tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14306519.post780832738688616305..comments2023-07-15T11:16:18.809+01:00Comments on giroscope: Darkness FallsT.N.T.http://www.blogger.com/profile/13994761000416067940noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14306519.post-24073980496702886632013-01-16T08:05:34.877+00:002013-01-16T08:05:34.877+00:00I think it's a shame that you got banned from ...I think it's a shame that you got banned from Richard's site but in general the fact that he applies a "left-wing filter" to commentators means that people reading the blog have to sit through a lot less crap. I'm sure many bloggers do the same on the right - if I went onto (e.g.) the Guido Fawkes blog with a continual stream of communist invective, would I last long? <br /><br />FWIW I think HMV would have probably gone to the wall sometime in the next few years anyway - their chief exec apparently said in 2002 that downloaded music was a "fad" and that's both boneheaded and an argument for industrial democracy (I very much doubt the company would have been so slow to catch on to downloading if the shopfloor staff, who probably download a hell of a lot of music, had been making the decisions). The specific point that Richard is making is that Osborne and his friends in the right-wing media will now be labelling the redundant former HMV employees "shirkers" and saying that they are lazy, morally repugnant people, whereas in fact the only thing they did "wrong" was to work for a company which was (a) badly managed, (b) suffered from tax disadvantages due to not being a multinational, and (c) was swimming against the tide technologically. None of these things reflect badly on the employees and so they CANNOT be used as a stick to beat them with. We know that companies will collapse from time to time under capitalism, but for that process to be socially acceptable we need a strong welfare state to protect people who lose out. And that's what the ConDems are trying to destroy (although it was pitifully weak even before they came in). T.N.T.https://www.blogger.com/profile/13994761000416067940noreply@blogger.com