AngryOfTuebrook

I don't think it's a case of people thinking "Paid to stay at home? These are the good times! Thank you, Tories!" I do think that the "Boris is doing his best/imagine how bad it would be if Corbyn had won" propaganda has been allowed to take hold; partly because of the way our media & political system is rigged and partly because of Labour’s ineffectiveness. Also, the pandemic is providing cover for the shitshow that is Brexit* - and in any case, the EU are being blamed for that. (* It really is, despite the temporary pay rises in some sectors.)

Who the fuck was filming him in bed?

CLPs need democratising, too. The idea of "delegates only" meetings is horseshit: all meetings should be open to all members. Then, for candidate selection, anyone who can get x% (a threshold high enough to deter self-interested wreckers) of the membership to nominate them can stand for a One Member One Vote election. In practice, most MPs would still get selected unopposed, but it would be harder to attack them by claiming a lack of democratic credibility.

I never understood the objection to mandatory reselection of candidates. I like democracy.

Fucking helmets, the lot of them. Their only purpose appears to be to split the Labour vote in a part of the country in which Labour is struggling to hold off the Tories.

Not yet identified a suspect and the Police are asking people not to speculate about the motive - but the media are stressing the Charlie Hebdo T-shirt.

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It's worth watching. 3 Billboards is to the Coen Brothers as Joker is to Scorsese. We could end up with a couple of (excellent) tribute acts in the final.

Same here. Django is typical Tarantino style-over-substance and Wolf of Wall Street is just boring.

A great bunch of lads.

I know they say you can't judge a book by its cover, but when you write a book on Brexit and you choose to put Hogarth's The Madhouse (from The Rake's Progress) on the cover, it's probably fair to say you're not a fan.

Fucking hell. "Yeah, thanks for the Battle of Britain and all, but would you mind fucking off back where you came from, please."

Probably best. That's basically the reason I stayed off this thread for as long as I could. (Less than a full day. I have a problem!)