The Blood is the Life!

[miss_s_b]

Fresh Squeezings from the veins of the internet!

• Crotchw00t's Overnight ratings are out. They've held steady at 6 million-ish all week. Suspect that this will be enough for the beeb to recommission


• Radio 4 links: Tarantino's Jukebox this morning was very entertaining, and I'm looking forward to The Political Club on monday, but the thing that made me squee the most today was Any Answers, sadly not available on listen again. The next-to-last caller was an extremely sexist man who said that if men disappeared then nobody would be able to drive lorries or run the electricity companies etc. etc. The last caller more than made up for this. She said:

  Caller: I'm a 66-year old spinster, and I change my own lightbulbs, do the oil in my car [long list of other traditionally male activities]. I suppose that according to the previous caller, I must be an honourary man?
  Dimbleby: And what is your reaction to this news that men are no longer needed for procreation? Do you think this makes them redundant?
  Caller: Oh, I shouldn't think so. People like to keep ornaments around, don't they?

  Give this woman her own show!


• Speaking of sexist, take a look at this post by celebrated Lib Dem Blogger Irfan Ahmed. This guy is more broadly read in the LD blogosphere than I am. You've got to laugh, or you'll cry...


• Caron has yet more news of sexism. I don't think I shall be watching Strictly this year.


• Apparently it is technically possible for Gordon to Postpone the election till 2013. I agree with the PB post that it's unlikely to actually happen, but it's food for thought.

And today's Meme is Mark's Ready Reckoning MP meme, in which I list all the MPs who have been my representative.

1. birth - 1979: Colin Jackson (Labour) Brighouse and Spen
2. 1979 - 1983: Gary Waller (Labour) Brighouse and Spen
3. 1983 - 1996: Fat Slug Donald (Conservative) Calder Valley due to boundary changes
4. 1996 - 1997: David Davis (Conservative) Boothferry, and then Haltemprice and Howden due to boundary changes
5. 1997 - 1999: John Prescott (Labour) Hull East
6. 1999 - 2000: John Heppel (Labour) Nottingham East
7. 2000 - present Chris McCafferty (Labour) Calder Valley

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Comments

[From: matgb]

When did you live in Sowerby? Before Calder Valley was formed, the lower valley was in Brighouse and Spenborough. I dunno...

[From: miss_s_b]

Oops! Edited

[From: burkesworks]

Gary Waller's a Tory, shurely? He wound up as MP for Keighley for a while IIRC.

I'm speechless about Irfan's latest inanities, not just the Godfrey Bloom-style sexism but the advocating of biraderi voting and the use of the "is it coz I iz black" defence to James's criticisms. If I were in Tony Greaves's sandals, Irfan would have been expelled from the constituency party by now.

[From: matgb]

Last time Tony was asked, he said Irfan's blog was the only blog in the world worth reading.

This was in the comments box of Lib Dem Voice, and he was also at the time very active in the forums. Consistency and accuracy of viewpoint not one of the Noble Lord's strongpoints. I'm told he has some though.

[From: moviegrrl]

Re: Strictly. Fuck. BBC!Fail. Because you know, replacing Sharon Osbourne with Cheryl and Dannii was *so* worthwhile on X-Factor.
I love Alesha, love her to bits. But she is in NO WAY qualified to replace Arlene (ssh, don't tell anyone but I have an Arlene Phillips dance workout audio cassette from Cosmopolitan from sometime in the early 80s).
Cock.
We will still watch it at Geek Towers I think because Faun adores it so much. But I think they've just ripped out part of my favourite show for no reason other than ooh!the pretty!
Cocksuckers.

[From: (Anonymous)]

Good to see your list Jennie. I have linked to this now from the original post where I am trying to keeping track of who has done it.

As for Irfan's sexist comments, I just left a comment below it rather than linking to him and giving him the Wikio satisfaction. I think he is so high up Ryan's list because he posts about 10 times a day! (See one of Ryan's caveats about this).

Mark Reckons.

[From: bagfish]

Speaking of sexist, take a look at this post by celebrated Lib Dem Blogger Irfan Ahmed. This guy is more broadly read in the LD blogosphere than I am. You've got to laugh, or you'll cry...

I thought this was a piss-take to start with. But it's not and I'm now crying because seriously, who could laugh at that level of ignorance and misogyny?

[From: ginasketch]

Oh. The guy who writes incoherently and can't spell to save his life is telling us we have no clue about politics.

He should change his name to Ironyfan.

[From: sassy_scot]

I read every word you write, and I hardly ever look at Irfan's if that's any consolation and I'm sure most others are the same. I only saw it because others blogged about it. I've had my own go at him. That man must never, ever be allowed to be a candidate for us, not even for the most unwinnable seat in the entire country.

Thank you for linking to me. I probably will watch Strictly because I couldn't not watch It Takes Two. I love Claudia way too much, but I'm stoatin' furious about what they've done.

[From: burkesworks]

What's worrying is that he's based in a very winnable seat. Thank heavens he is not the PPC.

[From: matgb]

He is only 17. Not an excuse for being a complete cock, but we're safe from him as a PPC for some time.

And I suspect if he does apply ECC will keep a close eye, given who's on ECC.

[From: telegramsam]

"Many women don’t have a clue about politics so they need someone to make their decisions for them"

Wow. Just.... wow.

I mean, it's not really surprising he holds this belief, a lot of men do (nevermind I know plenty of men who don't know shite about politics either), but to publicly post it up????

Is he just stupid or what? Or is this a deliberate trolling kind of thing? It's almost too boneheadedly stupid to even believe. O.o;

*grabs some popcorn to watch the dogpiling*

[From: andrewhickey.info]

Eh? People actually *READ* Irfan's drivel? The man's quite clearly boneheadedly stupid, and as far as I can see he's trying to be the Iain Dale of this party, except without Dale's ability to string together a coherent sentence and his connections.

I note that practically none of his posts have even a single comment...

[From: matgb]

He gets lots of clicks from LDV because of the trainwreck factor, I doubt anyone ever agrees with him.

[From: burkesworks]

Meanwhile, I see a very well-known Tory blogger has picked up my line about Godfrey Bloom...

[From: bagpuss]

Shame I can't read the misogynist drivel to find out how bad it is his sites seems to be down

[From: miss_s_b]

Basically he was saying that there is nothing wrong with men telling women how to vote, and filling in the postal votes for the entire family because most women know nothing about politics anyway.

[From: bagpuss]

The google cache was able to show me thanks

Lets only hope as he is only 17 that he learns better soon

[From: miss_s_b]

Cross fingers.