Rusty Nails
Country Member
I know you are right, and it is totally unfair, but it is the reality that is our country these days, warts and all.
Martin Luther King and soup protests
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I know you are right, and it is totally unfair, but it is the reality that is our country these days, warts and all.
theclaud
Reading around the chip
It won't, actually. National Gallery is a Real Living Wage employer. Nice concern trolling.
mudsticks
Squire
So you personally wouldn't go along with the populists habit of automatically condemning / rubbishing someone who is trying to raise awareness, and acting for positive change.??
By doubting their motives and suggesting they're all unwashed layabouts / enemies of 'the people' / trustafarians / and or violently criminal, tofu munching yoghurt weavers ..
If you see through it, then I'm sure plenty others do too.
One good thing I've noticed over the last couple of years is how the discussion in msm has (mostly) moved on from whether CC is really happening, or whether its important enough to tackle it.
Now we're on to what needs to happen, who pays, and the pace of change necessary
Some positive news yesterday though -
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2...nt-backs-fossil-fuel-non-proliferation-treaty
You only went and researched that didn't you.??
Don't go telling the others the secret of how it's done 😇
Anyway, yet another day of extreme virtue based farming, rolls around
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matticus
Guru
Which is exactly what Mr King was talking about!
The people in control of public information, criticising the protestors for trivial issues around inconvenience - while ignoring the much bigger issue right under their noses.
I'm glad you're supporting this thread 👍
fozy tornip
fozympotent
Rusty Nails
Country Member
Obviously. Protests don’t gain as much publicity from being protests unless they cause disruption/controversy. That is why the media usually loves concentrating on the disruption/controversy rather than the reason for the protest. People are less interested in why someone glues their hand to a road than in the ambulance that is held up in the delay, or the angry driver dragging a protester from the road.
I am not at all bothered by or against the protests, but neither am I surprised, or even bothered by, the coverage by the MSM. Life can be sh*t whether I am vexed by it or not.
I am not sure how one can “support” a thread, unless you mean contribute to it.
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matticus
Guru
Your testimony supported my hypothesis. Thank you!
Fab Foodie
Guru
Can we peer review before further publishing?
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matticus
Guru
Indeed - the floor is yours!
[But before you kick off - note this was NOT a protest agaisnt Big Soup. I know how prickly you guys get ... ]
AuroraSaab
Legendary Member
I might be wrong but a quick Google suggests the cleaning of the National Museum (and other museums) is outsourced to DOC Cleaning Ltd. Job adverts on Indeed suggest they don't pay the Real Living Wage. Can't screenshot but here you go:
Cleaning Operative
DOC Cleaning Limitedlocation
Museum Of London, London EC2Y
Job details
Salary
£11.05 an hour
I doubt the local council cleaner, or whoever is cleaning up after crap-in-a-bucket-girl in Derbyshire is getting the living wage either.
That isn't 'concern trolling'. It's acknowledging that the people who pay the immediate price for the activism you readily endorse are those who already have the least.
It would be more honest if you just said you don't care about them because the big picture is more important. 'The end justifies the means' is not an an unusual position to take.
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Fab Foodie
Guru
Not seen a can of 'Big Soup' for years....does it still exist?
LCpl Boiled Egg
Regular
Yes... I've had a beef one in my work flask recently, and a chicken one too. Always good to keep in the cupboard for an emergency lunch.
BoldonLad
Old man on a bike. Not a member of a clique.
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mudsticks
Squire
https://www.theguardian.com/environ...eat-of-death-sentence-would-stop-its-protests
Not so easily deterred, it would seem.
Not so easily deterred, it would seem.
theclaud
Reading around the chip
Mordaunt scrapes 100 nominations. It goes to the Tory membership, where she stands on a platform which includes bringing back the death penalty, and beats Sunak. Starmer backs Death Penalty Lite (you still get killed, but there's a fast-track to posthumous pardon) and loses the 2024 election.
