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https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/may/07/we-need-to-build-on-the-furlough-scheme-not-cut-it-to-avoid-mass-unemployment A Return to the 80's for the UK? This article, rightly, makes the point that forcing people back to work during a pandemic when the status of who's been infected, who hasn't and if there is anyone resistant to Covid-19 is unknown. That's before we understand exactly what a second and third wave of this will be like and do to the wider community. ​ However, the line that really chimed with me was the opening one: ​ "A senior government source warned yesterday that people are “addicted” to the furlough scheme. “We have to get people back to work,” he said. ​ If you are outside the UK and younger than I, to be honest, that's probably 90% of those reading this, you may not be familiar with the modern industrial history and why a stupid, crass and clearly ignorant comment like that from the ruling class would "chime...

Happy Birthday, Karl Marx  Karl Marx at 200 - 2018 NYT Article of the bicentenary of the most remarkable political philosopher in the, let me see, oh, yes, roughly last two hundred years! Submitted May 05, 2020 at 04:49PM by Tommy__Douglas https://ift.tt/2WsWwcK

Grant Shapps Tells Public It Will All Go Back To Normal This is an interview g iven by Grant Shapps , transport secretary during which he muses on the notion of sending kids back to school in June. Your government is putting money and power ahead of lives. The soft soaping of the questions doesn't help to get to the truth of the matter. There is one reason they want to get children back to school and it has nothing to do with educating our children. They need them to go back to school to free up Mum and Dad to go back to work but more than that when your kids are going to school and there is a routine everything APPEARS to be 'normal'. If it appears normal people will start to believe it is and return to what they have known their entire lives, work. At no point when this ghoul is talking about kids going back to school does he acknowledge or warn of the real issue. He couches what he says in terms of children being safe from Covid-19. Whilst as a parent my...

Hi there, Have you ever been trying to find some information about Left Wing politics that you just couldn't find? ​ Found yourself with a ton of disparate links that have bits and pieces of what you want but not quite what you need? ​ Been trying to get a picture of what group is what school or discipline of left-wing politics but not able to piece it together? ​ Yeah? Me too! ​ This project is an attempt to provide a central repository for the left online no matter the 'school' or 'discipline'. This subreddit is not the actual repository but a way to build a team that can work together to ultimately design, develop, deliver and maintain the 'library' itself. ​ I appreciate that this is a big undertaking. So, it is not something that I could do alone, nor would I want to. Any good central source of information usually comes from a dedicated team that all have something unique to offer whilst working towards a common goal but over quite a period ...

CNN, stop with the easy 'Trump is an idiot' line and start reporting the bigger issue, CAPITALISM from r/Left_Wing_Info_Centre  Here comes the bit where I ask for your help. To help the channel survive, consider a one-off donation by: Buying me a coffee at - ko-fi.com/partypoliticalpuffin or Single one-off payment - paypal.me/partypoliticalpuffin or One-off or ongoing support: Choose a Maslow level at - patreon.com/partypoliticalpuffin The channel can go from strength to strength with your support. Please look in on us at the following: youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube twitter: https://twitter.com/PuffinPolitics podcast: bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partypoliticalpuffin

Being stopped from calling for greater unity and education outside of 'leftist' forums by?.... You may have seen that I have included below a Reddit post that I wrote. If you read the piece you would see that I was essentially making three important points. That people that are not politics nerds or junkies may not believe or understand that there could be an alternative system to that of capitalism That we on the left, that is the whole of the left, from Social Democrats on the right of the left, through Socialists and Communist and all the way to Anarchists on the left of the left*, can make it difficult, inaccessible, esoteric even for those on the outside of politics, and within for that matter, to understand why capitalism is not a divinely bestowed system to live by. That we on the left intersect on fundamental points and issues and need to make our positions ACROSS THE ENTIRE SPECTRUM of the left accessible. *The spectrum shown here is very truncated and a...

Headlines From the UK, US and around the World - 31 March 2020 New blood test can detect 50 types of cancer System uses machine learning to offer new way to screen for hard-to-detect cancers   Dr Geoffrey Oxnard of Boston’s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, part of Harvard Medical School, said the test was now being explored in clinical trials. Here comes the bit where I ask for your help The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon . If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help to fund improvements. The channel can go from strength to strength with your support.  Please look in on us at the following: youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube twitter: https://twitter.com/PuffinPolitics podcast: bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partypoliticalpuffin

Headlines From the UK, US and around the World for 30 March 2020 As always, whatever the time is with you, I hope you are having a good day. Please look after yourself, your family, friends and loved ones. All the best, Dave Here comes the bit where I ask for your help. The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon. If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help it survive and fund improvements. The channel can go from strength to strength with your support. Please look in on us at the following: youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube  twitter: https://twitter.com/PuffinPolitics podcast: bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast patreon: https://www.patreon.com/partypoliticalpuffin

Todays Summary of Headlines From the UK, US and around the World for 28 March 2020 Have a look at the webpage that the podcasts are hosted on. I'd like to keep on doing these as I've got some ideas on how better to use them for you the audience and for me to be able to get across ideas and paint a picture with words. https://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffins-Podcast As always, whatever the time is with you, I hope you are having a good day. Please look after yourself, your family, friends and loved ones. All the best, Dave Here comes the bit where I ask for your help.  The most tangible way you can show your support is through Patreon.  If you could consider helping the channel in all it's variety with a membership it would help to fund improvements.  The channel can go from strength to strength with your support.  Please look in on us at the following:  youtube: http://bit.ly/PartyPoliticalPuffinonYouTube   ...

The Coronavirus, COVID-19, has swept across the planet in a matter of weeks. As it is a novel version, no one has immunity to it and there are currently no vaccines. A robust and urgent response is and was required to this. A 'Universal' healthcare response to it, if you will. However, there are countries that have no form of 'nationalised' healthcare system and require their citizens to essentially fend for themselves. Of course, this means there is no joined up, national system to coordinate not just the medical aspect of fighting this virus but also the logist aspect of it. I'm not talking about some small, basically unknown 'tribe' or clan off the top of Scotland here. No, I'm talking about the richest country on the planet, the USA. I've filmed a four part series looking at the relationship between coronavirus and healthcare and the systems that will be employed. Please join me to look at what this could mean for the countries invol...

In response to a video I saw via Reddit (which was very good), I wrote some thoughts I had on the subject. Only after I had got finished, it occurred to me that there may be interest from others in either what I had to say or in being able to provide their own response. Please find the text of the response below: Part of the problem in the US seems to be that the right uses ‘Socialism’ to mean whatever they want it to mean. You’ve heard Trump recently talking as though the ‘Reds under the bed’ are coming, coming for you and coming for you now! The right use the mechanics of Socialism all the time. At the moment, the US farmers have had $28 Billion of subsidies. The Trump tax cut has allowed the richest 400 families pay less tax than the bottom half of Americans. The banking bill rolling back Dodd-Frank will create monopolies. These are all examples of good old left-wing policies of redistributing wealth. Unfortunately for us and the likes of us it is being redistributed in ...

Where Does Party Political Puffin Stand Politically? Party Political Puffin, here in the UK, are trying to better explain and portray a set of beliefs. This is to educate and provide a basis for discussion. These beliefs are encapsulated in policies and protections such as: Housing for all End to food inequality Equitable wages starting with enforcing an increased minimum living wage Equality for all regardless of someones: age having undergone gender reassignment being married or in a civil partnership being pregnant or on maternity leave any disability their race including colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin their religion or beliefs their sex or their sexual orientation A Green New Deal to begin roll back climate change and prevents any further decline A social security program that provides for citizens when they need it most and also to support them in retirement Guaranteed free further e...

Party Political Puffin  is primarily a YouTube channel.  The channel started as a response to the political climate that arose from the 2016, US general election.          The race was between Hillary Rodham Clinton and, remarkably, Donald John Trump . The source of amusement and amazement wasn't so much, if at all, to do with the policies that were being asserted as the candidates positions but very much to do with what started as 'simple' 'falsehoods' being offered by Trump.  Mendacity is a trait synonymous with politics. However, this was a level and shear volume that this author had never experienced before.  At first, it was amusing listening to and watching ,Trump. Some of it was simply cringe inducing. It was almost like driving past a bad traffic accident on the other side of the road, impossible to take your eyes off. Trump had been in office 24 hours when he sent Sean Spicer, the 28th, White House Press Secret...