Michael Meacher MP

We have sadly reached that point in the year when, with no much happening, the media regresses into what they feel most comfortable with – gossiping about personalities as though the world wasn’t facing the most dire crisis for a century.   What crisis, what crisis? as one prime minister famously said.   Never mind that 130,000 families are about to lose their homes as the housing cuts roll in, that austerity is being pushed manically beyond any sensible limits, that real incomes are stagnating for a decade, that bosses now grasp for themselves 350 times more than their average paid worker, that the hollowing out of British manufacturing foretells declining UK living standards in future decades, that there is no new business model in sight to replace the one broken by the financial crash, that no banking reform worth the name has been imposed to prevent another massive financial crash – the list of global and national threats goes on and on.   But none of this makes the headlines – only the antics of wealth, bling and celebrity. (more…)