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[summerisle]

 

[dholliday]

i'll still never really understand why people are interested in Twitter spats between non-entities. It's like if people on another site kept linking arguments on GOT. Bit weird, like.

 

[summerisle]

i'll still never really understand why people are interested in Twitter spats between non-entities. It's like if people on another site kept linking arguments on GOT. Bit weird, like.

Tory MP and a deranged television 'presenter' - make perfect bedfellows.

 

[DanEFC92]

She's kin horrible.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

Isn't she calling out Owen Jones more than anything? He seems to be saying that it's fine to throw eggs at someone he deems to be a wrong 'un, but terrible for people to throw eggs at Jezzer? Personally anyone that throws eggs at people is a proper weirdo and deserving of the Prescott response.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

In other news, a membership surge propels a party to the extremes

Revealed: Ukip membership surge shifts party to far right

Investigation reveals exodus of party’s moderates and influx of more extreme newcomers

www.theguardian.com

 

[Number_25]

In other news, a membership surge propels a party to the extremes

Revealed: Ukip membership surge shifts party to far right

Investigation reveals exodus of party’s moderates and influx of more extreme newcomers

www.theguardian.com

New Labour membership: "We should try to create a fairer society."

New UKIP membership: "Gas the Jews."

Bruce: "These are literally the same things."

 

[NilSatisOptimum]

i'll still never really understand why people are interested in Twitter spats between non-entities. It's like if people on another site kept linking arguments on GOT. Bit weird, like.

The only time I laughed with a Tory is when Cameron said to many twitters make a [Poor language removed].

 

[Bruce Wayne]

New Labour membership: "We should try to create a fairer society."

New UKIP membership: "Gas the Jews."

Bruce: "These are literally the same things."

You're a smart fellow, you know that UKIP adopt social extremes, whereas Labour have veered towards economic extremes. You only have to listen to the bloodlust in DaveK's posts to see that, but if you prefer to bury your head in the sand and ignore the lurch leftwards under Momentum then that's your prerogative.

 

[orchard]

You're a smart fellow, you know that UKIP adopt social extremes, whereas Labour have veered towards economic extremes. You only have to listen to the bloodlust in DaveK's posts to see that, but if you prefer to bury your head in the sand and ignore the lurch leftwards under Momentum then that's your prerogative.

The economic extreme would be the abolition of private property and currency though, and Corbyn as a social democrat is nowhere near this intellectually.

 

[Bruce Wayne]

The economic extreme would be the abolition of private property and currency though, and Corbyn as a social democrat is nowhere near this intellectually.

As you know, I thought the Labour manifesto was pie in the sky as it is, but I wouldn't rule out those things in their second term

 

[Number_25]

You're a smart fellow, you know that UKIP adopt social extremes, whereas Labour have veered towards economic extremes. You only have to listen to the bloodlust in DaveK's posts to see that, but if you prefer to bury your head in the sand and ignore the lurch leftwards under Momentum then that's your prerogative.

Economic extremes?

One in every 200 people are homeless.

We committed to the systematic slaughter of 460,000 Iraqi people on the basis of retaining control over a finite natural resource whose use is destroying our environment.

 

[dwightschrute]

Shelter estimates that there are at least 320,000 homeless people in Great Britain

Neoliberalism is the economic extreme

 

[abelard]

Economic extremes?

One in every 200 people are homeless.

We committed to the systematic slaughter of 460,000 Iraqi people on the basis of retaining control over a finite natural resource whose use is destroying our environment.

not to mention the imminent breakdown of the planet's ecological systems...

one can get away with all manner of extremes - pointless wars, the breakdown of the global financial system - provided one retains the mantle of 'centrism'.

it's a sort of personal brand identity, a form of virtue-signaling for those who fancy themselves rational and pragmatic, but who are usually just too dull to read the fine print.

if the term meant anything at all it would be used to describe Bernie Sanders and AOC, for example, because their policies are supported by an overwhelming majority of the population, including Republicans.

but of course, they are the 'extremists', the 'radicals', while policies that enrich a small portion of already rich people are 'moderate' and 'responsible', as is doing absolutely nothing about our impending environmental catastrophe.

 

[zzr45]

not to mention the imminent breakdown of the planet's ecological systems...

one can get away with all manner of extremes - pointless wars, the breakdown of the global financial system - provided one retains the mantle of 'centrism'.

it's a sort of personal brand identity, a form of virtue-signaling for those who fancy themselves rational and pragmatic, but who are usually just too dull to read the fine print.

if the term meant anything at all it would be used to describe Bernie Sanders and AOC, for example, because their policies are supported by an overwhelming majority of the population, including Republicans.

but of course, they are the 'extremists', the 'radicals', while policies that enrich a small portion of already rich people are 'moderate' and 'responsible', as is doing absolutely nothing about our impending environmental catastrophe.

Your absolute lack of self awareness is hysterical.