Starving Refugees to Teach Them a Lesson feat. Vicki Spratt
TRASHFUTURE
TRASHFUTURE
4.7 • 935 Ratings
🗓️ 31 August 2020
⏱️ 95 minutes
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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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