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Post by Admin on Oct 27, 2020 16:54:18 GMT
Kitty Jones does some wonderful work to raise awareness on some very important issues & is herself suffering serious physical illness within very challenging socioeconomic circumstance. She provides a lot of very in depth political & social analysis for free, to raise awareness on the plight of the most vulnerable in the UK, & campaigns for better treatment of the most vulnerable. If you can please consider donating something to her cause - thank you. politicsandinsights.org/politicsandinsights.org/author/kittysjones/
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Post by Deleted on Oct 27, 2020 20:36:16 GMT
She is a brilliant writer.
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Post by Admin on Dec 17, 2020 11:46:30 GMT
Please donate generously - she is severely physically unwell & really struggling. & she has done / does a lot of good work.
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Post by Admin on May 10, 2021 14:30:25 GMT
"Respected academics and anarchists such as Noam Chomsky and Howard Zinn advocate voting for the party who will do least damage to the public. Call it 'the lesser of 2 evils' if you will. The Tories are killing people by policy. Disabled people have died prematurely in their hundreds of thousands. We have seen the reintroduction of absolute poverty due to welfare 'reforms' over the past decade. The Tories don't hide the fact they despise ordinary people and don't believe we should have any human rights at all. Our NHS is on its knees. We pay for public services, the Tories take that money and hand it out to their donors and an elite. They are corrupt. They are authoritarian. They are on the far right. Yet like the Nazis, they have suddenly adopted a 'progressive' language to attract working class votes. The Nazis claimed they were socialists. Once they had power, they killed all of the socialists, trade unionists, communists, anarchists, and many other groups, as well as Jewish people. They started with disabled people.
If you think I'm patronising for scorning ordinary people who voted Tory, I'll live with it. Because I am a person who has spent the last decade struggling to survive. I became too ill to work in 2010. I was a social worker, before that a youth and community worker. I spent a decade fighting Tory ideology, speaking at conferences, talking at CLPs, dragging myself about the country to raise awareness of the consequences of Tory policies. Under Corbyn's leadership, I was invited down with a group of disabled campaigners to put together welfare policies, in Jon McDonnell's office. I was invited because they, and the UN, read my blogs. I hate what has happened to the Labour party, and particularly, how Jeremy Corbyn was treated. But if the Tories remain in office, we will never be permitted another Labour government again. It's been carefully co-ordinated, we are pretty much a one party state. But much as I profoundly dislike Starmer, I know he would not endorse the premature deaths of disabled people. I left the party, but now think the way forward is to fight for change from within, while engaging with a wide socialist coalition. That was my strategy when Miliband was leader.
I think voting for the party that causes least damage to the public is not only the only option for you as an individual, it is the best hope for others too. You have to try and be the change you want to see. You also have to think things through, examine the evidence of policies that will harm, and those that won't. That requires a little work, but it is necessary. Tory policies are about robbing the public purse to hand out to the wealthy, to their donors, to PR agents and other 'narrative communicators' to, above all, maintain their power. The UK is changed and not for the better. People are dying before their time, because of Tory policies. It needs to change. WE have to work, unfortunately, with what we've got. But remember who is responsible for the state of your towns and cities, and your friends and neighbours. It isn't your local council, it is those with control of the funds and power in office. Tory governments since Thatcher have deliberately underfunded Labour councils. Take a moment to digest that. Then fight back. You fight back by changing the balance of power, not by voting the same nasty authoritarian party in again."
- Kitty Jones
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