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Policywonk, in Hobbs and em and ess, LIVE FROM THE G20

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policywonk · 02/04/2009 08:18

YOWZA

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Wormsmeat · 05/04/2009 15:44

It was hard not to hang out with the SWP when I was a student. If there was an issue, they were there, with a placard tailored to the issue (Workers Unite for a Pedestrianised City Centre!). They were a nice bunch of people, good supporters of the miners' strike, but I never joined ... anything.

LeninGrad · 05/04/2009 15:30

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ruty · 05/04/2009 14:52

i was a member of the revolutionary communist party at university. I fancied this bloke who took me to the pub and got me to sign a direct debit form. I must have been completely pissed as i forgot all about it and only realised a year later that ten quid a month had been going to the RCP. Quite a lot when you're over your overdraft limit. And he didn't even have an Eastern European accent.

Wormsmeat · 05/04/2009 10:41
Swedes · 05/04/2009 09:46
Habbibu · 05/04/2009 02:33

Adding in the applause for fab Obama piece - am feeling ever so vindicated for being the first person to nominaye the firsy blogger to ask a q at int summit. Cleaner wasn't blogger so it don't count, surely.

Apols for typing - in dark w Schloer-related injuries.

LeninGrad · 05/04/2009 00:07

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policywonk · 04/04/2009 23:45

Ah right. It's just I pretty much always agree with you when you post about politics and I have the odd book by Trotsky on my shelves - well, one. Of course I've never read it.

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LeninGrad · 04/04/2009 23:32

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policywonk · 04/04/2009 23:23

You're right, it's utter crap.

Are you an actual (looks around to check that Swedes has really gone) commie then?

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LeninGrad · 04/04/2009 23:21

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policywonk · 04/04/2009 23:06

Goodnight Swedes x

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Swedes · 04/04/2009 23:01

I must go to bed. Night all.

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policywonk · 04/04/2009 22:58

Sorry, I did the Mandy thing earlier on here. You're right - you don't have to look too hard to see its origins.

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policywonk · 04/04/2009 22:57

LOL at you all. Particular snigger at wormy's vision of me having a fight with the small boy.

It's pregnancy brain, Lenin. Just don't let on about it to any men.

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onebatmother · 04/04/2009 22:50

You see. Women and gay men, constantly defined by what they wear...

onebatmother · 04/04/2009 22:49

if anyone else misses the ref, it's to a rather fab mis-spelling on the Sarah Brown's arse-size thread.

Swedes · 04/04/2009 22:49

I've just had an officical response from the G20 Voice people and apparently one of the cleaners asked Peter Mandelson whether his jacket was 100% Fairtrade cashmere or a cashmere and silk blend. So techincally.......

Swedes · 04/04/2009 22:46

Their wording does say first blogger to ask a Q at an international summit. So who cares that it wasn't to a priminster.

Swedes · 04/04/2009 22:44

I've just tweeted the G20 voice people asking for clarification.

onebatmother · 04/04/2009 22:43

Hmm. It's a fucker. I think that the fact that his one was to GB would make everyone go 'yes, technically you were first' and you'd wish you hadn't made a fuss.. even though they are probably being casually mizojnist.

LeninGrad · 04/04/2009 22:36

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Wormsmeat · 04/04/2009 22:34

oh, if not the youth then less unseemly. I had vision of Harry-Hill-style fight beween Mumsnet and dear little boy.

But still, solidarity between bloggers and all that.

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