UK Politics Thread IX: The Masses Against the Classes

[Vassenor]

Nigel Farage once declared that he'd "don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines" if his type of Brexit wasn't implemented.

He said Brexit had been won "without a single bullet being fired" days after Jo Cox was murdered.

Spare me the tears over a banana and salted caramel milkshake.

[Ostroeuropa]

Or Jezza, if we really want to go down this path of silly conspiracy theories you seem keen to walk down.

Galloway literally had a gig as a pundit on Press TV. That's not a conspiracy theory.

He's a crypto-muslim and this is one of the ways he expresses his faith in a crypto fashion, by avoiding publicizing that fact except on networks pretty much only muslims listen to. Just saying if he's pro-Iran then his opposition to the Iraq war makes no sense.

He's mostly just anti-western.

[Hirota]

Nigel Farage once declared that he'd "don khaki, pick up a rifle and head for the front lines" if his type of Brexit wasn't implemented.

He said Brexit had been won "without a single bullet being fired" days after Jo Cox was murdered.

Spare me the tears over a banana and salted caramel milkshake.

Yes, Owen Jones is an idiot with too much time on his hands spouting insane twattery on twatter. Maybe source the idiot you idiotically quote next time.

But you following that snotty little turd really does explain a lot about how easy it is to mock your silly posts.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Only the EU could institute a PR voting system that still results in tactical voting.

Currently dithering over whether Labour getting a seat in my region is guaranteed enough to vote Green in the narrow hope they'd get a seat rather than the Lib Dems so two left wing parties get in.

[Ifreann]

Only the EU could institute a PR voting system that still results in tactical voting.

Currently dithering over whether Labour getting a seat in my region is guaranteed enough to vote Green in the narrow hope they'd get a seat rather than the Lib Dems so two left wing parties get in.

You instituted it, not the EU.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

Only the EU could institute a PR voting system that still results in tactical voting.

Currently dithering over whether Labour getting a seat in my region is guaranteed enough to vote Green in the narrow hope they'd get a seat rather than the Lib Dems so two left wing parties get in.

Either you must really hate the Lib Dems or the UK Greens are very different from the Australian Greens.

[Greater vakolicci haven]

Or Jezza, if we really want to go down this path of silly conspiracy theories you seem keen to walk down.

Galloway literally had a gig as a pundit on Press TV. That's not a conspiracy theory.

Do you mean like ken livingstone, lembit opik, nick Ferrari and some guy called Jeremy Corbyn?

[Dumb Ideologies]

Only the EU could institute a PR voting system that still results in tactical voting.

Currently dithering over whether Labour getting a seat in my region is guaranteed enough to vote Green in the narrow hope they'd get a seat rather than the Lib Dems so two left wing parties get in.

You instituted it, not the EU.

Begone, Irish saboteur. It's always the EU's fault, we voted to take back control not responsibility.

[The Grims]

Only the EU could institute a PR voting system that still results in tactical voting.

Currently dithering over whether Labour getting a seat in my region is guaranteed enough to vote Green in the narrow hope they'd get a seat rather than the Lib Dems so two left wing parties get in.

You instituted it, not the EU.

That's the case with most things the anti-EU crowd whines about

[Dumb Ideologies]

You instituted it, not the EU.

That's the case with most things the anti-EU crowd whines about

no u

[Hirota]

Galloway literally had a gig as a pundit on Press TV. That's not a conspiracy theory.

Do you mean like ken livingstone, lembit opik, nick Ferrari and some guy called Jeremy Corbyn?

Fancy that. Glorious leader is an Iranian stooge, if we apply Vassenorian levels of "logic."

[Ifreann]

You instituted it, not the EU.

Begone, Irish saboteur. It's always the EU's fault, we voted to take back control not responsibility.

The true meaning of Brexit.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Do you mean like ken livingstone, lembit opik, nick Ferrari and some guy called Jeremy Corbyn?

Fancy that. Glorious leader is an Iranian stooge, if we apply Vassenorian levels of "logic."

Is Vass even a socialist or just a centre-centre left liberal?

We know plenty of stuff she's against, but I don't think any of us have a clue what she's for.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

Fancy that. Glorious leader is an Iranian stooge, if we apply Vassenorian levels of "logic."

Is Vass even a socialist or just a centre-centre left liberal?

We know plenty of stuff she's against, but I don't think any of us have a clue what she's for.

To be fair, I could ask the same question about you. Are you a full on seize the means of production Socialist or a hybridist/corporatist/third positionist type deal?

[Ifreann]

Who needs sincere political beliefs when you have sarcasm?

[The Blaatschapen]

Who needs sincere political beliefs when you have sarcasm?

And sarcasm is still more constructive than racism

[Dumb Ideologies]

Is Vass even a socialist or just a centre-centre left liberal?

We know plenty of stuff she's against, but I don't think any of us have a clue what she's for.

To be fair, I could ask the same question about you. Are you a full on seize the means of production Socialist or a hybridist/corporatist/third positionist type deal?

The left side of the latter, i.e. combined with expanding ordinary people's stake in the enterprises they work in, renationalising all public services, and establishing both a maximum wage and a basic income.

I have discussed this before, my dear ancap.

[An Alan Smithee Nation]

Who needs sincere political beliefs when you have sarcasm?

And sarcasm is still more constructive than racism

Racism truly is the lowest form of wit.

[Dumb Ideologies]

Who needs sincere political beliefs when you have sarcasm?

And sarcasm is still more constructive than racism

Just the sort of nonsense I'd expect from a foreigner ･ᴗ･

[Hirota]

And sarcasm is still more constructive than racism

Racism truly is the lowest form of wit.

Unless it's historic Japanese weaponry being incorrectly attributed as racism. Then it becomes...well, it becomes something.

[The Xenopolis Confederation]

To be fair, I could ask the same question about you. Are you a full on seize the means of production Socialist or a hybridist/corporatist/third positionist type deal?

The left side of the latter, i.e. combined with expanding ordinary people's stake in the enterprises they work in, renationalising all public services, and establishing both a maximum wage and a basic income.

Fair enough. But what do you mean by "public service?"

I have discussed this before, my dear ancap.

Oh God, is this gonna become a running joke?

[The Blaatschapen]

The left side of the latter, i.e. combined with expanding ordinary people's stake in the enterprises they work in, renationalising all public services, and establishing both a maximum wage and a basic income.

Fair enough. But what do you mean by "public service?"

I have discussed this before, my dear ancap.

Oh God, is this gonna become a running joke?

Now it will be, my dear ancap.

[Ostroeuropa]

To be fair, I could ask the same question about you. Are you a full on seize the means of production Socialist or a hybridist/corporatist/third positionist type deal?

The left side of the latter, i.e. combined with expanding ordinary people's stake in the enterprises they work in, renationalising all public services, and establishing both a maximum wage and a basic income.

I have discussed this before, my dear ancap.

A maximum wage i'd tolerate only within the context of it being tagged to overall prosperity levels rather than the crap we do with minimum wage. I'd also prefer revenue generated above that maximum be customizable in a way ordinary tax is not and think this would probably reduce the problem of "lack of incentive" if people could earmark their excess to be spent on government programmes they actually support, rather than risk the "Lack of incentive" becoming an active disincentive when they start pondering how many bombs this hour of work is going to effectively produce for the government without the excuse that they "Need the money".

I do however support an in-corporate maximum wage where the highest wage can only be some multiple of the lowest wage at that corporation. It's a general national maximum wage i'm suspicious of, as I don't particularly see what someone working for Company A can do about the poor sods over at Company B not making much money.

[Ostroeuropa]

He's hardly a Thatcherite and was Thatchers right hand man in the sense that if she didn't give some of the Wets power, they would oust her. He was a wet tory and one of the reasons she was brought down. He's always been on the left of the party.

He wasn't even in government when they ousted Thatcher. He got kicked out over helicopters, not his support for Maggie.

... Do you not know how Thatcher was ousted?

Hestletine issued the challenge to her leadership and pulled down 43% of the vote, necessitating a second round. Leaks and so on indicated that since it became apparent Thatcher could actually lose the second round, rebel MPs and careerists were emboldened to break rank and would back Hestletine in the second round and lead the Wets to victory and the marginalization of the Thatcherite faction. Thatcher declined to participate and withdrew from the race in order to knife Hestletine and the wets, because the only reason he did so well was as a compromise anti-thatcher candidate everyone could broadly tolerate.

Without Thatcher as a uniting force, his support balkanized into the various factions again (Communitarians, one nation tories, traditionalists, blairite types, and so on). He was nobodies favorite, but somebody people would tolerate to get rid of Thatcher. This allowed all the factions to pretend they had nothing to do with it and blame Hesltetine, meaning they could court the Thatcherite faction.

Major eventually won because he was a compromise between anti-thatcher and pro-thatcher factions of the party, the actual middle ground, whereas Hesltetine was the middle ground for anti-thatcherism.

[Philjia]

He wasn't even in government when they ousted Thatcher. He got kicked out over helicopters, not his support for Maggie.

... Do you not know how Thatcher was ousted?

Hestletine issued the challenge to her leadership and pulled down 43% of the vote, necessitating a second round. Leaks and so on indicated that since it became apparent Thatcher could actually lose the second round, rebel MPs and careerists were emboldened to break rank and would back Hestletine in the second round and lead the Wets to victory and the marginalization of the Thatcherite faction. Thatcher declined to participate and withdrew from the race in order to knife Hestletine and the wets, because the only reason he did so well was as a compromise anti-thatcher candidate everyone could broadly tolerate.

Without Thatcher as a uniting force, his support balkanized into the various factions again (Communitarians, one nation tories, traditionalists, blairite types, and so on). He was nobodies favorite, but somebody people would tolerate to get rid of Thatcher. This allowed all the factions to pretend they had nothing to do with it and blame Hesltetine, meaning they could court the Thatcherite faction.

Major eventually won because he was a compromise between anti-thatcher and pro-thatcher factions of the party, the actual middle ground, whereas Hesltetine was the middle ground for anti-thatcherism.

It helped that Major was Thatcher's preferred successor.