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Category Archives: The British Left
Wobblies' Tankie smear shocker!
The forthcoming Employment Tribunal in Bristol where The Wobblies (IWW) will represent train driver Patrick Spackman (Blogger Passim), sacked from First Great Western for swearing, has now fallen victim to some good old-fashioned British leftist sectarianism. Spackman has already upset … Continue reading
Wobbly tribunal sensation
Here’s a curiosity… It’s been announced on Bristol Indymedia that The Industrial Workers of the World (IWW) or Wobblies, as they’re better known, are going to represent a local train driver sacked by First Great Western at an Employment Tribunal … Continue reading
Two jags to two homes?
I see “real Labour” candidate for the Labour Deputy leadership, John Crud Arse was in Bristol on Saturday campaigning for more council housing. Doubt he mentioned the council house he owns in Dagenham – where there is an acute shortage … Continue reading
Sweary Blairy shocker!!!
Top of the range page 1 exclusive in today’s Observer, courtesy of of their Chief Political Commentator Andrew Rawnsley, whose Cambridge education certainly hasn’t been wasted. Tony Blair, we’re breathlessly told… Wait for it… Swears! Well fuck me who’d thought … Continue reading
The Bristol Blogger is unwell
The Bristol Blogger is away until Tuesday. I’ll leave you with an old leftie joke courtesy of Red Left Review mainly because I like the cut of his strapline: An old revolutionary walks across the Brooklyn Bridge one day, and … Continue reading
NUJ boycott Israeli goods
This’ll do wonders for their credibility… The National Union of Journalists has voted at its annual meeting for a boycott of Israeli goods as part of a protest against last year’s war in Lebanon. The Guardian Apparently this is in … Continue reading
The strange death of anarchist England
Earlier today a reader attempted to post The Blogger’s story about the BNP’s Nominating Officer on UK Indymedia’s independent news site “offering grassroots, non-corporate, non-commercial coverage of important social and political issues.” Seems reasonable to me. The rise of the … Continue reading
DimoTV (in full Prawn-O-Vision)
Here’s Bristol’s leading politician and senior member of the government’s Treasury team demonstrating the sharp wit and searing intellect that got her there by, er… Running away from the BBC when questioned on Trident! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YyvsATYoZTM]
Hypocrite Watch #1
The strange affair of the Lib Dem Trot Meet Steve Comer (second from left above). He’s a Liberal Democrat and a Bristol City Councillor. He’s quite influential in Bristol because he’s an Executive Member and sits on the Cabinet that … Continue reading