Deputy Chairwoman Suzanne Evans described the poll as “shocking” and said if right, “Brexit at risk and Marxists at large”.
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Given the way the election went I’m imagining this
instead of this
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Never knew the Tories were Marxists (although I should have suspected as much).
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Wait, did Suzanne Evans just call me fat??
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That’s right up there with the people I was talking to after the American election, who only half-jokingly said if Hillary had won it would have meant communism.
Awfully crowded on the left these days.
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They absolutely are.
They believe in the concept of class warfare, and they’re absolutely sure that they’re on the side of the ruling class.
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I’d like to see that coalition government rather than Conservative minority government.
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It’s all fun and games until Ravelli puts Berkshire on the 3.330 at Chepstow
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Given their sheer incompetence, I’d say, rather than Trotskyist, Stalinist or Maoist, definitely Grouchoist as @strokeybeard has suggested.
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In a rare case of having any money, I ordered some socks, and PayPal put my payment on hold for review “to comply with (some vague) governmental (some vague) regulations”. Almost certainly because one of the styles I ordered is called “Havana”.
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This is the Marx whose “-ism” I follow:
https://www.oldtimeradiodownloads.com/assets/img/actor/572563b427778__groucho-marx-5.jpg
Harpo was once arrested for, among other things, impersonating Kaiser Wilhelm II on his way to a party thrown by Marion Davies. I’ve seen a picture of it in a book - but can’t remember which book (though it was undoubtedly about the Marx Brothers), but I’ve haven’t been able to find it on the Internet.
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I just discovered that this event is happening in NYC next weekend:
Sounds brilliant to me, although I am bummed that registration already closed a few days ago. I will still be psyched even just to know that others are enjoying it.
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I just thought that an ice cream van that went past my house was playing The Internationale.
Sadly it wasn’t, I don’t know what it was playing, but now I really want an Internationale playing ice cream van.
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Was it bound for Mu-Mu Land?
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Awwww… a friend of mine who just passed away was a Communist, and we sang The Internationale at his memorial. He would have LOVED an ice cream truck that played it.
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Justified and Ancient would be my second choice if Jim Cauty and Bill Drummond didn’t object.
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From the Frankfurt School…
(One was never quite sure if it referred to a musical school or one of political philosophy. ;))
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I went to see Mark Thomas do his new show last night, about predicting the future. We all made one prediction on a piece of paper and he’d either accept or reject it, then the audience would vote for one of them then make a donation to be bet on it happening.
Oxford was boring, we went with there being a Labour government in the next four years instead of Donald ⊥rump putting pictures of his dick on twitter before his time as president ends.
Apparently in an earlier show he had rejected the suggestion that there would be a hung parliament as being too unrealistic, but Mark hasn’t got a good record on betting on winners.
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In one of Giovanni Guareschi’s books there’s the account of the communist mayor who was standing on a platform when it collapsed. As it did so he shouted “Civil and with the band!” indicating that if he was killed he wanted a civil funeral, and he wanted the band playing. Didn’t want to risk the clergy getting hold of him.
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