Actors!
M | 04.10.2003 22:49
How the hell can you be a socialist if you are rich? I say to Rick Tomlinson can you give me some money because I am poor? I’ve met Tomlinson and I’ve met Hatton. Two guys who used their notoriety and infamy to put themselves into the public eye.
What do you make of this guy Ricky Tomlinson? A mate of Arthur Scargills and a darling of the left. This guy, who claims to be a socialist, is now an actor or illusion maker. The establishment sent him to prison, now he is held up by that same establishment as an icon. Did you read what he said in the Liverpool Echo newspaper the other night? Two full pages. I suppose it was no coincidence because the next day he was in W.H Smiths signing copies of his new book.
Were the hell is this guy coming from? One minute he’s banging the working class drum the next minute he’s on the Parkinson show with some Tory journalist. I tell you we are living in a crazy world. How can these guys be socialists if thy are millionaires? He also stood as a local election candidate for the National Front. You know what they say about racists? Once a racist always a racist. It’s about time the left woke up to guys like this. But the left have always been asleep to local and national issues.
Echo article can be viewed on Echo web site:
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=13476954&method=full&siteid=50061b
Were the hell is this guy coming from? One minute he’s banging the working class drum the next minute he’s on the Parkinson show with some Tory journalist. I tell you we are living in a crazy world. How can these guys be socialists if thy are millionaires? He also stood as a local election candidate for the National Front. You know what they say about racists? Once a racist always a racist. It’s about time the left woke up to guys like this. But the left have always been asleep to local and national issues.
Echo article can be viewed on Echo web site:
http://icliverpool.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100regionalnews/page.cfm?objectid=13476954&method=full&siteid=50061b 
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'Working class' pigscum
04.10.2003 23:24
Maybe the case of the "right hand man" of Arthur Scargill, Roger Windsor will help you understand better, how pigscum operate.
ram
Left? Whats left of the Lef?
06.10.2003 12:06
Just in case you hadn't noticed, i'll tell you something obvious: this country has been stolen by international corporations and is now run by their pupets. We arn't talking millionare actors and authors here, people who may well have had an upbringing fairly like your own, we are talking about a ruing elite, some new, some old.
Class doesn't come into it, a computer programmer can suffer as indebted wage slave just as much as a binman as a teacher as a banker as a trolley boy, we are all 'workers'.
To quote a friend on socialism 'who wants to be a f***ing worker?'. Global justice is one thing, social apartied is another thing entirely.
sqoo
Some non-working class socialists of all kinds
06.10.2003 15:59
Frederick Engels (middle-class factory owner)
Tony Benn (scion of the British aristocracy)
Enrico Malatesta (Son of Italian landowners)
Michael Bakunin (minor Russian aristo)
Peter Kropotkin (major Russian aristo and prince)
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon (middle-class rural Frenchman)
etc etc
The point is not where these people were from, its where they were at.
His Tory, Ann