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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
There are many better human beings than these in our prisons. Image
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 Image
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. Image
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. Image
Up next - If you don’t like racist cartoons on marmalade jars then fuck you, says Judy Image

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Aug 21, 2023
Let me translate here: having moved heaven and earth to reinstall these appalling people, entirely heedless of obviously disastrous consequences, the lads are now perturbed to see Labour have no ideas and they suck like a Dyson. But they would do the same tomorrow, if required.
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There was great “intellectual vigour” in the nineties because parties of the left embracing neoliberalism then cajoling, shitehousing and excluding their one-time supporters was a major task requiring industrial quantities of professional bullshit. The results are all around us. Image
“How come Thatcherism/Reaganomics appear to be fucked with nothing to offer in a post-2008 crisis world” is no great mystery, I’d say. How come I can’t have the cake I just ate? The problem is, admitting it raises major questions about why people like you are in politics at all.
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Jun 15, 2023
The movie In The Loop ends with the minister, having played along with the horrible war scam all along, announcing he’s resigning. Tucker immediately fires him over a trivial constituency sub-plot then says he’ll tell the hacks to burn him alive if he doesn’t keep his mouth shut.
I raise this because that’s exactly what’s playing out today: a once-useful jackass who has long outstayed his welcome, now being ceremonially burned to protect the good name of the firm, which will survive and endure by pretending he was never their creature at all.
The only bit about that interaction in that movie is that the spin doctor probably wouldn’t have to tell the press to ritually murder anyone who stepped out of line over the glorious war: they would instinctively and enthusiastically do it themselves, without requiring direction.
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Jun 14, 2023
I really would like to hear more from Marr about what he means about the SNP being “purged by law”; what form the “pushback by the police” is taking and whether he feels it’s appropriate for “the system pushing back” in this manner. ImageImageImage
We have joked in the past about how a certain kind of Sensible Moderate has nothing but screeching and appealing to the ref, but even I am a bit stunned to see open celebration at the cops “pushing back” against their over-mighty elected representatives by searching their houses. Image
Elsewhere: very plainly Johnson was vetoed by the press once he became too embarrassing, and the more he refused to resign as per the unspoken terms of his employment, the more furious and determined the hacks got. Tories aren’t all dumb and they can see that’s what happened. Image
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Jun 14, 2023
Helps to understand the proposition “Voting for the BNP doesn’t make you racist” has been Sensible Moderate common sense for almost 20 years, and “Voting for the BNP does not make you racist but supporting the Labour left is extreme racism that must be destroyed” for at least 5.
When I say these things are “common sense” I mean they are simply accepted as obviously true, to the point where pointing out that they are plainly fucking deranged would mark you out as a troublemaker and a weirdo.
This doesn’t strike your average Sensible Moderate as strange because it is long-since internalised, it just does not touch the sides.
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Jun 14, 2023
Again, I notice that the target of Margaret’s displeasure is a) weird internet racists and b) internet randoms pissed off that she went on ITV News and compared her own party to the Third Reich because she got a letter of complaint for shouting at her boss.
This website is rammed full with all kinds of incredibly nasty and bizarre people who could be anyone, anywhere, and it always seemed very dubious indeed to me, to be dropping a tactical nuke on your own party for the press because at-Wallopers4Jezza called you a knob-jockey.
Anyway, we all now live in the Britain that grew from Margaret giving the hacks the minor official sanction they needed to start talking about anti-austerity kids like they were the fucking SS, and she is just as pleased as punch with the results. I imagine others are less so.
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Jun 14, 2023
I again note that it is *extremely* fucking weird that the national equality body intervened against the two largest opposition parties in deeply suspect circumstances, then got into a public fight about their senior managers’ bigotry with staff, all of it roared on by the press.
It IMO does not get more suspect than the equality body sticking its nose into a devolved administration’s legislation with weird vexatious complaints that are then endorsed and enforced by the government, then attacking its own staff as lying bastards to the press.
Maybe less suss than the equality body intervening against the main opposition party after its Deputy Labour leader concocted what appears to be a vexatious complaint with former staff, collaborating on an election year BBC attack documentary that now looks extremely suspect.
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