Does this person, who hateth the poor for scrounging, not realise that denying the poor money actually makes life worse for him? The old man’s pub, the greasy spoon, the fruit stall, places the rich mailer will never tread in lest he gets infected by a foreign type, are places that thrive because the poor spend their money there, only now that the benefits cuts are in full force, they don’t. Means the old man’s pub owner, greasy spoon worker and fruit stall handler are all out of a job, which means there’s more poor people and a more crippled economy.

And even if the rich mailer couldn’t give a gobbling cock monkey about the poor getting poorer, or think nothing of letting UKIP know where the spare key is kept, don’t they see the fundamental flaw in all of this?

If all the poor people in the UK stop getting Sky, how are Sky going to make up for the loss in revenue?

By raising the subscription fee which YOU have to pay you rich moronic tagnut from hell

Paperboy.

Yes, old people, that’s ‘Paperboy’ the 1984 Atari arcade ‘classic’.

The controls are shit, the game is nightmarishly hard (even on xbox) and the achievements are few and far between.

Paperboy.

Great.

To find out why I’m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here Just two days ago I was a healthy 882 gamerscore short of my target, with a mere 6 days to go. With the deadline getting tighter, how have I performed? Well, I think …

To find out why I’m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here As of my last (half-way point) update, I was barely a third of the way to my target. Which gave me two choices, really – either resign myself to failure (and ba…

The guy was no one of political or media influence, just someone I knew personally (or thought I had until then).

The terrifying thing for me is that people will happily sign away their own rights because they think it’ll lead to other people (people they don’t like) being shafted. Fuckyounomics in action.

I must admit I’m surprised that anyone is talking about work camps and the like in Germany – occasionally some nutcase over here suggests something of the same (and we say “but isn’t that just like Victorian Workhouses?” which kinda shuts them down), but concentration camps have a rather more special – or at least more recent – resonance with Germans, I would have thought…

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The human rights thing is particularly upsetting though – we’ve got some very high profile politicians (including members of our current government) who are seriously talking about withdrawing the UK from the European Convention on Human Rights…

The idea that someone can just suggest repealing Human Rights is truly terrifying.

(and the reasons they have are truly ridiculous – suggesting that a piece of legislation primarily drafted by an English lawyer is somehow a ‘European law’ being foisted upon the UK’… it’s almost like they’re parodying themselves)

a) Point at even poorer people somewhere else. Optionally: tell poor people in your own country that they should even be grateful (!) that they don’t starve to death (regardless whether they all really don’t).

b) Pick out a favourite strawman-luxury-item and demand they do without it. In Germany, the most common “luxury” item that poor people are supposed not to have – according to popular media and politics – are flat-screen TVs. As if there is a cheaper alternative besides having no TV at all (maybe that’s what they actually want to say?).
Even more extreme, though rare, example: telephone. Once an idiot here seriously claimed that having _telephone_ were luxury and the poor should not be entitled to even that. Well, I cancelled the conversation and all contact with that guy soon afterwards when he also demanded long-term unemployed be sent forcefully to “work-camps” (he might as well just have said “concentration”).

c) Pick out examples of people dying indirectly of poverty, and explain how they were actually wrong/it was their own fault/they could have done just Z instead, where Z usually means one of a number of completely self-deprecating things, sometimes even including prostitution.

But the disturbing truth behind all of these is the quite frightening fact that there are, today, large swaths of people who have never taken any of the human rights to heart, and do not give a damn about other humans (or animals, while we are at it) suffering or dying, unless it is themselves or their closest relatives or friends.

Last week I complained to the BBC about – in particular – BBC Breakfast’s appallingly pro-UKIP coverage (this actually got a bit worse after I sent my complaint, as anyone was watching will testify). I got a response this morning: Dea…

To find out why I’m doing this, see my first post or donate via JustGiving here So, my promising start – during which I gained almost 250 gamerscore in the first 24 hours – seems to have died back a bit. I would like to blame this on …

To find out why I’m doing this, see my previous post or donate via JustGiving here To give myself a good head-start, I’ve returned to Hitman: Absolution, a game I stopped part-way through for some reason (i.e. ‘I started playing anoth…

(no, hang on, that was the past as well according to the films. Shit.)

what a wonderful way to say a thank you. ‘paying thigs forward’ is something that should be done more often.

take care

Good on you Amy Rutland for standing up to these people. The fact they can’t respond and simply resort to threats and ridicule speaks volumes.

Chris Latimer (who I have quoted) did make an effort to distance himself from some of the more extreme attitudes – I’ve quoted him saying he didn’t condone it (although he was giving out a rather mixed message).

In answer to your second point, that there are people who belong to the Left who exhibit aggressive misogyny does not and should not excuse UKIP supporters for their own behaviour (which seems to be increasingly widespread).

Their agenda is similarly concealed behind a veneer of acceptability – there are many UKIP members and voters who do just oppose EU integration, but there are several others who are very definitely racist, homophobic etc.

(The British National Party (BNP) also at one point tried to paint an acceptable face on racism, but they were never very good at it)