It seems weird that an outspoken personality (with penachant for stirring things up?) is able to keep something like this under wraps for a long time with no outwards signs whatsoever?
― anvil, Saturday, 25 July 2020 08:43 (four years ago) link
I would assume either he's had a full on breakdown, he's doing it for the notoriety/attention or he's really trying to piss off his manager, who's also Jewish. But also, if it quacks like a duck for hours on end...
Also no one, let alone an account with half a million followers, should be able to go on a ten hour antisemitic rant without Twitter lifting a finger to stop it.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 July 2020 09:16 (four years ago) link
his management dropped him straight away
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 July 2020 09:22 (four years ago) link
BIG TRAK
― the pinefox, Saturday, 25 July 2020 09:24 (four years ago) link
Starmzy finally comes out with something approaching a policy statement: more jobs for Bezos drones!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 09:57 (four years ago) link
Labour are angling to get RT taken off air.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-53510838
I’d guess the main reason it hasn’t is that getting rid of a channel with, iirc, an average audience of 1300 isn’t worth the inevitable tit-for-tat expulsion of the BBC Russia service but ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
Interestingly, the government is supposedly mulling over a requirement similar to the US for lobbyists on behalf of foreign interests to register. I can’t see it happening tbh, as I can’t imagine anyone actually wants to lift that rock, but it would be delightful for a certain former Prime Minister to have to come clean about who pays him.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:09 (four years ago) link
I can't believe a station with Galloway + Salmond has lower viewing figures than Fishing TV
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
one day later I am here to report that this post really did not age well― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 24 July 2020 22:59 (yesterday) link
Was Wiley ever in grime4corbyn? :)
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:35 (four years ago) link
I'm guessing Fishing TV has an incredibly loyal fanbase who will watch it for hours on end and they've got the advertising market absolutely nailed.
The only thing I've ever seen from Russia Today is that clip where Simon Danczuk tries to ignore a belly dancer for several minutes.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:49 (four years ago) link
Corbyn’s deleted an old Tweet thanking Wiley for his support so.. yes?xpost
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:50 (four years ago) link
There aren't many more pandemic-friendly hobbies than fishing either. Perfect for social distancing.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:52 (four years ago) link
poor Steve "piano-man" Rosenberg, getting unceremoniously turfed out of Moscow because of senseless Starmzy posturing
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 10:54 (four years ago) link
Corbyn’s deleted an old Tweet thanking Wiley for his support so.. yes?
xpost
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 July 2020 bookmarkflaglink
gime4corbyn *shake hands emoji* crank left
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
It seems unlikely for someone to go from 0-100 with no previous indicators
Going from 0-100 is kind of what he does btw. There was some anti-mask virus truther stuff in there among all the AS as well.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:07 (four years ago) link
This seems to be connected to some dispute with his manager, who is Jewish I believe.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:22 (four years ago) link
his manager probably told him to wear a mask
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:27 (four years ago) link
And look at all the publicity Kanye is getting for howling at the moon.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 11:30 (four years ago) link
The most prominent Grime4Corbyn voices were people like AJ Tracey and Novelist, a generation below Wiley and more politically engaged in general (Novelist was Young Mayor of Lewisham). JME was involved in the drive to register to vote and met with Corbyn but seemed to back away from offering an explicit endorsement when the attention was on him.
The whole thing appeared to have run out of steam by 2019 by which some of them had switched allegiance to the Greens IIRC.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 July 2020 12:07 (four years ago) link
Don't remember Wiley specifically being involved beyond one "big up Jeremy Corbyn" tweet but even the most shambling and amateurish of campaign managers wouldn't have wanted him anywhere near.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 25 July 2020 12:09 (four years ago) link
Years back he tweeted racist anti-Asian stuff briefly and dismissed it as "ethnic banter" in an interview on iirc Bobbi Friction's radio show. Plus there is the stuff Dizzee openly alleged about him not too long ago.
― nashwan, Saturday, 25 July 2020 12:14 (four years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EdxOhp3XsAAiU10?format=jpg&name=medium
because scoring points against former rivals/factional adversaries is just as important as the serious business of opposing and challenging antisemitism in the social media world of the so called tsar of antisemitism.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:42 (four years ago) link
John "A Very Sick" Mann
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:43 (four years ago) link
oops it's czar not tsar or some other c-word
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:47 (four years ago) link
considering it was an actual tsar's secret police that put protocols of elders of zion, bit of a fucked up title really!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:48 (four years ago) link
published I meant
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
a lot of “hey I just heard of Wiley yesterday but I assume he’s the leader of Black Britain and I assume none of Them are condemning him which is ungrateful considering how not-racist I am so They better not expect any support from me in the future” going on today
― the state is bad (Left), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:03 (four years ago) link
I saw Mann being interviewed on Sky earlier and I fully expected him to mention Corbyn, he might have and they might have edited it out though.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:14 (four years ago) link
@LordJohnMann. Probably a hilarious fake twitter account mind you.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:15 (four years ago) link
No that is the real account
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:17 (four years ago) link
He got a peerage from the tories for being such awesome opposition
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:18 (four years ago) link
Didn't boris get the nod from Tommy Robinson at some point?
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 15:21 (four years ago) link
Wiley is a fucking bell end
but fuck the fucking police and this authoritarian anti-black fucking shithole of a country
Police investigate grime artist Wiley's antisemitic tweets https://t.co/7hqVVkpDBC— The Guardian (@guardian) July 25, 2020
― the state is bad (Left), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:21 (four years ago) link
It's that bunch of headbangers, Campaign Against Antisemitism, who have asked the police to get involved.
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:29 (four years ago) link
Wiley is clearly relishing being able to call the whole country "pagans"
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
have pitchfork learned the difference between paigons and pagans yet? now might be a good time!
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Corbyn should not have deleted his 'Thank you' tweet. Not that issuing any public condemnation would make anyone change their mind either way either.
― nashwan, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
I was thinking about that, I can understand Corbyn not wanting to invite further dishonest bullshit but I wouldn't have deleted it
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:43 (four years ago) link
it isn't a tacit endorsement of AS, he didn't have a gift of time travel hindsight.
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:44 (four years ago) link
but the dodgy mural like probably still haunts Corbyn's thoughts
― calzino, Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
I can imagine Crombs or his media people thinking "fuck another round of this" tho
― À la recherche du scamps perdu (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 25 July 2020 17:48 (four years ago) link
Or he could have just been as appalled as the rest of us?
― santa clause four (suzy), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:15 (four years ago) link
Or probably didn’t want the worst people on twitter repeatedly retweeting and commenting on that old tweet.
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Saturday, 25 July 2020 18:21 (four years ago) link
What a country
NEW: Department for Transport confirm Transport Secretary @grantshapps is on holiday in Spain.He will therefore be among thousands of travellers forced to quarantine for a fortnight when he returns to the UK.#COVID19— Joe Pike (@joepike) July 25, 2020
― let them microwave their rice (gyac), Saturday, 25 July 2020 20:40 (four years ago) link
Keystone Fuckin' Cops
― Sonny Shamrock (Tom D.), Saturday, 25 July 2020 21:22 (four years ago) link
This quarantine thing is an absolute shitshow. There are stories of people turning up in Spain for a two week holiday and then having to pretty much head straight back because they can't afford not to physically go to work for a further two weeks.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:30 (four years ago) link
Isn't gyac's tweet above not - by accident - an example of how it should be? No exceptions for the ruling class etc?
― Scampidocio (Le Bateau Ivre), Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:32 (four years ago) link
There are basically no circumstances that would get me on a plane right now but how many thousands of Brits are there out there right now?
It's probably the right thing to do medically if they're on the way back from Catalonia but if they're going to be constantly lifting and then imposing quarantine restrictions at a moment's notice then it's going to be a disaster, not least because people will choose to just ignore quarantine rules altogether.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:34 (four years ago) link
LBI, agreed. Also a good thing to throw in their face when said minister inevitably turns up at some barbecue.
I don't think there's any evidence that the quarantines (or rather social isolation - you can still go out once a day for sport and etc. under official guidelines) are being enforced in any way, afaict if you don't want to comply all you have to do is...just come and not comply, the thousand pound fine seems strictly theoretical.
Showing up at work might be a bit too brazen tho, tbf.
― Daniel_Rf, Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:38 (four years ago) link
It doesn't actually matter that much to you if you're a member of the ruling class because, in common with most white collar workers, it's pretty easy to work from home for a fortnight. Even if laughing at Grant Shapps is to be encouraged at all times.
Completely different if you're, say, a Spanish national working in a service industry in London who has just flown to see your family for the first time in months.
I suppose it isn't really much different to having to self isolate because you've been in contact with someone who's been diagnosed, except for the extra cost involved.
― Matt DC, Sunday, 26 July 2020 09:54 (four years ago) link
I just heard someone on the radio saying they'd feel safer in Barcelona than London because more people wear masks and still adhere to social distancing. I saw a huge party in a field last night with a marquee + at least a hundred people, lots of booze, a sound system blasting out "we don't have to take our clothes off to have a good time"! lol we're all going to die
― calzino, Sunday, 26 July 2020 10:26 (four years ago) link