alright well we privatised everything in the eighties in order to Unleash the Market but somehow this hasnt actually worked and it must be because people are lazy. So now to Unleash the Market we will be letting lots of people die. one day the Market will finally be Unleashed
These people’s brains are just not designed to handle the avalanche of reality that is now hitting us all, now that America has started treating Europe the way it’s treated most of the rest of the world since the end of the war.
Perhaps this new round of crackdowns will improve the lives of people in Britain, where the past forty five years of crackdowns very obviously have not.
It’s wild that in 2016, the general sentiment at the time was “Journalism is important!!” but in 2024, a room will just kinda idly sit back as a fellow journalist is literally dragged out of the room for asking questions
Maybe around 2013 when I worked in local government, the BBC reported on a survey that found most people hadn’t noticed any effect of austerity.
A colleague said, “people are going to get up one day, look around and say this place is a shit hole, what happened?”
It isn't in fact possible to compromise with a political force that will happily pretend it thinks semi-skimmed milk is Left Wing, or to make meaningful concessions to it, even if you wanted to: bc its demands aren't real & it is going to shout any old nonsense whatever you do
Don't remember Beth Rigby framing questions in this way when the Tories froze wages and benefits, introduced the bedroom tax, tripled tuition fees, and curbed workers' rights.
CNN tried to do a sympathy piece on IDF soldiers and then like halfway through the article you find out this guy was a D9 bulldozer driver who regularly drove over people while they were alive.
Places like Center Parcs are wild
You walk around and think:
“hmm,quite nice to have amenities”
…then you realise Britain has made visiting a miniature place with functional civic infrastructure a holiday destination
We pay to live like a Danish person for a week, basically