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NewtNewbie
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Feb 2013 Status: Offline Points: 2416 |
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Why then mutilate Corbyn's political corpse when he's no longer Labour leader? All of this is about demonising and effectively criminalising any criticism of Israeli apartheidism and oppression of the Palestinians, as well as anyone who questions the neoliberal status quo, and it would be wholly naïve for anyone to think otherwise.
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ErsatzThistle
Liam Brady Joined: 05 Nov 2013 Location: Glasgow Status: Offline Points: 1013 |
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Aye, deeply old school Scottish central belt Labour and unionist to the core. In the run up to the tightly contested, nail biting 2007 Scottish Parliament elections she was particularly vicious and disingenuous in her attacks against us "natz" as their kind so nicely call us.
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coyne
Paul McGrath Joined: 17 Aug 2013 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 15881 |
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This video will make anyone happy if you're feeling a bit under the weather
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BrendanD88
Jack Charlton 99% of my posts are emojis Joined: 29 Mar 2013 Location: Co Down Status: Offline Points: 9933 |
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Het won’t be happy.
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Het-field
Roy Keane By Appointment to His Majesty The King Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Status: Offline Points: 10288 |
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Feeling inadequate cause I "ran rings" around everybody on the rugby thread?
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coyne
Paul McGrath Joined: 17 Aug 2013 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 15881 |
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Brexit Party renamed to Reform UK - A party against any sort of local or national lockdowns.
I hate Farage but I can't help but admit he is a clever opportunist A complete evil genius.
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Green Cockade
Liam Brady Joined: 22 Jan 2020 Location: Belfast Status: Offline Points: 2627 |
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Or a malignant narcissist, in a similar sociopathic vein to some of the company he enjoys. Not content with promoting economic ruin, he now wants his devotees to get ill and die while spreading the virus. You're doing a fine job, Nigel. Just not sure who for.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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The poor are disproportionately affected by Covid Those who deny the need for a lockdown which would help to protect those disproportionately poor people from getting Covid - and protect the health services which protect people of all backgrounds suffering from Covid and every other type of medical problem - are disproportionately rich Anti-lockdownism is concern from the rich for themselves dressed up as (fake) concern for the poor They don't give a sh*t about the poor Farage is no different in his "ideas" to the rich who ordered legions of the working class to get into the trenches in World War I or charge the battlefields of the Somme and Ypres and Paschaendaele To Farage, the working class are a plentiful supply of raw meat, not human beings
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Het-field
Roy Keane By Appointment to His Majesty The King Joined: 08 Mar 2016 Status: Offline Points: 10288 |
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His relevance is waining. He spent almost two decades on the frontline trying to push "a discussion" about EU membership, effectively forced the Tory hand into a referendum, left his initial party as a husk, and set up a new one, which could influence votes in the final election in advance of Brexit. With two months to go, he has achieved what he set out to do, and is now trying to find an alternative.
Sure, he'll have his usual moronic supports carry him round like some sort of deity, but in the General in 2019 his Party picked up a meagre 2%, and that was with the the hot button issue, being the entire raison d'être of his party.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Farage is not and never has been about winning votes in a General Election
He is not and never has been about being in power He is about directing public discourse in a fascist direction, he is about dividing opposition to fascism so fascism can advance He is a trojan horse for international fascism
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coyne
Paul McGrath Joined: 17 Aug 2013 Location: Sunderland Status: Offline Points: 15881 |
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You're half right Sid.
Half right because Reform UK won't have any association with immigration etc or anything like that. It's purely an anti-lockdown party and that's it. His involvement is significant because his last involvement with the Brexit Party forced the Tory party to shift their stance as a centre right party to a complete right wing party as the risk of defections and losing votes to Farage. Now he's threatening to gobble up all the 18-29 demographics and whitewash the Local elections in 6 months time and as you can see in the news as of right now, alot of Tories aren't happy with lockdown, so this involvement could force another shift towards herd immunity. He doesn't need seats or to win a GE to become successful, he won his battle with the Brexit Party as he got what he aimed for without winning a seat. This new involvement will split political minds right down the middle depending what your views on COVID is. This is why it's an evil genius move.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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I'm fully right Farage serves fascism and fascism only Fascism constantly looks for strategies to divide the left and divide opposition to fascism It creates false binaries - it constantly tries to create the perception of small groups within society who are in opposition to each other This is a tactic which right-wing media also use, you'll see it in this country with Independent Newspapers and Newstalk etc. Fascism sees whipping up anti-lockdown sentiment as yet another way of doing that With Covid, fascism sets up a false binary of young v old, it uses mental health and people who have non-Covid ilnesses and sets them up as a false binary against necessary public health measures It denies proper furlough packages to get people to rebel against lockdown I said six months ago that the Cummings thing was a trojan horse to destroy compliance to lockdown See my post on the BBC a month or two back for another example of how fascism deliberately creates division to neuter opposition Farage has strong links to Russia and there are very strong elements of Russian "political technologists" in his strategy
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coyne
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yawn.
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Well argued
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sid waddell
Roy Keane On a dark desert highway Joined: 20 Nov 2009 Status: Offline Points: 12173 |
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Corbyn reinstated - obviously - there were no grounds to suspend him in the first place And now the Tory press come for Starmer, as was inevitable Anti-Semitism is used internationally by the right - the same people who have by far the biggest anti-Semitism problem - as a bad faith wedge issue to try and vilify, split and destroy the left Until people on the broad left understand this and call it out, the beatings will continue All this is part of the same international right-wing disinformation and propaganda war that gave us Trump
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the_walls
Jack Charlton 6 in a row, alive alive oh.. Joined: 13 Feb 2009 Location: Walkinstown Status: Offline Points: 5182 |
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They really are deluded scumbags. A British government minister saying that the reason they are rolling out the vaccine before anyone else is because they are a much better country than the French, Belgians or Americans. Unbelievable
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pTJU0dUir_I Edited by the_walls - 04 Dec 2020 at 1:29pm |
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Green Cockade
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While this blathering idiot is attracting widespread and thoroughly deserved ridicule ( great cartoon in the Guardian ), the EU has helpfully pointed out that this is not a football competition. One theory why this clown is still in a job despite his serial incompetence as a minister and gaffe prone behaviour generally is that he is a former Tory chief whip who has a shed load of dirt on Bojo and others further up the greasy pole.
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sid waddell
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Williamson has the most punchable face of any person in the public eye I can think of It's incredibly punchable
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