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Pistol_Pete posted:Yeah, I said earlier in the thread that the Johnson government is shaping up to be government by announcement: you control the daily news cycle by making some sort of eye-catching proclamation, deflect any questions about details, reap a round of positive headlines in the press and then do it all over again the next day. Nobody seems to notice or care that you're not following through on any of it and I guess you'd be able to cycle back to previous announcements once a few months have passed. I'm surprised nobody's thought of this before, it certainly seems to work a treat. its just a guess but i imagine Cummings actually does want them to go through with social spending and stuff because... well, its the obvious thing to do and would also be beneficial to pretty much everyone in the tory coalition. i do think a "national socialism" if you will, combined by the tories with xenophobia, racism, transphobia etc, all that good culture war poo poo, would be extremely popular in the UK. (I also think a national socialism without all that poo poo would be very popular, but nobody is offering that and tory voters won't bite if nobody is suffering) but i think the actual money men are far too psycho to go along with it, so even if a bit gets done I bet its not for long. Libertarianism is extremely deeply rooted in the tories, they'll do the vile racism stuff but i doubt they can commit to public spending, heavens no!
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Communist Thoughts posted:yeah ofc, the question was "is the labour party a vehicle for revolutionary change?" and the answer isn't fully in but our projection is: "LOL" Jackie Baillie is absolute loving dogshit. Among the worst as far as ScotLab goes and think of the toerags that includes. Of course Gordon Broon endorses her. I feel like if more people in this thread were members of Scottish Labour & paid attention to its politicians there would be a lot less faith in electoral politics. Engaging in the electoral system in a limited manner, ie voting, sure. But people are spending hours upon hours campaigning and attending meetings & all that seems to me like time that could be spent better organising out with a social democratic political party. I don't know what the gently caress the answers but it seems like outreach among working people would be good, but also those not in work. Outside a JobCentre seems a place where it'd be pretty easy get people with an experience of how the state is loving them. Groups that protect your housing rights. poo poo that directly impacts people in a far more obvious & less abstract way than Westminster politics. Real material poo poo. I'm not a theorist. I'm not particularly smart but certainly above average when it comes to being "well-read" about politics. I dunno. Mostly I'm just mad at the guy who thinks that it's parliament or an armed uprising, which are both about as likely to lead to socialism (though at least the uprising would have a bit of glory attached to it).
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forkboy84 posted:Should build a time machine to go back to a time when uncharismatic does like Attlee cokld become PM What all the way back to 1991?
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quote:Ranting woman on BBC Question Time linked to National Front Amazing how these accidents just keep happening 
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Pencils R Cool posted:https://www.thenational.scot/news/18255973.ranting-woman-bbc-question-time-linked-national-front/ Love too not bother checking if some absolute weapon banging on pure fash talking points might not be involved with the NF/BNP/Whoever (Of course, it's not laziness at all, it's an entirely deliberate scheme to portray these views as just those of ordinary people) I'm the completely fireproof Momentum book
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Miftan posted:I'm the bucket labeled wooden spoons for some reason. I'm the fork and sickle.
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I'm the tall angry Communist gnome.
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stev posted:I'm the tall angry Communist gnome. 
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Lungboy posted:I'm Kier's awesome hair do. he looks more like Mark Kermode who incidentally would also make a much better Labour leader
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what happened to jess phillips’ campaign to be the jess phillips leader of the jess phillips party
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Miftan posted:I'm the bucket labeled wooden spoons for some reason. "And I'll put a bucket of wooden spoons here. Oh poo poo, you can't tell they're wooden spoons. I could draw them the other way up so you can see the spoon bits and not just the handles. Nah gently caress it, I'll just label the bucket"
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https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1231939769891946496 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1232045640554831873 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1232050311012978689 https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1232050907304615936 filed under 'predictable', perhaps...
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bump_fn posted:what happened to jess phillips’ campaign to be the jess phillips leader of the jess phillips party Jess Phillips happened to it.
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CoolCab posted:the famous starmer pin up sorta looks like your avatar somehow Hey man, can you tell me the story about how you met James Corden at Gregg’s? I haven’t heard it before. I'm not joking I've never heard it before Chuka Umana fucked around with this message at 01:11 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Skarsnik posted:why the gently caress are there pomegranate seeds there?
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Isomermaid posted:"And I'll put a bucket of wooden spoons here. Oh poo poo, you can't tell they're wooden spoons. I could draw them the other way up so you can see the spoon bits and not just the handles. Nah gently caress it, I'll just label the bucket" I mean it IS a political cartoon.
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Guavanaut posted:Millennials bought them instead of a house. That's where I've been going wrong 
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ronya posted:https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1231939769891946496 i'd quite like a pledge from one of the candidates "i will never mention israel or palestine again as long as i live" e: i never actually opened my letter from kier, i love my poster. did other people pick up on the "Authority" dogwhistle aka "im the only man"? cause kier does not look like an authoratitive chap at all and the rest of his pitch is quite conciliatory so that bit stands out. unless hes trying to decorum bojo and say he doesnt deserve authority? unfortunately the english think being a fat posh eton wanker is authority at least from his pledges it looks like hes running far to the left of pre-corbyn labour, so that overton window got shifted at least an anti-intervention act sounds loving great but its partnered with "the UK should be a force for international justice" which... if taken in the new labour way.... uhhhh! Communist Thoughts fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Feb 24, 2020 |
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It's very subtle, but the act Boris is absent form this image is very on the point by the artist. Good work.
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Got to admire RLB flexing with crêpes Suzette E: https://twitter.com/DoubleDownNews/status/1231903180381966336?s=19 She's so, so good. BizarroAzrael fucked around with this message at 00:27 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Haven't watched the video or read the stuff yet. I'm politically exhausted! https://twitter.com/hopenothate/status/1231848671962181634?s=20 Also see this - just about every non-politically correct thing in the Aalst town carnival: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-51612541 and BBC smear EU with this sentence: quote:Aalst lies 31km (19 miles) northwest of Brussels - the heart of the EU - and is run by the New Flemish Alliance (N-VA), a nationalist party pushing for Flanders independence. It's a shame actually though because Pastor Adolf Daens (featured in the biopic Daens - very worth a watch - Flemish/French with subtitles) was from there (I went to the little museum to see actual stuff from his life). He fought against poverty and injustice in the 19th century. He was suspended from the RC church (and I'm not sure he might have been excommunicated at some point too) for his work. Jaeluni Asjil fucked around with this message at 01:00 on Feb 25, 2020 |
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:Haven't watched the video or read the stuff yet. I'm politically exhausted! Dude stop hanging out in the daily mail comments.
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Just got this today from my CLP. Guh.quote:Sent on behalf of Clive Betts MP
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MikeCrotch posted:never underestimate how unengagaed people are with politics in general, even actual party members. There was a quote from a Bernie canvasser who said they were prepared for all the responses they got except for "Who the gently caress is Bernie Sanders?" We got an email at the RLB campaign saying that they won’t vote for Rebecca as they could never vote for a blairite.
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Comrade Fakename posted:We got an email at the RLB campaign saying that they won’t vote for Rebecca as they could never vote for a blairite. yikes. do you personally think corbyn should come out properly for Long Bailey?
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NotJustANumber99 posted:yikes. do you personally think corbyn should come out properly for Long Bailey? I doubt it would make much difference. Some people are just immune to reality. And frankly, reading through people who reply to obvious mass emails with their opinions self-selects for weirdos. But those weirdos do exist.
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https://www.theguardian.com/society/2020/feb/24/austerity-blamed-for-life-expectancy-stalling-for-first-time-in-centuryThe Actual Health Secretary posted:His findings show just how important this agenda is, and renew my determination to level up health life expectancy across our country. After all, levelling up health is the most important levelling up of all. It's fine. A talcum powder expert and a taxidermist, propped up by the Lib Dems for 5 years, killed 40,000+ people by cutting services to the bone.
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Julio Cruz posted:he looks more like Mark Kermode He's a bit melty these days. He was stanning pretty hard for Laura Kuenssberg during the election
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I want to find whichever loving nerd told politicians it was a good idea to start using the phrase "level up" and throttle them. If the loving NHS isn't gaining the ability to cast mordenkainen's disjunction it's not loving levelling up.
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Speaking of "Corbyn should endorse RLB", just got an email from John McDonnell endorsing her which is the closest you'll get outside a direct Corbyn endorsement. Anyone else just get it?
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Chuka Umana posted:Hey man, can you tell me the story about how you met James Corden at Gregg’s? I haven’t heard it before. that's the amazing part, there isn't one. mine is one of the mystery red texters pieces - see also, spagetti bollocknese. i've never met greggs nor been in the part of the world that service station is.
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Nothingtoseehere posted:Speaking of "Corbyn should endorse RLB", just got an email from John McDonnell endorsing her which is the closest you'll get outside a direct Corbyn endorsement. Anyone else just get it? Yeah I got that too.
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