Help the rich and f.uck the rest

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Yes really, f.uck them all.

Levelling up by kicking the poor.

7 Bins Sunak and his great steal. *SMFH*

Jonathan Pie speaks our truth

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Sainsbury’s CEO gets paid almost £4m in bonuses, on top of his salary.

He’s on £2,298 per hour, while Sainsbury workers are getting £11 per hour.

And we get told workers salaries are driving inflation.

Rubbish.

It’s the greed of the elite driving inflation.

 

[Moriarty]

It's actually government spending which drives inflation.
The more money they create, the more the currency is diluted.
Economics 101.
Thats why the Tories, no matter how bad they are will be better than voting labour who will spend, spend, spend, create more debt and push inflation and interest rates even higher.

I'm just gonna vote for the monster raving loonies or something, at least then we might have someone who gives a sh**.

 

[Kev45]

And we get told workers salaries are driving inflation.

Indeed. Economic illiteracy, balderdash spewed by the hard-right who do NOT understand even the basics. There are multiple factors driving current UK inflation, too complex to mention in a short post, and blue collar workers salaries and or even blue collar wage rises are among the least significant. In direct comparison to wage increases in the higher echelons of the job sector, the wealthy minority, which HAS been a contributory driver of current inflation.

Just off the top of my head, and yes, corporate "greedflation" 100% being one of the main drivers. Supply chain issues following the pandemic, demand increased when it ended and supply couldn't keep up. Transport costs and staff shortages in the various sectors after the pandemic also drove up those costs. The middle-class saved during the pandemic and began spending again afterwards. Food price increases, etc, even when costs went down more recently. The energy sector, partially to do with the war in Ukraine and greater demand for all these services, leading to bottlenecks following both the pandemic and the war. A shortage of UK workforce labour once the economy ground back into action, and a multitude of other complex factors. All directly linked to either corporatism in general (which blew a gasket) and or corporate greed one way or another and when it took advantage of the 'perfect storm' and as it always does.

Edited to include the conclusion of a report commissioned by Unite (union).

"In the last six months, company profits are responsible for almost 60% of inflation. As its general secretary, Sharon Graham, correctly states: Make no mistake, profiteering has resulted in the high prices we've all had to pay”.

Edit 2.

"Global and domestic causes of high inflation

The initial phase of this increase in inflation was mainly due to international factors. These included:

• strong global demand for consumer goods – a consequence of the Covid-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns
• related supply chain disruption
• soaring energy and fuel prices – particularly, but not exclusively, due to Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in February 2022.

As the UK is a large net importer of goods (including energy), these global factors affected consumer prices in the UK."

https://commonslibrary.parliament.uk/research-briefings/cbp-9428/

 

[Moriarty]

The reason company profits are so high is because of bail outs to both the public and private sector.

The government printed money to cover the costs of the COVID debacle and are now placing the blame squarely on Corporations for them having to create that debt.
Whereas it was that same government who decided people should not go to work.

If the response had been different, if they allowed people to continue working instead of simply giving the Corporations money by handing it out to the public to pay bills they themselves had inflated, then we would not be seeing those profit margins.

In effect, the tax payer is footing the bill for those profits because the government gave it to the public to pay thier bills.

That way the government can say Corporations are responsible for creating the debt, yet it was because the government gave money to both the Corporations themselves and the public to pay thier bills after cutting peoples wages by lockdown.

It was always going to happen that the profits would come from Joe Public through both deflating the currency by money printing and supporting payments by hand outs.

It's not rocket science.

Make more money, increase's prices to make that money needed, government give the people that money if they cant afford it, or takes the savings of those who can.
People spend that money,
Government wins because they are seen to be helping the poor.
The banks win because they don't need to pay interest on all the savings people had and have now spent.
Corporations win because they have a great bottom line, even if it is illusionary.

The only person that really suffers is us, simple folks.

At least the Scots might start drilling again soon and we have ditched those stupid Net Zero targets we could never attain, so something good has come out of it.

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

 

[TwoWhalesInAPool]

Shakespeare - ''The Strangers' Case'' speech from Sir Thomas More

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On May 1, 1517 — now referred to as Evil May Day — riots broke out in London as a response to an influx of immigrant workers. Eighty years later, a play was written that includes some of these events. The play, called Sir Thomas More, wasn't published or performed at the time, quite possibly because it was censored.

This speech from the play is delivered to the rampaging crowd by Thomas More, who was sheriff of London at the time.

Thomas More asks the rioters to imagine themselves in the shoes of the immigrants they're attacking.

Grant them removed, and grant that this your noise
Hath chid down all the majesty of England;
Imagine that you see the wretched strangers,
Their babies at their backs and their poor luggage,
Plodding to the ports and coasts for transportation,
And that you sit as kings in your desires,
Authority quite silent by your brawl,
And you in ruff of your opinions clothed;
What had you got? I’ll tell you: you had taught
How insolence and strong hand should prevail,
How order should be quelled; and by this pattern
Not one of you should live an agèd man,
For other ruffians, as their fancies wrought,
With self same hand, self reasons, and self right,
Would shark on you, and men like ravenous fishes
Would feed on one another.

Say now the king,
As he is clement if th’offender mourn,
Should so much come too short of your great trespass
As but to banish you, whither would you go?
What country, by the nature of your error,
Should give you harbor? Go you to France or Flanders,
To any German province, to Spain or Portugal,
Nay, anywhere that not adheres to England,
Why, you must needs be strangers: would you be pleased
To find a nation of such barbarous temper,
That, breaking out in hideous violence,
Would not afford you an abode on earth,
Whet their detested knives against your throats,
Spurn you like dogs, and like as if that God
Owed not nor made not you, nor that the elements
Were not all appropriate to your comforts,
But chartered unto them, what would you think
To be thus used? This is the strangers’ case;
And this your mountainish inhumanity.

 

[Moriarty]

It is a wonderful speech, emotional, full of asking it's listeners to actually think.

It's also complete BS.

Londoners were worried that the jobs that were being taken by immigrants, which they were.
So how were they supposed to support thier families?
No welfare state back then.

Add to that industry was worker based.
Ok how to describe it..

There are only so many workers, they have to be fed, clothed, care for thier family.
Usually these families had kids, so there was a need for them to earn a wage which could support that.
The whole economy was based on worker availability.
Pay a worker a wage today, in 12 years you have another worker with his son, or another daughter to either look after the babies born or work if theres a place.

So, all sympathy aside, if someone took all your money away because you have no job, then took your house, starved your kids, what would you do?
It was a self contained system.
We all know what happens to a stable system when you introduce variables, it gets volatile.
They saw their whole future collapsing.

It's much more complicated than "We should welcome everyone"
If you welcome everyone you actually support capitalism in it's darkest form, pay the least for the most.

Open border folks dont get that.

 

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