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https://twitter.com/michaeljswalker/status/1245488347155398657?s=11 So, there's always a lot of talk about how Kuenssberg and Peston are useful idiots: jumped-up gossip journalists continually duped by the messages drip-fed to them by their politician contacts. But is that really the case? I'm more cynical. They most know what they're doing, know what their role is. There's a lot more conscious thought going on than them just being unwilling stooges of the establishment. They know precisely that they have the opposite opinion than a few weeks ago, that their job is to sell the government's actions to the public. Their 'cogs were turning' all along. e: Dan Hodges, meanwhile, very much is a useful idiot: https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/1245472822857740289
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dispatch_async posted:The replies to that Hodges tweet lead me to this which I think might be Hodges greatest ever work The rest of that conversation is magnificent. I don't know how to explain what Hodges' thinking is, apart from... not understanding the concept of time...?
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Apr 2, 2020 09:10
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Tell you what, forget my previous post. I've since seen this, and have decided that Peston is just an obnoxiously thick stooge after all: https://twitter.com/DrJamesKent3/status/1245567843770470400?s=20
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gh0stpinballa posted:big fan of the doctor zands twitter account and the extended universe. I never really 'got' the Zands character until recently, but seeing the slow descent into madness of somebody totally trapped in an all-consuming addiction to 'going viral' has been pretty entertaining.
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Well isn't this loving gross. This is how it's going to be reported from now on, isn't it? https://twitter.com/BBCNews/status/1245734573000077312
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Comrade Fakename posted:
I find that eventually one follows the other quite naturally
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Emily Thornberry currently talking up Starmer because "he's good, he's competent, and he won't over-promise" Wow so inspiring
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Apr 4, 2020 17:06
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I can see why many within Labour think they need a move towards the centre to chase that elusive concept known as 'electability' (I think they're very wrong, but I can see why they think that). However, it blows my mind that, after the election we've just had, and the clear reason why the defeat was so heavy (Brexit, obvs), they think the #1 figurehead for Remain is the person to do it. I'd predict that Starmer will get beaten worse than Miliband in an election for that reason alone. Especially if he cuts out the left as many are supposing. The only other option is to 'win' by doing everything the right-wing of this country want him to do, in which case what's the point of winning at all? Also, why do these people think he's such an attractive, suave operator? On Marr he's got the same overfed puce features as most gammons, and his voice is so bland it's hard to listen to for any extended length of time.
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It's been just over 24 hours and he's made nothing but bad decisions so far.
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Apr 5, 2020 16:10
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https://twitter.com/TheTrashiesUK/status/1246822049340895232 lol, Novara (or at least Bastani) are definitely going to do a bit of pivoting to keep their relevance for this new administration
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Apr 5, 2020 16:31
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I wonder if any Tories or their families have business interests tied into whatever holding companies are involved in this...
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Apr 5, 2020 18:32
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https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1246854144415141888?s=20 feel like pure poo poo just want him back
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https://twitter.com/chrismasonbbc/status/1247268884048199680?s=21 I really do think he's gonna die if he hasn't already
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What a story arc this guy's had over the past twenty years. Spent years biding his time to get to the top, achieving everything he'd always wanted, only to be ruined by the long-sown consequences of his own actions. Ending feels a bit rushed though
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Mokotow posted:What if they announce he kicked it right before they start clapping lol I was just going to post this. Either way, you could quite easily make a few edits to the footage afterwards to make it look celebratory
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peanut- posted:In the absence of a vaccine what other plan is there available? We can only really pay attention to what happens in countries that are starting to open up a bit, and take a cue from that. Notwithstanding the Tories being evil and/or incompetent: you test, you isolate, you have an adequately resourced healthcare system, and you provide means of helping people through the economic fallout. That the Tories are ideologically opposed to all of those things is the only reason we're so hosed.
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Apr 7, 2020 10:44
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keep punching joe posted:Gove is self isolating. Surely the entire cabinet/anyone that's been in 10 Downing Street recently will have to do this?
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Apr 7, 2020 10:56
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crispix posted:Now if the Democrats can just figure out a way for Unca Joe to remember his own name and stop sniffing women for a few months They've already gotten what they wanted. In a fight between Sanders or Trump they were always gonna choose the latter.
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Here's the promised 'balanced' cabinet: https://twitter.com/LeftieStats/status/1248597784229445633?s=20
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Apr 10, 2020 14:13
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Starmer is on Sky News right now, and I'm sorry but he's absolutely loving useless. The presenter is spoon feeding him an opportunity to critique thr government but he won't be drawn on it, instead talking about 'not being party politicial, not opposition for opposition's sake'. Now he's being pressed on what Labour's actual strategy is and he's totally floundering. We're right back to Miliband and the Labour offer being 'Tories, but half-hearted and incompetent'
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Apr 12, 2020 09:02
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Look up who Ashworth is married to, if you want a laugh.
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Apr 13, 2020 15:41
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So I think I'm gonna cancel my membership of Labour, and possibly Unison, and put the money into joining the IWW instead. A good idea? Do they do much useful stuff? They seem pretty sound, but I'm quite new to Actually Doing Stuff beyond voting in whatever ballot papers that happen come through my door.
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Apr 17, 2020 19:44
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ThomasPaine posted:Ditch Unison, think very hard before ditching Labour. The PLP and bureaucracy may be awful but it is still one of the biggest and most effective spaces for left-wing organising in the UK, and short of some serious political upheaval will remain so. You're going to be able to do a lot more working with groups like Momentum than you are outside the party (though that's not to say don't also join the IWW and other groups). If you leave, you hand victory to the enemy unless you have a viable national-level power structure outside the party, which as far as I can see does not exist in the UK at present. Fair play, thanks all. Maybe I'll just stick with the current arrangement and actually pull my finger out when this is over.
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Apr 17, 2020 19:54
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Just put CNN on to see what they're saying about the Oil crash, and they're currently talking to Anna Soubry lol
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Apr 20, 2020 19:29
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The establishment are playing all their distraction cards too early. They'll have to start killing off royals soon if they want to keep it up.
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Apr 29, 2020 10:07
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Jose posted:half a mil a year for this sort of hard hitting journalism Sidepoint but is there anybody on Twitter whose avatar is a cartoon version of themselves that isn't a total oval office? It seems a pretty good barometer. This prick, Linehan, countless other journalists. e: Peston also seems to have his own dedicated hashtag with another little cartoon version of his face. Absolute hellsite ee: I think that tweet has had the fastest ratio I've ever seen. No doubt he'll have a salty follow-up later. Answers Me fucked around with this message at 11:01 on Apr 29, 2020 |
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NotJustANumber99 posted:Also it doesn't really work because you're allowed to be out in the high Street with someone you live with? I guess unless it's going to do face recognition too, and look up where we live? I guess you could set up a whitelist of people in your household (not that I'm endorsing this lovely, lovely idea)
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learnincurve posted:ARE YOU loving READY I'm excited to see where this goes next. The one-upmanship on Poppy Fascist Island is going to reach dizzying new heights. I'm convinced Boris Johnson will name his kid Tom at this point.
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James McClean abused horrifically when football returns for not wearing his pre-match Captain Tom commemorative tracksuit
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Apr 30, 2020 16:31
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Pesky Splinter posted:We're going to be burning people in a giant, poppy-covered effigies of Captain Tom, Wickerman-style, furiously clapping in praise of the NHS as people burn. Funny you should say that... https://twitter.com/IAmDanJordan/status/1255883914314424327
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https://twitter.com/bbclaurak/status/1255891577026854912 I know she's in a giddy rush of livetweeting as he's talking but jesus loving christ the crass phrasing of this
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