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

[Kid_Eternity]

Anyhoo...

Sunny Hundal attacks the SWP: http://is.gd/jEBrg

 

[Steel Icarus]

Eh, Laurie Penny's lovely-looking, but that has fuck-all to do with anything. From what I've read she's far more bothered about being someone than anything else. And god forbid she should have to talk to anyone but nice polite students.

 

[DotCommunist]

Yo've not read the thread. She talks to NEETS and goes undercover at Young Tory shindigs.

 

[Sgt Howie]

Anyhoo...

Sunny Hundal attacks the SWP: http://is.gd/jEBrg

I'm no fan of the SWP but that's a really, really shallow takedown - even from his soft left social democratic perspective he could have constructed something a lot better than that.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Laurie Penny has always been a complete knob. Sunny Hundial is also a cock. Liberal wankers and a burden on working class politics. Fuck them.

 

[The39thStep]

Sunny Hundial supported the Lib Dems as well didn't he?

 

[The39thStep]

Ern's no oil painting himself, so he should bear in mind the old saw "judge not, lest ye be judged". I'm pretty sure Laurie Penny would take one look at him and say "he looks like a bulldog sucking piss off a thistle".

Are you a good looker Panda?

 

[ernestolynch]

I heard he looked like a bald Woody Allen.

 

[Captain Hurrah]

He said he looked like Shrek.

 

[where to]

Sunny Hundial supported the Lib Dems as well didn't he?

they all did.

they've got a fucking cheek tbh.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Are you a good looker Panda?

Nope. "Weathered and homely" is about the best I look.

 

[ViolentPanda]

I heard he looked like a bald Woody Allen.

Strangely enough, just as not all Welshmen look like Talfryn Thomas, not all Jewish men look like Woody Allen.

 

[ViolentPanda]

He said he looked like Shrek.

I do, except for the green tinge.

 

[ernestolynch]

Like an old Wayne Rooney then?

 

[TremulousTetra]

5 pages.

 

[Random]

"surely the visteon?"

 

[Kid_Eternity]

Seems there's more than a few people not impressed with Penny's positioning on the recent protests:

David Osler

 

[Proper Tidy]

Seems there's more than a few people not impressed with Penny's positioning on the recent protests:

David Osler

Lol

“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

I’m with the Guardian and with Sunny: if we want anything other than five years of Torygeddon, burning jobcentres and bankers’ red-cheeked sons deciding policy in private lunches with their friends from university and the nice men from Fox, then we have to vote first for the party most likely to beat the Conservatives in our particular areas. After that, or if there’s no clear and present danger of blue peril, grab a shiny off-yellow biro and vote Lib Dem.”

 

[butchersapron]

Here's a good one in the election aftermath - note the again:

I will be joining the Labour Party again in order to vote for Abbott, and I will probably be volunteering for her campaign. You should too. Diane for King.

Lead us Penny, lead us...

 

[Fruitloop]

Up to the top of the hill, and then...

 

[Bakunin]

Here's a good one in the election aftermath - note the again:



Lead us Penny, lead us...

'FOLLOW THE GOURD!'

 

[Proper Tidy]

Here's a good one in the election aftermath - note the again:



Lead us Penny, lead us...

Meet the new left, same as the old left

 

[butchersapron]

Up to the top of the hill, and then...

Into ed's arms.

 

[butchersapron]

I don't listen to R4 - was/is this scabbing by Penny?

An unexpected fruit of the NUJ strike at the BBC came in the form of Laurie Penny on Radio 4 this morning. On Off The Page, which ran instead of the Today programme, Penny described how her blog – a kind of socialist-feminist cultural commentary called Penny Red – led her from near destitution to a career in journalism.

Penny, who publishes her stuff on a Blogger platform under a Creative Commons License, now writes a regular column for the Staggers, contributing to the usual suspects such as the Guardian’s Comment is Free. She admits that being a freelance journalist makes her ‘terribly poor’.

The smugness of that second bold tells you all you need to know. Yeah for oxbridge!

 

[nino_savatte]

Laurie Penny? More like Bad Penny!

<gets coat>

 

[Proper Tidy]

She fucking scabbed! Oh lordy.

 

[butchersapron]

She fucking scabbed! Oh lordy.

Hang on, it may be a repeat, i don't know R4.

 

[Proper Tidy]

I so hope it's true.

 

[killer b]

Lolidarity

 

[BigTom]

First broadcast Thursday 4th November

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00vky79#broadcasts

edit: That means it was a repeat doesn't it? was the strike the friday/saturday or thursday/friday?