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

[Nylock]

It's like the stuff Michael Moorcock might have left out of 'The Dancers at the end of Time' for being too 'over the top'...

 

[Bakunin]

• Inch deep analysis
• Fuck awful mixed metaphors
• Imaginary characters
• Lies
• Blatant product placement to help pay the bills
• And more!

This is an entirely inaccurate and blatantly wrong summing up of Penny Dreadful's writing. She can only aspire to be merely that woeful, after all.

 

[rekil]

Laurie doesn't like NATO anymore.

 

[butchersapron]

No more nice bombs

 

[rekil]

Now she's having 'a go' at Tom Morello who "appears to be here to save liberalism".

fffffffuckoffffff

 

[butchersapron]

How come none the groups round the country have had a single penny off her since her - what 150 grand a year - new job?

 

[frogwoman]

How come none the groups round the country have had a single penny off her since her - what 150 grand a year - new job?

150 grand a year?! are you serious? She is my age.

 

[binka]

150 grand a year?! are you serious? She is my age.

yes but how many generations are you the voice of?

 

[frogwoman]

good point. I'm also not the smartest kid in the smartest school either.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

How come none the groups round the country have had a single penny off her since her - what 150 grand a year - new job?

Lol!! There ain't no way she's on that! The Indy doesn't have that kind of money, reckon she'd be lucky if she's on more than 25k...

 

[butchersapron]

The independent - a paper ran by a billionaire businessman - can't afford that? You think Torres is on min wage as well?

 

[Kid_Eternity]

The independent - a paper ran by a billionaire businessman - can't afford that? You think Torres is on min wage as well?

You're off in cloud cookoo land!

 

[frogwoman]

She is my age, cant get over that, how the hell is that possible. How is she the voice of a generation or for that matter anyone else apart from herself how can she possibly think that her experiences represent even the middle class let alone the working class. I am speechless. i don't know many 24 year olds that are earning the average wage of the country let alone 150k.

 

[butchersapron]

I bet you she's on the independent paper as self-employed as well - which makes her a tax evader.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

You're both (butchers and KE) wrong but KE is more wrong (by miles)

 

[Nylock]

Now she's having 'a go' at Tom Morello who "appears to be here to save liberalism".

fffffffuckoffffff

WTF?

What has the RATM guitarist done to rouse the ire of bad penny? Surely it's not being a member of a band whose debut album still resonates with people 20 years after it's initial release, and in which its lyrical content pretty much pisses all over her entire literary oeuvre to date?

Surely not....

 

[rekil]

WTF?

What has the RATM guitarist done to rouse the ire of bad penny? Surely it's not being a member of a band whose debut album still resonates with people 20 years after it's initial release, and in which its lyrical content pretty much pisses all over her entire literary oeuvre to date?

Surely not....

More to the point. Time for twattery reloaded.

It is for these reason that I am going to be voting, in my constituency of Leyton and Wanstead, for the Liberal Democrat Party. Not because of Nick Clegg's golden tie, and not even because The Guardian says so. Because I want a new, more representative parliamentary system in which citizens can feel like their voices actually matter. I like the Lib Dems; I don't think they were sent to save us. I'd prefer to vote for a third party that had stronger links with workers' organisations. But the Lib Dems represent the best chance this country has for transformation on a structural level. And, of course, I'm sick of the sight of Cameron's soft, evil face.

 

[Kid_Eternity]

You're both (butchers and KE) wrong but KE is more wrong (by miles)

Lol ok.

 

[Steel Icarus]

I think I read £22k p.a. somewhere. Not that it makes any difference to her vapidity.

 

[Bakunin]

WTF?

What has the RATM guitarist done to rouse the ire of bad penny? Surely it's not being a member of a band whose debut album still resonates with people 20 years after it's initial release, and in which its lyrical content pretty much pisses all over her entire literary oeuvre to date?

Surely not....

Somebody should have her listen to the Led Zeppelin back catalogue, then. I'm sure she'd find much more to complain about.

After all, what could a radical feminist possibly find sexist, sleazy, unapologetically macho, crude or even slightly offensive about this modern classic?:

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

I think I read £22k p.a. somewhere. Not that it makes any difference to her vapidity.

I heard 70k from a very reliable source

 

[DaveCinzano]

I heard 70k from a very reliable source

Which, if accurate, would make KE's guess closer than BA's (by miles).

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

Which, if accurate, would make KE's guess closer than BA's (by miles).

So it would, never been too hot at maths

 

[DaveCinzano]

You'll have to up your arithmetic game if you want to outsmart the smartest kid from a smart school.

 

[barney_pig]

No more nice bombs

((((workers Bomb))))

 

[Kid_Eternity]

I think I read £22k p.a. somewhere. Not that it makes any difference to her vapidity.

It'll be around 20-25k. The Indy doesn't have the kind of money the Telegraph or Guardian have.

 

[Steel Icarus]

Content however worth about ten bob.

 

[Das Uberdog]

i wouldn't even guess much over 80K for Graun journos either tbh...

 

[Steel Icarus]

Even shills have to share the pain

 

[Das Uberdog]

though i think definitely more than 25K. one of my childhood friends is a model in London and has ended up getting kept by a food critic from the Indy (generalisation but more or less!) who's only in his 20s and on over 30K... so far as i can tell by their dwelling