Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "ThamesTv" channel.

What I think is tragic about that is the fact that, as now, pay was simply not enough. Whilst the bosses and shareholders made greater and greater profits. This lady and her husband didn't question that gross unfairness and that they were being exploited shamelessly. (I'm not anything like a socialist - I just want societies to be fair, decent and able to provide people with the means to reach their potential.)
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@Basauri48970 What a kind comment, thank you! Long before social/economic justice was a thing, I once asked a self-made £multi-millionaire what he thought was the most important principle in sustainable social and community life. He was a trustee of the large non-profit org of which I was ceo. He simply said "fairness". Which is why he was giving his time and resources to what we were doing. His sincerity and simplicity has always been deeply inspirational to me.
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@angelachicken4141 And the horror continues as Rishi tells us to expect austerity again...whilst our local foodbank is constantly working overtime and the local services seem to have given up the ghost. Where IS the money going??
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@briancohenthepfjmassive.4769 Yes, our neighbourhood bombsite was sold off for redevelopment in the early 70s. But I don't think that was due to being in the Common Market. But what about the costs (social, emotional, MH, community losses, extra police, healthcare, social services etc) of shoving people into Brutalist highrises? I guess TPTB just didn't care.
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@willatkinson9729 Well done your folks...But why should it still be so incredibly difficult for decent folks who want to get on (but don't have the silver spoon in their mouths or the 'right' connections)? Politicians like the Bliar - 'education, education, education'! RahRah! And then he stealthily makes youngsters pay through the nose for it so that now young people come out of college owing 10s of thousands and will never be able to afford houses and families unless their parents and grandparents die asap... This isn't progress.
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Education now and then....e.g. I was learning A Midsummer Night's Dream in my mixed race class at the age of 4 (long, long ago...). No one got prizes for being there. Today's wokester brigade would call that white supremacy and child abuse.
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All too true. The media beatifies the most extreme specimens and can't give them enough air time (cf. the Markle Debacle)
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@angelachicken4141 And still they starve. Exactly. Where IS the money going...?
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@RubenWhitter I think far more people then had self-respect and knew how to behave with decorum. From what I can remember. They made the effort to learn and improve themselves.
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Well said indeed.
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@heathstjohn6775 You're very welcome. Keep on telling the truth!
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@heathstjohn6775 I've been online since 1994.That was when the internet truly was a place of, for, by the people. A bit Wild West in places, charmingly amateurish in others, but at least it was populated by unfettered real people saying real things about their lives and experiences. How utterly tragic that it's now an echo chamber prison, run by and for those global tyrants who would tie us real people up in more chains than all the world's iron foundries put together could ever produce. If you don't buy their cheap baubles and their idiotic neo-communist gobshite you're dragged up against a wall and all the other inmates are invited to shoot you. Social media is more like Anti-Social Media in it's capacity to silence and eradicate real people. What's happened to the internet is truly one of the most awful catastrophes to ever befall humankind.
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@heathstjohn6775 Thank you for your kind words, Heath. Keep on flying the flag! All this shall pass, though I fear not until after a long fight.
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@lizzieh5284 Haha! Just what I wrote too. Self-respect has been so shattered by the the horrendous excesses of 'pop' and 'rap' culture. Personal self-respect seems to be so low nowadays in younger people that I can't help but think it's all part of a deliberate crushing of the masses. They are then so much more amenable to zero-hours contracts, 1% pay rises, poor health services, poor public services...
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@letosvet1 How very well summed up. Thank you.
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@Isnt-it-Lovely I've read all your posts here, Deborah. It can be very galling to see other people getting things that you think they didn't earn or don't deserve. How we decide what people deserve is a good question. How do we decide that it's a good thing for Bezos, Branson, Musk, Gates, Buffet, Soros et al deserve to rake in hundreds of £billions every year whilst they avoid paying taxes and whilst many or most of their workers are on minimum wage? Honestly, Deborah, these are the real scammers. They take infinitely more from the ordinary taxpayer (in avoiding taxes and in the overpriced goods and services they sell us) than any disabled people ever could. These £multi-billionaire scammers are really the people you should be mad at. Then you have to factor in that government economists actually PLAN to have a certain quota off work on one sort of benefit or another. Too many workers in the system actually reduce wages - and we have too many low qualified workers due to successive governments imposing the wrong highly ideological policies. The government is already subsidising huge corporations to take on these people as workers. If they took on even more workers, wages would be even lower. People aren't overtly encouraged to take up benefits but they are expected and the money is already set aside for them. The reality is that there are not enough of the right sort of jobs in various areas at various times. And there will be fewer of many more sorts of jobs as time goes by, so that there will be increasing numbers of people like you and me on benefits - or Universal Basic Income....how will you feel about that? It is actually very difficult to get disability benefits. Have you actually looked into it? 80% of all claims are initially denied. When those claimants dispute that and take the benefits dept to tribunal 80% of their claims are allowed . It's a game. Then people on disability benefits are indeed allowed to do some work if they can, it used to be called 'therapeutic earnings' (don't know what the terminology is now) in recognition that in certain cases work is helpful to recovery or to mental health. I understand your anger. But it's not well-placed. It's the system: the £multi-billionaires/global corporations call the shots these days. Governments try and iron out the employment/unemployment problems on the ground, as it were, and accordingly adjust the numbers in the workforce with various things like benefits, tax incentives, disability benefits. Some of us worker bees are lucky and we get to have jobs, others of us are not so lucky.
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@pigstonwidget Yes, 1 in 3 children are being brought up in poverty in the UK in 2021. That's beyond disgraceful, beyond despicable. All due to gvt economic policies. UK is fast becoming 3rd world.
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@kristinesharp6286 If I understand you right (re: your one child/no housing etc post), then this same sort of appalling social engineering has landed the UK in the parlous situation we're in now. Women encouraged - actually enticed and even forced - to go out to work in 70s and 80s for immediate gvt tax gain and to lower wages for gvt pals in big business, had far fewer children = not enough workers 20yrs later, led to utterly shameful importation of immigrants (many of whom turned out to be illiterate/unemployable or not allowed to get education by their families; shameful because to successive gvts these people were commoditised and treated like imports and then foisted on communities that were unprepared and wondered what the hell was going on) and still not enough of the qualified sort of work-ready people that we might have had if indigenous women were not driven out to work in the 70s/80s. Heinous social engineering. The only social engineering that I've ever seen almost 100% good stats for was seatbelt usage.
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@aminahsyeda6252 If you don't see how it's all connected then you;re not only part of the problem, you're also in for a great shock at some point.
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@aminahsyeda6252 Good luck with your sixth form studies, aminah. You still have much to learn. You will be shocked sometime in the future when it clicks that you too were misled. And when you are shocked you will remember that, years before, some random grandmother on the internet told you to expect it.
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@aminahsyeda6252 Thing is, aminah, between your age and mine is a lot of life to be lived. Most of the things I was absolutely sure of at your age were, simply through the process of living life, revealed as chimeras at best.Too many things were revealed as downright duplicity designed to mislead and control. You're right to question and challenge. Question and challenge everything. Though probably not in the sixth form! Where you just need to get the good A levels so that you can go to university. Hopefully, there you'll be able to question everything - though it has to be said that the status of universities as bastions of independence of thought and exploration is under grave threat now. Nonetheless, "The first responsibility of a citizen is to challenge authority." (Benjamin Franklin). Meanwhile you might want to read Blackout - How Black America Can Make its Second Escape from the Democratic Plantation (Candice Owens) and anything and everything by Thomas Sowell.
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@brentpalmer9800 I was going to say that far too many still live in these sort of conditions in the UK too. Where is all the money going...?
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@shendaraalshedir1933 Why hasn't it changed? Surely we know enough now and there's enough wealth in the world to be able feed and house, clothe and educate people? where is all the money going?
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@nygelmiller5293 Don't tell me....that sociopath IDS?? It wasn't benefits, it was rank, outright punishment, may he rot in hell.
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@gtavmj-1852 Oh how well said!
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In terms of relative poverty no, things haven't changed. But governments are no longer masters. The big global corps and banks dictate to governments now.
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@angusmeigh5141 Where's the progress in that?! Who let that happen?
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@philipanderson4673 I re-read it as 'infiltrated'as you suggest. Auto correction on most phones is rudimentary even now, as is vocabulary! (We proles don't need long words do we...!)
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And why is that? Where is all the money going?
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@letosvet1 Thank you...I'm glad it made sense to you. I hope Deborah might see that there is a bigger picture too.
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Cian MacGana Yes, it is. If services are inaccessible to you then it's deprivation leading sometimes to immediate poverty or to longer term poverty in several different forms.
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Cian MacGana Haha! Are you deliberately being obtuse? If a school is holding classes online then they expect every enrolled child to attend those online classes. Teachers/lecturers have been using e.g. online 'Blackboard' and other such facilities for years to share texts, worksheets and tests with their classes.
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Cian MacGana Then. This is now. You already know that we live in a digital world otherwise you wouldn't be here being peculiarly obtuse! Textbooks are yesterday. Argue the toss with the global education policymakers. Meanwhile, we'll continue to get out kids educated in online classes with online materials.
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@mnilsson2704 Yes, in the UK.
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@mnilsson2704 Yes, one could say that we are vulnerable now. But only as much as we were when we stopped chopping our own firewood and got central heating. It's 'progress'. Argue with Sir Tim Berners Lee about the wisdom of his decisions a) to invent the internet and b) to give it freely to the world (instead of retaining some control over how it's used).
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Cian MacGana Is this what hapens at your school?
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Oh for God's sake that just isn't true.
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@robertmorley9149 I like you very much, Mr Morley ;-)
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