'Below The Line / Beneath Contempt'
Act 5
Scene 1:
You'd have be
stupid not to see that the British now hate everything, especially one another
The genie is out
of he bottle and it's hard to see it going back in. How has it got to this?
Their hatred will
defeat them.
When will reality
dawn for these pugnacious, yobbish little Englanders?
The only
thing that gives an inkling of support to the theory of a divine being is that
sometimes, just once in an oddy-knocky sometimes, one of these fuckers gets
both barrels in the face
Funny you should say that I'm learning how to
shoot this weekend.
Inciting hatred should see you locked up.
Haven't the mob
done enough already?
trouble is
the mob are too stupid to know they are stupid.
That's what
the mob always thinks. It never notices it's become a mob.
It's kept
them safe for their entire miserable lives.
The mob has
always been here and isn't going anywhere anytime soon.
These b*****ds
need their wings clipping. They do not speak for England.
Exactly this
and well-put, too. Wolves in sheep's clothing, the lot of them.
They are literally shameless.
They don't
know what shame is, and if they did they still would not care. They are
poisoning our society
Its easier to
believe simplistic, hate fuelled, "solutions".
History is
littered with examples.
Its also why those
that promote those awful "solutions" to look forward, not back.
(Mustn't check history...)
Let's hope the UK
gets a good kick in the bollocks the only thing that'll make us see sense.
That's just
what we need in a complex situation: macho slogans!
Scene 2:
If you asked a
hundred British people what are British values, there'd be a hundred different
answers. There's no such thing.
Come up with
what you think British values are then... or is easy critisicsm all you can do?
British
values? Pah. Monarchy. Elitism. Inequality. Hypocrisy. No ta.
These are not my British values.
What are British
values ? Do they include cold indifference to the suffering of your fellow
citizens, even at Xmas?
Easy we want
our cake and eat it.
Please tell me there's a cake.....
There must be a cake........
95% of the cake going to 10% of the people .
A few slices of the cake are given to the
regional managers ( the politicians).
The rest of us are cattle.
Most people would like more chocolate cake as
well. . .
Cake and what, eat it? No.
I'm curious, what is the point of having cake
and not eating it?
But once you've eaten it you no longer have
it.
There is society,
but there's no agreement on what are British values.
I can think
of a British value, its called fairness only we aren't a fair nation anymore.
I dislike the idea
of people of a particular country having particular values. Some people are
good. Others are bad. Some are greedy. Some are generous. You can't pigeonhole
everyone.
I wasn't aware we
had any values. I am happy to swear though!
Hypocrisy, that's
the one value on the up ...
There are values
that all of us should uphold.These are not particularly British.
Art, comedy, music
and creative Britain. The NHS. Suffrage. Civil liberties. The post-war
settlement. Social housing. Human rights Act. Democracy. Environmental
protections.
So I am
unclear what is specifically British about these values.
And what
would allegiance to these values mean?
What you are
pushing is your values and calling them human values.
I might agree with most of your values I'd
say but I would describe them as human values, your projecting your beliefs on
to others and expecting compliance.
My values are
libertarian, republican, cosmopolitan and European, not 'British'.
Besides there are
no such things as british values just human ones.
Oh for crying out loud, that old trope again?
Delusional
view of the left again.
What about the old
imperial version of England though ?! Bah !
I dislike the idea
of collective values,bt if anything, we are a nation of thieves.
Brutal and
ruthless exploitation of everything that moves and everything that doesn't move
through unlimited global free trade of people and goods.
Fundamental
British values.
Afterwards
you can pig out on all the cake you want...
What the rest of
you in Little-Buggery-in-the-Swamp do isn't really my concern
Bloody well
put Mr Flabbybum !
your bum really does look big in this.
Hey
WobbleBottome, have you met my friend hyperbole? I think you two might get
along.
oh mate, gotta say it again that's bloody
funny! thanks for sharing it. maybe I need to get a life but still class eh
You are wrong
again. Your views do not deserve further comment.
Well, that's
almost a response.
Scene 3:
All hail the legal
labyrinths, designed, layer by layer, to befuddle and break down everybody so
that nothing is ever really achieved but the illusion of progress can still be
made by increasing the height of the labyrinths themselves.
To which law are you referring? Please be
precise as I am tired of reading groundless nonsense.
People don't want
anything except to be able to live, work and feel safe. These are no longer
considered 'rights', but instead seem to have become privileges.
Despite being one
of the wealthiest nations on the planet, we have homelessness on the rise,
families in poverty and people desperate to work unable to find it.
We have a huge
"service sector" but hardly build anything anymore.
Our public
services that we
were once so proud
of are being gradually dismantled by successive governments of every hue.
The wealthy are
the outliers in British society: they are educated separately; they dominate
certain trades and professions (the City, the media, Politics) - trades and
professions from which ordinary Britons are now excluded. They do not
participate in the culture of the majority, and often opt to live in
"exclusive" communities. Their "values" are often
strikingly different from those of ordinary Britons. Crucially, they
increasingly keep what they think of as "their" money offshore.
Big money won.
i.e. capitalism
and democracy have at best a problematic relationship.
The country has
ridiculously high levels of income disparity, poverty, raging ignorance as the
result of endlessly staring at screens, almost no sense of civil or social
responsibility, the health system us a disgrace for an allegedly developed
country and the political system is "democratic" in name only, but
the system itself does not correspond to most people's idea of what the word
means. The country is ruined. Already ruined.
owned by an oligarchy which is a law unto
itself, a rabidly nationalistic press, a society which values military force
above all else, where the arms industry is a fundamental part of the economy.
The horror, the horror...
Most of the English Grand Country houses for
instance were erected from profits made in the slave trade.
You don't
want to peer too closely at the British (English) establishment, or how they
made their money.
On one side
freedom is defined as self-determination and identity as belonging to a nation
state. On the other side freedom is defined as peaceful cooperation and
identity as belonging to a wider world. Right now these opposing
interpretations are causing a lot of friction. Somehow we need to resolve this
conflict. We're all human after all.
The solution is
really quite simple. It's time to drag this broken system down by force. You
think they'll ever let it go willingly? No chance.
They're used to getting their own way.
The
pensioners of Thannet are rising up. Hilarious.
Its called democracy or did'nt you notice
In one sentence you have shown your ignorance
in British democracy.
Democracy not your thing is it?
I think we're heading towards a trollocracy.
The rest of
your drivel was utter hyperbolic nonsense.
The peasants are
revolting.
Revolting indeed
I dunno...
with a little washing up and maybe some decent dental work, they'd look ok. But
revolting seems a bit harsh.
Scene 5:
Hospitals will
still be closed. People will keep shopping in the internet and the high street
shops will remain boarded up. And the loneliness won't go away. Britain will
not become as it used to be in the 1950s.
It's not about the
past - it is about what's on offer for the future.
That ship
has sailed, I fear!
I thought it is a buccaneer ship?
I think the
iceberg might have more brain cells than everyone on this particular sinking
boat!
Yeah fine. But please send a lifeboat.
But who knows?
Maybe there will be a positive and outward looking Britain, not needing to
blame anyone for anything anymore.
Find me some
straw, I feel a clutching coming on.
Those straws
you're grabbing....
Can we have the
Black and White Minstrel show back? Now that would be real progress. Oh, and
everything is political madness gone correct, or something like that...
Scene 6:
The whole economy
is a pyramid scheme based on debt and fiat currency (basically banks loaning
out money they dont have, it never existed, but hoping someone will pay it
back).
Plenty of work for black magicians!
We dont want
all the money , just a fair share ,decent home and to retire with food on the
table .
I've worked and
studied - when I've studied I've worked - for forty years.
I want to retire.
The rules are
shit.
I don't want to be
a wage slave for another ten or twenty years because careerist politicians are
shit at making rules.
I want to retire
so I can have a bit of life that does not involve sticking my tongue up some
careerist's anus to justify their pathetic careerist existence.
But I can't. I
have to lick the pus off Satan's scrotum in order to get virtually nothing for
forty years' worth of achievement and loyalty.
I hope your
prospects improve (sincere)
Work is fine for
people who aren't very intelligent. Those who are intelligent should be allowed
to pursue alternative careers and be funded well by the government also.
Your post
doesn't make any sense -- "people with a higher need" OUGHT to be
accorded priority or?
Are you
brave enough to quantify the benefits? Do you have the IQ to do this?
Why?
Somebody is going to have to pay for this. If not you, then society. Who else?
But taxes should be raised or cut to suit the
needs of society as and when.
Dream on.
The people who are
sick and tired are useless gits who have never tried to do anything with their
lives, who are for the most part uneducated and unskilled and who expect money
and a decent standard of living to be given to them on a plate. These people
will never succeed, regardless of the regime they vote in.
The obligation
side of the equation is covered by taxes. If you've paid taxes, then you have
agreed to the social contract the government has laid down, part of which
includes being able to access the benefits they provide.
We give
money to charity in order to cover the social needs that our taxes used to be
used for. In other words we pay twice for the same thing.
And really, all
people wanted is for things we have to work. They want a good free social
service public NHS, they want libraries, they want child centres, youth
centres, public services, the pot holes fixed... they want homes, they want
food. These are the things the government should be fixing not abstruse fine
points of political and constitutional power.
BECAUSE half the
country are worried about their rights, their childrens bloody fututre and the
fact we have an exploitative and abusive government in power.
I just want my pot
holes fixed, I need a home, I need food, I need...
.....why are
employers just treating workers like SHIT IN THIS COUNTRY, because we have a
shitty Gov, that here to protect the rich and F****k the poor
Britian has relied
on cheap labour and bad working conditions rather than investment to compensate
for its lamentable productivity for decades. It was one of the main reasons for
post war industrial unrest.
If you're poor and
grateful for any work you can get, and your employer asks you whether you like
your job or not, are you really going to say no?
So what?
Would you swap your life for theirs?
The UK is falling to pieces, pieces gobbled
up by corporate hyenas whose only loyalty is to their greedy shareholders and
whose only motivation is an obscene bonus.
All I know is that
first you’ve got to get mad. You’ve got to say: ‘I’m a human being, god-dammit!
My life has value!’
Scene 7:
Surely it is time
to curb the mendaciousness of some aspects of the press. I am not calling for
censorship but for more accuracy in their news reporting.
Whta do you call a
country that muzzles newspapers?
A protofascist
dictatorship.
But of that
free press we also need a responsible press and certain elements of the press
have recently demonstrated they are anything but responsible.
But with freedom comes responsibility
The key phrase the
public needs to keep firmly in mind is: 'A press which has finally become
unhinged, busted the doors open, and is now running amok.'
You can debate
freedom of speech all you want but when you get to reporting factually
incorrectly, you cross the line. If you think making stuff up is ok for media
to do under the guise of freedom of speech, then you are in the wrong decade,
and / or wrong part of the world.
The headlines of
shame left nobody in doubt as to how much of a far-right-media-controlled
dictatorship we live in.
Those newspapers
appear to be doing everything they can to incite violence, we'll see where it
leads in time.
an appalling abuse
of power by the Editors. They have to take some responsibility for the state
England now has got itself (very quickly) into.
Agreed. A publisher is responsible for a
publication's content. Libel and hate speech laws are not on the books just to
look pretty. It is the function of the courts to abide by them and implement
them.
Their purpose is to report on and analyse
facts. Not blatantly state untruths and harass individuals on invented
pretences.
Also I feel like the gulf of understanding
between the press viewpoints is widening and both sides are guilty. Hyperbole
on one side is met by hysteria on the other and vice verse. I don't know how we
can bring the tone back to a point that would allow any discussion.
Why do you expect
newspapers to be impartial? They all have their agendas and bias, all of them.
Just read a selection and make your own mind up.
Scene 8:
These are terrible
times. Education has failed in this country, and stupidity and lies are in
vogue.
When you boil it
down to fundamentals it is all about education. What we are seeing is the
triumph of the uneducated. The real shame of this is that we have neglected to
offer a good enough, broad enough and universal enough education and we are now
reaping the rewards. We have no excuse. The poor/uneducated have finally
realised that they can instigate change; they simply don't understand what that
change is going to amount to.
Why? By
definition the stupid are not intelligent.
Anyway, it's OK,
we can just get rid of the education system now. It's not like we'll need it,
is it, really? Heading for a low skill, low wage economy as we seem to be. And
we won't need liberalism either, we can just have rule by the fist, if you
prefer. Bear in mind though that if you don't have to respect my rights, I
don't need to respect yours. There's always someone with a bigger stick. I'll
make sure it's me.
Perhaps a
reflection that, despite all of the hyperbole, many people now think that true
control lies with the banks and big corporations and that government is
becoming ever more powerless to effect change?
Or maybe people
are just so obsessed with the latest game on their phones that they can't be
arsed about the actual world?
Courses in
critical thinking needed here. And a much much better education.
Ah yes, the
old misconception that a privileged education somehow makes you better than
everyone else.
Very easy, and
perhaps a little 'thick', to say "The people are too thick".
* Spend much more
money on primary education, the stage at which is most people are miserably
failed by our system.
* In Secondary
school make civics, and a thoroughly critical attitude to the media and
history, a compulsory and major part of everyone's education.
There are of course
deeper questions about why some seek to dominate and others like to be
"led" but such an education would put most such urges to flight.
Sadly it's
probably too late now.
You can't educate
pork.
Scene 9:
Genius - infinite
riches in a little frame of art. Deconstruct that lot at your leisure. No good
news anywhere
No good was
ever going to come of it.
i cant even
figure as to why you typed this guff, did it give you the horn ?
This entire thing is absurd.
It is the accumulation of waffle like that
has crushed bedrock to sand.
I find the concept
of 'mind' in this case quite troubling. I'd equate it more to an empty vessel
waiting to be filled by the thoughts of others.
When you're
constantly told what to think in simple sound bites, well people suck it up.
Well I guess
there's so much material for satirists of all brands to work with at the
moment. It used to make you laugh, but now it's about as funny as Hamlet meets
Macbeth.
The trouble is the
situation's so bloody tragic I think it's hard for the satirists and
cartoonists to do ha ha ha. What they're doing is brutal truth.
Indeed, its
often said art is used to expose the truth and as a means of protest.
Art rarely changes
anything, at least not so as you'd notice. But it has a slow-drip effect, in
giving people insight, aspiration, a glimpse of something better.
Looks good on
first glance but, really, it's just meaningless waffle.
Boiled down
to art merely being a conduit to allow posh-voiced no nothings verbally fellate
insecure rich folk.
Stop painting us with the same brush - it's
paranoid delusion.
You paint with a big brush. Too big I'd say.
i like the
painting with the dogs paying cards , my dog cannot even play snap
You don't do
card games, do you?
This isnt a
card game.
Epilogue:
Cool story.
Could've used some vampires though.
Jeeeze......whatever it is stop taking it
I came here for a
laugh actually, its late and Im bored. There you have it.
Cognitive
dissonance has kicked in.
The play is eventually concluded and everyone
goes on to a club.
