Rochester & Strood by-election

[belboid]

Do fuck off.

Tedious

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's both the same person

No it isn't. Harry H was the "and Son" in "Steptoe & Son", and didn't assault dog and bear puppets rectally.

 

[ViolentPanda]

double post

 

[ViolentPanda]

I'm going to put some superglue in the locks of a shop on a short-term let.

If only the KPD had though of that.

Pah. The KPD were more interested in workers' education and other bourgeois pursuits. They would never have gone for something as revolutionary as gluing up locks, and as for the SPD, they'd have run home crying at the thought of something so violently anti-fascist!

 

[ViolentPanda]

It's so funny you think I'm a trot lol

TBF, it is quite funny that he thinks you're a Trot, but not "so" funny as to be...you know...side-splittingly hilarious.

 

[ViolentPanda]

Michael Fallon uses the 'S' word:
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/oct/26/british-towns-swamped-immigrants-michael-fallon-eu

I listened to what he had to say on the radio 4 news yesterday. Came across as real "Spirit of '79" bullshit, trying to play the same card Thatcher did to try and deprive the non-Tory right of electoral credibility. They're getting desperate, playing it this early, though.

 

[treelover]

Pah. The KPD were more interested in workers' education and other bourgeois pursuits. They would never have gone for something as revolutionary as gluing up locks, and as for the SPD, they'd have run home crying at the thought of something so violently anti-fascist!

Eh, what about the 'Battle of Coburg?, I'm also reading(first book for a while), 'Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance' its not a very good book, but it does detail the physical battles the KPD youths had from the 1920's on with the Brownshirts, as well as their intellectual responses..

 

[ViolentPanda]

Eh, what about the 'Battle of Coburg?, I'm also reading(first book for a while), 'Berlin Ghetto: Herbert Baum and the Anti-Fascist Resistance' its not a very good book, but it does detail the physical battles the KPD youths had from the 1920's on with the Brownshirts, as well as their intellectual responses..

Your irony detector appears to be malfunctioning again. My post is a pisstake of DrRingDing, making a sarcastic comparison between the idea of supergluing locks or similar ephemeral "criminal damage" type actions as revolutionary action to what real revolutionaries did.

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

No it isn't. Harry H was the "and Son" in "Steptoe & Son", and didn't assault dog and bear puppets rectally.

No it's the same person, check the Wikipedia article.

 

[Margaret smith]

Writ likely to be issued within next couple of days and November 6th is favourite. Time for it's own thread.

The tories have decided upon their two candidates for the open primary, and the candidate to contest Reckless will be announced on Oct 23rd.

I Would urge people who care about Social justice and hate bigotry and ignorence to Vote .Help, Donate, Tweet .Follow on twitter
www.peoplebeforeprofit.org.uk candidate Nick Long. a live long Union and housing activist he and his party are strong in South London getting shed loads of votes in Lewisham, in Ireland they have MPs and Councillors, Its a small party growing, but we must get people of the sofa to challenge the right wing agenda and end the Secterianism of the left. Please Do what you can to support these amazing activists anmd if you live and can vote in this election.. Please VOTE People Before Profit..

 

[Margaret smith]

local people for local...mmm, hang on a mo...

Check out www.peoplebeforeprofit.org.uk and facebook page.. they are worth every vote and every £1 we can give them.

 

[Margaret smith]

UKIP plus Labour...looks like an uphill struggle for the Tories.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

Check out www.peoplebeforeprofit.org.uk doing amazing stuff also great facebook page . Lov candidate NICK LONG @nichopbp

 

[brogdale]

The BF march in Rochester yesterday.

BF candidate (& deputy leader) Jayda Fransen bottom right with mic.

..... Jayda Fransen..... praised Mr Reckless's defection saying her party and Ukip had “almost everything” in common and were “almost identical in policies”.

Tories have gotta be happy with that.

 

[butchersapron]

New survation poll - looks to me like the labour tactical vote is doing exactly what i suggested they would:

UKIP 48%(+8)
CON 33%(+2)
LAB 16%(-9)
GRN 2%.
LDEM 1%(-1)

 

[chilango]

LibDems 1%.

1%????

New survation poll - looks to me like the labour tactical vote is doing exactly what i suggested they would:

UKIP 48%(+8)
CON 33%(+2)
LAB 16%(-9)
GRN 2%.
LDEM 1%(-1)

 

[brogdale]

LibDems 1%.

1%????

The tables show that's been rounded up.

 

[Quartz]

The tables show that's been rounded up.

Oh dear. Expect a merger call from the Monster Raving Loony Party immediately after the by-election.

 

[Celyn]

Harry H or the bloke who liked to stick his hand up the arses of bears?

Now if only you'd said "arm" instead of "hand", I would have been tempted to make a convoluted joke about the US. Second Amendment. But you didn't, so I wouldn't dream of doing so. Of course not.

(fetching coat right now)

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

The tables show that's been rounded up.

Let's not forget the real result of this by election that matters will be how low can they go?

Are we taking bets on triple digit figures for the Libs?

 

[Celyn]

Oh dear. Expect a merger call from the Monster Raving Loony Party immediately after the by-election.

Nah, they would do things like let us vote at 18, allow pubs to open all day - really mad shit like that.

 

[brogdale]

Latest (Ashcroft) polling for the by-election...

The detail of the Ashcroft Rochester poll are jjust out and feature in the chart above. The 12% UKIP lead is very much in line with other recent Rochester polling from Survation and ComRes and unless there’s a sharp turnaround in the the next week Mark Reckless looks to set return to Westminster.

1. 
   But there’s a huge sting in the tale for Reckless. The sample was also asked how they’s vote in next May’s general election and CON has a 1% lead.

That is small and there’s a long way to go but there’s a very strong message there.

Just 72% of those in the sample who said UKIP for the by-election plan to retain their allegiance for the general election – a finding that Tory planners will find very encouraging. Many voters do approach general elections in a very different manner to a by-election and this suggests that you cannot draw too many conclusions from the results.

The other factor that will boost Tory morale is that the possibility that Reckless will be out next May will be a huge disincentive for other defectors. It also suggests that some of the high UKIP poll ratings that we are seeing might not carry over to the general election itself.

 

[brogdale]

It's Liddle...I know... but he can paint a picture of the hustings...

The best, by a million miles, was Labour’s Naushabah Khan – unruffled, articulate, competent. Mark Reckless – Ukip’s lauded defectee – was disingenuous and evasive and possessed of all of the charisma and warmth of a caravan site on the Isle of Sheppey in late February. But at least he made sense when he spoke.

The Tory candidate, Kelly Tollhurst, was utterly useless on a rather epic level, unable to string a single sentence together. The Lib Dem bloke look like he’d been constructed out of flour and water by a class of remedial six year olds and made no sense at all.

 

[brogdale]

Dave's desperately asking the burghers of Rochester to vote tactically...

I would say to people who have previously voted Labour, Liberal, Green or anything, that if you want a strong local candidate and don’t want some Ukip boost and all the uncertainty and instability that leads to, then Kelly is the choice ...

There is a real opportunity for people of different political parties to unite behind the local candidate and to say to the MP ‘we don’t like the way you behave; we don’t like this sort of politics we want to vote for the person who stands up for the area’.

FS

 

[Spanky Longhorn]

It's Liddle...I know... but he can paint a picture of the hustings...

Khan is the perfect middle class apolitical Labour candidate, not surprised he liked her, not sure she is right for Rochester and Strood though

 

[brogdale]

Khan is the perfect middle class apolitical Labour candidate, not surprised he liked her, not sure she is right for Rochester and Strood though

Hustings here...starts at about 4.00.

As Liddle said...

Christ help us, what a shower.

 

[brogdale]

After leafleting the leafy area around Restoration House, where King Charles II stayed on the eve of the restoration of the monarchy in 1660, one Tory MP reflected on the rebellion of 2014, which is centred across the River Medway in the more deprived Strood area of the constituency.

The MP said: “Rochester is only one part of the constituency. There is Strood which is the Benefits Street of the south east. They are really angry over there. They are ready to punish us.”
http://www.theguardian.com/politics...r-byelection-gets-personal-ukip-versus-tories

Lower than vermin.

 

[redsquirrel]

Yeah I saw that earlier today, not really a vote winner you'd think

 

[Pickman's model]

No it's the same person, check the Wikipedia article.

what's your wiki username?

 

[Dexter Deadwood]

Let's not forget the real result of this by election that matters will be how low can they go?

Are we taking bets on triple digit figures for the Libs?

How low can this "democracy" sink will be the only result.
This is a sick country, full of sick people voting for sick politicians that puke poison in parliament in the name of the people.

 

[J Ed]

Lower than vermin.

It must be very difficult to keep this sort of bigotry to yourself.