Another Stroppyblogger birthday - Marsha Jane !!!!

Happy birthday Marsha Jane, pictured here in her back garden whilst on maternity leave ;-)


MJ, being a classy bird , is having some drinks in the Euston Flyer after the HOPI AGM and social.

Happy birthday and have a great time !!

The first leftie bloggers piss up of the year !!

Yep, this Saturday , 4pm onwards at the Euston Flyer , Euston, London.

All leftie bloggers, commenters and lurkers welcome. And no, its not just the AWL and their groupies. The last one had CPGB, PR, the Labour Party/LRC, independents and the odd AWLer.

New people are welcome,we are quite friendly honest .

For a flavour of the proceedings here are a few reports , here, here,here and here.Oh and there was also a mini piss up in Scotland.

I will of course report back any gossip :-)

Commie price comparison

While at the bloggers’ drinkies last weekend we had a fair share of discussions about trotty groups. I mean, only lefties bring along their own propaganda and stick it in the centre of the table. Useful if the conversation proves boring, and watching rugby on widescreen isn’t your thang so a quick flick through the mags to while away the hours….or until the conversation gets interesting..

Anyway, it kinda occurred to me that leftie groups should be, to use managerial speak, proactive in recruiting the masses. So here’s my plan and if I was active in a trot group I would have written it as part of an internal discussion bulletin but as I don’t belong to anything of trot value I thought I’d publish it here.

When some poor schmuck thinks about joining a gang of commies, first thing that should be in operation is a kind of “Trot price check” where all the groups include how much dues you have to pay, a summary of their respective programmes (do they adhere to the Transitional Programme and so on), candidate membership, ex-comrades rating their experiences including the ongoing visits to the therapist (that should be fun….!!) and best of all….what do you get out of it.. There will also be symbols to differentiate the groups such as an outline of Trotsky or an 'ickle tank .....

Now….it may sound like I am emulating capitalism but left-wing ideas need some serious marketisation. Hey, this is some radical blue sky thinking. You shop around for deals from car insurance to food to phones so why not for the trot group. They could have “deal of the week” … “Comrades we are slashing our dues from 20% down to 15%”. And they could break this down by employment (public sector worker expected to pay… £xx). Or better….pay what you can afford (hey, we are socialists after all!) And this puts economic pressure on the other trot groups to give incentives. And hell, we do need a dose of good old fashion internal competition to the keep trots on their toes.

Unfortunately, Trots can’t do the usual incentives (poorer, for a start) like the banks so instead of a free iPod it will be …”Join us and you get a free Che t-shirt” (hey kids, he’s dead hip at the moment), sing-a-long-revolutionary songs on CD, Trotsky/Lenin/Stalin On…….. and £10 voucher to spend at the local off-Licence… Simple! Recruitment galore….

Other incentives include, “recruit 2 people and get 1 free”, "join us and you won’t have to sell the paper for a month", Trot scratch cards (find 3 Trotskys/Lenins but nowt for a Stalin) where you win an all expenses paid dinner at Pizza Hut with the full-timers of your choice. Wow… exciting…

Second prize is dog eared copy of Lenin’s What is to be Done.

.......and third prize is a leave of absence from this week’s branch meeting….

You know, every little helps….on the road to the revolution…

Godless drunken revelry

Well I was going to write a very serious political post, but sod it. Apparently, according to Denham, Stroppyblog is not a serious political blog apart from when Janine posts. Or words to that effect. Hmmm. I hold grudges almost as long as Will !!

So on with the gossip.

Last night was another leftie bloggers piss up. The roll of dishonour included Dave, Kit, Mike, Denham, Jon, George, Tami, Marsha Jane, Louise, Tony (Louise's other half), John A and Noel. Noel is a newbie at the piss ups , but I think he survived and was most welcome. I think I have missed someone !!

I was supposed to watch Denham's bag and make sure he had plenty of scotch. In the end it was me who lost my 'fucking bag' and Denham had to find it. Oh and he kept me well supplied with JDs, so he is slightly forgiven for his slur on the good name of Stroppyblog. But not quite.

I have to admit I didn't engage in much serious political discussion. In fact I think I helped lower the tone even further, if possible.

John A was there with a slightly shorter beard. John, it has to go. Or should I say the Reverend John Angliss. My prediction is he will make a nice leftie trendy vicar in a few years. This is based purely on his beard , he sort of has the look,and now with a mullet and hippie shirt. I offered to do a stroppy version of Trinny and Susannah. I also offered to shave the beard, but he was understandably a little wary as I had had a few by then.

There was a discussion as to whether Jim is more Father Jack, Cary Grant , George Saunders or Leslie Phillips. By this stage I was determined, in my drunken state, to get him to say 'Ding Dong' as I filmed him on my phone. For those young uns it was a catchphrase of the caddish Leslie Phillips. Denham refused until I blackmailed him, saying I would put on the blog what he said about being spanked by a certain dodgy person. Blackmail he cried and then gave in. Don't worry, it won't go on youtube ;-)There is a poll on the sidebar to guess who Denham wants to be spanked by. And in case people think this is more of my disturbed imagination Volty can corroborate that he has confessed this before.

Another highlight was pictures taken of Louise and Denham cosying up together. Think he might have been trying to recruit :-) Louise, its a slippery slope, you know Dolls4Jim is just a front organisation.

Anyway I believe there was much sensible talk in amongst the nonsense . Unlike me, I did not stay to the very end and go to the restaurant ,sort of wandered of, well OK stropped off and then mislaid Osler ! Wandered round Kings Cross on a Saturday night in my fishnets, not a good idea ,but eventually found a taxi and got home.

Anyway it was good to see everyone , old and new. Volty, you missed a good time!!

Oh and this morning I was on the bendy bus from Dalston to London Bridge and there was this whack job religious woman preaching loudly the whole journey . Arghhh.I'm looking at the photos on the phone from the night before and I hear her say that the trouble was that people were enjoying godless drunken revelry without the fear of God.

Yep,godless drunken revelry and she says that like its a bad thing, better than inflicting earache on people on buses ;-)

More drunk and umanageable goings on...hopefully

Been really lazy about posting. This partly due to the usual fed upness coming back to the real world after going away . Its also due to pissed off ness with all the usual bickering on the left .I'll get back to posting, rather than gossiping, soon!!

Oh well. off to the bloggers piss up. Volty can't make it so apparently I am in charge of both Mike R and Denham. I have to watch Denham's 'fucking bag', make sure he has plenty of scotch and generally boss him around (he likes women doing that I believe :-) ). Volty has given me my instructions and I am sure I am up to the task of keeping control of Denham, though Mike is an entirely tougher proposition .

Just as well I happy to like weird leftie men ...yes really Punchie ;-)

Must get out more

Not been posting for a while. Lazy .

I thought blogging was sad enough until I found myself chatting with Kit, on facebook ,on a Sunday evening. Not that Kit is sad, weird but not sad. Nope, it was the fact the subject matter involved Denham ,Zionist fishnets,small dogs and stroppy women .

Date for the diary , there is a piss up for leftie bloggers who want to venture off the web and into the semi real world of a pub full of social misfits.
Saturday 6th October, 'The Euston Flyer', Euston . Starts 4pm.
All welcome.
There will of course be a delegation from Dolls4Jim.

Oh and if you turn up I'll tell you the story that involves chihuahuas, disturbed schoolboys and Jim Denham...