tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post7519908982115094734..comments2024-01-30T09:22:08.167+00:00Comments on Newmania In Lewes: Fight The Compass Lies About BorisNewmaniahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-70522899435935884472007-09-04T23:04:00.000+01:002007-09-04T23:04:00.000+01:00Can't be arsed. Visited the site and it's virtuall...Can't be arsed. Visited the site and it's virtually unreadable.Wrinkled Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05291551539649118631noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-33615214871518479272007-09-03T22:42:00.000+01:002007-09-03T22:42:00.000+01:00Steven_L said... They're communists you muppet, yo...Steven_L said... <BR/><BR/>They're communists you muppet, you aint going to change their mind about Jack shit. It's the public you've got to alert to their detestable ways.<BR/><BR/><BR/>I don't think they are, Steven_L. They sound to me more like the sort of wet student bar philosophers and pseudo left idiots who, often with a pint in one hand and their student notes in the other, taught me Marxist theory for some years. <BR/><BR/>If you think they they're attacking Boris you should hear what they have to say about each other. Aside from their unconvincing claim to mutual hatred of Capitalism - how can they be anti-capitalist when they're all on the make? - I've not met two who can agree with each other, or one who can tell you plainly what he or she actually believes . As for theory and political beliefs, they make these up as they go along.<BR/><BR/>Marx is revolving in his grave with embarrassment and anger over Compass's humiliatingly inept and undialectical critique of Boris. While it's small beer to pull Marx's conclusions apart, he was a master of critical methodology who took meticulous care to understand and quote his subject's precise and comprehensive views before criticising them. Marx would have been as appalled at Compass's deliberate misquotes and distortions as we are.<BR/><BR/>These are the sort of people who prompted Marx to say after a fashion, If they're Marxists, hell, I'm not a Marxist.<BR/><BR/>Auntie Flo'Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-37702529207996013452007-09-03T17:12:00.000+01:002007-09-03T17:12:00.000+01:00Boris Johnson has made so many U turns and contrad...Boris Johnson has made so many U turns and contradictions in his statement launching his campaign for Mayor of London that it is no wonder he has such a clearly well merited record for ‘buffoonery’ - managerial and policy incompetence.<BR/><BR/>Boris Johnson now states that he will not get rid of the congestion charge, while previously he totally opposed it, writing: “In these dark days of the New Labour tyranny, when the maniac Ken Livingstone is charging you an extra £1,200 for the privilege of using the Queen’s highway”. (Life in the Fast Lane p185)<BR/><BR/>He now claims ‘I will be the greenest Mayor, far greener than Ken.’ (Evening Standard 3 September). A claim that is ridiculous given than he opposes even the Kyoto treaty on climate change: ‘But of all the tough-guy acts that Bush has performed in his first few months, of all the pieces of exuberant Reaganism, nothing has so intoxicated the world with hate as his decision to scrumple up the Kyoto protocol and use if for putting practice in the White House… <BR/>‘Because we still need a rich, confident America; not just to provide the cash for the global military leadership that the United States has to give from the Gulf to Kosovo, but also to keep the world economy moving…. If America were to meet its Kyoto targets now, it would require a cut of 30 per cent in emissions, and how, exactly, is that supposed to work in the current economic downturn…. It would exacerbate the recession, and when Bush says no, he is doing what is right not just for America but for the world.’ (Lend Me Your Ears p318) <BR/>He now declares that he strongly supports Crossrail, London’s most vital transport project, but he failed to participate in the vote on it in Parliament.<BR/>He strongly supported the Iraq war before deciding later to change his position – after tens of thousands of people were dead.<BR/>He supported the election of George W Bush in 2000 and his re-election in 2004 – now he thinks it was a mistake<BR/>London has no need of a Mayor who takes wrong decisions and then has to change them, but one who takes the right decisions at the time they need to be made – as Ken when he supported Kyoto, opposed the Iraq War, supported congestion charging.<BR/>Boris Johnson is not simply extremely right wing. He is also incompetent.Broad Left editorhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01862981878149727779noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-56211361969573562562007-09-03T02:32:00.000+01:002007-09-03T02:32:00.000+01:00I dunno, but Livingstone is Gonzo with that almigh...I dunno, but Livingstone is Gonzo with that almighty snout he keeps buried in the troughSteven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-29121142725560484932007-09-03T00:54:00.000+01:002007-09-03T00:54:00.000+01:00Muppet moi ? Which one ...not Miss Piggy I hopeMuppet moi ? Which one ...not Miss Piggy I hopeNewmaniahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11922161971821380803noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-35649541.post-90170366124619739682007-09-03T00:52:00.000+01:002007-09-03T00:52:00.000+01:00They're communists you muppet, you aint going to c...They're communists you muppet, you aint going to change their mind about Jack shit. It's the public you've got to alert to their detestable ways.<BR/><BR/>I've started a new series of websites on blogger dedicated to 'Friends of Ken Livingstone'<BR/><BR/>Compass have a lovely new website here:<BR/><BR/>http://compassdirectionforthedemocraticleft.blogspot.com/<BR/><BR/>Now what we all need to do is 'googlebomb' them<BR/><BR/>Start putting comments all over the internet on popular blogs with the hyperlink directing to that website.<BR/><BR/>When more sites link to my new site than their site it'll overtake them in google. Then when people search for 'compass' etc there's a good chance they will read it.Steven_Lhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05029437876479574883noreply@blogger.com