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(such as our late scotch friend)
Scotch Eggs, Scotch Whisky, Scotch Ale, Scotch Bonnet Peppers and Scotch pies are acceptable, but friends are always Scottish
If Banks can create money from thin air at a stroke of a pen, then presumably Credit Unions would be able to do exactly the same. If that was possible, we could all become credit union members could then create our own money and everyone could stop working, which demonstrates what a lot of baloney this moonshine economics is.
Without trying to claim that there is a way out of the crazy economics of capitalism, the fact that the “Policy and Economics Advisors” in the big political parties actually think they can solve these issues shows just how lamentable academic education actually is.
These feckers have higher degrees and more, but they don’t know their arses from the elbows.
For example, to get a 1st class honours degree you need to get an average of 70%. This means you might have got as much as 30% wrong or missing. You wouldn’t trust an airline pilot that got 30% wrong and if you do a vocational qualification to be a plumber or a sparky, etc. you need to get 100%.
It actually shows who are really the important people in our society, as if we didn’t already know.
“Serious question. If I join the SPGB now would I qualify for a share in its assets (sale of No 52 and its not inconsiderable other monies) when it folds?”
If the Socialist Party is in its death throws, as you suggest, is your ongoing interest in our terminal decline some kind of Harold Shipmanesque like interest in death. If so, “serious question”, does your necrophilia display itself in other areas. Just want to keep an eye out for you if you end up working in whatever nursing home I end up in.
SDLP usually go along with the Labourites, the only difference is that SDLP are open on their support of a United Ireland and the Labour party pretend that they don’t support a United Ireland.
James 19 – “Pwel fans actually say they’re not English, they’re ‘scousers’?? Having no allegiance to King or Country…”
Can’t see that’s anything I would critisize. There are also several parts of England that have sizable portions of the population that do not consider themsleves as “English”. Lots of Cornish people see their identity as Cornish, I’m a Geordie and if asked I would desribe myself as a Geordie rather than being English. Travelling around the Northumbria area you see far more Northumbrian flags than you see England or Uk flags. I work regularly in Yorkshire and most of the people I speak to see themselves first as from Yorkshire than any particular Nation State.
There seems to be a move to a cultural association of identity linked to to an area more than the nation state style association, again I think that’s a positive move.
There was a poll in our local newspaper prior to Scottish Independence asking if people in the North East would prefer to join an independent Scotland or stay linked to England and the (admittedly unscientific) reslut was that 58% would prefer to join Scotland.
If you think that being on this forum is a hedonistic binge, you’re not doing hedonistic binges properly.
That said Socialist Activity and hedonistic binges are not mutually exclusive. I’ve been happily combining them for years:
🍔🥩🍟🍰🍺🍺🥃🥃🥂🍻🍹🍹“Unlike say, Manchester United fans who call for their supporters to own the club, no such call for Liverpool to be owned by its fans.”
There are thousands of Man U fans who are doing somersaults at the thought of their club being owned by either a Middle Eastern Company or by multi billionaire capitalist Jim Ratcliffe.
I also think that the booing was more of a statement of disillusion with the establishment, Thatcher’s plan to let Liverpool die on the vine and the ongoing anger about Hillsborough, rather than not being happy with Mr Charles Windsor and his second wife being given a stupid looking hat.
There aren’t many fans of professional football (or professional sport for that matter) who can claim the moral high ground.
Do we have a copy of the article we published on the coronation of George V in 1910? I think it was called “The Coronation of King Capital”.
I’ll be swearing that day, but not the way that Charlie would like us to.
Don’t know what it’s like “dahn Sahf” but north of Hadrian’s Wall it’s very low key. Odd bit of bunting in the supermarkets and that’s your lot.
“ the Catholic Church today is not Armageddonist and instead more invested in charity work and aid projects‘
Not convinced of that. The major concern of the Catholic Church appears to be the preservation of the Catholic Church and its control of the diminishing number of its faithful members that contribute to its coffers.
If the Catholic Church was invested in charity work and aid, perhaps they would be better served in disinvesting in all of the buildings, the cathedrals, the priceless art works, the stocks and shares they own, in order to compensate the children their priests have abused, the children they sold to “good Catholic families”, the children and mothers they abused in the Magdelene laundries, the families of the children they buried in Tuam, the physical abuse of school children they abused, the peasants and workers they scared into handing over their hard earned cash to their priests, nuns and monks, etc. etc. They might also want to compensate the Jews, gay people, travellers and Roma people that suffered as a result of the abuse and marginalisation they encouraged.
Not exactly “aid projects”. Maybe as an ex Catholic alter boy I’m a little biased!!
The real answer to “ Then why do the capitalists spend trillions on such weapons they don’t intend using, and billions too on luxury furnished nuclear bunkers for themselves – not to mention radiation-proof aircraft for the Heads of state to use to survey a post-nuclear landscape?”
Is that because they can and that we are daft enough to let them.
However, to put it into perspective, it’s their insurance policy, I’ve got life insurance, that doesn’t mean that I plan to die right now. Hope that cheers you up a wee bit.
In terms of military spending, another of the ridiculous outcomes is the vast sums of money spent on arms that aren’t used. Vulcan Bombers, English Electric Lightnings, the last two Ark Royals, the first three generations of British nuclear weapons. All created and now scrapped.
