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The UK's brutal treatment of severely disabled: claimant found fit to work for 12 mins a day

frozenborderline

frozenborderline

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Snowdrop said:
It's not socialism that's failing Britain--it's corporate culture and the ever increasing sequestering of money for the very few. Multinational corporations have such a huge divide in the power they wield through lobbying for what they want and they are not beholden to anyone--in theory they are beholden to their shareholders but now even that doesn't necessarily hold as they only need to satisfy majority shareholders of whom there are increasingly few.

Also, the argument of guillotining the 1% is false argument that jumps to an unwarranted conclusion. There is enough production and the profits of production to pay people a living wage, to stop zero hour contracts, and to stop (often with young people starting out trying to find steady employment) this 'work for us at a training wage' then when the training period is over we fire you saying there is no work and hire new training wage labourers. There are many more such schemes. There is no legitimate excuse for that kind of economic behaviour toward the 99% of the labour force. There are times when it has not been so.
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I am hopeful that jezza becomes prime minister..
 
frozenborderline

frozenborderline

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i'm not kidding, I read your post and assumed you weren't anti-socialist, because you said that corporate culture was failing britain, which i agree with.
 
Snowdrop

Snowdrop

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debored13 said:
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Ah, OK. That helps explain.

I find discussion of this sort of thing tricky and we should probably leave it there. There are a variety of meanings for socialism from US/Russian cold war meaning to a Canadian version or Scandinavian.

But politics is verboten here unless in the context of ME so I'll just say that there definitely needs to be some regime changes to make the world a better place for the disabled.

Nice to meet you by the way,
SD
 
frozenborderline

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Ok, yeah we should leave it here. I would be interested in there being a specific self-contained subforum here to discuss the politics of ME, as there is certainly a politics related to being disabled, etc... but maybe that would get too nasty? i wasn't at all interested in starting a flame war
 
Snowdrop

Snowdrop

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debored13 said:
wait who did you think i meant???
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This is on me. I had never heard the name jezza -- when I goggled it Jeremy Clarkson's name came up. After that my puny brain treated your post like that's what you wrote (I have serious short term memory issues). Because of this post I went back and saw that it was me who made Jeremy Clarkson out to be who I should have realised was the other Jeremy. <sigh> So my bad.

If you want to open a thread discussing political issues around ME you are quite free to do so I believe if there's something specific on your mind. But at least some of the issues will be different depending on where we are all from I expect.
 
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