is there ever a bad time
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
the compromises and flaws of Corbynism were what they were, but in comparison to Starmerism it was golden.
― calzino, Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:22 (three years ago) link
would have been nice if mr lifelong antiracist and most of the british left hadn’t been demanding more cops for years, I see the troop bollocks as a continuation of that tendency
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:26 (three years ago) link
if there’s one thing i love about your posts it’s how free of seeing generalisations they are, otherwise they would of course be completely worthless
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:28 (three years ago) link
sweeping, not seeing, obv
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:29 (three years ago) link
some generalisations are true, like the met being violent racist scum, or labour being shite
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:41 (three years ago) link
The Tories probably have quite a lot to gain from Labour getting into a pointless and distracting fight with teachers unions over the late summer, and if I were Dominic Cummings I would be focused on making sure friendly newspapers were ramping up the "necessity" of doing so.
Everyone should want schools to open in September if it's safe, and if isn't safe by then reopening then will be unpopular, and the public will be raging with the government whatever. So a lot of the public will agree with the teachers in any case and so will Labour if they're smart. Framing it as "Labour in the pocket of The Blob" isn't really going to play. Also it only takes one photogenic teacher to die of the rona and the government has a massive media scandal on its hands.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:42 (three years ago) link
left, since you started posting you have provided these boards with not one single shred of insight, intelligence, warmth, compassion or humour i don’t say this lightly: please fuck off
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:46 (three years ago) link
*gumph*
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
xp otm
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
I’m whatever about the rest but I have tried with the compassion part, there just aren’t enough shared interests it seems
I stand by all my posts, they’re good, regardless of how unsuccessful they have been as interventions
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:13 (three years ago) link
interventions
― imago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
i mean that is rich coming from the guy who started the 'left-wing brainworms' intervention (a weak moment, i protest!) but
― imago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
they’re good posts brent (they’re not good posts)
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:15 (three years ago) link
i mean you are not going to find a non-crank webforum any more sympathetic to anti-imperialist hard-leftism, what are you trying to intervene amongst
― imago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:17 (three years ago) link
Ashworth is separated from Emilie Oldknow now, Mark your cards accordingly.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
am largely sympathetic to user Left, but fucking hell, read the room, and don’t come in here being smug about Corbyn Labour’s cop-shagging policy (itself no doubt a broad church concession to the right) when some of us have watched the only party capable of forming a government go full pelt for the Soldier F vote.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:21 (three years ago) link
it’s part of the same fucking thing is my point. the labour party being itself. this didn’t come out of nowhere
presentation aside is the problem that I’m stating the obvious or that my positions are wrong because the complaints sort of seem to be both, bit of a double bind if you ask me
― If you choose too long a name, your new display name will be truncated in (Left), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
RLB replaced with Kate Green, Chair of the enormously successful Owen Smith leadership campaign.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:24 (three years ago) link
the problem is that you keep posting
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
Not read any of their recent posts itt but user Left is a diamond in my book
― covid coronenberg (wins), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:29 (three years ago) link
lol
― Future England Captain (Tom D.), Saturday, 27 June 2020 17:45 (three years ago) link
― imago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 bookmarkflaglink
Thank you ilx I am so grateful to you
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 June 2020 18:05 (three years ago) link
a million xposts but 'he cant be professional he's fat' is one shitty fucking take
― BRAVE THE AFRIAD (onimo), Saturday, 27 June 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link
I had been assuming that Left was a longstanding ILX poster using a sockpuppet but even with mod powers haven't been able to work out who. (Although I have a suspicion).
― Matt DC, Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:03 (three years ago) link
gabb nebb
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:08 (three years ago) link
Left is my sock, along with bizarro gazzaro and others. There’s a cunning dn code for the sock accounts run by me, Left is the original though so doesn’t have one.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:15 (three years ago) link
did wonder why the bizarro gazzaro account was so bad. makes sense now
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:16 (three years ago) link
Yeah I save my worst content for that one.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:21 (three years ago) link
Providing a place to rant/vent is an essential function of this thread but 'wake up sheeple your hero is a fraud' lines of argument have always recieved the treatment they deserve on ILX and long may it continue.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:24 (three years ago) link
lack of a hero is making everyone a little unsteady tbh
― imago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:25 (three years ago) link
Alright Bonnie Tyler.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:26 (three years ago) link
*does IP lookup* the ShariVari one is pretty good though.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
That’s why I post less on that one tbf.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:33 (three years ago) link
I decided I rate left when a bunch of posters jumped on them for going off on a despicable revive of a thread called “Slaves?” & they were otm and the rude way they expressed themselves was also otm in this instance so you couldn’t even use the tone policing argument & I thought it would maybe serve a useful function to get ppl to tell on themselves in this wayNot really speaking of their recent posts itt which I haven’t read but endorse
― covid coronenberg (wins), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:43 (three years ago) link
I too stand with user Left except on the mariah carey thread where their posts are getting flagged
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:46 (three years ago) link
Left is kind of like if morbs was wordier and a libcom, but with less panache than the good doctor.
― Rik Waller-Bridge (jim in vancouver), Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:49 (three years ago) link
Here we go.Local Lockdown for Leicester on the cards as schools have had to close & hundreds have become infected.We warned Keir Starmer & Boris Johnson that this would happen. They didn’t listen. https://t.co/xUXPvBdF1B— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) June 27, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 27 June 2020 19:57 (three years ago) link
people in Leicester just need to show some guts imo
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:04 (three years ago) link
lmao at starmzy being lumped in with the actual govt there - good work keir
― specific fry such as scampo (||||||||), Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
Leicester Conservatives deputy chairman Rhys Brown said: "The council's mixed messaging has caused the city centre and parks around Leicester to be full this afternoon."Due to these Labour officials we now face the threat of being the only city to be pushed back into lockdown."
"Due to these Labour officials we now face the threat of being the only city to be pushed back into lockdown."
these councillors (of all parties) are such a bunch of wankers, but that is pretty rich!
― calzino, Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:07 (three years ago) link
if it’s any consolation, rhys, you won’t be the only city being pushed back into lockdown for long
― scampo, foggy and clegg (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:10 (three years ago) link
Good thing those pesky teachers’ unions have lost their ally in the shadow cabinet
― covid coronenberg (wins), Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:12 (three years ago) link
Solidarity with all those who protested and demanded #JusticeforShukriAbdi today 💙Shukri was racistly bullied and tragically died at just 12 years old. The police's pitiful response exposed their terrible racism. Say her name: Shukri Abdi#BlackLivesMatterUK https://t.co/B4AVhbIhNE— London Renters Union (@LDNRentersUnion) June 27, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:14 (three years ago) link
Protests like this and organised strikes by teachers are the way forward. The 30 or so Left lab MPs need to show solidarity, but apart from that there is nothing to be expected from Lab.
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:19 (three years ago) link
“Such a blatant abuse of international law must have consequences” says @lisanandy 👏 https://t.co/O0V40mat5l— Liam Young (@liamyoung) June 27, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 27 June 2020 20:23 (three years ago) link
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 21:18 (three years ago) link
It’s a good day to be a recently ousted shadow education secretary being slammed by her snakey ex colleagues for *checks notes* siding with the teachers unions.
― scampos mentis (gyac), Saturday, 27 June 2020 21:19 (three years ago) link
The Labour right have always been a bunch of complete cunts going way back, but this post-Blair intake are the most vacuous, amoral clique in Labour history, in their minds they just play for a different club. Unions? They caused the winter of discontent.
― calzino, Saturday, 27 June 2020 21:35 (three years ago) link
EXC: Angela Rayner, Keir Starmer's deputy, vented about hard left "Trots" to Labour officialLast year she told Patrick Heneghan: "I've said it from the start it will be the trots that do Corbyn in.They are not interested in a Labour government"WhatsApp in complaint to HQ 1/2 pic.twitter.com/ujskHMMICw— Gabriel Pogrund (@Gabriel_Pogrund) June 27, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 27 June 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link