It lengthens the period of instability.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 12:20 (seven years ago) link
There's an offer for cheap Virgin trains to the conference on the Labour Party homepage.
I take it they must have sorted out the trouble the organisers were having with getting a security firm for the conference then.Thought people were saying it was a bit late to do so.
― Stevolende, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 12:30 (seven years ago) link
they signed a contract with the venue's existing security company last week http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37195378 it was a bit late yes
― conrad, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 13:16 (seven years ago) link
shame was looking forward to california hells angels doing security
― I like it when you shoot inside me Dirk (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 31 August 2016 15:05 (seven years ago) link
All those momentum thugs fed on a diet of Falafel burgers will not get their day life isn't fair I tells ya!
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 31 August 2016 18:53 (seven years ago) link
http://img.huffingtonpost.com/asset/scalefit_630_noupscale/57c84f63180000b429bce9f0.jpeg
poll
― soref, Thursday, 1 September 2016 16:33 (seven years ago) link
I think Matt DC posted something on this thread a few weeks ago about imagining all Owen Smith quotes being read out in the voice of Alan Partridge, seems increasingly prescient
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CrV1-WTVUAAJdmy.jpg
― corbynite, shite (soref), Friday, 2 September 2016 11:46 (seven years ago) link
What a sniggering empty moron he is. Btw does anybody remember That's Life's Doctor Cox?
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link
The Blue Labour cru (motto: "family, faith and flag" iirc) are already lining up against him. Lots of people sharing Rowenna Davies' article saying she will vote for him but he is essentially Corbyn 2. 0 and 'radical change' is needed.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link
Obvs nothing says engaging with the man on the street like a paywalled article in the Financial Times, but there you go.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
xps. the suggestion that the massively popular leader of Scotland, who is a woman, should shut up, is pretty ugly. smith might also want to consult the majority that the snp has over his party in both the scottish parliament and westminster constituencies that cover millport
not xp. god is that really the blue labour motto? hard to tell what's satire or not when talking about labour
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:39 (seven years ago) link
obviously Smith's core socialist values include playing tribal bullshit politics, gentle misogyny and calling out parties that carried out leftist policies while his own party were playing Tories in disguise
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:44 (seven years ago) link
just a fatuous valueless joke of a man
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:45 (seven years ago) link
Yes that Sturgeon gobstopper thing is totally gross.
― Acting Crazy (Instrumental) (jed_), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:46 (seven years ago) link
http://www.bbc.co.uk/staticarchive/e2f58a2f792b966c56aa086fb602a62b875af53a.jpg
"I am normal. Women, know your place."
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:48 (seven years ago) link
Did he get into some kind of surreal internet beef with Sturgeon or was that totally unprompted? Because it's just bizarre out of context.
Is there time to start a Normal Owen Smith Twitter account?
― Matt DC, Friday, 2 September 2016 16:53 (seven years ago) link
I mean presumably she gets to take the gobstopper out when Smith needs the votes in any putative hung parliament.
― Matt DC, Friday, 2 September 2016 16:54 (seven years ago) link
i think we all know Owen's never gonna be in that position. including Owen.
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
tragically, Doc Cox is still alive. Probably doing some routine with a spinning bow tie whilst joshing about how big his dick is somewhere. Yes, definitely a credible comparison there.
― calzino, Friday, 2 September 2016 16:58 (seven years ago) link
maybe Owen's just having some fun with the part now.
― wan bobolink (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link
the tweet is from April this year, so presumably he was in Millport campaigning for Labour in the Scottish elections and that's why he mentioned Sturgeon. but it's still pretty bizarre
― corbynite, shite (soref), Friday, 2 September 2016 17:06 (seven years ago) link
I hadn't seen the first responses under the tweet (again from back in April) which are maybe the best part
http://i.imgur.com/upiu3xe.png
― corbynite, shite (soref), Friday, 2 September 2016 17:11 (seven years ago) link
I figured he came up with the 'joke' ('a gobstopper, need to say it's for somebody') then eliminated targets he couldn't get away with. Though finding out it's from April scuppers that a bit.
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Friday, 2 September 2016 18:07 (seven years ago) link
Some of you ppl know this photoship business right? Can someone fix that time stamp for today at 9am. I need to laugh a bit more.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 18:23 (seven years ago) link
Luke Akehurst@lukeakehurst.@jk_rowling has made me cry on the coach on way home with her list of amazing things Labour did in power. Contrast w now devastating.
.@jk_rowling has made me cry on the coach on way home with her list of amazing things Labour did in power. Contrast w now devastating.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:02 (seven years ago) link
wtf
― poor fiddy-less albion (darraghmac), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:09 (seven years ago) link
I'm guessing she will have conveniently not mentioned the '07 welfare reforms that Labour brought in while she wasn't a single parent spinning yarns about elves.
― calzino, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:13 (seven years ago) link
the only good thing about the collapse of the labour party: getting to laugh at how butthurt new labourite scum are to have lost control of the party
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:15 (seven years ago) link
wonder if she mentioned the iraq war, the pfi fiascos, jack straw freeing general Pinochet, the erosion of civil liberties etc etc
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:22 (seven years ago) link
Poverty expeliarum!
― two crickets sassing each other (dowd), Friday, 2 September 2016 20:30 (seven years ago) link
Forget even all that - for someone who goes on about being on welfare at a tough time before her fkn book deal why does she support that part of Labour which has continuously undermined the welfare state (being actively ashamed of it), votes or abstains on cuts to the welfare budget pre-Corbyn?
Wasn't even gonna bring this here -- someone I've not spent more than 10 secs thinking about till now -- but that tweet is glorious. Need to really kick 'em while they are down. xp
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:31 (seven years ago) link
The poll on the membership giving Corbyn a clear victory had the breakdown that more women than men supported Corbyn. Other profiles of Corbyn's support show that poor/struggling people are on Corbyn's side, i.e. women in pre-book deal JK Rowling.
Is Harry Potter garbage? I've not read or seen the films. btw don't answer that I don't want to know.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:35 (seven years ago) link
Harry Potter is great, but don't look at the politics.
― Frederik B, Friday, 2 September 2016 20:45 (seven years ago) link
Garry Kasparov @Kasparov63 38m38 minutes agoOf course @jk_rowling understands Corbyn's Socialism is an attempt at magic! But in our Muggle world, hard work & common sense are required.
It's like everything i hate rolled into one tweet.
idgaf one way or another about Rowling tbh. I don't think she has much of interest to say, much of what she does say is wrong and the people venerating her because she paid tax on her income and 'is probably no longer even a billionaire' are weird but she has a consistent and deeply held set of beliefs. On the Twitter 'celebrity' front Frances Barber and Mitch Benn seem actively worse.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:19 (seven years ago) link
i have a strange emotional attachment to the books but they're not great on any levels, Rowling is an idiot, i can't decide if it's 1952 in her head or if that's just a symptom of her plagiarism
― There Will Be Ducks (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:21 (seven years ago) link
can understand how Blairites would venerate an underdeveloped class-ridden white bread dystopia tho
― There Will Be Ducks (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:23 (seven years ago) link
People I'm never gonna read: JK Rowling, Caitlin Moran, Orwell..
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 21:42 (seven years ago) link
its 1997 in her head, where things became better 4evah and we are all rich, own our homes and have iron-secure jobs and live happily ever after.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 21:45 (seven years ago) link
Hogwarts' catering and student roster is strictly pre-multiculturalism
― There Will Be Ducks (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:48 (seven years ago) link
On the Twitter 'celebrity' front Frances Barber and Mitch Benn seem actively worse.
Lord, I've managed to avoid even thinking about Mitch Benn for several years now, but it figures that he would have some bracing "common-sense" opinions re: Corbyn
― corbynite, shite (soref), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:49 (seven years ago) link
who knew that in years to come i would be able to look back fondly on September 1 2016 as the last day of my life when i was unaware of Mitch Benn?
― There Will Be Ducks (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:50 (seven years ago) link
nah kidding i'll have forgot this no-mark by Monday tops
managing to be the least funny thing on the Now Show is a pretty impressive achievement tbf
― corbynite, shite (soref), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:52 (seven years ago) link
He went on a long Twitter jag yesterday about how what Labour needed was to dispense with "left" and "right" opinions and base all policy on rationalism and empirical facts.
@laaauuureeens@MitchBenn @francesbarber13 you can't be outside of ideology
Mitch Benn @MitchBenn Sep 1Try me
Try me
That's the good stuff.
― On a Raqqa tip (ShariVari), Friday, 2 September 2016 21:57 (seven years ago) link
I never ever switch on Radio 4 (only remember listening to it if I happen to be in a taxi) - they must have some fucking characters in that place.
― xyzzzz__, Friday, 2 September 2016 22:01 (seven years ago) link
xp. god that's probably my most hated canard in any sphere of human activity
― ælərdaɪs (jim in vancouver), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
i have to listen to Today in the morning because John Humphrys makes me one iota less murderous than Nicky Campbell
― There Will Be Ducks (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:02 (seven years ago) link
Xp No, I'm pretty sure rationalism and empirical facts say "fuck the poor".
― all olly murs' lemurs (ledge), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
base all policy on rationalism and empirical facts.
this is the worst opinion
― 𝔠𝔞𝔢𝔨 (caek), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:04 (seven years ago) link
it's an empirical fact that the kids who bullied Mitch Benn at school are Trot vermin who should die
― There Will Be Ducks (Noodle Vague), Friday, 2 September 2016 22:06 (seven years ago) link