Rayvin 5572 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 I know. Better than willful approval though. I just can't vote for what I don't believe in any more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35915 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Better than willful approval though. Don't kid yourself Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7312 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 It's a combination of amusement and bemusement rather than anger but whatever. Supporting Corbyn in the first place was fine and he was certainly worth giving a chance under the circumstances and the lack of alternatives but continuing to support him is basically doing what he's doing, i.e. giving arguably the most ideological unpleasant government in living memory free reign. He's had his opportunity and all he's shown himself to be an abject failure as a potential PM. As for me, I don't have a lot of power to change things living in one of the safest seats in the country in a FPTP electoral system. I do wonder what your role will be once you and the student wankers who elected Corbyn get bored / grow up etc. You're fond of taking the piss out of the likes of Renton but, whether you like it or not, many long-term activists like him have been alienated. You'll probably expect them to pick up the pieces when Corbyn inevitably stands down just after or before the next GE. And do you seriously think what you've done, i.e. paid a small fee and but a cross in a box in any way compares to the contribution of people like that. Have a fucking word with yourself man :lol: I posted months ago I thought he was stupid for being so inflexible and didn't think he was an electable leader tbf. That's a bit of a straw man argument Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35915 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Well, getting angry on the internet about it won't do any good, will it? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kevin Carr's Gloves 4073 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Well, getting angry on the internet about it won't do any good, will it? Will it not, bollocks, that's my plan up the Swannee. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35915 Posted January 30, 2017 Share Posted January 30, 2017 Will it not, bollocks, that's my plan up the Swannee. I know, I was gutted when I found out Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anorthernsoul 1221 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/politics/theresa-may-accused-snubbing-north-brexit/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31589 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex 35915 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 As Jimmy Nail almost sang once Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31589 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Trolling the Irish PM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tom 14021 Posted February 1, 2017 Share Posted February 1, 2017 Retards. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15863 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I see Farage and Dacre think we're enemies of the people again, good good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gemmill 47073 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 A 13 year old kid that was abused by 21 men has been denied compensation by the Criminal Injuries Compensation Authority because he "consented in fact" by registering on a website for over 18s. The perpetrators have all been found guilty of charges including sexual activity with a child causing or inciting a child to engage in sexual activity, and meeting a child after sexual grooming. Wowsers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31589 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I never really understood the point of criminal compensation. I remember getting a leaflet about it after I got mugged and wondering why on earth I would deserve compensation. If it's to compensate for loss of earnings or property or coming directly from the perpetrator I understand but it seems strange for the taxpayer to foot the bill. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5572 Posted February 2, 2017 Share Posted February 2, 2017 I thought it did come directly from the perpetrator... it comes from the state, does it? Then I agree, that's weird. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7312 Posted February 3, 2017 Share Posted February 3, 2017 I never really understood the point of criminal compensation. I remember getting a leaflet about it after I got mugged and wondering why on earth I would deserve compensation. If it's to compensate for loss of earnings or property or coming directly from the perpetrator I understand but it seems strange for the taxpayer to foot the bill. Aye, same with whiplash claims. Get on with it, you don't need £5k on top of it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Renton 22402 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Bridget's on the telly again..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Happy Face 29 Posted February 5, 2017 Share Posted February 5, 2017 Not everyone who voted to leave the EU wanted to see Britain immediately descend into being an unaccountable single-party state, exploiting people’s worst prejudices to maintain power indefinitely. Some people just wanted to have bendy bananas. As a member of the metropolitan liberal elite in the pre-Brexit wasteland, I wake up every day, my little liberal heart fit to burst with grief. Momentarily, I took bitter comfort in the fact that it could be worse. I could be American. In which case, not only would I be broken-hearted, I would also be even fatter. But in the daily Doomsday Clock countdown of Donald Trump’s presidency we at least see the foot-soldiers of the American government machine hurling themselves bodily into its gears, unconcerned for their own careers. Our opposition simply folded in front of Brexit like shit-smeared toilet tissue and posted itself politely into the municipal recreation ground bin full of dog muck that is the future of the parliamentary Labour party. My constituency voted 78% remain. On Wednesday, my MP was too ill to vote. I’m joining the Liberal Democrats, itself on some level a hopeless admission of defeat. On the Sun’s 29 June front page, Boris Johnson and Michael Gove promised ongoing single-market access, a promise now dematerialised unchallenged. The weekly £350m for the NHS has disappeared, and the buses the figure was written on have been wrapped up in Boris Johnson’s old gym pants and buried in Sarah Vine’s fennel patch. Who gave these liars a free pass? Johnson compares François Hollande to Nazi guards and they say it’s “theatrical”. MPs compare Trump’s rise to 1930s Germany and Johnson says it’s “trivialising the Holocaust”. But the historian Deborah Lipstadt says Trump’s Holocaust Memorial Day speech was “classic softcore denial. The Holocaust was de-Judaised.” It’s so hard to tell what trivialising the Holocaust looks like these days. Arguably, Johnson was trivialising trivialising the Holocaust. Meanwhile, Putin threatens Europe. Trump threatens Europe. And Trump threatens the whole planet with climate change denial, although admittedly it is a very overrated planet, one of the most overrated planets in the cosmos. Would Britain still have pursued Brexit last June if it had foreseen this horrible future, less than a year away? The Guardian's Brexit Means... Brex and the City – Brexit podcast Listen And what must the world think of us? On the many occasions I have been dumped by disappointed women, I was always heartened when they had the kindness to leave me for partners demonstrably superior to me – the clever and athletic Scottish doctor; the rakishly handsome Irish theatre promoter; the talented Canadian interior designer; the charming Australian pianist; the enigmatic and nameless Interrailing Dutchman; I took some comfort in this. At least my exes traded up. But we have dumped a stable relationship with sophisticated and elegant Europe, fragrant with roquefort and Ricola, and flawed though her thickening beauty may have been, for the promise of having our pussies grabbed behind the bike sheds by Donald Trump and Recep Erdoğan, who look like an-out-of-shape golf instructor and a bloke who sells zombie knives to kids in the market, respectively. How humiliating for us. Looks like we were punching way above our weight when we were lucky enough to get laid in Brussels. If our Brexit trade plan relies on wooing despised tyrants, what kind of morally bankrupt corner have we backed ourselves into? Public objections to Trump’s state visit are understandable, but are denounced as hypocrisy by shrill Brexit bullies pointing out that no one complained when the Queen hosted the entire entourage of Doctor Victor Von Doom, iron-faced autocratic dictator of Latveria, a totalitarian state policed by Doom’s flying sentinels, the Doombots. But we do not expect exemplary behaviour from Dr Doom and his fellow dictators. As Doom explained, in horticultural terms, to Prince Charles at a Buckingham Palace state banquet, “My methods are a means to an end, no different than pruning weeds in order to let an orchid flourish.” The president of the United States, however, should be better than a hideously disfigured two-dimensional fictional comic book dictator, and ideally at least as eloquent. When she was home secretary, in 2014, Theresa May denied a visa to the pick-up artist Julien Blanc on the grounds that his attitudes to women legitimised sexual assault, a charge you could equally well level at Donald Trump. It’s a shame Blanc doesn’t have a load of old smelly chicken going cheap. He might find that, instead of a ban, he received an invitation to the Queen’s high table. By comparison with Trump, Blanc is a gentleman. At least he never boasted on air that he could have “nailed” the Queen’s grandchildren’s “crazy” mum “without hesitation”. But, with Trump’s trade deal help, at least our bananas will be bendy again. And on 1 February 2019, a man dressed as a sensible pirate will stand at the foot of an obelisk in Ripon, North Yorkshire, and blow an enchanted bendy horn, a horn only to be blown in Britain’s hour of need. And when that bendy horn is blown, as if by magic, all the straight bananas in Brexit Britain will suddenly bend once more, never to be straight again. Ken Clarke, the treacherous jazz doom-monger, has warned that we cats are messing with forces we do not understand, daddio. There is a risk that all sorts of previously straight things, not just bananas, may, if they are too near the blast of the magic horn, turn bent too. TV idiot Richard Hammond has been advised to avoid Yorkshire altogether during the horn blast, to protect the investment made in his monetisable straightness by Amazon Fire Stick. Ripon constituency’s referendum split reflected pretty much the national percentages, at 52% to 48% in favour of the reinstatement of perpetually bendy bananas, hence its horn duty. I have already booked a room at the Weatherspoon’s in Ripon square for 2019, in order to be at the epicentre of the people’s populist banana-bending revolution. Weatherspoon’s owner Tim Martin, a vocal opponent of straight bananas, funded a boisterous chapbook ridiculing the insolent yellow fruits, First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Straight Bananas. And Tim has promised to be at his Ripon outlet personally on bendy banana day, handing out free bendy bananas to his regular clientele of terminally nostalgic drinkers and plucky all-day breakfasteers, toasting their own imminent obsolescence. Me? I will be drunk in the gutter, looking up at the stars, the 12 gold stars of the EU flag. Enjoy your bananas. You twats. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/feb/05/brexit-donald-trump-trade-deal-bendy-bananas-stewart-lee Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Park Life 71 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/06/uks-government-hires-advertising-giant-as-it-fights-far-right-threat Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ewerk 31589 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 “The whole issue is that before Jeremy [Corbyn] was elected, we were 12-14 points behind in the polls and by May of the following year we were either just behind or level or ahead of the Tories in the polls,” he told Radio 5live’s Pienaar’s Politics. “Then we had the coup and the leadership elections; in the last 18 months, we spent half of them in leadership elections. “People won’t vote for a divided party, we know that and that’s why we’re behind in the polls.” “Once we get past Brexit we’ll unite the Labour party, we’ll be back on our agenda and you’ll see, I think, that we’ll have a significant impact upon the political debate in this country which will mean that we’ll go back in front of the Tories in the polls over the next year.” John McDonnell. We'll see. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rayvin 5572 Posted February 6, 2017 Share Posted February 6, 2017 Not convinced Corbyn will see out the year to be honest. And if he goes, the whole administration goes with him. Then we're just left with whatever Labour can scrape up off the floor from there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Meenzer 15863 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 On the left? Remarkable if there's anything in this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22518 Posted February 7, 2017 Share Posted February 7, 2017 Didn't we just have one of those? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kid Dynamite 7312 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Aye but the choices were fucking awful. If they can magic up someone with a bit of charisma they might have a chance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dr Gloom 22518 Posted February 8, 2017 Share Posted February 8, 2017 Keir Starmer? Russell Brand? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Recommended Posts
Create an account or sign in to comment
You need to be a member in order to leave a comment
Create an account
Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!
Register a new accountSign in
Already have an account? Sign in here.
Sign In Now