March 2012
5 posts
First Impressions of the Budget
“We’re all in this together.”
George Osborne (Numerous Occasions)
This is one of the Tory chancellor’s favourite comments on the difficult economic situation at the current time. Another is the idea that we must proceed to cut the deficit as swiftly as possible in order to emerge from recession.
Why then, I wonder is he cutting high-rate tax from 50 to 45 pence in the...
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Pussy Riot Journal →
An all female Russian punk band, a sort of latter-day Slits, which engages in protests against Putin, such as their recent occupation of a church pulpit for a Prayer against Putin. Two of the members are currently in jail and could face up to seven years in prison.
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Those people I can't stand.
You know the ones. They always hit you with “Yeah, I guess that is morally superior to my idea, but it would never work in reality.” Okay, well maybe they don’t admit my ethical superiority, but that’s what they mean, honest. This argument is continually leveled at any Leftist (or presumed Leftist, let’s say libertarian, before some Anarchists berate me) political ideologies.
Incapable, perhaps,...
January 2012
3 posts
Why I Hate: The Liberal Democrats
Originally published at Anarkos on 7th March 2011
The fable of the Liberal Democrats fall from grace, from the dizzy heights of ‘Cleggmania’ to the current abysmal bi-election results, is not the usual tale of a Party failing to live up to manifesto pledges, it is an active breaking of a signed promise. To make myself clear, I hate the Liberal Democrat Party. Many members, many individual ‘Lib...
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This blog was started with reference to actually using a number of political ‘essays’ I wrote last year and also to getting started writing again. I will post one of the old essays here, and while it may factually be a little out of date now, I hope its sentiment is one which you can appreciate.
Uploading up-to-date material soon,
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