The Liverpool Times

Best of luck to whoever may be involved to the new website (liverpoolsubculture) We need more honest people online telling it like it is and we will be adding a few more websites to the list of local websites before the year is out.

The capital of culture 2008 has been a general feeding frenzy in which the rich have prospered and the city centre is like a ‘green zone’ similar to the USA green zone sheltering the pen pushers, rats and the rich in Baghdad, Iraq. Liverpool city centre is heavily fortified with a virtual army of thousands of security guards, and CCTV coverage which covers almost every square inch.

Gated areas are growing with concierge and security on all those new flats that the middle class and property speculators have bought. Police talk of drones flying over council estates and fingerprinting of boozers in town and ‘exclusion zones’ which local kids use a bit like a game by treading in the ‘zone’ and then running from the police who are dragged into a game of ‘catch me if you can’. We’ve already got CCTV linked with loudspeakers in some areas of the U.K. which can bellow out ‘you’re in a restricted area’. Bet your last penny they want listening devices set up also.

George Orwell would sue new labour for copyright infringement. “You stole my ideas and turned them into reality”. Then again - George was honest so he’d likely as not just admit that he saw through to the rotten soul of England and laid bare the future. Grim as it might be, we’ve already reached the point were the digital age can profile us all even to the opinions we hold on issues. Such power is tempting beyond belief to the Establishment and they will stop at nothing to force it through.

The rich, as you’d expect, will be like hungry hogs at the 2008 Capital of Culture feeding trough, elbowing their way into any important classical gig or the front rows at whatever freebie gig is on offer for the privileged. The heady mix of councillors, MP’s and pen pushing liars of every profession will be thick in the air, almost as thick as their collective common sense. The ‘good and great’ will seek out cosy ‘mix and mingle’ sessions, (bores at the buffet alert) chit chatting about deals and schemes and who knows who and how much in cold hard cash they can fleece from the poor.

Everyone kissing each others backside.

It is difficult to imagine anything more disgusting.

Most of the working class in Liverpool don’t live in the desirable city centre (which as all the art galleries, best libraries and museums and concert halls) and we can barely get transport to the many events which take place there.

Any gigs in Liverpool city centre see kids from anywhere out of a certain radius being left out as all the up and coming bands come to visit. Pensioners who want to see opera or classical music or a play, might as well be stuck on a desert island in some areas of Liverpool. Some places don’t even have a bank!

You’d be surprised at the lack of facilities as you get further away from the capital of culture. Forgotten places exist out here and a forgotten people who are left to fend in the most atrocious of circumstances. The focus in the Echo is all about cleaning up and restoring old buildings in the city centre – in giving tourists a ‘safe area’ free of mobs of kids and stolen cars and robbery. The forgotten areas stay forgotten and will never make it on the postcards.

The capital of culture is all about Liverpool City Centre, and the middle class and rich who have swarmed there to buy up all our cheap housing as a pension scheme or to seek refuge in the safer areas. The working class chipping in to say how great the capital of culture is - are often as not on the payroll and are always pushed forward to give the illusion that the working class represent anything more than a token number.

The capital of culture is not about Huyton, Norris Green or Croxteth or Halewood. It is not about Canny Farm, now named Stockbridge village in the hope that the word ‘village’ would stop crime. The capital of culture is a blank cheque for the pen-pushers and the damned consultants who are popping up all over Liverpool, with annoying posh voices, or the faked attempt to come across as such. We don’t judge people by how they talk [how could we?] but it is about time that more local jobs went to local people without jobs being handed out before the job is even advertised (typical move of some of the corrupt supposed left wing champions of the working class in Liverpool)

We’ll end up with classical music and fireworks, jugglers [from Manchester] all the councillors saying that ‘we’re not racist’ (Even KKKnowsley councillors) and – yes, you guessed it – special guess [yawn] Yoko Ono, who always make us think about American gun laws and the loss of a True Son of Liverpool.

Let’s wish the liverpoolsubculture website good luck. You can bookmark the new website by clicking below

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We have put a link up on the liverpooltimes.net and may God bring forward more Liverpool websites to counter the propaganda churned out by the various councils and the supposed public servants robbing the poor.