Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags

[butchersapron]

All reduced down to so-called lefties. Expel them laura. They're fake-lefties

Just how many pages of this thread have you read Laura?

 

[TruXta]

All reduced down to so-called lefties. Expel them laura. They're fake-lefties

Just how many pages of this thread have you read Laura?

Steady on son, don't scare her away with your hairy paws.

 

[butchersapron]

Expect all discussion now to be on twitter, very short,very infantile and everyone i know look at the misogynists.

 

[Lo Siento.]

Good grief, I've just discovered this. I'm not sure whether to be flattered or weirded out that you've all spent 208 pages on it. I've no idea why you care so much about my appearance and toilet habits.

It's not though, is it? It's mainly about your shite politics, stories full of Hari-style "convenient" encounters, and your resemblance to a thousand other "leftie" journos who've parasited off activism and poverty tourism for a little while until they got bored.

In fact it's not really about you at all. It's about all of your ilk.

 

[butchersapron]

Steady on son, don't scare her away with your hairy paws.

She doesn't do discussion with the plebs. She does it for the plebs-right Laura?

 

[TruXta]

She doesn't do discussion with with plebs. She does it for the plebs-right Laura?

This is what I meant you bastard

 

[Idris2002]

Good grief, I've just discovered this. I'm not sure whether to be flattered or weirded out that you've all spent 208 pages on it. I've no idea why you care so much about my appearance and toilet habits.

THIS IS THE BEST THING EVER.

 

[co-op]

In fact it's not really about you at all. It's about all of your ilk.

Bingo. And it's been very interesting.

 

[co-op]

Good grief, I've just discovered this.

Right.

 

[goldenecitrone]

If only Margaret Thatcher would start posting here, too.

 

[Betty_Rubble]

Nick Lezard goes through her laundry basket for a sniff.

 

[Balbi]

I can't tell if we just won or lost the thread

 

[free spirit]

Check @pennyred.

fair play, you obviously don't vanity search your name on google as often as I thought you might if it's taken you this long to find this thread.

welcome to urban.

 

[lauriepenny]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong. I work hard every day to make sure I'm working for something bigger and more important than myself in the best way I know how. If my way of doing politics offends you, there are surely better ways to express it than speculating that "something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her."

 

[TruXta]

I can't tell if we just won or lost the thread

Neither, it'll rumble on for a while longer with or without Ms. MoneyPenny.

 

[butchersapron]

"so called lefities"

 

[TruXta]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong.

that's us told then.

 

[tufty79]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong. I work hard every day to make sure I'm working for something bigger and more important than myself in the best way I know how

really?
https://twitter.com/PennyRed/status/279644902495772673

If the universe wanted me to write an essay today it wouldn't have given me a copy of the first Hellblazer collection. Just saying.

 

[weepiper]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong. I work hard every day to make sure I'm working for something bigger and more important than myself in the best way I know how. If my way of doing politics offends you, there are surely better ways to express it than speculating that "something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her."

oh that part. Don't mind him, why not address the constructive stuff.

 

[butchersapron]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong. I work hard every day to make sure I'm working for something bigger and more important than myself in the best way I know how. If my way of doing politics offends you, there are surely better ways to express it than speculating that "something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her."

So that's 6 pages read at best. (another 100 by the morning and excuses thought up)

 

[Balbi]

Settle in folks. This could go on for a while.

 

[SpineyNorman]

Thank fuck for that - slipped on the ice and hurt my arse this morning so I can't go out and I'm bored shitless. This thread ought to be good for a couple of hours entertainment now though

 

[co-op]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong.

All of us?

About everything?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, there are surely better ways to express it than speculating that "something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her."

To be fair that's just one particularly strange person - there is some serious criticism throughout the thread.

 

[Idris2002]

Whilst I appreciate constructive criticism, you're wrong. I work hard every day to make sure I'm working for something bigger and more important than myself in the best way I know how. If my way of doing politics offends you, there are surely better ways to express it than speculating that "something about her appearance that makes me think that if she'd been in the bathroom for a number two, you'd be well advised to give it a fair bit longer than ten minutes before going in after her."

Genuine question, Laurie. A couple of pages back there's some critique of Margaret Mead's famous quote about how only a handful of dedicated people can change the world, et cetera. I'd be interested to hear your response to those who find that quote carries a great deal of unexamined baggage, baggage of the most elitist variety to boot.

 

[Blagsta]

This should be a welcome diversion from my social exclusion assignment.

 

[lauriepenny]

I actually can't believe you're now criticising me for not reading and responding to all 209 pages in their entirety. For fuck's sake, I work for a living.

 

[Balbi]

Doing what we can only dream of, grubby hands passing copies of the Staggers between us on the shop floor

 

[co-op]

I actually can't believe you're now criticising me for not reading and responding to all 209 pages in their entirety. For fuck's sake, I work for a living.

But you can tell "us" we're wrong without reading it?

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Genuine question, Laurie. A couple of pages back there's some critique of Margaret Mead's famous quote about how only a handful of dedicated people can change the world, et cetera. I'd be interested to hear your response to those who find that quote carries a great deal of unexamined baggage, baggage of the most elitist variety to boot.

That wasn't her to be fair