Comments by "oneoflokis" (@oneoflokis) on "Truth To Power"
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@danxnation2159 Sainsburys is really the only supermarket they have in Newquay, Cornwall. (Other than budget supermarket Aldi, owned by one of those not-so-nice German billionaires I was talking about in one of my comments here.) Plus two teeny Tescos. Plus a Lidl and a Morrisons, both out of town. (The Morrisons is really the biggest supermarket we have: but up until quite recently, the bus service "considerately" stopped running to it from my village (only 3 miles away! But obviously, "First National" and until recently their subsidisers Cornwall Council didn't think it was important, that one of the largest "exurbs" of Newquay should have any public transport access to two of the biggest supermarkets 😏) and even post-Covid the service isn't great. 😏).
Oh yes: and there is a Co-op on the outskirts, for what it's worth. And since about 2012, my village's one local shop has been a Spar, with integrated post office. But it's a pretty small Spar. (Found anything evil about Spar? Someone told me it was South African owned! I thought it was German. Means "save" in German. 😏)
Basically I CANNOT BE BOTHERED to go chasing around town, looking at labels. Apart from price labels! Life's too short: and the rich own everything anyway. I have better things to do with my socialist energies! (Like finally making some money in my life; and donating some of it to this Cornish ex-Labour blogger I approve of; and some of it to Jeremy Corbyn's Peace and Justice movement.. And to other worthy sites on YouTube. 🙂 )
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Hmm well: the rest of this might be all right: but for one thing, Roald Dahl's language, in his writing for children is NOT outdated. And a "lefty" of sorts of your age, should KNOW THAT!! 😏 I think that you are still shamelessly cowering to the "young, woke" mob. All of whom are upper-middle-class anyway: so no working class person ever cared about such a thing! 😏
Blatant racism is one thing: using "language" that might make "snowflakes" feel "offended" - eg calling Augustus Gloop "fat" or even "fat and greedy" is another. 😏
Dahl was fine with even middle-class children and their parents in the 2000s: he got a posthumous award, as something like the UK's favourite children's writer!
The Spectator was right to point out and criticise the spineless censorship of today's publishers. It's a pity that only a right wing magazine was prepared to do that. A large wing of the left has descended into puritan identity politics. We don't NEED any bowdlerisation of children's literature thought perfectly fit for purpose 20 years ago.
I have ALSO noted in older British writers, such as Dahl (especially him!), C S Lewis etc, quite an underlying sense of justice (hence Dahl's horrible humorous punishments for horrible adult's and the odd horrid kid) and a detestation of bullies and bullying. This contrasts with the works of one or two much NEWER, younger writers, including a woman writer I can think of, who, to my consternation, appear to condone bullying. Of certain people. Of men by women. Of outsiders and so on.
You WON'T find that in Dahl. 😡
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Too many businesses are owned by the Tories; this is the problem. We socialists have to get more business-minded; it's as simple as that. 🤷♂️ (I suppose I'm making an argument a bit like the US one, for black-owned businesses.) We CAN'T currently avoid shopping at all shops owned by Tories, because they own so much and so many! (Though I'm glad to find out Tescos has a policy of NO political donations: that's nice to know!)
The Co-Op is all very well: only they've had their share of scandal in the past. There is one not that far from me in Newquay, and now they even have a petrol station. But, I've never heard local people say they were totally enamoured with them. One says they're too expensive: another says their food isn't that good. (Oh: and to expand their business in my town, they bought up the BP filling station, *and displaced a small local deli business right next to it*. 😏 ) Though I do quite like their Fair-trade brands! 🙂
But that's only one business: bit of a narrow choice, to rely on!
Then there's the thing about what MOST, lower-income people, those most hit by the cost of living crisis, will and must do to get by. They can't drive for miles to get some fancy "ethical" brand. They have to get what's available locally; what's cheaper, and what there are special offers on! Or even those evil Sainsburys' Nectar points! 😈
I've heard plenty of unpleasant things about the owners of the German companies Aldi and Lidls as well. But that doesn't change the fact that tens of millions of Britons rely on them for cheap food, and even discounted cycling and camping gear, garden products or the like. You're NOT going to dissuade millions from shopping at the cheap shops; or at Poundland - who owns that, do tell? Is it Boris? Or Satan? 😄
(There was this American TV show in the aughts, featuring this guy who worked at a facsimile of Home Depot (basically their Homebase) who was a natural son of Satan... The Devil... it was a supernatural show. So, you never know!! 🙂)
I'm not going to avoid Kingsmill and Warburton bread, Patak's spices/sauces, Ryvita and practically every widely available brand and type of sugar and a million popular products (many of which will be carried by the Co-op!) and chains because YOU say so, mate! 😏👎
What about Tetley's tea and McVitie's biscuits: why don't you tell us what's wrong with them? 😏
"Ethical" health foods cost the earth - that's the trouble with them! 😏
We all know about Wetherspoons: and there are still lots of independent local pubs..
And though, to imagine that you can last the week through, without inadvertently putting some money in the pocket of some Russian oligarch, or person like that; or to think you can have much to do with PC computing, without dealing with Microsoft, is FANTASY LAND! 🦄🤣
This is what I'm saying: none of these "ethical" buying tips are much good to the vast majority of the population, right now, in the era of the cost of living crisis.
You can't avoid Tory money. It's everywhere! 🙄
That's why I *just don't believe in "ethical shopping", or whatever they call it, especially NOT NOW! It's a middle-class fad at the best of times. Sorry.
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