The Political Thread

[sheridan]

You know, we manufacture those, by the way...

The ACTUAL Power Of Love bequeathed to us by a benevolent God.

Ah, so either the Huey Lewis or Frankie Goes to Hollywood versions then.

[Modern Panther]

My prediction for next week: "cybersocialist" - the very worst kind of Corbynite, spreading lies and rumour online, flooding message boards with propaganda and saying nasty, nasty things.  A dossier will be compiled of people on Twitter who have, at some point, used swear words to describe former cabinet members, and Corbyn will be expected to denounce each and every one.

[Professor Bear]

Nah, it'll blow over quick enough, much as all the other smears have - remember sexism and antisemitism?  Best to move on to the next smear before people start debunking the ones already out there.

[IndigoPrime]

397-223. Fucking hell.

[Old Tankie]

Great speech by Benn.

[CrazyFoxMachine]

Jingoism from Benn Jr - pure and simple. Wins votes, ignores that pesky pesky context.

"They hold our belief in tolerance and decency in contempt"

So these will be tolerant and decent air strikes then?

[Jim_Campbell]

Great speech by Benn.

For a warmongering cunt pissing on the memory of his father.

And I say that as NO fan of Anthony Wedgewood Benn.

Bah.

Jim

[CrazyFoxMachine]

"Not just their calculated brutality, but their belief that they are superior to every single one of us in this chamber tonight and all of the people we represent."

Says someone literally calculating brutality with a belief that he's superior to those he represents.

[TordelBack]

As I understand it from following as much of this shite as I could stomach, yiz are going killing people with the only clear aim being that you can 'have a seat at the table'.  Is this some kind of WWI centenary re-enactment thing?  Or can you just not get enough of those refugees?

[Goaty]

I post this on Facebook;

"That's it, yes, it's War!" It was on spoof The Day Today and now it became serious on media 😞 ‪#‎thedaytoday‬ ‪#‎worldnotlaugh‬

[Professor Bear]

I can't shake the feeling that the cheering and clapping as the result was announced somewhat undermines the "voting with my conscience" angle that some MPs were aiming for.

Still - now Britain's back at the front of things we'll show them we're still a power on the world stage.  We'll show them all we're still great.

[Tjm86]

We don't want to fight but by Jingo if we do
We've got the ships, we've got the men, we've got the money too ...

Except we don't any more.

[TordelBack]

Come now, it's obvious that nothing reduces the capacity of a tiny number of aggrieved European nationals with guns and suicide belts to attack other European civilians in public places like dropping yet more bombs on Syria. And you also can't deny that it represents a lateral-thinking approach to solving the geopolitical and humanitarian consequences of a civil war caused by 5 years of devastating drought and the vicious actions of a corrupt authoritarian asshole.  You should all be proud for electing a parliament capable of such a subtle and farsighted analysis.

[The Legendary Shark]

The BBC has a list of the people who voted in favour of murdering foreigners and posted it here.
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Criminals all.

[Dandontdare]

Every article I've seen goes on at length about how many of Corbyn's lot voted for war, but I haven't seen any mention anywhere of the seven Tory MPs who their leader regards as terrorist sympathisers.