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The ludicrous Sussex Plod Vs Brighton Pride Beach BBQ farce rumbles on...
Beth 'I have a professional job in digital marketing. I am not an anarchist living in a squat' Granter, pictured recently.
And that's an actual quote from the above.
SMELLY UNWASHED ANARCHISTS - BOO!
'They phoned and asked me a routine, mundane question about a beach barbecue!'
'They phoned and asked me a routine, mundane question about a beach barbecue!'
'THIS IS JUST LIKE LIVING IN NORTH KOREA!!!'
Ladies and gentlemen, this is what now passes for 'radical queer activism' in Brighton!
In no way way has our utopian movement and all our anarchist dreams been hijacked by the boring bourgeoisie and routinely pissed on.
PS Though 'the 31-year-old believes she was “singled-out”' - presumably from all the other activists and campaigners who are less keen on getting their face in the Argus - our Beth's last state-power-quaking political action was inviting people to go and say BOO! to a Coca-Cola Santa Christmas truck in Churchill Square. Cause Russia/Sochi. Yah? Good job you don't let right-wing propaganda and service to empire dictate your political agenda, Beth!
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She was, not so long ago, posting on Facebook about contemplating sacking her cleaning lady. True story.
ReplyDeleteBut Beth says she is a 'Marxist-Feminist'!!
DeleteI guess the revolution starts at home (help).
Hello! I probably shouldn't reply to this, but here we go. Thanks for pointing out the awful quote in the article, it was worthy of criticism. I did comment on it to explain what I meant, but I shouldn't have said it in the first place, and I do apologise for it. What I was trying to convey (poorly) was that many people would expect the police to be monitoring anarchists who live in squats (I have various friends who are anarchists and who live in squats), not that that would be OK either. Simply that it would surprise many people that the police are also monitoring gigs I've been invited to on Facebook.
ReplyDeleteRE having a cleaner, I thought hard about this and came to the conclusion that work in the house is still work, and as such people should be paid for it. The 40 hour work week was designed with a society in mind where working men would have a housewife to do all their housework for them. Now I'm working 40 hours a week and housework is an additional job that someone should be paid for. I've worked as a cleaner myself before, and my cleaner gets paid well. Seeing housework as something that doesn't deserve payment is sexist IMO, deeming stereotypical 'women's work' as not worthy of a wage.
Unless you're never going to eat in a restaurant, drink in a bar, work in an office (which has cleaners), go to a hairdresser.... I don't think being critical of utilising service industries is valid.
These are useful challenges to debate and I do appreciate them. I don't always get it right and I'm always willing to be shown the error of my ways.
I don't really need to be called bourgeois though! I do consider myself working class and with a working class background (my Grandad was in the workhouse for example).
Well, I'm sure you'll pick apart all of this response but I did want to respond to your valid criticism.
'RE having a cleaner...'
ReplyDeleteYou lost me here.