helenwatson wrote:
Did you see Medhi Hasan on Question last night, exapno? Cheered me up no end, as did the Brummies cheering him on from the audience. Maybe we're not fucked after all...x
Not seen it but will watch it now (used to devour Question Time and any political programmes but had to stop some years ago to stop all of my blood vessels popping at once).
None of the news interviewers ever ask simple questions like what job is available for...example from their own private knowledge (hmm maybe they are separated from this much reality too), and why is it that nobody ever asks, if it's ok to make people work for their benefit (should we say meagre assistance?) how is that not slavery? Why aren't they then paid a proper wage...and to get uber ridiculous...will they be zero hours contracts?
There are lots of people who think differently to those who see persecution as the only way, we just don't get to hear their voices very often on mainstream programming and never on the "tweet us your thoughts" style of broadcasting.
I get sick of people complaining because one set of workers have been given a small rise (cf NHS employees just this week) and them saying "well lucky them, I haven't this that and the other". It misses the whole point that whatever the scaremongering this country is dripping with wealth it just doesn't get distributed in any fair way.
Egg wrote:
Questions to all..........just to breed some life into a very quiet forum!
Are you happy with the alternatives?
Are you happy to vote for the alternatives truly believing in what they say and stand for?
100%?
Are you happy to vote for the alternatives just to get these 'fuckers' out?
Aren't they all as bad as each other in one way or another?
Can any of them be trusted to deliver what they promise?
Enjoy!
Voting is often for the "least bad" option or "hopefully the least bad" option - I think a lot of people who voted Liberal at the last election because they had some more radical policies had their hopes dashed. I voted Labour in many ways out of an old fashioned tribal loyalty, but also because, despite the shallow and hollow failures of the last Labour governments of Blair and Brown still has it's fingers hanging onto something a little different and one which is hopefully less worse than the Tory mindset.
If I had someone else to vote for I would do it but my options at the last election were Con, Lib, Lab, UKIP and BNP.....lush. And I can't not vote because people died to gain the vote and the reason we have any semblance of public services left, why we have any remainder of employment rights or a notion of educational equality as an aim is because folk got the vote on the basis of existing in our society irrespective of wealth and property or gender. If the franchise hadn't been extended would we have seen any of the great social developments of the twentieth century? NO. The vote was extended out of fear of disorder and rebellion not out of the goodness of David Cameron's ancestors sitting down and saying "How dreafully unfair all of this is, how can we get those working cless cheps a better world?"
End of ranting and as RIngo would say "Peace and Love, Peace and Love"