Daniel Hannan will do a fine job
― Neil S, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
I'd be hard-pressed to come up with a more eloquent photographic allegory of contemporary British nihilism:
https://i.guim.co.uk/img/media/3f08942dab33951c3d5e2a367da2ae58dfee1a91/0_93_1600_960/master/1600.jpg?width=1920&quality=85&auto=format&fit=max&s=bd271e612a3759e0443e65235535c681
― pomenitul, Friday, 4 September 2020 18:49 (three years ago) link
christ that’s grim
― you are like a scampicane, there's calm in your fries (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 4 September 2020 19:32 (three years ago) link
Senior Lib Dems maintain that Mr Murray “always gave us enough” to suggest that he would consider switching parties.
“Ian held talks only to discuss how parties could work together to stop Brexit, and when the Lib Dems tried to tempt.......
couldn't copy and paste any more as the words/times paywall faded into insignificance.
― calzino, Friday, 4 September 2020 19:41 (three years ago) link
stoked to read ILX's line on the latest XR protest
― imago, Saturday, 5 September 2020 09:52 (three years ago) link
Lol Australian politicians really not happy about the Tony Abbott thing.
Mark Dreyfus, the shadow attorney general of the opposition Labor party, said on Saturday: “It’s up to the Morrison government to explain how a former Liberal PM can now work for a foreign power advising on matters potentially in direct conflict with Australia’s commercial interest.
“And how conflicts arising from Mr Abbott’s intimate knowledge of Australia’s trading interests and strategies, gained during his years as minister and prime minister, will be managed.”
Other parliamentarians went further. Rex Patrick, an independent senator from South Australia, labelled Abbott’s appointment a “disgrace” and called for the former prime minister to be forced to register as a foreign agent under Australia’s Foreign Influence Transparency Scheme.
He said Abbott should be stripped of “most” of his travel and office allowance. “Australian taxpayers shouldn’t subsidise a foreign agent,” Patrick said on social media.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 09:56 (three years ago) link
This might be worth it if the government ends up with a trade envoy who can't leave his own country because it wanted to fuck off the snowflakes.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 09:57 (three years ago) link
I take the correct position that XR are generally terrible but did a good thing today.
Fuck Labour. And just so we are clear- Fuck. Labour. https://t.co/HqDtUce5ux— Mr Demos of Pnyx (@gem_ste) September 5, 2020
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:34 (three years ago) link
someone makes the good point that it's a miracle they succeeded, they are probably so heavily infiltrated by undercover cops.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:40 (three years ago) link
Dawn Butler expressed approval for the XR action and then either deleted it or was ordered to by the appalling Labour leadership that cares a lot about the Murdoch press.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:44 (three years ago) link
lol the "outrageous attack on our free press" line being used by both main parties.. just seriously fuck this country.
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:50 (three years ago) link
fuck this country, fuck its political parties, fuck the free press, fuck XR
seems to cover it
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:56 (three years ago) link
we need a separate thread for why XR are a pathetic cosplay joke of a nothing but still, i lolled
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 10:57 (three years ago) link
they are awful, but I approve of climate emergency protests that cause disruption to the so called free press, sorry I meant the vile fascist propaganda shit-rags owned by the same few billionaires
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:05 (three years ago) link
sometimes they are so bad you'd think they were an elaborate psyop perpetrated by big oil to sullen the reputation of climate activism, but I still approve of what they did today!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:08 (three years ago) link
From the Wapping picket line to fighting the mine closures and supporting families affected by the P&O dispute, I’ve always been a proud trade unionist.
“A free press is vital for our democracy. People have the right to read the newspapers they want. Stopping them from being distributed and printers from doing their jobs is wrong.”
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:33 (three years ago) link
Who in 2020 is being prevented from reading or engaging with the free press because they can't physically get their hands on a newspaper?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:52 (three years ago) link
Kieth is a Kop
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:55 (three years ago) link
Like this is literally a handful of dyed-in-the-wool Tory colonels having apoplexy because the Telegraph hasn't landed on their doormat.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
― imago, Saturday, 5 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
What's your line on it?
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 September 2020 11:56 (three years ago) link
― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:15 (three years ago) link
XR could you not instead takedown their websites jeez
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:18 (three years ago) link
the thing about the working class is, they just love working. can't get enough of it. Labour is the party that facilitates working - any kind of working, just for the love of work and working— Rosewood Shoehorn (@apiarism) September 5, 2020
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:19 (three years ago) link
The Police Federation in London is calling for the suspension of the right to freedom of assembly, which is protected by Article 11 of the European Convention on Human Rights https://t.co/t8CKsik7lg— Netpol (@netpol) September 5, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:28 (three years ago) link
I haven't worked out my exact line but the optics of a targeted attack on our monstrous press barons can't be that bad, even when they are, lol. "Tell The Truth" is a slightly lame slogan though - the issue is more structural than that (i.e. the favours-for-mates cosy press racket)
― imago, Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:32 (three years ago) link
Remember when a handful of lorry drivers blocked the exit to a fuel depot and brought the entire country to a standstill, prompting widespread panic buying, and the British press cheered them on?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:44 (three years ago) link
Ban protests they spread ronaAlso get back on the 8am tube you hogs
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 September 2020 12:53 (three years ago) link
A tiny number of billionaires own vast swathes of our press.Their papers relentlessly campaign for right-wing politics, promoting the interests of the ruling class and scapegoating minorities.A free press is vital to democracy, but too much of our press isn't free at all.— Zarah Sultana MP (@zarahsultana) September 5, 2020
― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 5 September 2020 13:06 (three years ago) link
She never misses. Honestly think she could be the fulcrum of a new left movement within the next couple of years.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 5 September 2020 13:27 (three years ago) link
I agree, my reservations are for her safety because you know what she will be targeted with by the press.
― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 5 September 2020 14:01 (three years ago) link
Absolutely. The attacks on her will arguably even more deranged and frothing than they ever were on Corbyn. At least he got the granny "aww isnt he nice" appeal.
― glumdalclitch, Saturday, 5 September 2020 14:03 (three years ago) link
Our free press.
And the outlets that do real investigative work are increasingly subject to state censorship https://t.co/wlbcJhlgTH— Sita Balani (@sitainshort) September 5, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 September 2020 14:45 (three years ago) link
She's representing a West Midlands seat on a majority of 401, Cummings is going to ensure that everything that can be possibly be thrown at her is thrown at her.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 15:15 (three years ago) link
Speaking of which I'm assuming the #scummedia mob are pretty quiet on today's events?
― Matt DC, Saturday, 5 September 2020 15:16 (three years ago) link
Just saw this on BBC from seemingly rival protests in Dover today - confusing optics.
https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/cpsprodpb/1553B/production/_114255378_pic5.jpg
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 September 2020 15:43 (three years ago) link
This is just objectively very funny pic.twitter.com/PQWCEzbZ7S— 'Client Journalism' Expert (@ClientJournoExp) September 5, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 September 2020 16:48 (three years ago) link
calzino OTM. And may I add, fuck Labour.
(breaking my 'no politics threads they do my fucking head in' guidelines because I just needed to say this somewhere, fuuuuuuuuck this Labour leadership)
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:01 (three years ago) link
(don't stab them though, please)
― emil.y, Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:02 (three years ago) link
They're happily doing that to themselves anyway
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:04 (three years ago) link
emil.y otm, and this thread has been awful since December for obvious reasons (but is still the best politics thread imo!)
― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:05 (three years ago) link
Hold on lads I think XR have bobbles the thread
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:07 (three years ago) link
"nobbled" ffs fuck you XR
heh! it's actually worse than violence reading spurious bullshhit tweets by soft tory dregs like Starmer and Creasy on the important matter of defending our fabled free press, it's beyond ultra-violence - they need perma-banning!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:14 (three years ago) link
a lot of XR activists have the levels of class-consciousness where they'd put a sticker that says: "you deserve to die because you are a driver" on some poor af uber driver's car and then jet off for a hol in the Algarve the next day. Probably a very crude sketch there, but some kernel of truth in there I believe!
― calzino, Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:20 (three years ago) link
― scampo italiano (gyac), Saturday, 5 September 2020 bookmarkflaglink
JoeBiden.jpg
― xyzzzz__, Saturday, 5 September 2020 17:25 (three years ago) link
Are there any good 'I support radical action against climate change (and its deniers) but XR ain't it' pieces that can be read?
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 September 2020 18:02 (three years ago) link
https://www.huckmag.com/perspectives/opinion-perspectives/room-for-change-the-problem-with-extinction-rebellion/
this isn't quite that but addresses real problems with XR. tbf it's nearly a year old and i'm sure there's change within groups like this all the time, but i have similar issues with the idea of an apolitical movement
― A Short Film About Scampoes (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 5 September 2020 18:10 (three years ago) link
cheers NV
― nashwan, Saturday, 5 September 2020 18:15 (three years ago) link