'Wings Over TalkHearts' Politics Thread

[Del-icious]

Not be long before the country bursts into flames and Harry Kane is blamed for the entire thing

[shaun.lawson]

Gavin mcinnes is genuinely one of the creepiest guys ever.

Yup.

This is a mammoth read about another of McInnes' enterprises. A horribly revealing one.

http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/201...smith.html

[Hank Scorpio]

Not be long before the country bursts into flames and Harry Kane is blamed for the entire thing

It'll be Raheem's fault mate

[Floyd]

It'll be Raheem's fault mate

Yup, if only he wasn't young, rich and black.

The shame of him buying his mother a house too, has he not thought about everyone else struggling to get on the property ladder.

[shaun.lawson]

https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV/stat...5755762688

[Billy Butcher]

https://twitter.com/DanielHewittITV/stat...5755762688

Fuck him. We've got big business who donate to us to serve, not irrelevant people like him.

Tories eh. What a gang.

[Walter Sobchak]

https://twitter.com/JanwardWard/status/1...2231069697

[Big Physical Acey]

“Taxation is theft” is the calling card of the absolute nailed-on cretin.

Pinning your libertarian Fuck You Got Mine World Council ideal on fucking Bitcoin

[Mr A]

Big Kenny-C on why politics is a bit shite these days.
Such a good politician from a much better generation of them.

https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/...70688?s=21

[Zizou]

Ken Clarke is one of the more decent tories.

Anyone see Anna Soubry on the Last Leg last night? Absolutely tearing in to the Tory party. Saying Reece-Mogg is running Britain

Have to be careful with her though, her voting record is despicable. She isn't really what she likes to paint herself as.

[Floyd]

Big Kenny-C on why politics is a bit shite these days.
Such a good politician from a much better generation of them.

https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/...70688?s=21

Sadly there are not many like Ken left anymore, far too many politicians in it for all the wrong reasons.

[Papin]

Ken Clarke is one of the more decent tories.

Meaning instances of shady behaviour is only in the single figures.

[Zizou]

Aye the bar is low for a decent Tory. We'll not discuss the rape comments or expenses scandal

[Papin]

Aye the bar is low for a decent Tory. We'll not discuss the rape comments or expenses scandal

Or the Oswald Mosley stuff, the Tobbaco industry or Tainted Blood scandal.

Seems like a bloody decent bloke though.

[shaun.lawson]

Big Kenny-C on why politics is a bit shite these days.
Such a good politician from a much better generation of them.

https://twitter.com/channel4news/status/...70688?s=21

Big Kenny-C's been reading my latest article. Or something.

https://medium.com/@shaunjlawson/enough-...d647253454

"We live in a political age in which not only have facts ceased to matter, but narratives based almost entirely on myths and lies have gained such sway that they have decided important elections, and taken whole countries down entirely different, increasingly dark routes. “Labour overspent and caused the crash”. “Running a country is like running a household budget”. “Welfare is a lifestyle choice”. “We have to live within our means”. “Let's take back control, and give £350m to the NHS”. “Turkey is about to join the EU”. “We've had enough of experts”. “Hillary Clinton's email server is a national security threat”. “Lock her up”. “No deal is better than a bad deal”. “Stop talking the country down”. “Enemies of the people”. “Corbyn and Labour are riddled with antisemitism”".

Only for those with the attention span required. It's me, after all.

[Sterling Archer]

Big Kenny-C's been reading my latest article. Or something.  

He'd be the only one

[Pete Seeger]

Why did a working class boy from Brixton end up leading the Tory party?

[shaun.lawson]

Why did a working class boy from Brixton end up leading the Tory party?

Because he believed in genuine conservative values. Which are supposed to be about lifting people up through opportunity and conducting wars against poverty. Not holding them down and conducting wars against poor people.

Of course, as Clarke mentions above, he was no leftie when in government. He was a hugely controversial, arch-Thatcherite Health Secretary. But they are so so far to the right of that now, it's incredible. Clarke really ought to have been a Lib Dem for at least the last 20 years. And Major doesn't fit in any more either.

[Del-icious]

He'd be the only one

[Nive la France]

He'd be the only one