The Daily Blog Open Mic – 20th September 2022

Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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Announce protest actions, general chit chat or give your opinion on issues we haven’t covered for the day.

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  4. I noted this piece from a wikipedia report on Orwell’s The Road to Wigan Pier:
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Road_to_Wigan_Pier

    The book grapples “with the social and historical reality of Depression suffering in the north of England, – Orwell does not wish merely to enumerate evils and injustices, but to break through what he regards as middle-class oblivion, – Orwell’s corrective to such falsity comes first by immersion of his own body – a supreme measure of truth for Orwell – directly into the experience of misery.”…

    Gollancz was not only a successful publisher but also a dedicated social reformer. “As a social reformer, a socialist, and an idealist, Gollancz had an unquestioning, perhaps overly optimistic, faith in education; if only people could be made to know the nature of poverty, he thought, they would want to eradicate it, remove from power the government that tolerated it, and transform the economic system that brought it into being.” …

    (Middle class oblivion – isn’t that what is being experienced and what we are trying to penetrate now?)

    Also the Jarrow March from South Tyneside to London from 5-31 October 1936 is important to look at again. The conditions during the Depression seemed such that war was the lesser of evils!
    …a coal industry developed before the establishment of the shipyard in 1851. Over the following 80 years more than 1,000 ships were launched in Jarrow. In the 1920s, a combination of mismanagement and changed world trade conditions following the First World War brought a decline which led eventually to the yard’s closure. Plans for its replacement by a modern steelworks plant were frustrated by opposition from the British Iron and Steel Federation, an employers’ organisation with its own plans for the industry. The failure of the steelworks plan, and the lack of any prospect of large-scale employment in the town, were the final factors that led to the decision to march…

    …Around 200 men (or “Crusaders” as they preferred to be referred to) marched from Jarrow to London, carrying a petition to the British government requesting the re-establishment of industry in the town following the closure in 1934 of its main employer, Palmer’s shipyard. The petition was received by the House of Commons but not debated, and the march produced few immediate results. The Jarrovians went home believing that they had failed….

    …Marches of the unemployed to London, termed “hunger marches”, had taken place since the early 1920s, mainly organised by the National Unemployed Workers’ Movement (NUWM), a communist-led body. For fear of being associated with communist agitation, the Labour Party and Trades Union Congress (TUC) leaderships stood aloof from these marches. They exercised the same policy of detachment towards the Jarrow March, which was organised by the borough council,…
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jarrow_March
    https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryUK/HistoryofBritain/Jarrow-March/

    Unions have not been constant lovers, rather flighty, it seems. An old saying ‘ Faint heart, never won fair lady’ may apply with the fair ladies mentioned being the business people of course. So unions can abandon the workers, and also a country’s politicians can find it too hard to act in a practical and humane way. Looking at how the poor and the lower classes were treated in the Irish famine is revealing.

    :…mass starvation and disease in Ireland from 1845 to 1849,,,Between 1845 and 1855, no fewer than 2.1 million people left Ireland, primarily on packet ships but also steamboats and barque—one of the greatest exoduses from a single island in history…

    The proximate cause of the famine was a potato blight[13] which infected potato crops throughout Europe during the 1840s, causing an additional 100,000 deaths outside Ireland and influencing much of the unrest in the widespread European Revolutions of 1848.[14] Longer-term causes include the system of absentee landlordism[15][16] and single-crop dependence.

    Initial limited but constructive government actions to alleviate famine distress were ended by a new Whig administration in London, which pursued a laissez-faire economic doctrine, and only resumed later.

    The refusal of London to bar export of food from Ireland during the famine was an immediate and continuing source of controversy, contributing to anti-British sentiment and the campaign for independence.

    Additionally, the famine indirectly resulted in tens of thousands of households being evicted, exacerbated by a provision forbidding access to workhouse aid while in possession of more than 1/4 acre of land.

    But the government connections were prepared to let the Irish starve in the second Irish famine.
    https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1997/09/27/the-irish-famine-complicity-in-murder/5a155118-3620-4145-951e-0dc46933b84a/

    It can be seen that a strong determination to apply a cant policy regardless of its lack of veracity and obvious worth, when there was no sure punishment for system failure and failing the people, is a result from absolute power becoming entrenched. I think we should note how willingly politicians here have allowed living conditions to deteriorate without great concern on their part. In Britain the Conservatives get in and ‘cant’ Labour attitudes fail the people. It’s not a good look for the 21st century under the looming weather shifts. Pragmatic decisions to abandon areas would be easy for the wealthy colonist types that we have allowed to cluster and gain prominence here.

  5. https://www.rnz.co.nz/news/national/475137/notorious-killer-and-sex-offender-loses-high-court-battle-to-allow-prisoners-to-have-sex
    Sex for prisoners should be considered. Trying to help people find some balance and meaning in their lives might be helped if the situation was administered carefully. And they do it elsewhere so we don’t have to take an outrageous first step like throwing aside our country and selling it off to connosieurs of precious trifles. We could indeed be a showcase for the world on how to act to turn a degraded country into a place of respect for all. Now there’s a thought.

  7. Here’s a thought.

    Here’s something to consider about Co Governance.

    If you asked Maori for them to have Co Governance on their committees and or Board for Maori Land. What would their answer be?

  8. Just had a laugh explosion in the loo remembering the dead-in-life fellas who sold me a bike, and a motor-scooter elsewhere. At least one of them turned up in my father’s squash club restaurant night. They both took to heart the terribleness of ordinary life. Not sure they’re wrong.

    My people, from both sides, fight. Or enjoy the quirks. I can never be like those fellas, but that’s just my people.

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