I know that technically the phrase Aspirational Socialism is not actually a tautology in itself, at the strictest level of linguistics Aspiration and Socialism are indeed two different semantic items and putting them together doesn’t result in a tautology. In its loosest sense Aspiration is hope or perhaps ambition, maybe optimism or positivity of outlook. [...]
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The Juggernaut of Privatisation
Posted in Capitalism, CWU, Frustration, Labour, Privatisation, Public Services, Royal Mail, UK politics, Unionism on March 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
As though you fools think you can stop it, look at those poor saps in the union running around talking about ideology and politics and principle, bleating on about fuzzy, abstract concepts such as pensions, people, job security, fair pay. When are they going to realise that there is only one important factor in this [...]
The return of Mr Popular
Posted in Economy, Labour, Political, UK politics on April 20, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
It’s everybodies favourite Chancellor again. Alistair Darling today resisted calls for a U-turn on his abolishment of the 10p tax bracket. Denying that he has managed to increase the tax burden for 5.4 million people he nonetheless succeeded in tangling himself up in knots in his interview for BBC News, Dichotomously arguing that he wants to [...]
I’m sorry sir, we don’t like your type around here
Posted in Labour, UK politics on March 26, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Poor old Alistair Darling. All he did was design a budget that was centered around alienating every single person in the country from the Labour Party…and he succeeded did he not? It seems rather unfair that for his efforts he is likely to be barred from the majority of British pubs due to the campaign [...]
Can I see some ID sir?
Posted in Civil Liberties, democracy, Freedom, Government, Human Rights, Labour, Police, Political, UK politics on January 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The decision to introduce a National Identity Scheme was announced in the Queen’s Speech on 17 May 2005. The Identity Cards Act received royal assent, becoming law, on 30 March 2006. The introduction of biometric residence permits for foreign nationals in 2008 and the first ID cards to be issued to British citizens in will [...]
The British Bill of Rights
Posted in Civil Liberties, democracy, Freedom, Government, Labour, UK politics on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Gordon Brown has announced the beginning of a national consultation in view of setting up a written British constitution. His speech makes particular reference to the following • Respecting and extending freedom of assembly, new rights for the public expression of dissent; • Respecting freedom to organise and petition, new freedoms that guarantee the independence [...]
An Exercise in Futility
Posted in Labour, UK politics on October 13, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
I’m off to a Labour Party Hustings event at 2.30 today in which I’ll be expected to help vote for the next candidate to stand for the Labour Party in East Hampshire. Now I’ve discussed this and I feel that I should nominate Harvey to stand because he’s bound to get more votes in a [...]
This just gets better
Posted in Labour, rant on October 10, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
The pre-budget report released by Alistair Darling included a cut in capital gains tax to…wait for it…18%! I guess thats better than the previous 40% that private equity firms have had to pay (I mean imagine that 40%! thats a lot of money and these people have not got a lot to throw about you know) but [...]
Get back to work! and how dare you try and ‘fight for better conditions’
Posted in Apathy, Capitilism, CWU, Disillusion, Frustration, Labour, Marxism, Political, Postal Strike, Postcomm, Privatisation, rant, Royal Mail, Society, Unionism on October 9, 2007 | 11 Comments »
“What do you think this is? A liberal democracy or something, you posties are forgetting one vital thing, you’re freedom is not an option and you don’t get to choose your own working conditions you should plug away at the job until you retire and don’t get a pension, you do as we say when we say [...]
