Over the years I've said some things...
Nov. 16th, 2018 07:35 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
johnny9fingersAnd sometimes I feel that I got things catastrophically wrong and sometimes I feel vindicated by subsequent events or criticism:
www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/16/uk-austerity-has-inflicted-great-misery-on-citizens-un-says
A few selective quotes:
Philip Alston, the UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, ended a two-week fact-finding mission to the UK with a stinging declaration that levels of child poverty were “not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster”, even though the UK is the world’s fifth largest economy.
The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity, the United Nations poverty envoy has found.
Never; surely not.
What could have inspired them to do such a thing? Just what was The Bullingdon Club's entrance test? Something about burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person?
Hahahaha, what a joke; and just where is the spittoon? Who would have guessed that the economics of the Bullingdon Club would be replicated in the economics of austerity, just writ large across the whole nation, rather than with that old-fashioned personal touch so beloved of the Bullingdon boys.
www.theguardian.com/society/2018/nov/16/uk-austerity-has-inflicted-great-misery-on-citizens-un-says
A few selective quotes:
Philip Alston, the UN’s rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, ended a two-week fact-finding mission to the UK with a stinging declaration that levels of child poverty were “not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster”, even though the UK is the world’s fifth largest economy.
The UK government has inflicted “great misery” on its people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering rather than economic necessity, the United Nations poverty envoy has found.
Never; surely not.
What could have inspired them to do such a thing? Just what was The Bullingdon Club's entrance test? Something about burning a £50 note in front of a homeless person?
Hahahaha, what a joke; and just where is the spittoon? Who would have guessed that the economics of the Bullingdon Club would be replicated in the economics of austerity, just writ large across the whole nation, rather than with that old-fashioned personal touch so beloved of the Bullingdon boys.
