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Originally posted by E10 Rifle View PostBang on cue, Wingco's thrown out another piece of Blair-baiting red meat on his FB today and all the same people have leapt on it, saying exactly the same things, wishing so hard The Nice Men Who Looked After Me In 1997 would come back
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I dunno, that bloke who never stops going on and on and on and on about Corbyn is quite funny. I mean he must stop from time to time to eat or breathe or stuff, but I have no idea how someone could be so obsessed with one subject and still carry on a life of sorts.
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I know, I mean, I assume I live in some kind of left wing bubble but I have never yet encountered one of these obsessive Corbynites for whom Saint Jezza is the messiah. And yet I see online loads of people who are utterly utterly obsessed with Corbyn. There's a journalist who is not one of wingco's crew, called Ian Leslie, who I follow on twitter because I liked a few of his articles in the past, but over the last 2 years he has talked about nothing else. He's completely hatstand
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I think that proves just how cult-like is their devotion that they can maintain Stalinist levels of discretion and discipline. I bet they were secretly drinking watre instead of vodka, and pouring their pints into conveniently placed shrubbery in order to maintain their discipline and mine weak-minded social democratic fools for titbits.
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Brilliantly pithy comment from former OTFer The Horse yesterday after Corbyn walked out of May's meeting, which sums up much of this thread (and references most of the same people)
https://twitter.com/jackseale/status/1108453555109879808
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really sorry not to be able to read your posts Wingco.
John Harris has just posted this on Twitter
https://twitter.com/johnharris1969/status/1110093161400016897
I wonder how he and the sensible centrists would have responded if Labour had launched a class- based attack on Jacob Rees Mogg's son.
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Originally posted by Nefertiti2 View Postreally sorry not to be able to read your posts Wingco.
John Harris has just posted this on Twitter
https://twitter.com/johnharris1969/status/1110093161400016897
I wonder how he and the sensible centrists would have responded if Labour had launched a class- based attack on Jacob Rees Mogg's son.
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Yeah, there's an interview they did with his dad around that age, and the first time I saw it I was wondering how he had made it so far without being pushed in front of a bus. Maybe this poor eejit is different, but the poor cunt hasn't won the lottery on either the nature or nurture side. Though if his dad is anything to go by, we'll be the ones to suffer as a result.
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Many of these centrists don't have any clue about policies. I don't think they're even really that interested. There was one contributor to one of the Facebook threads who pined for Blair and said almost dreamily that they just wished for the days when the left stood for meritocracy. And I thought, ok, while I'm no fan of simple meritocracy as an end goal, that does at least imply scrapping inheritance ̶t̶a̶x̶, scrapping private education, ... and a whole host of policies that if espoused by Corbyn would be objected to as extreme and unrealistic. (Sadly I never actually got around to replying, not enough time, but it would likely have fallen on deaf ears anyway.)Last edited by Jimski; 26-03-2019, 10:03.
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