Tag: austerity
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Grenfell was no accident – middle classes and radicalism
Love this interview from Owen Jones with Frankie Boyle who speaks so much truth to power, about austerity, Theresa May’s failure-as-success, gentrification, and DUP. He’s right especially about Grenfell Tower, which was murder – corporate murder by neglect, although I’d argue the Tories just want the poor to die or go away and it’s more…
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Austerity kills and gentrification genocide
This image from Dr.Dunno / Chris Barker says it all about the horror of Grenfell Tower…rather drained about it, as not only did my mother live near there so I know that area fairly well, I have a personal connection to someone helping out and it doesn’t sound good. This might be the worse fire…
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Feelings > Facts
John Oliver on form again, I do think Trump will win it unless Hillary gets her shit together, which given her VP choice and complete Dynastic arrogance, very unlikely. Negative ‘Not That Guy’ campaigns never usually win, neither does lecturing your own party members about protest votes and ignoring DNC rigging…politically that kind of campaign…
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Why Corbyn?
I love A Up Let’s Talk, seen a few of his videos and he really gets WHY Corbyn is important, and this video describes it well…he marches with us, he’s tirelessly there for us, the people. Don’t see even the Blairites caring do we, they’re too busy with their dinner parties and posh events? Too…
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Jeremy Corbyn
I’ve heard a lot of crap about Jeremy Corbyn recently…he’s got an uphill struggle against the Murdoch press machine, as well as the spiteful Blairites who bailed on him (I have one phrase: ‘Bye Felicia!’ for Chuka U-Turn Umunna and Jamie ‘Who?’ Reid) and the mostly ambivalent Guardian (who interestingly is benefitting from gentrification as…
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Emperor’s New Clothes
I wish the TV debates had gone like this interesting cutup from Cassetteboy…And I’m curious about that film, the one that caused the ‘lunchgate’ from a freelancer who couldn’t go eat on a park bench (as I would), and just moaned about Russell on behalf of his employer, who would drop you in a heartbeat!…