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marktheando posted:From the replies on the green's tweet He's eternally on the verge of losing his seat even though he's consistently gotten a huge majority every time his seat is contested. Same with Dianne Abbot, John McDonald and any left wing MP who's lefty nonsense will get them thrown out by sensible, conservative Britain. Paradoxically Sensible MP's like Nick Clegg and Danny Alexander are rewarded for their pragmatic and reasonable dedication to voting with the Tory whip and would never lose their seats, even though they did to complete outside no hopers. And there's no chance of Conservative MP's losing their seats, especially if they're on the Cabinet, even though they're all on razor thin majorities and even Boris Johnson's seat is up for grabs. Almost as if there's some, I dunno, internal bias that tells the media that everyone's secretly conservative and that left wing politics will be defeated easily that goes in direct contrast with reality.
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Johnson has a majority of around 5,000 and Labour gained in his constituency in 2017. Swinson has a similar majority and won her seat back off the SNP who took it from her in 2015. I'd think either or both of them are far more likely to lose their seats than Corbyn.
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https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1160172238475337728 The Queen Strikes again.
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Epstein, blinded by the flashes from the paparazzi's cameras, crashes the Lolita Express into the island ed: where were you on this day, the day Jeffrey Epstein "killed himself"? Jeffrey has passed away. RIP u will live on forever. Cant believe it. I wanna run to u CGI Stardust fucked around with this message at 14:15 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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OwlFancier posted:Didn't they do the rounds in his constituency after he won the leadership and he was really popular there? Not only that, but he is a very good constituency MP. Persistant, dogged, determined... in one of my working capacities I (or rather my boss) was on the receiving end of Corbyn doing his 'dog with a bone' stuff! He was on the case constantly. To say more would be to doxx myself.
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boy this is going to be fun if it happens https://twitter.com/KennyFarq/status/1160085638949101568 https://twitter.com/callumjodwyer/status/1160121902393974784 such a lovely chap: new upcoming wings party political broadcast, presumably posted:Isn’t that the point though, I ask. This is all happening in Scotland and meanwhile here you are, living in this beautiful English city, Bathgate’s answer to Jane Austen, inciting division 400 miles away and profiting from it? “Well, no more than you are,” he replies. “I’ve never understood why this is an issue. How does it undermine the arguments? At the moment my position is I don’t want to live in the most gutless country in the world. I would cringe every day stepping out my front door and looking around thinking: ‘God, you people won’t even run your own affairs.’ This is where I live. This is where I built my life for 20 years before Wings. I’m not going to up sticks. Does that mean I have to shut up? Does it mean I’m not allowed an opinion? Somebody has to make the arguments that Wings makes. Somebody has to do what we do. And it looks like it’s me, because nobody else is doing it.”
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1160172238475337728 OwlFancier posted:I can't believe kim jong un shot down jeffrey epstein's plane with a ZSU. Uh, uh, uh.... I can't believe Heston Blumenthal killed and ate Boris Johnson.
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1160172238475337728 Wish the fucker had at least flipped first.
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Rincewinds posted:Wish the fucker had at least flipped first. they found his black books with names and pictures / video and it will all get totally buried lol
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Can’t wait to see Bond having to deliver a polonium necktie to a prison in Bond 25
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Gonzo McFee posted:https://twitter.com/juliamacfarlane/status/1160172238475337728 Was only a matter of time before something like this happened. Can't wait for all the high-level sex trafficking to be swept under the rug now the one bad man is dead.
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Had the pleasure of meeting Jeffrey Epstein at an island party once. He was surprisingly down to earth, and VERY funny
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Angepain posted:boy this is going to be fun if it happens https://wingsoverscotland.com/a-remarkable-feat/
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Suitable news item for this thread. No beans were harmed in this making of this news item. https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/ian-watkins-lostprophets-phone-prison-16727554 quote:
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I need one of you good people to explain to me in very simple terms - as if to a baby - what exactly Chris Williamson did wrong. So many otherwise on point people are piling on him but looking at the actual stuff he's said I'm really not getting it. At worst he can be accused of bad optics + poor communication, but eh. Yes, I know he's clearly an opportunist and has a less than amazing history with supporting PFI etc, but on this particular topic a whole lot of people seem to be losing it over something that's just invisible to me. Maybe that's privilege showing, I don't know, but I'd like to understand it. E: here's one such thread - most of the people involved are generally solid take-havers from what I've seen. https://twitter.com/Mc_Heckin_Duff/status/1160169704050352128?s=19 But Williamson is right here - though again perhaps communicating poorly. Class analysis is integral to socialism and issues of identity must be seen in the context of class relationships. Many of his critics seem to be arguing that there is some form of conceptual equivalence between class and identity groups, which is plainly wrong. E2: see, this garbage is what I mean. It's just demonstrating a total misunderstanding of the basics of socialist theory. Marx would have a stroke if was still alive. https://twitter.com/ArkadyB61/status/1160173323223015425?s=19 The whole CW debacle is really exposing some of the fault lines in the contemporary 'left'. I'm not certain it's right to outright attack either side here as both have a point (crude class reductionism is bad, so is misunderstanding the unique importance of class at the conceptual level) and that's just handing ammo to the right, but I really do feel like it's important to emphasise what class analysis and class consciousness actually is, and more to the point show how it actually complements intersectional struggle rather than sidelining it. E3: tl:dr class is not an identity ffs lads ThomasPaine fucked around with this message at 14:34 on Aug 10, 2019 |
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Angepain posted:boy this is going to be fun if it happens Remember when “Unbelievable fury is the only rational human response to...” from Rev Stu would be followed up with “...a review of a Metal Slug game I disagree with on a fansite.” Better times. Anyone got a copy of the article wrenched outside the paywall?
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Williamson mostly just keeps opening his gob and putting his foot in it. Like he's consistently not good at communicating, even with a charitable interpretation. Which is not really a good thing for an MP?
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Darth Walrus posted:So am I reading this right? Looks like the Greens, Lib Dems, and Plaid Cymru are merging into a single Remain party. Apart from anything else, that's not what an electoral pact means.
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Z the IVth posted:If the Epstein thing ever gets close to convicting Prince Andrew he's going to mysteriously end up in the middle of a 6 vehicle pile up in the wilds of Norfolk. You called it. Literally an hour/page before.
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I'm all in favour of the ultra rich being killed by the state, but yeah in this case it feels a little premature.
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ThomasPaine posted:The whole CW debacle is really exposing some of the fault lines in the contemporary 'left'. I'm not certain it's right to outright attack either side here as both have a point (crude class reductionism is bad, so is misunderstanding the unique importance of class at the conceptual level) and that's just handing ammo to the right, but I really do feel like it's important to emphasise what class analysis and class consciousness actually is, and more to the point show how it actually complements intersectional struggle rather than sidelining it. Problem is that class actually is an identity in as much as the social concepts of "working class" and "middle class" exist outside of the actual economic classes of workers and capitalists, hence why you have people thinking that Jess Phillips is a big loving working class hero for having an accent
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Darth Walrus posted:You don't even have to assume Epstein was murdered for this to be blatant shady bullshit, because if he wasn't, that means they didn't put the paedophile billionaire on basic suicide watch. Dude shouldn't have had anything to kill himself with.
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https://twitter.com/guardian/status/1160060754982313984 lol Epstein made Prince Andrew a trending topic on Twitter. I know the Media won't touch it but it's heartening to see that everyone knows why
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RabidWeasel posted:Problem is that class actually is an identity in as much as the social concepts of "working class" and "middle class" exist outside of the actual economic classes of workers and capitalists, hence why you have people thinking that Jess Phillips is a big loving working class hero for having an accent This is actually a really good point, and I think is a major issue in the UK in particular. There's class in the Marxist sense, and there's class in the traditional British class system sense, and they're kind of related but also at the same time completely different. This leads to a lot of crossed wires. Just a shame to see good people twist themselves in knots as a result. We really need to be better at separating them conceptually.
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Gonzo McFee posted:
for anyone wondering just how absolutely certain it is that prince andrew hosed kids with epstein he hosted epstein's homecoming party after he was released from prison the first time. thats how close friends they were
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Just had the news that my constituency has selected the good socialist immigrant workplace-unionising local momentum candidate over the blairite middle-class white woman SWERF candidate from the next county over who played dirty in the campaign to the point of being officially rebuked, got caught sharing anti-Semitic posts on Facebook and called Jeremy Corbyn a lexiter. I'm looking forward to having an MP I can be proud to support.
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bump_fn posted:lmao wtf is number 11 11 Downing Street. The Chancellor of the Exchequer's residence. The money house.
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