I was about to write about some recent events. sadly, I got side-tracked (I like to think that I’m highly adaptable and able to multi-task quickly and surely. This is a marketable asset ).
But my chums all tell me that all they have to do is shake a key-ring or something shiny in front of me and I forget all about what I was just about to do/say.
Not everyone's cup of tea
The car keys in this instance have been rattled by a shill for the British Conservative Party, a dullard who seems to think that she (and the entire United Kingdom) will be deprived of the pleasure of a cup of tea if the Labour Party and the TUC campaigns for a fair minimum wage nationally and internationally
What would it cost if the tea picker got the minimum wage we are accustomed to, on top of that come the costs of the company who picks the tea, the shipping, the import, the distribution in the UK. A simply cup of tea would become a luxury for us.
Now I am afraid that I am not fully able to vent my spleen about the ramblings of this sad old-school tory as she will sue the pants of anyone who attempts to “use quotes from this blog for purposes, which are criminal or libellous or otherwise indecent and immoral, offensive and defamatory of others. “. But being in a different country and subject to different criminal statutes, a different set of laws regulating libel I think I will have to take the safest course of action and just be indecent, immoral and offensive as I’m pretty sure that there isn’t yet an objective yardstick here for what might constitute an action. But this person is such a half-baked windbag I intend to quote the crap out of her attack on the minimum wage in an attempt to be as IMMORAL as possible in the short time I have to knock this thing out.
If you’re a sucker for punishment go and have a read of this tory here, she has a blog somewhere here, but I’m reluctant to provide a link to that excrescent drivel but in the interests of balance and fairness go and have a look at <blech> this fruitbat should be old enough to know better than to try to sugar-coat the last time that the Conservatives held the majority of seats in the House Of Commons. Dare I mention the name ‘Thatcher’ ? Has she forgotten the strikes, the social upheaval, the distress and the misery that tories (in general) and Maggie (in particular) have inflicted on the populace in the past.
I mean sure they might be an OK government for a few but let’s recall a few headlines/quotes from the period of Thatcher’s premiership
“Where there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where there is despair, may we bring hope.”
-a doorstop in front of No 10 Downing Street 4/05/1979
“We’ve had riot shields, we’ve had riot gear, we’ve had police on horseback charging into our people, we’ve had people hit with truncheons and people kicked to the ground…. The intimidation and the brutality that has been displayed are something reminiscent of a Latin American state.”
– a coal miners representative after the police descended on picketing strikers
Thatcher’s embrace of conviction politics came after she abandoned her previous convictions.
– The Guardian on the Thatcher Mythology
I could go on and on, but I have but the single hour to finish, but there is reportage on the dramatic rise of old-age pensioners dying fro exposure due to the increased costs of heating fuels (privatisation) , there were reports of the decline in the quality of water (to make the cups of tea this kooky Johanna seems to fondly reference) due to faecal matter because private water companies didn’t think that proper filtration was worth spending the money on and policing (more privatisation) and, despite the Iron Lady twittering-on about fighting inflation, inflation went through the roof.
With regard to her ambition to curb inflation, she presided over a doubling of inflation between 1979 and 1980, from around 10 to over 20 per cent, and a return to ‘double-digit’ inflation at the end of the 1980s. Myth and reality – aren’t they wonderful?
– again the Guardian article
So if you like freezing in the dark and drinking shit with your increasingly more expensive favourite hot beverage then the Thatcher years were, indeed, golden but this tired old hack, this bully from Bethnal Green glosses over all this trying to restore the British Conservative Party to their ‘rightful’ position
And now she has the barefaced gall to rail against the right of a worker to have a fair wage for their labour, not just in Britain but in the developing world as well. I hope that this twit is at the forefront of the Tory opinion leading team, I hope that this is the best that the ‘born-to-rulers’ have to offer
Anyway, that’s my hour completed I shall probably return to this theme and the loony British right soon enough
this picture ‘Boing-Boing‘
look at this up-side down !!
Here have a sing-along with this little number from the US
In this short video, sneering rappers from the young conservative movement bust rhymes about drilling in Alaska, forcing women to bear foetuses to term, eliminating social programs and merging Church and State. Lines include: “Three things taught me conservative love: Jesus, Ronald Reagan, plus Atlas Shrugged;” and “Everyone can succeed because our soldiers bleed.”