- Sat Sep 14, 2019 6:54 pm
#585845
Not that surprised that a tankie ended up joining the Brexit Party.
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... t-sherwood
https://www.theguardian.com/politics/20 ... t-sherwood
Forty years ago, in the autumn of 1979, I was 20 years old and a new graduate from the Polytechnic of Central London (PCL). I was active in the Anti-Nazi League and the Socialist Workers party, joining demonstrations and picket lines and attending earnest meetings in dingy pubs. I’d just started my first job as a trainee journalist. I was living with my boyfriend on the notorious North Peckham estate in south London.
The boyfriend was also a member of the SWP and a dominant figure in PCL’s student union, first as the editor of the student paper, and then – twice – as president. Alaric Bamping had a reputation as a leftwing firebrand, leading sit-ins and protests and conducting long, fierce arguments with anyone who disagreed with him.
So how the hell, 40 years on, has he ended up as a parliamentary candidate for the Brexit party?
Don't give me the Star Trek crap. it's too early in the morning.
Dave Lister, philosopher.
Dave Lister, philosopher.