Jacob Rees-Mogg's tweet on Thames Water is going down very well indeed. This might be the kind of populism that the Tories are looking for.That tweet is disgusting, horrifying and appalling.
Chapeau to @BartholomewRoberts who might be into something. If they extend it to some of the big housing developers, supermarkets etc...
The daughter has decided to celebrate Easter by watching Life of Brian.SPLITTER!!!
A bishop and an archdeacon were visiting a Vicar.Almost. As someone said,In other Easter news.That's fine. After all: "It's a sinful world and are all sinners when we get the chance."
Taliban edict to resume stoning women to death met with horror
https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2024/mar/28/taliban-edict-to-resume-stoning-women-to-death-met-with-horror
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone.
Wonder what became of him?
Trouble is that living like that is blooming difficult. The difference between those who act holier than thou and those who actually are is partly how scrupulous they are about applying that principle to themselves.
Yes, but it was a long weekend.The thing that annoys me about Easter is that we keep on getting told Jesus died for our sins, okay but he didn't stay dead right? So what exactly did he sacrifice?Good heavens, what a thing to say!And crucially for the fight against woke, the Guardian calls Easter and Easter eggs Easter and Easter eggs.Was Jesus a zombie?
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/mar/29/mega-extra-chunky-luxurious-specia-easter-eggs-2024
(And very best wishes to those of us commemorating and celebrating Easter in their churches and chapels.)
*startled*
Doctrinally, I understand very much not.
Jesus gave up his weekend for our sins, not much of a sacrifice if you ask me.
Interesting meeting last night of 50 Labour members in Didcot where Annaliese Dodds (party chair and a nearby MP) was the guest speaker. We decided to make it a private meeting so that people would feel free to challenge her on policy or anything else without worrying about whether the Daily Mail would distort something. What struck me was the realism of everyone there, including Corbynistas and Blairites - everyone argued for their particular interests, but there was general acceptance that the situation is difficult and instant solutions aren't on the table.There is a difference between centrism and caution. Centrism is about finding solutions from both right and left wing toolboxes, imo at least. You can get cautious or risk taking governments of left, right and centre.
We organised the event partly because the local party had a difficult couple of years (my predecessor quit in a fury over dislike of Starmer, shortly before I turned up) and the remarkable revival in membership and activity is quite recent, so we wanted to give a chance to everyone to get any concerns off their chests. I came away feeling optimistic that we aren't going to quickly see massive disillusion among members with a cautious Labour government. I'm probably more impatient than most with our super-centrism, but I do recognise the need for it.
Or he's just a particularly eccentric eccentric. And Britain has a pretty long tradition of tolerance for eccentrics..He's exactly of the ilk I described.What point would that be ?Happy Long Bank Holiday Weekend, everyone.As always, you make my point for me.
Dura seems takes the piss out of everyone, without regard to creed or political persuasion.
Though he has an inexplicable regard for the Russian empire in all its various manifestations.
He has a bipolar superiority/self-hatred complex which he likes to exercise by trolling others who he feels represent those who lie behind all the ills he's experienced in life, despite being them fundamental part of it all the way, so he likes to paint as his intellectual inferiors as well.
Makes him feel better. Or he thinks it should.
Personally I think religion is unfortunately not based on reality, but I've no qualms about wishing people a happy Easter, and I have Muslim friends who send Christmas cards. In a way I think it's part of the semi-secularisation of religion as a source of joint festivals. How many people really believe every word of the Easter story, even in the CoE? Not many, I suspect. But it's certainly part of the tradition of our community, and socialism is about community, so we can take and give pleasure in its celebration. Equally, if someone chooses not to call it Easter, that shouldn't be a problem in a free society.The idea that progressives are renaming traditional religious holidays in the UK is a myth. It’s importing a US thing and looking for the same thing happening over here.@Casino_Royale is making a valid point but not a new one: progressives are embarrassed by tradition, preferring anything exotic and 'more interesting'; and provocatively renaming traditional religious holidays is a symptom of this. I don't think there are massive political implications but it all gets a bit tiring when their own vision of the future is failing all around them but there is little self reflection or criticism.Just leave them to it. This anti-woke stuff does not survive contact with the general public, and if they insist on bringing it up on the doorstep they will deserve all the electoral hammering they get.Step back and consider the obvious non-woke reason for calling it a long bank holiday weekend, which is to emphasise how much time you get off work, grouping it with other long bank holiday weekends, all of which are also named individually when you wish to focus on the particular.Yes, that's all fine, so call it the Easter weekend.Nor me. I think people refer to the long bank holiday weekend because that’s what it means to a lot of us. An extended and welcome 4 days off and the start of our UK string of spring bank holidays that culminate at Whitsun. Time to head to IKEA/B&Q/Garden centre, have a nice leg of lamb on Easter Day and if you’re young enough do a 2 day clubbing marathon.One thing that's annoying me this week: people referring to this week as "the long bank holiday weekend".Can't say I've come across people being shy about calling it Easter myself. Is this something concerted or just some general trend?
No, it isn't: t's the Easter bank holiday weekend.
It's remarkable that they are almost always the same people who are first out the gates on LGBT+ history month or to applaud the celebration of Ramadan.
I like the Christian bits of Easter too, not because I’m religious (I’m not) but because the biblical texts and the music that accompanies them are pretty epic: cornerstones of our literary universe. Tonight and Good Friday in particular:
The last supper; Judas kiss; the garden of gethsemane; Pilate washing his hands; let his blood be upon us; Centurions playing dice; crown of thorns; Eloi Eloi lama sabactani; gave up the ghost; the earth rent in twain etc etc. It’s probably the only story in “Western” literature as influential on English language and idiom as Shakespeare.
My objection was to one or two Woke people at work deliberately omitting the word Easter because of equity and diversity bollocks.
The Conservatives are in a tight doom spin which means that the remaining members, councillors and MPs who are shameless enough to keep campaigning tend to be more and more on the extreme right of the party.
I think this is now more of an issue than it was for Labour under Corbyn. Consider the latest anti-Khan video. Everyone sensible has left. They desperately need a Ruth Davidson type figure at CCHQ .