Herd Immunity – noun – ‘the resistance to the spread of a contagious disease within a population that results if a sufficiently high proportion of individuals are immune to the disease, especially through vaccination.’“the level of vaccination needed to achieve herd immunity varies by disease”. Boris Johnson – herd immunity – do nothing. Let the […]
Tag: gig economy
The rage of life for life
I’ve worked out why I am so angry, because I’ve been wondering. I am so angry I could rip my fucking face off. Now why would I want to mutilate myself with rage? I’ve been doing this for over 50 years, from when I was a hippy in my teens and handing out flowers on […]
The Tories are ripe for an extinction event
It is not the strongest of a species that survives, nor the most intelligent, it is the one most adaptable to change, that survives. Charles Darwin. The growth of civilisation was made possible because every able bodied person is capable of producing more goods than they need for their own personal survival, bearing in mind […]
Obscene wealth needs sanctioning, not the poor from whom it is stolen
The wealth generated by robotics and Artificial Intelligence (AI) will be owned by the companies which exploit it, exactly the same model which has exploited human workers since the Industrial Revolution. We have been sold a myth that robots will free us from work and provide us with more leisure time. The reality is that […]
The Tories must go!
In the Tory mindset, the lives of ordinary people have no intrinsic value. Our value is measured only in terms of our utility in creating wealth, all other aspects of our humanity are treated as useless and a drain on the ‘free’ markets, including thought, child birth and rearing and our most basic human rights […]
It is the privilege of the privileged to dispose of the poor
Philip Hammond recently said to Andrew Marr, “Public sector pay raced ahead of private sector pay after the crash in 2008/9 and taking public sector pay, before pension contributions, that gap is now closed, public and private sector pay on average are round about the same.” This statement by Philip Hammond is a golden nugget, […]
Slave nation
Workfare Sanctions Jobcentres – Britain’s secret penal system Zero hours contracts Cuts to workplace protections Cuts to legal aid Gig economy Getting rid of safety ‘red tape’ Scrapping social housing Scrapping housing benefit for young people Food banks Child poverty Extreme inequality The ‘free’ market economy Government attacks on disabled people The intention to scrap […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 