PMs change and lol we're all gonna die (but brexit will never end)

He'd fallen out with Soviet communism. Though, of course, he was a religious nut, which didn't sit too well wiht being a Marxist.

I would definite say he was much more of a Marxist than John McDonnell, nonetheless!

he was definitely an oddball, he believed in the absolute vitality of eating raw, uncooked vegetables

he was kicked out of Labour in the 30's for his devout Communism, so he's got McD licked there!

Cripps for sure but also part of my point was that there've been all kinds of right wing Chancellors who have wittingly or unwittingly contributed to policies likely to undermine (free market) capitalism in various ways

but obv the media rarely get the vapours over that shit

I suspected that's what you meant.

are Gideon and goth-disco Phil in that category?

Hammond seems too managerial and Gideon's austerity strengthened the system in the short term at least imo, Lamont might be a better recent example but it's a more complex argument than I could make right now, was more exercised by the simple stupidity of Madeley's question

Simple stupidity is what Richard Madeley does.

i know it's been said a million times before but he really is the real-life alan partridge

feels like he's been there forever ffs

his eldritch powers of mediocrity allow him to exist outside our perception of spacetime iirc

otm. xxp remember him coming to the show dressed as ali g?

i didn’t until you reminded me and now i’m reliving the horror all over again

https://youtu.be/03SiNNYJu3g Ali G too relevant these days

I can remember thinking actual murderous thoughts when just about every youngish person I worked with were doing hilarious Borat voices at work, and this period seemed to go on forever as well.

i feel u, i've often said the same thing to MYYYY WIIIIIIIIIFE

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/EHuU1bKVUAI2DAq?format=jpg&name=small

labour absolutely destroyed by gideon, o fuck

Our ⁦@Adamstoon1⁩ ⁦@EveningStandard⁩ on the Labour family pic.twitter.com/ZALB07zYkG

— George Osborne (@George_Osborne) October 25, 2019

not sure whoever drew that has ever seen the Addams Family

Does Thing correspond to baggymp?

given that the addams family are indisputably the good guys and normal ones in their show, i expect they probably haven't xp

at least they've captured Starmer's hair quite well

looks more like mitt romney tbh

I feel like Gideon didn’t get the Addams family.

Message to Sajid Javid: Stop playing games putting our economy at risk. If you won’t bring a budget forward, move over and I will. Your irresponsible party political messing around will cost people their jobs. Grow up.

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 25, 2019

lmao RIP shippers

This is great listening, some highlights:-

- Peter Oborne calling out Tim Shipman as "not just the sewer but the sewage"
- "Most of the political lobby allow themselves to be gamed... don't interrogate, question, just pass it on... they help the government set its own agenda" https://t.co/DqcvPpm8qp

— 🎃 The Spooky Leftorium 👻 (@LeftoriumThe) October 25, 2019

I see bestpic.png has done a racism too

fs oborne tearing strips off of bobby pesto and kuennsberg and then fully lays into rajan

yikes

amazing radio

just writing a love letter to Oborne

The saga continues:

“That guy needs to apologise. He wants to seem like the people’s man, mixing with people from diverse backgrounds, but he’s chasing clout and now he’s trying to chat shit about us. I’m not letting this guy tarnish our name, especially given the positive message we try to push in our music.

“I’m not a gangster, I’m not pretending to be and I’m not going to let some corny, goofy-looking man say I am. We’re all about peace and love, and he calls us gangsters. It was definitely racist.”

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/oct/25/irish-musicians-hare-squead-anger-minor-gangsters-rory-stewart

another weirdo white man

pretty harsh to call him this without acknowledging his fluency in Dari

Lol shippers is a total cunt, he’s been properly seen off there (even if Oborne is also a cunt himself).

The bestpic article, omg, loving this promo

Hare Squead have almost 1 million listeners a month on Spotify. They have been signed to a major label and toured with Nas, Joey Bada$$ and Dua Lipa. They play infectiously catchy, feel-good soulful music which fuses rap, pop, R&B, electronics and trap, and have a new single, Meeting with Myself, out on 5 November, which is about being self-aware and staying focused.

i lolled at the promo-speak but then i guess there's a sly little dig at bestpic in there

Some corny looking opportunistic goof called me, Tony and Sev gangsters

— LÍLO (@_FishMilk) October 25, 2019

Omg they’re on channel 4 news?!

I remember Oborne doing a Channel 4 programme on *Cameron where he tore him to shreds, he is quite good at that sort of thing.

(*also a major hate figure of P. Hitchens')

he did that good piece on the tom bower corbyn book too. still a tory fuck but

https://unherd.com/2019/10/how-i-learned-the-tories-werent-evil/

I’d long since been able to observe intellectually that the Conservative Party was not the exclusive force for evil I’d been brought up to believe it. But I think I only emotionally absorbed this when I was working day after day alongside talented, wise, compassionate and thoughtful people who chose to wear a blue rosette at election time.

this is the LibDem policy adviser who was famous for jocundly tweeting about the negotiating triumph of swapping a pile of disabled corpses for the 5p carrier bag bill. This is quite hilarious really, and it opens with a Nolan movie metaphor about her lol broad-minded and unbiased approach to politics!

the key thing to remember about the horrors of British history is that no one was responsible for them

But honestly, I paid almost no attention to politics.

In 2002 I had an interview for a graduate trainee scheme at Reuters where they asked me to name “a news story from the last few months”. I stared blankly until the interviewer generously reminded me of a few: a Foot and Mouth epidemic, a postponed General Election, the Soham murders, the death of the Queen Mother. I didn’t get the job.

... and within a couple of years she was a Policy Adviser for the Lib Dems.

I'm suspicious of (adult) people who suddenly develop an interest in politics having had no interest at all before, I always wonder where they could end up. There's few Corbynista friends of mine I'm keeping an eye on.

is it me and comrade alpha

in order to poke fun at myself as a politician in an awkward encounter. I am really sorry for causing offence. Thank you also to @DavidLammy for raising this too. I am really sorry.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 25, 2019

I am very sorry towards the guys and towards everyone else. I was wrong.

— Rory Stewart (@RoryStewartUK) October 25, 2019

now tweet it in dari

من نسبت به بچه ها و نسبت به همه افراد دیگر بسیار متاسفم. من اشتباه میکردم.

داستانها باید شوکه کننده باشند

that's supposed to say tories got to keep torying shocker, but it translates as Stories must be shocking

"There's few Corbynista friends of mine I'm keeping an eye on."

they can't all have what it takes to be lifelong committed socialists like Chris Williamson :p

Nice.

On This Morning @richardm56 asked Jeremy how it’d work to have a Chancellor who doesn't believe in capitalism.

➜ Real living wage
➜ End to austerity
➜ Essential utilities in public ownership
➜ Income tax up only for top 5%
➜ 32 hour week with no loss of pay

That's how.

— John McDonnell MP (@johnmcdonnellMP) October 25, 2019

that awesomeness versus the Priti line that UK workers are a bunch of lazy malingerers that are responsible for the productivity crisis because of their obsession with music polls