Blindboy
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1,520 appearances
3 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 10 Jun
Blindboy’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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And every time there's a bust, the rich get richer.
But the world of unions, council houses, getting loans from the council, job security, pensions, a social net and a social contract, that has all flipped now.
The point I'm trying to get to is...
neoliberalism it's very difficult to see it's a fog it's an ether it's a mire you can't really point it and go there that's the issue it's such a a complicated system and that's why you don't see a lot of literacy around that system instead what people see are its impacts
They just see loads of homeless people on the streets and the emergence of shantytowns and are unaware of why nothing's being done.
People are trying to get houses.
People who are lucky enough to be able to afford to get a mortgage are now competing with giant investment funds.
Giant faceless piles of cash are buying up entire housing estates to rent.
To rent all those houses to the Irish government.
And where do all those profits go to?
To someone's pension in China.
The same thing is being done with IPAS centres, International Protection Applicant Centres.
Refugees, the provision of housing for refugees in Ireland is being run as a for profit system.
Today, the Irish Minister for State, an independent TD, Michael Healy-Ray from Downing Kerry, he resigned from government in solidarity with the protesters, in solidarity with the farmers and the fuel protesters.
He held his fist up high when the cameras were pointing at him.
And it created a narrative of, a media narrative of this man, this is a man of the people standing with the protesters.
Eight days ago, it was reported in the news that this government minister, the minister for state, his private property farm received 1.3 million for accommodating Ukrainians.
So here's a government minister who's also profiting from the refugee crisis.
When things like housing, things that are public services, when these things are put to the private fucking market and then run as a for-profit system, like there's a huge amount of our government ministers are also landlords.
When these things are run as a private system for profit, then you have to wonder where is the incentive for a real solution when so much money is being made?
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