Don't know why it's a cop out asking you that question?
If you want public services - or any kind of political goal, asking you what you are doing to pursue that seems entirely reasonable. I'm assuming from your answer though, that you are not doing anything actively to defend public services? If that's the case you are, literally, reduced to putting an x on a paper every 5 years - and even then voting for a party that has actively undermined those services over the last 20 years.
Don't know why it's a cop out asking you that question?
Fwiw my own politics don't reduce down to defending public services or the vision of 1945, I'd like to see deeper change. But even within that there are major battles to be had that are part of/in parallel to 'defending public services' (jobs, working conditions, power in the workplace - as well as the service itself). What to do about it? Get involved. Even in these dark times there are plenty of ways of doing that.
Of course its not because they are evil and hate playgrounds. But in a safe labour seat what can I do to change the austerity policy?
this is getting like pulling teeth: okay, you seem to be saying you've been involved in some kind of politics, some kind of campaign (is it secret?). What was it? What was the political logic?
Why wouldn't I oppose the disciplining of someone who opposed cuts?
They've directly supported and helped people on the end of cuts, sometimes slowed down the closure or winding down of services, and just occasionally, worked towards wider causes that have forced councils and politicians into climbdowns - Labour or Tory.
Fucking hell
Good grief, talk about going round in circles.
No it doesn't, look at the figures. Services even fared better during the last Labour government.
So, we get to it. Entirely laudable thing to do, adopting a child - genuinely (my partner used to be a foster carer, fwiw). But you gave this as your answer, when I asked about your politics, about what you are doing to defend public services. I think we've finally got to it haven't we - you are not doing anything. Me - stuff on and off since 1979 or so, for the first 10 years in the Labour Party, then anarcho politics, more recently anti-cuts, local solidarity movement, stuff on sanctions. But it's not a who can piss highest thing, I've said on here I've done nothing for the last year or more due to health issues. It's about having some sense of a process, a politics, fuck it, if nothing else a sense of connection. I was asking if you did anything about the things you believe in, because if you'd been involved in say a campaign against NHS cuts, in some degree, in some way, an aspect of that would have been extra-parliamentary. It wouldn't have been simply 'let's wait till the next election, err, that's it'. But it seems that's precisely your political approach 'Corbyn is shit, let's hope somebody else comes along to vote for in 2022'. From your perspective, how do you move things on, what do you do to make the changes you want? Anything, anything at all???
When have you opposed such disciplining?Why wouldn't I oppose the disciplining of someone who opposed cuts?
