[Yug]

How exactly are 2 blokes who haven’t been MPs for years, let alone in government, affecting anything? Also, they’re both to the left of the current mob, so even if they did shift anything it’d be in what you’d assume would be a direction they favoured, even if not by a tremendous amount.

That's the problem. They're still to the right of the Anointed One, and small shifts to the Left aren't good enough. The trots want full-on Socialism, and they want it RIGHT NOW.

[Youngian]

Meaningful change stamped out by a podcast? Maybe it's not as popular as Ash and others say.

David Mellor and Ken Livingstone did a radio show for a long time. What's the difference?

Diane Abbot and Theresa Gorman hosted an excellent chalk and cheese radio show. Friends from councillor days so plenty of bantz but still clear blue water political debate.

[Philip Marlow]

Not joking here, Jez has (with Len McCluskey) published a poetry book. OK, better than vitamin supplement pills, but still.

Put it this way, the Vogons would appreciate him:

Rise, like lions after slumber
In unvanquishable number,
Shake your chains to earth like dew
Which in sleep had fallen on you -
Ye are many—they are few!

Tony Benn would also bore audiences with this Shelly quote along with Paul Foot who was convinced Percy was a prototype SWP activist.

It's a shame that Bloomsday was a couple of weeks ago. Given the number of people in those hog wild Twitter replies who are convinced that The Mask of Anarchy is a Jez original, I'd be interested in how many he could lure into denouncing him as a pervert by quoting certain passages from Molly Bloom's Soliloquy.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Don't developers move fast, John. LIsa Nandy only announced it a couple of weeks ago. And they're already doing this?

And, you know what, councils don't have to give planning permission to people who do this. Given the difficulty of building anything anywhere, they'd be quite likely not to. Anyway, where are all these brownfield sites? Go and join the Lib Dems, as some of your fans used to say.

[Youngian]

Wasn’t ‘guilty men’ a phrase associated with Hitler appeasers? Just like these counter-revolutionary fascist traitors going on Miller’s list.

[Philip Marlow]

A j'acccuse written by Michael Foot and...others. A quick Google cheat supplies the additional names Frank Owen and Peter Howard. I've read a fair bit about without ever actually having read.

[The Weeping Angel]

Ah David Miller a man who claimed that an interfaith meeting between Jews and Muslims was a Zionist plot to brainwash Muslims.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Talking of whom.

By the way, the Association of Ukrainians says it was founded in 1946.

[Youngian]

A very surprising set of results if you have the courtesy to assume these are net ratings. But they really are that stupid because these are not net approval ratings.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bozo and Farage do pretty well on there too. Well known with decent sized base, that's all that is. With no reference to disapproval.

[Crabcakes]

Surprised he dare blow that particular trumpet given, by his own reckoning, that makes the apparently loathsome Kier Starmer all of 1% behind the absolute boy.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Bizarre to poll a load of retired politicians anyway. I expect Winston Churchill would get high approval and familiarity. But Dennis Skinner, Tony Blair, Gordon Brown and Jez aren't coming back any more than Winnie is.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Here's a poll that does net approval.

I like Ed, but looking at that, he should have walked.

[Youngian]

What with the new Mission Impossible blockbuster opening, Tom Cruise must be bricking it

[davidjay]

What threats? What bans? Saying you're not interested in showing a couple of hours badly-produced, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that says you're not anti-Semitic and it's all the Jews' fault for saying you are isn't censorship.

[Crabcakes]

What threats? What bans? Saying you're not interested in showing a couple of hours badly-produced, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that says you're not anti-Semitic and it's all the Jews' fault for saying you are isn't censorship.

Same as the electorate were at fault for not falling over themselves to vote for and promote Jez unquestioningly, the cinemagoing public are now at fault for not creating demand and forcing every screen show this documentary 24/7.

[davidjay]

What threats? What bans? Saying you're not interested in showing a couple of hours badly-produced, tinfoil hat conspiracy theory that says you're not anti-Semitic and it's all the Jews' fault for saying you are isn't censorship.

Same as the electorate were at fault for not falling over themselves to vote for and promote Jez unquestioningly, the cinemagoing public are now at fault for not creating demand and forcing every screen show this documentary 24/7.

It's because the mainstream cinemas are afraid of him so they're brainwashing customers into believing their propaganda.

[Youngian]

If legendary horror B-movie director William Castle couldn’t get wide distribution for his schlock he would produce posters (crowds running from giant creature) of ‘the film they tried to ban.’

[davidjay]

If legendary horror B-movie director William Castle couldn’t get wide distribution for his schlock he would produce posters (crowds running from giant creature) of ‘the film they tried to ban.’

A tactic subsequently adopted by (usually) right-wing commentators and entertainers.

[Tubby Isaacs]

London Underground strikes.

Is Jez going to show up for these and stick it to popular on the left, Sadiq? Or is it only strikes v Tories that Proper Working Class leaders show up for?

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/202 ... -aslef-rmt