Think about your washing machine breaking down your boiler breaks and you have a flood. Now think how much you can live on, , look at what you will have to find before you think about food or are you going to live on the streets, walk to the houses of Parliament each day in the same clothes, Your shoes need to be replaced as you wear them out quicker having to walk miles to get cheap things. As it will cost £27 rates £20 minimum to pay for your Electric and Gas see if he can live on £7 for food and so on. Ask him can he feed himself on £1 a day and find some medication or get his child to the doctors. Also find money to pay for Insurance for his property and contents. A bus trip too get his food will add even more, licence for TV. Only some dumb thick ignorant wealthy idiot could possible think he could live on that. Then there is bank charges to find, new clothes you need to find. Your child is growing out of his clothes and need to find a new jumper to go to school with a shirt and Trousers there all different each school you go too.Walk in the freezing cold to sign on its only about 7 miles away. Now do it for 3 year and find out how much the second hand washing machine will cost to replace the broken one, the £500 to £700 to replace the heating system. Now how to you afford the toilet paper the washing up liquid the soap to wash your self and your clothes.

[…] makes the central committee of the SWP seem yet more patently an institution that requires urgent overhaul and radical ventilation […] Cohen’s article is intended to obliterate this perspective together with all its nuances, and to stick the liberal boot in to the SWP with the maximum possible wild thuggish abandon at just the moment when it is calculated to be at its most vulnerable and defenceless.

I think the most interesting thing we’ve learnt in this whole debate so far is that Laurie Penny’s vagina hasn’t read any feminist theory. I’m not judging her vagina for not having done so - it’s not like my bits have their own personal library, either - but I think she makes an important case for judging humans on what their genitalia feel like they truly are rather than the books they’ve read (or not). If a vagina wants to wear a moustache, bowler hat and braces, that’s fine with me. If a vagina has always felt that they are a vagina despite appearances to the contrary of the heteronormative ideal, that’s fine with me. If there’s anything worse than a vagina throwing its PhD around and wetting the bed, it’s a vagina that aspires to faux-working class aspirations and promotes a reductive notion of what gender is, and thinks it’s okay to promote hate in a ‘liberal’ national newspaper. They’re the type of vagina I really hate.