DEM not gonna CON dis NATION: Rolling UK politics in the short-lived post-Murdoch era

Fight the good fight, Sol (xp)

Ex-England defender believes he can secure ‘the black vote’

couldn't even secure the North London vote amirite?

I know we need to fight the real enemy here and that Jones is on the right side of the debate but every time he uses one of these pleased-with-himself phrases like "earning their poverty" I die a little inside. It's up there with "Israel is acting as Hamas's recruiting sergeant" in the Ladybird Book of Vacuous Leftist Bollocks.

Altho I do get annoyed by Owen Jones' style I don't think "earning their poverty" is vacuous

It depends on your interpretation of "earning" in this context but it's a pretty dumb soundbite to trot out on national TV.

I'm just taking it as another way of referring to the working poor

it sounds a bit glib, but it might make people stop and unpack what it means

yes i think it could be a pretty effective term. it definitely caught me.

I thought "earning their poverty" was brilliant - focusses on the idea that so many people in poverty are working and that they need benefits because their wages are so low. Important point to keep making.

But yes, he says "elite" too often

The phrase is undermined by the fact that it could also mean "they're deserving of their poverty", which obviously isn't what Jones means but it does kind of hang there.

also don't think that "Israel is acting as Hamas's recruiting sergeant" is vacuous either tho am reluctant to derail thread down that road.

representin 4 vacuous leftist bollocks hard core 24-7 andudontstop

Not this wanker again, how is he still in his job... and the same goes for Lord Freud.

lord freud is truly the vilest of them all

Cameron's new tactic to deflect criticism seems to be to interpret it as a personal attack on his family and get TERRIBLY CROSS INDEED

Think the dead child's best off out of it TBH. And I would say so to DC's face.

To the Dead Child's face?

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Farage's EU parliament group collapses

the best bit of that of course being that ukip will lose some of the eu subsidies they were getting for being group members

True. According to the BBC: "Group status means extra funds, seats on committees and more speaking time."

Farage has just blamed Martin Schulz for the collapse btw. You just don't expect it amirite? (can't find an English source for this btw, while it's all over the Spanish press for example)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29646414

great picture of Nige and his close associate Swiss Tony:

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/78255000/gif/_78255599_farage_getty.gif

Is that a toothbrush he's holding?

no it's a badly-rolled joint i think

a joint rolled with toilet paper?
http://acrndaydrunknation.files.wordpress.com/2014/09/photo-2.jpg?w=282&h=300

it's a brussels euro-joint, too big and unwieldy to work effectively and pretty much on the verge of falling apart. soon to be coming over here and stealing our weed

One thing I learned from that Nick Griffin/Keith Allen documentary thing, is that the EU parliament is the only work-related building in Europe that allows smoking within it.

"do we as we say, but not as we do"

as if Farage wasn't bad enough before hanging out with Wayne Coyne

In a Facebook message, UKIP said: "Our celebrity member Mike Read, the former Radio 1 DJ, has written a brand new single especially for UKIP and we need your help to get it to the top of the pop charts."

The song, credited to The Independents, has been released on iTunes and Amazon. The party said 20p from every 79p download would go to UKIP.

On Twitter, Mr Farage said: "Help get the UKIP Calypso by The Independents to Number 1."

The song makes digs at Prime Minister David Cameron, Chancellor George Osborne and European Commission president Jean-Claude Juncker.

'A bit of fun'

There are also references to tax, immigration and the European Union, with lines like: "With the EU we must be on our mettle/Want to change our lawnmowers and our kettles."

Read told Sky News it was "a satire and a bit of fun", adding that it was "nothing remotely racist".

"It's not terribly serious," he said. "It wouldn't have sounded very good sung in a Surrey accent."

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"Gu1d0 F4wk3s" get off my telly

'A bit of fun'

Gone and replaced with bloody Keith Allen and Damien Hirst. I hope Nigel Slater's gonna cook an Ebola souffle for them

come on, you can hardly compare some right wing playboy troll to yeah you know how this ends

Today it's some guy, something 'Farage', dunno, don't recognise him

There's something deeply embarrassing about the PM taking to Twitter to chunter on about how angry he is and how he won't pay a bill he secretly knew was coming for ages.

He won't be paying it on the 1st of December. Didn't say anything about not paying it on the 2nd.

Fk it let's all not pay our bills.

EU Contribution Riots in Parliament Square, this time the ringleaders being Her Majesty's Government.

ukip will jump for joy about eu bill irony

ukip housing spokesperson makes £££ from migrant tenants irony

irony
will be the end of me

Fallon told Sky News: “The Germans haven’t seen our proposals yet and we haven’t seen our proposals yet"

if you see them say hello (they might be in tangiers) thanks bob.

The Falkirk MP, who quit the Labour Party after a boozy brawl in a Commons bar in 2012, was questioned on suspicion of causing actual bodily harm in the latest incident.

The alleged confrontation happened on Friday at the News and Food Express shop in Camden, north London.

Staff claim Joyce turned on the youths after they bumped into him.

One boy fell to the ground in the scuffle as the MP tried to stop them escaping.

Owner Muhammed Hussain, 44, arrived as police were quizzing Joyce and the boys.

He said: “The sweet stand had collapsed and there were sweets all over the floor. I think one of the boys pulled it down as they were trying to get out the shop.

“It cost me around £200 to repair the damage as well as another £100 in lost trade.”

Hey, he was pre-emptingly preventing a robbery, right? I mean, if he was an old soldier, he'd be getting a medal from the queen right?

No. Not

He is an old soldier.

thought this was a hack, but it's been up two hours now.
https://twitter.com/educationgovuk/status/528892190496686080

"Nonsense to say schools 'must teach gay rights'. We want schools to teach broad curric based on British values" (@educationgovuk)

Raus! Raus!