THE INTENTIONAL POVERTY CREATION in Newham and Tower Hamlets

THE INTENTIONAL POVERTY CREATION in Newham and Tower Hamlets

The © Muhammad Haque Daily Ethical Commentary: 

INTENTIONAL POVERTY CREATION in Newham and Tower Hamlets: 

The rise in Gambling and debt in East London; Why the ’Newham Recorder’ and ‘The Docklands & East London Advertiser’ are wrong to promote ‘MPs” as the sources of morality, ethics and social action. 

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0840 [0830 ][0805] [0745] Hrs GMT London Friday 11 January 2013

The image [above] has been created by AADHIKARMedia based on the main part of the front page of the print edition of the ‘Docklands & East London Advertiser’ dated Thursday 10 January 2013.


This was one of the two items that I cited when starting my presentation of the KHOODEELAAR! Campaign Hour at 1700 Hrs GMT the same day.


I analytically treated front page as denoting the same line of the same ‘news’ agenda.
That of overdoing a shock horror social malaise and then citing ‘MPs’ as the repository [collectively, as 'MPs'] of wisdom and knowledge about how to deal with the malaise.


I rejected the behaviour of the publishers and questioned their perpetration of the view that “MPs” warranted that kind of platform.


The bit that I focussed on was the claim at the bottom of this image that "MPs" had called for the outlawing of what they reportedly had 'called' the 'Crack cocaine" of Gambling.


My introduction wasn't even half way through when I got a call from someone who mistakenly claimed that I was targeting an MP or more than one MP because I had a dislike towards that MP or those MPs.


That interruption meant that valuable time was spent in dealing with it instead of my completing the point about why such 'opinions' as pit on the front page of the Newham Recorder had no validity whatever.


To start with the "outlawing" of gambling because it was now the 'crack cocaine"-like habit carried with it multiple problems.


One, that MPs could not control it let alone outlaw it. Two, if gambling deserved to be outlawed because it resembled 'crack cocaine' then what do the MPs have to say about the use of cocaine? Do they say that the outlawed substance should be 'more' outlawed than currently is the case? They cannot say or mean that.


And they cannot be arguing for the legalisation of ‘crack cocaine.’


So what should MPs be saying, if their ‘sayings’ are worth of any recognition?
They should be saying why they are not talking about the factors that make people go to gambling.


They should say what the role of the various state agencies that are kept in place at public cost are doing to address peoples’ reasons fro gambling.


They should be talking about intentional poverty creation by the local and the central government.


They should be talking about the culture of theft and robbery that dominates the strategies and the policies of Big Business capitalism and their business “ethos” that perpetuate, maintain and exacerbate socially destructive and costly disparity of income.


They should be talking about the role that the various “law enforcement’ agencies in wrongly targeting and stigmatising innocent, vulnerable people who are left abandoned when they need the various otherwise vaunted and flaunted state agencies’ support the most.


And the list continues of the agencies and the support service that are failing Society.


[To be continued]