| Sofia reportage |
[Oct. 28th, 2014|03:45 pm] |
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trouble with being suspicious is that you get more suspicious until, really, your suspicions turn out in your head to be true. How else to understand the monitors'/facilitators' failure to build my debt-migration theme (including the nature of the banking system) into the 4-year plan of educational topics for EU trade unionists? (It's okay - I am laughing inwardly as I write these words - being, as I am partially aware, probably). I mean 'they asked', dammit! Instead the said facilitators (young Swede and the middle-aged Brit) wrote 'their own ideas' in big letters, which they had told us they weren't supposed to. But then we were all milling in bemusement - unactivated. How else, also, to understand the use of the word 'actor' being used to describe people active in, for example, EWC's. The old-school UK unionist kept shaking his head at it - fair enough - strange word innit? For me it is clear: I am bit-part, extra, and can relax - drink cheap booze and have fun with my dear Estonian colleague - now comfortably ensconced in my Top 10 of favourite people. Don't misunderstand me: after seing the shitty way working boys and girls get treated hereabouts, I'm all for trade unions - just when the director of the p(a)lace asked me what was wrong, I put it down to wind. |
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