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I see the Labour Party is adopting the Blair government’s policy of going for irrelevant constitutional reforms recognising that they can’t do much to tame the way the capitalist economy works.
What else can they offer since they fully accept private enterprises seeking to make the biggest profit they can as the driving force of the economy?
Whatever they do won’t make any difference, except a few more troughs for career politicians to get their snouts into while the profit system continues unchanged.
Here, for what their worth, are the details of what they are proposing or at least considering:
That reminds me. Not seen anything in the papers about how many people didn’t pay their energy bill on 1 December. I seem to recall the figure of a quarter of a million being bandied about at one point by the organisers of the “strike”.
What an idiot. That’s a dangerous line of argument (for them) for the government to pursue. The unions and their members might put 2 and 2 together and realise that the government’s sanctions against Russia have added considerably to the cost of living crisis. This hasn’t happened here yet as it has in France, Germany, Spain, Italy and even Czechia.
Hopefully they will and so undermine the government stoking the war there by pouring arms into Ukraine.
I don’t if this is confirmed or not, but it seems that the Iran regime has been forced by the protests into making concessions:
Actually I have been out in the real world and soccer fans are joking at all the virtue signalling that is going on. It was a soccer fan that told me the one about them doing so many gestures that they might fall over. That’s what they are saying down at the pub.
I think the word we are looking for here is “sanctimonious”. Such people have always been fair game. Nobody likes them and tend to take the piss out of them.
I concede that thou might be holier than me.
Virtual signalling as “a powerful force for social change” even if “there is no guarantee the people who are sending the signals are particularly virtuous or committed to the cause.” That’s a new one.
But, while we are discussing virtue signalling in relation to the World Cup, I wonder what the English team will do before the match this evening against Senegal.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/LGBT_rights_in_Senegal
I’ll be watching to see if can they take the knee and cover their mouths and make some hand signal without falling over.
Unlike the Iranian team whose protest put them and their families at risk, the German team’s action was a textbook case of “virtue signalling” (and could well be cited in dictionaries for years to come as a typical case):
the action or practice of publicly expressing opinions or sentiments intended to demonstrate one’s good character or the moral correctness of one’s position on a particular issue.”
It didn’t work. They made a spectacle of themselves. They got accused of Islamophobia. They were kicked out of the competition at the first stage. And they didn’t prevent the German government signing the same week a deal to import gas from Qatar for 15 years.
More politics and soccer. Here’s Arab commentators taking the piss out of the German team’s virtue signalling. What idiot told their team to do that?
Another amateur weighs in on the number of casualties in Ukraine:
EU Commission chief in hot water over Ukraine war loss estimates
Or does she know something we don’t?
I didn’t pay my energy bill today but then I didn’t have one not to pay. I wonder how many more were in that position.
Maybe people still feel weak on their own and identify now with their State rather than some god and that every national anthem amounts to “O State, I am weak, but you are mighty”. Some pop psychology for you.
You are right, Moo, some of the contributions here seem to be trying to emulate Engels as an expert on military matters.
They are just as relevant as this incident in the sane area during the Crimean War of 1853-56 against Russia:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Kinburn_(1855)
Actually, the Kinburn spit, opposite Kherson and which commands the entrance to it, is still controlled by the Russian army. So, if I may play at being Engels myself, expect another battle of Kinburn soon.
It is not just leftwingers who are exposing the “higher wages cause inflation” myth. So are right wingers. Here, following in the footsteps of Enoch Powell in the 1970s (when he wasn’t talking about immigration leading to rivers of blood), is a member of the free-marketeer Cato Institute very effectively exposing the myth for the benefit of Tory activists:
Ryan Bourne: The wage-price spiral explanation of inflation is a dangerous myth
Not sure, though, that it will stop Tory (or, for that matter, future Labour) ministers, as for them any stick can be used to oppose wage increases since one thing they do do is eat into profits.
