We'll be hearing years from now, how the Jubilee brought the country together. Has beens & cap doffers on stage in front of a crowd of radicalised cultists, cheering a glitzy show of fascist propaganda, dressed up as a tribute to an old lady, whose riches allowed her
happiness & contentment few will realise. Money was never mentioned last night. But money from a world of struggle, work, stress, death, suffering in war and terror was what she and her family were thanking us for.
Celebrating Monarchy is really celebrating inequality, and
celebrating poverty in the face of incredible wealth. A fairy tale family, clapping, dancing and celebrating the food banks, food & fuel abject poverty THEIR class bestows upon us.
London, UK, in your name, that inequality was celebrated last night. There is no pride in that.
Monarchism is a thing of the past that celebrates, and indeed ELEVATES inequality. The boo's for Johnson over this weekend really should be a rallying cry. A starting gun for change.
Thankyou, Queen, for upholding inequality and being an outstanding fighter for YOUR class...
so much so, you managed to drag along some of the majority working, struggling class. Your work is done. It's OUR turn to focus on our vulnerable and poor and those dying after short, stressful, malnourished (in every sense) lives. You lot have proved you aren't up to the job.
Your focus in maintaining a ruling class with riches, bribery and the war and propaganda machines at their liberty are over.
There's no law broken by those seeking refuge. "Illegal" doesn't apply to refugees. It is not illegal to cross borders & requirements for passports & visas are unrealistic for those fleeing war or persecution.
The term "illegal arrival"is part of Johnson/Patel's racist politics.
It's probably true as some media outlets are speculating that it is a populist fascistic distraction & that it may even be dropped at some point. But unless it's comprehensively defeated by mass action it's dangerous.
There needs to be mobilisation against it, including
demonstrations nationally & regionally as well as renewing physical blockades of deportations, demos against detention centres & mass civil disobedience. Without it being completely & thoroughly defeated (rather than quietly dropped) the confidence of the ruling class to use
I see the Alba Party feel that there is only one aspect of bigotry that should be allowed to be spoken of. Racism, antisemitism, Islamophobia, anti-Palestinian,anti Irish/anti Catholic bigotry, anti Roma bigotry, sexism, misogyny, AND transphobia all exist, side by side, here in
Scotland. ALL of these awful blights on our society coexist. At present, in our Parliaments, one of these groups of persecuted peoples are in tge process of possibly being legislated against- actual legislation being considered to roll back rights. And Alba Party members are
supporting that. Imagine being one of those groups of people and being told that "we will cure you from your identity." "We will teach you how to be "normal." "You will comply." "We are normal; you must be taught how to be our kind of normal."
annually, these Loyalist groups march with official protection (and with some Councillors and other political and civic leaders in tow). They march through the very streets some of the same people seigheil'd, spat, punched and stabbed.
The links some in the press and politics
have with Orange and Loyalist and Nazi groups really should have been a starting point for @heraldscotland following that weekend. A time to pull down the edifice of respectability Loyalism still enjoys in our communities, you would think. But... we've yet to see it.
A few days after the anniversary of Bloody Sunday, and with Jean Charles de Menezes at the forefront of our minds after the resignation of the MET officer in charge of that operation, the Labour Party are being very shit re shoot to kill.
I grew up in Northern Ireland,
a place where Thatcher ordered shoot-to-kill. A landscape of drumlins and winding roads with summary justice akin to @2000AD's Mega City One.
The Labour Party rightly slammed this vicious approach to "justice." And cover up after cover up ensued, as did tit for tat murder and
mayhem.
Speaking as someone who knew victim after victim, tragic family after tragic grieving family, @LabourParty have got this sadly, murderously, badly wrong.
I have seen two distinct negative reactions to the satire of "Don't Look Up."
1 that of people who are old enough to remember and understand the satire explosion of the sixties, seventies and eighties and
2 those who have grown up with a mass media almost devoid of satire/A
media in which super heroes are seen as superior cinema. (I may be being a little unfair).
I (@nwScotty), enjoyed it. I felt it was a modern remake of Dr Strangelove, with Mark Rylance playing a Steve Jobs Bezos Elon Musk hybrid capitalist with a god complex who doesn't
like to be called a capitalist -a modern day Strangelove (who suppressed his nazi past/views).
The inserted flashes at the real world could be seen as heavy handed, but they didn't grate too much, though I'm not really sure why they were deemed as needed. They added nothing
It is extraordinary watching the right wing radicalisation of a small group of Scottish indy supporters connected with Alba Party. Its a kind of uneducated, "nae yin tells me wit tae dae" thing that has led them from supporting doxxing of women who complained of sexual harassment
and worse, through prejudice against trans people to their attacks on hugely important updates of sex and gender and relationships education. In all of this, lots of them cannot see the parallels with right wing, misogynist attacks in other countries across the world, and
the links with antisemitism, antivaxx, anti mask right wing conspiracy groups.
What is clear is that Salmond is pulling groups of bigots, conspiracy theorists, blood and soil nationalists under his banner (and like the Republican Party right wing in the USA, making