love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

you can still order his authoritative and peerless George Orwell book on AMAZON though!

the lad knows politics and shit 90s straight white boy music

god he was such a condescending slimeball cunt on here.. really feel pity for any of his irl ilxer pals!

actually it's not that one. afaik the music journalists never posted to ilx, but the ilx poster isn't a music journalist, just someone who likes to collect them as FB friends

they are crowing about the antisemitism investigation

But...why? The report shows a lot of the complaints were vexatious, and although there were tons of legitimate complaints, they were backed up by wads of evidence that the complaints were soft-pedalled for factional reasons. Anyone who cares about antisemitism should find this report to be a fucking outrage.

"just someone who likes to collect them as FB friends"

oh well at least they aren't keeping bits of them in their freezer!

also i think calz is wrong, it never played out like that on here. probably silenced by big old uk pol meanies

Why are these guys obsessed with pointing out their own flaws in others?

Of course you can wonder and some of those people behaved appallingly but Corbyn is a vain and blinkered man who would always rather blame others than be honest about his own mistakes and weaknesses, hence my original tweet.

— Dorian Lynskey (@Dorianlynskey) April 12, 2020

xp I think I was pretty rude to that person on an ilm thread of all things, but not a word I’ve ever seen him say over the years ever made me regret it.

ah there you go, PRO-JECT-SHUN *to the tune of 'Reproduction' from Grease 2"

godawful punctuation there. anyway, for balance, we need some posters who think Thatcher improved the country

There was such political violence on here. Even Soso and the little blackberry would have been disgusted at such savagery!

it's OK that they were vexatious, because the entire left of the Labour party is actually definitely antisemitic, all of them, so even if the actual allegations were false, they were also true. or something, it was pretty bizarro land (no offence to big BG), then I thought fuck this and clicked Unfollow X

In case you had any doubt as to why Diane Abbott was crying in the toilets, as party staff mocked her and passed on her location to journalists. Check the dates. pic.twitter.com/OhcUePSav3

— Michael Walker (@michaeljswalker) April 12, 2020

godawful punctuation there. anyway, for balance, we need some posters who think Thatcher improved the country

The counter-arguments until you see what happened to Dawn Butler, Trot harridan

would love to hear from some of our more moderate posters on this

oh the other one was the report is just a smokescreen to try and cover for Crybon's extremism which is why Labour's lawyers have suppressed it, because it's all lies anyway, none of this happened, and if it did happen it's OK because all lefties are basically nazis

So @AndyBurnhamGM was too left wing for the @UKLabour Party machine. Machine was so patronising and arrogant. Ultimately despised the Labour Party members. Terrible. https://t.co/VvHAMjfSLf

— Diane Abbott MP (@HackneyAbbott) April 12, 2020

Never any acknowledgement of their terror of economic democracy.

Worst thread on old, folks.

I haven't gone through the huge thread this account did on it, but just so you all know.

nb - ALL of the above excerpts are from the first 100 pages. This document is 851 pages long 😬

— Hadley Freeman-on-the-land (@wariotifo) April 12, 2020

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"would love to hear from some of our more moderate posters on this"

😷😷😷

pretty staggering fact here pic.twitter.com/hrXyVhrWq9

— Hadley Freeman-on-the-land (@wariotifo) April 12, 2020

More responses by someone slandered by this bunch of cunts, sincerely hope to see a lot more noise in the coming days

Wow I thought the right wing Tories were our enemies ... just wow. https://t.co/wjSA18ro2h

— Emma Dent Coad (@emmadentcoad) April 12, 2020

Wes Streeting and Mike Gapes helping to get a guy suspended from the party for complaining about recieving Islamophobic abuse from a right wing councillor in Ilford pic.twitter.com/2R4ufIK7v7

— Loki (@Lokinash06) April 12, 2020

some of this stuff might start losing impact through blunt repetition exposure, but it isn't ott to say most of this party and the cunts that make up its numbers are beneath contempt.

Big hearty sad lols at Josie Long tweeting solidarity with Diane Abbott and getting jumped all over by Daniel Harris, who I thought was just an a more annoying than average football writer but am delighted to discover is also a fucking cunt

jfc she should block that prick

BoJo getting out and the Labour Party tearing itself yet another new arsehole have gone a long way to mask the UK passing 10,000 (more like 14,000) deaths today.

would love to hear from some of our more moderate posters on this

Are there any?

rampant violent antiblackness and islamophobia in every party, media outlet, social/political institution needs to be rooted out yesterday but clearly hardly anyone who isn't directly affected gives a shit

even mr fucking lifelong antiracist was like more cops, kinder gentler deportations

Trying to locate the thread of melts that CP is discussing - Twitter or FB? On Twitter there are a lot of the worst people being uncharacteristically quiet.

It's a FB thing suzy and probably best left there, think I'd alluded to it earlier on yesterday.

Waking up slightly soberer this morning and asking myself what the point of political engagement is when the Labour Party is apparently poisoned well beyond use.

Am I FB friends with the thread instigator, though? I want to have a look...

Hang on I'll message you

One of the worst things I’ve read in this report was in the case of the member who was reported for making such vile antisemitic comments that they were eventually reported to counter terrorism police and successfully prosecuted. But before that, the disputes team sat on the case and did nothing before an audit of the outstanding cases was done.

McNicol's team were doing nothing, wow pic.twitter.com/k09kBR86Do

— Hadley Freeman-on-the-land (@wariotifo) April 12, 2020

A welcome reminder that some of the new intake in 2019 are good.

The membership and movement have been shafted. Justice must now prevail and be enacted immediately.

— lan Byrne MP (@IanByrneMP) April 13, 2020

Btw if I was Starmer (as regular readers of this thread will know i am recently ousted vampire John Rentoul MR Seumas Milne) id be looking at this and planning a clearout. If the wreckers went after Burnham and Corbyn, he’s on borrowed time too.

I've been wondering about the timing of the leak. Perhaps the report itself wasn't written in time but the WhatsApp messages have apparently been sat on for a long time. The decision to leak them now rather than during the leadership campaign - when they would presumably have benefited RLB - suggests that the aim is to prevent Starmer from hiring any of them. And none of these people should be allowed anywhere near a position of power ever again.

Leaving aside the racism, the craven self interest, the fact that people have died as a result of this pointlessly destructive game-playing, it's just as astonishing piece of dumbfuckery. Obviously Westminster is stuffed to the rafters with people who think they're in The Thick of It but why would you write that shit down in the first place?

There were rumours circulating that Oldknow was slated to replace Formby as General Secretary. That clearly can’t happen now.

Setting up a secret WhatsApp group so you can look like you're working while slagging off everyone else in the office is the sort of thing you associate with 22 year olds straight out of university and most of them are smart enough to know that shit blows up in your face. But apparently galaxy brained masters of spin haven't worked that out.

Yeah the timing is strange, but the date on the report is probably why. There’s talk of James Schneider being involved, but I don’t know what proof there is of that. There was a particularly painful part of the report that mentioned him and so I can’t say I’d blame him in his circs.

BBC running a rolling hagiography of one of the nurses involved in Johnson's care, totally normal public interest story, nothing to see here.

The thing most of these cunts haven’t worked out is that their wrecking damages the party for the public, not just the faction they’re opposed to. If it were me, I’d do the job and hang on for my chance, because a party in power is always worth so much more than one in opposition. But the kind of petty shit you see in the messages clearly perpetuated all the way up to strategic decisions.

it's politics as game/career to them isn't it? not sure why these people got involved in the Labour party in the first place but it's pretty clear their interests are no longer focused on transforming society, just on controlling as much power and patronage as they can.

If Ed Miliband and Andy Burnham were also unacceptably left wing for them then yes they will go for Starmer as well. Either they're banking on him taking a big shift to the right or they view him as a placeholder until he can be replaced by the closest thing to David Miliband or Dan Jarvis they can find.

I assume these ones joined when Labour was in government for career reasons, rather than any sort of wish to see a socialist government.

"nothing to see here"

probably exactly what the doctor said in the ICU ward after examining the PM

I think this will have totally fucked Starmer with the membership, by the way.

it's fucked the party full stop