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Youve got to say that at this crisis point the Labour party should be concentrating on doing what its good at, and surely that isnt elections. Jimmy Savile armed with a cloak of invisibility let loose at Hogwarts would have more self control than the Labour party. A headline in the Guardian quoted a colleague describing Angela Eagle as tough in the best possible sense, although personally when I think of tough in the best possible sense, Im thinking maybe al dente pasta rather than voting for a war that killed hundreds of thousands of civilians. There are those on Corbyns side who suggest this is a struggle between the top-down and bottom-up ideas of parties as social movements. I mean, it might be; it might also just be a struggle between people who dont really seem to know what theyre doing and people who have some really firm ideas about how to change direction that are terrible. Eagle was widely derided for not putting forward any policies at her campaign launch, but really I think everybody knows the kind of things she stands for, and she was wise not to mention any of them. Indeed, given the makeup of the electorate, the whole thrust of her campaign should be to try to stop people remembering what she represents, and ideally who she is.
Its hard to know whether all this is taking it out of Corbyn, due to his clever tactic of starting each day looking like he slept in his car. Yes, the media is hugely, systemically biased against him, and reason in general, but his one-note response seems to be going nowhere. He has this manner with interviewers where he seems to think that he is calmly talking sense to a lunatic, when really he is talking to the machinery in an abattoir. Its probably worth noting that the referendum will have been seen at Westminster as a huge reaffirmation of the power of Murdoch generally, the Sun and the Daily Mail. Looks like its going to be a long time before senior politicians start turning up to the weddings of bloggers.
The fallout from the referendum continues. Some people are finally saying theyre embarrassed to be British, admittedly because weve left a trading union, rather than the centuries of mass murder, but its a start. House prices have dropped and you wont be able to use your phone abroad good, my kids can buy a flat and wont be bothered by work calls on holiday. This all sounds as tragic as a conga line through a cocktail bar so far. Yet theres no doubt racists feel vindicated by the result. Its like a dam has burst. Finally weve thrown off our politically correct shackles and can tell it like it is That tapas ... It aint a meal. Its just snacks. It aint right Terry! Pizza! Theyre havin a laugh. Its just cheese on fuckin toast! That Polish. Wheres the vowels? It aint right. Its bad enough we let the Welsh get away with it.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jul/12/theresa-may-has-vowed-to-unite-britain-my-guess-is-against-the-poor
Another dose of Frankie Boyle.
Warpy
(111,144 posts)Poor folks aren't even on her radar unless there's an election coming up.
Dworkin
(164 posts)Hi,
OK, May has said some 'one nation' stuff, but Cameron started with "Hug a hoody". All we need to know is that she is a Tory that other Tories like. Frankie Boyle is not wrong.
D.
Wellstone ruled
(34,661 posts)The Tory Party wants their Empire Back.
LeftishBrit
(41,203 posts)I have never been so pessimistic about our leaders, and I have usually been pretty pessimistic about them. All I hope is that things can be contained so that no major disaster happens - from serious racial violence to a re-igniting of the Northern Ireland troubles - and that the Triggering of Article 50 (which sounds just as dangerous as it is!) can be postponed until Scotland accepts it/ hell freezes over/ whichever happens sooner, or at least for a long time.