Odible olid opposition...

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'Unherd' but loud and clear. "Why the Labour Left is doomed", "The disaster of 1983 looms large in the party's psyche" by David Kogan at Unherd. We live in hope...

Fusilamiento en la Sierra Maestra [Link]

The generation of young activists of the 1970s and 1980s – Corbyn, McDonnell, McCluskey and Jon Lansman – all earned their political stripes fighting the Right of the party. Lansman had been in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and the campaign to elect Tony Benn deputy leader in 1981; Corbyn had been a trade union official in London during the winter of discontent in 1978-9. McDonnell had been deputy leader and Finance Chair of the Great London Council from 1981. McCluskey had been in Liverpool associated with the Militant Tendency that ran the Labour Party and council in the early 1980s.



That paragraph alone, should send shivers down the spine of anyone of a certain age with a brain. With any luck the current incarnation - McDonnell and Lansmans' Momentum - will die a grissly death; very soon. The 'freakish', lucky, 'quirk', last second, near-miss, chance to lift a inept, snide, political nobody to leader of the opposition by other political nobodies is quite a tale. Landsman of course, the danger man: never go full wierdy-beardy, especially when trying to excuse blatant antisemitism. Sinister. Evil. Maggots.

Odible olid opposition...

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'Unherd' but loud and clear. "Why the Labour Left is doomed", "The disaster of 1983 looms large in the party's psyche" by David Kogan at Unherd. We live in hope...

Fusilamiento en la Sierra Maestra [Link]

The generation of young activists of the 1970s and 1980s – Corbyn, McDonnell, McCluskey and Jon Lansman – all earned their political stripes fighting the Right of the party. Lansman had been in the Campaign for Labour Party Democracy and the campaign to elect Tony Benn deputy leader in 1981; Corbyn had been a trade union official in London during the winter of discontent in 1978-9. McDonnell had been deputy leader and Finance Chair of the Great London Council from 1981. McCluskey had been in Liverpool associated with the Militant Tendency that ran the Labour Party and council in the early 1980s.

That paragraph alone, should send shivers down the spine of anyone of a certain age with a brain. With any luck the current incarnation - McDonnell and Lansmans' Momentum - will die a grissly death; very soon. The 'freakish', lucky, 'quirk', last second, near-miss, chance to lift a inept, snide, political nobody to leader of the opposition by other political nobodies is quite a tale. Landsman of course, the danger man: never go full wierdy-beardy, especially when trying to excuse blatant antisemitism. Sinister. Evil. Maggots.

Outstanding observation...

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Funny from almost three weeks ago. Thanks and hat-tip to Craig at Is the BBC biased? Haggard Hawks' eagle eye spotted 'The Houses of Parliament' is an anagram of 'loonies far up the Thames'. [LINK] 



Anagrams of another building in the news: one dreamt, omen rated, tread on me, doner meat, men orated, monde tear... :-(

Outstanding observation...

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Funny from almost three weeks ago. Thanks and hat-tip to Craig at Is the BBC biased? Haggard Hawks' eagle eye spotted 'The Houses of Parliament' is an anagram of 'loonies far up the Thames'. [LINK] 

Anagrams of another building in the news: one dreamt, omen rated, tread on me, doner meat, men orated, monde tear... :-(

Orwellian operants...

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Operant conditioning: "behavior (as bar pressing by a rat to obtain food) that operates on the environment to produce rewarding and reinforcing effects" i.e. the strength of a behavior is modified by the behavior's consequences, such as reward or punishment or the behavior is controlled by antecedents called "discriminative stimuli" which come to signal those consequences. Or quite simply it is classical conditioning (paid-for classical conditioning). Or it is their Two Minutes Hate ("1984 eerily reminds one of today’s social media induced ejaculations of anger."). To be honest I think it is scary the number of people who are so willfully blind, who protest without reading, without listening, without understanding. Some are paid...they have a reason, they are fulfilling a contract or at least a promise to protest for payment. Others, many (most?) are just so fucking stupid it makes me write swear words in a blog post; they are not just silly...or innocently mistaken...but common or garden fucked up stupid...the streets are becoming accustomed. FFS!

Orwellian operants...

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Operant conditioning: "behavior (as bar pressing by a rat to obtain food) that operates on the environment to produce rewarding and reinforcing effects" i.e. the strength of a behavior is modified by the behavior's consequences, such as reward or punishment or the behavior is controlled by antecedents called "discriminative stimuli" which come to signal those consequences. Or quite simply it is classical conditioning (paid-for classical conditioning). Or it is their Two Minutes Hate ("1984 eerily reminds one of today’s social media induced ejaculations of anger."). To be honest I think it is scary the number of people who are so willfully blind, who protest without reading, without listening, without understanding. Some are paid...they have a reason, they are fulfilling a contract or at least a promise to protest for payment. Others, many (most?) are just so fucking stupid it makes me write swear words in a blog post; they are not just silly...or innocently mistaken...but common or garden fucked up stupid...the streets are becoming accustomed. FFS!

Obstrobogulous ohrwürmer...

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Anna seems to have hit on something: "Hey! You! Get Off of my Shroud!"..."The hierarchy of the Labour Party he knew and loved, the inner sanctum he revelled in, was as grey and wrinkled, as potbellied and knock kneed, as a Rolling Stone. It was on its final journey to the mortuary; bedevilled by debt, in hock to the Co-operative loan sharks; bullied and abused by its ‘carers’ – UNITE; no longer able to live an independent and self-principled life."



Huddled with other 'hard-line left activists' in Left Field ** along with UK Feminista, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Billy Bragg and Ricky Tomlinson (the latter on about  - ironically - 'Power in a Union') and involved in oh so Radical Round-Up and lefty 'biting satire' seem to have done for Tom s very soon after, he left the field.



** now I know why the BBC send so many staff!

Obstrobogulous ohrwürmer...

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Anna seems to have hit on something: "Hey! You! Get Off of my Shroud!"..."The hierarchy of the Labour Party he knew and loved, the inner sanctum he revelled in, was as grey and wrinkled, as potbellied and knock kneed, as a Rolling Stone. It was on its final journey to the mortuary; bedevilled by debt, in hock to the Co-operative loan sharks; bullied and abused by its ‘carers’ – UNITE; no longer able to live an independent and self-principled life."

Huddled with other 'hard-line left activists' in Left Field ** along with UK Feminista, Tony Benn, Owen Jones, Billy Bragg and Ricky Tomlinson (the latter on about  - ironically - 'Power in a Union') and involved in oh so Radical Round-Up and lefty 'biting satire' seem to have done for Tom s very soon after, he left the field.

** now I know why the BBC send so many staff!