It has been a bit of a week. I have suffered a post-sinus infection throughout it and as a result, was unable to do much of the day job (book writing, it should have been, this week). Covid has been, and still is to some extent, a grotty experience. Perhaps as a consequence, I did a lot of social media stuff.
The various threads I have posted over the past few days have been well read on Twitter. I think I have probably had over 10 million impressions on that site since Wednesday, having done a quit review. I have also had over 10,000 new followers.
However, the job is to promote ideas that might improve people's lives noticed. So in that regard, I liked this comment made by James O'Brien on LBC yesterday morning on the thread I had published earlier that morning:
He was right by the way: I had been on LBC on Wednesday and there is a rule there of not being able to repeat for 48 hours.
But, the message is getting out there.
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Sinus infections make you feel that you have been punched in the face – not very nice. I hope you get better fast.
Having said that you have not wasted your time. Thank you for your efforts.
Something strikes me about your work and social media. Social media networks always had a potential for uniting people but so often it has been over really ugly behaviours like racism, sexism, buying stuff etc., and their use by Fascists and other bad actors.
However, the potential for positive use has always been there, and its nice to see people exposing themselves to more realistic narratives and wake up to the lies they are being told.
A CBRA full of money versus austerity for public services and helping people is not a fair way to run the world by any measure.
Will this result in some form of epiphany? Well, I hope so, I really hope so.
But it also has reified just how out of depth and limited are the people who are in charge are – like Andrew Bailey – whose actions can only be described as tokenistic – I mean, to do something that will have no positive effect on the problem but to just do it to be seen to be doing it is well……………there’s no words. It’s like bailing out a a sinking ocean liner with a thimble – in fact – less useful than that. And he’s paid half a million a year to do that?
I think at some stage there will have to be a reckoning for Thatcherism/Neo-liberalism and a repudiation of it by societies beginning hopefully one day with ours very soon.
Thatcher got it wrong and that means that the Lib Dems and Labour have got it wrong too. But on the horizon now is yet another effort to get us to take our eye off the ball – possible conflict with China. We are now in conflict with Russia already – this Fascistic ‘perpetual war for perpetual peace’ tactic in the West has only enabled Neo-liberalism to grow, keeping the natives occupied whilst wealth gouged out more for itself, and now at its point of defenestration yet again (as in 2008) we get provocation of China by the U.S. (the cat is now out of the bag about printing money out of a crises, so now war is the only option).
We are in a very dangerous place as you have said but the danger and insanity is international as well as domestic. War is good for profits – evidenced by the Ukraine. I remain very worried indeed, and there’s no way they are having my children to fight a war of convenience for the top 1% I can tell you that.
I agree Richard, slowly but surely your messages are getting out there and need to be broadcast more widely in all the main media outlets so that more people get to hear and truly listen to what is being done to them!
Hope you’re feeling better and relax this weekend.
Good that the message is getting through a little bit more, Rees Mogg included – although no obvious impression on Labour .
People on here often assume you are the only one with the ‘interest rate rise is silly’ point of view – there are quite a few others. BBC still censoring on R4 although Blanchflower was on BBC R5 ( at midnight!) yesterday.