[lbo-talk] Dispiriting Suburbs?

James Heartfield Heartfield at blueyonder.co.uk
Thu Oct 19 07:14:23 PDT 2006


WS:

"I think you missed my point entirely, James. I did not ask you to do the math for a few disgruntled Londoners who cannot afford living in the city. I asked you to do the math for nearly 7 billion people on this planet, most of whom do not give a flying fuck about housing problems that Londoners face. If you are a true socialist, as you seem to claim, you should also be concerned how the Chinese or the Indians live, no?"

Who's missing the point, here? Sixty million people live in the UK (a geography lesson for you, London is not the UK, though more than a few people live in London, eight million on current estimates). Maybe you don't give a flying fuck about them, but I do.

Your 'Chinese and Indians' are just a rhetorical trope to dismiss the problems Britons face as 'disgruntlement'. But as things stand - and I appreciate this has not always been the case - there are no plans to colonise China or India to absorb the London overspill. If you think that there is a land shortage question in China or India to be addressed, you do the math.



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