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Thank you for being a friend

Ah, Steven Purcell. Him leaving Glasgow City Council has been like one of those horribly awkward and protracted breakups that ends up sucking in a whole social circle, and you know the basic story of what happened but you get the feeling there’s more to it. Gradually, ever more horrible, cringeworthy and sometimes fucking funny [...]

Women already in poverty to suffer for capitalism's crisis.

New figures have been revealed showing that women will bear the brunt of the ConDem coalition’s budget cuts. As Tory Minister Bob Neill said a few weeks ago, ‘Those in greatest need ultimately bear the burden of paying off the debt.’ Shadow Welfare Secretary Yvette Cooper said: “Women are bearing nearly three-quarters of the Tory-Liberal [...]

Labour MSP: "Whaurs the burdz?"

Scottish Labour have been again embarrassed as leading MSP Frank ‘the Wank’ McAveety was exposed as a pervy bastard. McAveety was forced yesterday to resign as convenor of the Scottish Parliament Petitions committee and as Labour spokesman for sport. As if Labour hadn’t learned their lessons about microphones being left on already, he was overheard [...]

Labour just isn't cool enough to elect a Terminator as leader

The Tory press are up in arms about a joke made by Labour leadership candidate John McDonnell at a trade union hustings. You might remember that after the election we tipped McDonnell as one of the few good guys to get elected to the Westminster Parliament. Despite still being a member of the Labour Party, [...]

"Sky News is Shit!"

Check out this video of protesters live on air declaring Sky News to be the utter shite we know it is: Eventually Sky had to cut away and just broadcast their logo for a bit. The protests were sparked after Sky presenter Kay Burley went mental at a spokesman for the protesters who were out [...]

Gordon Brown – in memoriam.

Well he’s finally done it, like a bullied teenager forced into taking weed by his peers, Gordon Brown has bottled it and given into pressure. He has resigned after spending only 3 years in the job he has lusted after for practically his entire political career. After taking Labour to it’s worst result since 1983, [...]

Barking isn't Barking.

Since 2001 the BNP have made steady inroads into British politics, gradually building up a significant base in local councils, and expanding slowly but surely into other arenas – winning a seat on the Greater London Assembly and their highpoint last year, winning 2 seats in the European Parliament. It’s almost been a grudging acceptance [...]

Scotland in Britain will never get the government it votes for

Here, you can see two maps of the election. To the left is a map of all the seats and who has taken them. To the right, those same constituencies are all shrunk to the same size, so that you can see where how much of a proportion of the total UK vote the population [...]

Which Fuckwit wins? You decide . . .

The polls have closed. The votes are in. Now it’s time to bring us the results of Britain’s most important election that isn’t decided by phoning a premium rate number. All the papers are projecting an SSP landslide in every seat we’re standing in, but we’re trying to keep our feet on the ground. What [...]

Socialist Stunnas say "Don't vote Tory or buy the Sun"

As we’ve already reported today, The Sun have been relentlessly trying to persuade us to vote Tory. The reason for this is that the Murdoch empire that owns it has sunk millions into pushing the Tories, in the hopes of getting a government that will give them everything they want. One of the things they [...]