As I said last time, paper cups are political.
Over the last 43 years, the Conservative Party has been in power in the United Kingdom for 31 of those years (72 per cent) and counting.
In 1984-85 there was an event which defined the politics of a generation. It was the miners’ strike, still referred to in Yorkshire as, The Great Strike.
While that strike was going, I remember reading a letter in a journal called Peace News. The letter said, “Support for the miners surely means support for acid rain.” This made me very angry.
The whole point about the miners’ strike was not about coal, or sulphur, or how electricity was generated. It was about ***political control***. In other words, it was about the following, stark choice:
- EVERYTHING will be decided in bent markets, or
- There might be a prospect of building communities, and sustaining them.
The UK electorate, unfortunately, chose option 1. That is why we are in the mess we are in, now.
To hell with your selective memory. We told you in 1984 that everything in the future would be decided in bent markets. You didn’t listen, then, but you are complaining now. Be that as it may.
We are socialists. We are listening. We believe that people can get up off their knees, and do something about this situation.
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