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

i know ashdown has probably been a tool for ages anyway but his shilling for the tories this weekend was just idk

He's always been a dick, his greatest achievement being to inspire this headline:

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_ThhguC97EdA/STWg53A9Z1I/AAAAAAAAARs/kg8v2L1eViw/s400/ITS-PADDY-PANTSDOWN.jpg

idk if you guys even want these guys

UHhhhhhh, what do you think?

Let him finish! If I want these guys to what, exactly?

I saw a brief story the other day that Tony Benn wasn't doing well - doesn anyone heard anything else about that.

Family sent him to hospital for tests, but haven't seen an update yet this week.

No news is good news I suppose. I know he's not necessarily a popular figure, but he had a big influence on me.

http://www.geenstijl.nl/archives/images/faragebloksnorlololol.jpg

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Are_you_right_there_father_ted.jpg

gah

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/a/ac/Are_you_right_there_father_ted.jpg

Is there any phrase that makes someone drop in your estimation quite as fast as "say what you will about Enoch Powell..." or some variant thereof.

http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2013/sep/20/ukip-godfrey-bloom-calls-women-sluts

ppl voting for these clowns

ah c'mon, he didn't say all women

What a sexist comment is that. How dare you. That's an appalling thing to say. You're picking people out for their gender. You disgust me, get out of my way.

Appalling man. Sexist. You, sir, are a sexist. You take this and you've checked out the shape of people's sex organs.

The video of that is astonishing.

www.channel4.com/news/ukips-godfrey-bloom-biffs-michael-crick

!

My version:

"say what you will about Enoch Powell... NOW!"

without defending Mr Bloom in any way - everything he says is indefensible - it's absolutely clear from the recording that he used "sluts" in its archaic sense; which is a marginally different form of sexist shite

these pictures make me feel that I've just woken up in a world where gradually I realise that although things kind of look the same, something is dreadfully, dreadfully wrong:

http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/esmagazine/ukips-youth-club-is-generation-y-falling-for-farage-8824623.html

"Sanya-Jeet Thandi, a 20-year-old LSE student living in Holborn who joined UKIP when she was a sixth-former and was described at the party’s last national conference as future leadership material"

She was on Ch4 news in the week. I've never heard anyone more posh and clueless.

Something a bit weird is going on at the moment in that Ed Miliband has a) announced some policies and b) they don't appear to be totally stupid and reactionary and lowest common denominator.

he's also making noises about 'clamping down on immigration', the yang to the no-bedroom-tax ying

Just posting this here for posterity:

http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Guardian/Pix/pictures/2013/9/20/1379696877910/George-Osborne-jogging-012.jpg

morrissey let himself go

Morrissey wishes

http://twitpic.com/deq8z0

^ Tory blogger Iain Dale decides to start wrestling a protestor on Brighton seafront

he's quite proud of himself

http://www.iaindale.com/posts/2013/09/24/it-shouldn-t-happen-to-a-publisher-protecting-an-author-during-a-live-interview

I did what any self respecting publisher would do, got out of the car, ran across and pulled him out of the shot. He started resisting and we ended up in an unseemly tumble on the ground. I was conscious of the photographers and other cameramen who were present filming the whole thing, but I was determined this idiot shouldn’t disrupt what was an important interview for my author.

because wrestling with a harmless protester won't disrupt anything

I am someone who runs a mile from any form of physical confrontation normally, but

is he going to be charged with assault, and if not why not?

I never understand why broadcasters seem to accept without question that someone with a placard or a loud voice should disrupt this sort of interview

Because we live in a democracy and they chose to conduct the interview in a public place?

Living in a world where you feel justified in wrestling an OAP to the ground for annoying you. Oh dear.

is he going to be charged with assault, and if not why not?

The usual: Lack of evidence...

i think they protestor would have to lodge the charge himself, in this case. i hope he does.

i can't understand why the electorate is so apathetic nowadays with guys like Damian McBride and his pals generating important ideological content every day

looks like i picked a bad week to give up calling for purges

what the fuck are you playing at, labour

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/labour/10327874/Labour-new-measures-to-make-insulting-military-personnel-a-criminal-offence.html

also, dispatch from the frontline of the Labour conference: Chuka Umunna is just THE WORST. Those days I was optimistic about him seem very far away now

okay can we just purge these fuckers and start again from scratch?

What did he do? Is he just a teflon neoliberal careerist or is there new info? xp

why the fuck do war-loving anti-socialist Torybots in disguise even want to be in the Labour oh never mind

nothing especially new on top of that suzy, undisguised corporatist thru & thru

actual exchange in Umunna fringe event:

Q from audience member who said she was a young party member but had surely just come to the wrong conference, paraphrased: I'm disillusioned about what Labour are going to do to my aspirations, if I'm successful they'll just take half of it away in tax

[rumblings from audience]

Umunna, with unseemly enthusiasm: Oh, no! We WANT you to make your first million!

(This on top of a speech in which he'd repeatedly conflated "betterment" with "earning more than your parents". Fuckwit)

plus he literally defended that Mandelson filthy rich comment by saying "oh what no one reports is that the second half of the sentence was "as long as you pay taxes""

That's just fairly standard NuLab True Believer stuff really, surprised anyone expected anything different of him.

i mean i always knew blunkett was a confused moralistic authoritarian moron, but jesus.

I could have sworn I just read that he actually compared online pornography to the rise of the Nazis, but I can only assume that I just haven't woken up yet.

Q from audience member who said she was a young party member but had surely just come to the wrong conference, paraphrased: I'm disillusioned about what Labour are going to do to my aspirations, if I'm successful they'll just take half of it away in tax

lol sounds legit

xp well, you see, online porn made people scared of diversity and then they had no choice but to become fascists, that was how the weimar republic collapsed

Oh wow Sodom & Gomorrah AND Nazi Germany. I'm trying to think about what might be the third bit of that trifecta and coming up blank.

I'm disillusioned about what Labour are going to do to my aspirations, if I'm successful they'll just take half of it away in tax

funnily enough their refusal to do this is why I'm hugely disillusioned by labour

Nazi fetsih porn became so widespread in the Weimar republic that eventually it became cool to be a Nazi.