*It‘s not about the boats We are very close to local elections and the squatter government is loosing in the polls. The only way they know how to claw back numbers whilst simultaneously deflecting from current and growing scandals is through stoking hate about Johnny Foreigner, by objectifying them to the point most xenophobes only see a red rag not the human being, nor desperate circumstances nor do they care by the time the government has finished brainwashing them. 2 minutes of daily hate right out of 1984 Those same voters are not likely to fact check or read up on the law either, believing what they are told giving them confirmation bias served on a plate. They also fail to understand that removing humans rights for others has reprecusions for them too. I also see this as the government trying to find an acceptable avenue from their core support to finally leaving the ECHR without the fuss they know it would ordinarily bring even from core voters. But when you pa...
I was listening to The Rest is Politics podcast and I found myself switching it off in annoyance and saying to myself thats quite enough of you two thank you! My head went straight to the hunger games and the commentators of the game giving us a low down, normalising the grotesque nature of it all. That is what I think of the more recent commentary from Rory and Alastair. They are peddling the program to us and normalising something that should absolutely be resisted. Specifically this time, they were talking about the strikes in France and the change in retirement age. Their focus was on cost and economy. They couldn’t see why the French were resisting the age increase. They were pushing the narrative that this change was necessary to reduce cost. No mention of the humans this would impact, the different types of work or labour people do or whether their bodies could reasonably afford to be pushed to work later and later in life all so the government could find some monetary savings b...