[The Weeping Angel]

It's a Red Dwarf reference Abers.

[The Weeping Angel]

[Oboogie]

No shit, did Putin receive the memo?

Ukrainians don’t have agency in Jez World. Grieving mothers though. Who killed their kids?

The West.

Not Israel?

[davidjay]

If ever you want to remember what a poisonous lot they are, read the replies.

[Abernathy]

Only managed to read 3 or 4. That was quite enough. What shits they are.

[Oboogie]

They're fantasists.
And cunts!

[Youngian]

At least Tony Benn didn't take himself as seriously as his disciples do about him and themselves. He would note that as Hugh Gaitskell's modernising comms chief he was 'the Peter Mandelson of his day.' I was told by a Bennite I was a malicious Blarite liar when I mentioned this. Reminding the cult that Anthony W-B was a middle of the road technocratic minister in the 60s will also get you in hot water.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

The thing about Tony Benn (which these cunts will never understand) is that he was a very nice man, and would never berate someone else for having a different view of socialism. Like so many of us lefties he knew that there would be huge barriers to achieving the sort of society he wanted, and that the Labour Party would be the best vehicle to get as much as possible of that vision. That would surely make him a sell-out in their eyes?

He also had a passion for parliamentary democracy which I doubt they share.

[edited to eliminate typos due to typing too fast...]

[Abernathy]

An interesting thought piece is to imagine that Benn had been elected as Labour leader instead of Corbyn (I know the timescales don’t allow this, but just suspend disbelief for a minute).

Would he he have done better than Corbyn did ? He certainly projected a more human persona, though as I recall, he was demonised throughout the 1970s and 1980s at least as much as Corbyn was in the 21st century.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

Benn was on another level, and he was also a pragmatist not a doginthemangerist. But he would have been so demonised as to have been neutralised.