This Facebook Comment About the UK Election Is Going Viral
Here's what I'm really
struggling to understand. All I've ever heard from people, for years, is:
"bloody bankers
and their bonuses"
"bloody rich and their offshore tax havens "
"bloody politicians with their lying and second homes"
“bloody corporations paying less tax than me”
"bloody Establishment, they're all in it together”
“it'll never change, there's no point in voting”
"bloody politicians with their lying and second homes"
“bloody corporations paying less tax than me”
"bloody Establishment, they're all in it together”
“it'll never change, there's no point in voting”
And quite rightly so,
I said all the same things.
But then someone comes
along that's different. He upsets the bankers and the rich. The Tory
politicians hate him along with most of the labour politicians. The
corporations throw more money at the politicians to keep him quiet. And the
Establishment is visibly shaken. I've never seen the Establishment so genuinely
scared of a single person.
So the media arm of
the establishment gets involved. Theresa phones Rupert asking what he can do,
and he tells her to keep her mouth shut, don't do the live debate, he'll sort
this out. So the media goes into overdrive with:
“she's strong and
stable”
“he's a clown”
“he's not a leader”
“look he can't even control his own party”
“he'll ruin the economy”
“how's he gonna pay for it all?!”
“AND he's a terrorist sympathiser, burn him, burn the terrorist sympathiser”
“he's a clown”
“he's not a leader”
“look he can't even control his own party”
“he'll ruin the economy”
“how's he gonna pay for it all?!”
“AND he's a terrorist sympathiser, burn him, burn the terrorist sympathiser”
And what do we? We've
waited forever for an honest politician to come along but instead of getting
behind him we bow to the establishment like good little workers. They whistle
and we do a little dance for them. We run around like hypnotised robots
repeating headlines we've read, all nodding and agreeing. Feeling really proud
of ourselves because we think we've came up with our very own first political
opinion. But we haven't, we haven't came up with anything. This is how you
tell. No matter where someone lives in the country, they're repeating the same
headlines, word for word.
From Cornwall to Newcastle people are saying:
“he's a clown”
“he’s a threat to the country”
“she's strong and stable”
“he'll take us back to the 70s”
“she's strong and stable”
“he'll take us back to the 70s”
And there's nothing
else, there's no further opinion. There's no evidence apart from 1 radio 5
interview that isn't even concrete evidence, he actually condemns the violence
of both sides in the interview. There's no data or studies or official reports
to back anything up. Try and think really hard why you think he's a clown,
other than the fact he looks like a geography teacher. (no offence geography
teachers) because he hasn't done anything clownish from what I've seen.
And you're not on this
planet if you think the establishment and the media aren't all in it together.
You think Richard
Branson, who's quietly winning NHS contracts, wants Corbyn in?
You think Rupert Murdoch, who's currently trying to widen his media monopoly by
buying sky outright, wants Jeremy in?
You think the Barclay brothers, with their offshore residencies, want him in?
You think Philip Green, who stole all the pensions from BHS workers and claims
his wife owns Top
Shop because she lives in Monaco, wants Corbyn in?
You think the politicians, both Labour and Tory, with their second homes and
alcohol paid for by us, want him in?
You think Starbucks, paying near zero tax, wants him in?
You think bankers, with their multi million pound bonuses, want him in?
And do you think they
don't have contact with May? Or with the media? You honestly think that these
millionaires and billionaires are the sort of people that go “ah well, easy
come easy go, it was nice while it lasted”?? I wouldn't be if my personal
fortune was at risk, I'd be straight on the phone to Theresa May or Rupert
Murdoch demanding this gets sorted immediately.
Because here's a man,
a politician that doesn't lie - he can't lie - he could have said whatever
would get him votes anytime he wanted but he hasn't. He lives in a normal house
like us and uses the bus just like us. He's fought for justice and peace for
nearly 40 years. He has no career ambitions. And his seat is untouchable.
That's one of the greatest testimonies. No one comes close to removing him from
his constituency, election after election.
His Manifesto is fully
costed. It all adds up, yes there's some borrowing but that's just to
renationalise the railway, you know we already subsidise them and they make
profit yeah? One more time… WE subsidise the railway companies and they walk
away with a profit, just try and grasp the level of piss taking going on there.
Unlike the Tory
manifesto with a £9 billion hole, their figures don't even add up. And it benefits all of
us, young, old, working, disabled, everyone. The only people it hurts are the
establishment, the rich, the bankers, the top 5% highest earners. Good, screw them. It's
long overdue.
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see also
"Those who
are obsessed by language finally come to the conviction that there is nothing
but interpretation" Stanley
Rosen in Hermeneutics as Politics (1987)
Militarism
and the coming wars
Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies - The New School for Social Research
Heilbroner Center for Capitalism Studies - The New School for Social Research
Yesterday once more - 50 years after Naxalbari
