The Loneliness Phenomenon – The Middle Aged Revolutionary
https://middleagedrevolutionaryblog.com/2024/05/27/the-loneliness-phenomenon/

I've screamed this for years. The "regeneration" of Lime Street has been yet another failure for the city and a destruction of Liverpool's unique character.

The Liverpool City Council should (LCC) is one of the most corrupt councils in Britain and has used the building work in Liverpool as a way to earn money on the sale of contracts.
That's why we end up with plastic looking shite like this.

https://www.liverpoolworld.uk/news/carbuncle-cup-liverpool-building-ugliest-in-uk-4676875

Even Rishi Sunak seems like a relatable guy when you stand him next to Starmer. The latter seems totally inhuman, stilted, stiff and just plain bizarre. Part of this come from the fact that Starmer has the more difficult job here. He is the leader of a party that is (supposedly) based on the organised labour movement and which is supposed to stand for socialism, even Blairs reworded Clause 4 of the party constitution committed to "socialism". Starmers biggest problem stems from this point and it was the same problem Ed Miliband had as well, they've been told clearly by the ruling class that no serious reforms can actually be offered. They've also been told that they can't launch class based attacks on the Conservative Party or its leaders as that might stir things up too much. Essentially they've been told that they have to win using the formula of the 1990s, which is to appeal to the population on largely technocratic grounds of "competence" or "decency" or other such buzzwords that are rendered meaningless when you know Starmers actual record in office. In the 1990s you can just about get away with this if you have a Bill Clinton or a Tony Blair delivering this empty management speak because they were skilled enough actors to carry it off, as was Obama. Starmer is manifestly not good enough a performer to carry this off and he's also an extremely weak man. That's why Sunak walks all over him and Starmer looks like he's going to start crying. This is why some in the ruling class are looking to promote an even more repulsive character named Wesley Streeting to the big job asap because he seems to be the next "heir to Blair". This will fail too though as part of the reason why the Blair act worked was that you could spin the illusion of "prosperity" in the late 1990s and early 2000s, you can't do that now and no matter how good a bull shit artist you are you can't escape the fact the material conditions of the working class are being pushed relentlessly downwards. This is why, no matter what the result, the labour party is utterly bankrupt and finished as a political force. When you are the reformist party which can offer no reforms then it really is all over for you.

Liverpool once had 300,000 council houses, but they were sold off under Thatcher's push to end social housing. Now, several inadequate housing associations, often run for profit, dominate the market. These associations force workers to bid against each other in online auctions, with points allocated based on the severity of their circumstances. The worse off you are, the more points you receive in this poverty credit system.

Today, Liverpool is filled with private housing at exorbitant prices, and slum landlords are turning the city back 100 years. Houses are falling apart, and single rooms are overcrowded with multiple occupants.

This is not just a crisis; it's a crime against the local people that neither the government nor the local council can or will solve.

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/hotel-homeless-scouse-single-mums-29430591#ICID=Android_EchoNewsApp_AppShare

Social Housing as Heritage: Thoughts on the National Trust and Balfron Tower | Municipal Dreams
https://municipaldreams.wordpress.com/3235-2/

Unite Embraces Imperialism – Class Consciousness Project
https://classconsciousnessproject.blog/2024/04/01/sharon-graham-embraces-imperialism/comment-page-1/#comments

Class political consciousness can be brought to the workers only from without, that is, only from outside the economic struggle, from outside the sphere of relations between workers and employers. The sphere from which alone it is possible to obtain this knowledge is the sphere of relationships of all classes and strata to the state and the government, the sphere of the interrelations between all classes. For that reason, the reply to the question as to what must be done to bring political knowledge to the workers cannot be merely the answer with which, in the majority of cases, the practical workers, especially those inclined towards Economism, mostly content themselves, namely: “To go among the workers.” To bring political knowledge to the workers the Social Democrats must go among all classes of the population; they must dispatch units of their army in all directions.

Lenin - What Is To Be Done

Yet again, we have to ask: WHERE ARE THE TRADE UNIONS???

Having jumped with both feet onto the imperialist-led gender ideology bandwagon, never stopping to ask themselves what it all might really signify and who is actually driving the engine that brings all this anti-material anti-worker lunacy in its train, they are nowhere to be found when ordinary women face real problems at work as a result.

It is a telling sign of the utter rottenness of the liberal ‘left’ that it is a christian organisation that has stepped forward to defend the interests of these nurses.

This should not have been a matter for the slow grind of a painful employment tribunal. The union should have brought its members out and stopped the nonsense in its tracks right at the start.
https://christianconcern.com/news/nurses-forced-to-share-changing-room-with-trans-colleague/

Spotted in Frenchay (Bristol)

Dave Ward and the rest of the labour party affiliated trade union leaders, are a bunch of repulsive, lying bastards who are trying to sell the working class out to the party of Blackrock.

https://x.com/MarxEngelsLnin/status/1808841575193051288