

gyac, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:46 (six years ago) link

If he'd've said "fuck that shit I only listen to Toru Takemitsu and power electronics" that could never have happened

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:50 (six years ago) link

tbh Corbyn made a similar tit out of himself at Prenton Park, and even though the crowd lapped it up he looked an absolute arse. But some slack cut there because he isn't Broon for starters!

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 20:58 (six years ago) link

Forget Cambridge Analytica, I’m sure his attempts to represent Remain knocked 5% off the vote.

Yes. I'm pretty sure Izzard's appearance on QT the week prior to the vote had a huge effect. Wanker.

DJ U OK Hun? (jed_), Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link

That self-indulgent speedfreak style no content psychobabble, which seems to make up 99% of his act isn't actually an act. The cunt just talks like that all the time.

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:11 (six years ago) link

I don't know if I misheard, but I think there was just a chorus of "Oh Jeremy Corbyn" at the Joshua/Parker fight!

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:51 (six years ago) link

Lot of anti-Semites in then.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Saturday, 31 March 2018 21:57 (six years ago) link

I thought I also saw a spectral Riefenstahl ghost behind one of the cameras looking annoyed and disappointed, so who knows!

calzino, Saturday, 31 March 2018 22:08 (six years ago) link

there were Jeremy Corbyn chants at the Everton/Liverpool games yesterday as well. Earlier on BBC radio after running a piece on the Times reportage of what the fucked-up wombats on FB post - shockah, there was a soundclip of the Joshua fight with a Corbyn chant going on in the background. And they made no reference to it at all even though it was a constant during the fight.

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 08:51 (six years ago) link

I was Anthony Joshua not Jeremy Corbyn they were singing, saw a clip of Some Lads singing it before the fight.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:06 (six years ago) link

ah, they sang at it the last Joshua fight is why I thought it was JC, it did sound like it to me but I'm probably slightly obsessed with all matters: bring down Tory scum.

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:13 (six years ago) link

me in the Onestop this morning.

"that'll be £3.80"

"yeah, I totally agree that Theresa May ought to be skinned alive and fed to feral dogs"

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:19 (six years ago) link

on message. i like it.

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:20 (six years ago) link

No worries, lads...

On Twitter, some prominent Labour supporters welcomed Izzard’s appointment. Musician Billy Bragg tweeted: “Christine Shawcroft is not an antisemite. She made a serious error of judgement, but parties that hope to form governments must expect to be held to higher standards. I campaigned with Eddie Izzard against the BNP in Barking and I welcome him to the NEC.”

Actor Tony Robinson also gave his backing, saying that Izzard was “a free spirit”.

Buff Jeckley (Tom D.), Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:25 (six years ago) link

ugh! double dose of Baldrick + Billy Bragg smugness, is anything more sick-making?

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:28 (six years ago) link

well, yes. Eddie Izzard is the answer!

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:30 (six years ago) link

god how much do i hate Tony Robinson

no surprise that Lib Dem enthusiast Billy Bragg is backing Izzard, nor that he wheels out his anti-nazi credentials to justify his pro-neolib credentials.

meanwhile, a multi-millionaire property developer doesn't like the Labour party any more. quel cauchemar.

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:35 (six years ago) link

i mean this is hard because if i see one more "but the Tories are massive racists so nobody on the Left can ever be bad or wrong ever" posts on Facebook i'm gonna start unfriending peeps but on the other hand i think we need to keep shaking the tree until all the rotten nuts have dropped to the ground and we can run a big fucking roller over the lot of them

bad left terf nut (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 1 April 2018 10:38 (six years ago) link

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CmUE2uiXgAEWUMh.jpg

"meanwhile, a multi-millionaire property developer doesn't like the Labour party any more. quel cauchemar."

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 12:53 (six years ago) link

I spy in my @PrivateEye #JeremyCorbyn #UKlabour #SirDavidGarrard #bbcdp #LabourCoup #toomanyhashtags *tuts* pic.twitter.com/L0T7pD443x

— )GƎ( lᴙiG HTᴙAƎ (@Leelu_In_Lazuli) July 1, 2016


the whole EYE bit here

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 12:55 (six years ago) link

funnel stein has shat the bed

Aren’t you ashamed of yourself? You are just a shill for Jew haters. Words fail me.

— Daniel Finkelstein (@Dannythefink) April 1, 2018

||||||||, Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link

finkelstein*

||||||||, Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link

(((finkelstein)))

imago, Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:21 (six years ago) link

Louis, the parenthesis meme isn’t helpful!

Fuck the Fink for even trying it with Dancox.

suzy, Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link

Oh I was just riffing on the previous post, no offence intended

imago, Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link

his comment about the Times level of "journalism" has been discovering the internet is otm.

calzino, Sunday, 1 April 2018 15:33 (six years ago) link


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