Epic comment is epic.

This comment on steerpikelet's recent New Statesmen blogpost about the Dec 9th protests is amazing. I wish I were this eloquent, but as I'm not, I reproduce it here for your reading pleasure - because I don't think there's a word in it I wouldn't be happy to have written myself:

Joe Chapman
10 December 2010 at 17:59

I think many people in these comments do not appear to understand the politics of this country or its history.

The previous Labour Government was not socialist. Like the Tory governments before it, it was neo-liberal.

Since the times of Thatcher the people of this country have had their aspirations preyed upon in order that the minority of people with a disproportionate amount of the wealth and power can gain more wealth and more power.

We have been pacified by being given the idea that we can acheive our aspirations by getting into debt and living beyond our means.

This has had a knock on effect right the way through society both nationally and globally. The imbalance and divide between rich and poor has increased and most of us have not realised this because we have lived our lives on credit. Our relative wealth (relative to how things were before the 1980s) has been an illusion.

We have allowed our society, our country and our government to be ruled by big business and making a profit.

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