Ah, we have our first loony shouting at a party leader

[Burney]

It's not a proper election without this sort of thing imo. :hehe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4469136/Angry-voter-confronts-Lib-Dem-Tim-Farron-Brexit.html

[Ash]

It's not a proper election without this sort of thing imo. :hehe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4469136/Angry-voter-confronts-Lib-Dem-Tim-Farron-Brexit.html

wd furious chap imo.

I had a letter from my Lib Dem candidate, asking me if I remember how terrible I felt when I heard the result of the referendum, and how I should vote for him to try and reverse it.

I'm of a mind to write back to him thanking him for being the first candidate to rule himself out of the running for my vote.

[Peter]

It's not a proper election without this sort of thing imo. :hehe:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4469136/Angry-voter-confronts-Lib-Dem-Tim-Farron-Brexit.html

I think the phrase '****ing idiot' is about right. For both of them. Why on earth is this Lib Dem cretin engaging with a raging pensioner.

[Burney]

wd furious chap imo.

I had a letter from my Lib Dem candidate, asking me if I remember how terrible I felt when I heard the result of the referendum, and how I should vote for him to try and reverse it.

I'm of a mind to write back to him thanking him for being the first candidate to rule himself out of the running for my vote.

You live in North London, a. The assumption is that nobody in North London could conceivably have voted Leave.

Nobody seems to have pointed out that the LibDems have completely abandoned any pretence of having a meaningful raft of policies and are just hanging opportunistically hanging their entire electoral strategy on Brexit in a way they would roundly condemn in anyone else.

[Burney]

I think the phrase '****ing idiot' is about right. For both of them. Why on earth is this Lib Dem cretin engaging with a raging pensioner.

No idea. Farron really is a damp rag of a man, though, isn't he? The idea of him harnessing the self-righteous fury of the 48% is fùcking laughable.

[Sir C]

I think the phrase '****ing idiot' is about right. For both of them. Why on earth is this Lib Dem cretin engaging with a raging pensioner.

Every time a politician is stupid enough to engage with hoi polloi, nonsense ensues. Gordon Brown's bigoted woman is one of my favourites, as is the bloke Prescott punched.

May's strategy of keeping the fúck out of the way appears to be a winner.

[Burney]

Every time a politician is stupid enough to engage with hoi polloi, nonsense ensues. Gordon Brown's bigoted woman is one of my favourites, as is the bloke Prescott punched.

May's strategy of keeping the fúck out of the way appears to be a winner.

She'd be mad to stick her head too far above the parapet. Every time her opposition parties say anything, they fùck up.

[Sir C]

She'd be mad to stick her head too far above the parapet. Every time her opposition parties say anything, they fùck up.

:nod: Abbott's done some fantastic campaigning on behalf of the Conservatives, McDonnell hasn't got going yet, and they haven't even started with the IRA/Hamas/CND stuff yet. It's just started to dawn on me that if they wanted to, they could probably actually destroy the Labour party. I mean actually put it out of its misery, once and for all. :cloud9:

[Burney]

:nod: Abbott's done some fantastic campaigning on behalf of the Conservatives, McDonnell hasn't got going yet, and they haven't even started with the IRA/Hamas/CND stuff yet. It's just started to dawn on me that if they wanted to, they could probably actually destroy the Labour party. I mean actually put it out of its misery, once and for all. :cloud9:

Yes, the worry with destroying Labour is that you might end up with something electable in its place. Better to keep it around as a rump of nutters sucking enough votes away from the left to make it impossible for its moderate wing ever to drag it back into power.

[Sir C]

Yes, the worry with destroying Labour is that you might end up with something electable in its place. Better to keep it around as a rump of nutters sucking enough votes away from the left to make it impossible for its moderate wing ever to drag it back into power.

But couldn't we eliminate them and every trace of their filth and then make socialists illegal? To quote Mandela, 'Together, hand in hand, with that stick of matches, with our necklace, we shall liberate this country.'

[Peter]

Every time a politician is stupid enough to engage with hoi polloi, nonsense ensues. Gordon Brown's bigoted woman is one of my favourites, as is the bloke Prescott punched.

May's strategy of keeping the fúck out of the way appears to be a winner.

Prescott's punch was the rare exception. Immediately made him look human, genuine and quite literally in touch with people.

It was beautifully spun as well- "John is John, don't throw an egg at him" :D

[Burney]

Prescott's punch was the rare exception. Immediately made him look human, genuine and quite literally in touch with people.

It was beautifully spun as well- "John is John, don't throw an egg at him" :D

The impressive thing for me was that he threw a sharp straight left to the face rather than the more predictable and natural big right hand that could have been easily avoided. Well played, Two Jags.

That said, the Brown one was just out of this world. Going into his car and peevishly going into one while still miked up is a fùck up of simply epic proportions.

[Sir C]

The impressive thing for me was that he threw a sharp straight left to the face rather than the more predictable and natural big right hand that could have been easily avoided. Well played, Two Jags.

That said, the Brown one was just out of this world. Going into his car and peevishly going into one while still miked up is a fùck up of simply epic proportions.

The Brown one was the perfect demonstration of what we had all suspected since reading Orwell; that the left detests and despises the very people it is supposed to represent :hehe:

[Burney]

The Brown one was the perfect demonstration of what we had all suspected since reading Orwell; that the left detests and despises the very people it is supposed to represent :hehe:

Yes. I think the people it purported to represent were already waking up to that in 2010, but that definitely sealed it.

[Ash]

... going into one while still miked up is a fùck up of simply epic proportions.

Tell you what, Clive, it's easily done.

[Sir C]

Tell you what, Clive, it's easily done.

Poor BFR :cry:

[Burney]

Tell you what, Clive, it's easily done.

:nod: I walked out of a vlog filming (KILL ME NOW) the other day still miked up. Mind you, I'm not Prime Minister and don't have a team of people employed to stop just such a thing happening.

[Ash]

:nod: I walked out of a vlog filming (KILL ME NOW) the other day still miked up. Mind you, I'm not Prime Minister and don't have a team of people employed to stop just such a thing happening.

:hehe: It really was straight out of The Thick of It.

[Luis Anaconda]

:nod: Abbott's done some fantastic campaigning on behalf of the Conservatives, McDonnell hasn't got going yet, and they haven't even started with the IRA/Hamas/CND stuff yet. It's just started to dawn on me that if they wanted to, they could probably actually destroy the Labour party. I mean actually put it out of its misery, once and for all. :cloud9:

You didn't see him preaching the other day beneath the flags of Assad’s Baath Party and the hammer and sickle of a Stalinist faction of the Communist Party.

He didn't know they were there apparently :rolleyes:

[Peter]

The impressive thing for me was that he threw a sharp straight left to the face rather than the more predictable and natural big right hand that could have been easily avoided. Well played, Two Jags.

That said, the Brown one was just out of this world. Going into his car and peevishly going into one while still miked up is a fùck up of simply epic proportions.

An instinctive and proportionate response, a jab. Its how everybody would like to think they would react.

Poor old Gordon was never suited to dealing with people.

[Sir C]

You didn't see him preaching the other day beneath the flags of Assad’s Baath Party and the hammer and sickle of a Stalinist faction of the Communist Party.

He didn't know they were there apparently :rolleyes:

Oh I did, I did indeed. In fact, I downloaded the photo against the day Jorge returns.

[Burney]

Oh I did, I did indeed. In fact, I downloaded the photo against the day Jorge returns.

Won't be long before it's a year he's been away, will it? :-(

[Sir C]

Won't be long before it's a year he's been away, will it? :-(

:shrug: Dunno.

[Luis Anaconda]

Oh I did, I did indeed. In fact, I downloaded the photo against the day Jorge returns.

Quite like this anecdote from Danny Finkelstein's hatchet job on him (McDonnell not jorge) in the Times. A story in which Ken Livingstone is the reasonable one


"In 1984 the Conservative government began to clash with Labour councils over the setting of rates. The government passed a law that made it illegal to set a rate (in other words, council tax) above a limit set for each council in Whitehall. For the left it was an opportunity as well as a challenge. They could organise a campaign defying the law in defence of public services. It was the perfect opportunity to radicalise the workers.

But the GLC, seen as one of the leaders of this campaign, had a problem. The rate cap set for them wouldn’t require cuts. In fact it would allow spending to grow. To this, McDonnell had a solution. He was finance chief, he had control of the figures, he would just pretend that the cap required £140 million of cuts.

This obvious untruth produced increasing tension with Mr Livingstone, who knew the figure was wrong, employing one of his famous Nazi analogies: “We’re going to look like the biggest f***ing liars since Goebbels”. Mr McDonnell responded that Mr Livingstone was “a Kinnock”. Eventually the truth came out, Mr McDonnell lost the trust of his colleagues and, despite an attempt to save him by Gerry Healy, the leader of the WRP, he was pushed out.

Too left wing and too unreliable to be the finance chief of Mr Livingstone’s GLC, John McDonnell is now shadow chancellor. I know I am a Conservative. But really?"

[Burney]

:shrug: Dunno.

Some people are so sensitive imo. All I did was wish the fellow dead whilst somewhat tired and emotional. You'd think I'd fûcked his missus or something. :shrug:

[Sir C]

Quite like this anecdote from Danny Finkelstein's hatchet job on him (McDonnell not jorge) in the Times. A story in which Ken Livingstone is the reasonable one


"In 1984 the Conservative government began to clash with Labour councils over the setting of rates. The government passed a law that made it illegal to set a rate (in other words, council tax) above a limit set for each council in Whitehall. For the left it was an opportunity as well as a challenge. They could organise a campaign defying the law in defence of public services. It was the perfect opportunity to radicalise the workers.

But the GLC, seen as one of the leaders of this campaign, had a problem. The rate cap set for them wouldn’t require cuts. In fact it would allow spending to grow. To this, McDonnell had a solution. He was finance chief, he had control of the figures, he would just pretend that the cap required £140 million of cuts.

This obvious untruth produced increasing tension with Mr Livingstone, who knew the figure was wrong, employing one of his famous Nazi analogies: “We’re going to look like the biggest f***ing liars since Goebbels”. Mr McDonnell responded that Mr Livingstone was “a Kinnock”. Eventually the truth came out, Mr McDonnell lost the trust of his colleagues and, despite an attempt to save him by Gerry Healy, the leader of the WRP, he was pushed out.

Too left wing and too unreliable to be the finance chief of Mr Livingstone’s GLC, John McDonnell is now shadow chancellor. I know I am a Conservative. But really?"

:hehe: And the Tories haven't even started putting this stuff on the posters yet. Imagine what they've got sitting in the filing cabinets at Central Office...

[Sir C]

Some people are so sensitive imo. All I did was wish the fellow dead whilst somewhat tired and emotional. You'd think I'd fûcked his missus or something. :shrug:

The dear chap is much happier trading sanctimony with fellow travellers in the echo chamber, I'm sure.

[Burney]

The dear chap is much happier trading sanctimony with fellow travellers in the echo chamber, I'm sure.

Yes, well one doesn't like to think there's bad blood, though, does one?

Ho-hum. We shall just have to put j down as a casualty of Brexit, I suppose.

[Luis Anaconda]

Yes, well one doesn't like to think there's bad blood, though, does one?

Ho-hum. We shall just have to put j down as a casualty of Brexit, I suppose.

Has a nice ring to it - make a good book title

The First Casualty of Brexit is Jorge: Awimb - the Final Years