I really like this series. it's just a bloke from The Guardian going around England chatting really, but it's quite good and it's been going on since the ref.
That one is kind of heartbreaking. I watched a few of them but something about the person who clearly knows what it means to be part of society and is actively trying to fix their bit of it ( the food maker) but still would vote brexit. Such a contrary picture painted and assumed often by myself and I imagine a lot of others.
My parents are divorced and are so different. Kind of.
My Dad's a Brexit man and he's actively against economic growth. Thinks it's shite. I don't agree with the Brexit thing but accept he might have a point about growth. He describes himself as right wing without embarassment.
My Mum was a full on Commie. She even lived in Cuba for a while. She thinks Brexit is going to be an economic disaster and is a mental remain. She suddenly seems pervertedly intersested in capital growth and the damage leaving will have to the economy.
I don't have a point about any of this except they probably have more in common than they would ever admit.
The pursuit of growth for growth's sake has got out of hand.
On the other side it is a global issue and removing the UK from the EU doesn't solve anything.
Today I watched, in its entirety, The Giant Beast that is the Global Economy.
8 part Amazon Prime doc series that focuses on various aspects of globalism economics.
Its Amazon so it's not anti-capitalist but presented by Kel Penn (Harold and Kumar actor, part of Obama's White House staff and worked/ing with Bernie) so he balances it out.
Really interesting, I think you would get something out of it.
I was listening on the radio the other day - it must have been a 4pm show on radio 4 wednesday. The woman speaking spoke how all of the growth, the 1% of it, is exactly the same as the amount of personal debt created. It was a pretty interesting show with some ideas about how the government should write off shit loads of personal debt because all the money that is used to pay off interest is the wasted calories of money (my terms) and not being fed back into the communities - the further argument being that the banks already got theirs when we saved them in 2008.
All money is created as debt. That's why the world is collectively in debt and it doesn't all balance out. When the banks were in trouble there we a good argument for letting them go under because the net effect would be to cancel the debt. The debt that was created by typing a negative number into a computer to make a mortgage spaff out of thin air.
My brother works for Bank of America and his opinion is "It's fucked up".
It's pretty clear, from the numbers of people who have taken part in this march, that there is little reason to doubt the validity of the number of people that signed the petition.