| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... 09:05 - Apr 24 with 598 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/apr/23/esl-football-fans-corporat
“You have as much capacity to effect change in a private sector setting as you do in the public sector, partly because nation-state governments have become emasculated by globalisation,” says former Labour turned Change UK turned Liberal Democrat politician Chuka Umunna, who recently joined JP Morgan in a “sustainability role”. “Capacity as a middle-ranking minister in a government of a country with 65 million people to do big change — given these big cross-cutting global currents — is much more limited.”
Umunna may find himself both busy and humbled this week. JP Morgan was the investment bank that put up €3.25bn (£2.8bn) to launch the European Super League (ESL)....."
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| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:37 - Apr 24 with 518 views | Darth_Koont |
Umunna isn’t wrong about one thing. A political void like himself is much more effective in the financial/corporate world he fetishises.
I think the underlying point in Jones’s article is a sound one re: society as a whole. If we understand that we can fight and win against supposedly more powerful interests and “inevitabilities” such as the ESL in football, there’s no reason we can’t demand much better as a democratic society too.
“The ultimate, hidden truth of the world is that it is something that we make, and could just as easily make differently.” – David Graeber |  |
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| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:46 - Apr 24 with 497 views | Manchesterblue |
And this is on the football section because ? |  |
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| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:49 - Apr 24 with 494 views | footers |
Ah, Umunna and Berger. The decent Labour centrists we all should have heeded. Now with theor heads firmly in the trough. Who'd a thunk it.
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| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:49 - Apr 24 with 491 views | Darth_Koont |
| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:46 - Apr 24 by Manchesterblue |
And this is on the football section because ? |
Because it’s about what football and the ESL protest might teach us. | |
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| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:55 - Apr 24 with 472 views | Darth_Koont |
| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:49 - Apr 24 by footers |
Ah, Umunna and Berger. The decent Labour centrists we all should have heeded. Now with theor heads firmly in the trough. Who'd a thunk it.
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Opportunists gonna opportune.
Change UK and how it played out was a glimpse into the void these people live in. And we’re now seeing with the current Labour leadership, unfortunately.
FWIW I don’t think Johnson et al’s void is any different really. They’re just better at leveraging it. | |
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| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 11:51 - Apr 24 with 401 views | BanksterDebtSlave |
| An interesting read and lovely to catch up with Chukka.... on 10:46 - Apr 24 by Manchesterblue |
And this is on the football section because ? |
Corporate greed has its fingers all over your favourite sport. | |
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