Gordon Brown and wee Dougie Alexander once bestrode the world, bombing much of it. Now these mighty egos are confined within Elderslie Village Hall.
The problem is, the average member of the population does not have a high opinion of the dynamic duo. So it is essential that they are kept away from average people, and instead paraded only before vetted audiences of Labour activists. There are not very many of those; so the venues are tiny, with a small number of carefully bunched people holding silly placards, photographed by a compliant media only from carefully prepared angles.
Now I plunge happily into politically incorrect ground. As normal people have abandoned it and Labour has come down to the core of its core support, it is truly striking how remarkably ugly its hardcore activists are. I don’t mean that in any metaphorical sense. I mean that they are an aesthetic disaster. It is not a product of poverty, as the core support are all well employed as research assistants or doing pretendy youth work jobs for Labour councils. Other parties do not have such challenging physiognomy. It is very seldom you can look at a room and say Gordon Brown is one of the best looking people there. Perhaps Blair’s crimes have been written on the faces of all the complicit.
Douglas Alexander not only facilitated the use of Diego Garcia for torture and extraordinary rendition, in an act of extreme hypocrisy the evil little shit also declared a “marine conservation area” around it. In the 1960’s Britain forcibly deported the entire population of the islands to make way for the US Air Base. Faced with a continual political and legal fight for them to return, Alexander sought to make it impossible with his “marine conservation area”. There is nobody who better represents Scottish Labour’s loss of its soul than Alexander. If Mhairi beats him I shall be extremely happy.
“Resident Dissident, the matters discussed here are relevant,”
I disagree – having knocked on a few doors recently.
Just to highlight the respect for human rights, which is these days basically only “freedom of speech” so we are told, but there are limits to free speech also.
reporter Scott McIntyre sacked over ‘despicable’ Anzac Day tweets
Then there is the Je Sui Wrong horse;
‘I am being persecuted’
That is when the trumped charges of an “inverse hitler salute” are not being brought against him.
Mary
26/04/2015 5:47 pm
“John please don’t waste your time on them on my behalf although it is appreciated.”
You’re welcome. And actually it’s not primarily on your behalf, although that’s an agreeable secondary benefit. And I don’t believe it’s a waste of time.
There are a lot of people on the forum who comment, and I believe there are an awful lot more who read and don’t comment, and who could blame them. If I find what you do useful, there is no question whatever that other people will as well. People can see perfectly well that saying so will probably involve them in having to put up with a lot of stuff they’d rather do without. Me, I don’t care. Happy to do it.
Kind regards,
John
I’m sorry Earth, I’m sorry humanity; I haven’t the enthusiasm. If people want to fight, there is only so much effort I can commit to dissuading them.
“Just to highlight the respect for human rights, which is these days basically only “freedom of speech” so we are told”
Maybe in your circles.
Resident Dissident, are you campaigning for the Labour party?
Walt
“Splendid Anon – that was easy – much more challenging to apologise – here is a report compiled by the same group of doctors that kindly supplied information and acknowledgements from Iraq including receipt of children’s toys and learning aids as comfort to Iraqi infants and children poisoned, maimed and orphaned by our illegal cluster bombs and uranium shells; or would you like a personal reply from Iraq?”
Changing tack now, Walt. I doubt you are in contact with Iraqi ‘doctors’ telling you they have found a cache of Israeli weapons in Iraq. But if you are, then I would suggest they are playing you for the gullible Western idiot that you are. A liar, fantasist, dupe and a fool.
Forum sliding of the first order
Resident Dissident, are you campaigning for the Labour party?
Yes – that is what long standing members do.
Clark
That socialism is dead (though not quite gone) is not the result of some corporate media conspiracy. It is that it has been tried and failed and most people can see the misery it has caused. It helps to have actually lived through it of course (Mr Goss’ cycling tours do not count).
Resident Dissident, the Labour party is no longer what it was. It no longer represents the values that it stood for, and implemented, in the decades following the Second World War.
Something new is needed. Desperately.
Resident Dissident; “Could you please explain why my link to information pointing out the increased capital outflows from Russia due to the current oligarch’s can be considered anti Russian”
Your & your fellow trolls couldn’t be more transparent; before the Ukraine crisis you rarely posted about Russia, instead you were fixated about Assad at a time when Syria was being lined up for some “humanitarian intervention”; before that you were fixated about Gaddafi, as Libya was being prepared for some “humanitarian intervention”; now that Russia is in the firing line, you are fixated about Putin.
The amazing thing is that you are able to fool gullible useful idiots like Clark, but then again not so amazing, he’s was already there for you because he really takes his cue from the Russophobic Craig Murray.
Macky, what do you mean by “Russophobic”?
I see that John Spencer-Davis has been rubbing himself up against Mary. So to speak.
Are we witnessing the advent of this blog’s first Darby and Joan couple?
Macky
“The amazing thing is that you { ie, Resident Dissident }are able to fool gullible useful idiots like Clark”
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Macky, you are hopeless.
If Clark were in fact gullible and an idiot, then there would be nothing amazing about Resident Dissident being able to fool him, would there?
You have, once again, let your eagerness ro a
Clark don’t you think this kind of thinking is a dangerous mindset? Some would even uncharitably think of affliction with delusions of grandeur.
Clark you may be an optimist and a charitable sort of chap whom can see the best in everyone, but considering these cretins spamming this place and elsewhere have form and their “contributions” stand as an indictment to their slavery for the cause of the keyboard wars to aid and abet a bunch of child murdering granny killing land stealing mercenaries in employment of the grand masters of fraud whose need for an “independent clearing house” has deemed necessary to set up zionistan and protect it at all costs.
You verily believe you can turn these vermin from their mission by your superior reasoning and compassion, hence this blinds you to the fact that; these vermin are in search of useful idiots to use as a smoke cover for their nefarious hasbara mission.
You have, once again, let your eagerness to appear clever make you look like an incoherent, unthinking fool.
Rogue finger again, Mary, hope you noticed. Keep hoping!
Who said:
‘Have the British not heard of Putin’s threats to go nuclear over the Baltic? How can anyone seriously vote for a party like Nicola Sturgeon’s that wants to close down the Scottish Trident missile sites at such a time?’
LOL
A. Lord Andrew Lloyd Webber.
Britain will be run down, weakened and broken up by Ed Miliband and Nicola Sturgeon
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3055740/Britain-run-weakened-broken-Ed-Miliband-Nicola-Sturgeon-says-ANDREW-LLOYD-WEBBER.html
Fedup, not grandeur; each of us can only do our bit. And sometimes, I can barely do that, and for that, I am sorry.
Thanks for the link Mary.
Mr Webber,should stick to composing,just as Habb should stick to posting gibberish.
Webbers comment is a sign of the times as rich Tories fear a change at Westminster,the more they berate the SNP and all things Scottish the stronger we become.
Clark no need to be sorry, remember there are far too many of us than them, and if we collectively take a leak; down it will wash the spider away!
Fact is reading thorough this place and others around the net, the clear evidence of these vermin at work emerges. This evidential data also finds in these open fora clear indications of a credibility gap of the official narrative. Hence explaining the need for these cretin to come out in force (in fact a single cretin with multi-identity software) spamming out the place and reiterating the official narrative verbatim. Included god save the queen cuz as we all know no other fucker will!
In fact these vermin proving to have failed miserably in their subcontracted missions, has compelled the securocrats to set up their own keyboard warrior units; British Army unit ‘Brigade 77’
Are you planning to turn these new warriors too?
“before the Ukraine crisis you rarely posted about Russia,”
I think you will find that I was one of the few who did if you bother to look. As for being Russophobic – my Russian wife and our kids (who are all dual nationals) may scare me at times but I’m told that is a common feature of all families. As for the mother in law/Babushka lets just say she is one of the scarier parts of Putin and Mr Goss’s 5th column and I doubt either would last more than 20 seconds!
Fedup
How long have you been out?
Anon1
What is dead (or near dead) is state socialism which has no/very limited role for markets as the main allocation mechanism – the social democratic version which uses a mixture of managed markets and collective provision for social goods and services where markets do not work is still alive and kicking. There are a whole range of economic models available and to suggest that only one is possible or viable is a mistake that many conservatives share with the old state socialists.
Fedup, I assume such shills operate at this site but I don’t make any assumptions as to who is and who isn’t, and I also don’t assume that only pro-Neocon and pro-Israeli shills are present; Craig has been a thorn in Karimov and Usmanov’s sides as well as Jack Straw’s.
As for trolls; trolling can be a tactic or just a hobby, so don’t read too much into it.
Stick to essential principles. We are all human, we all have similar vulnerabilities, we all have to share the same environment. All the different “sides” are ultimately illusory. All the wounds need to be healed, and all the chasms need to be bridged.
Marvin Gaye wrote “What’s Going On” as a direct response to what his brother Frankie told him was happening in Vietnam (Frankie served in the frontline in Vietnam).
Sadly, this song is probably even more relevent now than it was 40 years ago.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M
“(in fact a single cretin with multi-identity software)”
Might I kindly point out if it is a single cretin dealing with the volume of garbage put out by the Eminences and useful idiots here it doesn’t speak too much for their level of intelligence when it comes to mounting a reasoned rebuttable.
Resident Dissident, please show more compassion; the terms “Eminences” and “useful idiots” cause reaction, thus reinforcing that which needs to be eroded.
Fedup and RobG, same message to you; terms like “vermin” and “put up against a wall and shot” serve only to reinforce the enmity that needs to be overcome.