The “slow violence of the state” has always been used by the rich and powerful to wage war on the poor and powerless.

Is that Scotland Road?

One of my sons in law bought a Jaecoo, AKA the Temu RangeRover (Google it). You get a lot of car for relatively little, especially compared to a Swasticar, with none of the shade. The Chinese are really chasing market share.

Makes me a bit sad. Manufacturing Consent really changed my thinking. It was always clear that Chomsky was too close to the establishment he criticised, but this is just vile corruption.

The billionaires have got to go, before they kill us all, just to make more money than they could ever spend.

He is a QUISLING.

Defined by Winston Churchill as one who “is hired to fawn upon the conqueror, to collaborate in his designs and to enforce his rule upon their fellow countrymen while groveling low themselves.”

Honest Bob is another of those heartless deadbeats that my dear departed Grandmother would have referred to as either a SPIV, or when she really lost her temper a GOBSHITE.

I think that both are equally applicable.

You are so right. If only our politicians could deliver on their manifesto pledges and demonstrate that they can actually be trusted.

Any of them.

This is what happens when you haven’t yet been told what you think about a specific issue, by the people in charge of your opinions.

My family served in every armed conflict from 1939 onward.

Many joined to escape poverty and unemployment, but we ALL believe in Public Service.

What we see now is a very nasty form of virtue signalling, often by people who haven't earned the right.

They make me sad, angry and a bit sick.

Is this online anywhere. I ask as one who lives in the wild wood of Wyrale.

Both of my Grandfathers served in WW2. My maternal grandfather and his brother were on Dunkirk beach and his brother died there. My paternal grandfather was captured in the fall of Singapore and was a prisoner tortured in Changi Camp. These fuckers and their parents deserve a fucking good kicking.

Best thing I’ve heard all year.

It seems to be incorrect Comrade. Rwanda figures are 67.78 for all adults in 2023 and rising. Blackpool (UK) shows as 73.1 for males and 78.9 for females in 2024. Blackpool is very significantly below the national average due to the slow (but inexorable) violence of the state.

Streeting is an absolute SPIV, taking shovel loads of cash from private healthcare supporters, to support and promote his career. He’s no more principled than Farage.

The usual ingredients for Scouse, included the weekends leftovers. Old school Scouse was often made with neck-end of lamb and thickened with pearl barley or lentils. If you had no meat, it was known as Blind Scouse. We even had curried Scouse if we had the ingredients. This is 60 years ago.

He doesn't lack facts, he lacks common human decency, compassion and simple common sense.