Tag: Democratic Unionist Party
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Susie Blue
Heard about Susie Blue from Northern Ireland via the BBC’s Gay Britannia season, where I heard the BBC Radio Belfast’s show about the queer music scene there called after their song, People Like Us. The focus is on Northern Ireland not just because of the (homophobic, transphobic) DUP but also SOAK, but I think Susie…
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Justice 4 Grenfell – A Crime of Epic Proportions
You need to watch this video, it shouldn’t take 28 years like Hillsborough to get justice for those who died and survived the fire at Grenfell Tower. It IS a crime, heads SHOULD roll for this disaster, and the terrible response afterwards. Basically this is a Tory council who prioritised a £100 rebate for residents…
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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…