I'm always in Cannock.
I know my town better than anyone. Anyone. From local government to national representation.
You know when Cannock people should have started paying attention? Not when people fleeing war stay in 2 hotels. We should have started paying attention when the sons and daughters of generations of Coal Miners (who in some of my mates cases were literally starving during the miners strike) continually voted for a party that has left our town in tatters.
The town centre is dead, go up to Park Road and see the line of people waiting for methadone as the town battles a major heroin problem, then look at the "shops" which now is vape /barber/poundshop on a loop, and then tell me with a straight face that Cannock voters aren't responsible for the state of the town but 200 brown people in 2 hotels are.
People walking around town in fucking dressing gowns and slippers, local standards disappearing due to the chronic lack of investment in infrastructure and people in our town based on voting for parties contrary to our town's interests has turned chunks of it feral.
And we can't blame "them" because 97.4% of Cannock people are white. But hey, it's the 200 people in hotels fault.
Only a bigot could blame people seeking asylum for the woes of a town which decided that decades of Tory government would make their town healthy, happy and productive but instead has left it a shell of the vibrant town it was many years ago.
Blame yourself for once. Blame your vote. Blame yourself for giving liars, cheats, corrupt officials your thumbs up nationally.
Blame you.
Screenshots below. No asylum seekers were involved in any of it.
Suella Braverman has become so radicalised by her own ambition to lead the Conservative Party further down the sewer that she is wholly unfit to hold office. Every day that she remains in post is another day of shame for this decaying government and spineless prime minister.
@offtheballbbc Build a new stadium somewhere people have fairer access. Stirling perhaps. Hampden is a nightmare to get to. Moving about stadiums with different size pitches removes an element of home advantage
This is one of the most despicable episodes of our time.
Our politicians, media outlets and commentators are cheering on a massive war crime.
They must never be forgiven for this, the blood on their hands must never, ever be washed away.
From a man who sat as an MP for a decade, widely regarded as one of the "good guys".
Politicians are literally telling us what goes on, and we still vote believing in change. π€·π½ββοΈ
The Palestinian-Israeli conflict has been alive all of my life. In that time, some of the greatest politicians, journalists and philosophers who've ever lived have tried and failed to resolve it.
The worry now is that with arguably the least capable, intellectual, and most corrupt global political class ever, along with client journalism now being the norm instead of the outlier, that millions of people living in abject misery daily are neither served by their political leaders or the self ordained global policemen, east and west.
If you're a politician, no wonder people are apathetic at best and shaking with anger at worst.
On your watch, all of you. Left, right, centre. The least capable bunch at the greatest time of need.
In London, there's a woman who goes every day on the subway and sits on the dock just to listen to the announcement recorded by her husband in 1950.
Margaret McCollum after the death of her Oswald Laurence, sits on the bench waiting to hear this recording that became one of London's most famous "Mind the gap" (attention the space between the train and the dock).
In 2003, Oswald died leaving a huge void in Margaret's heart. So Margaret found a way to feel his presence closest.
But from the day after more than half a century, this voice was replaced by an empty electronic recording. Out of distress Margaret asked this cassette tape to the London subway transport company to continue listening to her husband's voice at home.
But, knowing the moving history, the company decided to restore the announcement in the only stop near the house where the woman lives, specifically at the Embankment stop of Northern Line, where all passengers can listen today Oswald Laurence's voice and to think that eternal love really exists.
Wonderful gesture by the authorities.
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