Full support from the board.
by Paulie, 4 November 2007
I know that it’s private grief that shouldn’t be intruded on, but just in case you’ve not been following it all, George Galloway’s flag of convenience, Respect - the unity coalition - is falling to bits. The SWP have been locked out of the offices (but clearly have the passwords for the website) and the recent converts to anti-communalism are allegedly in merger talks with the Lib-Dems.
OK. You probably know all of that already?
But if that weren’t bad enough, the Alliance for Workers’ Liberty are offering the Village Idiots their full support. I’ve heard of sectarian nastiness, but that takes the biscuit.
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 1:01
Proper respect to the AWL for understanding irony. More power to their elbows!
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 1:06
Rope…hanging man…an’ all that.
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 1:25
Respect - the unity coalition, Solidarity - Scotland’s Socialist Movement …
Why have parties/sects developed a fetish for unnecessarily long and expository names?
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 1:54
States that have the word ‘democratic’ in their names tend not to be. Political parties with the word ‘freedom’ in them tend not to offer much freedom either.
I always think it’s funny when the people who go on the most about freedom say that every country should be run like Switzerland.
There, you get told what times you can’t flush the bog!
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 2:04
The whole Respect–original flavour and Respect–decaffeinated saga is a salutory reminder of the pitfalls of popular frontism.
Sunday 4 November 2007 at 2:12
Yes. Liberals. Fucknuts.
Note to American readers… read a book/text/something with a few pages that are bound together.
Learn the language. Then engage. Otherwise you embarrass yourselves. Again.
Monday 5 November 2007 at 9:35
Why have parties/sects developed a fetish for unnecessarily long and expository names?
It’s a managerialism that brooks no misunderstanding but tolerates no discussion. It must therefore impose its understanding of itself in soundbites.
It could be worse. Web 2.0 names for parties for example: rspect, Uscot, etc.