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All in this Together

All in It Together – Past Lives and the Chav Demon

All in this Together
A British Labour Party cartoon from 1929 is eerily apt for 2013 in the UK.

Old Tory ideas never really die, they are just too Conservative for that. This cartoon, a Labour recruiting poster apparently (via David Milliband) certainly indicates as much.

It comes from the year of The Wall Street Crash when the chaps further up the ladder learned what the markets really could do when feral forces went to work. 1929.

The year The Great Depression stirred in Britain. But the satire portrayed in the poster is true in 2013.

Yesterday’s Welfare Debate, featured much old thinking including the deserving and undeserving poor and the Striver and the Skiver, which was largely uncontested by the current stagnating Labour rump and its hangers-on.

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What a Total Hunt as MP Lets Bell End Fly

Just a bit of fun… as Conservative MP for South West Surrey and Secretary of State, Culture, Olympics, Media and Sport and friend of the Murdoch’s Jeremy Hunt unleashes Olympic terror with a bell end.

Let’s see what else Jezza can do…

Whooping Olympic Hell

WhooopBig Ben is probably still ringing in London to herald the start of the XXX Olympiad. The bell began to toll at 08:12. Radio 4 played it, but there was another sound played too. A terrible, horrible sound. A sound like hyenas discovering, finally, a leader and worshipping it… Whooping.

One of the things I’ve liked about the British – the English, Welsh and Scottish at least – over the years is that they do not ‘Whoop’ or ‘Holla’. I suppose that, given I was born in England, that should be “We don’t Whoop”. I’ll be plain, since returning to the island after many years away, I feel unconnected from ‘Britishness’ or ‘Englishness’. The world is just more interesting than that.

What happened when Big Ben began what I’m sure will soon be called “Belling”, is much, much less interesting in every way.

It happened, however, in London this morning. The mighty, historic, stoic, strong and occasionally comforting sound of Big Ben was washed into the air by the sound of “Whoop!”
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