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This blog is worth a read - repeatedly predicted something like this https://grenfellactiongroup.wordpress.com/2017/06/14/grenfell-tower-fire/

I disagree. Unlike a football club, a country can make fairly accurate long-run predictions about future growth - over ten, twenty, thirty years - and run a structural deficit on the basis that we can be sure the long-run prediction will come true - even if you're wrong about your gambles in...

Corbyn's too nice to properly crush his enemies in a way that will stop them coming back for more. The left needs to assert itself over the slugs who are currently crawling out from under their rocks and demonstrate just who is in charge of the party now. Something like detention centres is...

Now that Jeremy Corbyn's position is relatively secure would be good to see Momentum seize the initiative and push him leftwards rather than simply defending his leadership. Would be really nice (and, I think, achievable) to get ending detention onto the Labour Party platform. If what people...

Not really. Spending drives growth. Growth permits spending. "Paying down your debts" means taking money out of the economy and putting a handbrake on growth. While an economy is growing at a rate roughly consistent with long-run growth, paying down debt is a really dumb thing to do. It's...

OK, put on your radiation suits as I'm about to defend New Labour (traded in my anarchy card last week, so may as well get my money's worth until they let me have it back). Running a budget deficit isn't a bad thing at all. A simple equation is that the more a government spends, the more it...

McDonnell and Abbott are kind of political opposites. Abbott is very sound in terms of her politics, but not the most effective operator. McDonnell is capable and effective, but I have lingering doubts about his politics. I get the impression - backed up in this very good interview with Diane...

Criticised Corbyn/Momentum for their failure to build alternative networks of solidarity that could be used against institutions that are controlled by the state. Pretty clearly got their necessity for a Corbyn electoral project wrong - informal networks across social media clearly do a lot of...

Just want to say this flagging this exchange (from 2015) as bang on the money. Find it interesting that dickheads on messageboards (no-offence AG, but you see what I'm getting at) have consistently offered better, more accurate and more intelligent political analysis than the entire media...

Not surprised the pig is a tory tbh. Hope the prick falls into a heffalump trap on his way home from the pub.

Ok I'm on the cans and I'm starting to believe.

Standing by my ultra-pessimistic predictions in the face of all the evidence.

yes. Revising my prediction to a Tory majority of 93.

File under "things that never happened".

Weird, to me it always appears to be the fascists who are reliant on police protection. Must have imagined that time you all ended up hiding in lost property at Lime Street...

If there's not a hefty Tory majority tomorrow morning, I'm on the cans all day

Imagine not voting for Oscar The Grouch in an election against Cruella De Ville

Head says 62 seat majority for the tories. Heart says Jezza by a whisker followed by a summer insurrection and full communism by August.

Diane Abbott gets slaughtered for who she is, what she looks like, her tone of voice. All this is at least partly racialised - even if it's not consciously racist. When women in the labour party like Jess Phillips or Stella Creasy get sexist abuse, mainstream feminism leaps to their defence...

If the far-right are so tough, how come every time they attempt to mobilise they get the shit beaten out of them by virtue-signalling snowflake SJW vegan student hipsters?