An Anonymous Ideology

[Annie Bynnol]

20 minutes ago, Anna B said:

 

Well let's start with facts like this:

'The top 25 members of the World Economic Forum (WEF) now worth more than $10 TRILLION have already amassed more economic power than the United states government, and are ready to seize control of your entire life.'

(Controligarchs by Seamus Bruner.)

 

    Nigel Farage wants the UK to “...reject the influence of the World Economic Forum and cancel Britain’s membership of it.” (Wednesday

 on XTwitter).  Yarooh! Went his financial backers, the English nationalists and the conspiracy theorists.

    On Thursday Nigel Farage was told that he cannot cancel Britain’s membership,

    Why not? Because no countries are members of the World Economic Forum,

    Oops!

    Owning a political party does not make you immune from dropping clangers. 

[spilldig]

22 hours ago, Anna B said:

Yep. 

I grew up in the 60s and 70s. Nothing much to compain about. I thought life was sweet and would continue that way.

I was wrong. Thatcher changed everything, and the miners strike was happening in my backyard remember, to people I knew. So yes, it was the miners' strike that got me interested in politics. And the more I found out the more I realised the system was flawed. 

Your memory of the 60s and 70s are different to mine. The 60s were I found boring although I still think that the music was the best ever. As for the 70s I remember working full time on building sites and although we didn't run a car and never had a holiday I was still struggling to buy a pair of safety boots for work because nearly half my wages went in stoppages. Very good era for scroungers though as I remember.  Getting back to the opening thread I have spent a bit of time in Russia and it doesn't seem so bad to me.  No-one sleeping rough on the streets, everybody has a job and their NHS functions better than ours, also if you talk to people everyone says that things were better under communism. 

[Anna B]

On 21/06/2024 at 10:15, spilldig said:

Your memory of the 60s and 70s are different to mine. The 60s were I found boring although I still think that the music was the best ever. As for the 70s I remember working full time on building sites and although we didn't run a car and never had a holiday I was still struggling to buy a pair of safety boots for work because nearly half my wages went in stoppages. Very good era for scroungers though as I remember.  Getting back to the opening thread I have spent a bit of time in Russia and it doesn't seem so bad to me.  No-one sleeping rough on the streets, everybody has a job and their NHS functions better than ours, also if you talk to people everyone says that things were better under communism. 

We have been subjected to a great deal of propaganda and paranoia regarding 'the dreaded' Communism. I don't think we really know the half of it, only the bad stuff.

I understand there are a lot of Russians who would happily o back to Communism, they are so disillusioned with the new system and the rise of the Oligarchs. 

 

I'm not saying we should embrace it, but IMO times were much better when we had a mix of Responsible Capitalism and Socialism. Now the socialism aspect is constantly under attack, when the real culprits of our current chaos is Neoliberalism which has caused a huge disparity in wealth and a breakdown of much we took for granted, eg work that pays enough to live on, and workers that were a respected and valued part of society, rather than just rats running round in a big wheel for peanuts 

[Anna B]

Even if Farage gets elected I really don't see what one man in Parliament can do. He certainly can't deliver on any of his promises. Sure he can be a bit of a spanner in thje works and disrupt proceedings, and will represent a lot of people's feelings.  But actual action,  no.