Harringay, Haringey - So Good they Spelt it Twice!
Is this snobbery?
PERHAPS the most lasting image and memory of last night's Rochester & Strood By-election, will be the effect of a Parliamentary Opposition front-bencher's use of that most risky of political tools, the "tweet" ...
Was image from #Rochester, snobbery?
Here's the image. Unlike the original tweeted image, I've obscured the resident's vehicle registration number. The issue of privacy was later cited by Mr Ware.
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Permalink Reply by Old-Age-Emporium(OAE) on
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Thank you, thank you, BBL! No, I hadn't seen it but I agree with Maggie - it's fleggin marvellous. This should be the first lesson in the syllabus for Wee Infants in every school from Sandy Row to Ballymena to Roslea and Crossmaglen. (But I missed the gold and white of the Vatican's Papal Fleg in O'Kane's line up.) When we've piloted it across John Bull's Other Island, we'll roll it out through all the more benighted corners of our Host Nation over here.
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Permalink Reply by Sharon on
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But the labour party was created to represent more than white British working class people. The only solid policy that UKIP has is to kick out immigrants. I'm also white working class British and feel unrepresented by the labour party but the idea of UKIP makes me vomit. I admire your frankness but you have taken my breath away. Aren't you interested in the emerging Far left movements such as left unity?
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Well, possibly, yes. UKIP also want to dismantle the NHS don't they? They truly are *the* nasty party. What about them do you like? How are they representing you?
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Permalink Reply by StephenBln on
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...then you haven't learned the lessons of history.
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I too want the Labour Party to stop being scared of its own shadow but your support for UKIP, even short term, is dangerous.
"I would argue that the very exisence of the NHS stifles competition, and as competition drives quality and choice, innovation and improvements are restricted". Paul Nuttal, Deputy leader UKIP. UKIP MEP, May 2014.
Sounds like an endoresement of privatisation to me.
However as UKIP makes up policies on the hoof and changes them each day to appeal to whoever they are talking to there will be another one along any minute.
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Permalink Reply by Clive Carter on
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MOSTLY HARMLESS, I recognise a great deal in your description of today's New Labour party. Trouble is, so will many ordinary members of that once-great Party but, most of whom – with some creditable exceptions – lack either the courage or the moral compass to acknowledge it.
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Moral Compass? The party that nearly elected Huhne as it's leader..?
The LDs made a pact with the devil.. and would do the same after the next election even with Labour if that would just would keep them in their jobs.
But unfortunately, the LDs have already named their election battle bus Titanic..
Mostly Harmless is just repeating Daily Mail headlines. He still wants 1945 politics seventy years on.. It ain't gonna happen.
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Morning Stephen! I think that diminishing numbers of New Labour apologists will continue to try to obfuscate (whereas Ed Milliband quickly understood the damage wrought.)
Context is all: sometimes it takes a foreign perspective to see more clearly what most of us know already.
A full if not complete, explanation of the three-word-tweet, from the United States and for an international audience, is here at The Atlantic.
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Permalink Reply by Michael Anderson on
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You need to think really carefully about voting for UKIP. Remember the people who voted LibDem as protest and what we ended up with If UKiP did hold the balance of power after the general election, and entered into a coalition with the Conservatives, how would that change the Labour Party?
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I, too, like Mostly Harmless, am old enough and atavistic enough in my political imaginings, to wish that we still had George Brown rolling along Downing Street to give Wilson a hard or embarrassing time. But is Mostly Harmless's reduplicated stress on Socialist or UKIP etiquette on bacon butties not a little harsh on the dietary traditions of even atheist and non-observant Primrose Hill Jewry? Please, MH, give us immigrants a few more generations to adapt to English lard-consuming habits - or we may have to conclude that you're Not-so-Harmless-After-All.
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Permalink Reply by pamish on
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UKIP have been very clever to convince the electorate that they are the party with th interests of the working class paramount. They are upper class public school tossers. Farage is an ex banker - and not just any old banker but a commodity broker - the worst of the lot.
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