What did you do at work today honey
Not much, just intentionally crapped on the life of a random suburban middle manager for no discernible reason, out of spite really. How bout u
Horrifying to think Britain had to go one whole day without these wonderful people, their high quality product and their entirely honourable, non-toxic behaviour
Imagine if you will being a time traveller from 1989 discovering that thirty years later, the exact same people are still freaking out about political correctness gone mad
in much the same way, with barely a tweak to the formula.
LOL my man the British press is “free” largely in the sense that consumers can choose whether they would like the idiotic panic-mongering over The Woke Brigade to contain long words or not.
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I like how he says “Labour MPs put their careers on the line to stop (Old Jezza) becoming Prime Minister”, a thing that up until last year was an absolutely deranged conspiracy theory, but has somehow become an obvious fact, without anyone having been wrong about it at any point
Are MPs supposed to conspire with media outlets against their own parties on wild hate Jihads, trying as hard as they can to ensure their own side loses elections? Are there any other examples of this happening in British history, and indeed in electoral history anywhere on earth
Wonderful to hear from the lads that the government have no ideas, never had any and were always flailing, spouting meaningless fashionable phrases and announcing stupid crackdowns. Particularly since this is exactly what we have been saying about them for twenty years at least.
What’s that, there was never anything here except dumb crackdowns, means testing and belligerent anti-migration, pro-war speeches? They have nothing except cooperative media allies, deranged certainty in their own superiority and total entitlement to rule? Well blow me down.
Sure, but it’s also a whole system thing, and the abject shitshow that has been the period 2001-2024 really does feel quite a lot worse and more enduring than, say, some bins going unemptied and the three day week. Which we have all been told justified an elite-led revolution.
Again, I suspect the core of the problem is that none of these people can ever admit they were wrong about anything except maybe being too nice and left wing, because admitting you were wrong about something opens up the idea that you might have been wrong about almost everything
The core of the liberal compromise was: give up your bargaining rights and expectations of equality in exchange for cheaper goods, social mobility and maybe a house. Now ten guys have more money than god, nothing works and if you lose your job or get ill, you get eaten alive.
I’m not going to post excerpts here but I will say a couple of things, starting with: Our learned historian friend here would be well advised to decline any interview requests from Mr Chotiner of the New Yorker he receives.
I’ll also say that you couldn’t vat-grow a person less capable of accurately describing what’s happening, than Simon is. The idea that what you can see is exactly what it looks like is not only offensive but utterly unthinkable to him, blasphemous even.
I’ve thought of people like this throughout at Chris Hitchens figures: convinced ideologies, people who travel the world discovering that they are somehow even more emphatically correct about everything than even they had expected. But this is something quite different.
These absolutely ludicrous shitehawks. Try harder, I am begging you to at least try a bit harder than this. Make it look at least somewhat credible.
Marr says that Sir Keir taking tens of thousands in free suits looks bad, and proposes that MPs should have to declare all the donations they take. Nobody says But Andrew, that is the existing system, that’s exactly how we know about this. We move swiftly on.
George says it looks quite bad to take away pensioners’ winter fuel allowance while accepting £76,000 in free suits and football tickets. He then asks what the public want, do we want public funding of political parties? It seems that ironically, there is no Third Way.
Look, Tory members don’t think they need to change or apologise because their experience 2010-2024 was being constantly sucked off and praised as sensible, rational and statesmanlike by a national press that inexplicably turned on them in 2021. They don’t think they were wrong.
It might be better now if there had been some candour about what happened: the entire political/media class decreed austerity was essential and then, when the scale of this unnecessary disaster became clear, united as one to fend off The Crazies (people who said we should fix it)
Nobody has ever explained to them that almost all of the political/media class aligned behind “Johnson must win” as their preferred available option, even though they all well understood that Johnson was a catastrophically bent and clueless buffoon. So they don’t understand.