"The picture is not as black as you paint."
How do you know this ?
You support the "profits before people" policy and you wear your predatory politics on your sleeve, so anything you say has to be taken with that pinch of salt
I really do think we're finished here - let's get back to when the authorities used the police and the army to drive people from their homes rather than unemployment, land destruction and big business
While the latter wave of clearances of the Highlands were taking place, the survivors of the Irish Famine were being driven out of their homes in their millions and the Welsh similarly were being forced to emigrate to South America because of their demand for human rights
Even English workers, like the potters of Staffordshire were being forced to emigrate to feed their families.
All this was covered brilliantly by Phillip Donellan's documentary 'Passage West' and Terry Coleman's book 'Passage to America
Nowadays, workers itinerancy has been re-introduced by us being told to "get on our bikes to seek for work"
It really is time that patching up a dying system is replaced by one that works for all the inhabitants of these islands
Jim Carroll