Mr.Bishie
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Giving far too much away..
Jeremy Corbyn's time is up
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Giving far too much away..
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Mr.Bishie
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oryx
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A bit off original thread topic, but re James Meek, his piece on social housing is excellent.
LRB · James Meek · Where will we live?: The Housing Disaster
timeforanother
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Yes to spuds and beans, but our food had been shit due to rationing that lasted well past the 2nd big punch up, and early industrialisation. Just as well we didn't go as nasty as the american big portions of rubbish.
Who decided that spam fritters and plastic custard were fit to feed to children? Hospital food is as bad unless you take the Halal menu (the Kosher stuff was horrid).
Who decided that spam fritters and plastic custard were fit to feed to children? Hospital food is as bad unless you take the Halal menu (the Kosher stuff was horrid).
J Ed
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These vacillating comfortable liberals like Owen Jones and Laurie Penny are even worse than the people who have the balls to at least stab Corbyn in the back and let their corporate brand take the hit. Let everyone know that you are abandoning your years worth of principles/personal brand positioning
Mr.Bishie
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They wouldn't back death squads. They'd be the first to hide under their kitchen tables.
Pathetic over priv'd cunts that they both are.
timeforanother
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I'd like to think some of them would come back to the fold instead, with a proper glint in their eyes.
J Ed
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They would definitely tweet agonised support for the leftist-murdering death squads.
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Mr.Bishie
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Me & VP would hunt them down & exterminate with extreme prejudice.
Mr.Bishie
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they'd have to get me out first
You're not worth wasting lead.
Wilf
Slouching towards Billingham
To be honest, this makes it much more likely that I'll scream at a beloved children's author. I'm hoping it's JK Rowling - might look a fucking idiot hurling abuse at Enid Blyton's grave.
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What would Badgers do?
Mr.Bishie
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timeforanother
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But Harry (or at least Mr Ratcliffe) came out for Jez.
Mr.Bishie
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I'm sure the right wing press are getting stuck into the young wizard as I type. How dare he cast anti-austerity spells.
Wilf
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I suspect this post goes on some Embarrassing Confessions thread, so allow me a run up:
having never read a jk rowling book I heard she had good reviews for a murder mystery novel she wrote under a pen name. Anyway, I came across The Casual Vacancy in a charity shop and thought that must be it.
About 3 pages in I could tell it was fucking awful - the writing and the attitudes - but for some perverse reasons carried on with it. It's about - and yes these are fucking SPOILERS, I don't care, I'm saving you from a fate worse than death - a vacancy on a parish council, which gets fought over by traditional bigoted conservatives and ENLIGHTENED LIBERALS. Essentially, it's a battle between grubby people in trade and a band of solicitors, doctors and fellow travellers. At the heart of it are the conservatives wanting to sell off some land which will cut the village off from a working class estate. On the face of it, the author is on the side of the liberals and wants the estate to still be part of the village.
The reason I'm giving you this rubbish book review is that Rowling employs every cliché when referring to the council estate - a dangerous place, sofas in gardens, peeling paint, pissed up parents, babies and needles.... the whole fucking lot. It's horrible - Rowling is fucking horrible. In fact it almost inspired me to do a thread on anti-working class novelists. Ian Rankin, who can actually write, would have been on there. When he has Rebus going into the schemes it's not just anti-polis stuff, but the idea of alien places. Stephen King, somebody who I imagine is a democrat and probably still sees himself as part of the anti-Vietnam generation manages it as well. Plenty of others.
having never read a jk rowling book I heard she had good reviews for a murder mystery novel she wrote under a pen name. Anyway, I came across The Casual Vacancy in a charity shop and thought that must be it.
About 3 pages in I could tell it was fucking awful - the writing and the attitudes - but for some perverse reasons carried on with it. It's about - and yes these are fucking SPOILERS, I don't care, I'm saving you from a fate worse than death - a vacancy on a parish council, which gets fought over by traditional bigoted conservatives and ENLIGHTENED LIBERALS. Essentially, it's a battle between grubby people in trade and a band of solicitors, doctors and fellow travellers. At the heart of it are the conservatives wanting to sell off some land which will cut the village off from a working class estate. On the face of it, the author is on the side of the liberals and wants the estate to still be part of the village.The reason I'm giving you this rubbish book review is that Rowling employs every cliché when referring to the council estate - a dangerous place, sofas in gardens, peeling paint, pissed up parents, babies and needles.... the whole fucking lot. It's horrible - Rowling is fucking horrible. In fact it almost inspired me to do a thread on anti-working class novelists. Ian Rankin, who can actually write, would have been on there. When he has Rebus going into the schemes it's not just anti-polis stuff, but the idea of alien places. Stephen King, somebody who I imagine is a democrat and probably still sees himself as part of the anti-Vietnam generation manages it as well. Plenty of others.
timeforanother
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I'm surprised there hasn't been a red wedge type thing yet, with a bit more enthusiasm that they aren't just being against. Maybe we'll see that before the GE.
timeforanother
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My excuse was I started reading the potter books to my young kids before it got huge. People feel the same way about Enid Blighton, and she was far worse.
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