That's bad. As was her voting record.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:38 (four years ago) link
it's always agonising for a piece of tory shit to realise they've spent half a decade in a party that isn't recognisably "the labour family" any more. long may it continue.
― calzino, Wednesday, 16 October 2019 22:42 (four years ago) link
I don't really understand the two XR people disrupting public transport this morning. Am I missing something here?
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:25 (four years ago) link
about climate change I think
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
I doubt it, nobody seems to understand what they thought they were up to.
― plax (ico), Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:41 (four years ago) link
ah yes, so it is! Just googled
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:47 (four years ago) link
you don't expect right-wing outlets like Guido Fawkes to corroborate the slurs contained in "anonymous" dossiers leaked by Ellman, but it appears also the Graun and the BBC were just as happy to take hers (+ Councillor Nick Small's) very untrustworthy words as sincere. Good riddance.. shut door on't way out etc..
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 07:58 (four years ago) link
passengers piling into XR wth
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:00 (four years ago) link
nagl disrupting public transport lads
― be goose, do crimes (||||||||), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:02 (four years ago) link
There'll be dancing on the streets of whatever street Spiked is on tonite
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:04 (four years ago) link
I fucking hate cars, but I thought public transport was good.
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:10 (four years ago) link
xp Challops Boulevard iirc
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:11 (four years ago) link
The XR action was rubbish but...assaulting people to get to work?!
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:25 (four years ago) link
Its a form of road rage, no? Pent up frustration, claustrophobia, stress
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:29 (four years ago) link
Try getting the 91 bus in the morning, you have to manhandle people to get on the fucking thing.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:37 (four years ago) link
EXTINCTION REBELLION ACTIVISTS COP AN OLD-SCHOOL LONDON STOMPINGGet into them, lads! The spirit of “Sod off, swampy” rides again as enraged London commuters go to war with Extinction Rebellion sub-normals:
The Telegraph's take!
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:39 (four years ago) link
Sub-normals? That's nice.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:45 (four years ago) link
Its weird to me to put it in terms of "wanting to get to work" as though people are rational animals making logical decisions, and not rammed into small spaces, already on edge for purely physical and immediate reasons, and then acting as a crowd. Its a surprise panic doesn't break out more often, then giving a crowd a focal point? "Its that guy up there".
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:46 (four years ago) link
xpi was very much reading it in a plummy pathe news accent
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:48 (four years ago) link
crowd/mob psychology is dark scary shit
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
Oh, I thought that was a genuine Telegraph headline! They've gone completely barking in the last few months.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:49 (four years ago) link
it is a c+p from the Telegraph!
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:51 (four years ago) link
https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/subscribe/news/1/?sourceCode=DTWEB_WRE170_a_GGL&dest=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.dailytelegraph.com.au%2Fblogs%2Ftim-blair%2Fextinction-rebellion-activists-cop-an-oldschool-london-stomping%2Fnews-story%2F6e39071a43571cce11636bfc2da362e3&memtype=anonymous&mode=premium&v21suffix=56-a
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
It's the Australian Telegraph, but that doesn't make it any less weird
― Captain ACAB (Neil S), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:52 (four years ago) link
I know most XR people were against it, and anything decentralized runs this kind of risk but for those two to not realize something like this would happen is unfathomable (unless they intended it, but thats also weird)
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:54 (four years ago) link
xplol, reading it in a Shane Warne voice now.
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:55 (four years ago) link
Oh right, it's positively urbane by Australian standards.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 08:57 (four years ago) link
I'm torn on the XR thing. Feels like an acid test as to where sympathies go. None for the cnuts who got violent with them though. Maybe it's a little taste of what's to come if Brexit/Tories finally push us to HK-style disruption.
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:08 (four years ago) link
Would the people who attacked them even have registered, at the time, that they were anything to do with XR? (not that it justifies anything
― anvil, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:10 (four years ago) link
Back our brave commuters
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:12 (four years ago) link
they were holding up a big XR banner, so probably no confusion there.
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:14 (four years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/oct/17/unemployment-figures-should-be-millions-higher-says-research
Millions more people in Britain are without a job than shown by official unemployment figures, according to a study that suggests the jobless rate should be almost three times higher.
https://external-content.duckduckgo.com/iu/?u=https%3A%2F%2Fbootstheory.files.wordpress.com%2F2015%2F08%2Fjuking-the-stats.gif%3Fw%3D525&f=1&nofb=1
― expedited frictionless convergences (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
a piece of tory shit
I can't imagine why Ellman feels unwelcome.
― Ned Trifle X, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:17 (four years ago) link
Crying for her
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:18 (four years ago) link
When you don't even have the guts to admit you've been in the Labour Party your whole life but you hate socialism
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:19 (four years ago) link
xxpwhy does she read ILX? you fule!
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:20 (four years ago) link
Protests are supposed to be a nuisance to people, that's how they work, but this is exactly the wrong target. Also, anyone getting the DLR or the Jubilee Line from deep East London at 7am or before is going to be either very busy and stressed, poor/in precarious employment and stressed, or both. I guess they chose Stratford for a reason but Canning Town of all places is an abysmal choice of target.
― Matt DC, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:21 (four years ago) link
I suspect the idea for some XR activists is that everything is a target for disruption because CC affects everything.
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:24 (four years ago) link
would never excuse violence and I do overall sympathise with the cause, but all those XR posters around town saying "Summer rebellion - take two weeks off work!" maybe lends us some clue as to the fact that some of the XR team may not understand the lives of normal people who have to go to work every day in stressful and uncomfortable circumstances and aren't privileged enough to be able to take 2 weeks off whenever they want to stop people getting to work. maybe they don't realise some people on those tubes will have their pay docked, or will get a ton of shit for being late
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:29 (four years ago) link
otm
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:31 (four years ago) link
for the zero hour precariat there is often a very thin line between struggling to get by and going under, just arriving half an hour late to work can have disastrous knock on effects for some people.
― calzino, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:35 (four years ago) link
Are they really that stupid though?
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:35 (four years ago) link
(xp)
I don't necessarily agree with the tactic or argument but some are clearly going to argue 'fuck your job that you hate anyway none of this shit matters, millions will die because of CC'. I don't know what would persuade a minority to tailor their disruptive choices in light of that.
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:37 (four years ago) link
By the way, remember Brexit? Boris has just Got It Done.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
Phew so glad to move onto other priorities now.
― stet, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:40 (four years ago) link
RIPDUP?
― nashwan, Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
No, they're on board with it.
― Michael Oliver of Penge Wins £5 (Tom D.), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:41 (four years ago) link
Holy shit here we go
They vote it down = election timeCowards and wankers combine to get it thru = jump on Barmston drain time
― Xia Nu del Vague (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 17 October 2019 09:42 (four years ago) link