There
is a mighty judgement coming....but I might be wrong I watched
Cameron last night standing on a precipice. I fear that the Cameron
Farage debate on Thursday nest week will be a car crash. This morning
I heard an interview on Radio 4 with people in Cornwall. It was
interesting that significant numbers of people were going to vote to
leave.
Cornwall
is the poorest area in the UK . It gains funding from the EU because
of agreed standards of what poverty is. These measures are
mathematically calculated and use complex measures to describe what
poverty is. And are agreed across Europe. Funding flows to Cornwall
irrespective of whoever is in power. If we leave the funding
decisions will be taken by Tory members of parliament. Every member
of parliament in Cornwall is a Tory...do you really think that they
will maintain that funding while they worship at the Shrine of
Austerity? The most
The
same question should be asked in Wales. It should be shouted in the
area of Wales where they were large numbers of UKIP voters. I have
never seen so many victims saying they will vote for their abusers
world view. The most virulent supporter was a man who owned a large
business he was encouraging his workers (who no doubt who were on
minimum wage) to vote to leave. A Cornwall without EU guarantees of
maternity rights, and other employment rights might be a Cornwall of
greater profits and lower wages. You might think that but I could not
possibly comment.
Now
you can say that I've grown bitter but of this you may be sure
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
The rich have got their channels in the bedrooms of the poor
And there's a mighty judgment coming, but I may be wrong
You see, you hear these funny voices
In the Tower of Song
The
problem in essence is that many are fooled by the thought that by
voting to leave that they are voting against David Cameron. They are
voting instead for a harder, more unpleasant world. The Leave
campaigns promoting a growing fracturing between different ethnic
groups in society. We are being made less tolerant, less
understanding, narrower and more ethnocentric. I am anecdotedly
hearing stories of Polish people shouted at in the street. One of my
students who originally came from Venice and is nearly 80 was called
a foreigner. He has worked contributed to society in Swansea since he
came here 50 years ago. Just look at the racist rants you see on the
face book page Port Talbot Debate and Argue. The migration debate is
a red herring to fool ordinary people into making them vote for their
masters voice. Its June and there is fog in the channel and in the
minds of many people seduced by the claims of what identity and
sovereignty mean. If you want to limit immigration campaign against
the arms trade, stop our government supporting dictators avoid
expensive foreign wars and prevent more refugees by stopping climate
change Its really that simple to build stable communities abroad.
I
like how Nick Clegg described Boris Johnson. He called him Donald
Trump with a Thesaurus. However it is interesting that Donald Trump
is coming to the UK on June 24. The High Priest of wall Building, of
prejudice and of Chauvinism is coming to a post Brexit UK on June 24
to the land devoid of Milk and Honey. I can understand why so many
are fooled by the slick leave campaign but I do not understand how
those on the left who support leaving fail to see that there
opposition to the EU feeds into this foul, discordant , racist
campaign of the Tory Brexiteers and UKIP fellow travellers. I know
how you feel but think how you are feeding the discourse..........
I
see you standing on the other side
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again
I don't know how the river got so wide
I loved you baby, way back when
And all the bridges are burning that we might have crossed
But I feel so close to everything that we lost
We'll never have to lose it again
People should weigh up the reasons we have poorer public services, unregulated housing markets with poor social housebuilding, increased mental health problems, underesourced national health, rising class sizes. Is it immigrants? Or is it a Tory government's ( and its new labour predecessor) austerity programme, its neoliberal attitude towards speculative financial investment, and its ideological favouring of private over public services? Its the old story...take the easy way out and blame the 'foreigner'. The facts of immigrants' net positive contributions to society
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