As the main parties prepared to launch their election manifestos early next week, Clegg said it was “stating the obvious” to say that a hung parliament, in which the main parties were forced to work together, would be good for the country. The alternative would be to have a government that lacked support across huge parts of Britain, where the fuck is the man he needs to come round to see the people of Sheffield a little more to understand a few facts.
The new proletariat as a homogeneous class first came into existence in the last 10 years. And it is by no means an exclusively German phenomenon: An underclass is emerging in every self-described leading industrial nation. The modern political economy clearly has nothing to offer to those who possess little knowledge.
It is no mere coincidence that the rise of the new underclass is happening in tandem with the erosion of industry jobs. In Europe, the process of de-industrialization may end up being more influential than the common currency or the effort to forge a shared constitution. The disintegration of society threatens the West today more than international terrorism, even if politicians are focusing on combating the latter.
The Economist, http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=8089315
National Equality Panel confirms that class is the main issue
Once again the IWCA’s analysis of class in modern Britain is spot on…
Despite every effort to hide it, a recent report by an independent panel set up by the government confirms that class is the most important factor determining inequality in society.
The National Equality Panel published An Anatomy of Economic Inequality in the UK in January. At first glance the 460 page report tells us nothing new – economic inequalities, high both in relation to other countries and previous historical periods, reinforce themselves across the lifecycle and across generations.
The first sentence of the executive summary suggests the usual focus of state-backed investigations into inequality has been adopted. It informs us that the objective of the report was to ‘examine how inequalities in people’s economic outcomes are related to their characteristics and circumstances.’ Tellingly, it highlights three examples of people’s ‘characteristics and circumstance’ as gender, ethnicity and age – the holy trinity of liberal concern with inequality.
http://projectsheffield.wordpress.com/2010/04/06/class-is-still-the-issue-the-iwca%E2%80%99s-analysis-of-class-in-modern-britain/
To begoverned is to be watched, inspected, spied upon, directed, law-driven, numbered, regulated, enrolled, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, checked, estimated, valued, censured, commanded, by creatures who have neither the right nor the wisdom nor the virtue to do so.
To be governed is to be at every operation, at every transaction noted, registered, counted, taxed, stamped, measured, numbered, assessed, licensed, authorised, admonished, prevented, forbidden, reformed, corrected, punished. It is, under pretext of public utility, and in the name of the public interest, to be placed under contribution, drilled, fleeced, exploited, monopolised, extorted from, squeezed, hoaxed, robbed; then, at the slightest resistance, the first word of complaint, to be repressed, fined, vilified, harassed, hunted down, abused, clubbed, disarmed, bound, choked, imprisoned, judged, condemned, shot, deported, sacrificed, sold, betrayed; and to crown all, mocked, ridiculed, derided, outraged, dishonoured.
That is government; that is its justice; that is its morality.”
– Pierre Joseph Proudhon.
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hung parliament cool, to make it happen thou we have2vote tactically
12.04.2010 05:48
james
Demo - Crassy elections May 6th
05.05.2010 23:32
Well....there is definately enough reason to be angry, anti- or hungry already....BUT,
according to a greek student at a Birmingham University who posted on Indymedia uk....the British are Crap Wan*ers when it comes to revolting...Getting OUT on the streets and saying...
YA BASTA!
Solidarity and shame.
Shame and Solidarity.
Resist.
Noah Finnity