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TRASHFUTURE

Starving Refugees to Teach Them a Lesson feat. Vicki Spratt

TRASHFUTURE

TRASHFUTURE

Comedy

4.7935 Ratings

🗓️ 31 August 2020

⏱️ 95 minutes

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Summary

This week, it’s a star-studded cast of Riley (@raaleh), Hussein (@HKesvani), Milo (@Milo_Edwards), and Alice @AliceAvizandum discussing the recent story of asylum seeker Mercy Baguma being found dead from malnutrition in her flat in Glasgow. Why was she starving? Because asylum seekers in the UK aren’t allowed to work and are only allowed £40 a week to live on. This is of course by design -- because Baz logic runs that people won’t seek refuge in the UK if we’re just as cruel as possible to them. We also have an interview with Riley, Hussein, and I Newspaper’s housing correspondent Vicky Spratt (@Victoria_Spratt) on the topic of the looming eviction crisis, Britain’s housing shortage, and why it doesn’t have to be this way (but has only gotten worse in the last 40 years). If you want access to our Patreon bonus episodes and powerful Discord server, sign up here: https://www.patreon.com/trashfuture We support the London Renters Union, which helps people defeat their slumlords and avoid eviction. If you want to support them as well, you can here: https://londonrentersunion.org/donate Here's a central location to donate to bail funds across the US to help people held under America's utterly inhumane system: https://secure.givelively.org/donate/the-bail-project If you want one of our *fine* new shirts, designed by Matt Lubchansky, then e-mail trashfuturepodcast [at] gmail [dot] com. £15 for patrons, £20 for non-patrons, plus shipping. *WEB DESIGN ALERT* Tom Allen is a friend of the show (and the designer behind GYDS dot com). If you need web design help, reach out to him here:  https://www.tomallen.media/

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome back to Trash Future, the podcast about how the future is...

0:20.0

The comedy podcast that we do.

0:22.3

Yeah.

0:23.0

The comedy podcast where we make fun jokes and we have a nice time and we don't think

0:28.3

about anything distressing, um, that once again has been forced to do the fucking thing

0:36.7

that we do where we instead think about things

0:39.1

that are very distressing.

0:40.3

I think we might have to think about renaming the podcast because I think when we started

0:44.7

trash future seemed like a reasonable, like, you know, the podcast about how the future

0:47.9

is trash.

0:48.9

Like, you know, things are, things are going to get worse.

0:50.5

But actually, I think now we should really rename it trash present because, yeah,

0:55.2

I think we're nearing a kind of rock bottom scenario.

0:58.5

Oh, I mean, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's,

1:03.0

and alice today. And, um, I want to, usually we do as a startup up front, but I didn't, we didn't want it. We want to

1:11.8

sort of do it a bit differently today. I want to jump right into this, where we are

1:17.8

beginning to see the extremely human consequences of not just austerity, but a much, a much broader trend of gleeful cruelty and sadism in UK and US governance

1:35.1

when we see the forced death by starvation of asylum seeer from Uganda, Mercy Baguma.

1:44.4

She was located in a flat in Glasgow beside her infant son, having literally starved to death

1:50.3

because she was not allowed to work and was not allowed to claim benefits as a refugee.

1:55.0

Well, in the same week, eight refugees all attempted suicide in protested their conditions

2:00.0

in asylum seeker centers. And I,

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