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Parsing the politics : Comments

By Judy Crozier, published 24/3/2014

From what we know of Tories and what we have seen of their current activities, the aim is the creation of a pool of unemployed or people in insecure employment, who are not protected by unions.

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Its informative to note that this thread has attracted merely 12 replies, when threads of infinitely less significance but with emotive appeal like racism will attract hundreds of responders and multiple threads. In a globalised economy subjects like racism are essentially anarchronistic except for politically exploitative purposes.
Posted by YEBIGA, Tuesday, 25 March 2014 5:28:23 PM
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YEBIGA,

When a wannabe journalist posts tired and outdated talking points from the Labor talk sheet, the failure to generate interest is not surprising.
Posted by Shadow Minister, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 8:46:32 AM
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Yebiga

'... identity politics, never ending arguments about racism, sexism, violence to women. Indeed anything and everything to divide and distract.'

And do you notice that however much raging debate surrounds these issues, they have barely advanced at all in 30 years?

The media smoke-and-mirrors trick is to keep continual 'progressive' controversy and debate alive in order to feed people's sense of righteousness, while very little real 'progress' ever gets achieved. Most of the advances took place in the 60s and 70s. Since then, any 'progress' has been cosmetic.

At the same time, the people's right to employment, worker rights, a healthy welfare system and to affordable education, healthcare and housing have been absorbed into faux media concern about our 'ageing population', 'global competitiveness', 'declining literacy standards' yada yada ...
Posted by Killarney, Wednesday, 26 March 2014 6:19:37 PM
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