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Followers of this blog will be familiar with my longstanding position on fake democracy. I actively campaign for a real democracy but I’ve never registered to vote; ‘I don’t negotiate with terrorists’. ‘I refuse to legitimise a rigged game’. ‘Don’t vote it only encourages them’. ‘Whoever wins, we’ll still get corporate governance’,…(and other snidey one-liners).
I believe real democracy should be practised daily with our families, friends and the communities we share. If parliament conducted itself with the actual democratic rigour and discipline that most occupations, squats and protest camps do, it would be in a much better state than it currently is.
Each time the electioneering machine starts up, I stand on the sidelines terrified by the effect it has on everybody, voters and non-voters alike. It’s horrible. You can’t just turn it off, because it effects (infects) everybody. We’re all supposed to have black and white opinions on things which aren’t black and white and which otherwise wouldn’t interest us in the slightest…we’re supposed to pick a ‘leader’ and a ‘party’…(or snipe and heckle from the sidelines…)
I have expressed my cynicism about the state of electoral politics in this blog and elsewhere ad nauseum.
I’ve also discussed the paradox of the ‘diamonds in the rough’. Principled politicians who actually speak truth to power, offering us hope for a better world. Idealists, in an environment where we must hesitate before using the word ‘idealist’, or ‘idealism’. When did ‘idealism’ become an insult? Idealism should be a virtue but it is generally conflated with naivety….why?
I’m still deeply uncomfortable about participating in this coming General Election. I like Corbyn a lot, but Liebore are infested with backstabbing Blairite scumbags. Such a shame we don’t have a real democracy. ‘Voting’ is a massively overrated means of influencing change. Your daily life choices and spending habits carry far more weight than participating in Wastemonster’s BS pantomime…
Still, I fully respect the Greens so here’s some memes wot I made…
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Square (Profile pic):
Fedbook Banner:
Twitter Banner:
A4 window poster (Colour):
A4 window poster (Black and White):
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Many voters are planning to ‘vote tactically’ this general election in order to remove the Tories from power. Despite Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron officially rejecting calls for such a progressive alliance, some local constituencies are making the necessary preparations already.
In order for Corbyn’s insurrection to really succeed, it is important to remember that the Labour party is infested with Blairite double agents. Blairites are politicians who support the so called ‘centrist’ neo-liberal nightmare of former Prime Minister and war criminal, Tony Bleurgh.
If you choose to participate in this year’s General Election, be sure not to accidentally vote for a Blairite!
You can identify Blairites by checking their voting record.
For example, this is a list of currently serving Labour MPs who voted for the Iraq war.
Adrian Bailey, Kevin Barron, Margaret Beckett, Hilary Benn, Clive Betts, Ben Bradshaw, Nick Brown, Chris Bryant, Andy Burnham, Alan Campbell, Ann Clwyd, Vernon Coaker, Ann Coffey, Yvette Cooper, Jon Cruddas, Jim Cunningham, Wayne David, Geraint Davies, Jim Dowd, Angela Eagle, Maria Eagle, Louise Ellman, Paul Farrelly, Frank Field, Jim Fitzpatrick, Caroline Flint, Mike Gapes, Barry Gardiner, Roger Godsiff, David Hanson, Harriet Harman, John Healey, Mark Hendrick, Margaret Hodge, George Howarth, Lindsay Hoyle, Alan Johnson, Helen Jones, Kevan Jones, Gerald Kaufman, David Lammy, Chris Leslie, Ivan Lewis, Fiona Mactaggart, John Mann, Rob Marris, Gordon Marsden, Steve McCabe, Siobhain McDonagh, Steve Pound, Geoffrey Robinson, Joan Ryan, Barry Sheerman, Andrew Smith, Angela Smith, John Spellar, Gisela Stuart, Mark Tami, Gareth Thomas, Stephen Timms, Derek Twigg, Stephen Twigg, Keith Vaz, Tom Watson, David Winnick, Rosie Winterton.
This is a list of the 66 Labour MPs who voted to bomb Syria.
Adrian Bailey (West Bromwich West), Alan Campbell (Tynemouth), Alan Johnson, (Kingston upon Hull West and Hessle), Alison McGovern (Wirral South), Angela Eagle (Wallasey), Angela Smith (Penistone and Stocksbridge), Ann Coffey (Stockport), Anna Turley (Redcar), Ben Bradshaw (Exeter), Bridget Phillipson (Houghton and Sunderland South), Caroline Flint (Don Valley), Chris Bryant (Rhondda), Chris Leslie (Nottingham East), Chuka Umunna (Streatham), Colleen Fletcher (Coventry North East), Conor McGinn (St Helens North), Dan Jarvis (Barnsley Central), Emma Reynolds (Wolverhampton North East), Frank Field (Birkenhead), Gareth Thomas (Harrow West), Geoffrey Robinson (Coventry North West), George Howarth (Knowsley), Gisela Stuart (Birmingham, Edgbaston), Gloria De Piero (Ashfield), Graham Jones (Hyndburn), Harriet Harman (Camberwell and Peckham), Heidi Alexander (Lewisham East), Helen Jones (Warrington North), Hilary Benn (Leeds Central), Holly Lynch (Halifax), Ian Austin (Dudley North), Jamie Reed (Copeland), Jenny Chapman (Darlington), Jim Dowd (Lewisham West and Penge), Jim Fitzpatrick (Poplar and Limehouse), Joan Ryan (Enfield North), John Spellar (Warley), John Woodcock (Barrow and Furness), Keith Vaz (Leicester East), Kevan Jones (North Durham), Kevin Barron (Rother Valley), Liz Kendall (Leicester West), Louise Ellman (Liverpool, Riverside), Luciana Berger (Liverpool, Wavertree), Lucy Powell (Manchester Central), Margaret Beckett (Derby South), Margaret Hodge (Barking), Maria Eagle (Garston and Halewood), Mary Creagh (Wakefield), Michael Dugher (Barnsley East), Neil Coyle (Bermondsey and Old Southwark), Pat McFadden (Wolverhampton South East), Peter Kyle (Hove), Phil Wilson (Sedgefield), Ruth Smeeth (Stoke-on-Trent North), Simon Danczuk (Rochdale), Siobhain McDonagh (Mitcham and Morden), Stella Creasy (Walthamstow), Stephen Doughty (Cardiff South and Penarth), Susan Elan Jones (Clwyd South), Tom Blenkinsop (Middlesbrough South and East Cleveland), Tom Watson (West Bromwich East), Tristram Hunt (Stoke-on-Trent Central), Vernon Coaker (Gedling), Wayne David (Caerphilly), Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford),
The Blairite response to the snap election was to sharpen their knives in preparation for yet another chicken coup attempt.
You can identify Blairites by checking their voting record at theyworkforyou.com
REMEMBER!
Voting is only one, extremely limited way of influencing change. Your daily life choices have a more significant influence on the world around you. Your attitude, behaviour and spending habits carry more weight than our broken democracy.
If you must participate in party politics, be sure your candidate reflects your values, principles and ideals. If there is no candidate doing this in your constituency, lobby your least worst candidate on the issues that matter to you, or consider running yourself.
All power to those trying to repair Parliament, inside and out.
Whether you choose to participate or not, stay strong.
Don’t allow this broken system to break you.
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Is it narcissistic to brag about an achievement like this?
Is it even really an achievement, or a thing?
It is for me! (even if you do have to refresh the page half a million times to find the quote…)
I felt a similar way when meeting Russell Brand…and when David Graeber retweeted me that one time,…and when the Canary said those nice things about the Occupied Sun,…but Noam Chomsky was the one who told me that gratuitous namedropping isn’t cool, so I didn’t brag about it…too much! 😉 (!)
In all seriousness though, I love the beautiful solutions in Beautiful Trouble.
The review I wrote, which they’ve quoted from could never do real justice to my deep affection for both the ongoing work and the people doing it.
I feel very proud to be namedropped by them alongside so many great individuals and organisations I admire and respect so much.
I’ve never voted, despite being seriously tempted to in recent years. With the snap general election announced, I’m now considering it more seriously than ever before.
I ‘vote’ with the little money that I have, by consuming as little and as ethically as I can. I try to make life choices which I consider more significant than a ‘vote’ on the establishment’s terms. The party political spectacle is ubiquitous and hypnotic though. It is forced upon us, to maintain the illusion of democracy while dividing and conquering most of us.
Not voting is generally frowned upon by those who do. Voters say things like, “You’re disrespecting the people who died for your right to vote“. Respectfully, the greater disrespect is to ignore the blatant corruption of the institutions which people fought and died for, surely? Participating in ‘elections’ and ‘referendums’ only validates a corrupted structure. Regardless who is ‘in power’ in parliament we are ruled by banks and corporations, as we have ever been. The Tories, their Blairite chums here and the 45th American presidency should by now have made this abundantly clear for all with eyes to see and ears to hear.
Elections and referendums provide the vital illusion of democracy, while restricting the parameters of mainstream debate and consciousness. They are less about democracy and more about sculpting objective reality. We are encouraged to have ‘opinions’ on ‘discussions’ which are controlled to deliver the outcome preferred by corporate overlords. These ‘discussions’ are more often than not divisive, absurdly polarised slagging matches (see Brexit). Meanwhile, debates of actual substance (TTIP, or whatever they’re calling it now, NATO, foreign policy, ‘security’, nuclear ‘deterrents’ etc) are had in private. Prior to the digital age, ‘shadow governance’ was dismissed as a fringe conspiracy theory. Today though, many of these theories have been substantiated, particularly those concerning toxic banking (see ‘too big to fail’).
Are insurrections within the mechanics of power, like those of Bernie Sanders and Jeremy Corbyn staged or genuine? If they are genuine, is it really possible for such insurrections to influence real change within structures which are so demonstrably corrupt, or will they always be quelled?
The only political party that really inspires me to ask this question is the Green Party of England and Wales. I’ve been tracking their activity for some years now. Their rhetoric is not hollow. They talk the talk and walk the walk. Their manifesto is outside the controlled parameters of debate. Their policies are solution based. They are 100% funded by their members and supporters, actively avoiding the toxic investments which have polluted the mainstream political parties. They’re calling for a progressive alliance “giving people the best possible chance of defeating the Conservatives and bringing in a truly democratic voting system”. (as I’m writing this, Corbyn and Farron have rejected these calls, again…). The policies and campaigns the Greens support almost exactly mirror my own (though their methods to promote these policies and campaigns differ somewhat).
For these reasons and many more, I recognise the Greens as the only real opposition serious about reforming parliament. This is why they are so marginalised by the controlled media.
Getting rid of the Tories would be good, but the absence of a truly democratic voting system is the more substantial root which we would do well to properly weed lest they return. This fundamental reform has been one of the main planks of the Green’s manifesto for a long time. Is it a deliverable promise, or the sweetest of false hopes? Am I naive to be even thinking about participating this time? Or could voting really be another platform from which to direct real change?
I’ve got over a month to decide whether I can stomach registering – May 22nd is the deadline. Any and all advice would be gratefully received.
Regardless whether I vote or not, I will certainly be doing whatever else I can to support the Greens’ efforts to unfuck parliament over the next two months and beyond.
Perhaps this election really could be an opportunity to finally direct our consciousness out of the myopic box of nightmares it has been trapped in for so long, towards a fairer, saner future.
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I noticed that The Artist Taxi Driver has been using the BREXSHIT poster I made for him in his recent youtube videos – so I decided to reformat it into 1080 x 720 proportions – then got carried away again animating it all – hope you like it Chunky!
“100s of interviews with people from all walks of life… uploaded in realtime, a unique “open source practice”, an important social document, a witness to our times, culminating in a major, in an extra ordinary, 3hour 30 minute movie.. 12months of filming… Brexshit the Movie coming soon the rise of the right and how to defeat it”
If you can afford to sling Mark a few quid, please do – he’s almost reached his crowdfunding target of £15k.
The Artist Taxi Driver has almost reached his £15k crowdfunding target for his next film; BREXSHIT The Movie – Well done that man!
“100s of interviews with people from all walks of life… uploaded in realtime, a unique “open source practice”, an important social document, a witness to our times, culminating in a major, in an extra ordinary, 3hour 30 minute movie.. 12months of filming… Brexshit the Movie coming soon the rise of the right and how to defeat it”
I couldn’t afford to chip in to Mark’s crowdfunder, so I made him this poster instead:
Mark liked it, but it’s a pretty low res photo (was the best shot I could find) and he asked if I could do it again in higher definition.
I might have gotten a bit carried away, playing with fire…
Hope you like it Chunky!
I didn’t participate in the EU referendumb (because I don’t negotiate with terrorists), but I’m a big fan of Mark’s work and trust him to get to the root of what BREXIT’s really all about.
However you voted, (or didn’t), BREXSHIT the movie will almost certainly cast some light on our objective reality. If you can afford to sling Mark a few quid, please do.
Here’s a thing I wrote about how I felt as one of ‘the 28%’ on June 23rd.
There’s much more BREXIT/BREXSHIT counter propaganda on this site.
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Our customers will be pleased to know we’re still investing their money in endless wars and environmental destruction.
From the Dakota Access Pipeline, to the UK Fracking Industry and the expansion of Heathrow airport, we’ve got your money invested in multiple extinction level catastrophes.
I’m not much for making predictions, (seeing as how our perception of reality is manipulated by corporate interests) but I can confidently say this: look to other countries who tried to leave the EU for a taste of what’s to come here; Ireland,…Spain,…Greece…
The UK will likely continue to be punished with the harshest austerity (poverty) in generations, there will be more crackdowns on dissent, evictions of squats, homeless encampments, immigration raids, mass deportations, vilification and unjust punishment of homeless people, poor people, disabled people, migrants and other convenient ‘others’, and so on for at least a couple of years by the looks of it.
If the planet hasn’t been destroyed by climate change, pollution induced atmospheric changes or thermonuclear war by then, the UK will be offered more referendumbs until we make the ‘correct’ choice: remaining in the hopelessly corrupt, anti-democratic, warmongering superstate which the remain campaign honestly described as ‘imperfect’ and ‘in need of reform’…
It’s amazing how quickly ‘The Left’ have been persuaded of the EU’s merits, by virtue of the terrifying, dystopic ‘alternative’ the Tories and their chums in corporate media and academia have been attacking people’s consciousnesses with.
The debates are all about immigration policy (racism), and terrorism (fearmongering), not about the EU itself.
Prior to BREXIT, what remains of (what must unfortunately now be referred to as) The ‘Real’ Left had been largely critical of the EU, being an increasingly centralised power structure which has facilitated the last 16 years of US/NATO led ‘war of error’, carpetbombing and CO2lonialising mostly middle eastern countries. A wasteful, intensely bureaucratic institution, which turned a blind eye to thousands of refugees drowning in the Mediterranean and languishing in deportation centres as they tried to flee these conflicts. These are some of the reasons why politicians like Jeremy Corbyn and the late Tony Benn (RIP) were critical of the EU. There are many more reasons, but none of them are being talked about by the few people who are forcing the effects of BREXIT upon us.
Instead, the Leave campaign told lies so audacious they were sure to be discovered, while the Remain campaign was forced into exposing these lies, thereby conflating the EU with immigration and ‘border security’ alone, leaving no room for any meaningful discussion and critical thought about the EU itself.
Criticism of the EU has become equivalent to racism. I am not a racist. I am an anti-racist. How than can I express myself freely now?
In my very humble opinion, these European referendumbs are a crude, but effective psychological operation to stir up fear, hatred, confusion and division amongst all we who might otherwise be natural allies at this pivotal time in GLOBAL, not national politics.
Prior to BREXIT, people around the world were starting to unify around GLOBAL solutions to GLOBAL problems. Many of us still are.
Tony Benn once said (probably in a different context); “I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly demoralise them”.
On social media and in the real world, ALL my friends; people who voted leave, people who voted remain and people who didn’t vote are either frightened, demoralised or not paying attention. I must admit, I’m frequently falling into the last camp, though the despair in the air post article 50 is so palpable I’m compelled to respond to it.
My message remains the same. These BREXIT antics must not distract us from getting on with the real work that urgently needs to be done right now.
The world is teetering on the knife’s edge of an emancipatory, and/or an apocalyptic moment.
BREXIT has been timed perfectly to prevent the former from happening, by hypnotising us with terrifying premonitions of the latter.
While ‘the 52%’ have the prescribed ‘debates’ with ‘the 48%’, I, as one of the ‘other 28% who didn’t vote’ increasingly feel an anxious horror creeping through all the social engineering shock therapies,…I find myself frequently fluctuating between despair, bewilderment, confusion and panic watching it all play out, people’s reactions to it are terrifying…It’s taking a lot of effort to express all this now. I hope somebody finds it interesting and useful.
My views on the EU are unpalatable for leavers and remainers alike, hence they are largely censored from the ‘mainstream’ narrative. I don’t want to upset friends and family members by sharing my truth, but as far as I can see and with all the love in the world and the greatest respect, most of you seem to have been blinkered by The Prostitute State‘s corrupt, corporate media, academia and ‘Government’.
EUnitydoes sound better than BREXSHIT,…but only just…and only because that’s how the Tory Sympathisers want it it to sound. There are infinitely more important things to be focused on at the moment. I refuse to be terrorised into participating in a farcical, divisive pantomime on their absurdly polarised terms.
We wouldn’t be in this mess if we had an actual democracy that responded to us as it’s supposed to. WE should be the ones focusing the agenda on the things WE care about. Participating in ‘elections’ and ‘referendums’ only legitimises the tyranny, signalling obedient compliance and tacit approval of their actions in our name.
NO BORDERS, NO NATIONS, STOP DEPORTATIONS!
If you’re interested, here’s another thing I wrote about how I felt as one of ‘the 28%’ on June 23rd.
There’s much more BREXIT/BREXSHIT counter propaganda and other things and stuff on this site…
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I noticed that The Artist Taxi Driver has been using the 
