brexit negging when yr mandate is is trash: or further chronicles of a garbage-fire

My god @ this standing ovation (and singing HB!) at Diane Abbott - really moving.

So many pricks:

that famous cult behavior of singing someone happy birthday pic.twitter.com/NybirSLAL5

— Brain Mentality (@ByYourLogic) September 27, 2017

The reflection on Grenfell are powerful, and his reading of Ben Okri's poem was good too.

the richard leonard for leadership campaign sending an email to the Telegraph with the subject "coment [sic] on latest jackie bailie pish"

Xxxpost . Yeah, in a way that was the most satisfying part of the speech. For years party leaders, both left and right, have felt obliged to kowtow to Murdoch/Dacre et al, who certainly have no interest in any progressive change. So to hear Corbyn essentially say IDGAF, you don't matter anymore and we don't need you is a victory of sorts.

https://socialistworker.co.uk/art/45364/We+have+to+make+sure+Marxism+never+succeeds++inside+the+Labour+right+rally+in+Brighton

watching cryptoTories cry and fume never gets any less satisfying

Only a couple of months back Yvette Cooper was plotting to replace Corbyn, now she cuts a desolate figure, doggedly struggling across a windswept plain in a Bela Tarr movie sort of sums up Labour Right rn!

Robinson will also urge the broadcaster to promote and celebrate its impartiality, potentially by publishing the BBC’s so-called “producers’ guidelines” that outlines how its news coverage should be impartial, and by revealing the discussions and decisions at editorial meetings.

Lol! Nick Robinson is obviously high on something in The Graun today. Skipped past all the "Alternative news sites waging guerrilla war on BBC" shit.

Laura K is nowhere near as bad at Robinson or Andrew Neil but BBC interviewers really needs to learn the difference between "impartiality" and "belligerently adopting every contrary bias at once".

In the weeks leading up to the general election, Robinson spent most of his time interviewing inarticulate people from the Labour Heartlands, who despised Corbyn and had abandoned Labour because of him. And repeat.

In the weeks leading up to the general election, Robinson the entire British media spent most of his their time interviewing inarticulate people from the Labour Heartlands, who despised Corbyn and had abandoned Labour because of him. And repeat.

I think I posted somewhere about Sky doing that all through the election campaign.

Inarticulate Speech of the Heartlands = underrated Van Morrison album

LOL excellent.

Only 3 months ago, seems like an age...

Watching Sky News doing one of their regular Vote Conservative features on working class people who used to vote Labour (so they claim) but are considering voting Conservative this time round. Cue lots of grumpy people sitting round drinking tea. However, in the interests of balance, they find one woman who says, despite everything, she still intends to vote Labour, but the Sky reporter diligently finds a possible chink in her armour when she discovers that the woman's daughter would like to become an airline pilot. After trotting out stats about how few working class people become airline pilots, the Sky reporter helpfully reminds the woman of Theresa May's plans for new grammar schools - the woman wobbles, thinking of her eldest child, but sticks to her guns. What a disappointment for the Sky reporter! Next there's some poor geezer, with some sort of disability which prevents him working (aye, right, thinks the Sky Reporter), who has the misfortune to have a council house of his own to live in. The Sky reporter asks him if he has ever thought of buying his own home. No, says the man. Why not, says the Sky reporter. Well, I've lived in council houses all my life, says the man. But what about people who want to better themselves and live in nicer areas, what about them, says the Sky reporter. I'm happy where I am, says the man. The BBC are addicted to this sort of thing too, in case anyone thinks I'm targetting Sky unfairly.

― Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Friday, 2 June 2017 14:02 (three months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

It really does seem like years ago, already.

Theresa May's plans

bahahaha

Latest update from the coalface of the Universal Credit full service rollout: this is a poor system, shittily implemented.

— NAIVE COMMUNIST FOOL (@invisibleste) September 28, 2017

There is a thread here where somebody is describing the fun of being self-employed on zero hours in the Universal Credit era, after a "bumper month".

Are they still rolling that out the week before Christmas? That sounds like a complete disaster in the making for literally everyone involved.

In Kirklees it is rolling out in November. There are reports that some people are waiting months for payments. FFIW I never liked christmas that much anyway:p

fwiw even

ouch

another great idea from our scrooge-like overlords

srsly do these people get up in the morning thinking "how can i appear more like a cartoon villain today?"

(good luck everyone)

I know Tory voters often like to amp up the cartoon villain persona when surrounded by people who aren't cunts like them so like I wouldn't be that surprised if something similar went on at the top of shithead shitaway tree as well?

The annoying thing is, is how moribund and fucked this current lot are rn. This already defeated government going through the motions. If Davies, Boris jr + Rees-Mogg are their best shots - they are doomed for sure. Getting fucked over by such a weak regime, while they make John Major seem dynamic and brilliant, is lame as fuck imo.

^

^^^^^

Henry Bolton then.

i'll give it six weeks, tops

henry bolton once stood as a lib dem against philip hammond. quite the political journey.

anne marie waters the west brit nazi stood for election for labour for lambeth council in 2010. which seems a bit of an indictment of the labour party of those times

his partner has a very European sounding name (Tatiana Smurova-Bolton), but that was no problem for Trump either. Like his football namesake - relegated by February.

farage married to a european too

I meant to say Eastern-European!

anne marie waters the west brit nazi

<3 jim

I didn't realise that Mike Hookem had quit over Waters being allowed to stand for leadership. When someone is considered too Nazi for UKIP by that troglodyte, then possibly they are Adolf Goebbels 4 real.

Nick Cohen used to be a big defender of hers until a few years ago, and then wrote this piece arguing that the fact that she's now proved beyond all doubt that she's a racist is evidence that the left were wrong to call her racist

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/jul/29/bigot-who-would-lead-ukip-is-a-product-of-our-times?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

I once knew and admired her as a principled Labour activist. She worked with Asian feminists in their hard and essential struggle against theocratic constraints, most notably on British Muslim women...I know from experience that all who have offered what help they can to the secular cause can become infuriated by the self-negating vacuities of the modern liberal left. It is my firm view that historians will look back on our willingness to bend the knee before self-appointed clerical leaders with amazement and more than a little contempt. But Waters was not content with fighting liberal hypocrisy. She flipped. She cut all links with her sisters and comrades and chose the worst possible course.

i thought i couldn't hate that twat anymore

The Universal Credit Full Service 'bumper month = new claim' thing is one of the quieter horrors of the system - I say 'quieter' because 6-week-wait/housing are such screaming horrors of the system right now. It's particularly brutal because it's not even like you're coining it in a given month - it's just triggered by the way 'assessment periods' and 'how real people get paid' intersect. Umm… something on 77 or webmail if anyone wants to talk UC.

Does it have to be discussed in shadows though? It is affecting a lot of people and is indisputably a very fucking bad thing. No need to hide?

his partner has a very European sounding name (Tatiana Smurova-Bolton)

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/london/woman-gives-birth-on-train-arriving-at-st-pancras-a3249206.html

comin' over 'ere, giving birth on our trains

xp
wrote a long reply but then dumb refreshed. Short version - me chatting away here about Universal Credit would do more harm than good. Lower chance of fixing things. Seriously send a mail if you want to talk about this shit.

Excellent image choice from Politico.EU:

http://www.politico.eu/article/ukip-henry-bolton-new-leader/

he looks like he might be interested in legalising Ketamine in that pic.

The final change was the introduction of a “registered supporters” system in which individuals paid £3 to vote in any leadership contest, potentially opening the party up to entryism or outside manipulation. Blairites had long argued for such a move in the hope that it would attract “centrist” members of the public who would counterbalance left-leaning members. But the new rules energised Corbyn’s campaign. It was an instance of what Hegel called “the cunning of history”: individuals’ actions serving epochal forces of which they are only dimly aware.

That last sentence will weigh heavily on people like Frank Field and Margaret Beckett, who later cried tears of regret for nominating Corbyn.

I know the world has way moved on but I liked this short piece of a mother and baby at the Lab conference

Going back, but isn't Nick Cohen a real bunch of shit

Hah:

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/outrage-over-hang-the-tories-banner-on-manchester-bridge-ahead-of-conservative-conference-a3647676.html

It's awful making these threats against politicians who have never harmed anybody in their lives

Theresa May on Andrew Marr, still terrible. This talking up of free market capitalism, as if shoring it up against Corbyn, is such a lame idea I'm almost convinced Nick Timothy is behind it.