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Happy International Workers' Day thread comrades!  Okay, so the massive thing for the start of this month is the culmination of the Hostile Environment/Windrush scandal in the resignation of the now-former Home Secretary and human shield Amber Rudd. The Hostile Environment was a policy under the last Home Secretary (and current PM) Theresa May to make life as poo poo as possible for undocumented migrants in the UK. As pretty much anyone could have told you, this didn't affect the terrorists and gangmasters we were told it would, and fell on the easiest targets. This eventually led to the targeting of the Windrush Generation, people from the British West Indies who came to live in mainland Britain back when the British West Indies still existed. They don't have much in the way of documentation, because being British Subjects they didn't need any until the Immigration Acts defining British citizenship came along later. By that stage most of the former colonies had become independent or part of their own federations, so the Windrush people weren't citizens of there either. So there was an outrage about the government harassing a bunch of old African-Caribbean folks who had spent their entire lives in the UK, and  Also Alex Jones (not the one from The One Show) and the usual crew are mad that he's a Pakistani Muslim, despite the fact that he's from Lancashire and, like most Rand fanboys, a 'culturally Christian atheist'. (They mean he is not white and has an Asian name  )Also thanks learnincurve for a kind offer for anyone affected by PIP: learnincurve posted:If someone wants to add that people can PM me about help with PIP to the thread’s OP then please feel free to do so.  The Whole Carton:2018 UKMT April 2018 - A Third World Banana Republic Kleptocracy UKMT March 2018 - Fanfare for the Gammon Man UKMT Feb 18 - Goverment Clowns DTF UKMT January 2018 - ++Knighthood for Loser Clegg++ Previous Thread SSLP link. --- French ToastEuropol Thread Hard Boiled, Wrapped In Sausage Meat and Breadcrumbs Scotpol Thread Railway Mutton CurryTrainchat Thread Ink GnocchiPolitical Cartoons Thread Scrambled With TabascoBYOB: UKMT Goo Goo G'Joob (podcasts)Off the Fence - Brighton based, covering UK & Global topics. Pretty chill and professional peeps. Older 'casts can be found in the PLATFORM B archive. Reel Politik - The Original Leftie Hate Trolls. Check 'em out. We Don't Talk About The Weather - Two cool guys discuss news and other stuff. The UKMT-iest of Podcasts. Desolation Radio - Socialism from a Welsh perspective. Informative hosts. Revolutionary Despatches - Two new guys starting out. Connected & Disaffected - Breezy discussions of lefty social, and historical topics, and news updates. Pretty Good. Trashfuture - Theme of the week style podcast about capitalism and how much it fucks up. Cool podcasters, sometimes working with Reel Politik Agitpod - Owen Jones & Ellie Mae O’Hagan discuss news. Reasons to Be Cheerful - Former Labour leader Ed "Red Ed" Milliband and Geoff Lloyd shoot the poo poo, and discuss general politics. Sometimes with guests. Novara Media - Numerous fluctucating commentators including Matt Zarb-Cousin, Max Shanly, and James Butler among others. Varying topics with guests. [Citations Needed] - Covers the US, focussing on the media, PR, and assorted bullshit. Also some socialist history topics. Very informative. Chapo House Media - More US focused, from a leftist perspective. Basically a US version of Reel Politik, but with better mics. Worth a listen. Green Eggs & Ham (literature)Stop, Thief!: The Commons, Enclosures, And Resistance – Peter Linebaugh Libertarian Communism – Isaac Puente Amestoy At The Café – Malatesta The Method of Freedom – Malatesta In Praise of Idleness – Russell Political Ideals – Russell Declaration – Hardt and Negri Liberalism, a Counter History – Domenico Losurdo God and the State – Bakunin The Conquest of Bread – Kropotkin Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism – V I Lenin Anarchism and Other Essays – Emma Goldman Social Reform or Revolution – Rosa Luxemburg Violence – Slavoj Zizek Jihad vs. McWorld - Benjamin Barber Flat Earth News - Nick Davies Hack Attack - Nick Davies Ecology of Freedom – Murray Bookchin Anarchism, Marxism and the Future of the Left – Murray Bookchin Let's Read Das Kapital – Karl Marx and Goons Goon CLP Register (thanks feedmegin) quote:I came up with the idea of a register of goons and their CLPs in case any new joiners wanted someone to go to to get the local lie of the land. The Effortpost's Graveyard (thanks goddamnedtwisto) - Collected UKMT Effortposts. Many thanks to the contributing posters. synIRC #ukgoons on synIRC (thanks crispix). Guavanaut fucked around with this message at 18:46 on May 1, 2018 |
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https://youtu.be/E6awC_hlpUc The tracks of the Labour political broadcasts are being released as charity singles.
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There is an actual fascist on the BBC News Channel and BBC 2 right now. I couldn't watch because I had a bus to catch but he was involved in Britain First and is now apparently based in Serbia and involved in some group called Knights Templar International.
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May 1, 2018 09:41
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i am glad to be part of the UKMT Revisionist Party, unlike those splitters in the Orthodox April UKMT
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May 1, 2018 09:43
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forkboy84 posted:There is an actual fascist on the BBC News Channel and BBC 2 right now. I couldn't watch because I had a bus to catch but he was involved in Britain First and is now apparently based in Serbia and involved in some group called Knights Templar International. Hmm. Need to read through my old issues of Hope Not Hate, but I'm pretty sure that's the group that Nick Griffin is part of and has been doing a lot of work in Hungary. That organisation has direct ties to the Syrian government, if so.
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MikeCrotch posted:i am glad to be part of the UKMT Revisionist Party, unlike those splitters in the Orthodox April UKMT No Surrender, No Surrender, No Surrender to the April Thread
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Guavanaut posted:There was a relevant piece about this in yesterday's MS. Yeah, systemically it might be easier for older/whiter/manlier people, but poo poo still sucks for a bunch of Boomers due to austerity and land monopoly. 80% of wealth might be concentrated in the olds, but 80% of that is concentrated in 20% of the olds, and I can't help but think that the liberal/soft-left media attempts to frame this as a generational issue are deflecting. If it was purely generational then the Millennials would just need to awaiting their inheritance, rather than man the barricades. NWBTCW &c. I'd still argue that it is largely a generational issue, because the boomers have been indoctrinated to believe that everything is down to hard work and personal responsibility, that the rich are job creators who deserve what they have, etc. Someone on my Facebook feed posted a video about a homeless 19 year old who wanted to get a job and a home, but was literally barred by society because he had no ID, bank account or anything else that society dictates you have, and couldn't get any one of those things due to not having the others. The response from a boomer? "Can't blame society, it must just be bad parenting, he needs to take responsibility for himself". The generational wealth inequality could be dealt with more easily, except that boomers have had their brains poisoned for decades, and as we're seeing with the polls, that is as much a barrier to change as anything. Doctor_Fruitbat fucked around with this message at 09:56 on May 1, 2018 |
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May 1, 2018 09:54
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old article but relevant given he's currently bloviating on BBCR4: https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/989406060300685312 https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/990181329328275456 https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/990132298065612800 And more contemporaneously https://twitter.com/adampayne26/status/991217632169857025
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Liam Fox is apparently stirring poo poo. Implied he would resign if May negotiates with the Lords on the customs union, and then refused to deny that she was a weak leader when asked.
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May 1, 2018 09:55
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forkboy84 posted:There is an actual fascist on the BBC News Channel and BBC 2 right now. I couldn't watch because I had a bus to catch but he was involved in Britain First and is now apparently based in Serbia and involved in some group called Knights Templar International. It's incredibly annoying that you now have to google the cryptic poo poo you find on stickers in town centres to find out whether it's some fascist mysticism, a weird European football thing, or both.
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Doctor_Fruitbat posted:I'd still argue that it is largely a generational issue, because the boomers have been indoctrinated to believe that everything is down to hard work and personal responsibility, that the rich are job creators who deserve what they have, etc. Someone on my Facebook feed posted a video about a homeless 19 year old who wanted to get a job and a home, but was literally barred by society because he had no ID, bank account or anything else that society dictates you have, and couldn't get any one of those things due to not having the others. The response from a boomer? "Can't blame society, it must just be bad parenting, he needs to take responsibility for himself". This isn't a boomer thing though, there are plenty of young people who also buy into the idea that there are no such things as systemic issues and everything is down to personal effort. Just more Boomers believe that because more of them have actively profited from that societal framework. That's the point though - this shouldn't be looked at as a generational thing but a function of who controls capital regardless of age.
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Tesseraction posted:Hmm. Need to read through my old issues of Hope Not Hate, but I'm pretty sure that's the group that Nick Griffin is part of and has been doing a lot of work in Hungary. That organisation has direct ties to the Syrian government, if so. Its meant to be run by Jim Dowson, the perennial far right oval office
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a pipe smoking dog posted:Liam Fox is apparently stirring poo poo. Implied he would resign if May negotiates with the Lords on the customs union, and then refused to deny that she was a weak leader when asked. The hard Brexiter's are starting their movements it seems. They know after the Lords votes on the CU and forcing a vote on the final deal means only a soft brexit or no brexit will pass the houses, so its either they force a ultra hard Brexit or they lose. Longer they play the game the more likely a ultra hard brexit won't happen, as the public will see more and more that its a loving stupid idea given we have 0 deals and the country would likely become a basket case within a week.
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ukle posted:The hard Brexiter's are starting their movements it seems. They know after the Lords votes on the CU and forcing a vote on the final deal means only a soft brexit or no brexit will pass the houses, so its either they force a ultra hard Brexit or they lose. Longer they play the game the more likely a ultra hard brexit won't happen, as the public will see more and more that its a loving stupid idea given we have 0 deals and the country would likely become a basket case within a week. Do you have the time To negotiate French wine? And all the other trade deals All at once? I am one of those. All or nothing leave fools. Delusional to the bone, no doubt about it.
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May 1, 2018 10:18
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Red Oktober posted:Do you have the time Or am I just owned  ukle posted:The hard Brexiter's are starting their movements it seems.
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May 1, 2018 10:23
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kustomkarkommando posted:Its meant to be run by Jim Dowson, the perennial far right oval office Aha, it IS that group then: quote:Dowson relocated to Budapest, Hungary, and has been observed in several eastern European countries with his latest venture, the Knights Templar International (KTI), along with the former BNP leader Nick Griffin and a Hungarian anti-abortion campaigner Imre Teglasy. Dowson's last sighting, according to the Daily Mirror, was on the Turkey-Bulgaria border with the KTI supplying equipment to a vigilante paramilitary group, the Shipka Bulgarian National Movement, to hunt down asylum seekers. Dowson was subsequently reported as having developed close links with Russian extremist Aleksandr Dugin, with Dugin aiding Dowson in the establishment of a Belgrade office for his internet activity in support of the "alt-right". The presence of Dugin could explain the Syrian financial ties - and Griffins overt anti-interventionism with regards to Assad. That and the standard Nazi fare of "gently caress 'em if they're far enough away"
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If you’re a teacher or looking to apply for a teaching job, knock a good £500-600 off your take home pay because you’ll be using it to subsidise all the kids in your class to stop them starving. Even better, when you take those kids to other schools you can compare how malnourished they are, nothing says modernity like kids shorter than their parents with brittle bones https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/may/01/teachers-buy-children-food-clothes-mattress-funerals-child-poverty Ignore the funerals issue because every response from government will be that they’ve rightfully closed that particular problem.
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May 1, 2018 10:28
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Seems hepatitis-finder general got suspended: https://twitter.com/jessbrammar/status/991244036718592000
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May 1, 2018 10:30
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So what’s the hepatitis thing a dogwhistle for?
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May 1, 2018 10:31
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Hi thread despite efforts by the OP to deport me to CSPAM I am still here and will bring down this forum's moderators. Edison was a dick posted:https://youtu.be/E6awC_hlpUc Yesss, been wanting this ever since the first video dropped
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Darth Walrus posted:So what’s the hepatitis thing a dogwhistle for? Apparently there was an outbreak of it at one of the local schools, something a Labour councillor drew attention to, which enraged the Tory-run council.
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May 1, 2018 10:33
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May 1, 2018 10:34
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Another day, another round of being baffled that the UK is barely ticking over.
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May 1, 2018 10:34
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Darth Walrus posted:So what’s the hepatitis thing a dogwhistle for?  In reality, it was Thatcher and Major and the meter and disconnect (and privatize and increase unit prices) policy for water supplies that led to the biggest increases in hepatitis cases in the UK in modern history, but why blame neoliberal policy when you can blame immigrant communities. I bet in more recent history the hostile environment of "look foreign? better be afraid of going to the doctors" has helped a whole bunch too.
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Tesseraction posted:guess you can put humpty dumpty together again if this is true https://twitter.com/mattuthompson/status/991224193298681856 Mrs Javid sounds savage af, can we have her as Home Sec?
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May 1, 2018 10:39
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I'm not a 100% sure a candidate called Kamran Razzaq was whipping up anti-Asian hysteria
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I had a very vivid dream last night where Jeremy Corbyn was in my kitchen cooking me cauliflower cheese for dinner.
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kustomkarkommando posted:I'm not a 100% sure a candidate called Kamran Razzaq was whipping up anti-Asian hysteria Tories are banking on unawareness of this kind of prejudice to claim that they can't have a racist deportation policy now that they have Asian Bus Son as Home Secretary.
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Total Meatlove posted:If you’re a teacher or looking to apply for a teaching job, knock a good £500-600 off your take home pay because you’ll be using it to subsidise all the kids in your class to stop them starving. jfc
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in much the same way a dog cant recognise it's own reflection https://twitter.com/DPJHodges/status/990966191719178246 e: I was horrified by the schools story until I read the comments and was suitably reassured!  
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ukle posted:The hard Brexiter's are starting their movements it seems. They know after the Lords votes on the CU and forcing a vote on the final deal means only a soft brexit or no brexit will pass the houses, so its either they force a ultra hard Brexit or they lose. Longer they play the game the more likely a ultra hard brexit won't happen, as the public will see more and more that its a loving stupid idea given we have 0 deals and the country would likely become a basket case within a week. How would they possibly force it though? It's not like any of them has the clout for putting down a hard border in Ireland.
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I thought the singing sainsbury's boss was something.bossman and share holder of giant company on singing 'we're in the money' posted:"It was an unfortunate choice of song, from the musical 42nd Street which I saw last year and I apologise if I have offended anyone." He's not an MP whose done dodgy deals, not broken any laws(maybe) and is doing exactly what he's supposed to be doing and singing a little light hearted song that happens to describe what he is doing, so why apologise? Its almost as if he does, at the same time realise the whole setup is a total sham, that a situation where he employs a huge number of people on the smallest wage he can to reap the most money he can from as many of the rest of the people as he can whilst putting people out of work and business all so he and a tiny select few can be unbelievably filthy wealthy is something offensive when made light of. Like maybe, its a bad thing and everyone knows it is but... nah never mind.
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Captain Fargle posted:How would they possibly force it though? It's not like any of them has the clout for putting down a hard border in Ireland. They can't, but every effort they make to do so will further kneecap any hope of a halfway sane Brexit.
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kustomkarkommando posted:I'm not a 100% sure a candidate called Kamran Razzaq was whipping up anti-Asian hysteria If you're going by names, the leaflet in question was made by the less ethnically-diverse-sounding Roger Spencer, according to its mandated blurb.
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