Fight-Back Like a Filipino

A week is a long time in blogging. 

The Paul Dennis situation rumbles on. Priced out of legal action, democracy is only a thing if you can afford it. 

Medway Council's Value Election has created a democratic deficit which is dodgier than dodge so keep your eyes and ears peeled on that front. 

To the untrained eye this looks really boring but we know from experience, the seemingly boring is usually secretly dodgy. 

The Queen did a speech for working people, giving an overview of all the ways the government plans to shaft us this time. 

First we'll make it virtually impossible for anyone to go on strike, then we'll take away their unsocial hours payments. Sorted. 

I went to picket the Daily Mail HQ with a few hundred angry Filipinos. 

Papers like the Daily Mail exist to do the bidding of the super-rich. The super-rich don't actually read the Mail themselves. That would be degrading. 

But if they can shift public debate and concerns away from the real issues, like resources for the NHS and instead have everyone terrified of being left in the hands of a forgein killer when they go to hospital, well, so much the better. 

Gutted Daily Mail

When the Daily Mail started on the Filipino Community, they probably thought it was just the latest propaganda piece for their reactionary archives. 

They probably didn't realise they were picking on a well educated, organised community that wouldn't take their racism lying down. 

Take that Daily Mail

My friend Sal swapped a shift with me so I could go. Yesterday she was like: 

They might. They might not. Either way, the Mail are bullies and the only we way to stop bullies is to stand up to them. If the Queen's Speech was anything to go on, there'll be plenty more call for that sort of thing. 

Governments, companies and newspapers only get away with what they think they can. 

We don't have to accept dodgy election results, austerity and racism. The future is ours to win! 

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