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General smartarse cracks wise in assault-proof environment.
Aug 21, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
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
Jun 15, 2023 5 tweets 1 min read
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.
Jun 14, 2023 8 tweets 3 min read
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
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
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.
Jun 14, 2023 8 tweets 2 min read
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.
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
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.
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
Sure Andrew, it fucking *has to* show democracy working because if it doesn’t - if it instead looks like some extremely weird shit has now been going on for a very long time, and you lot have very enthusiastically cheered it on - then that raises some pretty unpleasant questions. Image Again, three of the 2019 election leaders being ejected from politics in deeply bizarre circumstances while the two main parties are led by odd little men that nobody appears to actually like, who were elected via a very fishy process, does not shout “democracy is working” to me.
Jun 14, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
All true but they do believe they have created freedom: freedom to choose products, services, holidays, cars and so on. That most have little of it while a very few have special Freedom-Plus is simply outside their remit, and not for politics to consider. stumblingandmumbling.typepad.com/stumbling_and_… And they believe they’re delivering great Freedoms From: maybe not freedom from poverty or low-quality lives or ill-health, but freedom from things the themselves don’t like or think you hate: chavvy teens, greenie protestors, noisy drunks and so on. This is the great work.
Jun 14, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
I’d say the very bare minimum you should demand from politicians is that a) they don’t go out of their way to repeatedly insult and denigrate you and your views and b) they make at least some effort to deliver something their supporters want and not LOL Fuck You over and over Image As I’ve said before, I am never going to vote for anyone whose core, repeatedly stated position is that I am scum who must be ruthlessly excluded, but even if they weren’t doing that I wouldn’t reward them for delivering little except stuff I absolutely detest.
Jun 14, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
Well, what if they are absolutely choking to win, entirely bent upon it, *but also* want to do it in the most spirit-crushing PFI-and-crackdowns manner they can, believing this will forever crush any hope that things could be better than the way they are now. Image If they saw our present moment not as a terrible crisis showing the assumptions of forty years had been terribly, disastrously wrong, but as a golden opportunity to seize their rightful place as the party of the Thatcherite consensus, then they would behave exactly like this. Image
Jun 13, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
It’d be wise here to offer an explanation of why the lion Johnson was the embodiment of Britain’s Brexit will and the man to unite the nation just a few years ago, but a hated and reviled imbecile now. If the hacks don’t, other people will have more exciting explanations. Image I’m being serious when I say it’d be handy to have a bit of a push on even something as feeble as a few of the lads admitting they fucked up under pressure, because they were so mad keen to fend off the Islamo-communist terror of old Jezza and his plans for genocidal broadband.
Jun 13, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
Listened to the first two episodes of this and the top-line summary is: the far right are using Covid conspiracies as a vector to derange the brain of your auntie Janice, with a side order of “look at this fucked up far right newspaper we found”. Image Stuff big smart brains like us have been talking about for years On Here basically, minus the part where slicker versions of the same shit is in the daily papers. But it is helpful to have someone like the Beeb investigating to get the precise style and figures involved…
Jun 13, 2023 10 tweets 2 min read
Does it feel better lads. Does it feel like things are great again and a bright new dawn is right around the corner. Image Text is here archive.fo/c0uYf May come back to this later because, Oof.
Jun 12, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The Coyle example shows it’s basically impossible to get any of these awful people into any kind of serious trouble, if you wanted to. At this point, all there is to remember what has happened and say it, so it isn’t entirely swept away forever on a grim tide of media horseshit. Image If you’ve got senior Labour right figures working out how to not expel a crazed racist because that might impact on someone within the Circle Of Trust, *in their own words*, and nobody acknowledges it or gives a fuck: you just have to admit the whole thing is bollocks and shrug.
Jun 12, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
The point to note here isn’t that Sir Keir and Reeves are Tories. It’s that both parties are led by people nobody particularly likes with policies nobody especially wants, who were installed in very bizarre circumstances and continue at the sufferance of papers like the Times. Image What has the last five years been if not one long, graphically-detailed demonstration that about four newspaper editors with fucking destroy anyone who displeases them, and that the key to power is giving them exactly what they want on demand, with no questions asked?
Jun 12, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
You have to say that is bold, just sky-writing the words “Absolutely fuck you FBPE” in hundred-foot letters. Image The piece is half about the contempt these try-hards have for posh people who got their jobs through patronage, rather than serially lying and denouncing their colleagues to the press. It’s Maguire who chose to focus on actively shitting on the entirety of liberal/left Britain. Image
Jun 11, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
I’d add: love ‘em or loathe ‘em, each of Johnson, Sturgeon and Corbyn did have significant public constituencies: people who liked them, wanted what they were selling and were often willing to volunteer their own time to get it. It’s unclear who exactly Sunak or Starmer speak for Seen in conjunction with the ongoing hysterical media environment - out of control daily McCarthyite screeching that makes e.g. the Iraq War look like peace and amity - the removal of not one but three party leaders in highly questionable circumstances looks *suspect as fuck*.
Jun 11, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
The Sunday Times’ endorsement of Boris Johnson as Conservative Party leader is here thetimes.co.uk/article/the-fi… and their election endorsement of Johnson as Prime Minister is here archive.fo/gO18f Image Top marks to the Sunday Times for making it clear that the press and MPs had one overriding priority, one that so overwhelmingly important to them that every catastrophe resulting from this has been an acceptable cost, which is why they aren’t sorry now and would 100% do it again Image
Jun 11, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Johnson’s Biarritz rock incident helpfully demonstrates how we got here: because our political/media class is dumb, trivial, easily distracted and easily led and deeply unserious about the most egregious problems, primarily focused on whatever drivel has caught their eye today. ImageImageImageImage I see complaints about Media Bias and that is bad, but it’s secondary to the core problem of these people being trivial, gossipy, star-fucking clowns who deeply resent being asked to do hard work when they could just file on a load of witless shite about swimming round a rock.
May 20, 2023 5 tweets 2 min read
The press knew about all of this, even the really nasty parts, while it was happening. These dickheads were constantly phoning them up bragging about what a shower of horrific bastards they were being. And the hacks said nothing because they approved and wanted more. Image Like, the lobby hacks have not been politely turning a blind eye to the horrendous shenanigans of 2020-23. They have been actively roaring it on, providing justifications and excuses for it. Pick the nastiest shit you can think of and yes, they all know and approve.
May 20, 2023 6 tweets 2 min read
I mean sure, but what happened here is: some snake oil salesmen told the Guardian they’d made a perfect model of the US electorate in a box and could experiment to find out what fascist messages work best, and the hacks not only believed it but decided it was Russian subversion. Image Carole’s editors then let her run wild with this, chucking out all kinds of insane allegations, rattling the brains of 1.5 million thick liberals until she dumbly tried it on one of the vicious bajillionaires the country is actually run for. At which point her editors dropped her