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    ...badges.

    I've had one of these on the collar of a jacket (fanboy, moi?) with a picture of said future PM, and have had the following responses recently:

    'I want some of those badges, we need him' - from the French fella who runs the International Cheese Shop in Victoria Station.

    'Love your badge' from a young student-aged barmaid in the local pub.

    'Let's hope he is, eh?' from the old(er) cashier in the Co-op.

    'This country needs more people like him, he's a great man' from the butcher in the Asian store round the corner.

    And, just now, 'Some extra lamb for him - he's a very good man' from the Lebanese bloke cutting my shawarma (I did point out that Corbyn might not eat it...).

    I haven't yet had anybody punch or swear at me, but that might just be down to good ole British reserve. Two questions spring to mind; do you know of any other politician who might elicit similar responses - particularly from such diverse backgrounds - and have you worn any badges/images/t-shirts that get outspoken responses (excluding football allegiances)?

    #2
    You’d probably have got away with a Sturgeon badge in Scotland for a few months till just after the 2015 election. But now she seems to make half of Scotland shout at the telly. By the Holyrood elections/Brexit vote, she was marmite. The conference for the Nats this year had nary a poster or mug with Her Face on it (last year, she was the story).

    But I don’t think she ever inspired the same affection as Corbyn. It’s a weird phenomenon, but outside Nick Cohen types, most of the Real People I’ve heard don’t seem to hate him even if they think he’s useless. Since he started looking vaguely competent toward the end of last year, it’s been amazing how quickly folk aren’t even fearing him coming to power but are now willing it on (whether instinctual left like my ma or increasingly more prone to reactionary bollocks da (before he found the Facebook he was forever email forwarding awful shite like Kevin fucking Myers Indo articles). Even the few Tory leaning Embra bams I know seem to be not too fear’d of him.

    Obama 08 maybes? Can’t think of many. Certainly not in Blighty
    Last edited by Lang Spoon; 10-10-2017, 21:47.

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      #3
      I've spoken to lots of people who like him. At the homeless hostel, just around the city. OK, Camden is safe Labour but there's plenty of Ordinary People. He's perceived as being less full of bullshit than the others. I thought his don't-really-give-a-shit attitude towards the media would be a plus point and I think it's turned out that way.

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        #4
        I can't think of another Westminster pol who'd get such a positive response, certainly outside of their own constituency. It would just seem weird if you saw someone with a May or Cable badge.

        My Belka the space dog badge draws its share of admiring comments but you'd have to be a pretty miserable sort to resist a dog in a space suit.

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          #5
          Never had a badge since I subscribed to DC Thompson comics fan clubs, but I want a space dog one now.

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            #6
            You could make a helmet for Gnasher from a plastic dessert pot.

            This is the mighty space dog badge:

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              #7
              I have that badge ^ and I have a Corbyn one, too. He's not wearing a space helmet.

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                #8
                I've got a "for the many not the few" t-shirt and we've got a Labour canvass shopping bag.

                Wearing badges is not enough, in days like these.

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                  #9
                  I’d like a Corbyn for PM but don’t fuck up Brexit badge. And of course the space dog cosmonaut pin. Hail and Farewell, Tovarishch!
                  Last edited by Lang Spoon; 10-10-2017, 22:00.

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                    #10
                    My wife had a guy shout at her across The Strip in Vegas to tell her that her Sesame Street t-shirt was cool.

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                      #11
                      Of course. For extra cudos, a Barrio Sesamo/Sesamstraat spin-off/dubbed version t-shirt.

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                        #12
                        Space Cat isn't quite as serious, but appealing in its own way:

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                          #13
                          I don't have this, but I find it hard to resist buying enamel badges. I had a load of TinTin ones, no idea where they went.

                          Sorry, getting off-topic.

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                            #14
                            Oh good god I’m getting severe Madeleine flashbacks to some unknowable early 80’s picture book with the artist’s style on Space Cat. Oh sweet toothache of vague nostalgia.

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                              #15
                              Were badges on leather jackets originally an anti-establishment thing, especially 1977-82? Ergo they would not belong in mainstream party politics, even pertaining to a truly socialist party leader?

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                                #16
                                Originally posted by Patrick Thistle View Post
                                My wife had a guy shout at her across The Strip in Vegas to tell her that her Sesame Street t-shirt was cool.
                                WOW! That is one loud voice.

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                                  #17
                                  Yeah. We wondered what was happening at first. It was at the top end near the IHOP towards the Stratosphere and it was 11am so not as busy as the main bit.

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                                    #18
                                    Originally posted by Satchmo Distel View Post
                                    Were badges on leather jackets originally an anti-establishment thing, especially 1977-82? Ergo they would not belong in mainstream party politics, even pertaining to a truly socialist party leader?
                                    I hadn't heard the leather jackets thing; I wore plenty of badges - Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, UFO, Genesis (even though I didn't particularly like two of those bands) - on my denim one during that time. Wasn't so much anti-establishment as anti-punk and anti-soul (in that they were the two other prominent tribes in my part of east London). I am ashamed of that previous sentence.

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                                      #19
                                      Badges, smadges. I was all about covering one of these:-



                                      ...with pictures, cartoons, band names and song lyrics.


                                      It was very important to remember use waterproof pens.

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                                        #20
                                        Originally posted by johnr View Post
                                        Wasn't so much anti-establishment as anti-punk and anti-soul (in that they were the two other prominent tribes in my part of east London). I am ashamed of that previous sentence.
                                        Dunno whether this late show of contrition will be enough to stop MsD from bashing you, johnr. Which will be seized upon as evidence of bitter internal divisions.

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                                          #21
                                          Yeh, punk and soul are great!

                                          I wear my leather jacket with badges all the time*. Current badges are Adam and the Ants You're so Physical, Have Love Will Travel (my friend's DJ night), and a Brutalist enamel badge from the Modernist Society. I have an Andrew Logan brooch on the other side which gets more comments, although the Ants one does attract some attention.

                                          * I mean a lot, obviously I don't have it on when I'm sitting at my desk or working out.

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                                            #22
                                            In an update that I know you've all been waiting for, in the past week my Corbyn badge has got approval from the French/Irish middle-aged waitress in the cafe round the corner, the twenty-something West African fella who works in the Jerk Chcken takeaway, and last night it inspired the early-twenty-something lad who works behind the Indian takeaway counter to give me a lecture on how Corbyn was a (good) hangover from Benn, and assuring me that lots of people were seeing through the general bad press he's got.

                                            I take two things from looking back on this: i) I don't do enough cooking, and ii) (as I mention at the top) I'm still struck by the diversity of support. It gives me great hope.

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                                              #23
                                              Yay!

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