All this shít being lost about the BBC allegedly photoshopping Our Jeremy

[Burney]

to make him look like he's wearing a Russian hat. THE CÚNT HAS CULTIVATED A BEARD AND WEARS HATS SPECIFICALLY DESIGNED TO MAKE HIM LOOK LIKE LENIN!

For fúck's sake.

My absolutely favourite thing about this utter, utter lunacy is that these fvcking dimbulbs don't seem to realise that not only are they making it clear they're insane, they are ensuring that this image they deem negative (which would only otherwise be seen by a few thousand thousand politics nerds on Newsnight) has now been hammered deep into the public consciousness.

Fvcking morons.

[Monty92]

My absolutely favourite thing about this utter, utter lunacy is that these fvcking dimbulbs don't seem to realise that not only are they making it clear they're insane, they are ensuring that this image they deem negative (which would only otherwise be seen by a few thousand thousand politics nerds on Newsnight) has now been hammered deep into the public consciousness.

Fvcking morons.

Yeah, but the problem is that I suspect the narrative being hammered deep into the public consciousness is the existing one that says Jezza is a harmless, kindly, allotment-tending, jam-making cuddly old man who's being demonised by the establishment who are either right wing (the press) or centre left (the BBC).

Otherwise how can you explain how he managed to ride out the incessant depictions of him throughout the GE campaign as a terrorist sympathising communist?

[PSRB]

Yeah, but the problem is that I suspect the narrative being hammered deep into the public consciousness is the existing one that says Jezza is a harmless, kindly, allotment-tending, jam-making cuddly old man who's being demonised by the establishment who are either right wing (the press) or centre left (the BBC).

Otherwise how can you explain how he managed to ride out the incessant depictions of him throughout the GE campaign as a terrorist sympathising communist?

The problem is the yoof of today have absolutely no comprehension of proper communism. They seem to just think that it's all about making everyone happy without any notion of the economic realities of it.

[Burney]

Yeah, but the problem is that I suspect the narrative being hammered deep into the public consciousness is the existing one that says Jezza is a harmless, kindly, allotment-tending, jam-making cuddly old man who's being demonised by the establishment who are either right wing (the press) or centre left (the BBC).

Otherwise how can you explain how he managed to ride out the incessant depictions of him throughout the GE campaign as a terrorist sympathising communist?

Because people don't pay that much attention to facts. Images, on the other hand, penetrate. Ensuring heavy rotation of an image of Corbyn as a commie really isn't very clever at all.

[Sir C]

Because people don't pay that much attention to facts. Images, on the other hand, penetrate. Ensuring heavy rotation of an image of Corbyn as a commie really isn't very clever at all.

I think PSRB makes a good point though; for a great many people, communism isn't automatically associated with evil any more.

The cultural Marxists won.

Western civilisation was brought down by Ben Elton.

[Peter]

I think PSRB makes a good point though; for a great many people, communism isn't automatically associated with evil any more.

The cultural Marxists won.

Western civilisation was brought down by Ben Elton.

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[Sir C]

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You won't be laughing when you're despatched to Our gulag for displaying reactionary and revanchist tendencies, p.

[Peter]

You won't be laughing when you're despatched to Our gulag for displaying reactionary and revanchist tendencies, p.

I am sure I will cope somehow.

[Burney]

I think PSRB makes a good point though; for a great many people, communism isn't automatically associated with evil any more.

The cultural Marxists won.

Western civilisation was brought down by Ben Elton.

I don't think communism ever was associated with evil in this country. Pre-war it was fashionable, during the war it was a gallant ally and post war it was widely espoused despite the fact we were engaged in a Cold War with it. Indeed, this country was far more left-wing for most of the time we were fighting the Cold War than it became when we no longer were.

[Peter]

I don't think communism ever was associated with evil in this country. Pre-war it was fashionable, during the war it was a gallant ally and post war it was widely espoused despite the fact we were engaged in a Cold War with it. Indeed, this country was far more left-wing for most of the time we were fighting the Cold War than it became when we no longer were.

The debt of gratitude to the Red Army certainly cast a long shadow over our parents' generation. As an ideology, it defeated a far greater evil in fascism. And you are right, before the war the Labour Party was never in a huge hurry to distance itself from the Soviet Union.

Its an evil to the Yanks because it challenges their rather spurious notion of 'freedom'. I dont think Britain has ever really been quite sure what to make of Russia.