On Radio Fours Today News Program this morning one of their roving reporters went out to find a small but well organised tented Protest in the Leeds City Campus. Generally, passersby were sympathetic to the cause of greater equality and wealth distribution which anyone in his right mind will tell you is well overdue. Not so good however when they drove forty minutes away to Skipton. Here, There were no tents and those stopped or assembled in the street were more than prepared with their excuses for doing nothing, or nowt and of course the usual platitudes from the usual bunch of soft conservatives were more concerned in covering their own arses than actually doing anything.
One fella who managed a commericial radio station clearly wasn't going to say anything in any way censorious about the current system of gross inequality and even this was daring compared with the old councillor who was more concerned about people taking up space on the pavement for some reason. Perhaps he would be willing to criticise those in the main market street of Skipton who had the temerity to set up market stalls and peddle their wares.....(Surely some mistake Ed!) Another geyser with a long memory was clearly much more concerned with the War of the Roses and very unhappy that the Lancastrians had given the Yorkists a sound thrashing. Presumably the Yorkists had sat by their fires and said, things like, "Looks like Rain," or "don't be Daft, even a Lancastrian would not come to Skipton in weather like this." Wrong again old fella, and it can happen again, This time of course it wont be quite the same. This time it wont be a pikestaff, it will be more likely a mortgage foreclosure on nicely printed headed notepaper. A slower death than at the hands of the Lancastrians maybe but the end result probably is the same.
So much for political awareness hereabouts, its not that the Conservative Yorkists were not brave enough or capable enough of putting up a good fight they just got used to hoping and then assuming that everything would be all right eventually. After years of this, it was easy to fail to recognise the sound of marching feet and in towns like Skipton they are quickly overrun by the greedy buggers with more to lose. Sadly, in Sheep Street, Skipton, the Sheep don't look up at least not untill its too late.
A couple of people stopped me and pointed out that few people if any had done anything about Buy Nothing Day. Sad but true i suspect and those that actually had done something, delayed their Saturday Shop, or just taken the dog for a walk etc were hardly likely to stand up and make a fuss like the nomark who claimed to manage the local commercial radio station. His job is to advertise anything that comes his way and to confess he was not doing this even for one day, would be more than enough for the powers that be to give him his marching orders. Imagine if McDonalds took a day off from selling Burgers.??? Its the symbolic value thats the important thing in this action. We all waste and spend far to much, throw away loads of food just because we are the lucky 2 Billion whilss the rest of the world population exist on crumbs or dont exist at all. Sooner or later famine on a large scale will finish us off with this kind of attitude, but it doesnt have to be this way, Any day can be a buy nothing day... a day on which you do something really useful.
A couple of people stopped me and pointed out that few people if any had done anything about Buy Nothing Day. Sad but true i suspect and those that actually had done something, delayed their Saturday Shop, or just taken the dog for a walk etc were hardly likely to stand up and make a fuss like the nomark who claimed to manage the local commercial radio station. His job is to advertise anything that comes his way and to confess he was not doing this even for one day, would be more than enough for the powers that be to give him his marching orders. Imagine if McDonalds took a day off from selling Burgers.??? Its the symbolic value thats the important thing in this action. We all waste and spend far to much, throw away loads of food just because we are the lucky 2 Billion whilss the rest of the world population exist on crumbs or dont exist at all. Sooner or later famine on a large scale will finish us off with this kind of attitude, but it doesnt have to be this way, Any day can be a buy nothing day... a day on which you do something really useful.
