Capitalism is destroying Football
From the texts I got last night, it appears a lot of my English friends are all Ghanaians now with the disgraceful crashing out of the Capello’s men. England is going home, unsurprising when England failed to beat Algeria, it was a harbinger of worse things to come. The millionaire footballers failed to deliver and Sunny Hundal, editor of Liberal Conspiracy tweeted last night:
England today destroyed right-wing meme that more incentives means people work harder. Cut footballers & boardroom pay!
Diane Abbott on This Week: The Mauling After The Night Before
This is painful but important to watch, Diane Abbott struggles to answer very tough questions from Andrew Neil on the “This Week” sofa last night.
It was indeed very harsh and caught Diane unaware which has led some to claim foul play. I can’t say it is unfair for legitimate political questions to be asked on a topical political programme.
Watch:
Toronto’s Communities Greet the G8 with a Tent City
UK Thailand Solidarity Campaign Strategy Meeting – 28th June 2010 6pm, London
As long as injustice continues and the Abhisit government continues to act with impunity we will campaign against them. It is laughable and a mockery for the UN to unanimously elect Thailand’s ambassador in Geneva to be head of the Human Rights Council this week.
The UK section of the International Solidarity for Thailand Campaign is holding their second open planning meeting on Monday 28th June 2010 from 6pm to 8pm.
VIDEO: CheapCo – The Job Interview
From War on Want:
Sweatshop conditions. 80-hour working weeks. 7p an hour wages. No trade union representation. We wouldn’t accept this situation in the UK, so why should they?
For years British supermarkets have used their buying power to squeeze suppliers and drive down pay and working conditions in factories abroad.
Why I’m backing Diane Abbott for leader
By Alex Hilton / @alexhilton
The thing is, they’re all Labour, so they’d all do OK. And with preference voting, I get to support all of them to different degrees so support for one candidate or another isn’t necessarily a rejection of the others.
But none of them is an Obama waiting to bloom and that’s really the problem.
It comes down to this, if you are a special adviser who has been parachuted or “helped” into a safe Labour seat, then you have been bought and paid for by a powerful patron. Your accountability is to the person who got you the seat, not to the local members or voters. This isn’t black and white, there is a balance of accountabilities at play, but the parachuted MP’s accountability is heavily weighted in favour of their patron or faction. This isn’t particularly healthy for a party with pretensions to equality and democracy.
Beyond Resistance: Coalition Government has declared Class War
From The Commune
With its first cuts plans the Conservative-LibDem coalition has declared war on the working class.
Day by day we hear fresh appeals to accept mass redundancies, tighten our belts and heap blame on the ‘work-shy’ who are somehow meant to find jobs.
Liberal Democrat Hypocrisy
So VAT is up to 20% next year and Nick Clegg has indicated that most Liberal Democrats will vote for it.
Hat/tip: DBH
A New Hope for the Centre Left?
By Tim Caswell
Labour leadership candidates Andy Burnham, Ed Balls, David Miliband, Ed Miliband and Diane Abbott. Photograph: Leon Neal/AFP/Getty, David Levene, Toby Melville/Reuters, John Stillwell/PA, Martin Godwin
For the ninety-nine percent of the population who are not interested in party politics, people who are must seem like a religious sect. A dwindling band of brothers and sisters who think that their leader will lead them to the Promised Land – or at least a small majority in the House of commons.
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Whose to blame for the budget cuts?
From Lefty Cartoons