Why the Guardian is going down the pan!

[billy_bob]

This week's 'new low'. Like anything other than sitting alone with the heating off grimly downing one cheap vodka after another is going to be appropriate this time.

Crisps, cheese and curaçao: how to have a fantastic election night party

 

[Proper Tidy]

This week's 'new low'. Like anything other than sitting alone with the heating off grimly downing one cheap vodka after another is going to be appropriate this time.

Crisps, cheese and curaçao: how to have a fantastic election night party

The whole concept of an election night party is very middle class high blairite four holidays a year but I have so many direct debits to charities isn't it

 

[billy_bob]

The whole concept of an election night party is very middle class high blairite four holidays a year but I have so many direct debits to charities isn't it

I mean, making regionally appropriate finger foods and buying hilarious amuse bouches in party colours? If you've got that much time on your hands, get the fuck out and give people lifts to polling stations, you pointless arse.

 

[Serge Forward]

How to eat: a crisp sandwich
How to eat: a crisp sandwich

 

[DotCommunist]

How to eat: a crisp sandwich
How to eat: a crisp sandwich

I had to skim a lot of waffle to get to something I can agree with

surely we can all agree that “fluffy” crisps – Monster Munch, Skips, spicy Nik Naks, Quavers, Chipsticks, generic cheesy balls – have no role to play in a crisp sandwich?

Anything thats a 'corn puff' or similar is out. No space raiders, no wotsits, no quavers.

but as always the groan ruins it somehow

never use ready-salted crisps. Too parsimonious. There isn’t a war on. Yet.

fuck off, my word is oak:

ham sandwich with english mustard and walkers ready salted is about the best

 

[Raheem]

You can put anything between two slices of bread. If you're putting crisps in a sandwich, fine, but you've crossed the Rubicon. Trying to make out that Monster Munch would be a step too far just makes you look guilty.

 

[Marty1]

This week's 'new low'. Like anything other than sitting alone with the heating off grimly downing one cheap vodka after another is going to be appropriate this time.

Crisps, cheese and curaçao: how to have a fantastic election night party

You can have a lot of fun with colour coding when the stakes aren’t very high. I used to make cheesecakes decorated as a bar chart of the vote share, which was a shame as people actually prefer blueberries to strawberries, and kiwi to lemon.

 

[billy_bob]

This week's 'new low'. Like anything other than sitting alone with the heating off grimly downing one cheap vodka after another is going to be appropriate this time.

Crisps, cheese and curaçao: how to have a fantastic election night party

And now this one. Even if you give them the benefit of the doubt and exclude the outlying Cuvee Winston Churchill (£180 a bottle), the average price of the wines mentioned here is £24.83.

Party favourites: wines to see you through election night | David Williams

Isn't it starting to look like the Guardian knows about this thread and is trolling us?

 

[brogdale]

Isn't it starting to look like the Guardian knows about this thread and is trolling us?

Nah, they really are just a bunch of entitled oxbridge cunts.

 

[brogdale]

I've written to the Guardian about all you feckless losers...

 

[teqniq]

If Boris Johnson gets back to Number 10 he will have Jeremy Corbyn to thank | Andrew Rawnsley

Never mind the largely hostile media in which you play a large part eh Andrew?

 

[Monkeygrinder's Organ]

Oh god.

There is hope: Boris Johnson’s big majority could unleash the social liberal within | Simon Jenkins

 

[billy_bob]

Oh god.

There is hope: Boris Johnson’s big majority could unleash the social liberal within | Simon Jenkins

So we'll be OK because there will be more angels than before dancing on the head of this pin?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Boris Johnson announces plans for spending spree in north

One might think from the title that Boris Johnson had announced that he would go on a spending spree in the north of England (and probably been suspicious that that was a lie). It's not even that. It's not even "we've been told by sources that they are going to spend a load of money".

However, more radical plans are also being looked at in the wake of the Conservative victory. It is understood that the party considered pledging more in infrastructure spending during the campaign, but ultimately opted to be cautious. However, some insiders now want the plans to be re-examined as a way of fulfilling Johnson’s pledge to new voters in the Midlands and the north to remodel his party. The Conservative manifesto stated that its fiscal rules meant approximately £80bn was available in additional capital spending, not all of which has yet been allocated.

Literally nothing that Boris Johnson is quoted saying here backs up the subtitle "PM is pondering using an £80bn fund for infrastructure spending in areas that helped seal Tory win", as vague and meaningless as that would be anyway.

 

[Poi E]

If the rich are getting richer, then where are they hiding it? | Torsten Bell

We don't know where they're hiding it because they're hiding it.

Torsten never won hide and seek.

 

[gosub]

We must learn to talk to leave voters without falling into the Clinton trap | Nesrine Malik


Might be another month or so before it finally fucking sinks in who the 'left behind' are

 

[FridgeMagnet]

Guardian writers should be banned from going to working men's clubs. They would then find it basically impossible to write any articles about areas in the north of England, but perhaps that's for the best.

In Blair’s old seat, the regulars agree: ‘Corbyn doesn’t understand us here’

 

[killer b]

the north of england is just one massive working mens club, since they closed the pits down. meat bingo and john smiths smooth and cracked formica as far as the eye can see in every direction.

 

[Proper Tidy]

You should focus on the UK outside of London and the SE more.

Press: Ok, here's Terry and wor Stanley playing skittles while chain smoking and eating meat pies. In a betting shop. What do you think of communism lads

Fucks sake

 

[FridgeMagnet]

It's all Momentum's fault of course.

 

[treelover]

We must learn to talk to leave voters without falling into the Clinton trap | Nesrine Malik


Might be another month or so before it finally fucking sinks in who the 'left behind' are

who are they, iyo, genuine q.

 

[treelover]

Guardian writers should be banned from going to working men's clubs. They would then find it basically impossible to write any articles about areas in the north of England, but perhaps that's for the best.

In Blair’s old seat, the regulars agree: ‘Corbyn doesn’t understand us here’

are you including John Harris, Aditya?

 

[gosub]

who are they, iyo, genuine q.

The ones still fighting a political battle that was decided two and a half years ago. Chances are now, Brexit will be irreversible before either Labour and Lib Dems have decided their new leaders

 

[fieryjack]

three classic opinion articles greeting my hungover eyes this morning:
"The next leadership team needs to recognise the fundamental errors that made Labour unelectable" by Bonnie Prince David Milliband

"Labour has no hope of rebuilding unless it breaks the cold grip of the hard left", sub-headed "After the crushing election defeat, it is not just Jeremy Corbyn who has to go. It must mean the end of Corbynism" by arch-toad Andrew Rawnsley

and finally a piece targeted at Rebecca Long-Bailey by I-thought-he-was-dead Roy Hattersley "We fought Militant in the 1980s. The far left’s hold is now much worse"

could there be a theme here etc etc

 

[planetgeli]

Can’t even produce the traditional Christmas crossword the weekend before Christmas.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

three classic opinion articles greeting my hungover eyes this morning:
"The next leadership team needs to recognise the fundamental errors that made Labour unelectable" by Bonnie Prince David Milliband

"Labour has no hope of rebuilding unless it breaks the cold grip of the hard left", sub-headed "After the crushing election defeat, it is not just Jeremy Corbyn who has to go. It must mean the end of Corbynism" by arch-toad Andrew Rawnsley

and finally a piece targeted at Rebecca Long-Bailey by I-thought-he-was-dead Roy Hattersley "We fought Militant in the 1980s. The far left’s hold is now much worse"

could there be a theme here etc etc

Well, Owen Jones tries his best, but even he has to admit it wasn't a stunning victory for Labour, unlike '17

"The victory lap that followed the 2017 election was a mistake, breeding fatal complacency."

Brexit and self-inflicted errors buried Labour this election | Owen Jones

I think Momentum is, probably wisely, keeping its head down. One of the articles above conceded that Long-Bailey hasn't tweeted anything since before the election. Corbyn is determined to make the leadership selection as painful as possible by refusing to accept he's a liability or by doing the decent thing by resigning properly.

Let's just hope the 2025 election gets enough capable MPs elected to form a viable government in 2030.

 

[pseudonarcissus]

Well, Owen Jones tries his best, but even he has to admit it wasn't a stunning victory for Labour, unlike '17

"The victory lap that followed the 2017 election was a mistake, breeding fatal complacency."

Brexit and self-inflicted errors buried Labour this election | Owen Jones

I think Momentum is, probably wisely, keeping its head down. One of the articles above conceded that Long-Bailey hasn't tweeted anything since before the election. Corbyn is determined to make the leadership selection as painful as possible by refusing to accept he's a liability or by doing the decent thing by resigning properly.

Let's just hope the 2025 election gets enough capable MPs elected to form a viable government in 2030.

Maybe Seumas Milne will be back to explain himself....or will JC elevate him to the Lords?

 

[FridgeMagnet]

three classic opinion articles greeting my hungover eyes this morning:
"The next leadership team needs to recognise the fundamental errors that made Labour unelectable" by Bonnie Prince David Milliband

"Labour has no hope of rebuilding unless it breaks the cold grip of the hard left", sub-headed "After the crushing election defeat, it is not just Jeremy Corbyn who has to go. It must mean the end of Corbynism" by arch-toad Andrew Rawnsley

and finally a piece targeted at Rebecca Long-Bailey by I-thought-he-was-dead Roy Hattersley "We fought Militant in the 1980s. The far left’s hold is now much worse"

could there be a theme here etc etc

Particularly liked Milliband's article as he literally says that Corbyn made people support Brexit.

Labour literally repelled voters in 2019. “Out of touch” does not capture the full awfulness. Voters were all too in touch with what the Labour leadership stood for. Incredible promises were all too well understood. So was the unctuous sectarianism of the leadership clique. Together they came to be seen as more of a risk to the country than Brexit – even though every study shows that it will cost the poorest communities the most.

 

[Proper Tidy]

Particularly liked Milliband's article as he literally says that Corbyn made people support Brexit.

The Miliband comment is interesting. He's referring to liberal/remain tories that stayed tory instead of switching to labour because they fear corbyn more than brexit. Which is true tbf, but it shows how one eyed the view of his ilk is - the 50+% who want to leave are a lost cause

 

[FridgeMagnet]

The Miliband comment is interesting. He's referring to liberal/remain tories that stayed tory instead of switching to labour because they fear corbyn more than brexit. Which is true tbf, but it shows how one eyed the view of his ilk is - the 50+% who want to leave are a lost cause

Not quite sure about that, given that he talks about "the poorest communities", which I took to be referring to the famous Labour Heartlands - but that interpretation would make it even more barking, given that the number of remain Tories who would ever vote Labour is basically "ones who ticked the wrong box".