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All this "contempt" and "enlightenment" bullshit is just projection. I'm not contemptuous of voters, I don't think non-voters are enlightened. I'm just taking about how the electoral system is, and how your vote give the people running a blank cheque. You don't want to deal with that, so you're...

Exactly! The disregard for a real life or REAL (POSITIVE) change is astounding in America now. It is as if everyone's gone insane and is clinging tenaciously on to the only reality they know.

No there isn't - there's contempt for people who have no say in how the things plays out arguing for the most safe possible vote and using those most under the cosh as their ideological shield when they have a platform to argue that lesser evilism produces fake choices like this. Hovis fucking...

It's also possibly to express contempt by saying, like you did, that people are ground into the dirt, and so will vote. About half of US voters will not vote; and that's based on a very rational understanding of the US political system. They're way ahead of the liberals. What's lacking is any...

All I see here is a massive amount of contempt for anyone who hasn't managed to be as enlightened as the amazing people posting here who have opted out of the current political system. There's no empathy. There's no compassion. There's no real caring about the conditions people live in. All...

Cruddas is serious about One Nation Labour: http://shiftinggrounds.org/2012/10/a-response-to-tim-montgomerie-part-iii/ He's not joking about GWB - this is the soft left of Labour BTW NOT the Blairist right

A must-read by Robert Millar. If only he could take Pat's job. http://www.cyclingnews.com/blogs/robert-millar/the-bare-minimum

Sorry LD, the revolutionary youth moment is what matters: That was her speech at the Compass Conference 2010: "I gave this speech yesterday at the youth panel at the Compass conference, 'A New Hope'. After writing this in a fit of pique at the notion of youth politics being co-opted into the...

If you saw 'in the Loop' he spoke along similar lines. I'm loving this series - both government and opposition :D

Tempted to believe it, remember that line he says to Ollie in series three when he comes back after sacking: "Just because you're paid to kill for a living doesn't make you a killer." or something like that..?

It did. It threw me a bit, to be honest. I'm not really sure what I thought his motivation was before then. And his lack of compassion previously made me do a double take, and wonder whether he was being genuine or not. I hope he is being. I can completely see how years of frustration in the...

Surely the fact that there isn't decent support, services or resources is exactly why at least being able to access info about where to get food and shelter is massively important? If you wait for the government, you'll be finding even more stiffs in doorways than usual. Compassion went out of...

lol: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jul/26/tony-blair-itch-return-reality-shock

Oh biggus. Sounds like political insight on about the same level as Johnny Rotten tbh: Bollocks. At the same time i'm not sure where I stand with cultural/musical boycots of Israel. Who else is going to transform Israeli society progressively than Israelis - both Arabs and Jews? Are they...

I think its more that he really doesnt have a clue, tbh. This is of course one of the consequences of the rise of the political class (to use Oborne's phrase), in which being part of the set is more important than such mundane things as competence, ability, experience, common sense, honesty and...

You: The point is that there were broadly two camps within Labour on the question: 1) "Tribalists" - people who take Herbert Morrison's attitude, "socialism is what a Labour goverment does". 2) "Pluralists" - people who think, from whatever political perspective (right or left), that as the...

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He got 444 votes in Edinburgh, Pentland Hills ward. Pushing the lib dem candidate into fifth place :D

Far south.

What about the Scottish penguin? Where does he sit on the political compass?