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Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 09:07 AM Apr 2015

Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'Phantom of the Opera' writer mocked after issuing warning about voting Labour

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Bwaaahaaaaaaaa! Gotta love the Brits' finely sharpened rapier of wit.




Andrew Lloyd Webber has weighed in on the General Election, urging people to vote Conservative.

Writing in the Mail on Sunday, the Cats composer issued a passionate plea against voting for Labour or the Scottish National Party, believing that voters are going to elect an unsuitable government.

However, he came in for criticism with some people arguing that he was bound to be biased as a Conservative peer. Others implied that Lloyd Webber's opinion shouldn't be taken seriously as he's best-known for writing musicals:


Was unsure who to vote for but reading 2,000 words by the man who wrote Cats has changed everything
Anita Singh (@anitathetweeter) April 26, 2015

@anitathetweeter yeah but what does elaine page think?
Lars Ontherskins (@larsontheskins) April 26, 2015

The poor Mail on Sunday needs to have a little lie-down. http://t.co/x2PLO3kbuZ
Janice Turner (@VictoriaPeckham) April 26, 2015

Andrew Lloyd Webber's urging everyone to vote Tory. Well that's my mind made up then.
Jamie (@jtlovell1979) April 26, 2015

So tell me multi-millionare Andrew Lloyd Webber,what is it that you don't like about the Labour Party?
Pat_ JFT96 (@Pat_167) April 26, 2015

I can't believe the Tories have sunk so low that they've weaponised Andrew Lloyd Webber. Nobody wants to see that.
Carl Maxim (@carlmaxim) April 26, 2015

So Stephen Hawking's for Labour. The Tories are supported by Katie Hopkins & Andrew Lloyd Webber. Tough one.
IanWatoop (@IanWatoop) April 26, 2015

Don't Cry for Us Andrew Lloyd Webber #MilibandMusicals
Mrs VB (@MrsVB) April 26, 2015

Are we supposed to care about the political views of #AndrewLloydWebber
Craig Moore (@Craig_144) April 26, 2015

I'm sure Andrew Lloyd-Webber, the billionaire, knows what it's like to live in working class Britain. Typical Tory.
Joseph (@Joseph_Kippax) April 26, 2015

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/andrew-lloyd-webber-phantom-of-the-opera-writer-mocked-after-issuing-a-warning-about-ed-miliband-and-nicola-sturgeon-10204627.html



Fear: Lord Lloyd Webber describes the leaders of Labour and the SNP - seen here in a mock-up of his most famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera - as the 'most dangerous double act in Britain'
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Andrew Lloyd Webber: 'Phantom of the Opera' writer mocked after issuing warning about voting Labour (Original Post) Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 OP
LOL DURHAM D Apr 2015 #1
''Tories...Weaponized Andy Lloyd Webber.'' Octafish Apr 2015 #2
Apparently, a whole herd of Young US Republicans who Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #3
Revolting! White Power and Dark Forces Octafish Apr 2015 #6
This is all I need to know about Mr. Arnn and his establishment: Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #7
It's a beautiful piece. Octafish Apr 2015 #8
This election is remarkably like the 1992 one, when Lloyd Webber said he'd leave Britain muriel_volestrangler Apr 2015 #4
TPTB desperately want Cameron to remain so that he can continue apace with Surya Gayatri Apr 2015 #5
NHI is going the way of Austerity. Octafish Apr 2015 #9

Octafish

(55,745 posts)
6. Revolting! White Power and Dark Forces
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 01:00 PM
Apr 2015

Larry Arnn, the president of Hillsdale College recently used the phrase "dark ones" to refer to his institution's minority enrollment.

“The state of Michigan sent a group of people down to my campus, with clipboards … to look at the colors of people’s faces and write down what they saw,” Arnn explained. “We don’t keep records of that information. What were they looking for besides dark ones?”




Hillsdale is home to a very nice bronze of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, BFF of Ronald Reagan and conservatives everywhere, including Arnn. People the world over feel her politics reverberate today, unfortunately.

The great DUer Junkdrawer reminded me that it wasn't just Thatcher and the modern conservatives who use nefarious tactics to rule over the Untermenschen. In fact, it goes back quite a ways, to the time when one group feels itself superior to another. News today about events from almost 75 years ago show that these oligarchs and racialists did big business with evil, and that the UK helped Hitler sell a billion in gold after the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1939,

Thankfully, not all Caucasians with power are evil. Untold thousands if not millions volunteered to defend the union and defeat the slavemasters in the Civil War, as did thousands more to fight the fascists in Spain and millions in World War II to defeat the NAZIs.

What's maddening is that the NAZIs and their ideology are still around. The reason for that can be found in the heart of America's national security state.
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
7. This is all I need to know about Mr. Arnn and his establishment:
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 01:04 PM
Apr 2015
'Hillsdale is home to a very nice bronze of former UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher...'

muriel_volestrangler

(101,361 posts)
4. This election is remarkably like the 1992 one, when Lloyd Webber said he'd leave Britain
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 12:16 PM
Apr 2015

if Labour got in: https://dermotrathbone.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/1992-and-all-that-memories-of-the-horror-election/

He didn't leave in 1997, when Labour did get in. More's the pity.

But, like 1992, the Tory press is going all out with the character assassination of the Labour leader as 'not PM material'. The Mail On Sunday had a ridiculous feature a couple of weeks ago that revealed he (gasp) had girlfriends before he met his wife!!! And probably had sex with a couple of them!!!

For, not only did he knife his elder brother in the back by ending his dream of getting the Labour leadership by standing against him (contrary to the wishes of their mother), but he met his future wife Justine (albeit unwittingly) at that dinner party hosted by his then girlfriend.
...
After their first meeting at that 2004 dinner party, it was at least a year before they started dating. Justine's recollection isn't, though, the first public airing of her love story with Ed.

In the biography of the Labour leader, titled Ed: The Milibands And The Making Of A Labour Leader, an associate is quoted as saying: 'Although she was struck by his eyes — wide and brown and fixed on their subject — a friend remembers her undoubted excitement after meeting Ed as: 'Gosh, how fascinating, he's really clever', rather than: 'Gosh, how handsome'.' Perhaps glossing over what may be seen as such caddish behaviour, the Daily Mirror omitted to say that the dinner's hostess, Stephanie Flanders (who later left the BBC for a £400,000-a-year job at a bank in the City), was Ed's then girlfriend.

What was that 'caddish behaviour', you wonder? Why, it was that he didn't flirt with her at the party hosted by his girlfriend:

Yesterday, Justine recalled in a red-top newspaper: 'I thought he was good-looking and clever and seemed to be unattached. But we just went down a conversation cul-de-sac. Apparently we had nothing in common.

'He just wanted to talk about economics — one of my least favourite subjects. None of our conversations went anywhere.'

Mrs Miliband said that she was 'furious' when — far from being 'unattached' — she found out that he was 'secretly going out with' the woman who had invited her for dinner.

Yes, seriously, they tried to paint that as a 'very tangled lovelife' - his girlfriend invited another friend to a dinner party, who didn't realise Miliband was going out with her, their conversation was rather boring, and a year later, after Miliband had split with the earlier girlfriend, he went out with his now-wife.

The cad! The bounder! The rake! The lothario! The Don Juan! The Casanova! Etc. etc.

That 'back-stabbing' insult is something the Tory tacticians are pushing - as well as getting the Mail to say Ed Miliband 'stabbed his brother David in the back' (by also standing to lead Labour; David had been slightly senior in the cabinet, and was seen as the likely winner, but it turned out Ed was more popular with union members - possibly because he wasn't as close to Blair as David), they then said Ed Miliband would 'stab the country in the back' over a nuclear deterrent: https://www.politicshome.com/foreign-and-defence/articles/story/michael-fallon-miliband-will-stab-uk-back-over-trident . It's an attack that raised eyebrows, since it echoes Hitler's accusation that Jews 'stabbed Germany in the back' over World War One; Miliband's parents were both Jews who had to flee from or hide from the Nazis.

And today Boris Johnson repeated the "he stabbed his brother in the back" accusation; he and Miliband were then on TV together, Miliband said Johnson shouldn't just say what the Tories' strategist told him to (Lynton Crosby, an Australian imported to be a bastard), and Johnson seemed a bit embarrassed by it: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/election-2015-32471755
 

Surya Gayatri

(15,445 posts)
5. TPTB desperately want Cameron to remain so that he can continue apace with
Sun Apr 26, 2015, 12:55 PM
Apr 2015

dismantling the 'social safety net'.

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