tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post5078693712962591565..comments2024-03-29T09:14:53.583+00:00Comments on All That Is Solid ...: Politics and the Panama PapersPhilhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06298147857234479278noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-74844012842489180722016-04-10T11:03:47.851+01:002016-04-10T11:03:47.851+01:00a great deal of that support is passive and gestur...<i>a great deal of that support is passive and gestural.</i><br /><br />My CLP's just changed the 1/25 member rule for GC representation to 1/50 - if we'd kept the old ratio we would have needed to get a bigger room. That's just members, but I've been to a couple of routine ward meetings where people have ended up standing at the back because all the folding chairs were in use. Corbynites who are actually active may be the tip of an iceberg, but it's a big iceberg and a big tip.Philhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07009879034507926661noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-45913563159093896702016-04-06T19:49:56.060+01:002016-04-06T19:49:56.060+01:00Opinion in Stoke, among the people I spoke to, is ...Opinion in Stoke, among the people I spoke to, is that of course this happens, they always knew it and didn't expect anything different.<br /><br />The full-on Labourites were reinforced in their convictions, but the apoliticals were no more engaged than they ever were. I think this will have a limited impact, the great British public are more likely to get angry with working-class immigrants or the unemployed than this.<br /><br />I shan't be supporting Bernie Sanders, I don't think, I hate Donald Trump and Lyin' Ted is, I've decided, even worse (less theatrical, but worse). Hillary is too tied to illegal warmongering and Bernie is an old-time socialist of the kind that, if I don't support them here, I don't see why I'd support in America.<br /><br />I'd be thinking about Gary Johnson actually if I was American, let it be known that we're sick of nationalism, protectionism, illegal wars, puritanism, and all of Lyin' Ted.asquithhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14246701347539264295noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-70122294966982828892016-04-05T18:33:13.146+01:002016-04-05T18:33:13.146+01:00The politics of this are limited. Because we have ...The politics of this are limited. Because we have seen time and again how the rich put their funds offshore to avoid paying tax, and time and again we see no response from the masses, other than voting in the parties of the rich! So I am taking the current furore with a pinch of salt.<br /><br />No one can claim to be surprised that the rich and powerful use finance experts to siphon off their wealth. For god’s sake we have Islands off Britain that serve no other purpose than being places the rich can avoid paying for Kidney Dialysis machines and other such useless extravagancies.<br /><br />The big danger is the one we endlessly see, i.e. it is politicians who come in for criticism and not business people. I would say the main ultimate use of a politician is to take blame for the rich and powerful. They are the shields of the rich and powerful. Although with this Tory government they seem to be one and the same!<br /><br />So the initial focus on Putin misses or at least deflects the point, though it does highlight the problem with liberal concern.<br /><br />The only way this will be ultimately tackled is for a complete breakdown and disintegration of the centre left, after all it was Alistair Darling who said a few ago, as Chancellor, that we cannot go after the rich and their tax avoidance because we can’t upset them! So the real enemy is the same as it was before, i.e. the Yvette Cooper loving centre left.<br /><br />Vote Bernie Sanders!<br />BCFGnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4486641877026778105.post-43554291768956486102016-04-05T02:11:09.856+01:002016-04-05T02:11:09.856+01:00and what is it that angry, alienated atomized whit...and what is it that angry, alienated atomized white people do here in the states, phil? they like to beat people up! and currently, that's the concern. after the election, or, as is looking more likely, after the convention, the chances are you may see an angry trumpist or two (or more likely, in a group of four or five) assault a black person, or maybe a gay couple going for a walk, or a trans-person, who, in their eyes, has wandered into the wrong bathroom, or hell, anyone who just might look at them funny. this america, after all...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com