Standout moment from this video is early, when a member of the public explains that people have to take direct action themselves because Keir Starmer’s Labour Party doesn’t know what opposition to government failures is.
Take a look:
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Wasn’t it Jeremy Corbyn who said the best way to gauge a nation’s wealth isn’t to measure the fortunes of the richest but to check on the well-being of the poorest?
By the former standard, the UK is in fact among the top three countries; by the latter, it is doing very badly indeed. By contrast, Norway is higher than us from the top percentile to the bottom.
If you’re in the UK and have the average income, then by comparison with average incomes across the world, this is only the 12th richest country.
Sadly, this information has been made available only in a newspaper that is aimed at and read by the very wealthy; they get the facts. The rest of us get propaganda from the BBC and the mass media moguls.
You are being conned every which way.
Here’s the video clip that inspired the above:
Bear it in mind:
If you’re in hardship now, you’d be better-off in Slovenia.
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Following on from the people of Glasgow discussing the Tory-engineered cost-of-living crisis, Politics Joe has also interviewed people in Manchester.
The channel joined an Enough Is Enough event in the city at the end of August where, as in Glasgow a few days later, attendees made it clear that they were not impressed with politicians who go on holiday when the nation is in crisis (among a host of other complaints).
Here’s the clip – watch as your fellow citizens vent their feelings:
And over the weekend, Mancunians told the Express newspaper/website what they thought about new prime minister Liz Truss and her response to the crises facing the UK:
Katie Wilde, a trainee solicitor from Withington… claimed that Liz Truss’ premiership won’t “last long”.
“I don’t think it’s going to be very permanent, to be honest. I think the Tories might be coming to the end of their era”, she added.
The reason for this, she said, is because of the way “a lot of massive events have been handled”, citing the pandemic, energy crisis and cost of living emergency as examples.
When asked why she thought Liz Truss was chosen by her peers, she said she thought she was chosen “maybe, as a scapegoat”.
She added: “The Government are facing a lot of issues at the minute and if it all goes terribly, which it seems to be, maybe they will use Liz Truss as a scapegoat.”
Michelle, a nurse from Didsbury, said she “wasn’t happy” with the outcome but believes “Rishi wouldn’t have been much better”.
“I think they’re all as bad as each other so it doesn’t really matter”, she added.
When answering what the PM’s first job should be in office, she said the “cost of living”, calling it “ridiculous”.
She added: “The corporations should be taxed because these are essential things – people need to heat their homes and afford food so they don’t die.
“It’s scary to think how many people could die this winter because of these issues, especially the elderly and vulnerable”.
Do you agree? Do you have other concerns that you think should be raised?
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Fair enough, Politics Joe spoke to these Glaswegians outside an Enough is Enough rally last Wednesday (September 7), but This Writer would suggest their words are fairly representative of the mood of the nation right now.
See what you think; here’s the clip:
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Vladimir Putin: He knows how to play the game of brinkmanship. Can Boris Johnson or Liz Truss say the same about themselves?
Kudos to Dorset Eye for finding this clip, which appears to feature genuine comments from people living on either side of the Ukraine-Russia border.
It seems clear that they think talk that Russia is about to invade Ukraine, by Western governments – particularly those of the UK and USA, is nothing more than hot air and fantasy:
The Russian government has said that its military forces have been carrying out training exercises in co-operation with allies in Belarus – and that troops have been leaving the area as their role in those manoeuvres has ended.
This makes a nonsense of Nato/UK/US claims of an imminent invasion.
Earlier this week, fears were ramped up – by, among others, UK cabinet ministers – that Russia would invade Ukraine on Wednesday (February 16).
But that date has come and gone and nothing happened.
Then we were told that an apparent exchange of hostilities between Russian-backed rebels and Ukrainian forces was a “false flag” incident that Russia would use to justify a military incursion – and that hasn’t happened either.
But Nato/UK/US spokespeople are continuing to claim Russian troops are massing on the border.
Russian President Vladimir Putin may now claim to have humiliated the western sabre-rattlers, mocking their fears as “hysteria”.
It is possible that this was his intention all along.
It may be suggested that he was disingenuous in launching a harsh criticism of plans for Ukraine to join Nato at a time when his troops coincidentally(?) happened to be on that country’s borders, of course.
But that’s how the game of international brinkmanship is played, I suppose.
If Joe Biden or Boris Johnson had given in to their baser instincts and launched any kind of military action of their own, Mr Putin would have had an excuse to invade. As it is, he has been able to claim a propaganda win.
And the standoff isn’t over yet.
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Rachel Reeves: it has been suggested that she would be more at home in the actual Conservative Party than Labour – but now Keir Starmer has turned the Red party into Tepid Tories it seems she has become comfortable again.
Rachel Reeves really put her foot in it on the morning media round today (Thursday, January 20, 2022).
Challenged over the fact that her political party – Keir Starmer’s Tepid Tories (formerly Labour) – has room for a right-wing Conservative, but not for a socialist like Jeremy Corbyn, she not only admitted that she was glad that Starmer had changed Labour into a pale reflection of the Conservatives, but also spluttered that Mr Corbyn should apologise for the fabricated anti-Semitism “crisis” that was foisted on him for political reasons by right-wing organisations outside the party and was then seized by right-wingers within Labour itself.
She lied, saying Mr Corbyn needed to apologise for his response to the “EHCR” [sic – she meant EHRC (Equality and Human Rights Commission)] report because it had said Labour was “institutionally anti-Semitic”; the EHRC report said no such thing. Here are the facts:
Why does the @EHRC not state plainly and publicly that it did not find Corbyn's Labour Party 'institutionally antisemitic'? Why is it allowing its report to be misrepresented by BBC, C4, and sundry Tories and Starmer supporters?#ItWasAScampic.twitter.com/UqZs7gWrPk
And she lied again, saying that Mr Corbyn damaged relations between the Labour Party and “the Jewish community”. Firstly, there is no single group that identifies as “the Jewish community” or represents all Jews in the UK (although there are some who falsely claim they do); and secondly, Mr Corbyn did nothing to upset any Jews at all – some people on the political right saw an opportunity to bring down a socialist by lying about him and opportunists like Ms Reeves joined them.
Hear it for yourself because here’s the clip:
If that wasn’t bad enough, Reeves seems to have gone on a destructive rampage against Labour’s left-wingers and through her own party’s current policies to ensure that a Labour Party with either her or Starmer as its MPs would never be acceptable to left-wing voters:
I don't know about you, but to be perfectly honest I am extremely pleased I do not share Rachel Reeves values. Mendacity, opportunism and treachery don't float my boat.
She admitted that Keir Starmer’s Tepid Tories were in financial difficulty but lied yet again, saying this was Jeremy Corbyn’s fault. In fact, when Mr Corbyn handed over the party leadership to Starmer, Labour had £13.5 million in the bank. Starmer, and his general secretary David Evans, squandered the lot.
Some of these claims were made on the Today show; some in the Financial Times. None of them were corrected by either Today presenter Mishal Husain or any of the newspaper’s editorial staff. On the BBC’s side, this is surprising, because only last week the corporation apologised for not challenging claims of anti-Semitism against Jeremy Corbyn in another interview:
We may await an apology and correction – although I expect we shall be waiting a long time.
Fortunately, those of us who want a better life for more people than just the fabled “one per cent” don’t have to put up with Reeves’s nonsense any longer: there is an alternative:
It seems likely that at least six other groups are likely to announce their own involvement in PAL.
Of course, there will be no publicity from the BBC, Financial Times, or any of the other mainstream media. They’ve spent decades neutering Labour; they won’t want to let some other working-class Lefty upstarts rock the boat, now they think they’ve put us all back in our place.
If it’s a genuine alternative, it will grow in spite of them – and This Writer is looking forward to helping that happen.
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All in it together: Boris Johnson and Keir Starmer are each as racist as the other – but Johnson is better at hiding it than Starmer, who simply isn’t intelligent enough.
After Keir Starmer’s shadow cabinet reshuffle on Monday, this is devastatingly revealing:
Watching #pmqs disappointing to see that the Tory party,has more ethnic minority faces on its front bench than Labour. How did we get to this place where the Tory party seems more racially diverse than Labour?
This Writer has been saying it for months now – practically since Sir Slimy got into office.
He’s an anti-Semite because he expels left-wing Jews from the party for not being Zionists.
He’s an Islamophobe because he has allowed Islamophobia to grow in the grassroots party and has welcomed high-profile Islamophobes back to it.
He’s also a sexist – look at his recent ill-treatment of people like Zarah Sultana. Yes, he has women on his front bench, but that doesn’t excuse his behaviour.
And let’s all remember the level of diversity that former leader Jeremy Corbyn achieved:
Some people would ask you to believe that Jeremy Corbyn is the racist, not Starmer.
As my own rules for This Site deny me the vocabulary to describe what I would say to such people, feel free to respond as you feel appropriate.
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Habitual cruelty: this is just the latest instance of the Tories persecuting people with long-term illnesses and disabilities.
My word – the Tories have been victimising people on the advice of an algorithm again. Haven’t we been here before?
YES, WE HAVE – former Education Secretary Gavin Williamson was pilloried two summers ago for using a computer-generated artificial intelligence program to steal high grades from state school pupils.
Now it seems people with disabilities are being targeted as benefit fraudsters by the DWP, based on an algorithm – and nothing else.
Is it the same algorithm, perhaps? The DWP isn’t telling – but may soon be forced into another potentially self-damaging revelation under threat of court action.
It doesn’t bode well for the AI that Sajid Javid is buying in for the NHS. But then, it’s a system from a company in which Javid himself owns shares (or share options – what’s the difference?).
What’s the betting that the Tory cheapskates have been using the same algorithm for all three?
The Greater Manchester Coalition of Disabled People (GMCDP), together with campaign group Foxglove, is taking action against the DWP after concerns were raised by the charity Privacy International, which first found references in a DWP report to its use of “cutting-edge artificial intelligence to crack down on organised criminal gangs committing large-scale benefit fraud”.
“Organised criminal gangs”?
Disabled people… living in “fear of the brown envelope” showing their case was being investigated.
Campaigners say that once flagged, those being examined can face an invasive and humiliating investigation lasting up to a year.
A “huge percentage” of the group has been affected by the system.
“We’re tired of the fear of the brown envelope and tired of being repeatedly forced by DWP officials just to justify who we are,” said Rick Burgess of the GMCDP. “It’s time for the DWP to come clean about how this algorithm works and explain why so many disabled people are flagged for investigation. Disabled people need support – not being ground down by a brutal system that assumes we are fraudulent until proven innocent.”
The Guardian‘s article highlighted a 2019 UN report into the “digital welfare state” that said algorithms were “highly likely” to repeat biases reflected in existing data and make them even worse.
It added: “Inbuilt forms of discrimination can fatally undermine the right to social protection for key groups and individuals.”
The government has until Friday to respond to the legal letter but, again according to the article, “has so far rebuffed attempts to explain how the algorithm behind the system was compiled”.
They’re trying to come up with an excuse that will stand up to examination – and I don’t think they’re going to meet that Friday deadline!
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Boris Johnson as he must have appeared to those kids: that’s right – This Site doesn’t have any pictures of him near children (thankfully).
On the eve of the crucial COP26 climate summit, Boris Johnson held a press conference about it for young children – and showed that they are more mature than he is.
This creates problems for the world, because he and his UK Tory government are hosting the event.
At one point, he actually suggested that we should “redress the balance” (what balance?) by feeding human beings to animals:
Days before the leadership of the entire world meets in the UK to discuss the future of the planet and the prime minister signals his seriousness by joking we should feed people to animals. The joke’s not funny, and it’s on us. pic.twitter.com/JBCcrI8qdO
Here are just a few of his other comments, according to The Mirror:
Reporting on a talk @BorisJohnson by ahead of #COP26 the Mirror – “Mr Johnson made a series of bizarre suggestions on battling climate change, including municipal toothpaste dispensers, feeding people to animals to rebalance nature and encouraging cows to stop burping”
The tweet below sums up the general feeling about his performance:
Johnson was clearly out of his depth when talking with those children.
— Fr Ian Maher SCP🏴🇪🇺💙🐝#RejoinEU (@IanMaher7) October 25, 2021
With his government in charge of COP26, we’ll all be out of our depth soon enough – as the sea level rises.
Perhaps Johnson is hoping the sewage-laden tide will cover his shame.
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This is brilliant from Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC):
Here are the details:
The government isn’t listening to what people are saying when we say Stop The Cuts to Universal Credit and give #20MoreForAll
So we need to start an #AudioRiot to make them hear us.
On Tuesday 28th September 11:30am Kings Cross Station (Courtyard in front of station) Euston Road London N1 9AL
Join our #AudioRiot and make some noise about the devastating changes to benefits which will have a huge impact on millions of peoples lives, including disabled people.
Bring everything you can that makes noise.
DPAC will be providing materials for you to take part too – but don’t let that stop you bringing:
Drums
Whistles
Cymbals
Bells
Klaxons
Loudspeakers
Everything you can!
Make some noise about the £20 cut to Universal Credit coming in September.
Make some noise about the reintroduction of sanctions and conditionality returning in October.
Make some noise about the discrimination against those on legacy benefits who never got the £20 to begin with.
Make some noise about the minimum income floor, the local area housing allowance and so much more
Make some noise about the disgraceful state of benefits in the UK overall.
This action will round off a series of events to raise awareness about the coming changes to benefits.
These include
Saturday 25th September 2021
Local Actions Nationwide
We are calling on all DPAC members, local groups & allies to mobilise is their areas to create an #AudioRiot of your own to resist the coming cuts and invite others to join the campaign.
Create your own orchestra with homemade instruments, create your own playlists and play them through phones/speakers, form a samba band – whatever works for you!
Send us details of your planned action, and we will promote it through our website, email network and social media channels.
And
Tuesday 28th September 2021 09:15 – 10:00 am
Vigil in support of those taking a Judicial Review of potential discrimination by DWP towards disabled people on legacy benefits.
Royal Courts of Justice Strand London WC2A 2LL
NEAREST STEP FREE STATION: Westminster
Online action
Details to follow
DPAC is aware that many of us in our community are still isolated, shielding, or even just protecting themselves and their loved ones; and cautious about taking part in public activism.
This is no barrier to taking part!! There will be online actions you can take
However, as our collective experience through since Covid entered our lives has taught us – disabled people need to have a central role in the discussions about how we build a future for us all that has a place for us all. That begins with defending what we have and building on it.
We have seen under successive governments of all stripes that the only way we can have any chance to secure that central role is to oppose government policies in the streets. We have been demonised, targeted and brutalised by attacks to our rights , services, living standards & working conditions for decades.
It is only by mobilising our community and allies in the face of theses attacks that we have been able to raise awareness and resist them.
And, that will be how we will continue to progress from here. With a view to reshaping the world to meet our aspirations.
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