National Troll A Tory Day! – December 15th
For all those unable to attend the National Day of Action Against Benefit Cuts we are pleased to present the first National Troll A Tory Day* on December 15th 2010.
*We aim to be as inclusive as possible. With this in mind Tory can also be taken to mean Lib Dem, as we can longer see any difference between them.
Spend the day online firing out as many passionate, mischievous, heartfelt or just down and dirty rude messages to the Tory press, Tory or Libdem bloggers and Tory/Lib Dem MPs wherever they may skulk.
For too long the media have portrayed benefit claimants as scroungers, lazy or fraudulent. This is our chance to tell the truth about life on benefits and how these cuts will affect us all.
The obvious candidates are the Daily Mail, The Daily Telegraph and The Sun. All allow comments and in the Mail’s case these comments are sometimes unmoderated. Find a recent story about benefit claimants, or just dive in an interrupt the latest chat about X Factor.
In the event comments are removed or strictly moderated then why not switch to Tory/Lib Dem bloggers. Government supporting website Guido Fawkes and MP Iain Dale are two of the most prominent. Again comment moderation may be turned on, but don’t let that put you off, make them work for their living for a change. Should you tire of these, then Iain Dale has a handy list of the top 100 Conservative blogs to get your teeth into. There’s a similar list of Lib Dem blogs on Libdemvoice.
Facebookers might want to pay a visit to the facebook pages of David Cameron, Nick Clegg or Vince Cable. Conservative Home, and conservatives.com also have the facility to leave comments. Lots of Tory councillors and MPs have blogs, use google to find them and give them a piece of your mind. If you have a blog yourself why not write a post about the upcoming benefit cuts or use facebook, twitter or any of the new fangled devices available to show your contempt.
You can write to your MP via theyworkforyou.com. Or how about a letter to your local paper explaining to them how the vicious benefit cuts are likely to impact on you or your family.
The internet gives us unprecedented opportunity to tell this spineless Government exactly what we think of them. Let’s come out in force on the 15th December and start the fight back against the welfare and housing benefit cuts set to devastate so many lives.
Please feel free to leave more links to Tory and Libdem scumbag’s sites in the comments.
As well as Trolling Tories tomorrow why not give Atos a call. Here’s the phone numbers they didn’t want you to see taken straight from: http://www.dwp.gov.uk/healthcare-professional/guidance/atos-healthcare/
“Advice from Atos
Atos Healthcare can give telephone advice to clinicians on medical matters relating to:
- certification – such as completion of certificates and reports
- disability benefits.
They are only able to offer general advice and cannot discuss individual cases of people who are being assessed for benefit. This advice service is strictly for healthcare professionals.
Atos Healthcare can also provide more formal educational sessions to clinicians by prior arrangement.
Atos help lines for clinicians
Please do not give these numbers to patients.
Birmingham 0121 626 2941
Bootle 0151 934 6070
Bristol 0117 971 8382
Cardiff 029 2058 6750
Croydon 0208 633 1324
Edinburgh 0131 222 5055
Glasgow 0141 249 3616
Leeds 0113 230 9068
Manchester 0121 335 0720
Newcastle 01264 837 789
Nottingham 0115 975 8362
Wembley 0208 795 8772″
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I agree with passionate, mischievous, heartfelt messages to the Tory press/bloggers/Tory/Lib Dem MPs, but take issue with being just down and dirty rude. To try to compete with Tories at the level of personal rudeness is more futile than trying to compete with an elephant in a sh*tting contest.
It is much better to pose tough questions in a polite but firm way. Icily polite if need be.
That’s what I think anyway.
I agree, although it was always fascinating watching said animals at the zoo when I was a child. Likewise the Tories get the same result, a crowd to watch whilst they make a big mess……that someone else is left to clear up!
I agree with Richard Lawson. Where’s the merit in being rude to people just because you disagree with them?
This communication is part of the Day of Protest Against Welfare & Housing
Benefit Cuts on 15th December 2010 called by autonomous benefit claimant
groups. We have decided to take up their idea of National Troll a Tory Day
and Internationalise it by combining it into our current Dead Workers
Union Cyber Vigil under way against the monarchies of Swaziland and
England as well as the multinationals Foxconn and G4S until this iNcwala.
We are particularly eager to support the action against welfare and
housing cuts in the UK because, like Workers Dreadnought in their
Constitution for British soviets, we see the basic unit of workers
organisation as the household soviet lead by women. The original labour is
the labour of birth and this is the basis of the labour movement. To
paraphrase both Black Mask and Yoko Ono, Woman as Class – and so beyond
any Proletarian Nation such as the Muslim National Communism of Sultan
Galiev, we must assert that the idea of a British Soviet is a
contradiction in terms. – we do not need any Proletarian nation – the
proletariat has no nation, and never did. National Liberation Struggle
must be seen in relation to class and situation – ie a national
consciousness is superseded by a class consciousness – and we are becoming
conscious of ourself as the revolutionary class – the gravediggers of this
society – the Proletariat.
For us it makes no sense to define workers according to nation or indeed
occupation, e.g. as miners, students or according to ethnicity eg as
Africans or Muslims – as separate from the proletariat. Universities ARE
supermarkets and datamines. Education at once exploits and gives one a
chance to increase his/her wage and to climb a step in a social hierarchy.
The proposals to build New Europe led by precarious intelligentsia makes
no sense to us. It repeats the same historical mistakes made by the
Situationists in their treatment of the general strike of May 1968. “The
beginning of an era” succumbed to Eurocentricity and the fetishisation of
the unexpected proletarianisation of students – that avant-garde of the
bourgeoisie destined to be the freemasons of the future – when they claim
that student occupations and uprisings in other countries following may 68
were a consequence of the events in Paris that summer, which, ‘in fact’,
were a consequence of situationist propaganda. Rather than claiming to
have an armed theory after the event, it was Black Mask’s idea of the New
Proletariat of 1967 that combined the theory and practice of overcoming
the worker/ non-worker divide in the working class.
And yet in London today, even though it was carefully stage managed by
freemasons, the only viable politics is that displayed by the students who
attack the police line and members of the monarchy who occupied the party
HQ — this is the only reasonable response to Capitalism. To criticize one
political party is to do good for another, which, like Labour in this
case, has actually initiated the politics of tuition fee increases during
their past rule (it reminds us of the miners’ movement in the 80s, when
Labour party was the one who closed the most of the mines). We stand with
those who occupied the HQ building and with all the students who have
occupied their university buildings subsequently – not in concert with the
National Union of Students or other unions. Because the direct assertion
of the self goes beyond the economic defence which is manifested through
trade-unionism, it goes beyond ‘the rights and access’.
To stand with the workers is one thing. Another thing is to stand with a
particular group of workers and to deny the international nature of
working class in favour of some trans-European bollocks. The proposal to
build ‘The New Europe’ nation reminds us of the ‘plural’ ‘new’-right
political organizations, all products of the imperial war machine that
creates the jihad and the counter-jihad movements. We therefore oppose the
English Defence League (EDL) and stand with the Muslim workers of any area
under attack and with the Muslim Defence League (MDL) before but as well
as Antifa, Unite Against Fascism (UAF) or any other political group
because the MDL is the manifestation of workers self defence against an
organised and concerted attack. We will therefore always be with the
workers themselves as they supersede their leaders and organisations.
A curious similarity arises when we see both a fetish of university
education and a fetish of art. Uncritical attitudes towards these both
institutions correspond to Casa Pound’s views – there is hardly a
difference. Idealist dreams about either cultural production or research
activities somehow escaping Capitalist system is contemptible. Art Against
Cuts campaign fights the public sector cuts by occupying but not
disrupting the Turner Prize. Education today is a preparation for work.
Art is work. Both these categories are created to fit
Capitalism and divide the working class, and the politicos are adjusting
them accordingly. If something for us goes bad to the extent of us taking
to the streets, it is a moment exposing Capitalism and opening up
possibilities in collective action.
Protests are optimistic only in the moments of attack – where the
individual interests of the workers connect with the general interests of
the international workers movement, the Proletariat. Students in London
join the Union of Rail, Maritime and Transport Workers (RMT) workers
strike and the upcoming involvement in the benefit and welfare protests.
Contrary to the recuperations of nationalists or transnationalists, they
are internationalists – making links with the student movement in Iran and
drawing from Xiamen Dada and the Tiananmen Square students – they are
going from wahdat – Union – to kathiral – Multitude. This transition is
not just across all space and situation but also across all time.
Individual unions cannot currently do this but individual workers can and
are.
*
The Data Miners Travailleurs Psychique is a sitUnion of those who make
meaning – individual workers, dead or alive, real or imaginary. we pay no
dues and have no membership list. We manifest committees at will and are
instantly revocable as such. We recognize no front line and no demarcation
of zones. We recognize no leadership or due process. We simply and
directly take control of the situation, the time and the space.
strike2012.org
What a futile, childish waste of time this is. And totally biased too. Labour are as much to blame for many of the problems as the current government – if not more in some areas. If I have an issue to raise I will do it maturely and properly via the proper channels – by writing to my mp, minister etc. Reducing a serious debate to this does a genuine concern absolutely no good at all.
“If I have an issue to raise I will do it maturely and properly via the proper channels – by writing to my mp, minister etc. ”
Good luck with that
Perhaps you could vote Lib Dem as well, really sock it to ‘em hard
“…and totally biased too…”
but not as biased as the Tory old school tie judges who sit in judgement on social security cases up and down the land!
Never has there been such a blatant, continuous and repeated attack on the sick and poor of the UK as we have seen with this Tory led government.
If people choose to attack them with whatever weapons they can muster well so be it, even if that involves name calling, which is just what they do to us calling us “the workless” or “benefits scroungers” or “those disabled scammers” or “those who elect to lead a life on disability” etc etc
Small wonder we are annoyed.