See also: Varoufakis on Covid-19 … Klein on Covid-19
The corona virus has cast a light on every aspect of British society: the economic relations, the class inequalities, migration, capitalism, big pharma. Everything i seen in a new light and we have to respond to that.
Spotted this in the Canary, which seems pertinent:
https://www.thecanary.co/trending/2020/03/19/football-legend-gary-neville-has-royally-humiliated-richard-philanthropist-branson/
Of course, Branson is not the only person who has been humiliated by Neville and Giggs:
Meanwhile, there is an 800 room facility located at one end of The Mall in London; a 755 room property in Sandringham Norfolk; a whopping 1,000 room building in Windsor and not forgetting a relatively modest 55 room venue at Balmoral, Scotland all massively under utilised gobbling up shed loads of public money.
The occupant of this largesse, courtesy of the forelock tugging section of the populace, says that in relation to the coronavirus that she and her family “stand ready to play our part”. What part? Buy some respirators? Throw in a few million to help people on zero hour contracts? Open up their (our) castles and palaces to the homeless and unfortunates?
No way. Forget it.
Too many people have got their priorities the wrong way around. Favouring the easy option of blaming those with nothing or next to nothing as “scroungers” (because the newspapers tell the them to) whilst letting the real scroungers off the hook at the same time as shoveling not only their money into these parasites pockets but everybody else’s.
As someone once said “In it together my arse!”
Appros a previous observation made earlier in the week concerning Branson.
Been giving that missed opportunity some thought in terms of appropriate street art commentary.
Free of charge for anyone to use. Open access, no copyright etc:
Billionaire
scRounger
Asset-stripping
Nhs
Stealing
Our
moNey
Your welcome.
Damn formatting messed that up. But I hope the gist is clear.