British Right-Wing Pundits

Right Said Fred still on the anti-vaxx thing I'm assuming? Those types get sadder every day, everyone else has moved on...

― Daniel_Rf, Thursday, January 12, 2023 11:36 AM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they are now on traffic reduction schemes... which is even more WTF?

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/bike-blog/2023/jan/10/why-do-traffic-reduction-schemes-attract-so-many-conspiracy-theories

A march against the traffic filters plan took place on Sunday in Oxford under the banner of Not Our Future, a new group led by 80s pop duo turned anti-vaxxers Right Said Fred

A woman in my work, who seems prone to conspiracy theories, was going on about this thing in Oxford too. It's all about how "they" are now using the false climate emergency to control us.

Piers Corbyn is involved. Inevitably.

it's the latest thing for right-wing psychos to get involved in apparently, as the article mentions Oxford councillors have been getting death threats as a rsult of the conspiracy theories about the traffic reduction scheme there. Where I live in Haringey it seems to be the sole issue that Conservative councillors campaign on- the right to drive your car wherever you damn well like, regardless of the consequences.

of course it should be said that local government may not always proceed by de jure conspiracy but i've little sympathy for local councillors protesting that any benefits that accrue to them thru their jobs are purely accidental and unwelcome

and the tone of some of that Graun article deliberately plays to the evasive distinction

A snapshot of the current obsessions of Daily Telegraph columnists.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture-wars/

... and that's just this month's batch.

Probably behind a paywall but the headline should suffice.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/09/scotland-has-become-deeply-sinister-country/

what with the wulvers and the loch ness monster

become?

Article written by useless Blairite Scottish Labour cunt cum British Right-Wing Pundit Tom Harris who is still boohoing about losing his seat to the SNP.

(xp) LOL, true tho.

cunt cum

striking imagery, etc

The expression ‘turbo cancer’ has entered common parlance since the rollout of the vaccine, so whilst its poss that cancers r not ‘caused’ by the vaccine they maybe exacerbated by it.

The expression ‘turbo cancer’ has entered common parlance since the rollout of the vaccine, so whilst its poss that cancers r not ‘caused’ by the vaccine they maybe exacerbated by it. @thatsnotmine125 @TheFreds https://t.co/UdCJnVHAtq

— Richard Fairbrass (@RealFairbrass) March 20, 2023

The expression "wasteman" has entered common parlance in the last 20 years so it's possible that there are men who are literally made of waste

I really am surprised as how disappointed I've been with right said fred of all people over the last 7 years

Don't Talk Just Kiss

Refreshing that nearly all of the replies to that tweet are rightly ridiculing him

I've come to the conclusion that Allister Heath and Ross Clark are the two most batshit columnists at the Daily Telegraph - amongst fierce competition it must be saud. This little pearl is from the latter's column on how "Suella Braverman could be the most successful home secretary in recent history":

... deep within the attacks on her and the Government’s Illegal Migration Bill lies the assumption that Rwandans are incapable of providing a safe, civilised environment in which to process asylum applications and a home where genuine refugees can rebuild their lives. True, Rwanda experienced a genocide within living memory...

turbo wasteman

Almost as if there's a metric for saying the louder you like the more effective the outcome

xp v steve coogan municipal swimming pool security vibes there

I found the guy that sketch was based on recently, he was one of the bird curators at London Zoo in Molly Dineen's The Ark documentary. Had to be based on him, there's no way he couldn't have been. Anyway yeah

I'm always a bit intrigued at some of the absurd names of journalists on the Telegraph-Spectator spectrum. I mean, Sophia Money-Coutts - it's like a parody name that even Private Eye would consider too obvious. And then I ventured across a piece on 'woke' in the Spectator by a journalist named Panda La Terriere. Panda La Terriere, for God's sake! I googled her, she's apparently the great-granddaughter of Evelyn Waugh, so keeping the right-wing bigotry all in the family I guess. And no surprise, Money-Coutts is indeed a member of the Coutts banking dynasty.

Sunday Times culture section in a mess.

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— Judy Blume (@judyblume) April 16, 2023

In a Spectator interview published today, historian David Starkey offers a novel take on the "do you have any black friends?" question 🥴 pic.twitter.com/XWsfPsrQXg

— Sunny Hundal (@sunny_hundal) May 5, 2023

"not openly racist to uber drivers" is the best defense he can muster, yes this sounds about right.

Spectator journalist Taki Theodoracopulos to face trial for alleged attempted rape in 2009 https://t.co/K1i9EzipYM

— The Guardian (@guardian) May 10, 2023

good

Not sure he classes as a pundit but this is straight up hilarious

Most of you have never shadow-boxed 10 rounds in a 200-degree sauna while listening to Tyrese as your workout music.

Then you have the audacity to wonder why you don’t get any pussy. pic.twitter.com/wfHtfXOS3G

— Andrew Tate (@Cobratate) May 13, 2023

"I am a good tipper"

I've said before that this guy is insane but this guy is insane.

In a world where followers of Gramsci have seized control of virtually all institutions, winning elections or referenda isn’t enough. The blob must be defeated.

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/05/24/woke-blobs-final-triumph-near/

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reminded me of this all-timer which he at least hasn't deleted (probably can't work out how)

Kwasi Kwarteng's Budget is a moment in history that will radically transform Britain https://t.co/w20tgpctDE

— Allister Heath (@AllisterHeath) September 23, 2022

what's his take on gramsci? I assume he thinks mussolini was right but I thought all the intellectual right wingers wanted to be good gramscians these days. is that what's going on here or has he just become part of the pantheon of evil alongside hegel and adorno and other unlikely pioneers of wokeness?

I believe Gramsci's concept of hegemony - which opens up marxism to analysing cultural aspects of society as well as economics* - is useful for right wingers to push their narrative of "cultural marxism" so it makes sense he'd be a figure of hate.

*I have no idea if this is correct but I think it's the rationale

has he just become part of the pantheon of evil alongside hegel and adorno and other unlikely pioneers of wokeness?

Bingo.

well that's boring. just more of the same old conspiracy mush like they turned hegel's dialectic into (which is something conservatives who really did care about the western philosophical tradition could actually work with, or through, or however it is)

We're talking hacks, not people who even pretend to have ideas

Even they couldn't deny Weltgeist is with China now anyway

Labour parliamentary candidate says this

The world is not listening.

Sadly, the international community are captured by Militant far left campaign groups who have through bad policy, inflicted on the people of Yemen a permanent state of poverty of war.

Successive UN Special Envoys have tragically all failed #Yemen. https://t.co/d0e6UymrmQ

— Graham Jones xMP (@GrahamJones_MP) May 25, 2023

trolling

or gaslighting, or dancing on graves, or something

at least it's not something you say intending to convince anyone, it's like a flex

A form of political gaslighting like the "woke left blob elites" stuff, intended to create a sense of constant threat to real western values

re gramsci: the US wingnut thesis -- as developed by william s. lind and others, re "cultural marxism" etc -- is that the blob has developed the techniques of saul alinsky, a chicago-based "community organiser" who wrote abt gramsci in the 60s or 70s (largely misunderstanding him IMO but that's by the bye), effecting the fabled "long march through the institutions" (marcuse quoting mao? who tf knows) which e.g. delivered obama as president

a small but growing number of uk wingnuts are these days very plugged into this circuit (hence this dweeb wetting himself abt meatball ron)

is it trolling? i mean it's annoying bcz shite being pumped into the plumbing is annoying, but there's a good case these ppl are by now simply talking to one another

This guy is definitely not trolling he is just a swivel eyed zealot.

There's no clear distinction between repeating your narrative and "belief" imo. This is rhetoric not philosophy

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— Mike Graham 🇬🇧 (@Iromg) June 14, 2023