Gold

Via 'Sweet FA' over at Urban 75.

'You're the ones we don't want'

Greasy. I feel nauseous.

Hat tip to SH over at Facebook.

ETA: Yes, in my head, it's 2010.

That joke isn't funny anymore

Johnny Marr took his bastard time.

Different Class

This is probably from the Labour stable - don't the cheeky bastards remember Cocaine Socialism? - but I love it nonetheless:

Whatever happens, May 8th I'll still be singing this, though.

Hat tip to Tricky Mickey over at Urban 75.

Eton Trifles

Not a particularly good idea but a rather nice T shirt from the Philosophy Football crowd.

Update Afterthought

Wait up; if I post an image of the T shirt on the blog, does that mean I can also blag a free T-shirt?

Duly done. I'll have a large one, Bob.

PS - That's the General Election officially mentioned on the blog, btw.

'Klingons to privilege'

SPGBer Max H. joins in the recent fun of photoshopping that daft 'honest dave' poster:

SPGBers who like that sort of thing tell me that Cameron has a passing resemblance to a Star Trek character called 'Data'. What do I know. Buck Rogers was my sci-fi fix as a kid.

More of Max's excellent Cameron posters on his website Capitalist Money Madness. I especially like these two.

Knows his onions

What with me drowning myself in celluloid recently, my eye has been off the blogging ball but Olly's back and he is on form.

ADDED

Kudos to H, also, for keeping the end up for us few and scattered abstract-propagandist-ultra-leftist-added-sarcasm-aloe-vera types.

They Talk About The Smiths, So I Don't Have To

UNLOVABLE

Ian Bone reports on Smiths fans in Salford getting spikey at the thought of David Cameron securing a photo-op outside the Salford Boys Club.

Doesn't matter if Cameron claims it's his favourite album of all time, it restores my faith a tad.

Where's My Manners?

There's me a couple of days back pointing people in the direction of Dave Cameron embracing all things co-operative, and yet I was neglectful in my revolutionary duty by failing to tie it in with the November Socialist Standard.

This month's 'Cooking the Books' column carries a wee piece where the original Green Shield Knight, Jonathan Porritt, is quoted stamping his own claim on the capitalism apologist chutzpah stakes by seeking to co-opt Co-operatism into the interests of saving capitalism from consuming itself*:

Co-opting the Co-op

What with Porritt and now Cameron bigging up co-operativism in recent weeks, I'm guessing that something must be in the think tank air. Maybe a paucity of new ideas? I'll leave that for the blogsphere's egg-heads to chew over. I'm off to try and find a Postcard mp3.

*Please don't try and read that sentence out loud without first taking a deep breath. It may cause success spasms of alliterative ailments and aches.

The Rochdale Political Cowboy

Nothing like a Top Tory invoking the spirit of the co-operative movement to inflame the dander of your nearest (or near) SPGB blogger:

From the SOYMB blog: Society does exist, admits Tory leader

From the Mailstrom blog: The Conservative Leftists

From the Reasons To Be Possible blog: Cameron fucks it

Going by the titles of the posts, I'm guessing that Bill is particularly impassioned about these matters, 'cos the chap is a member of the Co-operative Party (I'm jesting - Bill makes an interesting point about Cameron's apostasy from Thatcherism.) Just nobody mention Owenite socialism.

Next week, Jeremy Hunt, the Shadow Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport, announces that under the next Conservative Government, March 24th will be a national holiday.