Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[Idris2002]

Lol...this just doesn't add up for me...

"Hippy will tell you what the real crime is."

 

[DotCommunist]

It doesn't get you bad english grades, but being detrimental to the skill of mathematics I find convincing because I've been part of a group of stoners failing to work out who owes what towards the shop run.

and also because I have very poor grasp of maths that goes above arithmetic or geometry.

 

[Casually Red]

a fruit bowl full of produce a prole like me doesn't recognise.

Thick scum

 

[smokedout]

surprised no-one has posted this yet: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/seach-for-21st-century-socialists-zoe-williams

Rosie Rogers, 28, and I are sitting in a tipi outside her office in Highbury, London. (She works for [URL='http://www.greenpeace.org.uk/']Greenpeace

as a political adviser – of course they have a tipi.) I’m on a quest to find the British left

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We’re probably what the labour movement was like a long time ago, but this time it’s participatory, it’s consensus-based, it’s dynamic, it’s fun and it’s got baby change and fuck loads of hummus.

it made me want to cry

 

[JTG]

surprised no-one has posted this yet: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/seach-for-21st-century-socialists-zoe-williams





it made me want to cry

Christ

 

[gosub]

Well I think she is 100% right in saying the original labour movement didn't have tepees humus or baby changing facilities

 

[Casually Red]

Is a tipi a teepee that red Indians used to live in but spelled deliberately poncified to momentarily confuse thick scum like me ?

Why?....in gods name... are they in one ?

 

[JTG]

Is a tipi a teepee that red Indians used to live in but spelled deliberately poncified to momentarily confuse thick scum like me ?

Why?....in gods name... are they in one ?

Because they're fucking idiots

 

[Casually Red]

In a fucking teepee in the middle of a capital city ...munching fucking hummus

 

[JTG]

In these movements, we all shag each other, we all hang out. The only time I see my 12 closest friends is at meetings.

Translation: we're an incestuous clique who don't have any real life experience and can't relate to anybody normal

he difference between right and left politics, this division is no longer useful. The only thing it achieves is division and confrontation. It’s used by politicians to manipulate people. It’s based on ideologies that have very little to do with the reality that people live in.

Vapid bollocks

 

[Nylock]

surprised no-one has posted this yet: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/seach-for-21st-century-socialists-zoe-williams





it made me want to cry

Fuck me....

 

[tufty79]

it made me want to cry

It made me incredibly thankful that my browser, for reasons known only to itself, crashes whenever it encounters the guardian - at best it'll get me to halfway through an article before crumbling in despair.

 

[belboid]

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/apr/13/troll-pickup-artist-online-internet

How Sam Wollaston trolled a scummy pickup artist. Except he doesnt try and troll him at all, he sends one, single, tweet, in which he says, incredibly politely, that he doesn't like the 'artist'

 

[tbtommyb]

surprised no-one has posted this yet: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/seach-for-21st-century-socialists-zoe-williams

it made me want to cry

I was going to post a thread on it but just couldn't bring myself to do so. Zoe Williams lurches between good writing and terrible lifestyle stuff - this is the later.

It presented these people as being activists as a lifestyle choice and didn't even bother to get into any of their reasons for joining the various protests.

 

[Louis MacNeice]

I was going to post a thread on it but just couldn't bring myself to do so. Zoe Williams lurches between good writing and terrible lifestyle stuff - this is the later.

It presented these people as being activists as a lifestyle choice and didn't even bother to get into any of their reasons for joining the various protests.

How about this then: http://www.theguardian.com/lifeands...-side-are-you-on-seven-protest-need-your-help? It appeared alongside bee keeping, homebrewing and trapeeze fitness.

Cheers - Louis MacNeice

 

[redsquirrel]

Run up to the election and the Guardian are falling in with their heroes the LDs again
http://www.theguardian.com/commenti...n-lib-dem-ukip-manifestos-world-of-difference

 

[treelover]

surprised no-one has posted this yet: http://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/apr/10/seach-for-21st-century-socialists-zoe-williams





it made me want to cry

WTF, what is Zoe playing at, is there any mention of Unite Community, for instance, who are doing sterling work, no hipsters*, just working slowly and methodically on basic bread and butter issues.

*having said that there have always been 'hip' people involved in radical movements.

 

[treelover]

UK Uncut, which has a network of 80,000 people, opposes corporate tax avoidance and austerity measures, in whatever way they think will work.

has it, sadly its seems to have largely disappeared.

 

[treelover]

Now I have read the article, its much better that I first thought, she is saying what is obvious, there are tens of thousands, maybe many many more who identify as left, there just aren't any viable mass projects to cohere around. Though the left she seems to wants into existence might not be the type many on here would desire. I went to a Festival Of Debate meeting here about local democracy, there were loads of people there, mostly under 25, all the sessions have been as packed, so there is an interest in progressive politics and social justice, even maybe socialism, just not the vehicles.

Oh, and one revealing thing, the SWP are nowhere to be seen in the article.

 

[treelover]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...o-rebrand-them-say-iain-duncan-smith#comments

Some thing a bit more serious, the Guardian has published an opinion piece by Duncan Smith(very quiet in the election) on 'rebranding zero hour contracts', wtf, if I bought the G I would cancel it, they have form with allowing that scum print space.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

You've linked, not to an opinion piece by IDS, but to a straightforward report detailing what he said. Did you link to the wrong thing, or do you just misunderstand newspapers and reporting?

 

[Orang Utan]

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/...o-rebrand-them-say-iain-duncan-smith#comments

Some thing a bit more serious, the Guardian has published an opinion piece by Duncan Smith(very quiet in the election) on 'rebranding zero hour contracts', wtf, if I bought the G I would cancel it, they have form with allowing that scum print space.

No they haven't they are reporting what he said on the telly.

 

[butchersapron]

You've linked, not to an opinion piece by IDS, but to a straightforward report detailing what he said. Did you link to the wrong thing, or do you just misunderstand newspapers and reporting?

You make me sick. I'd take concerned stupidity over sneering whatever it is that you are any day.

 

[Maurice Picarda]

You make me sick.

Delighted to hear it. I hope it's debilitating; I only wish it could be fatal.

 

[Pickman's model]

It doesn't get you bad english grades, but being detrimental to the skill of mathematics I find convincing because I've been part of a group of stoners failing to work out who owes what towards the shop run.

and also because I have very poor grasp of maths that goes above arithmetic or geometry.

if you've ever gone to the bar to order drinks for five people, each of whom have given you some money and all of whom want some change you'll soon find out just how complicated arithmetick can be. no wonder people buy rounds: it might be more expensive but it's fucking simpler.

 

[butchersapron]

Delighted to hear it. I hope it's debilitating; I only wish it could be fatal.

Look everyone, a ;


Style.

 

[Pickman's model]

Delighted to hear it. I hope it's debilitating; I only wish it could be fatal.

you're the sort of person whose insides ought to decorate the pavement.

 

[butchersapron]

Delighted to hear it. I hope it's debilitating; I only wish it could be fatal.

The gay plague.

 

[rekil]

Politicians deserve a better electorate

"If voters wake up on 8 May furious with the election result, they only have themselves to blame"

Millions are wonderful, of course, they watch those arid TV debates and (it is reported) look up “austerity” on Wikipedia. They follow events and, rain or shine, they will vote, especially the old. Hey kids, have you ever wondered why you have tuition fees and we have free bus passes?

But millions more, not just the poor and demoralised, will forget, shrug or even boast “I never vote” before turning back to something that seems more important: football, golf, Spotify, Britain’s Got Talent. They don’t bother to engage, let alone to make the connections between what happens to them and the difficult policy choices that bring it about, good or bad.

He's getting paid for this.

 

[DotCommunist]

that pompous cunt michael shite. In full moany mode