@garethicke Gareth, I see you're selling ickonic coffee, that's brilliant but I can't stand coffee, how about rebadging some Yorkshire tea and slapping ickonic on it, I'd buy that mate
🗣️Shall we begin: Announcing protest Arsenal 9th March
We have been preparing for this for a few weeks in anticipation.
We are angry, the fans are angry and it’s been building for some time.
We have all been more than patient.
We all know the root cause, we have always known the elephant in the room.
Yet, this isn’t being addressed.
It’s those who can least afford it, have the most emotional connection with our club who are being asked to pay the price in more ways than one.
Trampling over generational support and memories of friends and family who handed the club over to us like something they have stepped in.
- The treatment of fans from the club
- The eradication of fan culture
- The assault on concessions and generational fans
- Putting profit before fan safety
- Putting profit before everything
- The total lack of communication and transparency
- The uncertainty of our clubs future
The club preach fan engagement the reality is they dont practice it. We know this first hand and have evidence.
ACTIONS NOT WORDS ITS NOT GOOD ENOUGH
They can hold meetings with the FAB which is all under NDA. It is supposed to be for the fans YET they can’t tell the fans anything. It’s a disgrace!
These meetings are effectively gagged and it is NOT open and transparent dialogue with fans. Not even close.
The silence from the club is deafening.
We rise again to defend our club and be warned this will not just be on the street campaigns at the ground.
Keep treating the fans with contempt at your peril
More details to follow in the coming days
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My statement on the civil unrest…
Seeing lots of oikophobia in the wake of the protests, and feel context is needed.
After twenty years of violent terror attacks, falling living standards and increasing rates of rape, robbery and violent crime all of which has fallen on the working classes.
There is now pushback on the streets and online.
Rather than engage with this and have honest and open discussions in the wake of a brutal triple child murder which has caused tensions to boil over, the government has instead called online protest misinformation and street protest far-right thuggery.
This has of course inflamed tensions are people feel that very valid concerns that are a threat to their way of life, and a threat to their wives and daughters safety is being ignored by the political classes.
The idea that you can ignore the concerns of the biggest demographic on your society and treat them as little more than ‘pay-pigs’ to fund insane liberal fantasies that have made them poorer and less safe in the process and that people will just accept this forever is complete madness and frankly evil.
Our political and elite classes have engaged in a covert class war for over twenty years and the working classes have politely tried to push back, first through voting and then through protest both options have failed to improve the situation.
Simultaneously they have watched our government repeatedly crave in to violent disorder from other communities.
The final straw has been a new Labour government coming in and in the wake of the horrific attack on Monday and the upswell of public anger, Labour have not only continued the disastrous Tory policy of ignoring working class concerns, but have instead immediately doubled down on it, rushing through emergency policing powers and additional surveillance both online and offline with no attempt at community dialogue.
All while claiming to be a government of service.
For every 10 people on the street their are another 1000 online all expressing their frustration and anger at what they are seeing,
Now is the time to deescalate, reach out to working class community leaders and show understanding and compassion rather than ordering baton charges and suppression of X.
I and many others are ready and willing for dialogue, the question is are Labour ready to truly close the door on the failed Tory policy of working class suppression or is it just business as usual in a red tie rather than a blue one?
This is the question that will be unanswered in the weeks ahead.
@RedWolfMMA Ha ha u weapon 🤣 I'm good mate was waiting for these tickets to come out wasn't expecting the prices or times mate. Me and my mate were gonna try and go but fuck 5 in morning mate