This isn't a new thing. The Corbyn wing of the Left, much prefers to spend it's time identifying heretics and excommunicating them, than actually helping people.

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Will they ever get their shit together?

a cartoon of spider-man with the words come at me bro ALT: a cartoon of spider-man with the words come at me bro

And the first Star Trek film is still my favourite.

YouTube video by Jerry Goldsmith - Topic Main Title

Further evidence
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YouTube video by Slick's Film Soundtracks Star Trek: The Motion Picture (OST) - V'Ger Flyover

Jerry Goldsmith was a genius.
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Europeans: "that's not Bolshevism, mate. It's just...normal."

BBC: *platforms Farage for years and helps to transform him from fringe crank, to accepted click magnet*

Farage: "Now I can finally crush the organisation that created me"

Honestly, I did NOT have "punching the air and going HELL YES to Chris Patten" on my bingo card today. But what he says is SO rarely said and needed saying SO badly!

"How shall we treat Mr Farage's concerns? Shall we hail Brexit a tremendous success? Something that has cost the country billions?"

Love Blood, Sweat & Chrome.

Felt like everyone on the production contributed!

The usual deal.

"The remaining 10 employees are now required to do the work of the 1000 who were laid off. Plus their own work of course."

That's an INSANE amount of redundancies from one department

Oh yeah, so much of Brexit was pure 'smash the system' nihilism.

My favourite is when it doesn't arrive, you contact their 'customer service' and the glitchy chatbot advises you to go door knocking on your street to see if it's been delivered elsewhere. 😂

Um, no? Deliver my parcel, you twats.

The mainstream economists who came out at the time and said some variation of "you're essentially creating extremist movements, a few years down the line." 😬

Not unpersuasive, this theory.
The assumptions of the neolib, 'end of history' era fell apart in the global financial crisis. But rather than try and build something new, we forced austerity onto the people who had done the least to cause the GFC in order to restore the exact system that caused it.

Labour today: "We're going to bin the two child benefit cap"

Rightwing media: *erupts*

Labour tomorrow: "We misspoke yesterday. We're actually cancelling all child benefits, and deporting all children who have received any government benefits."

What we're seeing on both sides of the Atlantic, is the Right's dodgy will to power. It sounds cheesy, but that's exactly what it is. They fully believe that power is their natural due and they behave accordingly.

The Left doesn't believe this at all.

And it shows.

EXCLUSIVE: Zack Polanski and Jeremy Corbyn slam Rupert Lowe’s ‘utterly repulsive’, and ‘deeply un-British’ social media comments 'Beyond disgusting'

Our entire political conversation - under a labour government - has taken a huge shift to the right.

We can't let this be normalised.

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We are now seeing here the kind of attacks on institutions that have become the norm in the United States.

They will not be satisfied until they have burned down civil society. Cowardice in the face of these attacks will abet them. Starmer and Labour need to shit or get off the pot.

A lot of the US law firms that did deals with Trump have big and very lucrative UK offices. Lean on them. Big time.

‘Hero’ crew member injured in train mass stabbing regains consciousness Samir Zitouni was wounded as he protected passengers during attack on an LNER train travelling from Doncaster to London

“His wife has shared the wonderful news that Sam woke up briefly yesterday, and she was able to speak with him for a short time. This is a truly positive step forward, though there is still a long journey ahead in his recovery.”

Excellent news. ~AA

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Hedy Lamarr was born on November 9, 1914 in Vienna, Austria.

I fear we are seeing in the UK what has become abundantly clear in the US: for all their power and privilege, elites and institutions are absolute cowards in the face of right-wing authoritarianism. Weak, weak, weak, as Tony Blair once said

...an entire nation outside his own constituency is another matter entirely. And a big part of that is learning to deal with media.

Instead of doing that, he and his team circled the wagons, kept repeating 'everything is fine' and we all ended up with a shitshow.

Dealing with hostile media is par for the course as a Labour candidate for PM, as I said. Corbyn didn't behave accordingly.

He isn't likeable at all. He comes off as preachy, very tetchy and aloof. Now, he's known in Islington and obviously does the business in that constituency. Appealing to...

...Farage.

It's not going to be everybody. But if it's enough people, it will be a negative for Polanski in the same way it was a massive negative for Corbyn.

I'm sorry, but he inspired both. A movement and a cult. I was part of the movement, but the cult was absolutely deluded.

I'm seeing some of the same kind of 'he/she must not be criticised/ he/she has the answer/he/she is infallible' bullshit re Polanski that I've seen with Corbyn, Johnson and...

Nope.

He was just intensely dislikable, terrible at media and surrounded by cultists who refused to look at electoral politics as it actually is.

I wanted him as PM, but I still had to acknowledge that he was not a likable man.