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« on: June 13, 2012, 11:46:18 am »
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Great article, really worth reading. Also, hilarious.
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« Reply #1 on: June 13, 2012, 12:23:27 pm »
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Odd to think the CPGB managed to get more parliamentary representation than UKIP ever has.
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« Reply #2 on: June 13, 2012, 12:35:01 pm »
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Quote from: a peculiar noise called "train director" on June 13, 2012, 12:23:27 pm
Odd to think the CPGB managed to get more parliamentary representation than UKIP ever has.

Not really; Communist support was always very concentrated (both geographically and in other ways). Of course they lost even that after the Soviet Union started pointing nukes at us.
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« Reply #3 on: June 13, 2012, 01:47:10 pm »
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If a novelist wrote that he would be attacked for using too much obviously ironic symbolism.
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« Reply #4 on: June 13, 2012, 09:31:43 pm »
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Quote from: Iatrogenesis on June 13, 2012, 01:47:10 pm
If a novelist wrote that he would be attacked for using too much obviously ironic symbolism.

The bit about Rodell Properties is especially good.
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« Reply #5 on: June 19, 2012, 09:44:28 am »
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Quote from: Comrade Sibboleth on June 13, 2012, 12:35:01 pm
Quote from: a peculiar noise called "train director" on June 13, 2012, 12:23:27 pm
Odd to think the CPGB managed to get more parliamentary representation than UKIP ever has.

Not really; Communist support was always very concentrated (both geographically and in other ways). Of course they lost even that after the Soviet Union started pointing nukes at us.

Not to mention the invasion of Hungary in 1956.
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« Reply #6 on: June 19, 2012, 09:53:13 am »
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That was more when the members started bailing. Electoral base long gone by then: even Willie Gallacher lost by 33pts (and came third) in 1950.
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« Reply #7 on: June 21, 2012, 06:35:56 am »
Quote from: Comrade Sibboleth on June 19, 2012, 09:53:13 am
That was more when the members started bailing. Electoral base long gone by then: even Willie Gallacher lost by 33pts (and came third) in 1950.

Seems about right. My papa was a CPGB member in the 1930's. It was the war that severed his affiliation apparently due to his interactions with the Garibaldi Brigades in the Italian campaign; never had the stomach for 'military' socialism. Liked Tito though.
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« Reply #8 on: June 21, 2012, 07:33:28 am »
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This is very funny, but at the same time not very surprising!
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