flyingrodent

I mean, this is not new stuff lads

“Surely Labour politicians and officials would not play silly buggers with our children’s future, just out of spite and self-interest” well, can I just show you some old tweets here

I mean, this is not new stuff lads

Somebody ripped out the capacity of the British state to make and do things, and now we can’t even fight wars. If only we had some idea who was to blame

Again: the international fascist movement.

I don’t know folks, it seems to me that the kids might have been right about their ruling class being full of deeply racist, misogynist sex offenders. Perhaps that whole Cancel Culture panic was badly wrong, and apologies are in order? Not least because it was obviously vexatious *at the time*.

It’d be galling if you’d set your own career on fire to tell the country Gove is a fully radicalised little fash twunt; all you had got for it was Yeah, Yeah, We’re A Bit Busy, Love and now he’s doing Der Sturmer clips for clicks in his role as editor of the nation’s top far right politics magazine.

Okay, let’s do this Stephen: there’s no smoke without fire, the fish rots from the head. Let’s have an utterly ruthless inquiry into the BBC’s hate. Drag in executives, journos, presenters and really give them The Treatment at full late 2023 intensity. That would be clarifying.

McSweeney Labour tested this proposition to destruction and beyond with ceaseless upsucking to reactionary voters who hate them and will never vote for them. The result: they got banjoed at the council elections, then dropped Keir Starmer in a river like a mobile phone full of incriminating messages

McConaughey’s point there is “don’t be snooty wankers to people for no good reason”, it’s isn’t “if you crawl on your knees to the public asking ‘Sir, sir, does this patriotic flag please you, I too hate the fucking immigrants’ then they will vote for you”.

Just realised that more than anyone else, the political figure Truss most resembles is Keir Starmer: he too was a clueless bimbo hired to do the bidding of a bunch of malignant back office swine, only too happy to do and say whatever they wanted if it meant he got his turn in the big chair.

Again, it’s worth recalling what happened when the SNP put forward a parliamentary motion about this type of thing, which included the words “collective punishment”. Remember how all the press lads were outraged, but also very non-specific about it was that had happened and why it was bad.

I recall near unanimity that the Speaker of the House would have to step down because had clowned himself and made a mockery of the institution, but then - as tends to happen with anything awkward - the matter was dropped like a shitty stick never mentioned again. The Speaker? Still in his job.

Again, it’s worth recalling what happened when the SNP put forward a parliamentary motion about this type of thing, which included the words “collective punishment”. Remember how all the press lads were outraged, but also very non-specific about it was that had happened and why it was bad.

I think this becomes quite understandable in the context of an international fascist movement that has swept much of the planet in a decade, with horrifying and very extreme consequences for the entire species

Not exactly undermining my belief that the Tony Martin murder trial in 2000 is one of several Ground Zeroes for the British reactionary movement

I note that everywhere the right wins now, they push for some mix of wars of aggression, looting and destroying the public realm, impunity for corruption and war crimes, roasting the planet with hydrocarbons, deforestation, destroying public education, ethnic supremacy and McCarthyist crackdowns.

I do not think it should be controversial to say that the world’s more notable far right politicians - Trump, Putin, Bolsonaro, Le Pen, Farage, take your pick - are actively evil people with evil projects, pursued by evil means. Of course they are, they openly revel in it.

I note that everywhere the right wins now, they push for some mix of wars of aggression, looting and destroying the public realm, impunity for corruption and war crimes, roasting the planet with hydrocarbons, deforestation, destroying public education, ethnic supremacy and McCarthyist crackdowns.

Is it perhaps time to recognise that they don’t do this because they are misguided or deluded? The problem is not that they are not failing to understand. Donald Trump has spoken about how he knows he isn’t getting into Heaven. Because their projects are simply evil, selfish and usually criminal.