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

I remarked to a friend today: It's really odd that KS is so fat.

Hardly, the lad’s an absolute madman for the pints. Loves a pint does our Keir

good stuff

The UK government’s plan to invest hundreds of millions of pounds in a satellite broadband company has been described as “nonsensical” by experts, who say the company doesn’t even make the right type of satellite the country needs after Brexit.

The investment in OneWeb, first reported on Thursday night, is intended to mitigate against the UK losing access to the EU’s Galileo satellite navigation system.

But OneWeb – in which the UK will own a 20% stake following the investment – currently operates a completely different type of satellite network from that typically used to run such navigation systems.

“The fundamental starting point is, yes, we’ve bought the wrong satellites,” said Dr Bleddyn Bowen, a space policy expert at the University of Leicester.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jun/26/satellite-experts-oneweb-investment-uk-galileo-brexit

lol britain

so which tory donor and / or family member of a cabinet minister owns oneweb then

https://i.ytimg.com/vi/LkR0krOm9M4/hqdefault.jpg

Starmzy, in the bloomin' old pub again eh?

Greeting his pals with a hearty “You alright matey”

labour is awful but don’t get me started on the metropolitan police. remember when our socialist hero was promising to increase their numbers & funding?

to quote my good friend Nairn: I probably get through more alcohol in a week than that bastard does in a year!

no one:

left: don’t get me started on the metropolitan police

is there ever a bad time

the compromises and flaws of Corbynism were what they were, but in comparison to Starmerism it was golden.

would have been nice if mr lifelong antiracist and most of the british left hadn’t been demanding more cops for years, I see the troop bollocks as a continuation of that tendency

if there’s one thing i love about your posts it’s how free of seeing generalisations they are, otherwise they would of course be completely worthless

sweeping, not seeing, obv

some generalisations are true, like the met being violent racist scum, or labour being shite

The Tories probably have quite a lot to gain from Labour getting into a pointless and distracting fight with teachers unions over the late summer, and if I were Dominic Cummings I would be focused on making sure friendly newspapers were ramping up the "necessity" of doing so.

Everyone should want schools to open in September if it's safe, and if isn't safe by then reopening then will be unpopular, and the public will be raging with the government whatever. So a lot of the public will agree with the teachers in any case and so will Labour if they're smart. Framing it as "Labour in the pocket of The Blob" isn't really going to play. Also it only takes one photogenic teacher to die of the rona and the government has a massive media scandal on its hands.

left, since you started posting you have provided these boards with not one single shred of insight, intelligence, warmth, compassion or humour

i don’t say this lightly: please fuck off

*gumph*

xp otm

I’m whatever about the rest but I have tried with the compassion part, there just aren’t enough shared interests it seems

I stand by all my posts, they’re good, regardless of how unsuccessful they have been as interventions

interventions

i mean that is rich coming from the guy who started the 'left-wing brainworms' intervention (a weak moment, i protest!) but

they’re good posts brent

(they’re not good posts)

i mean you are not going to find a non-crank webforum any more sympathetic to anti-imperialist hard-leftism, what are you trying to intervene amongst

Ashworth is separated from Emilie Oldknow now, Mark your cards accordingly.

am largely sympathetic to user Left, but fucking hell, read the room, and don’t come in here being smug about Corbyn Labour’s cop-shagging policy (itself no doubt a broad church concession to the right) when some of us have watched the only party capable of forming a government go full pelt for the Soldier F vote.

it’s part of the same fucking thing is my point. the labour party being itself. this didn’t come out of nowhere

presentation aside is the problem that I’m stating the obvious or that my positions are wrong because the complaints sort of seem to be both, bit of a double bind if you ask me

RLB replaced with Kate Green, Chair of the enormously successful Owen Smith leadership campaign.

the problem is that you keep posting

Not read any of their recent posts itt but user Left is a diamond in my book

lol

i mean you are not going to find a non-crank webforum any more sympathetic to anti-imperialist hard-leftism, what are you trying to intervene amongst

― imago, Saturday, 27 June 2020 bookmarkflaglink

Thank you ilx I am so grateful to you

a million xposts but 'he cant be professional he's fat' is one shitty fucking take

I had been assuming that Left was a longstanding ILX poster using a sockpuppet but even with mod powers haven't been able to work out who. (Although I have a suspicion).

gabb nebb

Left is my sock, along with bizarro gazzaro and others. There’s a cunning dn code for the sock accounts run by me, Left is the original though so doesn’t have one.

did wonder why the bizarro gazzaro account was so bad. makes sense now

Yeah I save my worst content for that one.

Providing a place to rant/vent is an essential function of this thread but 'wake up sheeple your hero is a fraud' lines of argument have always recieved the treatment they deserve on ILX and long may it continue.

lack of a hero is making everyone a little unsteady tbh

Alright Bonnie Tyler.

Yeah I save my worst content for that one.

*does IP lookup* the ShariVari one is pretty good though.

That’s why I post less on that one tbf.

I decided I rate left when a bunch of posters jumped on them for going off on a despicable revive of a thread called “Slaves?”

& they were otm and the rude way they expressed themselves was also otm in this instance so you couldn’t even use the tone policing argument

& I thought it would maybe serve a useful function to get ppl to tell on themselves in this way

Not really speaking of their recent posts itt which I haven’t read but endorse

I too stand with user Left except on the mariah carey thread where their posts are getting flagged

Left is kind of like if morbs was wordier and a libcom, but with less panache than the good doctor.

Here we go.

Local Lockdown for Leicester on the cards as schools have had to close & hundreds have become infected.

We warned Keir Starmer & Boris Johnson that this would happen. They didn’t listen. https://t.co/xUXPvBdF1B

— Howard Beckett (@BeckettUnite) June 27, 2020

people in Leicester just need to show some guts imo

lmao at starmzy being lumped in with the actual govt there - good work keir

Leicester Conservatives deputy chairman Rhys Brown said: "The council's mixed messaging has caused the city centre and parks around Leicester to be full this afternoon.

"Due to these Labour officials we now face the threat of being the only city to be pushed back into lockdown."

these councillors (of all parties) are such a bunch of wankers, but that is pretty rich!