Just watching Gideon in China on the news and I was right, he is a fucking cunt.
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Saw the entire series as one marathon live show back in January and can remember very little Corbyn material. Some cracking stuff in there though. Almost jealous of everyone that’ll get to see it fresh.
If you want to see how a media agenda is gently delivered you had to check out Sky last night.
There is a split in the government.
There is a split in the opposition.
Sky leads on the latter - and then goes on to show the papers, many of which consider the government split to be more newsworthy that the opposition-split.
But Team Murdoch is more interested in promoting anti-Corbyn so they go with that.
It’s no longer news, it’s spin.
In the next episode we explain how Match of the Day edits games to make Man Utd look good.
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A video on the Tory campaign overspend.
Lords having seemingly rejected Tory proposals to slash unwell and disabled peoples subsitence income by £30 p/w.
Good news for now, but can’t see them not ploughing on ahead regardless.
That, or they’ll just stuff the Lords full of Tory peers to get what they want.
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Cameron to get rid of Tory associations
Keep on this way and I fear for the state of the Conservative party in a couple of years, it seems that “Call me Dave” is really a saboteur from the Labour ranks.
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That recovery is not looking so good.
Bit worrying how technically illiterate our government are.
According to our Culture Secretary, Adblockers are a “modern day protection racket”.
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Bwa-ha-ha!
I got loads of grief from media types saying the same sort of things when I told them how to swerve the Echo’s mandatory ads.
Seriously guys, just fuck off. I _understand _that _you believe _that the commercial model is the only way content can be funded. Frankly, it’s one of the reasons our media is so tame. What did more damage to the Torygraph, ad-blockers, or the incestuous relationship between it and HSBC?
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Can someone please tell Cameron he isn’t funny.
Top marks for this article proclaiming him a “Prize Tit” in the title.
Cameron just made a prize tit of himself at PMQs
At Prime Minister’s Questions on 2 March, David Cameron fell to an embarrassing low with yet another in a long line of cringeworthy puns.
Bad jokes hide poor arguments
The Prime Minister tried to set up his ‘joke’ (the term is used loosely) by referring to the new links between Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour party and former Greek Finance Minister, Yanis Varoufakis. Trying his best as always, Cameron sought to undermine Corbyn’s economic stance by linking it to the crisis in Greece. He accused Varoufakis of leaving the Greek economy “in ruins”, saying:
That is Labour’s policy in two words: Acropolis Now.
While this atrocious gag drew laughs from fellow Tories, the argument behind it was just as weak as the joke itself.
Greece had already been in trouble for years when Varoufakis came to his role, and he was only in the position for just over five months. Not really enough time to destroy an economy, you might think.
Even right-wing organisations like Bloomberg and the Adam Smith Institute have called Varoufakis “brilliant” while enthusiastically supporting his policies. In fact, the only real failure for Varoufakis was his unsuccessful attempt to renegotiate Greece’s debt with its international lenders and curtail the austerity measures which were hitting the Greek people so hard. And considering the overwhelming power of theTroika (the European Commission, the European Central Bank and the International Monetary Fund), this was always going to be a very difficult undertaking.
By targeting Varoufakis, then, it seems Cameron was just poking around hopelessly in his search for a new way to attack Corbyn.
Hmmmm, Corbyn speaks to an expert economist and Cameron mocks him. Yet, he gets his economic advice from Gideon.
I wonder why the pig fucker and his wealthy pals (/the media) are so scared of Yanis? Is it because he happily shouts what a con this austerity bollocks is?
Typical Tory fare this. Can’t win the argument, so try to mock something else. It’s probably because Yanis wasn’t wearing a tie, or £3k suit or something.
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hahahaha “Acropolis Now” brilliant stuff hahaha!
He loves the smell of bacon in the morning.
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MPs get a pay rise, whilst simultaneously doing this.
Fuck every single one of these lowlife scumbags.
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An excellent Long Read from the Guardian. The Tory project is bust. Here’s a taster.
Even disciples of Milton Friedman in Chicago were willing to admit the scale of the rout. They openly used the words “Back to the drawing board”. But in an astonishing act of corporate blackmail, the banks themselves then insisted that they be subsidised by the state. The very same taxpayers whom they had just defrauded had to dig in their pockets to pay for the bankers’ offences. Although state aid could no longer be tolerated as a good thing for regular citizens, who, it was said, were prone to becoming depraved, spoilt and junk-food-dependent when offered free money, subsidy could still be offered, when needed, on a dazzling scale, to benefit those who were already among our country’s most privileged and who were, by coincidence, the sole progenitors of its economic collapse. What a stroke of luck! Socialism, too good for the poor, turned out to be just the ticket for the rich.
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Developing a pretty intense man crush on James O’Brien, I must admit.
David Cameron’s mum to lose her voluntary position due to the cuts her son’s government is making.
As an aside, I was slightly amused to get a political newsletter through the door today.
It is jointly from several councillors, including the one who has just resigned as a result of conviction and narrowly dodging a jail sentence for expenses fraud.
Come and join us it says right next to his smug face…
Perhaps the three innocent councillors should have gone for a reprint rather than distributing that version.
Yep, coz no doubt the others are all upstanding, decent folk.
Has anyone else noticed all the Tories that voted on cutting DSA are popping up on social media with a brief outline of their total hypocrisy, or is it just borderline communists like me?
Southampton MP Royston Smith voted for the cuts. Noakes, to her credit, did not.