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Merlin retweeted
BREAKING: Government announces raft of new child safety measures which include banning under 16s from:
- going out alone
- going out in groups
- staying indoors
- speaking to their friends
- speaking to adults
- playing videogames with their friends
- playing videogames with no friends
- watching TV without adult supervision
- watching TV with adult supervision
- spending money online
- spending money offline
- using social media
- using any decent website
- having any human contact whatsoever
To ensure the children are definitely safe, over-16s will also be banned from doing these things. All companies will be expected to apply their rules globally, scanning faces and keeping profiles of every individual on the planet to ensure compliance at all times.
If anyone doesn't comply, Lisa Nandy will break their fucking legs ♥️
'Drop zone'.
We used to call it the 'relegation places' before we adopted the language of game shows.
What in the world is going on these days. Something in the water, surely.
"Let’s let non-White people identify as ethnically English in the census."
There are multiple reasons the diminishing, distortion and denial of English and other British ethnicities being pushed by the ruling class.
First is obviously to poke and open wound, to provoke tensions and distract from their dominion over us all.
Second is capitalism knows two historical epochs of the nation, first the awakening of national life and national movements, the struggle against all national oppression, creation of nation states and nationhood. Then, imperialism enforces relations between nations, destroys national borders, creates the international unity of finance capital, of economics, of politics, science, etc. It is the strangulation of all sovereignty, it is the death of nations.
Third is that the census data and consequent Boriswave of mass migration shows one in four adults in England and Wales is not ethnically British.
Fourth, the British population has consistently voted against mass migration. This means the question of migration is also firmly a democratic question.
Fifth, the migration question has instilled in it an ongoing contradiction arising from the perhaps deliberately ambiguous language distinction between ethnicity/nationality and citizenship.
Sixth arising from this bill, if passed, would be the distortion of crime data.
Seventh, with continued mass migration, both legal and illegal, the data on trends of settlement would be distorted, and essentially hidden.
With these issues in mind, and that these are not new issues but longstanding problems, that the ruling class is now openly calling for the outright legal erasure of the English ethnicity is unsurprising.
This has to stop. What kind of country are we becoming? Think of all the other stuff we allow, yet we want to ban this? bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cmzx…
Merlin retweeted
Late stage capitalism:
A supermarket throws perfectly good food in the dumpster, pays its workers so little they can barely afford groceries, then asks customers to donate to the food bank at checkout.
And we're supposed to admire how fucking efficient this system is.
Merlin retweeted
It’s worth remembering that when Russell Brand was at his very worst, behaviour-wise he was promoted and lauded. He was never off our tv sets or the airwaves. He was part of the ‘zeitgeist’ of 2000s ‘comedy’- crude and lewd, no inhibitions. It was a case of out with the old, in with the new.
It was only when he began to get ideas above his station in the 2010s and write books like ‘Revolution’ that he became the subject of scorn & ridicule by the ‘Inside the Tent’ crowd.
We’re all expected to forget this now.
Sadly, there seems to be no level to which the British media will not stoop.
FFS.
Students in England, Wales and Northern Ireland will be able to take a Ukrainian GCSE from 2028 as part of government plans
Read more 🔗 news.sky.com/story/students-…
Merlin retweeted
What a depressing Labour u-turn on the extension of ILR for Boriswave care workers. It’s not just the huge cost heading our way, it’s the way that care workers are singled out for the sentimental treatment we usually reserve for NHS nurses. For our own benefit as a country we need the average carer to be better paid, better trained, and higher status (I recently wrote a book partly about this The Care Dilemma). But we don’t have to pretend they are all angels: there are some who are v good, most who are average and too many who are useless, as in any walk of life. The immigrant carers are coming here for a better life from poorer often failing societies not because they love looking after British people. In my own last hospital stay most the care assistants were Boriswave women, mostly from Africa - some decent some indifferent - but ALL spoke quite poor and v heavily accented English that was sometimes hard to understand and unless I spoke slowly and deliberately they struggled to understand me. This is obviously a sensitive issue that many people experience but don’t feel able to talk about (though it must be reflected in those low satisfaction surveys), partly because a carer has helped you when you are vulnerable and there is a kind of reflex gratitude even if the care has actually been a bit sloppy or incompetent (and you also feel you’re getting it free so shouldn’t moan, even if you’re paying more and more in tax). Yet it’s crazy that we are spending billions subsidising this when we could be using the money to incentivise British ppl, who speak the language fluently and understand the culture, to do these jobs.
A hypothesis: all this fear-mongering and urging populations to stock up for a crisis is a doomed attempt to convince Russia that NATO is genuinely willing to fight a direct war unless Moscow accepts its preferred Ukraine settlement. It's a negotiation tactic.
'I would never behave how we all did in 2020. God, all that toilet paper stuff. Oh, man, I'm embarrassed about it all now.'
[A family-sized bottle of water enters the chat]
I suspect a lot of people on the 'left', now so used to celebrating such stellar 'movements' as Polanski's Greens, will not register this.
I wish the Serbian students all the best, but when the entire Western political-media establishment is celebrating your victory, that doesn’t bode well. It doesn’t mean the entire movement is co-opted, but it does mean that very powerful forces definitely think they *can* co-opt it and use it to transform Serbia into another EU-NATO colony.
There's always a speech.
Burnham's camp did not like the joke about a Blairite, a Brownite and a Corbynista walking into a bar, and the barman saying "What's it to be Andy?"
But it remains an accurate description of the man. He's all over the place.
Here - in my view - he's correct on his headline point. But if you don't agree, another principle will be along in a minute: