The Fleamarket Game

It's about time I wrote another bloody blog post.

 

I'm not squeamish but I didn't watch either 'scene' from Southampton or Belfast. I've written many times about the insanity to come, on here, and it appears that we are in the middle of it now.

The hard right are worried about the fall of Western Civilization. Let it fall I say! There seems to be an inevitability about it.

Rome wasn't built in a day and it didn't fall in a day either. I'm boycotting the World Cup 2026 this time as I boycotted Eurovision 2026. Not difficult for somebody who has put a table cloth over the television. See picture above if you happen to work for TV Licensing.

Despite blatant BBC propaganda during the Israeli Genocide of Palestine I was holding on and holding on to watch the football highlights on a Saturday night to catch 10 seconds worth of a Wrexham FC game and then turning it over to watch MOTD just to fall asleep. The removal of Gary Lineker for speaking his truth was the final straw for I have always been a Bread & Circus man! I could no longer justify the £180.00

£180.00 a year to be traumatized by global news. Instead of being sued by Trump, the BBC should be funding him for the daily drama he provides "We've got a deal with Iran, we don't know who we're dealing with because we killed the head guys, we're very close to a deal, we're going to bomb them back to the Stone age" ad infinitum

That little or probably huge flatscreen television in the corner of your living room has been playing with your subconscious since the 2nd June 1953 when good queen Liz was crowned at Westminster Abbey and filmed in colour.

The amount of horror and tragedy that has been beamed in to our collective lives to keep us fearful and obedient. Do you remember being severely affected by a particular global news story? Did your father or mother ever say "Turn it off, turn it off"

The light entertainment programmes of the 1970s, Morecambe & Wise, Dad's Army repeated on various channels remind us wistfully of more innocent times but were they more innocent times in reality. While the middle classes were trying to work out what would be on the conveyor belt in Bruce Forsyth's Generation Game. What do points make? The National Front and the BNP.

The scenes from Belfast watched on this computer were enough to put you back into New Cross in 1981  

I would contest that Britain has always been a racist collective of countries. If the white man had not introduced slavery to Capitalism then the Windrush Generation might not have arrived as economic migrants in 1948.

Many of those care workers and health workers burned out of their homes in Belfast had arrived there from countries ravaged by war. Colonialist Britain & France will be reaping a whirlwind of Karma despite the worst efforts of ReformUK Ltd and Restore Britain.

If and when all this blows over, the kindling will still be burning, the gorse and the heather will still crackle with the burning resentment of loyalist, protestant, poverty fueled, and austerity driven working class white Britain with pompous public schoolboys ready to lead from behind.

Pinch, punch, first blog post of the month!

 

I mean the acting community no ill will but get over yourselves! You are being paid to play. It's none of your business whether somebody in the audience is texting or on their laptop. They have paid their money. You need to shut up and get on with your job. 

Actors & Celebrities and their BAFTAS and their OSCARS have far too much clout and presence. Especially in the UK where it is predominantly plummy voiced actors who make it to the top and stay there. There are exceptions but do you really need to take yourselves so seriously?

When Drama is off the curriculum in Secondary Schools and it is only the wealthy who can afford the West End seats what kind of message is this giving out?

The person in the audience texting might have been a tourist and had no idea of British Theatre etiquette. What impression of London are they going to take home?

"It's correct what they say about London, stabbings, killings and no go areas and the West End actors are vicious"

My suggestion would be that the next time such affrontery happens in the stalls, instead of the lead actor debasing themselves in a telling off, just call for the man who sits behind the desk at the stage door because these are the people who fail GP receptionists' interviews for being too rude.

Just get them into the audience with their torches and opera glasses and when you have discovered the miscreant make sure that you bawl them out in front of everybody in received pronunciation by shouting up to the leading lady in the process.

"M'lady this scabby urchin was in the cheap seats and he had the affrontery to interrupt your soliloquy. We will take him down to the bowels of the stage door and give him a right good kicking in his testicles. What do you mean your name is Andrew Mountbatten Windsor? Ms Pike, please to tell Ms Stevenson that the gentleman texting on his phone was King Charles III's brother and that he was texting Lord Peter Mandelson. They both deny any wrongdoing"

And with that the cast and crew exit stage left because they are all a bunch of woke lefty bastards! 

Further Reading

 https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2012/03/free-theatre-movement.html

https://sharkfishinginwales.blogspot.com/2012/12/in-yer-face-theatre.html

Môr Ladron y Senedd : Pirates of the Welsh Assembly

 

They've only been in situ for two weeks and the Tory Lite Upstarts of ReformUK Ltd are behaving like Pirates in the Welsh Assembly. We have a Harry Potter lookalike Cai Parry- Jones complaining about the amount of Tech he's been gifted because he's a Tech Bro and DOGE enthusiast. The same member is complaining about the flying of the Ukrainian flag outside the Senedd building stating that it should be another Union Jack. Well I propose that the 'Butcher's Apron' is taken down and the Jolly Roger hoisted because Pirates have taken over the Senedd.

Joseph Martin, now there's a good name for a Pirate, has been caught on social media taking photographs of Tampons in the mens' bathroom at the Senedd and using the slur 'mental' to describe them.

Andrew RT Davies the 'Heavy Tory' from the Vale of Glamorgan is up in arms with this wet wipe because he uses sanitary products to wipe up the "separatists" that he's been collecting on his rounds of the Senedd premises. The building and institution that he was campaigning to ban in his election campaign, but against his iron will, he's back.

I hope I'm wrong but I fear the Plaid Cymru administration might suffer the same fate as the current UK Labour Government, frustration and impatience from the general public and from the political opposition. Labour are being blamed for 14 years of Tory mismanagement and Plaid Cymru will be blamed for 27 years of Labour mismanagement.

Our politics has become how we order our fast food and how we consume our social media. We cannot for one second or god forbid minute, be bored. Our scrolling and our Kahuna burger must not be interrupted by safe and sensible politics.

Donald Trump knew this from early on, that is why he has systematically gone about creating war on a daily basis. Panama, Greenland, Venezuela, Iran, this oversized mafiosa boss from prohibition America has kept us on the edge of our seats and we have become addicted to the drama.

If it's not exploding in front of us or unleashing a deadly virus, then we don't want to know.

Captain Nigel Farage in his three cornered hat and mustard colored pantaloons has amassed a Fred Karno's Army of opposition in Cardiff Bay, an opposition that like good pirates have been briefed to spoil and disrupt.

"Get in there chaps and chapesses and disrupt the woke ideology of Cardiff Bay with your best right wing populism. Don't stray into Libertarianism because that is for wankers"

Captain Henry Morgan, as legend has it of Llanrumney Hall, must be shaking his head at this new bunch of pirate militia that has arrived in Cardiff Bay. He would have made this gang of populist privateers walk the plank before they had a chance to take pictures of sanitary products or complain about Ukrainian flags.

Let us just hope that a few of this rabble fall overboard drunk or are caught in sting operations by the Welsh Media. Captain Danny Thomas, the cutthroat buccaneer of Barnet will have a job on his hands keeping this flock of miscreants in line.

Herding Cats anyone?              

State Sanctioned Milk, Bread & Eggs

 

Not since the days of Margaret Thatcher stopping school milk have we seen such a flurry in the supermarket aisles. In conspiratorial pirate tones "there be talk of maximum pricing for milk, bread and eggs.  

The British Retail Consortium (BRC), which represents supermarkets, said the policy would "force retailers to sell goods at a loss"

Head for the hills, do not pass go, do not collect £200.00.

Yesterday on BBC Radio 4's Today programme it sounded as if Nick Robinson was holding John Swinney, Primate of Scotland, by the neck and threatening through clenched teeth "You won't be doing this will you?"

If Scottish supermarkets cap the price of food staples it appears that the King's Men will be sent up from London to put a stop to "The caring, sharing Co-op"

We all know why this has sent the allegedly profiteering supermarkets into a tizzy. It's because it smacks of socialism. If you haven't actually bled red white and blue blood on a Tommy Robinson march in the name of Uniting the Kingdom and the West then how dare you even imagine that you are going to be able to purchase Milk, Bread and Eggs at rock bottom prices.

Sir Keir has given Rachel Reeves a nudge and said "Do something to make people believe that we care. We need to get a head start on Scotland because otherwise they will leave this befouled, decrepit and disintegrating Union and Andy Burnham is getting his training shoes on again, so do something Rachel"

We all know why food and fuel are going up! Because Donnie filled his diaper threatening the ancient civilization of Iran with being bombed back to the Stone Age.

This oversized mobster from Prohibition America and his neo-liberal acolytes, the former Tories of ReformUK Ltd are planning to plunge the world into darkness. "They will suffer as they have made us suffer with humiliating taunts and memes"

Asking British supermarkets to introduce a voluntary price cap on the food required to give us distended bellies and lactose intolerance is like telling people to go to work on an egg at the height of the salmonella crisis.

Why not put a price cap on pate de foie gras and a bottle of Bollinger?

The men and women with huge yachts and offshore bank accounts are addicted to the markets, stiff "they don't like it up em" competition and every man and woman for themselves ethos.

"If they can't afford the basics of a miserable existence, then let them eat cake"

     

   

Feeling Flat

A week on from the results of the Senedd elections and the Shark Fisherman of Wales is feeling flat.

Plaid did well. I predicted in my raw dogging on the traeth video in the previous post that they would do better than expected.

The ReformUK Ltd bots on twitter had us all believing that we would all be swept away in a tidal wave of British Nationalism.

Not a good weekend to be having a Unite the Kingdom and the West march in Central London with Tommy Robinson giving it lairy and large with the Prime Minister's job under scrutiny. Is Elon Tusk going to be doing another live link from his reconstructed apartheid home in South Africa?

I'm flat because even though there is a rearguard action by the SNP, Plaid Cymru and the Greens the flavour of the month still seems to be right wing populism.

 Imagine if Donald Trump and Nigel Farage were required to take a lie detector test on the same day on the same machine. The contraption would have to be scrapped as it would be questioning itself and its algorithm. Lie detector test gaslit by constestents in the 'Biggest Lie in the Land' Competition.

Trump & Farage have become living embodiments of Fake News made flesh. They have convinced themselves that their lies are truth and even we who know they are talking bollocks begin to doubt.

When you begin to doubt you weaken and then the populist right despite its ignorance and flannel march on with soundbites and racist rhetoric.

I'm flat because I believe that as a society we have become de-humanised. We would never have tolerated these Unite the Kingdom rallies years ago! Their proponents will claim that years ago is what is causing their grievance.

I don't believe the left have been too tolerant because the left haven't been given a chance to do anything.

If the Fagash Fuhrer has said that Angela Rayner would be his toughest political rival then do we believe him or do we just sit agog as weaselly Wesley Streeting starts playing mind games with Sir Keir Starmer?

The cost of living has gone through the roof and the hantavirus is circling our collective unconscious.

Trump & Putin & Netanyahu make you wake in a cold sweat.

Even though Plaid Cymru did well last Thursday I'm feeling flat.           

Rawdogging on the traeth