Over in the UK, Res Publica, the bastion of Red Toryism, source of the ‘big society’, home of the self-styled ‘philosopher-king’ Philip Blond, has run out of cash. Staff are being locked out due to unpaid rents, paychecks are empty … Looks like David Cameron’s cuts are coming home.
Where are those bloody elves and their bags of gold when the worthy folk of merrie England need them?
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11 June, 2011 at 3:02 am
Always refreshing when trash crisis is followed by cash crisis. I hope that particular dialectic will assume greater potency in the near future.
11 June, 2011 at 1:29 pm
They’ll have to do some deft thinking on this one. I’m sure Alasdair is praying for them.
11 June, 2011 at 5:28 am
Elves & bags of gold. Maybe you meant leprechauns and their pot of gold -but then that would be Ireland whose working class is also “sharing the pain” of austerity. Ain’t capitalism grand.
11 June, 2011 at 1:28 pm
I was alluding to the use of Tolkien’s worlds as a model for the red tory program, via Blond’s theological mentor – Alasdair Maclagan (http://stalinsmoustache.wordpress.com/2010/01/06/on-using-tolkien-as-a-political-model/). Not sure there are too many leprechauns in Tolkien’s thoroughly conservative and colonialist opus. The worse for it I guess.
13 June, 2011 at 1:39 am
Thanks for the link, I was wondering where my instinctive aversion to Tolkien may have been coming from. I guess, in a way, L. Ron Hubbard may have picked up the baton: basing a “Religion” on some turgid science fiction.
On a sillier note and a re-doing of Katy Perry. I hope more of this is going on in the dorm rooms of America: I Read Some Marx (And I Liked It)
14 June, 2011 at 6:03 pm
And check out these Swedes!
16 June, 2011 at 5:49 pm
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