London Student protests - Wed 8th Dec+ Thurs 9th

[frogwoman]

Ha I can't believe that moon has got me defending the SWP Seriously though - didn't know that audiotech. Fair play

 

[frogwoman]

I think that happens to some teenage Swappies too, mind.

And look at Mandelson. He was supposedly a member of the YC for a few minutes, wasn't he?

hey, moon was also an anarchist, before you start feeling to smug

 

[Blagsta]

hey, moon was also an anarchist, before you start feeling to smug

No he wasn't. He's always been a liberal.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I'm not Tory supporting though, I've just been delivering a Tory attack leaflet and the local party is in a coalition with Labour on the Council.

But you are. It's the very essence of the coalition you're bending over backwards to defend. Remember it's what you had to do because the 'country' would not have forgiven you otherwise.

Louis MacNeice

 

[frogwoman]

No he wasn't. He's always been a liberal.

Ah OK, I thought he had claimed to be though?

 

[butchersapron]

All of this happened because you supported it moon.

 

[audiotech]

If Clegg can tell a barefaced lie, then no surprise to see one of his minions doing the same.

 

[Blagsta]

Ah OK, I thought he had claimed to be though?

He did claim to be - he wasn't though. He was (still is) a radical liberal.

 

[frogwoman]

Isnt that most anarchists though

 

[Blagsta]

Isnt that most anarchists though

shut it, trot

Remember Kronstadt!

 

[frogwoman]

after so many years on this board not sure how i could forget it !

 

[ViolentPanda]

Those SWP petitions I took around to many Labour party constituency meetings and the posters fly-posted against the witch-hunt of Militant is what happened. You're spouting tosh.

Yep, the Swappies made a fuss when Taaffe and the rest of the editorial board of the Militant were expelled from the Labour party, too.

 

[ViolentPanda]

hey, moon was also an anarchist, before you start feeling to smug

Buying a Crass CD and not washing for a year doesn't make someone an anarchist. Someone should tell moon that.

 

[frogwoman]

goes a long way though

 

[ViolentPanda]

goes a long way though

Bloody Trots!!

 

[frogwoman]

you just can't handle the truth
*puts on tinfoil hat*

 

[ViolentPanda]

He did claim to be - he wasn't though. He was (still is) a radical liberal.

So, pretty much what could be classed as a neo-liberal, then?

 

[cantsin]

They were complaining about Militant splitting from the Labour party, at the time I didn't even know the history and that the Socialist Party had formed form Militant.

why would the SWP complain "about Militant splitting from the Labour party" ? can you explain that, as it makes precisely zero sense ?

 

[DotCommunist]

shut it, trot

Remember Kronstadt!

there was a bloody war on.

 

[frogwoman]

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[TopCat]

I'm not Tory supporting though, I've just been delivering a Tory attack leaflet and the local party is in a coalition with Labour on the Council.

Oh please.. Tory attack leaflet indeed....

 

[butchersapron]

What did you attack the tories for moon?

 

[TopCat]

virtually everything you've posted here could just as easily come from a tory; you've defended a tory-led coalition to the point of imbecility: you are totally a status quo-lover...in what way are you NOT the very essence of a modern 'enlightened' tory?

With this simple statement does the earth get piled upon the grave of moon23's analysis. © Bullies and dick waving bastards.

 

[audiotech]

Seriously though - didn't know that audiotech. Fair play

Seriously from me too, the one thing that stands out in my memory from that time are the Militant supporters I approached refusing to sign the petition.

 

[frogwoman]

heh i knew this unity would be short lived

i have no idea about that (genuinely) as i was only born in 1988 !!

 

[belboid]

I remember trying to get Labourites to sign that petition too. The right-wingers pointed out that they hadn't interfered with half the SWP York branch being expelled, so we should bugger off. The Millies (ever so politely) asked whether we thought anyone in the Labour Party would give a flying fuck what the SWP said.

 

[dennisr]

The Millies (ever so politely) asked whether we thought anyone in the Labour Party would give a flying fuck what the SWP said.

Yep, that was the general view - "erm... yep... thanks, but why are you bothering?".

Anyway back to the students protest...

 

[moon23]

Buying a Crass CD and not washing for a year doesn't make someone an anarchist. Someone should tell moon that.

No true, you have to also be middle class, sign-on and go around eating out of skips.

 

[moon23]

why would the SWP complain "about Militant splitting from the Labour party" ? can you explain that, as it makes precisely zero sense ?

I don't bloody know, that's what this bunch of people were going on about. Maybe they were winding me up or something.

 

[moon23]

What did you attack the tories for moon?

The Local Lib/Lab coalition has been running a consultation on where cuts need to be made. The Tories said it was a waste of time, and one actually said the electorate don't know best. So we did a nice attack leaflet condeming the Tories for wanting to ignore the views of local people.