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Heart of stone etc, again.

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 1:28 pm Their "General Strike" (called for Bank Holiday Saturday) is already forgotten.

Gatherings as large as ten people met in some town centres.
Or was it a queue for the bus - we may never know.

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/05 ... r-support/

Forgotten? Or was it that people were simply unaware of it/couldn't care less/had better things to do with their time?

And how many of those that did turn up are the scorned "economically inactive"?

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 1:28 pm Their "General Strike" (called for Bank Holiday Saturday) is already forgotten.

Gatherings as large as ten people met in some town centres.
Or was it a queue for the bus - we may never know.

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/05 ... r-support/

I have a couple of questions:
1. How do pensioners "go on strike", what are they striking from?
2. What were they striking for? I have no idea what their demands were and none of them seemed to know.
I've seen a few vox pops and all I heard was; "Starmer must go"; "he's destroying this country"; "everything he's done has been a disaster"; "he's a traitor". None of them, when pressed, could name single policy they didn't like, replies were simply "everything" or "open your eyes".
There was, inevitably, one joker who claimed Starmer had banned freedom of speech by taking away the right to protest...whilst attending a protest.

Oboogie wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 2:05 pm

Bones McCoy wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 1:28 pm Their "General Strike" (called for Bank Holiday Saturday) is already forgotten.

Gatherings as large as ten people met in some town centres.
Or was it a queue for the bus - we may never know.

https://searchlightmagazine.com/2025/05 ... r-support/

I have a couple of questions:
1. How do pensioners "go on strike", what are they striking from?
2. What were they striking for? I have no idea what their demands were and none of them seemed to know.
I've seen a few vox pops and all I heard was; "Starmer must go"; "he's destroying this country"; "everything he's done has been a disaster"; "he's a traitor". None of them, when pressed, could name single policy they didn't like, replies were simply "everything" or "open your eyes".
There was, inevitably, one joker who claimed Starmer had banned freedom of speech by taking away the right to protest...whilst attending a protest.

1. They haven't thought this through - see also striking on Bank Holiday Saturday.
2. They claim to be striking because they've "had enough" - memories of Ted and Dougal picketing their local Cinema "Careful now".

A few dozen pissed-up thugs get national news coverage?

kreuzberger wrote: ↑Mon May 26, 2025 5:07 pm A few dozen pissed-up thugs get national news coverage?

Only on GBNews I think and even that was only in passing due to the embarrassingly low turnout.

RT could muster more people for a pro Putin demo. But they no longer hold a broadcasting licence to masquerade as a news gathering organisation. So why does GBN?

"If the election of fellow Corbynite Davina Spart to the key post of entertainments officer for Scumbag College JCR is repeated across the country at the next General Election, we will be carried on a tidal wave of support into Downing Street..."

Have some v committed political friends who went to a local counter demo.

From their account the main argument of the 'strike' was 'fuck migrants', which was supplemented by blank incomprehension when it was observed that said friends were migrants. The fact they were white seemed to create an assumption they were not.

Absolute fucking clowns, and instruments of something grotesque.

Ah we wondered what those 4 people with British flags were doing in Liverpool.