
China Mass Uprising - Students Cycle to Tiananmen - Government Scared - Special Report
Some sources - https://www.cnn.com/2024/11/11/china/china-kaifeng-night-bike-craze-crackdown-intl-hnk/index.htmlhttps://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/11/world/asia...
re misuse of the term Fascism:We have to redistribute income or wealth or face fascism: that is the choice before us
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We have to redistribute income or wealth or face fascism: that is the choice before us
I dictated this yesterday when trying out a new microphone system that we intend to use (the Rode Wireless Pro system). I then transcribed this recording using Descript and realised that it was worth sharing: This has been a disturbing day in world politics. Donald Trump has selected a new...www.taxresearch.org.uk
THE RISE OF FASCISM AND THE NEGLECT OF THE POOR
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THE RISE OF FASCISM AND THE NEGLECT OF THE POOR - Social Justice Party
It’s important for us to understand the reasons why the hateful ideology of fascism is gaining ground and also whether that ideology is actually shared by all the people engaging in the apparently mindless violence and public disorder we're witnessing.socialjusticeparty.uk
Extreme Political Ideologies and Their Connection to Poverty
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Extreme Political Ideologies and Their Connection to Poverty - BORGEN
Extreme political ideologies such as communism and fascism have a longstanding history with poverty due to their authoritarian and often dictatorial policies.www.borgenmagazine.com
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Actually 0.95% as @Woosh has noted, but by how much doesn't necessarily matter as much as whether it is the straw that breaks the camel's back.The average household budget is £567.70 per week or £29,520 so a £280 "hike to household bills" represents an increase of just 0.0095%.
Family spending in the UK - Office for National Statistics
Average weekly household expenditure on goods and services in the UK, by age, income, economic status, socio-economic class, household composition and region.www.ons.gov.uk
More than 700,000 children plunged into poverty since Tories came to power: 'We're going backwards'left
Hundred percent correct. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 has been a disaster on every level. It interferes with the rights of every one of us who owns a property to do with it what we want. Not only does it do that, it prevents the development of vital infrastructure such as power lines, roads, railways and causes huge increases in development costs. It is the reason that building say a nuclear power station here costs about four times as much as it would cost elsewhere and takes twenty years to get through approval and development.Britain’s housing supply issues began in 1947, not 1980
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The housebuilding crisis: The UK's 4 million missing homes - Centre for Cities
Compared to other European countries, Britain has a backlog of millions of homes that are missing from the housing market. Building these homes is key to solving the nation's housing crisis.www.centreforcities.org
At least some of the people you mentioned sang Hitler youth songs and they sympathize with the idealogy. Draw your own conclusions.re misuse of the term Fascism:
Another abuse of terms by left wing ignoramuses.
What is fascism? Clearly the left don't know what it means.
Fascism is a far right, authoritarian, ultra-nationalist, political ideology, involving dictatorial leaders, autocracy, militarism, and the forced suppression of opposition. In particular it involves the subordination of individual rights, and economic freedom to the national interest, or the will of the leader.
The white yobs rioting, in a few run down areas, is NOTHING to do with that.
Ignorant, brain dead lefties, love to apply the term to just bout anyone they don't agree with about politics.
Putin might be described as a fascist. He fits most of the characteristics. He is:
AUTHORITARIAN
ULTRA NATIONALIST
DICTATORIAL
MILITARISTIC
SUPPRESSES OPPOSITION
SUBORDINATES INDIVIDUAL RIGHTS
DIRECTS THE ECONOMY TO HIS PROJECTS
There is no other leader in Europe who does these things.
Its such a pity that so many on the left appear never to have read a book, or been to school.
They misuse terms like average and fascism, and their useful fools post their nonsense here.
The generation who were adult in the 1930s and 1940s fought fascists in Europe in the Spanish Civil War, and in WW2.
A few fascist regimes persisted in Spain (Franco) and Portugal and Greece until the 1970s. Since then, until Putin, it has been absent and remains absent in any kind of serious form.
Anyone who thinks that Nigel Farage, or Georgia Meloni, or Madam le Pen is ANYTHING Like Adolf or Mussolini needs to be assigned a care assistant because they have special needs.
It makes no difference that some ar se hole in a party misbehaves. A Labour MP is about to be charged for beating up a man in drunken rage in a taxi queue for engaging him in a conversation on the winter fuel payment. That's on him, and not his party.At least some of the people you mentioned sang Hitler youth songs and they sympathize with the idealogy. Draw your own conclusions.
You are right in the effect of the planning regulations on the development of housing sites. However it is the lack of investment in the public housing that has created this problem since Margaret Thatcher's right to buy scheme and the cut backs in Local Authority funding for housing. The local authorities used to have housing departments with skilled Engineers and Architects who used to design and build local housing estates. They were all made redundant by the Tory policies over 30 years and we are now paying the price for these ill conceived policies.Hundred percent correct. The Town and Country Planning Act of 1947 has been a disaster on every level. It interferes with the rights of every one of us who owns a property to do with it what we want. Not only does it do that, it prevents the development of vital infrastructure such as power lines, roads, railways and causes huge increases in development costs. It is the reason that building say a nuclear power station here costs about four times as much as it would cost elsewhere and takes twenty years to get through approval and development.
A very good essay was posted on here a few weeks ago. I saved the link and sent t to my friends. It is long, but it comes down very heavily on planning sclerosis as a major reason why the UK is poorer than it should be.
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An extract from the above:
"The source of the problem
In 1947, the Town and Country Planning Act (TCPA) was introduced, part of the postwar reform programme that nationalised nearly every major industry, from steel to man-with-van road haulage companies, and normalised top tax rates at over 90 percent. The TCPA completely removed most of the incentive for councils to give planning permissions by removing their obligation to compensate those whose development rights they restricted. Other reforms at around the same time also redistributed away much of the upside that councils had received from development through local property taxes.
The law also added a requirement to get permission from national government for any development, and to pay to the national government a tax of 100 percent on any value that resulted from permission being granted. Most notoriously, the TCPA instituted the legal powers that were used to create and expand green belts the following decade, prohibiting development on large rings of land around England’s cities.1
Overall, it moved Britain from a system where almost any development was permitted anywhere, to one where development was nearly always prohibited. Despite some minor later liberalisations, like the introduction of permitted development rights in the 1980s, the underlying problem remains. Since the TCPA was introduced in 1947, private housebuilding has never reached Victorian levels, let alone the record progress achieved just before the Second World War."
I've been banging on about this for fifteen years or more. It is a disaster, but it is also under pinned by that 1947 act.You are right in the effect of the planning regulations on the development of housing sites. However it is the lack of investment in the public housing that has created this problem since Margaret Thatcher's right to buy scheme and the cut backs in Local Authority funding for housing. The local authorities used to have housing departments with skilled Engineers and Architects who used to design and build local housing estates. They were all made redundant by the Tory policies over 30 years and we are now paying the price for these ill conceived policies.
It was relatively easy for most young people to buy homes until 1980s.
By the way - can you show how any of Farage, Meloni, or Marine le Penn have EVER sung Hitler Youth songs or sympathised with Nazi ideology.At least some of the people you mentioned sang Hitler youth songs and they sympathize with the idealogy. Draw your own conclusions.
You can post pictures of Mussolini as often as you like Lenny - you still don't understand what Fascism is if you think it exists in Europe outside Putin's Russia, or his satellite states like Belarus.8907707080
"Fascio, Italian for a bundle or sheath, conveying “strength through unity,” the unifying force being the government and its supreme leader. As Mussolini put it: “Everything within the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state.”"
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Almost all of the decline in opportunity that you describe comes down to the massive shortage of housing which has driven up prices. This is caused by planning restrictions and the legal ability of objectors to stop development, and population growth at alarming levels.Actually 0.95% as @Woosh has noted, but by how much doesn't necessarily matter as much as whether it is the straw that breaks the camel's back.
When the cost of living feels more like the cost of survival, when the prospects of better become more and more remote, when hope changes to despair, that is when feelings change from unhappy to annoyance, then to anger, fury and rebellion.
I foresee increasing trouble on the way.
Here's an indication of how drastically life and its prospects have changed over a lifetime for ordinary working people like me:
In 1968 at a little over 30 years old I moved into the small flat I'd just bought. It cost just 1.6 times my a little above average income as a service engineer. Today for someone on average income it would cost at least 5 times income.
Nor was it the first property I bought. Just 7 years earlier at 24 years old I bought a quality three bedroom bungalow for my parents to live in free, rather than them throwing money at rising rents. It cost just £2650 in 1961.
At 16 years old I bought my first motorbike, an almost new 250 twin. Two years later I owned my first car, born the same year I was.
I retired early in my fifties and have lived a comfortable life for the 34 years since, enjoying 6 brand new cars bought during that time, currently a battery electric one.
What's the chance today of anyone young from a poor working class background like me, doing ordinary jobs for only 38 years, being able to live an easy 88 year life like that?
Very little I'd think.
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That's normally the result of false flag operations, which is mainly a left side or deep state tactic to make the other side look bad.At least some of the people you mentioned sang Hitler youth songs and they sympathize with the idealogy. Draw your own conclusions.
How do you reduce the population? Euthanasia? As we farmed out manufacturing, we increased the number of people who rely on welfare because they lose their jobs when factories close and retraining doesn't work for them. Overtime, inactivity damages their health. They are collateral damage of the MT's big move to service economy. That was the big policy debate when Thatcher was pm.Almost all of the decline in opportunity that you describe comes down to the massive shortage of housing which has driven up prices. This is caused by planning restrictions and the legal ability of objectors to stop development, and population growth at alarming levels.
When I was born the UK population was 50 million. It is now officially at 68 million and really much more - probably at least 75 million.
Shortage means that people have to outbid one another to secure a purchase or a rental. This sucks out of their pockets a very large amount of disposable income and they are consequently much poorer.
The only answer to this is to cut migration, reform planning and for government to take development by the ears and drive it forward with huge investment.
Rayner is completely right to say she will reform 'Right to Buy'. It was a huge mistake, but it is NOT the major cause of housing shortage. All those old council houses are lived in now. They are still houses in occupation.
Where did I say we had to reduce the population?How do you reduce the population? Euthanasia? As we farmed out manufacturing, we increased the number of people who rely on welfare because they lose their jobs when factories close and retraining doesn't work for them. Overtime, inactivity damages their health. They are collateral damage of the MT's big move to service economy. That was the big policy debate when Thatcher was pm.
Ghots1951 said:The only answer to this is to cut migration, reform planning and for government to take development by the ears and drive it forward with huge investment.
We don't have enough healthy working people to support the rest of the population. That's why we need legal migration in the first place.Where did I say we had to reduce the population?
I didn't.
I said we should reduce migration.