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“Labour Tory, saNe old story”. If I knew any Clement Freud I would say that was one of his ‘slips’. Are socialists crackpots?
‘Hate speech’ is a loaded, emotive and question-begging term. If you don’t believe in free speech for opinions you despise then you don’t believe in free speech at all. Many workers find socialist ideas hateful and an instance of so-called ‘misinformation’, does it follow socialists ought to be prevented (and possibly imprisoned) for propagating them?
Boffy’s Blog has an essay – ‘Fictitious capital’. The first three paragraphs of part 4 argue that a bank with just £10,000 can nevertheless lend £100,000 merely by using the paper it owns ( securities, bonds etc. ) as collateral against which it can borrow from a central bank and then lend these borrowings to it’s own customers.
It’s not the ‘out of thin air’ argument, but is it sound?We had a comrade who would walk along a ‘bus queue of proletarians and proffer the Standard. When the ‘bus arrived he would get on, even if it wasn’t his, and continue proffering until thrown off by the conductor (yes, it was that long ago). He went on to join the Libertarian Alliance ( the comrade, not the conductor). Perhaps FactualSocialist might give it a go. Have to admit even we saw it as a wee bit eccentric.
Like many new members s/he is frustrated by the Party’s dire lack of progress. But given time will see that it isn’t the Party which is the problem, it’s the working class.If it wasn’t for the fact Trotskyists deny the existence of the SPGB, I would say this was a SWP wind-up.
Wish you hadn’t posted this film. Scrolled along from the good doctor to a chap scrutinizing a pringle through a microscope. The crisp was heaving with animal life. Pigged out on a whole tube last night!
It’s not about persecuting the unemployed. They have been ‘persecuted’ for years and it doesn’t seem to have done them much harm. No, It’s about lowering the value of labour-power by getting the workers to eat less.
A little research has revealed you can only smoke on balconies in the Algarve. So the health florists have even spread their testicles to Portugal, which I would argue was freer under the so-called dictator Salazar than it is under liberal democracy!
At least he allowed workers to smoke, particularly under such trying circumstances as when they were stood before the firing squad.Ta. Off to the Algarve Sunday ( where they allow smoking indoors), these will be ideal holiday reading.
I foresee problems. A market crash will see a stampede to the bar of working-class winos looking to get blootered on cheap drink. Down’n’outs scrutinizing the FT. You have to hand it to capitalism, it knows how to sell itself, and it’s unafraid of the absurd.
Not many people know this but despite his jolly demeanour Stanley Unwin was a life-long sufferer of clinical depression, admitting to frequent bouts of feeling suicidallo.
Never been to number 52 but it is safe to say the library is not ‘ostensibly’ for reference purposes, it IS for reference purposes.
There is no obesity crisis. It is a myth. At one time someone who was obese could be seen in a side-show at a US fairground ( the Fat Lady ) or someone who, when they died, had to be passed through the bedroom window removed by the fire-brigade.
When obesity was redefined, critics pointed out that George Clooney could now be called obese. Like the unit of alcohol ( no-one knows what it is) and secondary smoking ( which does not cause lung cancer ) the obesity crisis it is an invention of bodies like Public Health England in search of increased funding. Journalists are happy to go along with the dodge because it helps fill space in their miserable newspapers.
Put the word ‘ultra’ before ‘processed foods’and hey-presto! another health ‘crisis’ is born.
‘Commerciogenic’- gimmee a break!
