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

[belboid]

Callinicos's wife is Joanna Seddon (or was anyway). Max is a little bit of a leftie (he'd like to think). Boney put two and two together, but seems to have made five.

 

[binka]

my opinion of twitter has changed slightly now i know that lusty and ern are on there giving relentless grief to some thoroughly deserving targets

 

[frogwoman]

So is the Joanna Seddon Callinicos married the same person as the CEO? And how did max seddon get to be on callinicos's facebook?

 

[killer b]

stepson perhaps?

 

[frogwoman]

yeah - could be

 

[frogwoman]

http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/alex-callinicos-and-max-seddon-an-apology/

 

[belboid]

oops. Good last line tho

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Will ern and Lusty apologise?

 

[Hocus Eye.]

Why doesn't somebody create two new threads, one for Callinicos and the other for Penny Red? Their original spat is now lost in the mists of time but people keep adding to this lumbering thread. No it won't be me; my interest is only incidental - mild curiosity.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Will ern and Lusty apologise?

Will the pope admit that some of his priests fuck children?

 

[articul8]

superb 'apology'

 

[Captain Hurrah]

Will the pope admit that some of his priests fuck children?

'Some mistakes were made.'

 

[Hocus Eye.]

This is the first time that I have seen ern compared with the Pope. He will be pleased. The Pope that is, not ern.

 

[Bakunin]

More fact-free hyperbole, as usual untroubled by objective reality, for folk to take the piss out of here:

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/rootless-ruthless/

 

[frogwoman]

Doomed youth isn’t so sympathetic when it’s screaming defiance in your face.

lol

 

[Belushi]

More fact-free hyperbole, as usual untroubled by objective reality, for folk to take the piss out of here:

http://thenewinquiry.com/features/rootless-ruthless/

That's a particularly wanky article even by her standards.

 

[dennisr]

http://ianbone.wordpress.com/2012/02/16/alex-callinicos-and-max-seddon-an-apology/

now this made me giggle:

The noble patrician Callinicos
Would sternly lecture the populous
On morals and manners, and socialist banners
In detail both dull and meticulous
But he never mentioned his history
And decided to keep it a mystery
But Fate’s had her day
And the crown’s slipped away
And the cunt looks completely ridiculous

 

[discokermit]

i saw alex callinicos in the middle of the poll tax riots. didn't see ian bone. didn't see any o you cunts.


might have seen some millies though den. givin it all that about how we were spoiling the demo for everyone.

 

[dennisr]

That's a particularly wanky article even by her standards.

"We are the new young left: precarious, rootless, ruthless, entitled, digitally enabled, and we are beginning to set the agenda."
arf

 

[Belushi]

It's such a relief that finally we've got disgruntled Oxbridge graduates to lead the revolution.

 

[JHE]

"We are the new young left: precarious, rootless, ruthless, entitled, digitally enabled, and we are beginning to set the agenda."
arf

...shaking the system to its foundations, I expect
arf

i saw alex callinicos in the middle of the poll tax riots.

Really? What was he doing?

 

[discokermit]

It's such a relief that finally we've got disgruntled Oxbridge graduates to lead the revolution.

hasn't it always been?

 

[articul8]

Really? What was he doing?

Got lost on his way from Malet St to LSE

 

[discokermit]

Really? What was he doing?

sellin papers!

 

[andy2002]

"We are the new young left: precarious, rootless, ruthless, entitled, digitally enabled, and we are beginning to set the agenda."
arf

Christ, she sounds like Rick in the Young Ones: "We're Young Ones. Bachelor boys. Crazy, mad, wild-eyed, big-bottomed anarchists."

 

[discokermit]

Got lost on his way from Malet St to LSE

c'mon, whatever the background, his politics are better than yours you labour cunt.

 

[articul8]

get to fuck

 

[discokermit]

get to fuck

most politically coherent post you've ever made.

 

[Belushi]

hasn't it always been?

No, Laurie and her friends have just discovered that capitalism isn't very nice, even if you've got a degree from Oxford, and you need to listen!

 

[discokermit]

No, Laurie and her friends have just discovered that capitalism isn't very nice, even if you've got a degree from Oxford, and you need to listen!

no, i mean haven't the oxbridge cunts, sons of the german bourgeoise, russian princes etc. always been in the leadership of the movement? laurie penny should be knocked for the shiteness of her politics and the awful standard of her writing. if she was good, it wouldn't really matter a fuck where she went to school.