flyingrodent
Annoying smartarse
- Could we perhaps spell out what “the unpopular decisions” are, because I’d suggest that if a government with a crushing majority can’t do it, then the decisions may simply be too unpopular. At least until the fash/tory lashup finally wins and revokes the entire postwar settlement at last.
- Although the party’s enormous membership wanted him to stay and it was the MPs who looked a right bunch of cunts, back then. Now everyone hates Sir Keir and McSweeney but can’t get rid, because the other potential leaders have been stitched up via factional bullshit or are just as badly compromised.
- American fascists with lots of cash to splash will find door after door opening wide for them with Britain’s horrible ruling class, our horrific media outlets and our networks of godawful think tanks and policy shops. Well, wider than they already have been.
- My brain has just spontaneously started rewriting lyrics to the theme tune from “Pinky and The Brain”, except about Jeffrey and Ghislaine. I think I may be experiencing mild Online Psychosis.
- Good lord: it seems like it was even more awkward and much more not the right time in the political cycle than we had expected
- 🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted *And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it Full story: democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
- I listened to lots of these and I can confirm Peter spent his entire time on it pushing his own slimy agenda with no regard for the truth, as you would expect, and that there is no way on Earth these lads did not know they were being sold one line of bullshit after another.
- The lads diplomatically explain that if McSweeney goes, Starmer has to go too. I’ll explain why, more bluntly: this project minus Mandelson and McSweeney is like The Scooby Doo Show, without Shaggy and Scooby. Nobody thinks Scrappy Doo is the star.
- This goes to the heart of something Toby keeps asking: why is this seen as a crisis of liberalism, rather than of reactionary right wing politics? And I’d answer: because both groups are exactly where they wanted to be at long last, and it’s all very awkward. @polphilpod.bsky.social
- This goes quintuple since the entire theme of the 2020s is that the world is ruled by and in the direct interests of semi-literate squillionaire idiots, financial crooks and sex criminals via networks of influence and increasingly, just directly by imposing their will by force.
- Exactly the same reason why e.g. the Iraq War report and Forde were instantly binned and never mentioned again: the lads wanted to keep interviewing these horrible people and inviting them on television. And you can’t do that if everyone hates them and won’t vote for their projects.
