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For all Corbyn's faults, his vision of a new politics with less of that is a good start. Shame it is unlikely to get anywhere.
UKIP conference: a surprise yes but it doesn't feel unusual for the party. This sort of mad shit is why people like UKIP. Leader gone, old one back. Hurrah! The talk of Woolfe coming close to defecting to the Conservatives prior to James standing down is bloody interesting though.
What's come out of the Tory conference is a lot of discord from Conservative supporting elements. The dig by May toward Boris was more than playful humour. A Remainer in Rudd suddenly turning into the Gestapo.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-37572377
A punch up in Strasbourg between MEPs?
Seen the write up and it's a storm in a tea cup. Was never policy and will never happen. However the press will make hay as they race to create click bait. The twat on LBC reading Mien Kampf and claiming Rudd's comments were similar - they were not. But comment is all about social media these days - faux anger and outrage. Whip up the masses into hysteria over something that won't happen and watch your Twitter feed. It's all a race to the bottom.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/10/06/ukip-leadership-favourite-steven-woolfe--in-serious-condition-af/
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Guido is pointing to Mike Hookem very quickly...
http://order-order.com/2016/10/06/246503/
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
And Murdoch... well, he covers all bases, just as he did with the UK and Scottish Sun headlines on ScotRef day. Uncle Rupert might be free trade in Europe when it comes to how the Times is positioned but he's also quite happy to allow Tim Shipman to do the exclusive May interview in last week's Sunday Times (who were Leave) and for the Sun to be pro-Leave.
Now the Sun chasing Amber Hudd and getting Nick Boles all squiffy... that's two Remainers in the crosshairs. I would say the Brexiters are ramping things up a bit. It seems an interesting target with Labour so fragmented still.
http://i0.wp.com/order-order.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/10/itv.jpg?w=539
Murdoch would be happy to see May binned and replaced with another version of Blair/Cameron.
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
Remember, it's easier to criticise than create!
It's interesting that the word 'statist' is being launched at May. We've just had a referendum where the idea was to take power back from Europe, a new Prime Minister comes in, says she will start that process next year whilst wanting to use some of that state power at home... and a load of people are now getting annoyed at this. Whatever happened to taking back control? She's in control, wants to use it, and the plebs are grumbling
It is quite remarkable to survey politics now. The Tories keeping a lid on the pressure cooker behind the scenes, Labour trying to make it work after more leadership hoopla, the Libs deader than Bodecia, UKIP demonstrating what most people knew (namely that they were united by one single policy and sod all else) and the real possibility of Kassam coming in and turning them into Trump lite...
Truly a horrible image above. Whatever one's political persuasion, it's a dreadful scene.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37579687
There are times when I would actually like a whole party made up of Trump clones to come here and walk it with a Saddam-era crooked election with a 99.7%, just to fuck things up a-plenty.
I feel like I've turned into Sambostar.
In an interview I once heard, Alan Johnson said that the minute you assume office as Home Sec you receive briefings, receive intelligence and are privy to info that would make the proverbial hair curl. Being charitable, I suppose even a Solomon would have had trouble retaining his perspective and poise under such circumstances.
However I completely agree that so many otherwise reasonable do effectively lose it and go nuts once made Home Sec. The very worst of them seem to devise policy almost as if dictated by the Daily Mail. I think the authoritarian instinct is so hard to avoid if your overriding emotions are panic and fear.
As for Amber Rudd I find her all mouth and no substance. She's like the awful Nicky Morgan, a jolly hockey sticks head girl type with nothing between the ears whatsoever.
Edit: Private Eye and The Guardian are recapping useful info about her pre Parliament business career which raises questions about her integrity but will the Murdoch-Dacre axis follow up?
It really does seem to bring out the inner Nazi in even the most moderate and reasonable people.
Diane Abbott is not a wise choice.
"Take these three items, some WD-40, a vise grip, and a roll of duct tape. Any man worth his salt can fix almost any problem with this stuff alone." - Walt Kowalski
"Only two things are infinite - the universe, and human stupidity. And I'm not sure about the universe." - Albert Einstein
No doubt it was a bit of Tory spin, float the idea out to see what public reaction is, then retract or champion it accordingly. So, it was never proposed policy, merely an idea.
A bad one, a clumsy attempt to capture the perceived mentality of the (again) perceived working class voter.
That's another phrase that grinds - the working class voter. What they probably mean is what they perceive as a lower educated lower paid person. Yet more cultivation of the class system; something, that for me, absolutely stinks.
There's two classes of people IMO: people who know how to behave, and people who don't. All the rest is immaterial ephemera that is used to judge, en masse.
ranting, lol