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Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
I just listened to the Trash Future episode on Greensill and gently caress me David Cameron is a moron. Didn't look too closely into it before because I just assumed that David Cameron is corrupt and couldn't be bothered to look into financial aspects and now I find out that Cameron had the same attitude on research for what was essentially a payday lender scheme in places where it makes no sense to have a payday lender.

It really is just dogmatic belief that Private = good, public = bad. That's all it is.

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Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

sinky posted:

I googled to find out who Allison Pearson is and the first result is

https://twitter.com/allisonpearson/status/1388777056838762496?s=20

:ok:

Oh she's a grade A piece of poo poo. She has articles about how she was glad her son got COVID.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Lawrence Fox should be studied like an ISIS recruitment video. The right wing radicalisation effect of divorce on the male middle aged mind is too powerful to be ignored.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Jaeluni Asjil posted:

A few years ago she wrote about how A-levels these days weren't as good as in the old days and were a piece of piss.
Then one of her kids (daughter I think) didn't do very well in her A-levels and suddenly Pearson was railing against A-levels being - erm I can't remember, but anyway 'hard' or 'tough' or something these days.

She also got the Telegraph to delete a bunch of articles about how talent shows are all poo poo for talentless brats to try and sneak into the entertainment industry when her talentless brat auditioned for X Factor.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Queen boat update

https://twitter.com/SamCoatesSky/status/1386652150793703427?s=19

Turns out the reason it keeps getting brought up and never leads to anything is because The Queen doesn't even want the thing and thinks it'll look bad her getting a free yacht at a time when everyone else has to do without.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

jaete posted:

I don't understand the Telegraph at all, the whole paper is just completely full of the dumbest loving wankers imaginable

When did US-style Trumpism become a thing here in the UK ffs. Did some rich cunts, such as whoever owns Telegraph, just decide that they want to copy that poo poo

The Telegraph has always been stuffy old racists who are hilariously behind the times. The kind of people who think £30,000 is a starting salary and say racial slurs so old and obscure nobody is really sure who they're referring to.

It's just that with the Internet all their dumbest takes just sit in the present like a fatberg of stupidity in the sewer of public discourse and makes you wretch when it's all dumped on you at once.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

StarkingBarfish posted:

It looks like you're trying to turn the weans against me. would you like some help?

https://twitter.com/BillGates/status/1389316412259270657

Divorced to spend more time with his massive pile of children's foreskins.

For real though I hope that stepping in to demand that the non white countries not get the vaccine for reasons was the last straw and the divorce tears him and his wealth to shreds.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

blunt posted:

Wait what?

Bill Gates personally intervened to argue that poor countries do not get the generic formula to make their own vaccine to protect the sanctity of copyright law because all the countries where we do our manufacturing don't have the manufacturing capability.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Paperhouse posted:

There was some lovely article recently about him which said that he voted for Jeremy Corbyn's Labour in 2017. What the gently caress has happened there

The "She turned the weans against us" principle dictates that he made racist jokes and eventually one of his weans said it was racist, causing a spiral of anger and rejection that caused him to make racism his entire persona until he made a shite folk album about his divorce and it all got worse from there.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/JoshHalliday/status/1389628163320393729?s=19

Maybe sacking the community organiser teams was a dumb idea

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

GreyjoyBastard posted:

I have bad news about my jurisdiction. :v:

I'd appreciate it if you fine folks would dial down the inter-thread drama a notch.

Look at clean shirt over here.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/AllyFogg/status/1389957482353762313?s=19

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

stev posted:

Might vote Binface tomorrow. He seems like a good bloke.

Mate if you want to encourage terrible jokes with limited appeal just empty quote me.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

goddamnedtwisto posted:

https://twitter.com/CNBCnow/status/1390021145911513089

Obviously not UK news but holy gently caress this is huge (assuming, of course, there's not some loving *gigantic* strings attached somewhere).

Bill too busy drowning his sorrows in blended child foreskin cocktails to interfere.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Still laughing at Polly Tonybee saying that the voters have no excuses but to vote for Labour because Keith is so electable.

Winning Votes isn't electability, wearing a nice suit and not being left wing is.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Voting for me is going to be an exercise in seeing if I can be bothered after the gym.

If I do though it's both votes for #alba

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

peanut- posted:

Is this guy actually big or is Rishi just really tiny

https://twitter.com/latgalia/status/1390226452050759680?s=20

A man who believes so much in austerity he still gets his mum to cut his hair.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

keep punching joe posted:

look at those meaty fists, he could totally destroy you if the whim took him.

I will face him in a Cage This Sunday, At Slaughterhouse Spring.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/jeremycorbyn/status/1390244482801668096

Jez is too good for these slime.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

PNGYAKUZA posted:

https://twitter.com/guardiannews/status/1390172246178729990

I swear tories are lizard people who don't consume media and instead think identity is actually just a load of flags, racism and posh accents.

Art will continue as it has done in the past ten years. Exclusively made up of the children of born to wealth cunts with fake titles and names like Chundly Barseflaps. It's just money moving up the ladder and never coming down again.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Borrovan posted:

Literally all good art is made by working class people (who make no money off it because of gutting funding & not being called Chundly Barseflaps). This is a bad take.

The Lib Dem PCC candidate in South Wales actually sounds legit good, I just cannot trust anyone in a yellow rosette.

Genuinely wish someone would just run as an Independent gently caress The Police Candidate, I reckon they might actually be in with a good shout in some places

I agree the past ten years of art by new names have sucked.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390445922727907335?s=19

oval office can't even get the Lib Dems on board. That's the thing he's supposed to be good at!

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Lmao Rosie Duffield has locked her account after spending all day posting poo poo about how people kept coming up to her to say how glad they were Corbyn was gone.

Penny is dropping for a lot of these cunts that their phony baloney jobs are at risk without the people Corbyn brought to the table.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390452157137227780?s=19

hosed it.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390454068557099014?s=19

Three.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/BritainElects/status/1390465305038761987

lost tae a random

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Lmao Labour are so fuuuuuucked. Utterly doubling down on poo poo politics because poo poo politics is all they know.

Labour aren't getting the old vote back. They're retired, own their own homes and completely detached from reality because of our terrible media. They're quite literally isolated from the effects of a Tory government. Even if you pitch entirely to them it's not going to get through because they read in the Daily Mail that Stalinist Labour are going to push bin pick ups to every 4 weeks. At least with Corbyn there was a new generation getting into politics, getting funding and volunteers for the Labour party and actually challenging their boomer parents and the media. Now theres a limbo where the old vote you're chasing will never vote for you and the young vote have been completely disenfranchised from the party.

Which is what the Labour Right want tbh. They hated the volunteers, they hated the new members and they hated being accountable to the left. The fact their phony jobs rely on them is something they don't want to face up to and won't until it comes to them. Then they'll blame an ungrateful public.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

EvilHawk posted:

I don't think the "vaccine bounce" should be downplayed. For the vast majority of the public they are going into this election in the wake of lightening restrictions and mass vaccinations (particularly among the age groups that are more likely to vote in local elections. I'm sure there wasn't any reason for that...). They may be tangibly aware that there were some scandals going on, but gently caress even I am not fully aware of what happened and the media certainly aren't raking the Tories over the coals for it. What the general public (i.e. people who aren't terminally online like us) are aware of is that Boris has opened the pubs up and they can see their friends and families. Of course that would lead people to voting Tory.

The obvious problem here is that Starmer has done absolutely nothing to present an alternative. He's agreed with the government more often than I can count - certainly more than the number of policies I know he supports. He is a nothing candidate, a wet paper towel of a human being, with absolutely no principles to get behind.

This should be the end of the Labour Party as an electoral force. If they fail to learn their lesson (i.e. kick out Starmer ASAP and get a proper left leader in again, this time one without the antisemitic baggage that plagued Corbyn), then the Tories should call an election in the autumn and win in an absolute landslide. Right now I'd be surprised if Labour broke 150 seats.

Counter point to that, there was no vaccine bounce. The Tories are polling exactly where they were polling before and after the vaccine. They're at the same rock solid bed of cunts they're always in.

Labour on the other hand have dipped massively.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Aramoro posted:

Good news! You have tories and not centerists.

lmao someone's salty.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

EvilHawk posted:

I guess any sort of even vague criticism of Corbyn is still not allowed here. Cool.


I think the "bounce" could explain the usual lack of a dip in the governing party that is seen in the local elections.

That's not a bounce that's a straight line.

And we criticise Corbyn all the time, just not with the bullshit made up by our lovely press.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

Ahahahahaha jesus christ they've hosed it.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/mlothianmclean/status/1390580805047570432

Who'd have thought the Peter Mandelson strategy of "They've got nowhere else to go" isn't working!

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
David Milliband would have done worse than Ed.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

OwlFancier posted:

It is difficult to see what "take more control" could mean, they have absolute control of all the functional levels of the party.

Deselect the left wing MP's on trumped up charges, lose those seats in by elections, use it as an excuse to keep doing the same.

They're so concerned with taking control of the clubhouse that they haven't put any thought into what to do once they've got it or if it'll even be worth taking over once they've achieved it.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1390585426931499013

I mean he's a oval office but he's right.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

The Perfect Element posted:

This is a fake account.

Even if it is it's not wrong. There is no centre ground. Just people holding wildly incoherent views that swing all the way from left to right at break neck speed and you have to work to convince them to go with the left by playing to what they want. You don't gain in the centre without convincing people that you're ether far more left or right than you actually are.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/nicolelampert/status/1390592194873004033

A Daily Mail journalist gives her advice.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010

therattle posted:

Point 2 isn’t terrible, to be fair.

It's literally a right wing person blaming a right wing Labour loss on the left wing.

Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
https://twitter.com/Dominic2306/status/1390594515505930241

He's a oval office but "Ignore the journalists, they're vain idiots" is the most solid advice you can get.

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Gonzo McFee
Jun 19, 2010
Nobody is talking about the poor as if they're thick. Unless she believes that people who use food banks are by defenition thick. Which she does because she's a racist daily mail oval office.

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