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euphronius
Feb 18, 2009

Tory lorries tarry worries

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Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Kerbtree posted:

So, I was busy doing anything else, but was the ‘beacon of light’ as underwhelming as you’d guess?

the what?

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009
Incredibly cool that Liverpool Council finally found the amount of corruption that was Too Much

I assume most who read this thread are aware but after uncle Joe got the boot there was a three woman shortlist for new mayor, all experienced and with union backing

Keith and co scrapped the shortlist with no explanation, and announced that they were starting a new selection process where the previous three candidates wouldn't be considered (again with no explanation)

At the last mayoral election the tories got 3% of the vote so no real worries there but at least we're guaranteed to have a red rosette stamping the government commissioners plans to start chucking homeless people into the mersey

At least Joe was corrupt in a fun way

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
he scrapped the shortlist becuase the left wing candidate was way out in front so they used the excuse that she had brought the party into disrepute to get rid. What had she done that was too much? said at a hustings she was a clean break from the previous mayors office because she hadn't been part of it and therefore couldn't be involved in the corruption

ContinuityNewTimes
Dec 30, 2010

Я выдуман напрочь
Burning Liverpool to the ground rather than letting a leftish candidate stand. This is the unifying politics Labour needs

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
https://twitter.com/AdamBienkov/status/1374673906385178624?s=20

the sex ghost
Sep 6, 2009

Jose posted:

he scrapped the shortlist becuase the left wing candidate was way out in front so they used the excuse that she had brought the party into disrepute to get rid. What had she done that was too much? said at a hustings she was a clean break from the previous mayors office because she hadn't been part of it and therefore couldn't be involved in the corruption

She got endorsed by Corbyn and we can't have anti semites in high office, sorry I don't make the rules

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
once again the tories make starmer eat complete poo poo with ease

https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1374712915278884872?s=20

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Jose posted:

once again the tories make starmer eat complete poo poo with ease

https://twitter.com/joepike/status/1374712915278884872?s=20

tories and starmer have the same essential aims wrt labour so its not really surprising

No Dignity
Oct 15, 2007

I used to think you guys were overstating it a bit with Starmer being a literal MI5 op, but loving hell it is getting harder and harder to chalk this up to any amount of standard incompetence and careerism

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


the modern purpose of the labour party is to contain the left but be run by the same corrupt technocratic right wing as the tories so the left can't actually do anything to derail the gravy train

the timing doesnt quite work for starmer to have been parachuted in specifically to deal with corbyn, since he was parachuted in just slightly earlier than corbyn ran
but he's a lifelong security state creature who was leading the charge wrt labours total brexit fuckup and has personal connections with helping MI5 cover up various state crimes.

theres absolutely zero chance he isnt supported by mi5 in some regard, even if its just a "protect this guy hes the perfect idiot" written in some file somewhere. MI5 have always been absolutely crawlking through all of labours trashcans and trying to sabotage leftwingers. its just a matter of how direct it support is.

either way its worth remembering that labour dying as a party is FAR FAR behind the left actually winning an election in terms of disaster outcomes for his lot.
labour betrayed the establishments trust when they hosed up and let corbyn in and pandoras box cant be closed they'll just kill the party instead

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Lmao

https://twitter.com/BoardofDeputies/status/1374468734182584323?s=19

gonadic io
Feb 16, 2011

>>=
I would be surprised if they hadn't imo, given operation paperclip.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

V. Illych L. posted:

there's so much open impropriety going on with the johnson government that you seriously do not have to tale your lumps on this kind of thing

the present home secretary got sacked for basically working on her own on behalf of a foreign government! boris johnson ordered an assault on a journalist! eat out to help out!

jesus

something something something liberals hate socialists but love fascists

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
any hope of the “left of center” parties in the anglosphere vanished when the baffled new dealers and heirs of Attlee let the technocrats take over in the 80s and 90s. and much like the nazis the technocrats will only relinquish power when the last one dies

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol at starmer whole heartedly supporting the tories taking over a council becuase of corruption reasons hwile labours general secretary is corrupt as gently caress

https://skwawkbox.org/2021/03/23/ex...by-evanss-wife/


edit: lmao

https://twitter.com/NCTyrrell/status/1374730194553081864?s=20

https://twitter.com/jonwalker121/status/1374728096906162179?s=20

Jose has issued a correction as of 15:57 on Mar 24, 2021

Tulip
Jun 3, 2008

yeah thats pretty good


the strongest evidence that Starmer isn't MI5 is that this would require MI5 to break its perfect record of failed operations


(I think he's just bought off by the Tories)

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

If his mission is to make the Red Tories electable again then the record isn't getting broken any time soon.

Communist Thoughts
Jan 7, 2008

Our war against free speech cannot end until we silence this bronze beast!


Tulip posted:

the strongest evidence that Starmer isn't MI5 is that this would require MI5 to break its perfect record of failed operations


(I think he's just bought off by the Tories)

we havent seen if it will succeed yet

theres a slim chance that the outright ratfucking of labour causes labour to finally die and a new party to emerge, which would be roughly in keeping with MI5s success rate

personally im betting on a new fascist party though

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
lol of course he's starmers pick for shadow local government secretary

https://twitter.com/TheMattWain/status/1374744603014926337?s=20
https://twitter.com/Simon_Vessey/status/1374744957840416770?s=20

Rollie Fingers
Jul 28, 2002

Tulip posted:

the strongest evidence that Starmer isn't MI5 is that this would require MI5 to break its perfect record of failed operations


(I think he's just bought off by the Tories)

I've read so much John Le Carre

Starmer is exactly the kind of incompetent tryhard British secret services use

Doktor Avalanche
Dec 30, 2008

V. Illych L. posted:

what the gently caress

i know they're controlled opposition but they seem to be dropping the "opposition" part entirely

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
just lol at how insanely broke brained boomers are. they loving love dying

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1374752644808515591?s=20

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
anyway for everyone who reads this thread and isn't in the uk local elections for councils are in 2 months time and kieth just told the whole country labour councils are corrupt and should be tory controlled

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


Jose posted:

anyway for everyone who reads this thread and isn't in the uk local elections for councils are in 2 months time and kieth just told the whole country labour councils are corrupt and should be tory controlled

Is it not 6 weeks tomorrow?

Assuming the English local elections are on the same day the as Holyrood election.

Zerg Mans
Oct 19, 2006


...was that not something that was well known to everyone, or is it just a US thing that we just let nazis live here

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

Jose posted:

just lol at how insanely broke brained boomers are. they loving love dying

https://twitter.com/lewis_goodall/status/1374752644808515591?s=20

man there’s something about the combo of lead and reaganism/thatcherism that made an entire generation more narcissistic than narcissus

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
not explaining this tweet

https://twitter.com/rantingauthor/status/1374767483333251072

Clyde Radcliffe
Oct 19, 2014

zegermans posted:

...was that not something that was well known to everyone, or is it just a US thing that we just let nazis live here

It's well known that the USA, USSR and UK were all abducting German scientists and engineers to work on their respective rocket programs. A lot of them would have been Nazis in name only.

The guy this refers to just seems to have been a straight-up war criminal recruited by MI6.

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold
also lol that we all spent decades during the cold war bragging about how we grabbed all the "good" scientists and only left low level technicians for the soviets to pick up

Dead Goon
Dec 13, 2002

No Obvious Flaws



Has he got ears of corn sticking out of his jacket pocket?

forkboy84
Jun 13, 2012

Corgis love bread. And Puro


zegermans posted:

...was that not something that was well known to everyone, or is it just a US thing that we just let nazis live here

This BBC article is well worth reading: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/extra/7z6huifsyj/the-nazi-in-the-family-stanislaw-stan-chrzanowski

But the gist is, this isn't about scientists. For example, the bloke mentioned in the article was a member of the Belarusian Auxiliary Police, who were collaborators in Nazi occupied territory, so he'd have been directly involved in identifying & helping to round up Jews & then involved in their extermination.

It's not surprising but it is loving grim

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

so more of a klaus barbie kind of affair then

V. Illych L.
Apr 11, 2008

ASK ME ABOUT LUMBER

wait hang on is this alec trevelyan

Raskolnikov38
Mar 3, 2007

We were somewhere around Manila when the drugs began to take hold

V. Illych L. posted:

wait hang on is this alec trevelyan

for england illych?

MikeCrotch
Nov 5, 2011

I AM UNJUSTIFIABLY PROUD OF MY SPAGHETTI BOLOGNESE RECIPE

YES, IT IS AN INCREDIBLY SIMPLE DISH

NO, IT IS NOT NORMAL TO USE A PEPPERAMI INSTEAD OF MINCED MEAT

YES, THERE IS TOO MUCH SALT IN MY RECIPE

NO, I WON'T STOP SHARING IT

more like BOLLOCKnese

Raskolnikov38 posted:

also lol that we all spent decades during the cold war bragging about how we grabbed all the "good" scientists and only left low level technicians for the soviets to pick up

The Soviets confined their Nazis to a shithole town like they deserved and then didn't use their work cos it was poo poo compared to their own dudes

Let's not talk about East Germany tho

Samovar
Jun 4, 2011

I'm 😤 not a 🦸🏻‍♂️hero...🧜🏻



gonadic io posted:

I would be surprised if they hadn't imo, given operation paperclip.

Also operation legacy.

Jose
Jul 24, 2007

Adrian Chiles is a broadcaster and writer
Unsurprisingly the cops lied about being injured

https://twitter.com/SimsonPete/status/1374695796541640704?s=19

CactusWeasle
Aug 1, 2006
It's not a party until the bomb squad says it is
..but a cops feelings were hurt, right? Isnt that 10 years now

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it dont matter
Aug 29, 2008

https://news.sky.com/story/lorry-driver-charged-after-trying-to-smuggle-migrants-out-of-uk-12255187

quote:

Lorry driver charged after 'trying to smuggle migrants out of UK'

Seventeen migrants, from countries including Morocco, Algeria and Pakistan, were found in the back of a lorry south of London.

Zengin, who is Turkish, is "accused of trying to smuggle them out of the UK and into mainland Europe"

lol

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