Real England

If i had a cat I would call her Liz Lochhead Tartuffe

Weird editing on this advert, the way the camera lingers on James Whale a few nanoseconds too long at the end of each of his scenes makes it slightly disturbing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GZyNUDAEE6Y

... put this on here because I believe this is where Pimlico Plumbers made their grand entrance on ILX.

Fuck me, they actually have proper NIC electrical accreditation now, going up in the world! Charlie han't been a totally happy plumber this year. He lost a high profile Employment Tribunal and was whinging about the High Court ruling on legal reform aid the other week. It is hard out there for a millionaire Tory donor, held together by botox.

He also financed Gina Miller's anti-Brexit campaign, which hasn't done him any favours with his natural constituency...

http://www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/news/article-4167438/I-live-abuse-Brexit-says-millionaire.html

... put this on here because I believe this is where Pimlico Plumbers made their grand entrance on ILX.

nah, i distinctly recall being in london last year, seeing a pinlico plumbers van and being like 'oh aye that's that prick from the ilx politics thread'

http://blogs.bath.ac.uk/iprblog/2017/08/01/im-not-english-oh-yes-you-are/

a good article (which I don't agree with) about leftist distate for englishness

^^^barnett is almost always worthwhile but yikes at calling benedict anderson ben, this will not stand

Is Paul Mason anti-Brexit?

I think he warily accepts it

Their immediate island neighbours were recruited into what became a joint project: the British, not the English Empire.

Recruited in the 18th/19th century sense of being either bribed or press ganged.

AB's argt is i think* that since PM is unwilling to acknowledge he's english he MUST be anti-brexit in the sense that brexit conceives itself

(which seems to me the nub and also the flaw of the essay, which covers a lot of extremely interesting ground -- the mob he cites, benEDICT anderson and tom nairn et al -- were/are all very good in detail (hence undeluded) on the specifics of how Gt Britain had fashioned its sense of itself, w/o ever being very good on what could be done abt this

(my own gloomy opinion: nothing can be done abt it from within, we have to take the lumps the once-invaded world -- or anyway the three quarters once painted red -- hurls at us, until they tire of this and we work out what shape we've ended up)

*i need to read it again though

the article almost seems to be arguing that the current world system is english british and that all other national identities were forged in reaction to it

something not unlike that was more or less the new left review's position in the 70s and 80s: that modern nationalism emerged as a counter-hegemonic activity on the colonial peripheries first (in particular the americas in the 18th century), before it fully developed in europe (in the 19th century)

^^^very over-simplified and i forget how this analysis was applied in the far east re e.g. japan in particular: benedict anderson's expertise was very tied up in his knowledge of the story of indonesia over the last 3 centuries

perry anderson's newest book is abt hegemony, isn't it? the h word: the peripeteia* of hegemony

*lol this is just PA's shtick now, like rod hull and emu

xp it has an instinctive appeal in explaining why englishness seems so alien to the english but it's about as anglocentric as you can get

oddly enough they began exploring this material as a way of explaining why, unlike other nations, england (real or otherwise) had never had a revolution: the exceptionalism is apparently all too transferrable

of course i think it has had THREE revolutions but you and i differ on this :)

maybe one extended revolution which was ultimately not dissimilar to France's in terms of where the power went

my difficulty with any version of the phrase "healthy patriotism" makes it very hard to agree with much that Barnett says in that essay

The men were arrested on 26 August 2016 after a bag of weapons, including a pipe bomb, an air pistol and a meat cleaver with the word kafir (unbeliever) scratched on it, were found under the driver’s seat of Ali’s car. In Aziz’s car they found a samurai sword bought from a sex shop in Stoke for £20.

"now that's a big chopper"

who knew the people of stoke were so sexually adventurous

when the only people you get it on with are close family you have to do something to liven it up

also who knew samurai swords were so reasonably-priced

Austerity Britain.

you used to be able to kick a ball-gag in the street

is this england? idk. who cares

update from the local: an auld lad has taken €100 bets he can fit through a bar stool pic.twitter.com/Yk1tzbXQr5

— Thomas (@heytk_) August 14, 2017

The bet is in Euros so Ireland.

Idk where it is I'd take that bet in a heartbeat

yeah, that's easy money right there

oh really

what a man pic.twitter.com/bOb6t9HVW9

— Thomas (@heytk_) August 14, 2017

fuck

lergend

I don't need to look at anything else but his face to let you know that's an irishman

LOL

posts like that make me proud to be 2nd gen Irish debris

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/originals/bc/2b/2d/bc2b2d449d3924f934e61b548b496e77.jpg

A+

Ireland reliably one of england's most idiosyncratic counties

https://manchesterestatepubs.wordpress.com/

I know even the faintest whiff of northern sentimentality can cause ilxor noses to wrinkle but some of you might like this. I also see mike leigh has put a call out for 'authentic northern faces' for his peterloo film

This is doing the rounds on Twitter at the moment, from a listing on Rightmove and oh dear.

"motivated seller"

on the plus side, i imagine that's knocked a chunk of the asking price

I once lived in an upstairs flat above a known sex-offender. The local hoodlums used to kick their football against his door and someone daubed "sex-case" on it. I'm sure glad they knew the side door belongs to the upstairs flat!

Rightmove have now removed the photo from the original listing, as if it hadn't occurred to anyone first time round that it might be a little offputting to prospective buyers.

http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/02/lib-dem-council-candidate-sent-labour-rival-explicit-photo-of-him-dressed-as-mouse-6897641/?ito=twitter

Great little haul here

http://www.theargus.co.uk/news/15528032.Priest_given_community_order_for_using_dead_woman_s_disabled_badge_to_park_his_car/

This one had me at the dog's name.

amazing

The court heard he has no connection to the Church of England and regularly travels to Moldova.

There is little on earth more suspicious than a 63-year-old fake priest who regularly travels to Moldova.

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/gran-catapulted-wall-defective-pontins-505360