Changing a Socialist Light Bulb: Joke of the Day

By admin • January 17, 2008

While poking around on Socialist Unity last week, I found this splendid lightbulb joke:

How many SWP CC members does it take to change a lightbulb.

They have no bloody idea how to change a light bulb, but 1500 SWP members will sit in the dark without noticing.

Glossary: SWP: Socialist Workers’ Party, CC: Central Committee (I think).

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3 Responses to “Changing a Socialist Light Bulb: Joke of the Day”

Welshcakes Limoncello
Thu, January 17, 2008 at 4:19 pm | Permalink

Like that!
Anon
Sat, January 19, 2008 at 4:23 am | Permalink

Love that!
I was once a mover and shaker in the South London SWP - don’t paint me bad - I got over it.

If I had suggested changing the said light bulb - I would of been accused of infringing on the rights of working electricians.

Anecdote time:

I was sat in a pub once with some comrades after a standard branch meeting - one comrade asked me what I did for a living. “Self Employed computer tech”, said I.

I was accused of being petty bourgeois. I am the boss ergo….

I left London shortly after under hasty circumstances but bumped into a old organiser in Brum a few months later. He was concerned as to my sudden flight from London. To this day I don’t know how I kept a straight face.

I told him I’d been moved to another job and that he really didn’t want to be seen talking to me. *wink* He jumped to a conclusion and then spent the next 10 minutes talking into his mobile frantically.

I did have the entire membership database on my computer at my time of leaving.
Matt
Sat, January 19, 2008 at 6:51 am | Permalink

Heh.