Alex Callinicos/SWP vs Laurie Penny/New Statesman Facebook handbags
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BigTom
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wow. he went to a cashpoint *expecting* to have money in his bank and thinks he is poor. I mean when I was earning around £15k/yr I usually ran out of money by the end of the month, but I never considered myself to be poor because I was never hungry, never scraping together pennies to buy pasta cos it makes you feel full, never behind on rent and worried about homelessness. I am just constantly amazed by how these people's brains work they seem aware and yet, yet, not a fucking clue. not one.
Fozzie Bear
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I spoke to a Nigel Farage type once who said that he was poor quite poor - in fact he was seriously considering selling off one of the flats he owned in London.
DotCommunist
So many particulars. So many questions.
Lezard thinks he's big issue style skint cos he couldn't go to the pictures? pass me the shotgun
Fozzie Bear
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And who could forget this beauty, from The Guardian in 2009:
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
And who could forget this beauty, from The Guardian in 2009:
Shoot one. HTH.
Louis MacNeice
Autumn Journalist
And who could forget this beauty, from The Guardian in 2009:
It's Sophie's Choice for higher rate tax payers.
Cheers - Louis MacNeice
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
Kinder than even considering sending one to the hell-hole comp
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
we're all in this together and we must make some tough decisions.
BigTom
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Sell one for their organs and meat, that'll pay for the holiday this year too.
brogdale
Coming to terms with late onset Anarchism
True. I heard some minister on QT saying that the national debt thingy is just like running a household budget; you can't go on and on spending more than you have...can you ladeeez? I hadn't thought about it like that before; it all makes sense now. i had no idea that macro-economics was so easy.
weepiper
I fix the machines that fight climate change
Nylock
I hate 'these days'...
I'm kind of glad there are no comments to that article. I can just imagine the tiresome parade of sneering nastiness that rightwing trolls would gleefully air in response to such a piece
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ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
TBF, being middle class and so much more forward-thinking than we peasants are, he'd probably sell the better-looking one at an hourly rate to any paedos he works with. That way he can extract maximum surplus value from them.
ViolentPanda
Hardly getting over it.
True. I heard some minister on QT saying that the national debt thingy is just like running a household budget; you can't go on and on spending more than you have...can you ladeeez? I hadn't thought about it like that before; it all makes sense now. i had no idea that macro-economics was so easy.
That sort of fuckwitted comprehension of economics always makes me think that the speaker has a degree in the subject.
DaveCinzano
WATCH OUT, GEORGE, HE'S GOT A SCREWDRIVER!
Follow hashtag #nuswomens13 if your intersectionality levels are low (and apparently Laura failed to show up).
Thread continues to re-enact the French Revolution....
je suis malade. I need to see a quack,
Favelado
J'adore South Shore
I know Krugman is still a capitalist pig-dog to some on here but he does take down a Tory who comes out with the "economy is like a household" line here.
From last year.
Idris2002
canadian girlfriend
Hang on, a minute. . . do we know why LP moved out of the "hovel"?
Nice one
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what's the diffeence between this fella and laurie penny?
It doesn't sound made up for a start.
Nice one
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you know it's his pitch for an updated withnail an i, don't you.
In terms of CLASS POWER and what he represents, what's the difference?
Very little, which is what this thread is essentially about (when we're not going through their twitter leavings).
Alex is a very good writer..
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