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“I’m not a PR man. I’m a campaigner,” so says Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn’s new speechwriter who began work last week.
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Is he a periscope ?
Coming late to it, but I see that the Ronnie Scott's "let us insult half the population" editorial is online:
https://www.ronniescotts.co.uk/static/download/latest-brochure.pdf
And that their phone number is 020 7439 0747.
Having been to RS's since the 80s, I think it is time for a phone call.
"Voters are increasingly frustrated at Theresa May’s failure to spell out what lies beyond her second-most famous soundbite."
The voters are giving the Tories the benefit of the doubt at the moment (Sleaford is much much more typical than Richmond wrt English demographics).
(bollocks to ronnie scott's mind. looks far too pricey. I used to get mine at the Leeds Irish centre)
It's not as though businesses haven't been making political comments about the EU for years - mostly bitching about EU regulations. Presumably those complaining about Ronnie Scott's were equally indignant about that. Or pehaps not.
https://twitter.com/DavidPrescott/status/804399444867289088
Precisely the sort of thing that'll help Labour get back in touch with its traditional voters.
Shocker.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sQQNaXnic2o
Conservatives: 41% (down 3 points from ICM two weeks ago)
Labour: 27% (down 1)
Ukip: 14% (up 2)
Lib Dems: 9% (up 2)
Greens: 3% (down 1)
Conservative lead: 14 points (down 2)
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/blog/live/2016/dec/12/philip-hammond-treasury-social-care-considering-lettting-councils-raise-council-tax-to-fund-social-care-politics-live?page=with:block-584ea5cae4b04a74f2782be4#block-584ea5cae4b04a74f2782be4
Anyone else saying that in David Ginola's voice?
"I'm a footballer, not a movie star.."
TBH, my entire experience of Morocco was hmm bar buying a nice camel leather handbag.
I'm a tough bird, and the misogyny/grabby behaviour was appalling. My handful of female fellow Landies were left so intimidated that they gave me shopping lists as they couldn't cope with the local men.
I was leered at/asked for sex/grabbed walking down the street for merely being white. I was covered head to foot and followed everywhere by creepy men/my chest commented on/assumed to be a prostitute.
I was on rural Morocco/Algerian border - any liberal inclined man in the UK has NO IDEA about the behaviour of men in these areas and what Europe has invited in. I was one of a party of 12 Land Rover/Toyota drivers who were exploring a new Paris/Dhaka rally parallel route. We spent 3 weeks driving 14hrs a day across the Sahara/establishing rest points/mechanics on the way - so no shrinking violets.
One of our convoy caught fire and they ended up in my Toyota as I was solo. We seriously considered pushing their broke Landy over the edge of a cliff in the Atlas mountains, as getting her down seemed impossible/insurance was easier. After much discussion, we decided to take her back down thousands of feet by roping her between mine and another.
This isn't tourist stuff - it's alternative life - anyone with a spec of knowledge of this culture has held up their hands and said WTF?
If, in my thesis, today is 1992 for the Conservatives, it could be 2030 before they get back on track after it goes south.
Dr. Foxinsox, there's a difference between words and action, and I'm not sure mocking someone for raising grope as a cultural issue is justified.
Businessmen with political opinions: fine.
Businessmen expressing their political opinions: fine. Though it is foolish to be to bold to your customer base.
Managers using their business newsletter personally to insult their customers: expect some reaction.
Simon Cooke: the Gerald Ratner of entertainment.
Those were physical and doable. The whole misogyny thing is totally foreign and real for millions of women in Europe now.
I can't stress how revolting it is. I can brush it off because I'm a guy in a bird's body - for women who don't have such an Eff You stance - it's awful. If I hadn't experienced how creepy and grabby it was - I wouldn't be so effed off about it.
I saw nice intrepid females totally intimated and humiliated by it. They weren't scared to take risks way beyond 90% of the population - but this was too much to endure.
That's how revolting it is for them. I took orders to buy silver tea-sets and perfume et al as gifts - imagine being too scared to go to a market to shop for stuff like this from a souk?
All liberal men who read PB need to get a grip and begin to understand what the other half of the population are experiencing. It's vile and not worth your political ego.
One of the things which struck me about the referendum was that the geographical and demographic cleavage between Leavers and Remainers wasn't all that great. Yes, London voted Remain - but over a third of Londoners voted Leave. Yes, the old voted Leave - but a third of them voted Remain. Yes, the rich voted Remain - but a sizeable minority of them voted Leave. Whatever demographic you are in, chance are that a lot of your peers voted the other way to the way you did. If you don't know any who did, it's possibly because you've been so busy demonising them it's easier for them to just wanly agree with you and move on.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3834445/Don-t-worry-ladies-ve-seen-Donald-Trump-walk-naked-beauty-queens-young-15-MISS-USA-pageants-claim-former-constants.html
Are people who voted Remain supposed to get all het up about comments made by Tim Martin or Peter Hargreaves?
Yet some of the same people lambasting him for his words (and possibly actions, many are disputed) seem rather frit of doing so when it's a whole culture of misogyny.
Was there a message inside it, and where did it end up?
Sure enough, once the shock of the result dissipated, the sharp tone of the leave campaign returned to fill the vacuum. Any issues with Brexit were the fault of those who voted remain: they were “talking Britain down”, as if the pound’s depreciation were more sensitive to the chatter of negative remainers than to the seismic shock of a vote to leave the largest economic union on earth. Having gone through a polarising referendum and secured an unlikely victory, those on the winning side are still angry, angrier even than they were before.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/02/brexit-trump-populists-sore-winners-play-victim
CR and others are simply saying they'll take their business elsewhere which is exactly what people said bout Wetherspoons.
Confirmation that most people agreed with me was very satisfying. Shame we haven't left yet though. When are the MP's going to listen to the advice we gave them?!
I don't have a problem with either. If you espound a political philosophy so clearly, you are going to piss some people off. I'm sure Martin thought it was worth it.
Unless CR proposes banning the right of Scott's to do this as a matter of law, or poses blockading them or something, I don't see the issue.
Edited extra bit: I agree with you, incidentally.
Arabs and Berbers leering and groping is shocking behaviour.
It is fine and dandy for red blooded alpha male POTUS candidates, except of course if they are Democrats.
https://www.holocaustremembrance.com/sites/default/files/press_release_document_antisemitism.pdf
https://twitter.com/politico/status/808329737005387776
"The terror state of Israel is carrying out genocide right now"
It is scary that there are people in the world that actually believe that.
I doubt that David Prescott has anywhere near the skills required to make an extra ten to twenty percent of the population swing over to a Corbynista-led Labour.
His experience seems awfully safe for the son of a prominent Labour politician. The BBC, followed by a communications company? I fear he has the same problem that Corbyn suffers from: he has little real idea of the lives of the people he claims to want to help.
All is going well.
Mrs May, a Remainer, is pushing ahead with honouring the result. The Labour party's Northern MPs have spoken to their voters and are gradually doing likewise.
The odd bitter Remainers are forming a small ghetto composed of the Liberals, the Greens, the Guardian and professional know-it-alls who know nothing.
God's in his heaven and all's right with the world.
A decent opposition would be slaughtering them
Still, I guess being a guy he knows all about being female.
This isn't the first time I've cited my experience here. How inconvenient to his trite political position, rather than actually make an argument.
I look forward to light, and logical positioning.
It's a tremendously hard ask to sell an old & rejected product to the people who knew it only too well & rejected it decades ago. I doubt whether even a 'New Improved, Recipe' approach would work.
What was that car with the square-ish steering wheel? Austin Allegro? Not highly regarded at the time, imagine trying to push that now as the newest, most up-to-date thing on wheels.
http://www.open-britain.co.uk/miliband_new_poll_shows_government_faces_almighty_backlash_from_leave_voters_if_brexit_leaves_them_poorer
It's a massive and very credible mea culpa. He deserves a total pass for being a Remain Wanker
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/past-six-days/2016-12-11/comment/sorry-i-was-wrong-to-fight-brexit-just-to-keep-my-friends-in-no-10-and-no-11-rjk6mwx60
I go there to get away from it all, to relax, and I felt this was two giant fingers to me. Of course, you can argue i shouldn't of felt like that, or get upset, but I did and I found the whole tone rude and unnecessary. I think it felt personal because to me it's a very personal place. A sanctuary away from the world.
I can't make it any clearer than that. Some people understand, including some Remainers - like Nick Palmer and viewcode - who've been very kind about it. Others have taken the piss or hurled 'serves you right' lines back. But I think I've been very clear about why.
As it happens that's probably for the best: the last thing we need is a Major-style chaotic government in charge during Brexit. But there are many non-Brexit matters where the government needs stronger opposition.
Whilst my mind's firmly set against Corbyn, I still don't know what to make of May. I'd been hoping that the conference would make things clearer, but it didn't. This leads to perhaps the most important political question at the moment:
Is May a leader? Is she directing our side of Brexit as a leader should, or is she a leaf blowing in the Three Brexiteers' wind?
I fear we will not discover for some time.
Of course, the classic thing to do on the cultural Left is to then follow up saying it's no worse than a Friday night out in Birmingham and Western men are just the same. But it isn't, and they're not.
I think part of it is he realises that the market for opinion writers saying brexit is terrible is going to be pretty crowded...
1. What is it about Labour nowadays and hereditary political power? Kinnock, Straw, Prescott - you wonder if they've been taking inspiration from Kim Jong Un.
2. A former BBC employee? Quelle surprise.
As Jim Prior he was one of the leading Wets during Thatcher's first government.
I was about 11yrs old when I went to the now demolished Killingworth Towers [knocked down before the mortgage was due] leisure centre swimming pool. The bin bags were 12ft high outside as we waited for the bus.
Brutalist architecture made flesh - effing awful again
http://www.somethingconcreteandmodern.co.uk/building/killingworth-towers/
I will do the same, thank you.
Witnesses describe the "horrific" attack as a man is reportedly stabbed at a railway station in front of his wife.
http://news.sky.com/story/forest-hill-station-stabbing-knifeman-shouted-i-want-to-kill-a-muslim-10693616
No doubt a mentally ill man known locally as Dave....
That's quite different from it being made clear that your custom and presence isn't welcome; if anything the proprietor seeking to create a purged space free of any dissenting opinion.
*dons flame suit*
I am simply complaining to the business about his behaviour. I see no problem with that.
But suddenly we have a parade of remainers flapping away about "safe spaces". Bizarre :-D .
Did Tim Martin or Peter Hargreaves accuse their customers of "attacking their businesses" by voting the wrong way? I suspect that they are both too grownup.
And why would we agree to this? If they want to live under EU law, move to the EU.
You don't like hearing that. Tough shit. Grow up.
I wonder if he uses Jazz Hands.
* I think that is the correct Americanism.
Ignore the entire thing as it ended up pointed at you - I've no idea how we ended up here.
Using the BAU CSI model - it wasn't intentional.
Edit
Bit of a shame I've been disowned out of hand after months of support.
Ho hum - given this weirdness - should I assume that your hair trigger to assume the worst is you?
I prefer to assume stuff is out of context et all. Ho hum.
He didn't insult leave voters he detailed why he saw this as bad for business. So freaking what? I voted Leave but couldn't care less about this. It does strike me as a bit of a safe space "don't give a view I don't like" bullshit.