Comments by "Steve Parker" (@steveparker8065) on "Just Angela Rayner rallying behind striking workers" video.

A little poem for Joe viewers: Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am Inequality, I do not sleep. I am ten million workers on wages low, Trudging to work through freezing snow. I am the sun that burns as you harvest grain, The autumn rain that soaks your pain. When you wake in morning and to work you rush, I am the depressed commuter against whom you brush. The dead-eyed citizens you circle in fright, That cry over debt; and can't sleep at night. Do not stand at my grave and weep. I do not care for cowering sheep. (Do not stand at my grave and cry, unless you oppose me, I will never die!) A reworked version of a famous poem by Mary Elizabeth Frye...
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@herodotus4272 I'm as far left as I can go and am fully aware of my audience. Labour has lost their way since Blair dropped clause 4 and Starmer is a second-rate Blair tribute act, but still a far better choice than the Tories who have taken everything the Attlee government gave the working class including social housing, the NHS, working rights, human rights, public transport, legal aid, nationalised industry, free schooling and a welfare state to protect the disabled and vulnerable :)
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But I like doing mindnumbing work for a pittance to produce cheap, tacky rubbish with built-in obsolescence to enforce a continual cycle of consumerism...
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@BossySwan And I will tell then straight, consumerism is second rate. Equality is what we need and a nice full mug of mead!
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@Al-iv3mb PS this is where you mention AS or supporting nefarious organisations by misunderstanding the role of a peace negotiator or someone who opposes apartheid...
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@herodotus4272 You missed his rhyme through ignorance. If you don't have anything witty or intelligent to type I'd appreciate you not fouling my thread with asinine comments...
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@PercivalBlakeney 100% I like that one. Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The slings and arrows of a decade of Tory cuts, Or to rise up against a corrupt government or by not opposing them. To die—as sheep...
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@gio-oz8gf I'm sure it would be had I ever experienced such. I'm guessing you're the brains behind the operation. I would ask if there's anything you can do for Boris Johnson, but then I remembered you said neurosurgeon and not a proctologist. What's the difference between God and a neurosurgeon? God doesn't think he's a neurosurgeon. If a hippo wanted to become a neurosurgeon would he need to go to the hippocampus? Not many neurosurgeons on social media to be fair...
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@Al-iv3mb Blair gave us Thatcherite neoliberalism after dropping clause 4, Thatcher's greatest legacy. Thanks to Corbyn the party enjoyed the biggest swing to Labour since 1945 and he increased membership from around 200k to around 580k which made Labour the biggest party in Europe. Corbyn also turned party finances around to create a surplus within 2 years. Since Starmer took over he's lost over 25% of Labour members... Take your Tory mythology to a neoliberal centrist, they might buy it...
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@Al-iv3mb Blair took money off Saudi Arabia to cover up their actions in Yemen on the international stage. He also took us into wars to protect petrodollar hegemony. Here's what a better Labour leader who has always been on the right side of history said about that war, which turned out to be prophecy: "Thousands more deaths in Iraq will not make things right. It will set off a spiral of conflict, of hate, of misery, of desperation that will fuel the wars, the conflict, the terrorism, the depression and the misery of future generations." Corbyn.
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@jonathanfoster2568 Thank you!
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