May calls General Election on 8 June

[Rico1304]

Yet another left winger out to see Rico out of a job.

I'm not that old.

[Pureblood]

Corbz to debate on BBC one tonight. I think it'll be a good move, showing up May for the shithouse she is.

 

Slick move from Corbs.

[Rico1304]

I'd be pleasantly surprised if a good proportion of people on this site would t advocate some kind of sanction for voting conservative.

[Skidfingers McGonical]

No he hasn't.

You're right. He's just refused to say he will or won't and it was Cable who said it. After announcing he was running for the Twickenham seat he lost in 2015.

[Rick Sanchez C-137]

imagine there are very few people on all sides of the political spectrum in the UK that do not support Ed Miliband in his fight against The Daily Mail’s vicious smear campaign. Miliband took the rather unprecedented step for a politician when he decided to take on the Daily Mail directly. The hate rag, that apparently has no issue hounding vulnerable people to suicide aimed their most recent attack at the Labour leader’s late father; the revered Marxist academic Ralph Miliband. The Mail wrote:

 

“The man who hated Britain: Red Ed’s pledge to bring back socialism is a homage to his Marxist father. So what did Miliband Snr really believe in? The answer should disturb everyone who loves this country.”

 

– The entire piece surrounds a quote from Miliband Snr’s diary from the age of 17, in which he refers to Brits as ‘rabid Nationalists’. The entire piece asserting that the Labour leader’s father ‘hated Britain’ rests on that one quote. It is the mark of a paper that has no reasonable argument to make, and so just attacks, just hounds, and just aims to hurt lives. This is how the Daily Mail operates. It exists not to inform, but to injure. Not to progress debate, but to mislead and misrepresent. They do however present one aspect of the story, that they predictably quickly gloss over, but it is worth expanding on. The quote from the piece in question is:

 

“Ralph Miliband then served three years in the Royal Navy…”

 

– This is a particularly important quote, because whilst the father of Ed Miliband was fighting the Nazis by manning a destroyer during the heroic Normandy landings, the great-grandfather of the owner of the British-loving Daily Mail was back in the safety of Britain, supporting Hitler.

 

In fact as early as 1926, the Mail was known throughout Europe as a Fascist publication. In that year, Benito Mussolini wrote to the new Chief Correspondent at the Mail, G. Ward Price:

 

“My dear Price, I am glad you have become a director of the Daily Mail, and I am sure that your very popular and widely circulated newspaper will continue to be a sincere friend of fascist Italy. With best wishes and greetings, Mussolini.

 

A few years after a delighted Mussolini congratulated the Mail’s new Chief Correspondent on his position on the Fascist supporting paper, the proprietor of The Daily Mail, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere in 1933 took that support one step further:

 

“I urge all British young men and women to study closely the progress of the Nazi regime in Germany. They must not be misled by the misrepresentations of its opponents. The most spiteful detractors of the Nazis are to be found in precisely the same sections of the British public and press as are most vehement in their praises of the Soviet regime in Russia. They have started a clamorous campaign of denunciation against what they call “Nazi atrocities” which, as anyone who visits Germany quickly discovers for himself, consists merely of a few isolated acts of violence such as are inevitable among a nation half as big again as ours, but which have been generalized, multiplied and exaggerated to give the impression that Nazi rule is a bloodthirsty tyranny.”

 

– This was in the same year the Nazis implemented the Jewish boycott, leading to state managed harassment, beatings, and forced removals of Jews by Nazis. Less than a year later, the Nazis would engage in what is commonly referred to as the “night of the long knives”, in which political critics of the regime were brutally murdered. Lord Rothermere believed at this point that the Nazis bloodthirsty tyranny was being misrepresented.

 

In 1934, The Daily Mail began openly supporting the blackshirts; The British Union of Fascists, through its leader Oswald Mosley (himself heavily influenced by Mussolini, whom he met earlier in the decade). In 1934, the Mail wrote that the British Union of Fascists were:

 

“…a well organised party of the right ready to take over responsibility for national affairs with the same directness of purpose and energy of method as Hitler and Mussolini have displayed”.

 

– This makes the “rapid nationalists” quote of Ralph Miliband seem completely uncontroversial. The Daily Mail openly supporting the methods and purpose of Hitler and Mussolini, for the sake of Fascism in Britain.

 

In the 1934, Harold Harmsworth, 1st Viscount Rothermere, and owner of The Daily Mail flew to Germany, and met with Adolf Hitler. Here are the happy couple:

 

 

– This is at a time when Daily Mail editorials were used as propaganda, by the Nazis.

 

In 1938, the Nazi owner of the Fascist-supporting, anti-British Daily Mail sent a telegram to Hitler to announce his support for the Nazi annexation of the Sudetenland. In it, Rothermere wrote:

 

“My dear Fuhrer everyone in England is profoundly moved by the bloodless solution to the Czechoslovakian problem. People not so much concerned with territorial readjustment as with dread of another war with its accompanying bloodbath. Frederick the Great was a great popular figure. I salute your excellency’s star which rises higher and higher.”

 

– Rothermere was fully supporting an apparent Nazi (not German) right to empire in Europe. The annexation of Sudetenland lead to its Jewish inhabitants rounded up and thrown into concentration camps, alongside any left leaning opposition in the territories. A month after Rothermere sent his telegram of support for the “bloodless solution”, Sudetenland and the rest of the Nazi empire experienced the truly horrific night of broken glass, in which 91 Jews were murdered, Jewish homes and businesses destroyed, and 30,000 Jewish men, women and children rounded up like animals and thrown into concentration camps.

 

A letter from Rothermere in 1939 (six years into Nazi control of Germany, and thousands of political murders later) congratulated Hitler on his success in Prague, and urged him to move on to Romania. Rothermere had befriended and was paying a Nazi spy in Britain – Stephanie von Hohenlohe – to further his contacts in Nazi Germany, and pass correspondence between himself and the regime. The brutality of the regime at this late point was obvious. Rothermere and the Mail turned a blind eye to it.

 

So, when you hear the Daily Mail insist that it is relevant to point to brief notes from the mid-20th Century childhood of the father of a political leader in the 21st Century as proof of his “hate” for Britain, and as an attack on his son today… we must keep in mind that during the same period of time, their paper and its owner (the great-grandfather of its current owner) were hoping British troops would fail (including the bravery of Ralph Miliband), and openly praying for a Nazi victory, and dictatorial Fascism across Europe and Britain.

 

Excellent

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

I'd be pleasantly surprised if a good proportion of people on this site would t advocate some kind of sanction for voting conservative.

Don't you get bored of talking utter shite?

[Cardie]

The Greens have stopped campaigning here in the hope it will push labour ahead of the tories.

If that party political broadcast with the family playing a biardgame is anythung to go by they should stop campaigning full stop.

 

Who the fuck dreamt that up.

[Chairman Meow]

I'm not that old.

 

I meant removing you of your granny killing duties. 

[Plev]

Now Corbyns doing tonight's debate, I wonder if you can get odds on the amount of time 'IRA' gets mentioned?

[Guest Pistonbroke]

Corbz to debate on BBC one tonight. I think it'll be a good move, showing up May for the shithouse she is.

 

We'll just have to put up with Amber Rudd making a cunt of herself. 

[Nelly-Szoboszlai]

6.8 pence for a breakfast.

 

Horrible fuckers. Won't even get you a bowl of cornflakes that. And forget about the milk, as Maggie T has already nabbed that.

 

Bastards.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/the_awakend/status/869869672489005056/video/1

[Plev]

6.8 pence for a breakfast.

 

Horrible fuckers. Won't even get you a bowl of cornflakes that. And forget about the milk, as Maggie T has already nabbed that.

 

Bastards.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/the_awakend/status/869869672489005056/video/1

I've seen a few bits of Barry Gardiner in the last week and been really impressed with him.

[Guest Pistonbroke]

6.8 pence for a breakfast.

 

Horrible fuckers. Won't even get you a bowl of cornflakes that. And forget about the milk, as Maggie T has already nabbed that.

 

Bastards.

 

https://mobile.twitter.com/the_awakend/status/869869672489005056/video/1

 

That Karen Bradley deserves a kick in her smug cunt. 

[Jairzinho]

I've seen a few bits of Barry Gardiner in the last week and been really impressed with him.

 

I love how much he pulls up the media.

[Plev]

I love how much he pulls up the media.

I saw a clip earlier in the week when he was up against Gove, and he was really good.

[FieldingMellish]

https://www.thecanary.co/2017/05/31/radio-4-host-tried-stop-labours-barry-gardiner-exposing-bbc-live-failed-audio/

 

He's excellent every time I've seen him.

[Section_31]

Great move by Corbyn this, been very impressed with him so far. 

 

 

"I have taken off my makeup, let's see if you can take off yours'. 

[Anubis]

He should walk on with a thimbleful of cornflakes and a thimbleful of milk, place them on Amber Rudd's podium, and say "I've brought you breakfast."

[Guest Pistonbroke]

He should walk on with a thimbleful of cornflakes and a thimbleful of milk, place them on Amber Rudd's podium, and say "I've brought you breakfast."

 

Or a stale bread roll and say, "here you go Heffalump, I've brought you breakfast." 

[Manny]

Absolutely no shame, these cunts. No shame at all.

 

 

 

May's Q&A

May is now taking questions from "workers" at the factory.

Q: There is no doubt that, just as Churchill was needed during world war two, you are needed now. But I am worried you are going to take away our freedoms with your policy with regard to British viewers. People not involved in terrorism will end up being investigated. I have a problem with that.

May says she does not want to remove freedoms. Freedom of expression and freedom of faith are essential. But she wants to take action against those preaching hate.

This is about reinforcing British values, she says.

 

I may have added the quote marks, just in case you're unsure about the possibility that this guy might not actually be a worker.

[Section_31]

Absolutely no shame, these cunts. No shame at all.

 

 

I may have added the quote marks, just in case you're unsure about the possibility that this guy might not actually be a worker.

 

Haha genius

 

 

'We will fight them on the beaches, or maybe not on the beaches, maybe in the fields or the landing grounds, we will never surrender, I've told you Andrew let me be absolutely clear about this, we will not 'unconditionally' surrender'.

[Red Phoenix]

If that party political broadcast with the family playing a biardgame is anythung to go by they should stop campaigning full stop.

 

Who the fuck dreamt that up.

 

Leave our Greens alone. Down with this sort of thing.

[cloggypop]

No he hasn't.

Depends when you ask him

 

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2015/sep/23/tim-farron-lib-dems-coalition-tories-clegg

[Strontium]

You're right. He's just refused to say he will or won't and it was Cable who said it. After announcing he was running for the Twickenham seat he lost in 2015.

He has outright ruled out a coalition with anyone who is pro Brexit.

[Manny]

I might be biased - in fact I'm willing to accept that I am - but I just don't get any of the appeal with May whatsoever. She's comfortably the worst politician I've ever seen in a high office, dripping with incompetence and devoid of any kind of charisma. And any kind of selling point that's offered about her can be refuted: not with any kind of logical gymnastics, but with absolute ease. The tory mong campaign seems to be all in on Brexit now because that's the only area they've got any kind of solid lead left, but even on that their (and her) stance is as hollow as a fucking empty jar of wank:

 

Apparently she's decisive and strong. Except she's committed or been heavily complicit in at least 3 U-turns this year.

 

Apparently she's the only one who can stare down the EU. Except she's terrified of any kind of unscripted debate and can only regurgitate soundbites to handpicked audiences.

 

Apparently she's the only one with a detailed Brexit plan. Except we've never seen it or heard it, and they decided to inconvenience the buildup with an unneccessary election.

 

Apparently she's a woman of her word, who'll succeed in any task she's given. Except she completely and utterly failed on her pledge - whether it was a good idea or not - to get immigration down to the tens of thousands. And she's decided to reinstate it, demonstrating what a catastrophic fucking incompetent she is yet again.

 

How the fuck she has any kind of credibility with all the above - and more - in mind is just completely beyond me. She makes her completely useless predecessor look like Abraham Lincoln.