I love Norway and living in the land of the vikings. Tonight however, I stand firmly where I should - in the shadow of the three lions. May their roar drown out the cries of “Row…Row” and may my life be enhanced by basking in the warm glow of their victory bonfire. ENGLAND🦁🦁🦁
@zacevans90@CsoFringe That's not true though, the narrowing of council housing to provision only for those in maximum need is one of many negative outcomes from the collapse of public housing stock rather than anything to do with its intention.
Means testing social housing when someone is already in it = evicting people as a punishment for getting better jobs
I generally don't begrudge people being idiots but these idiots think they're the only non-idiots in the room
@Ameer_Kotecha@FUDdaily You also know there would be such an outcry were they even attempt to means test it, even though I cannot think of who could even morally object to such a policy
@PauliH1966@JackMac_82@LeftieStats Why are you defending Galloway on the basis of being good 20 years ago when the problem is that he's been pish ever since?
This is the kind of attitude that keeps these dinosaurs at the top of the British left in the first place
Say what you will about alba (and I do, they were shit) but they were right that the SNP simply aren't serious about this.
They just want to be in government and periodically shake their fists at Westminster to keep the proles distracted while they manage our decline
Crazy how they've been pushing for indy for decades and the currency question was such a massive weakspot in the Yes campaign (over a decade ago!), but the SNP still has no actual answer and MSPs are left to freelance
@granny_mericana@JeanGreige If you're getting the very basics of class relations wrong then pretty much all subsequent analysis is gonna be faulty even if individual outcomes accidentally align sometimes, no?
I mean the Taliban are opposed to US imperialism, that doesn't make them communists
In Britain, there is an ancient power the PM has which allows for anything to happen no questions asked but it's just used to increase tuition fees periodically and let pubs stay open during world cups
@RedAndreou@Harold__ACP Like look at your example - obviously theyre in a terrible position but they had access to education and infrastructure and *own a car* while working 40h in a service job that doesn't physically wreck them.
What does equivalent relative poverty look like in the periphery?
@RedAndreou@Harold__ACP The concept of labor aristocracy in general as introduced by previous theorists (Bukharin??) does, but Lenin expands that from a single society to a world system as described in the snippet I posted where yeah, it includes all of us as a society.