Saturday, 12 September 2015

Light Up

Will you be having a Cuban cigar tonight?

Or a pipe, while thinking of Tony Benn?

Your answer will identify your precise position on the new spectrum.
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12 comments:

  1. Anonymous12 September 2015 at 19:39

    What a wonderful day. The Left has chosen an openly Leftwing anti monarchy, anti-British enthusiast for "more multiculturalism" and mass immigration-which he openly says we should "celebrate"-as its Dear Leader.

    Talk about the enemy in plain sight. The Left is usually shy about its radical views-but Corbyn has no such reticence.

    Had to laugh out loud that the open-borders enthusiast Labour leaders first act was to attend a "refugees welcome here" rally (as Peter Hitchens says; what refugees? people fleeing the war-torn despotism of Calais?).

    Anyone who has suffered the effect of mass immigration, who supports our troops and the sacrifices they made to keep Northern Ireland or the Falklands British, or anyone who supports the monarchy, now knows who the enemy is.

    This should galvanise the other side to find a patriot to oppose him.

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    1. David Lindsay12 September 2015 at 19:45

      Blah, Blah, Blah.

      The political opposite of Jeremy Corbyn is David Cameron, and vice versa. That is how it works. That is how it would work whatever the electoral system was. But anyway, the electoral system is as it is.

      By the end of this month, Corbyn will have made Labour larger than all other parties put together. Many thousands have joined today alone.

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    2. Anonymous12 September 2015 at 19:54

      No one who was born in 1982 still bangs on about the Falklands, dear boy. As Mr. Lindsay has set out in the past, there would be zero public support for another war to "defend" them, they would be dismissed as an expensive nuisance that Argentina was welcome to.

      The rest of your comment is just adolescent showing off, you need to grow up.

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    3. David Lindsay12 September 2015 at 20:11

      Quite.

      As to his anti-monarchy point, republicans have been Prime Minister of Australia at least as often as not for a generation now, and have at times led both main parties simultaneously. So what?

      In any case, the Labour Left, whatever its views on the Constitution, has always tended to get up each morning and find that there were other things to do.

      There is far more serious anti-monarchism on the Thatcherite Right. A far stronger aversion to religion, too. And almost the whole of the pro-drugs lobby.

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    4. Anonymous12 September 2015 at 20:35

      "Our troops and the sacrifices they made to keep Northern Ireland or the Falklands British," that wasn't what happened at all, it was FAR more complicated than that why they were, and I was a supporter. Although "Support Our Troops" is Dubya years American rubbish.

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  2. Left-footer12 September 2015 at 19:43

    One of the people who wrecked England, he lived far too long, but I'm celebrating his most welcome demise with a vodka or three.

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    1. David Lindsay12 September 2015 at 19:46

      Have you ever even been here?

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    2. Anonymous12 September 2015 at 19:51

      Obviously not. People from England very rarely say "England" except about football.

      His blog roll is American right-wing Catholic sites, because they have right-wing Catholics in America. He probably thinks we have them here.

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    3. David Lindsay12 September 2015 at 20:07

      Well, we do have the Daily Telegraph. And increasingly The Spectator, for some reason.

      But as of course you will know, go far enough left and they don't care whether or not you take the "Catholic" line on culture war issues, just so long as you are sufficiently pro-worker and anti-war. Like the Catholic Church, in fact.

      Such voices, speaking for what is by far the majority of Catholics in this country, will therefore be among those which can expect a hearing now that Corbyn is Leader of the Opposition.

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    4. Anonymous12 September 2015 at 20:22

      You've got that right, you can be totally pro-life and pro-family in Catholic terms on the workerist, anti-austerity, antiwar Left, nobody will even ask. It's the Clinton-Blair tradition that really hates us and goes to great lengths to sniff us out.

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    5. David Lindsay12 September 2015 at 20:27

      It certainly is. And notice the strong line taken by the Morning Star against assisted suicide, taking its lead from Disabled People Against Cuts, but knowing that it was lining up with the "Catholic, religious lobby" excoriated on this by certain other outlets.

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  3. Left-footer12 September 2015 at 19:56

    I am English and live in Europe. I used "England" because that is where people like Crossland, Williams, Wilson, Foot, and Benn did most of the damage.

    Thank you and good night!

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