A shower of corporate villains who want to build shiny crap in the middle of Belfast have hired NI actor James Dornan to lend his silky voice to a rather creepy propaganda film claiming ‘We are Tribeka’. The irony that Dornan generally plays manipulative villains must have escaped them.
My friend Conor Shields, who runs a community arts charity in the area they want to bludgeon, has responded with a blisteringly powerful poem of his own. Over 30,000 FB views in 24 hours.
It seems we are NOT Tribeka – or Chewbacca or Buildcrappa or anything else. Presumptuous scumbags.
Here is Dornan’s video, with Conor’s in the comments.
Conor Shields’ one-man shield wall. Power to the people. Smash the system…
Any video with the word ‘blether’ in it gets my vote..
What have the Northern Ireland Government got to say about all this? Oh yeah, sorry ….. 🙁
Indeed…
I’d write more protest songs but I’ve decided to fall out with myself and sulk for two years on full pay from the public purse, while talking entrenched, po-faced crap on TV current affairs shows every other week and kidding myself that I’m in touch with the people.
I’m enjoying these threads on politics in Northern Ireland a lot more than the ones on Brexit.
Yep, fascinating if bewildering and depressing. Bit like the Vish….
Yes, we do things differently over here. A bit like living in that weirdo place in ‘Deliverance’…
On a tangent, as Freddy brings it up… I was proofing an academic text this week on cyber security and came across a neologism used in that world: Vhishing (that spelling) – phishing by voice: phoning someone up and getting useful cyber security info for nefarious purposes. Who knew? Momentarily, I wondered if it meant playing the ‘Vish at people as a means to extract information.
Amazingly, I was at a pub this evening chatting with people and the ‘Tribeca’ thing came up. A guy wandered over and said he was curious about what we thought – his dad’s behind it. We were perfectly civil but suggested the fascistic propaganda overtones in Jamie’s video and the very fact that a poetic response by (in comparison to Dornan) a nonentity gets 30,000+ Facebook views in 24 hours would suggest that their communications strategy isn’t working.
Gee Colin. I sat on the sofa tonight and watched crap telly. Hats doffed once more.
To be fair, Fred, back from pub at 8.15 and I did the same… that pro-celebrity dancing show… the one with no actual celebrities on it…
Jamie Dorman’s stock in trade seems to be that he plays characters who really, really like hurting women. Perhaps this is just very subversive. The whole of NI as a gigantic woman who is begging to be hurt and humiliated, at least in the mind of pysyhopaths?
It’s impossible to humiliate that woman. She personally signed off on a moronic scheme (RHI) that will cost taxpayers c.£500 million – literally, burning wood pellets to heat empty buildings and paying greedy farmers to do it – and accepts no blame or shame for doing so. She is a blight on the face of humanity. If she met the Devil at a crossroads, the Devil would run like hell.