Let's go shopping!

 Let's go shopping:

Our friend, Geoff Horan asks whether I own shares in Wautrise.

I offered:

Thanks: Waitrose, technically, has no owners, even though it's own shop-front at Rustington, yesterday, told us that it is 'owned by all its staff' (I don't think that it used the word 'workers' or even its internal word 'Partners'.

As such, it is something along the lines of a Workers' Co-operative but is rather far from being such.

I shop there, along with Morrison's (and the Co-op when I could: the nearest Co-ops to Littlehampton are a considerable drive away) because it sticks various things that I can't get elsewhere.

If you go in with, both, a list and an iron will, you can come out with the list fulfilled and without a shock at the till.

Yesterday, being a Pension day, I went in with both, but succumbed to buying meat items. Which blew my iron will to bits!

Of course, that's because my Pensioner income is too small: the result of my economic-/income-class and twenty-two years' unemployment. (During which time I had bits and pieces of hand-to-mouth incomes but never a Living Income, let alone that such should include 'building' a Pension Stash.

Of course, our plan for a living, loving plan for Co-operative Socialism provides, first if all, a Living Income for Everyone (a guaranteed, decent LIFE for all), but, also decent, moral workplaces: each operating as an appropriate Co-operative.

Bluntly, my income is such that I don't know whether I will be able to eat at all soon. Economising into penury won't suffice.

Though my Faith in The Lord is so strong that I know that I will.

As will everyone else.

Finally, we have to recognise that Capitalism and the consequential Zionism, Satanism, Child Abduction, Euthanasia, Compulsory Medication, etc have *an absolute hex* on change for the better.

To cite just one relevant example: The National Pensioners' Convention, the NPC, won't even include the words 'Co-operative Socialism' in its Executive Committee minutes.

Let alone actually let its own membership know of its existence and plan.

Ditto the entire Labour and Co-operative 'Movements' and Parties.

Nor their 'Leftist' papers, ragazines, tin-pot organisations and 'Societies'.

Hence my designation of them as the #fakeleft and as them being in the hands of the (well funded by the Capitalists!) #hobbyprotestors

John Courtneidge Littlehampton Saturday  13th March 2021