northamptonshire
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Back in October 2018 I wrote this article, so I am not surprised one bit that another homeless person has died on our streets. Unless the government and the council act there are going to be more, this isn’t something unforeseen which is happening. We knew this was coming, we know there has been hundreds…
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Take a walk through my town Down the dark and dirty paths We got no money for street lights There are no wages for street cleaners Peer from the lofty lift tower heights Drink in the run down derelict sights Hear the dereliction of council duty Drunk on their neoliberal counsel booty We have been…
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I shall rise like the phoenix in my hour of despair The wounded hopeless hero damaged beyond repair Discarded demented awaiting with bated breath My desperate final stand against the darkness I cry out a cry of shame resigned to my fate Swallowed hole by the sound of my own voice Naive in the illusion…
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Losing interest in your interests It’s a warning sign you no longer feel fine Empty and numb got you feeling dumb Depression may have you under the thumb Self hating continually cries out in the night Dabble in drink and drugs with silent shrugs Self medicating trying to keep it out of sight Struggles the…
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Another round of cuts has been announced by the council, and another attack on our public services is being rolled out – well enough is enough, let us throw a spanner in their works and save our libraries. We won’t be able to stop all the cuts at once, the only way to do that…
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On the 24th of July the CEO of the Hope Centre wrote on his blog an article entitled: “Why Hope charges for items like food and clothes.” In this article the CEO seeks to justify charging for these items, as well as selling donations on eBay and furthermore attacks organisations that give away things for…
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Cry out in despair as our futures reduced to ash Prosperity for the powerful, poverty for all The absurdity goes right to the core of the system Obscurity of the button pushing power plays Jack out remove your social programming Subservient like a Victorian servant It’s not prim and proper to make demands Your betters…
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Momentum, the social movement set up in the wake of the phenomena that was Jeremy Corbyn’s campaign for Labour leader has steadily and consistently retreated from the spirit of the campaign, and its founding ethos to the point it is in a real danger of becoming irrelevant to the wider movement. The writing was on…
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Clean for the Queen – a slap in the face to the people of Northampton. Clean for the Queen is a national initiative to get the downtrodden and desperate people of this country cleaning their own communities, after all our councils have been that drastically butchered by central government to the point that they’re no…
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Lingchi was an an ancient Chinese torture method which is more widely known in the west as death by a thousand cuts, a torture method this council seems to have adopted as its model for local government policy. Make no mistake that sooner or later people will die because of the butchering of our local…
Solidarity Steve 