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

[butchersapron]

Little matchstick Owen has also just got a job as a columnist on the Independent. 2 Oxbridge voices speaking up for us.

 

[love detective]

the commodificazion of the working class continues

 

[Kid_Eternity]

the commodificazion of the working class continues

How? Penny's not WC.

 

[barney_pig]

Yeah but that's a blip aint it? I mean it's not like she has a long history of provable fabrication when it comes to her articles is it.

Fit in well with fisk then.

 

[killer b]

How? Penny's not WC.

the stuff she and jones write about is though. riots & chavs, the voices of our generation.

 

[love detective]

How? Penny's not WC.

not of 'them', by 'them'

they are the ones commodifiying it

 

[Kid_Eternity]

the stuff she and jones write about is though. riots & chavs, the voices of our generation.

But if the WC aint buying it why does it matter?

 

[killer b]

do you actually need it explaining?

 

[rekil]

Laurie last week, tweeting bravely from New York, the frontline in the assault on the NHS.

We need a battle for the NHS, not a vigil. This is utter belly-showing cowardice. #nhsvigil

Don't light a candle, build a bonfire #NHSVigil #NHSdemo

Chuffed to be starting a weekly column and other stuff at the Independent. Will use it as a platform for the causes and people I believe in

His career and himself.

 

[love detective]

lol

he's always chuffed about something

he was embarrassingly bad on the andrew neil show the other day - basic sloppiness in his facts/assertions left him wide open to be ridiculed by the smug neil and portillio

 

[articul8]

As Eagleton once wrote of David Beckham, "he runs the full gamut of emotions from chuffed to gutted"

 

[frogwoman]

lol

he's always chuffed about something

he was embarrassingly bad on the andrew neil show the other day - basic sloppiness in his facts/assertions left him wide open to be ridiculed by the smug neil and portillio

what was he saying?

 

[love detective]

just in general getting his facts completely wrong and not understanding the things that he talks about, leaving himself open (and by extension the wider left since he's taken on the role of vanguard) to be ridculed by posh smug twats like portillio & neil

 

[cantsin]

just in general getting his facts completely wrong and not understanding the things that he talks about, leaving himself open (and by extension the wider left since he's taken on the role of vanguard) to be ridculed by posh smug twats like portillio & neil

that's painful to watch

 

[Zabo]

What a bunch of losers! Campbell, Neill and Portillo.

Owen seems like a left over from the 1960's politburo. He parrots bits from whatever labour says in the House Of Fools.

I've said it before and I'll say it again: the little shit should go and get a real job for ten years and then come back with some new ideas.

It's a pity he can't team up with Penny because they could fuck each other senseless. Alas it would be a very short session.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

just in general getting his facts completely wrong and not understanding the things that he talks about, leaving himself open (and by extension the wider left since he's taken on the role of vanguard) to be ridculed by posh smug twats like portillio & neil

He needs to stop buying his shirts from Sainsbury's as well

 

[DaveCinzano]

He should try something new today.

 

[articul8]

He needs to stop buying his shirts from Sainsbury's as well

you seem to be an expert in these matters

 

[killer b]

that owen jones clip is totally humiliating. jesus.

 

[frogwoman]

To be fair I'd probably come across similarly if I was on newsnight or something.

 

[killer b]

me too. hence i don't put myself forward for it (not that they'd have me).

 

[frogwoman]

That reminds me that the "Chavs" book and the Beating the Fash book are on my "to read" pile ...

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

To be fair I'd probably come across similarly if I was on newsnight or something.

And when you try and market yourself as the go to person for leftwing comment we'll take the piss out of you and your clothes as well.

 

[killer b]

she claims to have been rescued from being run over by a taxi, by ryan gosling. after which he joined her in a rousing chorus of the internationalle, no doubt.

http://jezebel.com/5898902/your-eve...aves-a-womans-life-we-all-die-a-little-inside

 

[Steel Icarus]

she claims to have been rescued from being run over by a taxi, by ryan gosling. after which he joined her in a rousing chorus of the internationalle, no doubt.

http://jezebel.com/5898902/your-eve...aves-a-womans-life-we-all-die-a-little-inside

It's embarrassing, that. I mean Penny's "me me me meeee" nonsense. Followed by a tweet about "TIME FOR EVERYONE TO SHUT UP ABOUT RYAN GOSLING" (capitals hers).

She gets picked on and defended by idiots on all sides, standing in the middle of it all, one eye weeping, the other glinting, one hand with middle finger raised and an establishment quill clutched in the other. I'm getting a bit fucking irritated with these fuckers.

 

[butchersapron]

What the fuck is wrong with this gosling bloke?

 

[imposs1904]

she claims to have been rescued from being run over by a taxi, by ryan gosling. after which he joined her in a rousing chorus of the internationalle, no doubt.

http://jezebel.com/5898902/your-eve...aves-a-womans-life-we-all-die-a-little-inside

Ryan earlier today:

 

[Jeff Robinson]

me too. hence i don't put myself forward for it (not that they'd have me).

I turn them down all the time. Beneath me.

 

[Steel Icarus]

http://gawker.com/5899046/ryan-gosl...-war-in-the-middle-east-so-everyone-calm-down

Look, I am kind of an idiot. I am constantly walking into things, losing my phone and keys, and wandering into traffic because I'm thinking about something else or have spotted something interesting in the sky, and that's when I'm not in a country where all the cars come in the wrong direction.

I really do object to being framed as the ditzy damsel in distress in this story.

 

[stereotypical]

It's embarrassing, that. I mean Penny's "me me me meeee" nonsense. Followed by a tweet about "TIME FOR EVERYONE TO SHUT UP ABOUT RYAN GOSLING" (capitals hers).

She gets picked on and defended by idiots on all sides, standing in the middle of it all, one eye weeping, the other glinting, one hand with middle finger raised and an establishment quill clutched in the other. I'm getting a bit fucking irritated with these fuckers.

This is quickly starting to become my opinion aswell.