I'm confused. In what way were the Tories hedging after the referendum? Lab shifting to a second ref position was entirely due to internal moves against corbyn. And who was lying?
I'm confused. In what way were the Tories hedging after the referendum? Lab shifting to a second ref position was entirely due to internal moves against corbyn. And who was lying?
odd example though, given that lab did somewhat effectively hold together leavers and remainers in 2017 and did well, but lost the leavers in 2019
i totally get the paralysis among people who believe that the system works as advertised when actual fascists come marching. I just think the twists and self-contradictions in that article are highly illustrative of a particulalr mindset
it would be slightly less frustrating if he didn't himself concede that the protests were full of card-carrying fascists. oh, but tommy robinson has a churchill tattoo, so that's okay. utter guardian-brain
and from that logic it seems to follow that the further right the ovevrton window moves, the softer we should be on fascists
I tried to read it charitably, but the article itself concedes that the problem is that fascists are no longer percieved as fascist - I don't follow his leap to not calling them fascists
fuck me, they've lost the Beano
"give the fascists some rope and let hubris and overreach be their downfall" is a tactic that has famously worked very well in the past
like the dying days of Brown's govt but with the power to put their increasingly mad notions into practice
the press will properly turn on them at the point that it is certain they won't be the next govt - which is likely to be next year's locals. then three years of increasingly pathetic and insane flailing will follow as they sink to oblivion
I get an FT subscription through work, which is the one reason why I can never leave my job
disagree about jack johnson, which is incredible. champions is obviously amazing too though
critical support
on a tshirt
yes
www.reddit.com/r/transgende... Guess what? The story about the trans M&S employee and the bra fitting is a pack of lies and distortions. Want to know what really happened and how colleagues stood up for her? Read her own account here.
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maybe you should just take out your bit of chain and pretend you're working
I mean...those are really fucking odd. Put a pizza or a famous painting on the table?
they still do, no?
reestablishment of the danelaw
see you on the other side of next year's locals!
how's your polling, fella?
also, Mailer's politics weren't terrible - he was just an awful human being
I raise you Wagner
so fit you cured cancer?
if only Corbyn had ever produced some sort of document - a manifesto, if you will - setting out how he would do this stuff
UK has been running intelligence/targetting flights for Israel over Gaza using their Cyprus base for 20 months. Apparently, they recently contracted this out to a private "contractor" to avoid criticism. Sadly, these idiots forgot to turn off their transponders on July 28th.
is it? looks to me like empty homes is the last in her list of poposed solutions. so important but far from sufficient
that's a bad faith misreading of her argument, which is simply that building only luxury housing is useless. no one is arguing against building in general
the tweet, which sets out a range of solutions, is literally right there
the problem is that your argument is backwards. the principal cause of the housing crisis is financialisation and the retreat of social providers. not building enough homes is a consequence of that (because the state ain't doing it anymore) - but of course that exacerbates the problem
but consider this: build homes *and* tackle vacant properties (and do a lot of other things besides)
it's amusing that the article says that, given the value of the properties, it's not obvious what financial penalty could be imposed. I mean, yes it is obvious - an absolutely fucking massive one
the article is premised on the false notion that people are arguing that taking control of vacant properties is by itself sufficient to solve the housing crisis. they are not, and of course it won't. but it is a necessary part of a much wider solution
that is the massive problem and the cause of all the other evils. I'm no expert, but the only realistic long-term solution I see is pulling loads of housing away from the financial markets through social provision. but there's loads of smaller stuff that can be done in the meantime
and also, taking contol of empty houses is clearly a necessary part of the solution. we need an absolutely massive expansion of social housing, and that's not going to happen alongside a mountain of vacant properties
danny boyle was clearly trying to make a film as portentous as 2001, while alex garland was writing event horizon
And Corbyn was as little responsible for a piece of paper written by a completely unaffiliated organisation as John Swinney is for the shite that you're posting here
fella, how is it possible to read "not associated with a political party" to mean tory?
voters of every party other thab the tories voted in majority for remain. that is a fact. your counterrargument that some people not associated with any political party wrote a bit of paper is weak at best
which has what to do with what?
the point is that that is a bit of paper written by an organisation that is entirely unaffiliated with Corbyn. Not entirely sure what yours is
this is a weird thing to take issue with, given the actual reality of the fact that he persuaded the majority of Labour voters to vote remain
you do realise that this has...zero to do with Corbyn?
oh no - not a press release!
every party's voters bar the Tories and Ukip voted majority remain. Corbyn's job was to persuade Labour voters, which he did. Cameron's job was to persuade Tories, and he failed
well, you may have noticed that he was highly successful in his actual task, which was to rally Labour voters around remain. Brexit happened because Tories voted for it
we're about to give russell brand another punt
Johann Hari looking on in awe
oh, I'm not sure he's pretending
Parliament voting to recognise Palestine in 2014, the Govt ignoring it and everyone moving on was also very much like this
Parliament voted to recognise Palestine in 2014. The Govt just ignored it www.bbc.com/news/uk-poli...
people signing up to a party equates to membership of that party. labour has 300,000 members and 22% of voting intention before this party's factored in - pretty wobbly!
dunno man...if they've got nearly half labour's membership signed up in just 10 hours, at what point does labour count as the fringe party?
so a party with diametrically opposed policies and principles to reform then?
In the New Yorker profile of Curtis Yarvin, ideological lodestar of Trump, Stephen Miller and the ascendant American technofascist right, we learn that he's been spending time with Blue Labour peer Maurice Glasman, who Starmer's current right-wing genuflections are aimed to please. So that's nice.
and at least Zemmour-adjacent
listening to: chill mix with Japanese grandpa at a stationery shop
Ahead of the expected proscription of Palestine Action - the first time a protest group has been legally redefined as terrorist - I went through the Hansard of the 2000 Act they're being banned under. Turns out MPs were assured the law wouldn't be applied this way. Thread 🧵🔽
I presume you're referring to the suffragettes' bombing campaign?
this is a highly disingenuous response given that the purpose of the reasoned amendment is simply to delay the bill until there has been adequate consultation and impact assessments have been produced. you are voting through the PIP cuts you claim to oppose
who else is in comptrol?
A Harvard study of IDF data finds that there are 377,000 people unaccounted for in Gaza. That estimate is six times the number of people normally cited as killed. Genocide. medium.com/@m4xim1l1an/...
ACAB also includes Tosh
this is powerful knowledge
the fuck are you talking about
nonces?
no war but ass war
Bair's HQ was as right as it came, and the position of unions and CLPs was pretty similar to today: pretty ineffective when it came to setting policy or putting forward candidates opposing the Blair's line
by what metric? Number of left MPs in parliament? About equal - maybe a few more now. Starmer has put down a 20% minimum of PLP votes? Well, Blair literally just handed the keys to Brown
not true - the left were pretty solidly pushed out under Kinnock, so Blair had a clear run. So weak were the left by that time that he could even *rename the party*
yes, of course - they'll take it to their graves, just as they do the memory of militant. but that makes them no more omnipotent than it did when corbyn became leader
as was the case when it last arose
all I'm saying is that this is why the left were massively unprepared for power when the opportunity arose
but most left MP were deselected as the CLP selections were stitched up. Starmer is literally just copying what Blair and Kinnock did - because he's highly unoriginal, and because it's a lot of the same people doing it anyway, like Mandelson
Blair was absolutely not more tolerant of the left than Starmer - and those fuckers are still banging on about Foot and Militant. The big difference today from Blair's early days is that Starmer is immediately crashing and burning - so they can't even claim superficial popularity
so did Blair and Kinnock - specifically to make sure there could never be another Foot or Benn. but fundamentally they're always fighting against the actual political will of the party - and they fuck things up because they're overpromoted idiots
if it were simple, Corbyn would never have become leader. you'll say they made a stupid mistake for political reasons - sure, and that stuff happens all time
maintaining a stranglehold on power foever, against the wishes of most of the membership and without ever making a mistake, is hard, particularly when your faction is driving the party off a cliff
I'm uncomfortable with this attitude. This could easily have been said under blair/kinnock, and then a few years later we got the most left-wing leadership this side of the war. and because the left had largely given up hope, the right occupied every single position in the party machine
let akehurst cook
I mean, it actually demonstrated the strength of the system given that no peer reviewed journal would have anything to do with him
if I recall, they wanted sokal to make some changes, he refused, but they needed to fill space in their special issue
one hoax paper accepted by one very minor, non peer reviewed journal, after being rejected by dozens of others
yeah, I think most of the 2024 intake are psychologically locked in to certain defeat now and are just looking at this as a five year sabbatical between corporate posts. never seen a parliament with less will to survive
red dwarf
more like shitler
jesus
Starmer's lost the polprofs!
very much so for this set of Lab MPs. I've never seen an intake less concerned about hanging on to their seats
you'd think that at some point self-preservation would kick in and someone would notice that every time they veer to the right, they tank in the polls. but we're not in the realms of normal electoral calculus
wait till next year's local elections when they get wiped out across london and other cities - I reckon the knife will be stuck in then
sterling work
and Elon Musk was hailing a taxi
has anyone done round earth, flat moon?
attacking other countries, like Iraq, is very definitely not defensive
why would a defensive alliance be a reconstituted nato?
exiting a military alliance with a fascist government does seem fairly sensible, yes
you've got to be able to write a 5,000 word essay on Milton