When Blair said yes to Bush II’s war on Iraq he initiated Brexit. At that moment he personally began the process that is now bringing disaster to us all. Blair’s ‘yes’ to war broke the anti-Tory voting bloc in the electorate. When the crisis came in 2008 that bloc had…

Brexit is a death cult. The cause of Brexit is the millions of people in the UK who want to die and the opportunity David Cameron gave them to take the rest of us with them. Cameron gave the zealots a new Masada and they have been butchering everyone ever…

The June 2017 General Election is about tax rises. UK taxes need to rise to pay for all the things the Tories (& LibDems) maliciously destroyed since 2010 (the NHS, state education, social care & security, the UK, etc) or to pay for Brexit. This is the choice at this…

Brexit has to be paid for. It will cost the UK state hundreds of billions of pounds for at least a decade & perhaps more. …

The UK economy is principally composed of ‘services’ of various kinds. These make up 78% of GDP. Services are a function or effect of the flow of capital through the jurisdiction. It is exactly those flows of capital they service. That is what ‘services’ are. These flows of capital are…

This from yesterday’s The Financial Times actually made me laugh. I don’t think people have noticed how much money has changed since 2008. It is a mistake to assume that money is always just one constant thing rather than an ever changing multiplicity.

Horkheimer & Adorno, Dialectic of Enlightenment, (Stanford University Press 2002), p196–197 [p236–237 in the Verso edition] Emphasis in bold my own. The view that the leveling and standardization of people in general, on the one hand, is matched, on the other, by a heightening of individu­ality in the so-called leader…

Speech, communication of any kind, is action. Thought in the form of cognition may well be private but any speech or communication, even talking to oneself, is action. There is no speech or communication that escapes the field of action. When we talk about freedom of speech we are in…

From https://medium.com/@jakeybob/brexit-maps-d70caab7315e? It is therefore a good thing that actual Article 50 will totally destroy both cities. The economies of both cities will be annihilated and they will be lucky to hold onto one, much reduced, university between them. …