The 2019 General Election

[eoin_k]

How many people out there have the vaguest idea who Stalin even was? Normal people, I mean.

As it happens, I asked a group of millenials if anyone could identify the decapitated statue in this image recently. Nobody had a clue who it was, even when I mentioned that it had been taken in Budapest in 1956.

 

[brogdale]

Quite something to see the vermin's campaign reduced to claiming that they're not all cunts like Rees Mogg.

 

[not-bono-ever]

I don’t know why they have assigned cleverly the role of fronting their fuck ups - he is a charmless unimaginative wanker - he’s a patsy and doesn’t realise he is being made to look like a twat on a daily basis

 

[rekil]

I for one have never doubted comrade Burley's commitment to the cause of intergalactic communism.

 

[Teaboy]

I don’t know why they have assigned cleverly the role of fronting their fuck ups - he is a charmless unimaginative wanker - he’s a patsy and doesn’t realise he is being made to look like a twat on a daily basis

I was wondering that as well. He's been sent around to do all the leg work at the moment, I know he's the chairman and all but what are the ministers up to? Of course if you were being very cynical you may consider there to be one reason why he is going to be a very public figure of this campaign...

 

[inva]

As it happens, I asked a group of millenials if anyone could identify the decapitated statue in this image recently. Nobody had a clue who it was, even when I mentioned that it had been taken in Budapest in 1956.

I would've thought mentioning Budapest 56 would only make it less easy to identify.

 

[Badgers]

Mr James Cleverly

 

[not-bono-ever]

TA officer bully

 

[SpookyFrank]

Mr James Cleverly

JFC = Totally Spineless Chicken

Um, yeah OK.

 

[Yossarian]

Interesting line of attack Johnson has chosen - are there any examples from history of a charismatic right-wing nationalist leader vowing to defeat a Stalin figure?

 

[eoin_k]

I would've thought mentioning Budapest 56 would only make it less easy to identify.

Are you basing this on your own blindspots or awareness of those common to social memory today?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

How many people out there have the vaguest idea who Stalin even was? Normal people, I mean.

Easy, he's the bloke in the memes. The one with the moustache and no beard, not the one with the beard.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

As it happens, I asked a group of millenials if anyone could identify the decapitated statue in this image recently. Nobody had a clue who it was, even when I mentioned that it had been taken in Budapest in 1956.

I can see how the Stalin references might resonate with a segment of the electorate. But these are likely to be Tory voters in the main, although also possibly older working class voters who remember the constructed crises of the 1970's. But it's a bizarre line to open up a campaign with and, as with the IRA stuff, unlikely to connect with much outside he tory base. Odd.

 

[danny la rouge]

I can see how the Stalin references might resonate with a segment of the electorate. But these are likely to be Tory voters in the main, although also possibly older working class voters who remember the constructed crises of the 1970's. But it's a bizarre line to open up a campaign with and, as with the IRA stuff, unlikely to connect with much outside he tory base. Odd.

Maybe they’re worried about the Tory base?

 

[inva]

Are you basing this on your own blindspots or awareness of those common to social memory today?

Both I think.

 

[ska invita]

State of Hunger

....not seen since Stalin collectivised the land of the kulaks

How many people out there have the vaguest idea who Stalin even was? Normal people, I mean.

I think rich Tory readers probably continue to have an inkling of the spectre, for reasons of self interest

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Maybe they’re worried about the Tory base?

Leaking to the BP? Definitely. Voting for Corbyn? Nah.

 

[DotCommunist]

its not all that long since they wheeled out the Stalin docus on the beeb, round the time of the revolution's centenary. Thats not much compared to the glut of docus on royalty, war and the victorians

 

[Pickman's model]

Listening to one of the cunts on 5 Live using words like 'satirical' and 'how social media works' regards this. Also saying they have 'nothing to hide' about this

if they have nothing to hide they have nothing to fear

 

[Pickman's model]

I don’t know why they have assigned cleverly the role of fronting their fuck ups - he is a charmless unimaginative wanker - he’s a patsy and doesn’t realise he is being made to look like a twat on a daily basis

because on his application form he said he approached difficult situations cleverly

 

[Smokeandsteam]

its not all that long since they wheeled out the Stalin docus on the beeb, round the time of the revolution's centenary. Thats not much compared to the glut of docus on royalty, war and the victorians

Did they? I must have missed that. The only upsurge in interest in Stalin I've noted is on the fringes of the middle class hobbyist left. Who. let's face it, talk only to themselves.

 

[Yossarian]

As it happens, I asked a group of millenials if anyone could identify the decapitated statue in this image recently. Nobody had a clue who it was, even when I mentioned that it had been taken in Budapest in 1956.

Ask them who they think this person is.

 

[killer b]

Leaking to the BP? Definitely. Voting for Corbyn? Nah.

A good part of their strategy will surely be about preventing a split vote: if you can scare the base with the spectre of Corbyn, then they're more likely to not risk voting BP.

 

[danny la rouge]

Leaking to the BP? Definitely. Voting for Corbyn? Nah.

Yes, precisely. They are trying to say voting BP risks a Corbyn government.

 

[Pickman's model]

Ask them who they think this person is.

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isn't he out of a boy band and on strictly a couple of years ago?

 

[Supine]

The only upsurge in interest in Stalin I've noted is on the fringes of the middle class hobbyist left. Who. let's face it, talk only to themselves.

Urban75 politics forum?

 

[Yossarian]

isn't he out of a boy band and on strictly a couple of years ago?

He was part of a male-dominated band of revolutionaries and he was certainly strict, so I'm going to give you half a point there.

 

[killer b]

99% of the Stalin stuff on the middle class hobbyist left is comedy meme stuff, all as a response to idiotic attacks like Johnson's today.

 

[Smokeandsteam]

Yes, precisely. They are trying to say voting BP risks a Corbyn government.

This is the only logical conclusion, but it remains a bizarre start to their campaign.

 

[strung out]

isn't he out of a boy band and on strictly a couple of years ago?

Zayn Malik I think