Dan Hodges Watch

[Idris2002]

Wonder when they'll work out that the Tories are the Nazis and they're Vichy?

Jamais.

 

[nino_savatte]

Simon Danzuk quoting Hodges fondly this avo :

Simon DanczukVerified account‏@SimonDanczuk
@DPJHodges excellent in @Telegraph today: "Labour letting a bunch of three-quid-dog-on-a-rope-rent-a-Trots lecture them on their own party"

that was after Dancuk had boasted of some anti migrant rant he'd made on the radio this morning .

"three-quid-dog-on-a-rope-rent-a-Trots" a classic Danczuk trope.

Meanwhile Dan does his victimhood schtick.

 

[brogdale]

"three-quid-dog-on-a-rope-rent-a-Trots"

 

[J Ed]

"three-quid-dog-on-a-rope-rent-a-Trots" a classic Danczuk trope.

Meanwhile Dan does his victimhood schtick.

It's a wonderful schtick consider the fact that he left the party, campaigns for Tories and makes his actual living out of being the Torygraph's 'Labour person who slags off the Labour Party'. Is he being allowed to vote in the leadership election? Plenty of people have been disqualified for much less.

 

[nino_savatte]

It's a wonderful schtick consider the fact that he left the party, campaigns for Tories and makes his actual living out of being the Torygraph's 'Labour person who slags off the Labour Party'. Is he being allowed to vote in the leadership election? Plenty of people have been disqualified for much less.

He's supporting Cooper. I thought he would be a Kendall supporter but I guess even he finds her vapid.
https://twitter.com/DPJHodges

 

[DaveCinzano]

Jamais.

I guess that makes them jamais dodgers

 

[cantsin]

"three-quid-dog-on-a-rope-rent-a-Trots" a classic Danczuk trope.

Meanwhile Dan does his victimhood schtick.

when people talk about poss split in Lab,it can't be easy for Corbyn supporters, young and old, to share political / physical space with the likes of Danczuk and Hodges - it doesnt seem practical, even in the near to mid term

 

[Favelado]

I guess that makes them jamais dodgers

I prefer Cremes de Creme Anglais. Or Nobs de Hob.

 

[nino_savatte]

Hodges goes for the bearded look.

 

[JHE]

Renegade would be a better description than tribal Labour loyalist. He has plausibly been called Cameron's favourite political columnist.

Still, he clearly has many interesting contacts, esp in the Labour Party, and partly as a result sometimes his articles are interesting.

For many, many months, leading up to the general election, he produced article after article saying Miliband couldn't possibly win and predicting that the election would be a disaster for the Labour Party. He never wavered and it turned out he was right.

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

For many, many months, leading up to the general election, he produced article after article saying Miliband couldn't prossibly win

It's like nostradamus or summat.

 

[J Ed]

Hodges goes for the bearded look.

I didn't realise that the hipster look was big with Tories

 

[nino_savatte]

Dan Hodges gets tearful. The first para is a scream!

In affectionate remembrance of the Labour Party, which died at the Queen Elizabeth II conference centre, Westminster, on 12 September, 2015. Deeply lamented by a large circle of sorrowing friends and acquaintances. R.I.P. The body will be cremated, and the ashes taken to Islington.

The day the Labour Party died

 

[Fez909]

Dan Hodges gets tearful. The first para is a scream!

wtf is this nonsense?

Labour has not just relinquished any prospect of being a party of government. It has just relinquished any prospect of being a party of opposition.

He might be right that Corbyn is unelectable, but they've potentially just become the most effective opposition in a generation.

 

[red & green]

Jackson Jr

 

[Zabo]

Wanker Wodges was on Pinear Politics this morning on R5 - still available. My, my what a difference from his vile attacks in the Vermingraph! No doubt because it was live he couldn't rely on a team of lawyers to vet his words.

 

[nino_savatte]

wtf is this nonsense?

He might be right that Corbyn is unelectable, but they've potentially just become the most effective opposition in a generation.

Hodges doesn't understand what opposition is meant to entail.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

Well, he's scoring unarguable points for fun against one @calderbank right now.

 

[stethoscope]

Well, he's scoring unarguable points for fun against one @calderbank right now.

Bollocks is he. This says more about your shit Blairite politics than anything else, Maurice.

 

[DotCommunist]

notable in his absence from the LP leadership thread. First scotland then the rise of c-byn. Furrowed brows at the maurice house I bet.

 

[youngian]

The Colonel Nicholson of the Labour Party as I once heard him called. Originally employed by the Torygraph as the token Labour guy offering critical advice to the party he has had to up the stakes to carry on paying his mortgage. Especially with an array of bitter Blairite ex-SPADs like John McTernan muscling in on his patch. He's essentially now a ridiculous Katie Hopkins contrarian pundit for hire. A pointless career in which he probably has to stick his fingers down his throat most evenings to expunge his self-loathing.

 

[agricola]

The Colonel Nicholson of the Labour Party as I once heard him called. Originally employed by the Torygraph as the token Labour guy offering critical advice to the party he has had to up the stakes to carry on paying his mortgage. Especially with an array of bitter Blairite ex-SPADs like John McTernan muscling in on his patch. He's essentially now a ridiculous Katie Hopkins contrarian pundit for hire. A pointless career in which he probably has to stick his fingers down his throat most evenings to expunge his self-loathing.

Not sure that he does; judging by his twitter comments at the Tory Party conference he seems to have gone native.

 

[youngian]

He'd lose his cuckoo in the nest USP if he defected unless the Tories offered him a cushy SPAD number counting paper clips for Adonis. Hodges is hardly a big catch trophy bride.

 

[butchersapron]

He'd lose his cuckoo in the nest USP if he defected unless the Tories offered him a cushy SPAD number counting paper clips for Adonis. Hodges is hardly a big catch trophy bride.

But he's not been a cuckoo in the labour party nest for a number of years now though. His rejoining around the time of the leadership election wasn't actually any such thing either.

 

[nino_savatte]

Has anyone seen this? Fuck me, he's really lost the plot.

First the headline.

David Cameron is the new leader of the British Left
David Cameron is the new leader of the British Left

Now a snippet.

David Cameron has just become the leader of the British Left. Yes, there are a few hardened activists still hanging around, muttering to themselves and singing the occasional revolutionary song. But the Labour Party is now to David Cameron’s Conservative Party what George Galloway’s Respect or Dave Nellist’s Trade Union and Socialist Coalition once was to Labour. The subject of some mild curiosity. An occasional annoyance. But nothing more.

Prison reform. Ethnic minority rights. Gay rights. A national housing “crusade”. An “all out assault on poverty”. An attack on “the lowest social mobility in the developed world”. These were the main themes of the Conservative Party leader’s – I’ll repeat that, the Conservative Party leader’s – address to his annual conference.

Jean Baudrillard, thou shouldst be living at this hour!

 

[ItWillNeverWork]

Has anyone seen this? Fuck me, he's really lost the plot.

David Cameron has just become the leader of the British Left.

Nuuurse! Someone needs a lie down.

 

[Favelado]

Is Corbyn even to the left of John Smith? I don't think so.

 

[belboid]

Is Corbyn even to the left of John Smith? I don't think so.

Yes. Significantly.

 

[agricola]

Jean Baudrillard, thou shouldst be living at this hour!

Hodges would break him, indeed the effort to understand Hodgian thought will probably destroy the lives of dozens not yet born.

 

[J Ed]

For how long can Dan Hodges and Nick Cohen write the same article over and over and still get paid for it?