Labour supporter who’s angry that the buffoons are no longer lying effectively and are therefore out of power.
The thing is, the canonical Labour luvvie who’s in meeja or the law or the public sector is sanguine about all the punitive taxes Labour always brings in, and the economic damage they always wreak, because they don’t suffer any of these costs themselves. They’re either on gilt-edged public sector salaries with no performance appraisals to worry about, or they’re self employed with personal service companies so they earn £10k salary and take out £300k a year in dividends.
As a meeja luvvie we can be quite sure that Mr Martin doesn’t pay anything like as much tax as a PAYE private sector worker on the same wedge, despite which it’s the latter’s salary these people envy so much.
As a humble private sector employee myself I’ve never been rich enough to afford to vote Labour.
Sir Keir’s problem is that not everyone can do as well as he and his cabal have done out of the public trough, particularly those of us who have to fill it.
In fact if any of them had had to work for a living and earn what they are paid they would not be voting labour
It was simply brilliant. It is surprising how humour eludes so many people. It also explains the BBC.
AC Harper
2 years ago
Arguably Sir Ikea was put in as a nightwatchman to hold the Party together until a new Glorious Leader was found. He has managed to hold the party together so far but there is no Glorious Leader in view. He cannot resign yet.
Everyone else in the PLP is a lunatic, an anti-Semite, a Stalinist, a envious little chav, or just a common or garden utter, utter plonker.
He was elected because even the Marxist bigots of his party couldn’t imagine Rebecca Long-Bailey “leading” it. He’s there just to get gloriously expended at the next nailed-on election defeat before quitting his seat and bu99ering off to private practice to get rich.
Jon I’m intrigued by your pathological hatred of the Labour Party. Since they have only been in power for 13 of the last 42 years, and those years under a centrist neo-con leadership, what exactly in those 13 did years did they do to you, Jon?
I find much much of what the tories do and have done distinctly unpalatable, but I don’t see the point or need to spew forth bile about them on daily basis. Do you find it helps at all? Perhaps a different hobby would be better for you? This doesn’t seem to be helping at all.
Take care.
under corbyn labour became basically a radical extremist party, full of frothing fanatics, and many people find that more unpalatable than a bland, mediocre centrist liberal party like the Tories. As flawed as they might be, and as fashionable as it might be to criticize them, and ‘sPeaK tRuTH tO pOWeR’, they are not as bad as Labour
On that basis you must be fine with the Khmer Rouge, am I right? Never did you any harm?
Richard Riheed
2 years ago
Very good, Ian Martin. Made me chuckle.
Jon Redman
2 years ago
More in sorrow than in scorn, I am sensing.
Chris Wheatley
2 years ago
This is a very funny article. The old problem with Socialism is highlighted – good idea, impossible in practice.
Systems like Socialism put forward an attractive idea of fairness. Everybody is equal and no one person can boss another about. You are free to do as you want, when you want. The two obvious problems are that people will be lazy and spend time solely on enjoyment and that physical strength (youth, guns, etc) will win over physical weakness.
Cuba is the best example of Socialism. People are full of fun in Cuba, everybody seems to be free but they have no medicines. So the fit and healthy are OK but…This is why Socialists have to be part of something big, like the EU. In theory, if we become too poor under Socialism we can be helped by the EU. (See the article on Cuba today).
It is not even a good idea. It is fodder for the simple minded
Brooke Walford
2 years ago
Great piece of satire! Looking forward to the TV series…
Steve Walker
2 years ago
This feels like something Matt Chorley would write. And no, that isn’t an endorsement.
David McDowell
2 years ago
This is what he’d actually say if he were speaking off the cuff.
Tom Watson
2 years ago
Always nice to check in on the Britpoppers to see how they’re doing on the definitely, absolutely not in any way even slightly running out of ideas front.
Try capitalising words and throwing in hilarious neologisms like ‘Fuckjumbo’ mate, that’s definitely a rich vein of political relevance you’re mining there. They’ll be coming back in droves.
I’m not really sure what that was. Or who the person writing it is. Or why he was writing it.
Labour supporter who’s angry that the buffoons are no longer lying effectively and are therefore out of power.
The thing is, the canonical Labour luvvie who’s in meeja or the law or the public sector is sanguine about all the punitive taxes Labour always brings in, and the economic damage they always wreak, because they don’t suffer any of these costs themselves. They’re either on gilt-edged public sector salaries with no performance appraisals to worry about, or they’re self employed with personal service companies so they earn £10k salary and take out £300k a year in dividends.
As a meeja luvvie we can be quite sure that Mr Martin doesn’t pay anything like as much tax as a PAYE private sector worker on the same wedge, despite which it’s the latter’s salary these people envy so much.
As a humble private sector employee myself I’ve never been rich enough to afford to vote Labour.
Sir Keir’s problem is that not everyone can do as well as he and his cabal have done out of the public trough, particularly those of us who have to fill it.
In fact if any of them had had to work for a living and earn what they are paid they would not be voting labour
It was simply brilliant. It is surprising how humour eludes so many people. It also explains the BBC.
Arguably Sir Ikea was put in as a nightwatchman to hold the Party together until a new Glorious Leader was found. He has managed to hold the party together so far but there is no Glorious Leader in view. He cannot resign yet.
Everyone else in the PLP is a lunatic, an anti-Semite, a Stalinist, a envious little chav, or just a common or garden utter, utter plonker.
He was elected because even the Marxist bigots of his party couldn’t imagine Rebecca Long-Bailey “leading” it. He’s there just to get gloriously expended at the next nailed-on election defeat before quitting his seat and bu99ering off to private practice to get rich.
Jon I’m intrigued by your pathological hatred of the Labour Party. Since they have only been in power for 13 of the last 42 years, and those years under a centrist neo-con leadership, what exactly in those 13 did years did they do to you, Jon?
I find much much of what the tories do and have done distinctly unpalatable, but I don’t see the point or need to spew forth bile about them on daily basis. Do you find it helps at all? Perhaps a different hobby would be better for you? This doesn’t seem to be helping at all.
Take care.
under corbyn labour became basically a radical extremist party, full of frothing fanatics, and many people find that more unpalatable than a bland, mediocre centrist liberal party like the Tories. As flawed as they might be, and as fashionable as it might be to criticize them, and ‘sPeaK tRuTH tO pOWeR’, they are not as bad as Labour
On that basis you must be fine with the Khmer Rouge, am I right? Never did you any harm?
Very good, Ian Martin. Made me chuckle.
More in sorrow than in scorn, I am sensing.
This is a very funny article. The old problem with Socialism is highlighted – good idea, impossible in practice.
Systems like Socialism put forward an attractive idea of fairness. Everybody is equal and no one person can boss another about. You are free to do as you want, when you want. The two obvious problems are that people will be lazy and spend time solely on enjoyment and that physical strength (youth, guns, etc) will win over physical weakness.
Cuba is the best example of Socialism. People are full of fun in Cuba, everybody seems to be free but they have no medicines. So the fit and healthy are OK but…This is why Socialists have to be part of something big, like the EU. In theory, if we become too poor under Socialism we can be helped by the EU. (See the article on Cuba today).
It is not even a good idea. It is fodder for the simple minded
Great piece of satire! Looking forward to the TV series…
This feels like something Matt Chorley would write. And no, that isn’t an endorsement.
This is what he’d actually say if he were speaking off the cuff.
Always nice to check in on the Britpoppers to see how they’re doing on the definitely, absolutely not in any way even slightly running out of ideas front.
Try capitalising words and throwing in hilarious neologisms like ‘Fuckjumbo’ mate, that’s definitely a rich vein of political relevance you’re mining there. They’ll be coming back in droves.
‘Satire’