Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Your nan? Fuck, I feel old
Paul Embery
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Your nan? Fuck, I feel old
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Ha! I’m 37. How old are ye?
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Heartlands has multiple meanings. It can mean ideas of industrial production for example. It can mean a period where working class experience included feeling being at the centre of things
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
46. They used to play that at the youth club disco when I was at school!
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Well I suppose true but then work predates the working class by quite some time too. Without industrialisation and the selling of labour there would be no working class probably more accurate really.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Awesome! We got Saturday Night at the Christmas dances but I mind at break time we had a radio so we could listen to Here Comes the Hotstepper and Inforrrrmer!!!! ( followed by Something indecipherable) and Incredible (ft general levy)
Aye, not the same I suppose!
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
You are, of course, spot on. But, I remember reading something by him when he wrote about his experience as a kid in Dagenham and it was about a sense of a multi-ethnic community with shared interests and solidarities produced by work at the car plant. He was writing about class experience.
There is no doubt he has collapsed of late into cultural explanations. And you are right to finger him on it.
I think that’s really regrettable and sad. But, it’s undoubtedly where he seems to be declining to
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
Christmas dances?? We didn’t get them in Birmingham pal!
You should listen to the sisters of mercy version of Emma by the way. A goth classic, brilliantly overblown.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I will.
A now absent friend introduced me to urban when I was in London but I’m rural as fuck. I’m so rural I managed to be an involved member of the SSP yet missed Tommy Sheridan’s sex baths. City weirdos
Smokeandsteam
Working Class First
I will.
A now absent friend introduced me to urban when I was in London but I’m rural as fuck. I’m so rural I managed to be an involved member of the SSP yet missed Tommy Sheridan’s sex baths. City weirdos
Tommy Sheridan sex baths would drive me to the countryside as well to be honest
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
Yet it seemed to be a big attraction for dexter the silly nationalist alt right weirdo.Tommy Sheridan sex baths would drive me to the countryside as well
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
Aye? I wonder if I’ve met him.
I just mind Tommy came up and shouted a lot at a cannabis march thing here in the bught park.
When we went out on the streets to talk about freeing the school meals my friend wanted to put “Tommy Sheridan’s revolutionary school meals policy” on fliers we were printing out and me and him came to screaming blows about this, both fucked on Smirnoff at the time.
Sadly now no one will ever know what inexperienced young drunk AF women in the highlands did to chip away at the weird Sheridan worshipping within the SSP.
butchersapron
Bring back hanging
You were lucky
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I’m aware, I’ve since seen the insanity of local gov in Orkney up closer than I’d like, what a shitshow.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Think I've got to the point where I might stop following him tbh , hes just about hit a dead end.
Proper Tidy
Arsed
Sound move
Proper Tidy
Arsed
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
But what about Tenko?
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
NoooooooSound move
FridgeMagnet
Administrator
The level of understanding of a racist 15-year-old anime fan. Should be popular with his new friends.
Artaxerxes
Look out, he's got a gnu!
Of course he does because he's sitting at his computer covered in dried wank and surrounded by
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
I will.
A now absent friend introduced me to urban when I was in London but I’m rural as fuck. I’m so rural I managed to be an involved member of the SSP yet missed Tommy Sheridan’s sex baths. City weirdos
When you say you missed it?
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I missed it! Nothing to see here. I’m not sure who you are but I know you were in the SSP, don’t want to know if we’ve met tbh- I ran to the far north for a reason
Unless you are the guy that’s from Edinburgh and used freeserve music chat pre 2000 and told me “I was in the SSP and it was all Stalin Stalin Stalin” that’s not you though is it?
My rural face was in shock! I had no idea! Now we all use the Internet I know too much. I quite like- no LOVE- highland style socialism- WAGES, POVERTY, SOCIAL JUSTICE not any of that mad shit keep it simple I say.
Fedayn
Well-Known Member
I missed it! Nothing to see here. I’m not sure who you are but I know you were in the SSP, don’t want to know if we’ve met tbh- I ran to the far north for a reason
Unless you are the guy that’s from Edinburgh and used freeserve music chat pre 2000 and told me “I was in the SSP and it was all Stalin Stalin Stalin” that’s not you though is it?
My rural face was in shock! I had no idea! Now we all use the Internet I know too much. I quite like- no LOVE- highland style socialism- WAGES, POVERTY, SOCIAL JUSTICE not any of that mad shit keep it simple I say.
I was a founder member, ooooh dontcha know, for my sins. Was in Govan branch at the time and aye Sheridan was a fucking predator scumbag. The Edinburgh guy, wasn't Eddie T was it, deffo not him as sadly he passed away in 2016.
comrade spurski
Well-Known Member
Embery reminds me of Garry Bushell.
Started off pretending to be left wing and once he got the contacts was happy to be an openly self serving right winger.
Embery cares about nothing other than his own piss poor brand imo.
Started off pretending to be left wing and once he got the contacts was happy to be an openly self serving right winger.
Embery cares about nothing other than his own piss poor brand imo.
The39thStep
Urban critical thinker
Bushell became a fascist sympathiser for quite a few years, Embery isnt following that path.
comrade spurski
Well-Known Member
Probably picked the wrong person in Bushell...agree that Embery is not a fascist supporter ... meant right wing Labour in his case.
HoratioCuthbert
Deep seated inconsequence
I must have joined in 2000- 2001? At the age of 19, scary! Inverness/ highland branch. So I won’t know you- I don’t recall going south much for anything SSP related, maybe once for a meeting of erm.... memory!! I dunno it was a more hardcore Marxist thing(which I recall being out of my depth in, no change there!) whereas the more regular branch stuff wasn’t. We went to the Iraq stuff in Glasgow together I mind that. I was definitely out a couple of years before NOTW-gate. I actually just searched Steve Arnott’s name on here to refresh the memory and of course they were team Tommy weren’t they? As was Aberdein, but I think it looked different from afar, we weren’t in the thick of it. I don’t have bad memories of my time in the party or of Steve to be quite honest. Seen him defending some pricks years later though. Latterly I think at least the younger ones distanced themselves from Tommy but that took a while.
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