This is what Tory gets you
Unnamed DWP spokesman: “ESA for people who could be expected to get back into work was never intended to be a long term benefit. “The time limit of one year strikes the best balance between recognising...
View ArticleCheap-work conservatives: arbeit macht frei
To expect anyone to routinely act to their own detriment without the ultimate prospect of legal coercion is misconceived. — Jack of Kent (@DavidAllenGreen) December 3, 2012 Today, people who are sick...
View ArticleGeneral Election, Corporal Reality
If you’re a Conservative/LibDem supporter, this must be like watching Titanic, except that Nick Clegg and David Cameron and Ed Miliband aren’t even as appealling as DiCaprio, Winslet, and Zane. The...
View ArticleIain Duncan Smith: the quiet man with so much to be quiet about
A universal welfare state is the essential bedrock of a civilised country. A civilised country ensures that no one goes without healthcare because they can’t afford it, no one is treated as if...
View ArticleImmigrants are not the problem
Cheap-work conservatives don’t like human rights: for the principle of human rights, universal and indivisible, stands against the cheap-work conservative need to exploit, use, and abuse everyone less...
View ArticleShould UKIPlgbt march at London Pride?
The first Pride march in London was 1st July 1972, just three years after the Stonewall riots: the 2015 Pride will be celebrated on 27th June 2015. Pride is not a demo and it’s not a party. Pride is a...
View ArticleWhy keep talking about Corbyn?
The Labour leadership voting opens on Friday 14th August and will close midnight Thursday 10th September: we’ll know the results on Saturday 12 September. Registration closes at noon today. So, right...
View ArticlePolitical Smearing: Project Islington, I
On Friday 11th September, David Cameron intended to launch Project Islington: a series of dirty-bomb attacks on Jeremy Corbyn based on weeks of research over the summer as the Tories realised to their...
View ArticleWhy is the UK leaving the EU?
“Does anyone know why the UK is leaving the EU?” someone asked. This was my answer: From where I’m sitting, the UK is leaving the EU because, in no particular order: White British culture expresses its...
View ArticleAbout the Julian Lewis fiasco: for the love of Boris Johnson
This was first posted on Facebook on 19th July 2020, with support from my Ko-Fi network. I’ve seen several people sharing an article by Nick Cohen on Boris Johnson. Nick Cohen is someone whose politics...
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