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A real fucking win - close the UK mining industry down - and import coal from South America, Australia and then the biomass "scam"

My old man being a proud and hard working colliery shift manager , not impressed. Yes the coal industry could have been put on a better footing with further and gentler run-downs. Idiot knows and cares not a fig for the real community issues.
 
Quite apart from the justifiable froth and anger at his "one rule for the proles, one rule for us" approach to this, I find myself wondering what must be going on in Westminster that it appears to be a hotbed of cross-infection out of all proportion to the rest of the country. Have they learned nothing from their own press briefings? (rhetorical question: of course they haven't).
 
Quite apart from the justifiable froth and anger at his "one rule for the proles, one rule for us" approach to this, I find myself wondering what must be going on in Westminster that it appears to be a hotbed of cross-infection out of all proportion to the rest of the country. Have they learned nothing from their own press briefings? (rhetorical question: of course they haven't).
The cranks are in charge, they don't follow social distancing or masking
 
I too deplore this old cunt. but think it's important to acknowledge that as an example of how to behave when representing oneself in any situation that involves the state or law and order it is important to put yourself and family or friends first. He does that very well. Not traditionally honourable just selfish and a liar.
 


A rare - coherent and powerful - intervention by Paul Mason:



Johnson’s jibe, as well as being a classic mask slip revealing his class hatred, was also moronically wrong. The main result of the pit closure programme was Britain burning imported coal. An increase in the carbon footprint.

Come the day Johnson should be tied to a lamppost in a deindustrialised mining community who can deal with him in the appropriate manner.
 
He knows what he's doing, it's a deliberate wind up.
I think this may well be correct, based on what Cummings said about their deliberate use of rhetoric that would wind up their opponents during the referendum. The point is that by aggravating your opponents, you get to set the battlefield. People aren’t talking about the things that Johnson don’t want to talk about, they’re instead reliving battles from 40 years ago, which he couldn’t give a shit about.
 
I think this may well be correct, based on what Cummings said about their deliberate use of rhetoric that would wind up their opponents during the referendum. The point is that by aggravating your opponents, you get to set the battlefield. People aren’t talking about the things that Johnson don’t want to talk about, they’re instead reliving battles from 40 years ago, which he couldn’t give a shit about.

Given many of the ‘red wall’ seats are ex-mining and steel making towns it’s a pretty dumb one. It’s one thing needling environmental/lefties and quite another mocking the forced destruction of an industry that gave an area identity and jobs. These areas might be ‘post-industrial’ but a distinct structure of feeling rooted in the history of place remains.
 
Given many of the ‘red wall’ seats are ex-mining and steel making towns it’s a pretty dumb one. It’s one thing needling environmental/lefties and quite another mocking the forced destruction of an industry that gave an area identity and jobs. These areas might be ‘post-industrial’ but a distinct structure of feeling rooted in the history of place remains.
Without wishing to be overly reductionist, those who maintain a subjectivity of being part of a community fucked over by the Tories and Thatcher with respect to mining weren’t the ones who voted for (or ever would vote for) a Thatcher-lionising Tory. Those who still care about those events were presented at the last election with an actual 1980s-miner-supporting old-school Labour left-winger. Not enough of them voted for him to win their constituency.
 
Without wishing to be overly reductionist, those who maintain a subjectivity of being part of a community fucked over by the Tories and Thatcher with respect to mining weren’t the ones who voted for (or ever would vote for) a Thatcher-lionising Tory. Those who still care about those events were presented at the last election with an actual 1980s-miner-supporting old-school Labour left-winger. Not enough of them voted for him to win their constituency.

These communities sustained the labour and trade union movement for over a century. They were it’s organised backbone, provided many of its leaders and were centres of self sustainability, social solidarity and spawned an autodidact tradition that had deep reverberations in culture and society. I would say writing them off, understanding their collective memory as purely residual, is reductive. I also think that the lefts failure to understand the processes at work in these areas partly explains its decline in them
 
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