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“Ah bless Timmie.”
So you try to find out the first name of an obscure member up in the north, but of course you’re not obsessed.
The independent conspiracy-monger candidate in Battersea (Jake Thomas) calls on people to “resist the rise in corporate capitalism/socialism”. By “socialism” he v means of course state capitalism and, like the Greens, he doesn’t see anything wrong with capitalism as such, just wants to go back to pre-corporate capitalism.
On the front page of his leaflet he prints “Clowns on the left, jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you”. Perhaps one of the music-lovers here can dig out the original song as a forgotten classic.
“On the front page of his leaflet he prints “Clowns on the left, jokers on the right, here I am stuck in the middle with you”. Perhaps one of the music-lovers here can dig out the original song as a forgotten classic.”
Maybe he’s a fan of old Socialist Standard front covers?
PS – There is a Kevin Bacon like connection between the writer of that song and the SPGB. Can anyone guess, or do I send it on to Manchester Branch for their Christmas Quiz?
PS – There is a Kevin Bacon like connection between the writer of that song and the SPGB. Can anyone guess, or do I send it on to Manchester Branch for their Christmas Quiz?
Humblebums-Connolly – wasn’t he supposed to have hung around with Glasgow branch for a while in his youth?
Twiglet’s correct.
First prize is a mint condition 7 inch of the follow up single to the Lotus Eaters’ ‘First Picture of You’.
Billy Connolly and the SPGB is mentioned in Jim Fleming’s obituary from the April 2022 issue of the Socialist Standard:
http://socialiststandardmyspace.blogspot.com/2022/05/obituary-jim-fleming-2022.html
Out driving yesterday passing through Ewell just outside London I saw a ReformUK placard by the roadside saying “Toot” if you support us. Nobody did, not even white vans.
Incidentally, their candidate in Epsom & Ewell is called Mayuran Senthilnathan. Which can’t be to the liking of some of their natural supporters.
Not wishing to be critical of the internet department, but if we have qr codes going out as part of the campaign material, would it be possible to update the Socialist Standard page to show the July standard. Although the front cover is online, the content is from June (really good cover cover by the way)
Forgot to mention that yesterday’s Times had an editorial lambasting the LibDems’ promises as unrealistic. In other words, they seem to be saying continue to vote Tory in blue wall constituencies but Labour elsewhere.
Of course LibDens’ promises are unrealistic but so are those of all the parties since they are based on the mistaken premise that the government can control the way the capitalist economy works.
It is true that the less likely they are to get into office the more unrealistic their promises. Thus the Libdems are more unrealistic than Labour or the Tories, the Greens are more unrealistic than the LibDens, and the likes of Galloway and TUSC more unrealistic than the Greens.
The latest poll says the Liberal Democrats are going to win 10 more seats than the Conservatives! Can you imagine!
Been out and voted: poll counters out for Corbyn and Labour only, no sign of the liberals or Conservatives. Volunteers leafletting the Tube station at Tufnell Park, and I spotted Get Out The Vote volunteers for Feinstein in Camden, I do wonder if he’ll get a measurable vote against Mr. Starmer?
I also voted already – did a sticker-in vote, rather than a write-in vote – and the only poll counter outside was Labour.
The ID check wasn’t too fastidious, whereas for the Local I remember the lady looking at my picture, looking at me, looking at my picture, looking at me, looking at my picture and looking at me before I was allowed to proceed – slightly uncomfortable.
I have cast a stick-on vote for socialism too. I could have voted for a pub which has formed itself into a party as a publicity stunt. I get a chance to vote again later as I have a proxy vote for a socialist in Australia. It’s in Lewisham North and East Dulwich where I get a chance not to vote for the Workers Party and the Christian Peoples Alliance as well as the usual gang of five.
I didn’t vote but the psephological geek in me is looking forward to the 2024 equivalent of some Portillo moments tonight, and wondering if Starmer will display a hitherto hidden sense of humour by doing that St Francis of Assisi speech on the doorstep of 10 Downing Street tomorrow morning.
If a socialist candidate bet on himself not to win, what kind of odds would he get?
St Francis of Assisi never made a speech on the doorstep of number ten.
Starmer will be the fifteenth PM I will have served under. And I’ve been poor under every one of them!
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