fuck me he really has lost the Left
― comparing me to Harold Shipman is unfair (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:53 (four years ago) link
something uniquely repellent about these proud anti racist dinner party types who are clearly sick and tired of hearing about racism, but only feel able express the sentiment indirectly through something else, for fear of sounding gauche. slimy bastards
sir condemning rowling's bigotry would surely be the quickest way to turn them against him right now. a rhetoric turn to the left might even be humoured for a bit, with no election in sight, since they know the people they fear most are less to come around anyway
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:56 (four years ago) link
*rhetorical
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:57 (four years ago) link
*less likely. sorry
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 13 June 2020 13:58 (four years ago) link
Irrespective of whether Heather Stewart is right, it’s bold to make the argument that banging on about sculptures and Fawlty Towers is a culture war trap set by Johnson from the position of Political Editor of a newspaper that has done almost nothing else over the last week.
― ShariVari, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:11 (four years ago) link
That Zoe Williams piece from last week is as critical as it will get. Most will be happy that it isn't Corbyn and for the next few years they can pretend this is enough.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 13 June 2020 14:22 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/20/the-far-left-origins-of-no-10s-desperate-attack-on-all-things-woke-?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Tweet
Nick Cohen - The far-left origins of No 10's desperate attack on all things 'woke'
Lol ok a+ trolling
"The presence of the ex-revolutionaries in a rightwing debate shows the distance from asinine far leftism to paranoid conservatism is nowhere near as great as the innocent imagine." if you want an authority on asinine
― plax (ico), Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:15 (four years ago) link
Telling how this thread is routinely bumped on Sundays.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 21 June 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
guardian giving known sex pests a platform again is it
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:12 (four years ago) link
they've also given four stars to debut album by voice-of-tory-heartlands indie wankers Sports Team if you want another reason to hate them.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:27 (four years ago) link
Indie is the voice of Tory heartlands tbf
― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:29 (four years ago) link
apart from Belle & Sebastian, the slave trading founders of ILX!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:35 (four years ago) link
I always thought of indie as more lib dem but I’m out of date, what’s the difference anyway
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:39 (four years ago) link
apparently now the LibDems are plotting to outflank Starmzy in that sweet indie spot just slightly to the left of the centre right.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:45 (four years ago) link
I can only think of that wanker from Coldplay and that wanker Dom Joly as prominent LibDem supporters from the entertainment industry, but I'm sure there are more.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:49 (four years ago) link
Brian Eno. I knew there was one I'd forgotten.
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 20:59 (four years ago) link
Billy Bragg if he counts as entertainment
― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:02 (four years ago) link
Daniel Radcliffe, 20-year-old star of Harry Potter and 12th wealthiest young person in the UK, is clearly not put off by the party's plan to hit the super-rich with a "mansion tax".He said: "If all the people who liked the Lib Dems voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three-party system."
He said: "If all the people who liked the Lib Dems voted for them you could change politics overnight and we could have a proper three-party system."
lol, that 2010 Claggmania was an even worse drug than m-cat
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:09 (four years ago) link
Come on Potter most of the people who vote for them don't like them
― never mind that shit, here comes scampo (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
tbf He was 20 years old there and dopey as fuck, Jo Swinson howerver....
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:14 (four years ago) link
all these ppl are indie imo, incl/esp joly & radcliffe
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:16 (four years ago) link
On the white, posh and totally smug and myopic metric.. Indie to the core!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:31 (four years ago) link
Opener Lander sets the tone, Rob Knaggs’s ever-shifting guitar lines supporting frontman Alex Rice’s Sprechgesang stream-of-consciousness (“I wanna be a lawyer/ Or someone who hunts foxes”).
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 21:50 (four years ago) link
the Hampshire blues
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:11 (four years ago) link
Know this will go down badly here, but surely Bragg & Eno were saying nice things about libdems only when it was nice anti-war alcoholic uncle Charles Kennedy against war criminal Tonty fucking Blair, and both were supporting Corbyn in the election last year.
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:13 (four years ago) link
Bragg has been an unmitigable wanker since birth whether he supported Corbyn or not. Yeah Eno did turn out for Corbyn in '19 tbf, but who really cares about celebs and how politics is like a no-stakes trends game to them. Well me, because I've just commented on it on this thread tbf! Shit!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:22 (four years ago) link
Anyone who supports the Lib Dems for even a nanosecond is tainted for all eternity.
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:29 (four years ago) link
Voting Tory is preferable tbh.
I have much more respect for just about every Tory voting cunt in the UK than I have for Billy Bragg, who fronted Red Wedge for Kinnock Sr. Give me Duran Duran any day over that waste of skin!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:42 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/jun/21/if-i-must-wear-a-face-mask-ill-do-so-with-a-look-of-ironic-detachment
What on earth is this column about
― bob catley signature stage move (Matt #2), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:54 (four years ago) link
it's about 350 words
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Sunday, 21 June 2020 22:59 (four years ago) link
good hustle if you can maintain it!
― calzino, Sunday, 21 June 2020 23:01 (four years ago) link
Tried to find out who the Guardian’s go to pizza guy was and saw there’s also a Jonathan Twentyman (any relation?) in Leigh who owns a property development firm and is followed on here by Helen Pidd. Probably just a coincidence. https://t.co/ikh7G8cJ2D— Jonathan (@readonlymike) July 9, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:45 (four years ago) link
Related:
A quick look suggests the most commonly read paper of those who didn't vote Labour in 2019 (having done so in 2017) is The Guardian (~10%) then The Daily Mail (~8%) and The Sun (~7). Just over half read no paper at all. But among those who 'stuck' with Labour 19% were Guardian.— Paula Surridge (@p_surridge) June 19, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 9 July 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
Helen Pidd has worked in Manchester forever but my first experience of her was when she was a contributor wrangler sorting out freelance bank details etc - when that job was advertised in the Graun they’d always say ‘this is NOT a route into journalism’ LOL
― santa clause four (suzy), Thursday, 9 July 2020 12:00 (four years ago) link
I just ate an excellent pizza in Leigh and you should too. Twentymans, the place is called: https://t.co/bwfFkhMNOY— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) March 4, 2020
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:34 (four years ago) link
I literally posted the first tweet already!
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:46 (four years ago) link
Christ, that final tweet from Pidd is shameful.
― the pinefox, Thursday, 9 July 2020 13:59 (four years ago) link
There was definitely a point where there were more Labour voters reading the Mail than the Guardian, there might still be for all I know.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:02 (four years ago) link
Hitchens is unwell today's stand in columnist is Kieran Shitstarm
― calzino, Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:10 (four years ago) link
The Manchester Guardian was founded in the wake of the Pizzaloo Massacre to promote the reforming liberal interests.. Blah blah
― calzino, Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:30 (four years ago) link
The Griftian
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
What’s wrong with you?? https://t.co/0lrSXQzM03— Aniqah (@AniqahC) July 9, 2020
― scampos mentis (gyac), Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:34 (four years ago) link
I would pretend I couldn't speak English if Helen Pidd tried to talk to me tbf
― Mein Skampf (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:35 (four years ago) link
lol
― The Fields o' Fat Henry (Tom D.), Thursday, 9 July 2020 14:38 (four years ago) link
Wonder how she knew they were voting Labour if they couldn't speak English.
― nashwan, Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:11 (four years ago) link
they made the universal sign language of the Starmzy which obv is the jerk off motion followed by a thumbs up
― calzino, Thursday, 9 July 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
For those alleged Labour supporters who have been trying to get ex-Labour voters in this story cancelled, shame on you. Why not try to understand why Leigh went Tory and what it will take to win these folk back instead of piling on? https://t.co/Md7vsqUuQv— Helen Pidd (@helenpidd) July 9, 2020
Trying to get a story cancelled is it?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 9 July 2020 18:09 (four years ago) link
helen piss
― per aspera ad scampo (||||||||), Thursday, 9 July 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
working class artisan pizzeria owner
― Temporary Erogenous Zone (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 9 July 2020 18:28 (four years ago) link