The government whips to defeat a motion that would briefly give children in poverty food vouchers, leaving them hungry. Robert Peston: We have never been so socialist, we are practically communist.
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I've wondered about
@RobertPreston too. The first few times I saw a Tweet by him I thought it was a parody account. Then I thought he was just lazy right-wing pundit, you know, Spiked/Telegraph style. But now it seems that some people take him serious.
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It’s really peculiar. I’m sure it wasn’t just that I was a teenager, but he seemed genuinely good during the financial crash, but the last decade and the move to straight politics from economics has just seen an accelerating decline to this level of nonsense.
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I suppose you could call the modern Tories National Socialists, at least they are moving rapidly that way, it's the Farage effect.
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It's like he has can only express himself through the language and analytical framework of vulgar Friedman-esque anticommunism even as he doesn't necessarily subscribe to that viewpoint. It's very strange.
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I find the weirdest thing is that what he does isn’t weird - like, it is objectively bizarre, but it’s totally unexceptional amongst the lobby. The performance art has hegemonised the broadsheets.
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This is what happens when people assume & indeed proclaim state spending as socialism, it isn't & never has been.
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Yeah, So let me get this right - Illegal Wars - Socialist. Nuclear proliferation - Socialist. Mass incarceration - Socialist. Bungs to Cronies - Socialist. Hmm. Not getting intense "For the many" vibes here Pesto.
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Switch "complex" for "shit" and you got it.
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