THE RIGHT TO RIDICULE: SATIRE AS PROTEST

Posted on December 2, 2019 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged accountability, boggart, Boris Johnson, Brexit, capitalism, Extinction Rebellion, featured, fields of wheat, Get Ready For Brexit, Grenfell tower, Have I Got News For You, humour, jacob rees-mogg, led by donkeys, Mock The Week, politicians, politics, power, propaganda, protest, rhetoric, right wing media, satire, The Mash Report, theresa may, Tories, TV, uk.

By Jess O’Dwyer

“There is a political power in laughing at these people.”

So say Led By Donkeys, a “Brexit accountability project” created by four friends who wanted to “[channel] frustration into action and [hold] politicians to account with a bit of humour.” The group go around the country putting up billboards with quotes or Tweets from pro-Brexit politicians, as well as projecting or broadcasting previous interviews on Brexit. This is to show a side-by-side comparison of their changes in stance, highlighting contradiction and hypocrisy.

JACOB REES-MOGG, JEREMY CORBYN, COURTESY AND CONVICTION

Posted on February 24, 2018 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Bernie Sanders, bigotry, British Raj, Donald Trump, featured, government, gramsci, high office, homophobia, ideology, jacob rees-mogg, jeremy corbyn, Labour, mask, monsters, Nesrine Malik, parallels, politician, politics, polls, popularity, roman catholic, Silvio Berslusconi, theresa may, Tory, uk, westminster.

by Justin Reynolds

Writing in the midst of Europe’s interwar turbulence, the Italian political theorist Antonio Gramsci observed that ‘the old world is dying away, and the new world struggles to come forth: now is the time of monsters.’ Though contemporary parallels with Gramsci’s troubled world can be overplayed, these transitional times have spawned, if not monsters, an impressive array of fabulous beasts.

Donald Trump is President of the United States. Self-proclaimed socialist Bernie Sanders almost won the Democrat nomination. Silvio Berlusconi is once again on the verge of becoming the leading powerbroker in Italian politics. Jeremy Corbyn emerged from the deepest political wilderness to lead the Labour Party.

If, as the Brexit negotiations intensify, Theresa May’s vestigial authority finally fades away, the Government may have little option but to take a chance with a charismatic leader able to hold it together through sheer force of personality. And it is no longer absurd to suggest that, just as Labour members insisted on Corbyn, the Tories might turn to his mirror-image, Jacob Rees-Mogg.Continue Reading

PARTY CONFERENCE SEASON RECAP

Posted on October 12, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Inter|national and tagged Amber Rudd, Boris Johnson, Brighton, conference, economics, general election, grant shapps, Green, Iain Duncan, jacob rees-mogg, jeremy corbyn, Labour, neil kinnock, party, Plaid Cymru, policy, politics, pundit, Sirte, snp, speech, theresa may, Tory, uk, UKIP, vince cable.

by Chris Jarvis

Political punditry’s busiest time of the year has come to a close, as most of Britain’s political parties have wrapped up their annual festivals of spin, spectacle and speculation – only Plaid Cymru and the Scottish Greens remain un-conferenced. What a season it has been.

Typically speaking, party conferences go mostly unnoticed, change little in the political landscape, and are quickly forgotten as the cogs of history whirr on unshaken. 2017 will be more than an aberration to that pattern. True, the ‘smaller’ parties failed to make a mark this time round too. Little of note came out of the SNP or Green Party of England and Wales conferences. The sole memorable moment of the Liberal Democrat soiree was the laughable assertions trotted out to the press time and again, that Vince Cable could soon be the next Prime Minister of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. UKIP’s will only be recalled as the final subdued howl of Little England defiance as it casts itself into electoral and political irrelevance. That notwithstanding, this year was a bumper crop.Continue Reading

REES-MOGG: NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED

Posted on September 10, 2017 by Norwich Radical in Community, Inter|national and tagged anti choice, atheism, ballox box, Bath, Brighton, Bristol, Catholicism, Christian, comedy character, conservative, corbyn, european union, faith, gay sex, general election campaign, Good Morning Britain, homophobic, honourable member, jacob rees-mogg, labour leadership, lgbtQ+, Liberal Democrat, metropolitan, national television, non progressive, norfolk, norwich, norwich south, party membership, political career, politics, press coverage, prime minister, rees mogg, sexuality, spin doctor, Tim Farron, Tories, Trump.

by James Anthony

Content warning: article mentions homophobia, religion, Trump, and Farage.

Earlier this week, many of us watched on in horror as one of our potential Prime Ministers spouted his frankly archaic, illiberal views on Good Morning Britain. I thought to myself that alongside all the atheists, progressives and liberals of the UK, Jacob Rees-Mogg’s spin doctors and supporters must also be holding their head in their hands. His interview would have been seen by a large number of people and the further press coverage was extensive – surely this was the death blow to any leadership ambitions.

I suppose I have a lot of faith in our electorate and like to think that outing yourself as anti-choice, homophobic, and quite frankly medieval, on national television would ruin your political career.Continue Reading

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THE RIGHT TO RIDICULE: SATIRE AS PROTEST

JACOB REES-MOGG, JEREMY CORBYN, COURTESY AND CONVICTION

PARTY CONFERENCE SEASON RECAP

REES-MOGG: NOT TO BE UNDERESTIMATED

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