lol at @stateistoobig, just laying out the entire stall in one handle
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 3 September 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
and an even greater market share flowing to Amazon.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/amp/business-54009484?
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 3 September 2020 12:47 (three years ago) link
Yep, Amazon's international growth in recruitment has been extraordinary over the last six months.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, 3 September 2020 13:08 (three years ago) link
Love Ian Lavery but you've almost gotta hand it to all these rage-addled Blairites who seem to continuously pick him as the Corbynite they want to square up to. Bollocks of steel. pic.twitter.com/HfKlNHF8oJ— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) September 3, 2020
wouldn't even piss on a Times hack book on Corbynism, but it is quite fun reading short select cuts from it tonight.
― calzino, Thursday, 3 September 2020 21:38 (three years ago) link
Ian Murray, now shadow Scotland secretary, was the eighth original member of the Independent Group before pulling out at the eleventh hour. Here he is rehearsing their launch:https://t.co/4GxcdJTqKr pic.twitter.com/DAy59mvQhQ— Patrick Maguire (@patrickkmaguire) September 3, 2020
― scampo italiano (gyac), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:49 (three years ago) link
Almost everyone who works at a Swiss bank is Vice President of something. They hand the titles out like toffees.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Thursday, September 3, 2020 5:10 AM (ten hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
yeah, I have a friend who is a VP at Morgan Stanley and he's just an IT guy, not some executive
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 3 September 2020 22:54 (three years ago) link
you don't get highfalutin titles like "supervisor" until you can fly at Fox's Biscuits!
― calzino, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:01 (three years ago) link
Gotta say, not usually a big fan of Rayner but all the quotes from her in this so far are class. pic.twitter.com/YJZPQ90p2g— RP Corp International Division (@RPCorpIntl) September 3, 2020
― calzino, Thursday, 3 September 2020 23:46 (three years ago) link
Chris Leslie apparently has a "lilting West Yorkshire accent" in what was a big blow for regional accents amongst people that actually fucking have them.
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 00:09 (three years ago) link
Michael Gove's doric tones
― rascal clobber (jim in vancouver), Friday, 4 September 2020 00:10 (three years ago) link
doric pilla[ck]s of society, please don't unite and take over!
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 00:17 (three years ago) link
Yes this is all making that book sound, as I think Mark S would say, 'good not bad'?
― the pinefox, Friday, 4 September 2020 08:43 (three years ago) link
So they assumed that Labour Party activists, many of whom ran themselves ragged to support the 2019 campaign, are stupid. Btw I am not a Labour Party member. pic.twitter.com/oZNQI82NSq— Mic Wright 🏳️🌈🌋🏴☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) September 4, 2020
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:25 (three years ago) link
looks like a real hack job
In ‘Left Out...’ Pogrund and Maguire tell on themselves in every other paragraph. They see politics as a game to be played and are baffled that Corbyn sees it as something else. pic.twitter.com/BOqvgaDV7K— Mic Wright 🏳️🌈🌋🏴☠️ (@brokenbottleboy) September 3, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:29 (three years ago) link
Eh, those excerpts seem more like "listen, we're not saying he's a bad guy..." equivocating than "wtf is this guy on about" bafflement.
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:33 (three years ago) link
My fave is Corbyn going "new phone who dis" in response pic.twitter.com/a5OpOm91Iv— 'Client Journalism' Expert (@ClientJournoExp) September 4, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:37 (three years ago) link
I enjoyed the brief novelty of voting, shouldn't be a problem never doing it again tho
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 09:42 (three years ago) link
DO YOU WANT TRUMP TO WIN
― Daniel_Rf, Friday, 4 September 2020 09:43 (three years ago) link
I'm glad that I don't have to make a decision about the US situation which feels like a unique one. If Johnson is the UK Trump then there's more chance of him being toppled by the Tories on his own side rather than the Tories in the Labour Party
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 09:46 (three years ago) link
People said 5hst about Trump/GOP in '16
― オニモ (onimo), Friday, 4 September 2020 10:03 (three years ago) link
that, even
― オニモ (onimo), Friday, 4 September 2020 10:04 (three years ago) link
The difference is that the Republicans have, as far as I can see, never really turned on their own President in recent memory whereas nearly every Tory PM in my lifetime has been finished off by their own party. Only exceptions being Major (and they gave that a good go) and Cameron (and even then he was railroaded into his particular fuckup by his own party).
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:14 (three years ago) link
It's not something you especially want to wait around for because there's every chance when they get the opportunity they'll elect someone even worse.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:16 (three years ago) link
Cameron’s own party rebelled en masse on the equal marriage vote.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Friday, 4 September 2020 10:20 (three years ago) link
I think the level of threat to BAME people from Johnson or Starmer isn't meaningfully different in the way it is with Trump and anybody. That would be the only thing that could motivate me to vote for the Democrat's sex pest right wing candidate
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 10:28 (three years ago) link
but but Sir Kier took a knee!
― オニモ (onimo), Friday, 4 September 2020 10:33 (three years ago) link
he just imagined he was grovelling in front of the queen tbf
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:38 (three years ago) link
The gay marriage thing really poisoned a lot of Tory MPs and parts of the Tory media against Cameron and while that almost certainly enabled and emboldened the Brexit wing of the party it wasn't terminal for him in the way that, say, the Poll Tax was for Thatcher.
The thing is that Tories fundamentally believe in the principle that oppositions don't win elections, governments lose them, and who's to say they are wrong when they see Labour drawing level with them while not doing or saying very much? The solution to staying in power (and in their seats) is to change the government. If Cummings - a sociopath with a hatred of institutions who either doesn't notice obvious pitfalls right in front of him or doesn't care about them - decides to go to war with parts of the Tory benches then it could escalate very quickly.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 10:46 (three years ago) link
ahahaha
No need to bother, Co-op. As of today you are henceforth banned from advertising in The Spectator, in perpetuity. We will not have companies like yours use their financial might to try to influence our editorial content, which is entirely a matter for the editor. https://t.co/Iypkk9Pwrb— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 4, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:20 (three years ago) link
snowflake triggered etc.
― Neil S, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:21 (three years ago) link
No, you can't dump me because I dumped you first.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:23 (three years ago) link
One of the responders has #GrahamLinehane #JKRowling in their Twitter name
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:30 (three years ago) link
I wish I hadn't read the responses
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:36 (three years ago) link
A lot of people who need a civil and understanding conversation to gently persuade them to change their views
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
count the numbers in their usernames
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:37 (three years ago) link
Also a lot of people who don't seem to understand what the Co-op is
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:38 (three years ago) link
Actually Neil does seem to have a lot of seemingly real fans who reply to his every tweet with 'Bravo! Absolutely the right response' and 'Finally some real leadership - if only we'd had you in 1938' and 'Yaaas go off king btw your daughter does not look much like you oh it's your wife sorry Sir'
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:41 (three years ago) link
Irony of the editor of a magazine that exists to serve the agenda of plutocrats refusing to bow to evil capitalist megacorp the Co-op
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:43 (three years ago) link
It is notable that every time anyone writes anything about anything JC ever said or did - especially when they're trying to make him look bad - he comes out looking incredibly good.
― the pinefox, Friday, 4 September 2020 11:48 (three years ago) link
Going out to buy rainbow cones to own Andrew Neil
― scampo italiano (gyac), Friday, 4 September 2020 11:53 (three years ago) link
Johnson, JR, Joy Morrissey and the gang no doubt fuming over this latest history erasure
BREAKING: I’ve just heard the ‘Ripper Museum’ on Cable Street, East London, established under the false premise it would be a women’s history museum, has gone bust.GOOD.This was a celebration of misogyny & murder.I’m proud to have been part of the campaign against it. pic.twitter.com/Us5e1uXs5x— Dr Louise Raw (@LouiseRawAuthor) September 4, 2020
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
Cancelled by the market
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Friday, 4 September 2020 12:58 (three years ago) link
can't wait to see how the BBC's new social media policy doesn't apply to Neil
So can I just check that you've not told your agency to desist from placing future ads in The Spectator? And that you are prepared to place ads in the future? https://t.co/WqdFm0WITi— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 4, 2020
― stet, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:49 (three years ago) link
Absurd performative outrage from Neil here, the Co-op was never trying to influence editorial, it chose not to advertise and didn't know it was doing so in the first place. He knows this full well.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 15:59 (three years ago) link
I could be wrong but Neil is currently not employed by BBC (they cancelled his show and I don't think he does Daily Politics anymore) which explains why he's been far more unhinged and fashy recently.
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:02 (three years ago) link
The sheer scale of the support he gets though. This shit plays so well for them, there’s no downside Xp
― stet, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:04 (three years ago) link
Let me spell this out and end this nonsense. I currently have no contract with the BBC. But if I was to accept a new freelance contract, which came with tight restrictions re Twitter, then I would accept said restrictions as part of contract. Capice? https://t.co/uTAdFufHUw— Andrew Neil (@afneil) September 4, 2020
― Anti-Cop Ponceortium (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 4 September 2020 16:05 (three years ago) link
Fucking pathetic backpedal from Co-Op.
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:07 (three years ago) link
Feel very bad for whoever was in charge of their social media and presumably has just been hung out to dry here.
― Matt DC, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:24 (three years ago) link
There was a Spectator free trial promotion via Time Out emails recently. Unsubscribed from Time Out emails and told them why. No idea how many buy or subscribe to it - not enough for more advertisers to be persuaded to drop it I guess.
― nashwan, Friday, 4 September 2020 16:30 (three years ago) link