The French are definitely going to vote in the far right nutjobs aren't they.

That UKIP candidate seems a bit... unfocused. Banning Golf Courses?

Given how my political predictions have gone over the past two years, I'm not going to comment. Perhaps if I put some money on Mme. Le Pen that might swing it?

Much depends on how inoffensive M. Macaron is to moderates on either side, but French politics is always very fractious. Really should read more French history and contemporary politics on it at some point.

I've given it a bit of thought over the weekend, and am still mulling over that although getting rid of Davies would be good, having WEP leader rocking up and standing at the potential cost of Green Party and Labour candidates is not the way to do it. I am a bit miffed as it seems to be a publicity minded move, and I don't think Shipley would benefit from this.

I disagree. Women's equality is an important issue and I think the publicity is important. Going after Davies seems a very sensible way of both highlighting your key issue and taking a mysogenistic twat out of the governing body.

It's worth voting WEP there just for the idea of how much seething Davies would do should they oust him!

I love you, Kern.

How to answer the lazy "Corbyn is unelectable" propaganda trope

Political propaganda works by programming intellectually lazy people with very simple tropes that they can rote learn and regurgitate instead of doing the hard work of actually researching and thinking about the issues for themselves.

Two of the most ubiquitous of these glib political propaganda tropes are the "Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable" one and the "Theresa May is a strong leader".

I've already written an article ripping the ludicrously counterfactual right-wing "Theresa May is a strong leader" trope to shreds (see here) and this article exists to confront the "Jeremy Corbyn is unelectable" one.

(His voting record on women's issues in parliament, for example, is far better than May's.)

This whole "Is gay sex a sin in Farron's eyes" is all a bit of a pain as he should have said "The bible talks about a circle with a diametre of 10 cubits and a circumference of thirty, so we shouldn't take everything it says as totally true, and in this case, I'd put gay sex in the box with pi having a value of three" but this is why i probably don't do PR because it'd probably offend everyone.

http://www.newstatesman.com/politics/june2017/2017/04/jeremy-corbyn-has-attracted-socialism-fans-not-labour-voters

Really good read, that.

Mr Richard Bacon (South Norfolk) (Con):

I was only going to ask whether the hon. Member for Wolverhampton South West (Rob Marris) agreed with me that the semi-colon is a very fine thing and that it should be used more often.

Mr Speaker:

I agree; the hon. Gentleman is an authority on the matter and on a number of other matters relating to language and syntax.

Complaints about sharp practice in Bradford in recent years are hugely varied, running the gamut from playground-style jostling between parties on the campaign trail to postal vote fraud.

There have been claims of anonymous leaflets being dropped through letterboxes in the dead of night, making personal attacks on candidates.

There are often complaints of large groups of political activists gathering outside polling stations on election day, which Ms England acknowledged was “not helpful” behaviour.

“I have the power to move them on - and we do,” she says.

Very occasionally, there are allegations of violence.

Whilst looking for something else I just came across a short Westminster Hall debate on homeopathy and the NHS held at the end of March that I hadn't noticed. I say 'debate', but it's more like a rant by David Tredinnick and I gave up trying to count the number of fallacies he employs to justify the woo.

Crikey.

One of MrsA's friends is big into "Micriwaves cause cancer", "energetic vibration of mango bought on farm greater than commercial mango" and all that shit which I just cannot be arsed with arguing with. It really grates, but it'd upset MrsA if I commented, so there's a pax romana in place. If I ever want one of my kids to die of a perfectly preventable disease, though, I know who to ask.

I don't see what's surprising about Corbyn being popular. He's not turned out to be a particularly effective leader of the party but he's a decent, principled man and I can very much understand his appeal as a politician. (His voting record on women's issues in parliament, for example, is far better than May's.)

If you can look beyond much of the media's hatred for him, and actually see the man himself and the policies of his party - there's a lot to like.

God I fucking hate hippies.

The definition of hippy has just been broadened, is all.

Quite. Trump is a fucking hippy.

Actually, it seems to be a sort of brainless middleclass twatbag on the whole. There's definitely a correlation between anti-vaxxers and quinoa intake.

It's not a hard mental leap to make from being (usually rightly) outraged by the behaviour of megaglobal sinister corporations to decide that big pharma is just after extracting as much money from your corpse as possible.

Stuff like this:

I think Pluto needs to work on his anger issues and move on from the whole planet thing.

Christ Mali, learn to copy and paste, man!

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