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- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 11:33 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 424
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
As a counterpoint to the right wing journalists now facing shit from Islamophobic racists, it seems Corbyn supporters have taken it upon themselves today to have a go at James O'Brien for defending Dawn Butler (who as far as I'm aware was a Corbyn ally) against accusations of antisemitism from a Tor...
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 9:58 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 424
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Gave it a few hours and oh look, he's being attacked by a load of racists. Let's hope this opens the eyes of the 'decent' right wing commentariat who've been happy to dismiss or downplay Islamophobia on their side of politics for years. They scoffed at Sayeeda Warsi, called her a crank, and accused ...
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 4:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 424
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
Don't often agree with him but fair play to Iain Dale here. Let's see if he gets the same racist pile on as the other right wing commentators who've had the gall to express a bit of human decency. He went on afterwards to explain that he's so disgusted he's questioning for the first time if he'll vo...
- Tue 27 Feb, 2024 1:53 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Tuesday 27th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 424
Re: Tuesday 27th February 2024
This is what happens when racists are emboldened, those on the right who aren't prepared to be openly racist are denounced as traitors and apologists. We've seen it with Fraser Nelson and Konstantin Kisin already and I'm sure it's happening to others. The Tories are playing a very dangerous game, no...
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 5:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Monday 26th February 2024
- Replies: 15
- Views: 940
Re: Monday 26th February 2024
A faultline has opened in Keir Starmer’s pragmatic politics – and this time none of the usual fixes will work - Nesrine Malik https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/feb/26/faultine-keir-starmer-politics-gaza-labour Whatever motion Labour ended up ramming through, it came too late. The party...
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 3:29 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
Good luck dude.
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 1:37 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 1:11 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
- Mon 26 Feb, 2024 12:13 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
I genuinely think it made very little difference. At the end of the day his "actions" largely involved parliamentary procedures which will have been fairly incomprehensible to the vast majority. If you are making implications about MPs feeling insecure being blamed on Muslims, that's argu...
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 11:12 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
The idea that the likes of Lee Anderson only decided to be Islamophobic after this week is a bit of a stretch tbh. Come on AK, we've known each other for years on this forum so I know you're better than wilfully misrepresenting what I said. Have Starmer's actions last week aided and emboldened thos...
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 9:39 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
So the SNP and Tories doing a shabby deal to stitch up Starmer wasn't that? The past week certainly wasn't anyone's finest hour, but you maybe can't really blame Labour too much for fighting back. Nah sorry, not having that AK. The SNP's position has been clear and consistent throughout the 'confli...
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 3:46 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 2:28 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
As for the Gaza amendments fiasco it's interesting to see those defending Starmer praising Labour for indulging in exactly the kind of shithousery we've been condemning the Tories for getting up to for years.
- Sun 25 Feb, 2024 2:11 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
- Replies: 27
- Views: 1086
Re: Saturday 24th & Sunday 25th February 2024
Afternoon. Looks like it's been a quiet week in politics while I've been away. Here's the view from an Iron Age hill fort in the Ingram Valley with my Dad annoyingly wandering into shot. https://i.postimg.cc/gJMjMSwC/20240222-151322-2.jpg Northumberland coast with Lindisfarne castle in the distance....
- Mon 19 Feb, 2024 12:59 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1391
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Anyway I'm off up North again for the week, my Dad's somehow contrived to develop two different types of arthritis in his wrists in the space of a few weeks according to the consultant he saw. Apparently he's had to have the neighbour round to chop his veg when he's been cooking it's been so painful...
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 11:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1391
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Most of them have genuinely vanished never to return - Berger is maybe the only one I can seriously see returning to parliament. Chuka Umunna would fit quite happily back into Starmer's Labour party but I see he's currently busy trying to fight the capitalist pig dogs at JP Morgan from the inside b...
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 11:13 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1391
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 10:49 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1391
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
If anyone fancies an 80s nostalgia hit I'd never heard of a pop ball, but what's this about yo-yos being 'weaponised' in Australian schools? What were they doing, grafting metal spikes to them or something? I can just see Mel Gibson, striding the post apocalyptic wasteland taking out mohawked bad g...
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 12:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1391
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
I mean those Trump trainers are pretty awesome in a camp 70's Wonder Woman kinda way.
- Sun 18 Feb, 2024 12:24 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1391
Re: Saturday 17th & Sunday 18th February 2024
Starmer allies gripped by fear of Labour complacency amid byelection triumphs https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2024/feb/18/starmer-allies-gripped-by-fear-of-labour-complacency-amid-byelection-triumphs Josh Simons, director of the Labour Together group, which conducted the analysis, said: “For y...
- Sat 17 Feb, 2024 12:40 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 765
Re: Friday 16th February 2024
I didn't mean you mate, it's been all over Twitter and in the Guardian comments all day.
- Fri 16 Feb, 2024 7:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 765
Re: Friday 16th February 2024
Indeed, because Labour lost 5000 votes. In others they barely clung on by their fingertips. Have a look at these two from 2018/19. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2018_Lewisham_East_by-election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2019_Newport_West_by-election The Labour vote absolutely tanked. I understand ...
- Fri 16 Feb, 2024 7:03 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 16th February 2024
- Replies: 13
- Views: 765
Re: Friday 16th February 2024
I must say it's quite something to see Conservatives and the Corbynite left on Twitter clutching at exactly the same straws. Let's not forget under Corbyn the Labour party failed to overturn a single Tory majority at any by election, in fact they managed to lose one while trashing their vote in a nu...
- Fri 16 Feb, 2024 2:47 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 565
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Getting pretty quiet round here is it not?
I don't mean now, just in general.
Anyway.
I don't mean now, just in general.
Anyway.
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 11:45 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 565
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Question Time came tonight from Lancaster. For the Tories we had Graham Stuart. If there's one thing Graham's good at it's dealing with humiliation with good humour and it's a talent which served him well this evening. To begin with he made a foolhardy attempt to take a holier than thou attitude to ...
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 2:04 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 565
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Looks pretty beige, although Graham Stuart is inadvertently comedic on occasion so you never know.
- Thu 15 Feb, 2024 1:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 15th February 2024
- Replies: 10
- Views: 565
Re: Thursday 15th February 2024
Afternoon. For the first time in my life, I’m now beginning to think Britain is finished - Allister Heath https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/02/14/for-the-first-time-im-beginning-to-think-britain-is-finishe/ Britain’s decline over the past 25 years has been staggeringly rapid. Almost everything i...
- Mon 12 Feb, 2024 2:36 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Last post on this subject and it doesn't apply to Ralph's youth because this was 1990 but this is nuts... From Blondie to Lulu: The songs the BBC banned during the Gulf War https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/songs-bbc-banned-during-gulf-war/ Here's just a few. ABBA – ‘Waterloo’ Blondie – ‘Atomic’ The Boom...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 11:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Well I'm learning a few things this evening. Did you know that until 1968 all theatre scripts had to be licenced by the Lord Chamberlain's Office, a department of the royal household, which had carte blanche to ban or censor as it pleased? This came to an end with the Theatres act. https://en.wikipe...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 10:50 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Ha ha, brilliant. I've just learned that the BBC banned this from Swap Shop because they thought it was promoting homosexuality. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5XJ2GiR6Bo Because of the title Enola Gay was thought by some to be a gay anthem. This being the Eighties it was consequently banned from ...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 9:51 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
I could add Mary Whitehouse, the Sex Pistols being banned from performing, the hysteria over 'video nasties', I'm sure there's plenty more examples. On the other hand the Holiday Programme on the BBC was perfectly happy to show naked boobs just after teatime. Weird times. What would Ralph prefer, tr...
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 9:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 2:32 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Simon Danczuk is standing for Reform in Rochdale?
Regardless of what you might think about his 'political journey' surely Reform sending someone who was sacked for grooming a teenage girl to Rochdale is at best tasteless?
Regardless of what you might think about his 'political journey' surely Reform sending someone who was sacked for grooming a teenage girl to Rochdale is at best tasteless?
- Sun 11 Feb, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
- Replies: 25
- Views: 1350
Re: Saturday 10th & Sunday 11th February 2024
Amen. The Tory right’s radicalisation should trouble us all One of the main anchors of our politics has become increasingly unmoored from reality. By Lewis Goodall https://www.newstatesman.com/comment/2024/02/the-tory-rights-radicalisation-should-trouble-us-all The Conservatives, facing a potentiall...
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 7:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th February 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 391
Re: Friday 9th February 2024
Laura Trott humiliating herself again? Say it aint so.
You can watch the entire excruciating episode here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68250020
You can watch the entire excruciating episode here...
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-68250020
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 7:01 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Friday 9th February 2024
- Replies: 6
- Views: 391
Re: Friday 9th February 2024
Braverman incompetent? Say it aint so. Braverman’s ‘crazy’ law costs £1.5m a day because 22k migrants can’t be removed https://inews.co.uk/news/politics/braverman-law-cost-migrants-removed-2898645?ito=twitter_share_article-top A “crazy” contradiction in Rishi Sunak’s flagship small-boats law has lef...
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 1:30 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Just because.
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 12:26 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
And......James Daly has a combover? That's what it looked like to me in all it's HD glory this evening, wispy strands combed across his head held in place with gel or hairspray. As someone who went down the topknot/ponytail route to cover a bald crown and ended up fooling nobody I'm not one to judg...
- Fri 09 Feb, 2024 12:14 am
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Indeed I did. Thanks and it's been edited accordingly.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:38 pm I presume you mean Daisy Cooper there, Sky?
Rosie Cooper is a now retired Labour MP (though she was previously a LibDem)
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:52 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 11:34 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Question Time tonight came from Nottingham, where I've had a few good nights at Rock City. I assumed like a lot of music venues from my youth it was probably gone by now but after a quick Google it seems like it's still going strong. Yay. For the Tories we had James Daly. James began with a bit of f...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 4:16 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Holly Valance's husband says it's time for a Labour government.
Chortle.
Chortle.
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 3:21 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 2:17 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
I can't remember a better example of the need to follow Healy's advice than yesterday, but it isn't only Sunak who's bad at politics, is it. The PM and the tory front bench are totally discredited in the eyes of most of the public, but Labour can't/doesn't want to stand up to them. Barry Gardiner's...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 1:43 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
It's snowing* and cold, I've had to turn the gas fire up which will be costing me a fortune, it wouldn't be so bad if this house had even basic insulation but the landlord will never spend the money. If only there was some kind of government scheme to provide funding... *Sadly it's wet rubbish snow ...
- Thu 08 Feb, 2024 1:35 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Thursday 8th February 2024
- Replies: 30
- Views: 1454
Re: Thursday 8th February 2024
Ugh, apart from Daisy Cooper this looks absolutely bloody awful.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 11:05 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
When Sonia Sodha condemns Sunak then gets a load of abuse for it, not from the right and transphobes, but from those advocating trans rights, she really isn't the problem.AnatolyKasparov wrote: ↑Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:45 pm When you have lost the likes of Sonia Sodha, stop digging.
It's utterly depressing.
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:18 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
How indeed. Maybe it's just me but this feels pretty terminal for Sunak, he's not going to be able to live this down. He's been egged on by the right of his party and the rightwing press to fight these horrible culture wars and look where it's got him. https://twitter.com/Samfr/status/17552981305374...
- Wed 07 Feb, 2024 10:00 pm
- Forum: The Daily Politics
- Topic: Wednesday 7th February 2024
- Replies: 11
- Views: 657
Re: Wednesday 7th February 2024
Wow, apparently Badenoch went rogue.