"we'll change the things that need changing and that's all we'll change": the paSUKification of post-brexit politics 2021

So naive.

I think it was a fairly difficult decision as I don’t want a precedent to be set for socialist groupings within the party - but these groups are really not socialist

— Lara McNeill (@lara_eleanor) July 20, 2021

idk if she’s can even be described as ‘naive’ if she’s also recognising that there was no justification for proscribing Socialist Appeal but the panel went ahead and voted for it anyway,

expelling ken loach may not be exactly great ops as far as a lot of long-standing members are concerned, but of course kieth & co dngaf

Starmer self-isolating.

clever ^

Nurses get 3% increase due to their "hard work and selfless in the day to day care and the other could have been a massive relief to me and to the patients with the Live support and support team to help you with"

Greta Thunberg
Radiohead
Ken Clarke
Jess Phillips
Gina Miller
Led By Donkeys
Carole Cadwalladr
Bonnie Greer
Hannah Miller (Granada Reports)
Samira Ahmed
Robin Askwith

was thinking yesterday about how all comedians are fucking melts, this is Stewart Lee's list of political heroes on his site from those heady days of 2019 when the decision for lots of comfortably well off FBPE type people seemingly was a stark choice between god knows what and anyone but that bloody Crobyn!

finding out Lee's a Babs stan has completely finished him off for me. That's even worse than Morecambe + Wise admitting that Hitler was quite a sensible chap really.

I don’t care how much noise he listens to he’s fucking basic

Stewart Lee really wrote that??

I am surprised.

It's not a parody?

lol googling reveals there's a cookd and bombd thread full of ppl distraught by that list, didn't think that forum would be left enough to understand the evils of Philips, Led By Donkeys et al.

https://www.stewartlee.co.uk/2019/12/mx2019-hny2020-to-all-from-the-metro-lib-elite-desk-of-stewart-lee/

the page that's on ends with 'quotes' including one from Helen Lewis.

going to London tomorrow, might buy some flowers.

This has appeared outside Giles Coren’s house. pic.twitter.com/bGdYbjRGbF

— Elvis Buñuelo (@Mr_Considerate) July 21, 2021

Another useless detail I learned about the world of comedy wankers is that Giles Coren is David Mitchell's brother-in-law!

Yes, and Laurence Fox is Richard Ayoade's brother in law.

my challops which will probably be not at all a challops on here is that Victoria Coren-Mitchell isn't funny or interesting, just sort of smug and pedantic

lol googling reveals there's a cookd and bombd thread full of ppl distraught by that list, didn't think that forum would be left enough to understand the evils of Philips, Led By Donkeys et al.

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, July 22, 2021 8:48 AM (fifty-four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

"Distraught" is a massive exaggeration. The main reactions seemed to be either "FFS, Stew" or "Probably just part of a show he's doing or something."

Apart from a few obvious trolls, C&B has never been a right-leaning forum so fuck knows why you'd think otherwise.

xp

I honestly don't even know who she is. Is she a star of R4 comedy or something?

She is Alan Coren's daughter / Giles Coren's sister / David Mitchell's wife, she has a very popular gameshow on TV and appears on lots of other things like panel shows, people seem to like her for some reason

She seems to have fans on here but I don't see it myself. Their father was probably the smuggest man who ever lived.

(xp)

A lot of ILXors swear by Only Connect, which she presents, in fact I think an ILXor has even appeared on it!

Apart from a few obvious trolls, C&B has never been a right-leaning forum so fuck knows why you'd think otherwise.

I did not expect it to lean right wing but I did expect it to lean melt because, as stated before by calz, that's what 90% of UK comedians are.

The whole Coren son being a massive cunt does hide from his dad being part of this broadsheet vermin class this country was full of before the internet's attempts to kill newspapers.

Here is the wiki entry on his books:

"Coren published about twenty books during his life, many of which were collections of his newspaper columns,[1] such as Golfing for Cats and The Cricklewood Diet.

From 1976 to 1983 he wrote the Arthur series of children's books.[1]

One of his most successful books, The Collected Bulletins of Idi Amin (a collection of his Punch articles about Amin) was rejected for publication in the United States on the grounds of racial sensitivity.[1][5] These Bulletins were later made into a comedy album, The Collected Broadcasts of Idi Amin with the actor John Bird. After the Tanzanian capture of Kampala in 1979 the American journalist Art Barrett discovered a copy of Coren's book on Idi Amin's bedside table.[10]

Coren's other books include The Dog It Was That Died (1965), The Sanity Inspector (1974), All Except The Bastard (1978), The Lady from Stalingrad Mansions (1978), Rhinestone as Big as the Ritz (1979), Tissues for Men (1981), Bumf (1984), Seems Like Old Times: a Year in the Life of Alan Coren (1989), More Like Old Times (1990), A Year in Cricklewood (1991), Toujours Cricklewood? (1993), Alan Coren's Sunday Best (1993), A Bit on the Side (1995), Alan Coren Omnibus (1996), The Cricklewood Dome (1998), The Cricklewood Tapestry (2002) and Waiting for Jeffrey (2002).[1][6][7] Coren's final book, 69 For One, was published late in 2007.[1]"

Only Connect sounds like the type of tv show where it would have to be like the aversion therapy scene in Clockwork Orange for me to watch it!

Remember thumbing thru one of his books in a charity shop once, looked shite & it had a foreword from one or both of the kids explaining that all the racism was fine actually - fuck all of them tbh

I was on Only Connect, as was erstwhile ilxor ailsa iirc. Victoria C was perfectly charming and likeable irl, obv her brother is a cunt and her husband is a different kind of cunt. I'm also on record as finding Alan Coren's punch stuff deeply hilarious when I was about 12, idk I was a strange kid. OC is a good quiz in parts but doesn't do much for me as a TV show nowadays tbh

VCM
> appears on lots of other things like panel shows

and celeb gogglebox if the 30 seconds i saw on friday is to be believed

Celeb Gogglebox had a bunch of culture war cunts last time I saw two minutes of it. All TV panel shows make an excellent argument for the immediate destruction of western culture, obv

Wow, I knew ailsa was on it, her being a massive quizzer and all, but I didn't know NV had been on it, wtf! I would have watched! btw ailsa still shows up on ILX occasionally to join in the lamentations over Celtic.

Yeah I thought she probably still posted a little bit I just lose track.

My OC appearance was a losing one but it was largely a fun day out

The Idi Amin stuff was also performed by beloved satirist John Bird, in a horrible cod African accent I think, so thats him cancelled n all

(1)Labour's leadership, by calling for a measly 2.1% pay rise for nurses, instead of getting behind the Union claims, have not only embarrassed themselves, because the Tories agreed 3%. They have also made it harder for Nurses unions to fight for more - which is worse.

— Solomon Hughes (@SolHughesWriter) July 22, 2021

this was so bad it can't be overstated enough what a cunt Starmer is. I hope he ends up in ICU and someone *accidentally* plugs it out to charge up their Wii

Not only the entire media apparatus vomiting supermarket press releases about a 'pingdemic' to try to stop people taking time off work due to Covid exposure, but trade union bosses too. https://t.co/r6iPvtw2CU

— libcom.org (@libcomorg) July 22, 2021

Unite are so fucking crap and this is even before that Murdoch approved cunt wins the general secretary election.

Stewart Lee is still good and funny imo, we're all allowed tired and emotional missteps

I expect to be able to hold that opinion in good grace, perhaps a bit of side-eye, no more

who? never even heard of the cunt!

Solomon Hughes also pointing out that Kinnock backed the ambulance drivers strike in '90, yes even that lefty firebrand Neil fucking Kinnock was better than Kieth.

Some of the original ILXors who were at Oxford at the same time as VC have legitimate beef with her - apparently she took over one of the student publications with a wave of Daddy’s Filofax and turfed out anyone lacking her sort of connections (including one or two of the ILXors).

lol and I bet she's conceited + full of shit enough to say she's worked her bloody socks off to get where she is!

https://skwawkbox.org/2021/07/22/exclusive-labour-takes-back-former-staffer-from-labourleaks-report-who-called-abbott-repulsive-and-sent-video-of-corbyn-as-hitler/

completely normal party that offers the only alternative to Toryism

it's nice to see while they are moaning about having to lay off loads of staff because Corbyn broke the party, yet they can still afford to bring back a racist prick. That sends out a clear message of what kind of party they are.

Stewart Lee is still good and funny imo, we're all allowed tired and emotional missteps

― imago, Thursday, 22 July 2021 bookmarkflaglink

the chimamanda essay is essential reading but this part just absolutely nails everything that is wrong with this generation pic.twitter.com/5wW1pn3SlJ

— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 17, 2021

I'd love to have 3000 followers. I'd have to tweet so much more though, not worth it.

Around 10 yes and 25 no for me, pride swells within me as a result

the chimamanda essay is essential reading but this part just absolutely nails everything that is wrong with this generation
— jonathan nunn (@demarionunn) June 17, 2021

― xyzzzz__, Thursday, July 22, 2021 1:50 PM (thirty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

jfc did you really have to remind me of that stupid fucking nonsense?

Oh look at me I've got two former friends who dared to disagree with me about trans stuff, let me extrapolate their tastes, personalities and habits to every other person who dares to disagree with me, she can fuck right off.

Some better news

Breaking, Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, aka Tommy Robinson, has lost the libel case brought by a Syrian teenager over accusations Lennon made against him

— James Doleman (@jamesdoleman) July 22, 2021

Who's gonna pay the 100,000 for him then? I mean, hopefully nobody and he goes to jail, but he has some rich friends.

Well his GB News show starts next week so.

Alright no this has not happened just yet.