Invest in M.E

Oh yeeaaaah. I've been growing a beard on and off for a while now but kept getting annoyed with it. I've also been thinking that I'm not really doing anything worthwhile with my time so this fundraising adventure was born.

I shall be growing a beard until Jan 1st 2014.

http://www.justgiving.com/Paul-Gadsden

I'm excited about it as much as I'm dreading looking like Happy Gilmore's caddy.

My advice to Labour

Shutup. About. Welfare.

There's no need to say anything. Ideological austerity driven economics are collapsing the economy and
you're falling for the trap set by the Tories, willing to cast hundreds of thousands into poverty to satisfy the ignorance of baying hordes.

If you had to, I guess you could actually try and promote the facts surrounding welfare and not adhere to the agenda set by the government and the tabloid media, but it looks like that's too hard for you SO JUST STOP TALKING. Look, I hate you for being neo-liberal losers, but your economics are at least a little bit more coherent than the "scribbled in the back of an Ayn Rand novel during gcse economics" drivel we're currently using. Actually, I won't even be voting for you, this is just a bit of friendly advice. But please, quit being massive arseholes and return to just being arseholes, focus of the economic failings of Osborne, it's so easy I don't know how you're missing this.

That Cher Is Dead

No, not Cher, the Queen Diva, but Thatcher, the Queen.......Shitehouse.

Awash with sanctimonious and patronising sycophancy over how to act when a public figure dies I figured what a great moment it would be to round up all my thoughts into a single blog post.

I don't like nasty people, I celebrate when they die, is basically how I 'd sum up my approach to today's wonderful news. Harsh? Inhumane? Not in the slightest, it is because I care for people and value humanity that today I celebrate. Sure, she's no longer in power and sure, her ideology lives on in today's government and that is why I am still angry, but today is cathartic, I don't just celebrate the death of a wicked person but also to signify my opposition to the continue legacy of privatisation, victimisation of the poor, removal of public services and rapidly increasing inequality and unemployment. 

Naturally, I need to explain why I think she was so wicked.

She was a homophobe. Section 28. A truly awful policy.

"Children who need to be taught to respect traditional moral values are being taught they have an inalienable right to be gay" - Thatcher

Xenophobia.

Let that comment sink in for a while, it reads like a diatribe from a delusional UKIP or EDL member.

She supported the mass murdering Pinochet. Gave him a home in the UK so he couldn't face his crimes.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/466571.stm

Covered up for the child raping Saville.

Did nothing whilst children were abused in Kendall House.




The demonisation of travellers and legislation against the freedom to roam and congregate.

Rejoicing in sinking a ship which was fleeing leading to the deaths of 200 people.

Selling off social housing. You know why we have this bedroom tax problem right?

She called Mandella a terrorist and refused to sanction Apartheid South Africa.

She refused to sanction the Khmer Rouge and there's also...


http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2000/jan/09/cambodia?CMP=twt_gu


Covered up the Hillsborough disaster.

Opposed the re-unification of Germany.

The closure of the mines was disastrously handled, with police battering political dissenters, leaving whole communities gutted. Nothing in place for those left unemployed, nothing.

She drastically reduced trade union rights, setting the template for reduced wages and inferior working conditions for employees.

Her financial privatisation ultimately led to the corrupt banking practises we see today and helped in part to create the financial crash we're still suffering from, not helped by devotion to the ideology of austerity and market privatisation left in her wake.

Privatisation of nationally owned industry for the financial benefit of the wealthy few, and Tory shareholders. Continued today.

Rising inequality and poverty as a result of the removal of public services, rise in vat (8-15%) and lowering of top taxation rate, which is still falling and leading to further inequality.

The last 30 years have been Thatcherism, continued in part by Blair and now by Cameron. Any criticism you can make of Cameron is ultimately a criticism of Thatcher. I can't understand why I'm supposed to respect this, so the next time you're sitting in an ATOS exam or reading a news article about what a scrounger you are, or how kids shouldn't be taught that being gay is ok, think about where this all came from and maybe you'll reconsider whether you really should be respecting the dead, because she sure as hell didn't respect you.