Linkspam for 4-5-2008

[matgb]

• 10 great years in Britain—an immigrant writes
  Tim Ireland: To avoid putting you offside, I'm going to list my 10 favourite things about this glorious nation without mentioning one your women that I married and one of your jobs that I took.
  (tags: humour Immigration bloggers)
• An open letter to Labour MP's from Labour voters. « Schrodinger's Pig
  Can't argue with this—watch for the 10p smokescreen as excuse-Perhaps you've forgotten us. We are the tax paying, voting people. Remember the folks who put the X in the box in 1997, and waited with you, fingers and toes crossed, for the results to com
  (tags: labour election)
• Mayor Boris, eh? — Nosemonkey's EUtopia
  Agree with every word: All this hyperbole being spewed about Johnson from normally sensible left-wing sources* - not to mention the dismissal of over a million Londoners who picked him as their first choice as merely âœdoing it for a laughâ - is doing
  (tags: conservatives election Labour london)
• How the BBC's iPlayer is making a mockery of the 9pm watershed by making explicit material available 24 hours a day | the Daily Mail
  Worst journalism ever? Complain about all the filth available, with a nice little popout box listing it all so you can find it easily. The Mail really does know its prurient audience. (from Bookdrunk)
  (tags: daily+mail journalism iplayer bbc)
• Flame Warriors Home
  Forum and comment box archetypes, we've all met them, and most of us are at least one of them.
  (tags: Humour internet netiquette satire)
• BoJo might be a bozo, but Labour is the real danger » doctorvee
  Duncan on the Boris thing: Well, all I can say to that is, grow up. This is just the most pathetic way to discuss politics. If you have to resort to invoking the days of Thatcher to persuade people not to vote Conservative, you must be scraping the barrel
  (tags: Boris+Johnson london election mayoralty class)

Comments

[srk1.livejournal.com]

"Agree with every word: All this hyperbole being spewed about Johnson from normally sensible left-wing sources* - not to mention the dismissal of over a million Londoners who picked him as their first choice as merely âœdoing it for a laughâ - is doing"

Oh, rubbish. A load of bald, unsubstantiated assertions, ignorance of policy differences (the housing comment below), and statements of the obvious (apparently all Tories aren't evil! Whodathunkit!).

I've never understood why 'Nosemonkey' gets any attention, and still don't after reading that piece.

[tyrell.livejournal.com]

If you have to resort to invoking the days of Thatcher to persuade people not to vote Conservative, you must be scraping the barrel

I'll stop doing it when they (and labour) stop using Thatcher's policies word for word.

[matgb]

Remind me (actually, bug me) to write up the whole markets=thatcherite myth and how profiteers (like her) don't actually like markets?

Both she and NuLab are corporatists who use the language of markets even though they don't actually implement proper markets. Ah well.

Anyway, off out, going to watch Iron Man, possible more thorough post on the Boris thing later or tomorrow. Possibly.