lol
Who would be your dream dinner guest?Probably Bruce Springsteen.Big fan?I am, yeah. It was a toss-up between him and Billy Joel there. I sound like my dad, actually. But, probably Springsteen. Big fan of his music – I’ve actually seen him quite a few times, too many times, maybe. I actually saw him in the States in my early 20s and he puts on a good gig. I’d love to sit down and have a chat with him about some of the folk he’s played with, like Bob Dylan and all that, I think it’d be a good chat. I say good chat – I’d probably just sit there in awe.
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:27 (one year ago) link
(born 13 October 1988)
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:28 (one year ago) link
Kieth throwing in with the terfs over the Scottish gender recognition bill just in case anyone harboured a shred of faith in these villains
Getting into bed with the Tories over the independence referendum pretty much destroyed the Labour Party in Scotland, now this fucking oaf has decided to repeat the exercise.
― A Drunk Man Looks At Partick Thistle (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:30 (one year ago) link
Look on the bright side, maybe he really doesn’t like Ian Murray
― bit high, bitch (gyac), Sunday, 15 January 2023 20:38 (one year ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FmiiwT9XgAARdw_?format=jpg&name=large
who is the biggest wanker? Springsteen or drummer from Blur. You decide!
― calzino, Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:01 (one year ago) link
lol that he's enough of a simp to think renationalisation might be a serious Starmer agenda
― calzino, Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:03 (one year ago) link
"a solid aspirational vision", what a tosser
― the billy sherwood of trad jazz (Matt #2), Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:44 (one year ago) link
always love it when politics fans talk about "the brand" with a straight face, you can tell they're really passionate and have deeply-held beliefs
― Kieth Encounter (Noodle Vague), Sunday, 15 January 2023 21:45 (one year ago) link
blur announce rhythm section for upcoming gigs:
https://www.ciaoitalia.com/wp-content/uploads/imported-files/2-Provolone-cheese-melt001.jpg
― o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 15 January 2023 22:08 (one year ago) link
Labour to pledge rapid action on replenishing UK weapon stocks https://t.co/lPBuvTVJng— The Guardian (@guardian) February 6, 2023
Some might say that this is a party of cunts, run by cunts, chasing the votes of simps
― bald, mean and full of beans (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:22 (one year ago) link
of course freunde
― CerebralCaustic, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:24 (one year ago) link
nothing worse than getting caught short without huge fucking stockpiles of anti-tank bazookas
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 07:40 (one year ago) link
it's nice that unfunded pledges are OK as long as they are going to the weapons of death industry rather than the NHS
― calzino, Tuesday, 7 February 2023 08:06 (one year ago) link
i shall sleep easier in my bed
― just mean and full of beans tbh (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 7 February 2023 08:14 (one year ago) link
Guess what's being destroyed?
What makes this one especially egregious is that Broxtowe represents a model of the party as a hub of community organising. They fed 10,000 people during the pandemic. The absolute opposite of hollowed out, cartel party Starmer wants to erect. https://t.co/b2T9YO4rQd— Keir Milburn (@KeirMilburn) February 28, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:52 (one year ago) link
This is how many times now, to a wall of fucking silence from a press pack that had screaming fits over any individual resignation letter they could lay their hands on 2015-19 https://t.co/wgc0THKVhg— The Justin Horton Show (@ejhchess) February 28, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 22:53 (one year ago) link
I genuinely hope these spiteful scumbags somehow manage to fuck the next GE.
― calzino, Tuesday, 28 February 2023 23:29 (one year ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-64595772
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:07 (one year ago) link
it’s very strange from an American POV to see candidates with no ties to the area “selected” by the national party and parachuted in. in a way it’s kind of awe-inspiring that the party is that powerful. in another way it just sucks
― Tracer Hand, Wednesday, 1 March 2023 00:19 (one year ago) link
A very sad evening as the right wing of DaWN Labour Party conclude 8 years of assault on Gipsy Hill Branch by abolishing us out of existence. They stitched up our councillor selections, fabricated complaints against members, ignored our votes and now abolished us. Complete joke pic.twitter.com/3X2jMGl8di— Ben Wiedel-Kaufmann (@benwwk) March 16, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 16 March 2023 21:56 (one year ago) link
always telling easily fact-checked lies is the grownup politics
Starmer denies ever being a friend of Corbyn despite describing him in such a way in April 2020 and serving alongside him for a number of years pic.twitter.com/QEnRLE46gY— j (@jrc1921) April 3, 2023
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 April 2023 09:41 (one year ago) link
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/fa5b38b4-d18d-11ed-b1cd-5223fe349502?shareToken=b3b4b6c43851ef4eefba09c962b6181f
Times article about divisions in the Labour leadership between those who think Lab should be targeting 'Workington Man' (male red wall voters who defected from Lab to Con in 2019) and those who think they should focus more on a type identified by a think-tank called 'Labour Together' as 'Stevenage Woman':
Disillusioned with politics, she is in her early forties and works full-time. She worries about the cost of living, is an instinctive fiscal conservative, and probably voted Tory in 2019. She quite likes Rishi Sunak.
but then when you get to what this actually means in practice:
Labour Together wants to lock Starmer to a small-c conservative line on crime, immigration, gender and security.
this seems like the exact same line we were told Labour needed to adopt to win over Workington Man? so what is the big divide, exactly? maybe the 'instinctive fiscal conservative' bit, the Stevenage Woman boosters might think Labour needs to move right on economics? but the article doesn't say anything about that, just stuff like this
Ahead of Labour’s “crime week” last month, there was a lengthy debate over whether the party should use the word “punishment” in its messaging; and some think the shadow home secretary Yvette Cooper is too soft on law and order.
― soref, Monday, 3 April 2023 10:13 (one year ago) link
also the article opens with a tenuous reference to 'This is the Chorus' by Morris Minor and the Majors, very strange article all round
― soref, Monday, 3 April 2023 10:16 (one year ago) link
arguing aggressively over which fucking fictional racist you've made up for your tea party you need to pander to more
― Daniel_Rf, Monday, 3 April 2023 10:43 (one year ago) link
...is the grownup politics
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 April 2023 11:04 (one year ago) link
it's fucking grownups everywhere i tell thee
three lads i was listening to in the pub yesterday veering between "bring back the death penalty" and "it's the immigrants" so maybe Volkischer Labour are onto something
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 April 2023 11:05 (one year ago) link
'I'm not going to make that commitment.'Keir Starmer tells this junior doctor that he cannot promise a full pay restoration if he were in power, but says a Labour government would be 'on your side'.
Keir Starmer tells this junior doctor that he cannot promise a full pay restoration if he were in power, but says a Labour government would be 'on your side'.
Kiething it real!
― calzino, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:30 (one year ago) link
Did he elucidate in what way he'd be 'on their side' I wonder?
― inky pinky voulez-vous (Matt #2), Monday, 3 April 2023 11:46 (one year ago) link
this guy is arguing that it's not accurate to say 'Stevenage Woman' is socially conservative based on the data in the report, that she's moderate or even liberal relative to the general population (rather than relative to existing Lab voters), and that the journalists leading with the 'socially conservative' framing are misrepresenting the report. But presumably the 'socially conservative' angle is what Labour Together are briefing themselves, based on stuff like that Times article.
Let us *please* not have a repeat of the commentariats garbling of James Kanagasooriams "Red Wall" hypothesis. pic.twitter.com/W7DXXOxpTk— Marios Richards (@MariosRichards) April 3, 2023
― soref, Monday, 3 April 2023 11:56 (one year ago) link
i heard Yvette Cooper on the radio this morning talking about the new grooming laws, and about the Dover queues, and she was even worse than I'd remembered. just idiotic. You could hear it Mishal Husain's voice, constantly downshifting to try and reach Cooper at whatever level she was at, and failing.
― Tracer Hand, Monday, 3 April 2023 12:22 (one year ago) link
I heard that as well, lol she's fucking awful and some people still see her as a fluent grown-up politician who is good at this stuff. The funny thing is she hasn't pleased anybody this morning. She's getting pelters from FBPEs and the rabid right. Might need some new triangulation software.
― calzino, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:29 (one year ago) link
The shock revelation that a huge percentage of grooming gang crimes are actually committed by white people could have done with a bit more discussion.
― calzino, Monday, 3 April 2023 14:36 (one year ago) link
look it's only 80-odd percent white people, we need to look at the bigger issue
― satori enabler (Noodle Vague), Monday, 3 April 2023 14:50 (one year ago) link
you might think that nepotism and its attendant corruption is profoundly anti-democratic, but you're wrong
“Everyone knows everyone” is the first rule of the Labour Party.They know each other; they’re related to each other; they sleep with each other; they marry each other, writes Morgan Jones. https://t.co/TBeWQ7zdmV— The New Statesman Politics (@TheStaggers) May 30, 2023
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 15:51 (one year ago) link
so amusing that they repeatedly shit all over the democratic process during selections and all the most powerful people are advancing up their own family members to the upper hierarchy of the party. yes it is like a Succession ep, but funny cos it is real, ho ho ho let's write a whimsical piece about this
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:09 (one year ago) link
it wouldn't let me read it tbh, but I assume it is a light-hearted take on nepotism from the title
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:14 (one year ago) link
The Tweet said "and that's good" originally, I'm sure. So they've already rowed that bit back
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 16:29 (one year ago) link
The article says that
― TY FRANCE HATES TEXAS CONFIRMED (gyac), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:02 (one year ago) link
has it been deleted? I can't even load it on twitter now
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:09 (one year ago) link
oh no it has loaded now. Yeah they have deleted that part of the line on twitter - a ghost of it is still showing up on ilx - I think
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:14 (one year ago) link
it was ratioed to fuck even when i first shared it
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:15 (one year ago) link
I can see it again now. lol I think twitter is becoming dysfunctional
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:22 (one year ago) link
3 Retweets 62 Quotes 3 Likes 11 Bookmarks
so it seems the NES will be realising that political cronyism/nepotism isn't really a jovial subject - even the melts have spent years railing against it in its Tory form
― calzino, Tuesday, 30 May 2023 17:35 (one year ago) link
Possibly the only pro-Corbyn candidate whom Lab didn't, for some reason, stop. She is running for the seat at the next one.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2023/may/29/social-mobility-is-a-fairytale-faiza-shaheen-on-fighting-for-labour-and-hating-oxford
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 31 May 2023 11:19 (one year ago) link
don't know whether to feel sad that somebody so acute and passionate is still ensnared in the Labour machine or glad that people are still trying to speak truth from a public platform
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Wednesday, 31 May 2023 12:16 (one year ago) link
Stalinmer, anyone done this yet
So this Jamie Driscoll things isn't going to go away, and I can only hope it does some damage.Even Tories seem to think it's unfair and ludicrous. An apparently it's all over essentially being in the same room as Ken Loach.But Loach was not expelled for AS, as various liars are lying
"Where somebody shares a platform with someone who themselves has been expelled from the Lab Party for their views on antisemitism.. that would preclude them from being a candidate" Reynolds justifys the leadership purging socialists from standing as Labour candidates. #Ridge pic.twitter.com/eHECs1V4wU— Saul Staniforth (@SaulStaniforth) June 4, 2023
― glumdalclitch, Sunday, 4 June 2023 21:04 (one year ago) link
I've got mixed feelings on KL's approach to making movies with class consciousness at the heart of them. I still do like some of them though. But to try and monster him as an anti-Semite and then anyone who is caught stood next to him is just completely fucking senseless and hideous.
― calzino, Sunday, 4 June 2023 22:02 (one year ago) link
this is transparent bullshit, illegal no doubt, just saying shit for headlines, but the fact that a prospective parliamentary candidate for Labour things it's worth saying is completely unsurprising
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/jun/05/darren-rodwell-labour-barking-dagenham-london-knife-crime-evictions
― two grills one tap (Noodle Vague), Monday, 5 June 2023 11:00 (one year ago) link
Pure fiction in the FT today
this week @ft looks at what Starmer would do in Downing St if Labour wins 2024 general election: the answer is more radical than you might think…green economy, employment reforms, planning changes, scrapping House of Lords, nationalising rail, moving 50,000 civil servants https://t.co/G18oCTbJOv— Jim Pickard 🐋 (@PickardJE) June 6, 2023
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 6 June 2023 12:24 (one year ago) link