Cameron, clarified from …bert on Vimeo.
Tories
George Osborne gets a small taste of what he deserves
The Paralympics must be the worst place to show your face if you’re the person who decided to start hounding disabled people off welfare and who cared if they died because of it.
‘Nuff said
A message from the London Olympics.
The worst thing is, it’s not even very surprising anymore
Well, here’s a surprise: long term unemployed people were used as slave labour during the diamond jubilee celebrations:
A group of long-term unemployed jobseekers were bussed into London to work as unpaid stewards during the diamond jubilee celebrations and told to sleep under London Bridge before working on the river pageant.
Up to 30 jobseekers and another 50 people on apprentice wages were taken to London by coach from Bristol, Bath and Plymouth as part of the government’s Work Programme.
A glitzy pageant to Britain’s first family of parasites to distract the middle classes from what’s happening to their country, staffed by slave labour: as good as symbol of modern Britain as any.
(Via.)
QotD: the existential dillemma of the modern tory
Carloshasanaxe neatly lays bare the existential dillemma of the modern tory: unhappy but unwilling to change:
A lot of people with addictive behaviors will admit they have a problem. They’ll talk your ear off of about it, and then ask you for a twenty. It’s a step, but it’s not a big step.
Since the modern world is not going to change to accommodate refugee50s — nor should it, since it would mean a radical diminishment of millions of peoples’ lives, and for what? just so he can feel like a real man? — he has to change himself to accommodate to the world. But his resentment forms so much of his self-identity, he has based his entire worldview around it.
It’s not a real change. He doesn’t have the empathy for it; he probably thinks empathy is a dirty word, since that’s become a partisan shibboleth.
Can he learn? Can he change? Can he grow? I would truly like to think so. But as it is, he’s pretty low. And so he’ll probably die unhappy, but blame everyone else first in the process.