I imagine even Tom D might chuckle at that Hedges post!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:37 (four years ago) link
Andy McDonald is a very solid, dependable performer. I don't think anyone outside the media takes Wes seriously. yep, sounds familiar!
― calzino, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
also he's from a law background of course
― calzino, Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
Frances Barber will have to be bounced off for blatant and proud Islamophobia (there are loads of vile tweets) and she’s also a great big honking TERF.
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 4 April 2020 17:57 (four years ago) link
Congratulations Sir Keir Starmer. New leader of the Labour Party. pic.twitter.com/1sqrTiL3Jm— Balderdash (@notDcfcBoss) April 4, 2020
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 4 April 2020 19:45 (four years ago) link
If you can't beat 'em join 'em
But it was worth it because they gave him pride of place on *checks notes* page 10, under the fold from some awful bollocks from Camilla Long. pic.twitter.com/6SVQbqkMLE— jimmy mcnulty (@j1mmymcnulty) April 5, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 April 2020 08:17 (four years ago) link
Lock thread:
The election of Sir Keir Starmer to lead Britain’s Labour Party is posing a pointed linguistic dilemma for the Persian media & Iranian gov. When written out in Farsi, ‘Sir Keir’ translates as “bell end” or “tip of the penis”. If Starmer becomes PM, Iran may have to blur him out?!— Ali Alizadeh (@Ali7adeh) April 5, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:38 (four years ago) link
really hope that's true but waiting for confirmation from Rory
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:39 (four years ago) link
loool!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:40 (four years ago) link
well-played
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:49 (four years ago) link
Print the legend imo
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:50 (four years ago) link
Magnificent.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 5 April 2020 15:57 (four years ago) link
Nandy gets Shadow Foreign Sec. Possibly where she will do the least damage, idk, but disappointing she has one of the big roles.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:01 (four years ago) link
She seems more the Home Secretary type, so a good thing she hasn't been given that job.
― Did somebody just say eat? (Tom D.), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:25 (four years ago) link
Supported intervention in Libya iirc. How did that end up?
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:37 (four years ago) link
"Rachel Reeves Shadow Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster"
ugh!..fucking ridiculous, she shouldn't be anywhere near this cabinet. I'm never going to vote for a party with evil twats like her in front bench positions.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:39 (four years ago) link
opened up huge new opportunities for entrepreneurially-minded human resource traders iirc, a real victory for the free market xp
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:41 (four years ago) link
fuck everyone trying to shame people into sticking with this dogshit party
― aaaaeeeeeeoooooooowwww (Left), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:46 (four years ago) link
Just really interesting the people appointed to more senior roles than RLB.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
great screen-name/content synergy there
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:47 (four years ago) link
er, xp
I like the cut of this new poster's jib!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:52 (four years ago) link
you’ll need to work harder than that to convince me that ‘left’ isn’t a calz sock
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
is it heck man!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:56 (four years ago) link
I haven't got the energy for darning new tootsie warmers!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
https://img.buzzfeed.com/buzzfeed-static/static/2018-09/25/12/asset/buzzfeed-prod-web-06/anigif_sub-buzz-32722-1537894484-2.gif?downsize=700:*&output-format=auto&output-quality=auto
― bam! Free bees! (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
idk man calling the Labour party "dogshit" is the kind of savage bullying aggression that stops thoughtful Kier Biden fans from posting on UK pol threads
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 April 2020 16:58 (four years ago) link
at last now we can return of nuance and civility to the political discourse, that is when all the fucking worthless melts come out of hiding!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:02 (four years ago) link
when Fred starts haunting the UK pol thread every day without getting told to fuck off, you'll know the melts have risen!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:04 (four years ago) link
Rachel Reeves: a sensible olive branch to the party's right - promotes someone long seen as one of their biggest brains (and who backed Jess Phillips), sends a signal to the PLP who weren't with him that there's a way back for them:
there seems to be a glaring contradiction in this S Bush analysis
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
depends who he's saying is doing the seeing tbh
― mark s, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:18 (four years ago) link
"long seen *by the party's right* as one of their biggest brains" doesn't create a contradiction i don't think
― mark s, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:20 (four years ago) link
If it's Wes Streeting he's quoting he should at least include scare astericks and someone being hailed as brainy and putting their weight such a hopeless candidate suggests a contradiction of sorts to me. Mr bloody sub editor!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:25 (four years ago) link
Mr blobby sub editor
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:26 (four years ago) link
Sensible Rachel Reeves who enthused about Nancy Astor and who had a conference speech compared to Enoch Powell’s.
― extremely Dutch coughing sound (gyac), Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:27 (four years ago) link
a: they're all v dim so their judgment is poorb: she is their big brain = nevertheless still dim
weasely but logic is maintained
― mark s, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:28 (four years ago) link
There's the manifesto title
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:30 (four years ago) link
A bunch of people whose political judgement I respect have quit, as has my wife, and I can understand why.
tbr, the ‘Labour left’ within the PLP is about twelve people and half of them voted for intervention in Libya and / or sent their kids to private schools. RLB commanding the vote of about 15% of eligible members doesn’t suggest they’re as unreflective as we’ve spent time telling ourselves over the last four years. It’s not a socialist party and hasn’t been since, at best, the early eighties. There is no good reason to stay a member unless you think the party can do good things at the local level and that the voice of the left, and the strength of left-wing ideas, can win over enough of the soft/centre-left members to meaningfully push the Overton window on policy in a better direction. At present, I lean towards thinking that those two things are probably at least partially true.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:36 (four years ago) link
as a blobby sub i'm enjoying SV's first sentence there :)
― mark s, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:40 (four years ago) link
Alas, she did not.
― ShariVari, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
I suppose amongst the right, "brainy" is really just proxy for "one of us" and I'm not crediting Bush with being hip to this. Blobby sub edit accepted!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:42 (four years ago) link
Xp Loooool
― Kier today, Dom tomorrow (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
It is often the unintentional barbs that cut the deepest!
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
losing it trying to make sense of this whole “thank god we finally have a real opposition that’s willing to work uncritically with the tories” new party line, is there even a pretence of coherence here or is it just melt for fuck you
― aaaaeeeeeeoooooooowwww (Left), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:18 (four years ago) link
Look coherence is the old politics
― Microbes oft teem (wins), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:23 (four years ago) link
anyway Labour has always been an incorrigibly racist capitalist piece of shit in spite of every effort from a minority of members if anything good does come from the remains of Corbynism now it will have to be outside the party
― aaaaeeeeeeoooooooowwww (Left), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
I hate these people so much pic.twitter.com/TJ7oDCu87m— Sam ✌️ (@samisam147) April 5, 2020
Starmer just has to make the most pathetically mild + ambiguously milquetoast criticism of the Tories and melts are gushing "this is what an opposition looks like, finally!". I'm finished with parliamentary democracy, it's completely hopeless with a cunt like him being leader of the opposition.
― calzino, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:37 (four years ago) link
Any money says those guys haven't been paying the slightest bit of attention, it's literally a Pavlovian response to a suit.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:42 (four years ago) link
EU loon jon worth at it too, salivating over how various shadow front benchers are going to dominate the Tories. I'd be surprised if we even hear from them once. Be interesting for someone to expand on what this opposition is going to look like or what it involves.
― anvil, Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:44 (four years ago) link
annaliese dodds shadow chancellor
― megan thee macallan 18 year (||||||||), Sunday, 5 April 2020 18:47 (four years ago) link