FlyTheNest

HindleA wrote:In all its inglory


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HindleA wrote:Some convoluted nonsense about suspension until the voters get a better offer,or something.There is no on the one hand or the other when fucking lives are at stake

Perhaps, above all, a new politics for the 2020s must cultivate a civic patriotism that is inclusive and generous, rather than sour and resentful, and that reaffirms the value of the common good.
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HindleA wrote:If I,or indeed the vast majority ,waited to get exactly what they want..turning up your nose at the food on offer is an act of selfish indulgence which actively ensures others starve.

HindleA wrote:There is absolutely nothing more indicative of selfish right-wingery/against all I believe Labourish thinking should be all about to my mind than locally deciding on personal basis and ignoring /at the expense of the overall effect.

HindleA wrote:It is a false distinction/separation ,particularly the fakery of the simplistic State provision squeezing out the family,one interacts with the other.The coalition enacted a double whammy of reducing provision and defacillitating-indeed obscenely falsely portraying family support/caring /disability/illness as lifestyle choice and penalising in targeted fashion eg bedrooms.

HindleA wrote:I think you removed a post,the above was referring to civil society/State interaction.The premise contained in the post was wrong.

The first step is to accept the new paradigm, which is the end of the Blairite/Cameroon version of liberal capitalism. After a decade of austerity, the state is returning to its primary function, which is the provision of security, as the philosopher John Gray has written in these pages. We believe in an interventionist, even moral state; in the efficacy and compensatory functions of the state to protect especially the most vulnerable against the damage inflicted on societies by free markets and globalisation. This should be complemented by the renewal of civil society and the intermediary institutions that lie between the market and the state: family networks, friendly societies, cooperatives and religious and charitable bodies.

David@dmk1793
The New Statesman editorial is yet another bizarre instance of centrist intellectuals calling for a fundamental shift in the UK's economic model away from liberal capitalism, while simultaneously rejecting the only political force in the last three decades to have offered one.

HindleA wrote:"Apologies"

There are fundamental differences between taking a"compromised"position as a lesser member of coalition and actively supporting,speaking for ,stepping up to the plate again and again to justify what you supposedly regret having to do,it wasn't even Webb's remit yet he argued stoically and repeatedly in favour of the penalty for the deemed spare rooms when obviously many were not
The apology is fake and contemptible.