How will you vote in the Labour Leadership election?

He’s a lot less posh than most of the media gatekeepers and right-wing arseholes (yes, overlapping Venn diagram) who would have to sell that line. Maybe his obvious lower middle class discomfort in certain circumstances is a positive? Will it get anywhere with the demographic of people with THIS FAMILY BELIEVES IN LOVE wall transfers in their kitchen extensions/women who call each other Hunni on FB/people who watch the One Show?

I’ve just started applying to adopt a whippetlurcher so I can’t wait to see what the rescue pages will make of the Dilyn situation. I can’t imagine it will go down well at all.

my soul is chilled by that glimpse into suzy's world of normies

the writing fad needs more analysis imo, can't tell how much sheer stupidity is betrayed by getting so caught up on signifiers. someone bought us a teaspoon that has the word 'lovely' written vertically down the handle am i relatable now

sort of posh boss who everyone calls a wanker behind their back persona

TBF this accounts for most of our recent Prime Ministers.

Nandy is probably just as posh as him, but did you see his humorous anecdote about valentine's night in Newcastle recently? It had all the hallmarks of a nauseating bore being who is used to being a boss figure and politely indulged by underlings that daren't tell him he's a complete wanker!

Sign up to a few pet rescue pages and suddenly these people are EVERYWHERE (and I forgot the ‘fleece, Crocs and shite tattoos’ grouping).

nandy's bg is posher than starmer's despite the fact she's tried to turn herself into the exotically northern townsperson the media like to see her as

I know I'd read her common touch is quite a performance, but I'd be cool with that if she wasn't such a tory in disguise.
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May was more like the stern but (lol) fair boss who you don't fuck with because you know they have a vindictive streak. Starmer seems more ingenuous but just as charmless as well, type of boss who gets the basic minimum of respect.

the writing fad needs more analysis imo, can't tell how much sheer stupidity is betrayed by getting so caught up on signifiers. someone bought us a teaspoon that has the word 'lovely' written vertically down the handle am i relatable now

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Ms Nandy, Tory in disguise

When we were looking at houses, the number of houses that featured Union Jack décor

noticed a while ago how many airbnb places had Union Flag cushions - but properties on estate agents sites too. Keep Calm And Have A Cuppa type shit all over the walls too natch.

tbf, this stuff spans quite a few social demographics and there are i am sure subtleties distinguishing between the cath kidston set and honest hardworking twee patriots

absolutely coating the walls in tat with 'love' and 'we believe in love' and 'omg love' and 'this is a house of love' = strong correlation with divorced mothers

Hahahahaha the direness of wall transfers is the one thing my mum and I agree on - she says she imagines the daddy of all interfamilial shouting matches going on with a wall transfer with FAMILY MEANS LOVE or similar lurking in the background.

HOWEVER I’ve had this waiting to be framed for ages, sort of undermining the wall transfer concept:

http://www.artnet.com/artists/christopher-wool-and-felix-gonzalez-torres/poster-untitled-xwP6-K_r8FAx3DVlAmpvQg2

They’re worth about a grand now, whoa!

We were due a new sneering at the little people thread.

Are the petty-bourgeois/boring middle-class types under discussion “the little people”?

this was on the wall of a house we looked round

https://i.imgur.com/SIQjFAS.jpg

union jack cushions = working-class couples who've made some money & developed a pioneer spirit. sometimes these places are otherwise v good airbnbs

this is not sneering this is cool-headed analysis. the most egregious 'house of love' was my friend's mother who is a v v v high-powered city lawyer/pr type

i can only say fair play

omg ogmor

Oh FFS, leave us to criticise people who have more money and less taste than most of us in the precariat.

that picture getting better of course when you recall how euro 2004 ended for england (portugal's goalie scoring in a shootout)

omg ogmor, that is traumatizing!

personally I salute it

This way, please:

Real England

Doc not missing a beat here, dropping an email on Corona in my inbox

I'd consider giving her my 2nd pref if she said 'Rhythm of the Night: Classic or Dud?'

When does this finally end? At this rate they'll just give it to the last one left alive.

that'll be Corbyn back in as interim leader then, call this competition off - they're all useless!

wld be a great time to get members busy locally, nothing. starmers comments so weak

Yeah WhatsApp momentum groups are doing a bit of that

Camden’s mutual aid group is VERY active.

Have we noted anywhere that the coronavirus "over 70s don't come to work" rule excludes Corbyn from Westminster for the remainder of his tenure? guess it wasn't for long anyway.

A journalist explicitly asked about parliamentarians yesterday - presumably to confirm the govt had just excluded the leader of the opposition from parliament.

Presumably second house almost empty too...

Jez sez:

“I raised this very specific issue, not for myself but for other people. It’s more important that those who have underlying health problems, be it diabetes, be it heart conditions, be it lung conditions, be it people with emphysema, or industrial injuries that they’ve suffered, they’re likely to be more vulnerable than those that are healthy. So it is not just an age thing.

Personally speaking, I will carry on with my work, I will carry on accepting the responsibilities that I have in this position.”

Sometimes you just need to do your fucking bit and follow the protocols.

This will prompt thousands of "healthy" 70 year olds to follow suit. Age is as much of an indicator of complications as any other health measure.

Over 70s wouldn’t vote for Corbyn so idk why they’d choose to follow him now?

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I work with a 72yo veg farmer who will be leaving his farm only twice weekly, going to a specific place for six hours each time to trade (while taking extra hygiene precautions) so that everyone else can have fresh, healthy food. Healthy 70+ people who are still in work and provide essential services are not keen on self-isolation as long as their family members don’t exhibit symptoms.

sorry but the idea that the nation's 70-year-olds will self-isolate only if Jermy Cromblyn does is pretty funny, think more of them would socialise much more just to spite him

if things aren't depressing enough right now, the idea of a fucking diaphanous melt jellyfish in a suit with a stupid fucking voice being the next LOTO is enough to make want to give up. By the end of the week Raab will be to the left of him on proposed C 19 responses.

It's not that people will follow his example. It's that his is an example of the "that doesn't apply to me I'm important" individualism that breaks down group protection.

People won't follow him, but they will say if it's good enough for the political classes it's good enough for us real people swapping food and money at markets oh look

Yeah they're not likely to do it because of Corbyn but I can easily see a lot of people who hate him going "fucking Jeremy Corbyn's still going out so why can't I?"

TBH though people who think like that are probably going to carry on regardless of what Corbyn does.

Got my ballot.

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Excellent work. Hope you’re feeling ok (or at least not worse).

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Interesting how, "Labour should suspend the leadership election, keep Corbyn as leader & rerun it later" has shifted from being a joke rooted in a certain sad, self-ironisation to an entirely sensible and correct demand.

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