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On the surface this strike is about pensions and money.  But you’re smart enough to see that it’s bigger than that: It’s about the future we want vs the future we fear.

It’s that money now makes is harder to trade, not easier. It’s about shared resources being privatised. It’s about short-termism. It’s about equality of opportunity. It’s about responsibility and justice. It’s about how and why we spend our time working as hard as we do in a world of plenty.

So, yes, striking about the symptoms of a problem is a little tiresome, so skip over that for now and understand the frustration in the background.

The riots, occupy, and the strikes are all connected symptoms of a strongly felt yet poorly articulated and understood malaise.

Be sympathetic, and know you’re on the same side.

(But to answer the question, why am I not striking? Because I’m self-employed and love the fact that my work involves building a better future.)

All these fuckers in the city who make lots of money then “give something back” really piss me off.

“Well” they say, “where would things be without the philanthropy of the wealthy?”

Well, you patronising self-important bastard, I suspect that everyone would be a lot better off if you hadn’t spent the last 15 years taking money out of the productive economy and ‘investing’ it in perpetuating the very problems you now claim to be working against.

Whilst I am grateful for your Damascene conversion, you’ll forgive me if I suggest that you should leave your millions with someone who knows what a GOOD investment looks like, whilst you go back to your previous employers and lobby for an earnings ratio cap, a world-class  ethical investment policy, and a change in corporate culture which means that we can break this pointless fucking cycle.

To more fully answer the question, we invented Government to take care of things which the market does not, and can not solve. There is no private healthcare system or private police force which does not, at some stage or scale, end up creating a perverse incentive to do social harm.

So lets all work for more fairly distributed wealth, a fairer society, a responsible and appropriately sized government, and fewer opportunities for patronising bastards to pontificate on how it should be.

Wake the fuck up, you thoughtless fucking moron! We’re stretched as it is – asking for more growth is THE VERY WORST SOLUTION YOU COULD POSSIBLY HAVE MENTIONED. Call for development, enriching, humanity, civilisation, prosperity – but please please please STOP TALKING ABOUT FUCKING GROWTH or resign, right now, because you’re pushing my planet beyond tipping point, and you clearly are not the person to stop that from happening.

Watch this.

They explode, and with all those spikes it’s like being attacked by a room of psychotic acupuncturists.

(They don’t explode. I was trying to be funny. Hedgehogs are too cute and lovely to burn to death, THAT’S why we remove them first.)

The poor bastards only signed up to a common currency experiment because they thought it would help them. It hasn’t. Like giving a teenager a Ferrari to get to school, it’s merely helped them to fuck themselves even harder, even faster.

But that there was “shock in the capitals of Europe” as they DEMOCRATICALLY DECIDE WHAT TO DO scares the bejesus out of me. When the fuck was more democracy part of the problem?

NO NO NO NO NO. Stop right the fuck there. Back up, Europe, and fuck right off.

Putting motorists first is really just not a sensible way of shaping the future.

I ask you, who in their right mind would design a cyclepath plays with traffic? If they’re not going to do it properly, then don’t even fucking pretend to give a shit. I know there are targets for new cyclepath miles, but – and this is important – PAINTING A BIT OF A ROAD BLUE FROM TIME TO TIME DOES NOT MAKE IT A CYCLE PATH.

So, Transport for London, if you can’t do the job properly, get out of the fucking way and let someone else who can. K?

Right now, almost 80 countries around the world make it a crime to be gay or lesbian. In 10 of those nations, you can be sentenced to death or life behind bars.

That is so FUCKED UP. Many of my life’s pleasures come from watching endlessly playful lesbians; and the way I see it, having gay guys listen to girls whitter on about their problems whilst not trying to sleep with them is a double-win for me. That this shit is illegal seems to be a huge error of judgement.

So let’s skip over the ethics of one adult telling two other adults their not allowed to touch, because that will just make us all angry.

And here’s a shocker: The majority of these nations are members of the Commonwealth – which is supposed to be about being cultured and nice and on the road to civilisation!

The Commonwealth Heads of Government are having a big shindig this week in Australia and we have the opportunity to ask them to deal with this one. One more box ticked on the Global Harmony to-do list, right?

The Commonwealth is already supports one Queen, so sign this petition and let’s support all of them.

PS. Sorry to gay people everywhere for my crass and pathetic stereotyping, and for the headline, and for the weak queen thing at the end. I started thinking about lesbians too much at the beginning and all the blood rushed away from my brain.