opposing the cuts

she really is incredible (kate now kae tempest) and yes I can hear the roots manuva.

horsemouth mentioned this to a friend. she replied.

'I remember seeing her at the tender age of 16 (ed. possibly a little older) at the _________ lee bridge rd. and talking to her afterwards... I remember saying to her she was really good. she was so young...'

horsemouth remembered that she played on a night down in clerkenwell with gertrude one time (or with a band that iona was in) and with glassglue, and she MCed a bit with a puerto  rican women rap crew that adam C put on in the basement of a bar in holborn

yesterday a visit to some old friends who have moved in round the corner. (to drop off some musicians of bremen merch). 

the topic came up about opposing the cuts (something horsemouth hasn't thought about in a long time). the argument for the cuts is always that the service is losing money - the counter argument is that the service shouldn't be run for profit but as a service and be funded through taxation. horsemouth lives in one of the richest countries on the face of the planet so he finds the argument that measures that benefit ordinary working people can't be afforded laughable. 

there are (of course) two ways of opposing the cuts.

one is to go the full george lansbury and refuse to implement the changes, to force the confrontation so people either have to come over to your side or be complicit in the injustice, this is opposing the cuts. and if you win then you win.  

the second isn't opposing the cuts it's finding a path of least resistance through the cuts that enables you to keep going.  and if you survive you win (but you lose also). 

and this is what horsemouth observed the labour party in local government doing throughout the 80ies.or no to be honest they just implemented the cuts. 

but to do what george lansbury did required building a huge campaign. otherwise you are just having a moment of radical theatre 'here we are (fighting the cuts)' you say, 'and losing' reply the uncharitable as the cops cart you off. 

horsemouth (by inclination) is a path of least resistance  man. he requires a lot of persuasion to become a fight the power man. 

in the afternoon horsemouth sat in the sunshine and read - he continued with the philip k.dick trajectory, starting on puttering about in a small land in the evening he listened to the news and the shadow over innsmouth. 

today. probably a visit to howard. (horsemouth is up early he's not sure why).