Mad Paul Mason

[elbows]

I read somewhere there are around 100 seats with no candidate.

100-110, with some of those decided but not publicly announced yet. Maybe around 80 left when those are taken into consideration. And it sounds like the undecided ones are mostly in seats that arent considered battlegrounds.

Revealed: Member anger as around 100 Labour candidates still not unveiled - LabourList

Labour has approximately 100 general election candidates left to publicly announce, LabourList can reveal, despite the party twice…

labourlist.org

 

[nino_savatte]

Hey, lefties! Vote Labour or the cat gets it.

First, that there is no route to power for a progressive party in the UK without winning substantial numbers of working-class voters from a group pollsters describe as the ‘patriotic left’ – aka the Red Wall. Second, that growth strategies based on borrowing, taxing and spending are currently precluded by the mixture of high bond yields and high inflation, triggered by the Covid pandemic and the Russia-Ukraine war.

When we launched Starmer’s leadership campaign in January 2020, we knew Labour would need to prioritise winning back the Red Wall through a policy mix combining economic radicalism and with mainstream positions on crime, migration and defence.

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/keir-starmer-left-wing-case-paul-mason-labour-party-general-election/?utm_source=Newsletter%3A%20oD%20daily&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=The%20case%20for%20Keir%20%F0%9F%97%B3%EF%B8%8F&_kx=7HYnGgGyt63dcn1NvocVrx5AtIul2LbvDrCbvfUgBho.YjCYwm

My bold. "Mainstream?"

 

[hitmouse]

Hey, lefties! Vote Labour or the cat gets it.

My bold. "Mainstream?"

Fuck me, the man can't keep a consistent position for two sentences in a row. "[G]rowth strategies based on borrowing, taxing and spending are currently precluded... Labour would need to prioritise... economic radicalism." Is he in favour of the kind of economic radicalism that doesn't involve spending any money on anything, then?

 

[JimW]

Fuck me, the man can't keep a consistent position for two sentences in a row. "[G]rowth strategies based on borrowing, taxing and spending are currently precluded... Labour would need to prioritise... economic radicalism." Is he in favour of the kind of economic radicalism that doesn't involve spending any money on anything, then?

Expropriating the top hundred enterprises and all landlords.

 

[nino_savatte]

Fuck me, the man can't keep a consistent position for two sentences in a row. "[G]rowth strategies based on borrowing, taxing and spending are currently precluded... Labour would need to prioritise... economic radicalism." Is he in favour of the kind of economic radicalism that doesn't involve spending any money on anything, then?

I see no radicalism; merely more of the same neoliberal economic dogma.

 

[ska invita]

Fuck me, the man can't keep a consistent position for two sentences in a row. "[G]rowth strategies based on borrowing, taxing and spending are currently precluded... Labour would need to prioritise... economic radicalism." Is he in favour of the kind of economic radicalism that doesn't involve spending any money on anything, then?

" Radical Dialectic Progressive Realism

 

[The39thStep]

Hey, lefties! Vote Labour or the cat gets it.

My bold. "Mainstream?"

When ‘we’ ….

 

[The39thStep]

Understanding scabbing from a Marxist perspective

 

[lazythursday]

Understanding scabbing from a Marxist perspective

So embarrassing. He hasn't even got the excuse of towing the line to get a seat now. Doubling down, for what purpose? Been promised / hoping for some sort of role in new government?

 

[DaveCinzano]

So embarrassing. He hasn't even got the excuse of towing the line to get a seat now. Doubling down, for what purpose? Been promised / hoping for some sort of role in new government?

His own arms-length policy unit (Think Silo? Ideas Incubator? People's Laboratory?), and playing dress-up as a sort of Dominic Cummings figure, only nobody gives him their real telephone number

 

[hitmouse]

Very big of him to pitch in with the effort despite being snubbed like that.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Yes Paul.

 

[redsquirrel]

The bloke is just out there. Even the Labour right must try to back away from him - sorry X, you've drawn the short straw, you're door knocking with mad Paul

 

[hitmouse]

Technocratic government is back baby. It's good again. Awoouu (wolf Howl)

 

[The39thStep]

Understanding the slaughter in Gaza from a Marxist perspective

 

[bris]

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He always reminds me of the late great Mark Stewart.

 

[ska invita]

Feel the progressive progress

 

[Larry O'Hara]

Understanding the slaughter in Gaza from a Marxist perspective
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He is one sad fuck: almost deserves pity. But not quite…

 

[Knotted]

Understanding the slaughter in Gaza from a Marxist perspective
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Ignoring the dreadful politics... I'm trying to work out what this actually means in practice. How am I supposed to stand shoulder to shoulder with Biden? What does this entail?

 

[emanymton]

Ignoring the dreadful politics... I'm trying to work out what this actually means in practice. How am I supposed to stand shoulder to shoulder with Biden? What does this entail?

I think it involves posting the "right things" on Twitter.

 

[The39thStep]

Blimey !

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Blimey !

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Finally lost it completely.

 

[emanymton]

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Finally lost it completely.

Finally?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

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Finally?

Totally?

 

[two sheds]

Which foreign powers funding the far right is he referring to here? Anyone have a guess?

 

[emanymton]

Which foreign powers funding the far right is he referring to here? Anyone have a guess?

Obviously Russia, and he may not completely wrong about that. What's nuts is the idea that anyone can turn these things on and off at will.

 

[Fozzie Bear]

Cunning destabilisation by the Faroe Islanders.

 

[Plumdaff]

Blimey !

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It was Vanuatu Independence Day yesterday

 

[hitmouse]

Bloody foreigners, coming over here, manipulating our racists. Whatever happened to good old-fashioned British manipulation for British racists, eh?

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Remember when he used to present those reports from the left surge in Greece for Channel 4?

Remember when he was the economics editor for Newsnight?

Remember when he wrote books like ‘Live Working or Die Fighting’?

What a weird and sad journey he’s been on….and he still didn’t get a seat.