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The cheats and liars are in control now. But not forever. It’s not over yet. We aren’t defeated yet....they will push hard to unravel more and more worker’s rights, and stifle the mechanisms that can challenge them. Unfortunately, many poor people will continue to vote for selfish rich people at the expense of other poor people. We will resist. We must resist. We will not be cowed, This is where the new line is drawn. What we can all do to help…. is to not give up. We need to remain enlightened and informed…

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Shrewsbury picket trial- DES WARREN

Was there a conspiracy? Yes there was, but not by the pickets; the conspiracy was one between the home secretary, the employers and the police.” Des Warren. 1973. Will the new Labour Home Secretary now promptly allow the release of all the sealed 40 year old secret documents in the political Shrewsbury picket trial/case (of workers pickets Des Warren and Ricky Tomlinson) which involved both overt and covert activities between the construction industry, the economic league, MI5 and the state? Activities that…

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Donald Trump erected

Trump is a business failure. All his businesses have failed. From board games, steaks, university, airline, board games, the cycle race, magazines, casinos…and more! As president, helping his rich Friends with tax cuts, he left a National debt of $8.4 trillion! Trump is a loser! Trump's business legacy is Shafting investors and leaving workers unpaid. Trump's only success is conning people- Trump is a Swindling Rip Off, Fleecing, Bamboozling, Confidence Trickster, Cheating, Fraudulent, Swizzling, Film Flam,…

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FLAgs, FALSE FLAGS and SYmbols

I don’t trust flags or symbols... but if the flag is truly the symbol of freedom as some say it is... then it's impossible to disrespect the flag by exercising the freedoms it's supposed to represent. This internet is a hall of mirrors and False flags. We’re in greater danger of beating the drums of war louder, trumpeting the militarists, silencing the critics, and waving the flag. I reckon Citizens don't fight and die for flags but for embattled communities of people who stir their most profound feelings o…

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Rory and Kirsty Martin sing and dance workshop. UpRoar Choral Ceilidh!

UpRoar Choral Ceilidh! I am currently working with the wonderful Rory McLeod on UpRoar Choral Ceilidh - an original and inclusive community project / workshop comprising a gig, community singing workshop and a bit of a ceilidh dance all rolled into one. The idea is that people come to a singing workshop with me and Rory, learning arrangements to some of his songs. He’d play a song, then I teach my arrangement, which fits around his existing arrangement, and then we all sing it together. In between the so…

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Our NHS, They’ve made a right Jeremy Hunt of it!

I wish everyone well who has cancer, whoever they are. Though Family connections are everything- places in the queue are passed down from one generation to the next through bloodline or family connections where as our Auntie is still waiting in a queue for her treatment. So is my mate’s uncle. I hope you and your families are safe and well. Private healthcare firms have donated £800,000 to the Tories in the last 10 years. A reminder that the Tories voted AGAINST the formation of the NHS over 20 times. The …

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Francis Bacon'S Study after Velázquez's Portrait of Pope Innocent X - think-Dorian Gray’s portrait.

Though it’s not a ‘self Portrait’ makes me think of what Dorian Gray’s portrait might have looked like. No Ageless beauty… …but a portrait that ages and visually records every one of his sins, as if the sitter might have done a deal with the devil. The pope also looks like he's sitting in an electric chair!

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TANGO MUSIC

Happy Valentines X💚❤️🖤🤎💛 My mum Shirley had requested music at her funeral, one tune was her favourite rockabilly song ‘Shotgun Boogie’ by Tennessee Ford and, apart from the song I made for her, another choice was the tango ‘La Cumparsita’ one of the tangos played in the concert here. (LINK BELOW) I love the battalion of bandoneons playing together in this old film footage here, a whole row. The animated conductor Juan d'Arienzo is so physical, with so much enthusiasm, the way he inhabits each tune with…

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JOHN PILGER Journalist R.I.P.

Amid all the institutional media bias against telling the truth I was interested in the worker’s co-operative model Pilger proposed for running a newspaper. His solidarity with the constant protest of Marshall Islanders against US bases. Pilger didn’t avoid taking sides, a partisan view. He often left the contradictions revealed in his films to speak for themselves. He was an ally of the dispossessed who stood for something other than fame, prestige and money. He pointed to the terrible omissions of Western…

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If we were back in the EU what Brexit benefits would I miss

I will Miss import duties adding costs.... I will ache for and Miss The Movement of the goalposts... I'll miss Watching non-drying paint dry.... I'll sentimentally lament and miss the rich elite getting richer via de-regulation... I will pine for the sovereignty of British wealthy tax-dodgers from the EU Anti Tax Evasion Directive.... I will Mourn not watching the shotgun wedding we knew wouldnt last though the couple have been bought a thousand sandwich makers...that we’ve paid for but bread supplies have …

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GB NEWS and the Millionaire owned Press

Millionaire newspaper owners should have to account for their wealth to their readers and give accounts of how they avoid paying wealth tax...and how all of that affects their political bias and distorted spin on news stories.Aye because printing bias right wing News- forming opinions, capturing minds and propoganda is more of a political project, than a commercial one.Profit isn’t always reaped in the form of money but forming opinions, capturing minds and propoganda.Generating revenue has fallen out of fa…

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Corbyn not allowed to stand as a labour candidate

So Jeremy Corbyn is not allowed to stand as a labour candidate in his own constituency by Sir Keir Starmer (Steer Calmer) for criticising the Israeli government, while Israelis themselves are marching + protesting against their own right-wing Israeli government. Are those Israeli protesters also anti Semitic? Corbin was elected 10 consecutive times in his constituency.

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The Football Commentator Cried

This monologue with a sound collage... I made back in the 1980's...during the 'Falkland'/Malvina's war. 'The Commentator Cried' is for Gary Lineker and to celebrate the solidarity of the other Footballers who came out with him in support of the plight of Refugees everywhere. The Commentator Cried Gary Lineker never gave the Tories a £400,000 donation, set up an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson or stood as a Conservative council candidate. But the people who did are lecturing him on the need for impartiality …

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Hohner Crossover Harmonicas.

I'm often asked what kind/brand of harmonica I play. There are many great playable brands and models on the market. I recommend Hohner Diatonic Crossover Harmonicas. It's an improvement of the wooden Marine Band harmonica I played for years. I like the laminated bamboo wooden combs because they don't swell when they get wet and dry, they are more stable. Tone-wise I personally prefer wood to plastic or metal. Lighter and more comfortable to hold in my hand. The crossover itself has a bright tone. The sound…

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Memories of Mick McGarry

A heartbreaking devastating loss… A toast, ten toasts, more toasts.Mick lifted a song up high…long live our memories of Mick - and enjoy all the new ones we make…ones that join us all closer together and strengthen us. Hugs, never let go too soon hugs, tight deeply held.Wishing Mary Dan and Joanne strength… you’ll both have lots of difficult emotions to unravel and share between you all.Blessings to Mick and all of us who’ll miss him. hope I’ll be down your way sometime soon.

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Gary Lineker and the BBC's impartiality!

Gary Lineker never gave the Tories a £400,000 donation, set up an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson or stood as a Conservative council candidate. But the people who did are lecturing him on the need for impartiality at the BBC. So a tweet from @GaryLineker has done more damage to the BBC's impartiality, than your chairman who sorted an £800,000 loan for Boris Johnson? I agree with Stormzy when he said: ‘ How do you know when a government is absolutely unfit to lead? When footballers have to hold them to accou…

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Michell Mone

What is she flaunting or glorifying…But her spoils from ill-gotten taxpayer's money. Ugly glittery polished shite-lifeless - dining room hell-Expensive and stilted. Is this supposed to be the kind of ‘paradise ‘ that Tories promise? Her idea of paradise looks like a mafia drug baron’s castle den- ex props from a hammer horror film-like she bought all this from a catalogue as quickly as she could with plundered money frivolously spent as quickly as it was stolen from us taxpayers before the law could make he…

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A Place For William Blake

Hello friends.I Want to please ask a smallish favour for my good friend Simon. He is working with a group who are passionately trying to make the case for turning the only London residency of William and Catherine Blake into an arts and education centre in his name. The last remaining London residence in which William and Catherine Blake lived and worked for 17 years and where the iconic works ‘Milton’ and ‘Jerusalem’ were created, is part of the South Molton Triangle redevelopment plan commencing 2023. As …

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Mohammed Bin Salman

Terrible scarey despotic regime -a feudalistic kingdom that the UK sell arms to - using sports washing to launder its reputation. Interesting word. The fact that ‘Sorcery and witchcraft are up for the death penalty says a lot about the controlling medieval ideology! Here in the UK. politicians don’t like to bring up the 'awkward' subject of human rights and free speech… unless it’s the Chinese- but not Oil field owning, The soccer club owning, golf tournament organising sponsors the Saudi ruling class! The …

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Testing six battery powered Busking Amps on tour

My 2023 National UK tour is about to begin in June. Some of this Tour will involve playing on the streets in the open air and in the middle of fields at rural music festivals. Before I go, I hoped and planned to test six battery-powered busking amplifiers available in the U.K. to examine and compare to find which might be most suitably the best. I hope to examine, test and compare : Coolmusic BP80. Roland Cube-Street EX. Joyo BSK 60. Bose S1 Pro. AER Compact 60. Cube street Boss2... I'm hoping I can get ho…

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Film 'FINITE'

I recommend this documentary about direct climate action.You can pay to view it through the Landworkers alliance it’s only available for another couple of days.It’s a raw, authentic and emotional insight into the David and Goliath battle between frontline communities, activists and fossil fuel corporations.Two parallel stories One in Germany to save a forest and a community in County Durham who are forced into action to protect their homes from a new opencast coal mine.Forget bringing back ‘National service…

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Remembering Jeremy Hardy

Remembering Jeremy Hardy who died 4 years ago. Jeremy was accessible interested and a thoughtful Lovely caring man-with such an intelligent sharp skill blending humour and laughter with politics and human rights… deeply missed by many of us . I fondly recall Singing and Playing at a refugee benefit gig in the mid 80s with two Jeremy’s Hardy and Corbyn and Michael Rosen- at the Union Chapel. Recalling Jeremy’s humour:“People say I’m self-deprecating,” he’d say, “but I don’t think I’m very good at that.”Jerem…

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Crailling Orchard Wassail

Just had a Wassail at our community Orchard today. I made a song 8 years ago for the Orchard. I was working with a singing group to strengthen the choruses. Kids were playing Pots and pans and a leading us all on a procession weaving through the trees and tapping them as we passed hanging toast soaked in apple juice on the tree -there was no audience because everyone 50+ people were joining in- living in the lusty moment. That’s what the plan was anyways. It went well. Apple cakes apple biscuits apple salad…

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Walking Ramblers rights

Walking allows us to talk to each other on a deeply personal level. From 1 January there will be only 2 years left to add rights of way on to the definitive map (the legal record of rights of way) on the basis of historical evidence.https://www.ramblers.org.uk/.../how-to-claim-an...In order to make a claim for a right of way based on public use, the law (section 31 of the Highways Act 1980) requires that you're able to show all of the following: A period of at least 20 years' uninterrupted use by the public…

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Ode to A Mouse

One of my favourite Rabbie Burns ‘poyems’. I hear it as Capturing a more humble and sensitive relationship that we need universally between ‘man’ and nature 'Ode To a Mouse' On Turning her up in her Nest, with the Plough, November 1785. ‘Wee, sleekit, cowrin, tim’rous beastie, O, what a panic’s in thy breastie! Thou need na start awa sae hasty, Wi’ bickering brattle! I wad be laith to rin an’ chase thee, Wi’ murdering pattle! I’m truly sorry Man’s dominion Has broken Nature’s social union, An’ justifies tha…

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Palestinian foreign minister says Israel has revoked his travel permit

Boycott Israeli goods. We should demand this from all the retailers. Remember Dublin Eire in 1984- The Dunnes workers who protested against apartheid and met Desmond Tutu. The shop workers - female cashiers -refusing to handle a South African grapefruit, and ending with a ban on the importation of South African fruit and vegetables by the Irish Government. Starts small. From little things big things grow…. Palestinian foreign minister says Israel has revoked his travel permit

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The Right to Strike

The wealthy have been assisted by their friends in the Tory government all along- whether it’s by not introducing windfall tax or giving their rich party donor chums lucrative P.P.R contracts- but our only way of helping ourselves- as working people is as being part of union and fighting together for each other. This millionaire oligarch prime minister is trying to stop us-I might be accused of waging class warfare- but here in the UK there isn’t a party who embodies class warfare more than this Nationalist…

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Thank You for my Birthday Blessings

Friends Thank you all for your birthday blessings and wishes. Long life, health and joy to you all. Tight Brotherly hugs. Strength -excitement and power to your passions - much love- see you when I’m looking at you- somewhere this year - around a fire- in a field- a bar - kitchen -living room- a cuppa- in the middle of a dance- a rhythm- a song- laughter… guffaws XX

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Andrew Tate

Some army training teaches hyper-masculinity, misogyny, racism, and a hatred of other cultures.These publicity seeking bawbags believe that attracting comments and controversy is the key to success-they say ‘you want arguments, you want war.’ The right wing press feed their arrogance. they have a psychopathic self belief in their own superiority.We’ve witnessed the bullying racist by misogynist Clarkson, a forging rabid dog and It seems some like him and that other bloke ‘what’s his face’ cannot tolerate a …

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Chiles elected popular unity government president Allende’s overthrow by CIA. ‘Anniversary’

Chiles elected popular unity government president Allende’s overthrow by CIA. ‘Anniversary’ I recall thinking when Corbyn was Labour Party leader and doing well that we would have to be vigilant so that some kind of 'coup didn't take place if we won the election with Corbyn, the kind of powers that sabotaged the economy who brought down the Allende government in Chile and Gough Whitlam in Australia and the ejected government in Grenada. There would have been those out to sabotage, maybe military involvement…

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Rightwing think tanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC

Right-wing think tanks run this government. But first, they had to capture the BBC Why are representatives of these shadily funded groups treated as impartial observers on flagship news programmes? ideas by the dark money think tanks, believed their assurances that the magic of an unregulated market and tax cuts for the very rich would trigger an economic boom. At one point, the BBC said it wasn’t necessary to tell the audience that an MP arguing against climate action was the director of an oil company bec…

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Land stolen by the British to grow Tea

People were uprooted from their ancestral land after British colonialists conducted soil tests, which found that Indigenous people lived in the very fertile land, ideal for growing tea. The colonialists forcefully evicted the clans who had lived there for generations, and unleashed horrific violence on them, in order to subdivide the land and sell it for tea plantations. 200,000 acres of the ancestral land are still owned by several British tea companies, including Lipton – which was owned by Unilever until…

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Apple Picking

We -6 of us-Picked some 45 boxes of apples from our crailing community orchard- (addendum - between Jedburgh and Kelso) last Tuesday morning- ready for apple day this Sunday ‘Ashmead Kernels, discoveries, Pitcairn pineapples, white Melrose, Ardcairn russets, black Mickey’s, and more…

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King Charles could sell the Family Silver to save the planet.

It is no wonder that Charles backs renewable energy. Aside from vast acres of wild lands suitable for onshore wind, the estate owns most of the British foreshore to a distance of 12 miles – perfect for selling leases for offshore wind, tidal and wave power.Charles could happily dispose of most of the many thousands of great diamonds, rubies and other jewels that have been handed personally to royalty over 200 years without anyone caring. The billions of pounds raised from such a sale could be used to establ…

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We should Renationalise the Royal Mail!

We should Renationalise the Royal Mail! The profitable Royal Mailwas sold cheap/Privatised a few years ago. The Tories bankers Socialise the debt and privatise the profit. Yet capitalists always want socialism to help when things go bad-bailing out banks and companies that fail with public money.Sovereignty is a myth ...after many years of Tory privatisation. It’s not about sovereignty. It’s not about taking back control. It’s not about British values or British autonomy. It’s about locking deregulation and…

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Energy prices are so high With Dried Horse Dung you can make fuel bricks.

Don’t put the cart before the horse use a shovel behind it. A tradition in some countries is Dried or drying horse/cow Dung you can make fuel bricks. We had a log maker in Orkney- (still, have one) where there are few trees and little wood apart from driftwood on beaches, went foraging old newspapers from the recycle dump…soaking them and pressing them into paper bricks those handmade logs would last an hour. Also Foraged the fields for sheep dung to make a ‘compost tea’ by mixing it with water and waiting……

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Exposing BP's Scandalous Greenwashing

BP just announced more profits.UK Shell Oil have just announced a further doubling of their profits.£8bn profits in just 13 weeks. A profit rate of £3.6 million every hour.Exxon alone reported a profit of $17.9B—the highest quarterly profit reported by any oil company in history—while Chevron reported $11.6B, Shell reported $11.47B, & BP reported $8.45BThis is why all these companies fight against Renewables. A windfall tax on “buyback” profit transfers by Shell and BP alone could raise £4.8 billion per yea…

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Surreal News sensation. The Art world is reeling. Another painting discovered to have been hanging upside down since 1797!

A photograph has been discovered of the most visited, the most written about, the most sung about painting the Mona Lisa. Hanging in Leonardo Da Vinci’s studio, a photo taken a few days after the artist invented the helicopter and the camera and then published in the Italian lifestyle magazine Pueblo y Campesino in June 1503. It also shows the same picture sitting on an easel the other way up. Proving that Mona Lisa was in fact a trapeze artist and acrobat suspended in the air…Smiling… we can see…beaming… b…

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Lula Wins the Brazilian Election.

Lula wins the Brazilian election. Great news though Bolsonaro isn’t the kind of man who is going to concede graciously… like Trump… will he want a recount?Vigilance is needed. Watch out for another coup…The kind of powers that sabotaged the economy who brought down the Allende government in Chile and Gough Whitlam in Australia-and the ejected government in Grenada.The rich corporations are not going to sit back and let Lula achieve their goals and implement their manifesto without a fight.The words thwart-s…

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Hancock on TV celebrity Pantomime

Matt Hancock must be one of the few men who hasn’t seen his lifestyle change since social distancing was introduced.Going on a TV celebrity pantomime show makes you wonder if he’s canvassing- and why… it Shows him as he always was- a corrupt,calamitous Tory bampot, Slapstick Clown -with a poverty of ambition -and an emotional commitment to ignorance... he’s living proof of the Tories Dumbing down...greed and selfishness -while blindly trusting in his own self importance and messing everyone’s lives up.I’m S…

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Tory Party Comfortable for Fascists

So the Tory Party has become a place in which people associated with extreme right wing, even fascist organisations can settle in comfortably - and become local councillors, until they are found out. Who would have guessed that this could happen in the party of the Hostile Environment, which has maintained formal alliances in European bodies with antisemitic, Islamophobic, anti-Roma, anti-refugee movements and parties and does so still today as the largest representative body in the "European Conservatives …

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Stop Brexit badge

A woman who had a 'Stop Brexit' sticker on her laptop had to scratch it off to be allowed in Parliament. Perhaps They might allow me into Parliament if I wear my ‘I support this Domain of the Self-seeking-Etonian supremacists-‬ ‪Organised-privileged-gangsters’ badge.‬ I’ve sacked my ethics advisors.

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Rishi Sunak Mathematics Explained=

If I had to describe myself in three words I would say... 'Not very good at maths’

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Labours Latest Purge

It's hard to win when you have both the Tories and your own party working against you. And the millionaire press demonising you. While the Labour party are Scrabbling for Tory votes, Left-wing Jews are being expelled from the Labour party! Jewish voice for Labour have said in a statement, “In suspending and then expelling Naomi Wimborne-Idrissi the party has disenfranchised the thousands of members who elected her to the National Executive Committee. They have been deprived of her voice as one of the nine d…

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Wandering through the singing gates...

Here's a video musical idea I had… some years ago...made from a collection of gates I've come across on walks that I opened and closed and listened to... I filmed with my phone camera...image and sound, then I playfully edited footage together to create/orchestrate melodic phrases, rhythmic patterns with the real untreated sound of squeaking gates opening...and also celebrating those particular locations. A playful experiment. All sounds are real, they are untreated as videos recorded onto my phone. I comb…

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Assange

Assange I am a bit confused here. Quite rightly there should be trials for war crimes in Ukraine. What I don't understand is that Julian Assange exposed war crimes perpetrated by the USA but instead of trials of the perpetrators, he got put in prison for it. Remembering the Iraqi children who were killed by the U.S. military Why do they call the killing of innocent Iraqis classified information? So they protect the troops first before civilians! They have an issue with the people's lives "he put at risk" bu…

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I'm all for supporting profits … I'm not for supporting greed at the cost of lives of others.

It is time for change: Well after today’s announcement from the Bank of England, there is something very, very, very wrong with the system... 😡 So … let me get this straight: * British Gas made a profit of £1.3bn between January & June * BP announced profits of £6.95 billion between April and June alone * Shell has profited by £9.4bn in a year The MEN at the top: * John Pettigrew, boss of National Grid received a £6.5m bonus on top of his salary * Chris O’Shea, chief executive of British Gas owner Centrica…

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Fracking - Government bulldozing local democracy

Fracking Liz Truss is also reportedly set to announce she is scrapping the ban on fracking which was introduced in 2019!! Theresa May promised to give control back to the people, yet her Government rode roughshod over the Lancashire community’s opposition to fracking. it is clear to all that this government neither listens nor can be trusted, to do the right thing for local communities. We were supposed to phase out fossil fuels !! Paris Agreement and COP. (Conference of Polluters.) The government’s decisio…

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Private water companies are taking the piss and giving us shite

The Penalties for the polluting- affluent water- waste companies should be higher- they're taking the piss- giving us shite - effluence - Sovereignty is a myth ...after many years of Tory privatisation. It’s not about sovereignty. It’s not about taking back control. It’s not about British values or British autonomy. It’s about locking deregulation and the demolition of public services in place, by means that cannot be challenged by either people or parliament The list goes on and on... -- Water companies --…

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Why do we make these songs?

5 October 22 We make these songs…record them then wonder what we’ve done them for…sometimes we know...to celebrate our love, articulate anger illuminate and ruffle feathers…stimulate discussion…confront injustices… when we have few gigs... if any... at which to sing them… We sometimes make songs in the hope that someone will be able to use them…sing them and…feel strengthened, less alone…in good company…inspired…cheered up…warmed by…dance to.

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The Battle of Cable Street anniversary.

2nd October 22. The Battle of Cable Street anniversary. My grandma's brother-my great uncle Joe was a wrestler. He fought under the name of ‘Joe Gold.’ I discovered that He and other Jewish wrestlers, who grew up together in the housing estates there (Rothschilds Buildings) and others stood at the barricades as vigilantes at The Battle of Cable Street against the black shirts to stop them coming through. Fight against Islamaphobia fascism and all racism.

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Metric versus imperial -ism

I’m now going to need to grow extra fingers on each hand with which to count. The USA often uses both metric and imperial, so if a conversion is missed, buildings can end up with major structural flaws! It’s numerical Babel! NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was designed to study Mars from orbit and to serve as a communications relay for the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space probes. The mission was unsuccessful due to a navigation error caused by a failure to translate English units to metric. The sun has suddenly…

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Torys promising tax cuts for the wealthy.

All the Torys promising tax cuts for the wealthy. This self-serving government can only afford to waste OUR taxes on THEIR personal interests and investments. They paid £370,000 of public money to keep the truth about Priti Patel hidden from the public. Arse about tit. A Nurse starts on £25k, an MP £82k + expenses. One deals with shit... and the other creates it. Why is it always the wages of people at the bottom that are “unaffordable” and never the wages of people at the top? Because Those same MPs who vo…

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Why cancel Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy?

Why cancel Tchaikovsky, Dostoyevsky and Tolstoy? Is it because cancelling those artists is going to end the war and save lives? Or is it really Because Culture humanises people? So they’re banning or cancelling culture because dehumanising people is ‘necessary’ for war. After all, demonisation and racism are necessary to create our enemies for us -to turn them into monsters- so we can kill them more easily? Is this why?I’m also reminded here of Wagner… who was anti-semitic and revered by Hitler's Nazis... D…

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Streaming platforms, royalties for fake artists, Why My music is not on Spotify/apple.

Streaming platforms, royalties for fake artists. Interesting article One of the reasons why My music is not on Spotify/apple. I’ve avoided the 'Spotifies' and 'I tunes' streaming and download sites ....and I am holding out by selling downloads and CDs through my ‘archaic’ online shop.... to remain Independent and not be ripped off.....though some mates have told me that I should go with those ‘big Boys’ and corporate stores... that ...not to....is like being in that tiny Wee shop that people have to venture…

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Boris Johnson saving his own Skin.

We’re being told by the ‘comfortable’ to forget Boris Johnson’s crimes because there’s a war in Ukraine. The only thing Johnson is trying to save is his own skin. There’s a war at home here- a war of economics - with other kinds of war criminals- and ‘victims’-yet we didn’t declare it…

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Free Speech, Protest, Censorship and Disinformation and Double standards

Their disinformation campaigns aren’t enough for them…their twisting of facts and bias…speech can be taken out of context. The Governments wish to silence criticism- From Putin to Netanyahu to the UK government. They don’t want debate. Our government don’t like to bring up the 'awkward' subject of human rights and free speech unless it’s the Chinese- not The Saudis but Putins, not Israeli nuclear whistle-blower Vanunu- not Assange- Don't criticise the Chinese- the benevolent Chinese government- when they’r…

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Sectarianism in Northern Ireland

Northern Ireland is continually seen through the prism of Protestant v. Catholic and Unionist v. Nationalist, but this was never the whole picture and gets less accurate by the day. The province like everywhere in the UK has experienced secularisation, the decline of religion and the retreat of churches. And a bare majority of voters see themselves as either Unionist or Nationalist (53%) with nearly half the province thinking of themselves in other terms.

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Ukrainian Refugees

27 Feb 22 Thinking of Our Jewish Grandma who was just 9 months old when she and her brother were brought over from Zhytomyr Ukraine to East London before the Russian Revolution. Where she was raised with the rest of her 7 siblings who were born here. She Came from where Ukrainians are fleeing now. As refugees... I hope they’re made welcome here. (the majority of ones who aren't fascists of course) Our existence today derives from chance, courage and the kindness of strangers then. Poland can manage it. Why …

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The value of Knighthoods?

If Knighthoods can be bought… if knighthoods can also be used to buy people… then what are they worth when given to a champion fool with a selfish cavalier attitude towards poverty? With a ‘Gallantry’ expressed only to the fortunate wealthy and the well off. A knighthood awarded by Boris johnson to Gavin Williamson the man who refused to extend into the holidays food vouchers for poorer children during lockdown, and refused them free school meals. The man whose Decisions were reversed after pressure from th…

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Cover band-Job application to pubs

Some Folk music traditionalists might say I’m not traditional enough. Rock lovers might prefer that I should plug in my acoustic guitar to a tower of amps. I tell jazz lovers I am 'Traditional-Avant-Garde,' You’ll find me in the ‘difficult listening’ section of that one record shop left in your area for 100 miles… Or in the ‘Independant and stubborn’ section…! Punks might say I’m singing too much about feelings, relationships… Tories will say that I’m too political…But Isn’t it just as political to ignore p…

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Russia, Johnson and Lebedev ‪

Johnson and Lebedev ‪ It’s the lies behind the lies- within the lies containing the lies- concealing the lies-like Russian dolls.‬ 25 Feb 22 The Tories are the primary recipients of Russian cash. The UK has been bought and paid for. Also, the Brexit leave campaign. Brexit was a big one. Very good for Russia as it weakened the EU and destroyed the UK. While The Oligarchs gain Access to the upper echelons of British society. The same thing attracted Nazis to British upper-class society in the 1930s. By becomi…

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Anti Zionism does not mean Anti Semitic.

23 Feb 2020 Jews against apartheid. Jews against Zionism…. Jews against Tories…. When Zionists call someone a self-hating Jew (for being anti-Zionist) they are stripping a left-wing, Socialist Jew of their identity in a sustained anti-Semitic attack on them for political gain. Anti-racists are being accused by racists of being racist… I know there are conservative Tory Jews. I would argue with them against their Tory beliefs and ideology, not because of their race. I would argue and fight against any racist…

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22-2-22 and Numerology

22-2-22 I shall wear my two-two…Today Take more than Two shakes A brace of ripe juicy pears Twin myself with another town country and river. Cure my numerical blindness and Dyscalculia… Though measuring wildness, gauging irregular heartbeats... then... ‘cutting up time into divisions… cycles of suns and moons - day and night...makes me wonder -Where do we decide to place our ruler? Set- our watches? - Start our calendars?

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Cressida Dick Racism and misogyny in the Met Police force.

Whoever replaces Cressida Dick has to break the culture of racism and misogyny that has dominated not just the Met but every police force up and down the country. But a lot of the officers below her…in the chain, haven't exactly done anything to stop these things either, they'll continue in their roles, senior roles, continuing to cover up for each other and stay hidden in the shadows, There should be a complete clear-out of senior officers because SHE did not operate alone. She clearly had allies. These of…

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Why our energy prices have gone up!

Why our energy prices have gone up! Yesterday Tory energy minister Kwasi Kwartang was fulminating about North Sea oil and gas, in order to be fear-mongering about Britain's "energy security" and the danger of having to rely on "imports from abroad". The problem with Kwartang's little "energy security" narrative is that it's entirely at odds with reality. During the energy crisis profiteering private energy companies have massively increased natural gas exports out of the UK, because private corporations are…

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Zelensky Ukrainian Sovereignty - Palestine and Sovereignty

One of President Volodymyr Zelensky’s first acts was to withdraw the Ukraine from the United Nations Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People. It reminds us that Ukrainian’s president gave full support for Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip!

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Who funds Colonialism and Fascism?

Who funds Colonialism and Fascism? Where does The money come from? And Where does it go? War is a capitalistic Business by other means... How capitalism has toppled governments And undermines democracy. Fascism Is Here… And fascists have money financed by big business donors. Its old hidden mantra is ‘profit before people.’ I recall Grenada, Chile, Gough Whitlam- Iran, Syria, and the French connection-many-see below. Here’s a recent US threat against labour’s socialist Jeremy Corbyn. https://youtu.be/Lwl87…

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Johnson and Truss are to diplomacy what King Herod was to childcare.

Sicut quidam dixit Johnson et truss hebdomade ultima sunt diplomata quae Herodes rex erat tutricorum. Or-As someone said last week -Johnson and Truss are to diplomacy what King Herod was to childcare. Job offer. Wanted for cabinet reshuffle. willing and directed ‘Plants,’ fledgling stooges and ‘aspiring Tory politicians’ with scripted bias…to toe the line- everythingophobia “Let’s talk about cheese, and wine again.” “Let’s talk about cheese, and wine again.” “Let’s talk about cheese, and wine again.” “Let’s…

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How many Conservative MPs does it take to change a light bulb?

How many Conservative MPs does it take to change a light bulb? We need to change the question instead of blaming the lightbulb. Ask How many Tories it takes to screw the electorate- to keep the public in the dark… while being allowed to commit daylight robbery? Tories shouldn’t be left anywhere near power!

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Boris Johnson’s oven ready. Chicken Kyiv!

Boris Johnson’s oven ready. Chicken Kyiv! Johnson- Rushing to Ukraine is a show-a sham performance diversion and ‘distraction’ from his own law-breaking and the shite mess he’s left at home- an act- to impersonate the role of a ‘statesman’ - when really he’s an inept, lethal liar, a bull in a China shop-worse than Neville Chamberlain- he’s an amateur-dangerous racist sociopath. Looking for a Belgrano to sink. The only thing Johnson is trying to save is his own skin. Just as Johnson's intervention as foreign…

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Regarding the theory that plants are probably more intelligent than most of us humans.

Regarding the theory that plants are probably more intelligent than most of us humans. Regarding the theory that plants are probably more intelligent than most of us humans. True -some of us are in denial of our ignorance with our feet planted firmly in quicksand- blinded by the science of our own navels. Artificial intelligence is no match for natural stupidity. ‘My mind is made up-don’t confuse me with facts.’ Smoke signals will become the method of communication, as Government politicians will soon put n…

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The play ‘The White Handkerchief’ to commentate Bloody Sunday.

The play ‘The White Handkerchief’ is sold out but it’s live online tonight at 8pm 💚 to commentate Bloody Sunday. A day carved into history, a day for many families that feels like just a moment ago. The White Handkerchief is an impassioned, sensitive, reverent elegy; a major new drama premiering live across the world on Bloody Sunday’s 50th Anniversary. Book and Lyrics by Liam Campbell. Music by Brian O’Doherty. Directed by Kieran Griffiths. Produced by the Playhouse. Tickets for this show in The Guildhall…

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Calum Morrisson Stromness RIP

Jan 25 22 Calum Goodbye lovely friend such a loss. I think of you with so much fondness beautiful man - I can’t believe you've gone. Stromness will not be the same without you. I had hoped to see you again so much.. You are a rare treasure of a man… soulful brother…I’d not spoken with you lately… we always had much to talk about. We both talked about painting the arts, politics, direct action, philosophising over a drink or two- not always agreeing- but underneath all of that was the warm humanity I felt we…

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My Birthday

Thank You all for my birthday good wishes blessings and love. I enjoyed reading them. 💚❤️ Thank you for thinking of me and making me feel loved…we all need that for sure. 🖤💛 Love back to you, blessings, health and joy. Hope I’ll see you again sooner than later. XX Rory Rory and trike photo

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Agnes Varda Film

Agnes varda film A different kind of love story between age and youth-about meeting people and celebrating their lives. Enjoyed this Lovely playful film about keeping memory alive using photography magnifying people- Giant mural photographs bill board size. 💚 (better than adverts selling you ‘things’) Another Film I'd recommend is Agnes Varda's ‘The Gleaners’

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Privatising Our NHS

Our NHS Rishi Sunak himself was meeting US Private Healthcare bosses only last month regarding contracts within the NHS This a reminder that the Tories voted AGAINST the formation of the NHS over 20 times. The Lib Dems also voted against Action is needed This Tory government are doing it by stealth, bit by bit. Deliberately underfunding the NHS to create a crisis to look like more and more privatisation is the only answer. Arse about tit. A Nurse starts on £25k an MP £82k + expenses. One deals with shit, th…

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A Chinese Spy? A 5 Year Old Story!

A Chinese Spy? 5-year-old story… A little diversion here, a sprinkle of distraction there... How come MI5 didn't feel the need to warn about Israel doing the same thing? Patel was making secret deals with the Israeli government - meetings that were secretly arranged by a prominent Israel lobbyist. Patel whose role is to serve the government in a nonpartisan fashion. The meetings were “arranged by” Israel lobbyist Stuart Polak, a member of Britain’s unelected upper chamber, the House of Lords. Patel was accu…

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Millionaire owned Newspapers

Russian Oligarchs Australian or US. oligarchs and U.K tax dodging billionaires‬ shouldn’t be allowed to own British Newspapers.

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The American Taliban - Abortion Rights and Guns

Keep religion out of Politics, if you don’t want an abortion, don’t get one. Freedom of religion is “Hey that’s against my religion, so I can’t do that” NOT “Hey that’s against my religion so YOU can’t do that.” What are Republican ‘pro-lifers’ saying? "Don't kill the fetus, wait until it can walk and talk before you murder it!" 'Forced birthers' taking us back to feudalism. Christian fascists who embrace the death penalty, vote against child health and welfare measures, who sit on their hands when schoolch…

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I’ve just tested positive for Covid

I’ve just tested positive… for the very first time with my flow test! 😐 My PCR test result taken yesterday is also ‘positive’. I’ve not been anywhere much at all for a wee while. But I had Just come back from a swim- and received news from someone who’d been visiting -they stayed 3 nights and ate with us…then Told us Monday evening she had just tested positive…so to check-I did a flow test again and tested ‘positive’. I wondered why I’d felt tired and thought it was the hour’s swimming. I had begun feeling…

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The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster by Brian W. Lavery

Tight-knit communities like this are what we need more and more today. Great women. Stories told that need to be heard. The Headscarf Revolutionaries: Lillian Bilocca and the Hull Triple-Trawler Disaster. Is a Book written by Brian W. Lavery The harsh seas of 1968. Three trawlers from Hull's fleet sink in just 3 weeks. 58 Dead. 1 Survivor. Enough is enough. Lilian Bilocca put down her filleting knife, picked up some sheets of paper and stormed into action. She started with a petition and this journey takes …

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Ry Cooder, David Lindley Chicken Skin Music

Glorious band… soulful music I recall seeing Ry’s Chicken Skin music play in Hamburg when I was a young pup- living and playing there in the late 70s… wonderful… always loved his playful syncopations in his style… and that he used backing singers Bobby King Eldridge King and Terry Evans and others… soul music- 👍🏼 It was always an honour to play with Ry- Flacco and David Lindley at Glastonbury one year - and again on stage with Ali Farke Toure. Dave Lindley was a lovely-open-accessible person… jamming with…

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Tory Broken Promises

Promises kept? I recall promises of more money for our NHS. empty waffling lies and usual promises. When promises were made myths were created promises were believed. There were other agendas…with no morals...squirming between smirks... giving optimistic speechifying, simplistic slogans, and false promises…fudged decisions… When people fear the loss of what they know... They will follow any tyrant who promises to restore the old order. Johnson backtracked on the Heathrow runway... he promised himself to li…

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Happy New Year

December 31st May your candles burn brighter from both ends... but still last as long as ever. May your kindling be dry and your warm fires blaze. Happy new year health love and joy to you- to those you love-and who love you ... hugs X ❤️💚💛🖤 Cheers for Ceilidh dancing. here’s to tunes songs… fireside sessions and getting tangled in a lusty heady Ceilidh. Yes yes Yes. I think that creating and sharing laughter is a profound gift So Yes… yes and always Yes, No?💚

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RNLI. All Lives are sacred.

7th december 2021 RNLI. All Lives are sacred. Under the Emergency Workers (Obstruction) Act 2006, preventing a lifeboat worker from carrying out their duties is an offence punishable by an “unlimited” fine” Mobs blocking the RNLI in Hastings are feeling Emboldened by an institutionally racist xenophobic government- thinking it legitimised their racist views. Mobs blocking the RNLI in Hastings are feeling Emboldened by an institutionally racist xenophobic government- and by the Brexit vote- thinking it legit…

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Nightingale Hospital was only built for photo opportunities.

So Nightingale Hospital was only built for photo opportunities. just warehouses with no equipment- no proper ventilation and no staff It was just A PR stunt! Staff are still unavailable, after the Tory cull and Brexit -there are not enough people to staff it. There aren't enough staff in the NHS to fill the existing jobs. To add more beds we need more staff. To add more hospitals we need more staff. To add more staff we need more training & better pay… Instead of paying doctors and nurses an absolute pitta…

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Sam Cooke Change is gonna come

One of my all time favourite songs…. It’s Timeless beauty fills my heart and Soul…with a Storm of emotions… 💚❤️🖤💛 Sam cooke Change is gonna come

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Spike Jones

Spike Jones became bored playing the same music each night with orchestras. He found other like-minded musicians and they-The City Slickers- began playing parodies comic arrangements of standard songs for their own entertainment. Sometimes tunes and songs punctuated with gunshots, whistles, cowbells, hiccups, burps breaking bottles and exploding firecrackers with Spike leaping around playing a washboard, cowbells, a suite of klaxons and foghorns, then xylophone, then shooting a pistol. The Musical Depreciat…

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Dominic Cummings - Who is the puppeteer behind the puppeteer?

As much as I’m happy to know the sordid truth I’m Wondering why Machiavellian unelected puppeteer Cummings didn’t expose these Tory lies at the time... why only now ...? Motive? Is this eugenicist settling an old score for vengeance, retribution, Nemesis and to gain an advantage by distancing himself from what he’s known all along and was part of? Cummings Who secretly amended old blogs. To make it appear that he'd warned us all years ago, yet was so massively unprepared and slow to react himself. Who mutat…

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Some captions to add to the photo anyone?

Some captions to add to the photo, anyone? ‘The horse had bolted… nowhere could he find it.’ ‘Self-seeking Bojo Searching for his own humanity.’ ‘Scientists were recruited and funded to undermine Science with more science.’ “People are always shocked when they discover I'm also not a qualified electrician.” B. Johnson. ‘After discovering that secret money tree after giving rich friends a tax cut-after finding millions to build an expensive yacht- He searched his pockets- looked Everywhere-he seemed to look…

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Eton denies the existence of any white privilege -and accuses State schools of holding white kids back.’

‘BREAKING NEWS: Eton denies the existence of any white privilege and accuses State schools of holding white kids back.’ It’s Divide and Rule White privilege does exist. It's just that the rich mostly white privileged Etonians who run the country are holding back working-class white kids too. Racism is a factor here-it’s ethnic minorities and the black community that suffer… minorities are more likely to be in the struggling "class." And Look at Tory Dido who is pitching to make NHS not reliant on Foreigners…

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Grenfell Tower is still a crime scene

Grenfell Tower is still a crime scene and there are offences of corporate manslaughter regarding 'Ceoltex 'the plastic combustible insulation industry and the Tory government’s obsession with privatisation that led to fraudulent rigged testing and approval mechanisms not being thorough.

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Johnson meets with antisemite Hungarian leader Orban.

image.png This is an insult to the GRT, Jewish & Muslim and LGBTQ+-ers communities under attack from Orban’s Government... Victor Orban is an antisemite- Holocaust revisionist- who speaks of "Muslim invaders," who gerrymandered voting districts in a move that helped him remain in power. Who said in 2019 “We don't want Hungary to be a diverse country. We want to be how we were 1,100 years ago," harking back with nostalgia to that ‘golden era’...known as the Dark Ages! Johnson met Viktor Orban But he wouldn't…

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Photos from a history of being black and British, The Windrush generation.

Neil Kenlock one of the photographers here Wind rush Photos: I was collecting together some museum and archive photographs and thought I’d share them here...stories Of British black communities from the Caribbean, many of Who left their homes and families and arrived in Britain. Since the Home Office didn’t keep proper records, or the records that they had were destroyed, it’s been difficult for immigrants from the Windrush period to prove that they’re in the UK legally. The onus to prove that they were in…

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Boris Johnson, COP, (conference of Polluters) Economics over safety, Health, ecology. "Nothing to do with me"

Boris Johnson Tory Prime minister says he is "not in favour" of a proposed UK coal mine, but that the decision "is not mine to make"! A Waffling load of wordy codswallop and bunkum…failed virtue signalling. Local council county decision? Rubbish! Johnson’s Public open letter was more an election speech- some kind of display and self righteous detached signalling- pretending some high mindedness - it’s parleying- it’s not discussion or any kind of mediation to solve a problem. I recall The vote against frack…

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Organised Working people

Just as the Tory government of organised greed...are organised together with Tory party business donors are organised and the millionaire Tory press is organised... Working people also need to be organised... X💚

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Immigrants are not taking our jobs

Immigrants/strangers always get the blame for every crime that ever happens and even more in these days of xenophobic Brexit and fascist politicians and presidents. Immigrants are not taking Our jobs... In Cornwall Daffodill farmers needed pickers Those farmers didn’t want to employ British Cornish locals... my friends tried to get work there... those Farmers illegally employed cheaper foreign labour... who worked in shite conditions....those migrants didn’t know better... the farmers refuse to pay the mini…

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I love Accordions

I enjoy accordions especially the deep crackling buzz of the bass notes. I love the warmth and colour of accordions reeds. There are so many different kinds of accordions in the world... playing all kinds of music... with different accents and rhythms.When I was a kid I didn't know about accordions. I would have tried one...if I had...known what they were. The suck and blow...free flowing reeds (pull and push bellows) were inspired by the ancient bamboo Sheng ...a 3000 year old Chinese instrument. This is a…

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Jeremy Corbyn isn’t Anti Semitic.

Jeremy Corbyn isn’t Anti Semitic. I'm against racism and antisemitism...I am the proud grandson of my Maternal Russian Jewish grandma I am not a 'self-hating Jew' though that is what Zionists would call a Jew who is against Zionism. I know there are conservative Tory Jews-I would argue with them against their Tory ideology, not because of their race. I would argue and fight against any racist views a Jewish person held against Moslems or blacks not because they were Jewish but because they held racist view…

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Why I write and post Blogs

I might write these blogs to work something out in my head, in response to something that has happened by something triggered in my memory Or to share something I've read. It might be an article or a political or current news story that isn’t covered by our main news outlets... Mostly they're my own rantings and political opinions. Or, like my Road diaries, they were moments I was part of… events I was witnessing. There are more than two sides to a story and in my search for the truth I intend to show all t…

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Mutoid waste company ODE.

Mutoid waste company ODE. 2016 I put these words together for Sam Haggarty and the Mutoid crew a few years ago. Mutoid waste company ODE. Ode? Nothing owed Nothing bought Nothing squandered All we’ve caught And found We might look happily wasted but we aren’t emaciated Nothing is wasted or squandered or neglected No one and no thing is worthless... We treasure Extravagant debris priceless garbage And today we meet again...after pottering unhindered we have frugally splurged out... we... the fraternity of fl…

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