The Levellers were fantastic. i really needed that after last week.

[Peter]

It was a strange old evening in colchester. There was music in the cafes at night and revolution in the air.

Berni, Sir C, you have been warned

[Berni]

each other.

Seriously, though, are these chaps who keep proposing a shift further to the left as a way back to power *actually* mentally subnormal? I mean, the right wing of the Tory party may contain a fair number of headcases, but for sheer, pigheaded, delusional stupidity, the Labour left seems to have them beaten hands down.

They put one in mind of a waiter who, on having food sent back for being too salty, then takes the food away, adds more salt and then wonders why the customer still isn't accepting it.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I really, really wish that these chaps would get their act together and foment some proper civil unrest.

The thought of God's Own British Army being confronted by an army of unwashed idiots with dreads is one to fill the heart with joy, p.

[Berni]

spraypainting 'f**k Tory Scum' on a statue dedicated to the women of World War Two?

Nice one lads. That'll show international capitalism.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Such charmers.

The delightful Laurie Penny was firmly behind this action.

They call us 'scum'.

[Peter]

Was about the lack of a clear anti austerity message but even this is a misunderstanding. There is a bg difference between policy and message. Policy may be left wong or not, but a message is either clear or it isnt. It wasnt and you cant win unless it is.

I think six months of bickering is fine. The important thing os to get the leadership right and the message right.

Nobody will remember this in five years time particularly as the conservstives will punched themselves in the nuts more recently over the eu

[Peter]

[Berni]

way? Was there anything more to it than sheer petulance?

[redgunamo]

Cameron apparently forgetting which football team he supports. Verily, this is the sort of opportunity his people would've been dreaming of!

Why won't lefties get it that toffs behaving like toffs actually goes down well with the voters. It's extremely reassuring for them to learn that their leader, a man who has been fabulously wealthy all his life, has better things to think about than which soccerball club is which. That's the whole point.

[Peter]