Jamie Raskin, the US Congressman who called Nigel Farage a "Putin-loving free speech imposter and Trump sycophant" talks to Adrian Goldberg for the Byline Podcast
The Byline Times is an oasis of sanity in a desert of lunacy. Great piece from AGolddberg. I think, (as another piece in BT also points out) that the rot began with Thatcher - she set out to change British society to make it more corporate while still maintaining a gloss of tradition - think the spivs and crooks hiding behind Spitfires and Beefeaters. She hated everything the post-war Labour govt achieved (NHS/Housing/Schools/Nationalised industries) and swallowed the Friedmanomics poison. She went to war against the population, sent the cavalry in against the miners at Orgreave and sold off everything - including most importantly N Sea oil and gas. Norway which kept control of theirs now has an eye watering sovereign fund and a high standard of living while the UK struggles on in so many ways. From Thatcher and the band of crooks that served under her it was but a short step to Farage and Brexit. Brexit showed how bots and money could buy an election and voila - the rabbit came out of the hat with Trump 1. Now he is back with a vengeance and all we can do is hope that some of the spirit that burned in the veins of Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Pete Seeger and Mother Jones can kick in in time to save America. All we can do is spread, the word pass the verbal ammunition and hope.
The Byline Times is an oasis of sanity in a desert of lunacy. Great piece from AGolddberg. I think, (as another piece in BT also points out) that the rot began with Thatcher - she set out to change British society to make it more corporate while still maintaining a gloss of tradition - think the spivs and crooks hiding behind Spitfires and Beefeaters. She hated everything the post-war Labour govt achieved (NHS/Housing/Schools/Nationalised industries) and swallowed the Friedmanomics poison. She went to war against the population, sent the cavalry in against the miners at Orgreave and sold off everything - including most importantly N Sea oil and gas. Norway which kept control of theirs now has an eye watering sovereign fund and a high standard of living while the UK struggles on in so many ways. From Thatcher and the band of crooks that served under her it was but a short step to Farage and Brexit. Brexit showed how bots and money could buy an election and voila - the rabbit came out of the hat with Trump 1. Now he is back with a vengeance and all we can do is hope that some of the spirit that burned in the veins of Woody Guthrie, Joe Hill, Pete Seeger and Mother Jones can kick in in time to save America. All we can do is spread, the word pass the verbal ammunition and hope.