Aka Brits are waking up tp reality. The bubble is burst
Archistotle on
Belief requires faith, if you don’t think the elite are corrupt you lack reason.
margieler on
Can someone explain the rise of the reform party then?
Nigel Farage is not your working class mate and to believe he hates the “elites” is essentially a bad joke.
Spattzzzzz on
As in we know we would have been carted off in cuffs straight away if we had done what Mandleson has.
I wouldn’t be riding a horse round a private estate just now either.
Mysterious_One_841 on
Nice advertisement for your very unbiased substack mate
FireFurFox on
Important to realise though that people have very different definitions of what an “elite” is…
MetalingusMikeII on
Because they are.
Also, they’re not “elite”. They’re economic parasites.
BednaR1 on
The sole fact that both Epstain and Gasoline were allowed to “plead the 5th” when asked about trump or others having sex with minors is VERY telling
VelvetDreamers on
Of course they are! Which is why the working class/disenfranchised men are so susceptible to Right-wing ideologies because the elites on the right will occasionally deign to scatter some crumbs to foment civil unrest where as left wing elites only offer disdain.
The UK is crying out for representation for the betterment of working class people and all the political elite can offer is the duplicitous Farage or the delusional Greens.
lalabadmans on
It’s no longer a belief, we have seen what happened with how Boris acted and how they siphoned our taxes during Covid.
TomLambe on
Because they’ve shown us time and time again that they are.
Ok-Store-9297 on
Well, it’s taken a while, but better late than never.
Hungry_Horace on
It’s a return to the norm.
For most of human history the difference between the lives of the rich (the aristocracy) and the poor was huge. The rich effectively or absolutely owned the poor.
That system came under strain from the emerging middle and business classes during the industrial revolution, and partly collapsed after the Second World War for complex reasons.
The gap between rich and poor narrowed. Better wages, workers rights, unions. The second half of the 20th century saw an increasing parity and universality of experience.
I don’t know when the peak was – late 80s? – but it’s been in reverse for the last 30+ years. The gap between the average wage and the income of the ultra rich (the new aristocracy/oligarchy) has massively increased.
We’re entering a new era where even our private info, debate and correspondence is controlled by the rich. A basic level of living (which is better than the nineteenth century admittedly) is provided for the working classes, but power and control has returned to where it always was.
WokeWookies on
Ahh hail Nigel, working class hero, defender of the working class and NHS.
Floyd_Pink on
It’s not a case of belief. it’s a cut and dried, evidence-based fact.
OnionSea7213 on
Is Baroness Mone in jail? No
So it seems a correct position to hold
The depressing thing is that this mindset is just going to feed in to Reform anti establishment support. Despite Reform almost certainly being up to their eyeballs in corruption. The UK voting populace are insane.
TruthsNoRemedy on
That’s because they are and none more corrupt than their puppets in Reform. Labour and Conservatives can do one but reform really can F all the way off! Elites buy our government, you want change then vote for a party that isn’t bought and sold by the powerful and corrupt.
Nielips on
The reality of this is strange though when tax avoidance/evasion is rampant in small businesses ~40% according to HMRC. This shows that a non-signifacnt number of people I’ve don’t consider their law breaking as law breaking or don’t care.
MarvZealous on
Believe? It’s hard to ignore the pattern.
The bigger issue isn’t minimum wage workers wanting to buy a home or immigrants trying to improve their lives.
It’s a structural class divide that keeps attention focused sideways instead of upward and much of the media amplifies that distraction
CyberShi2077 on
The rest of us don’t support anyone anymore.
They’re all too corrupt and we need several overhauls to the whole political landscape for trust to be regained.
RoamingThomist on
The anti-corruption minister was convicted for corruption.
Difficult to argue against
limaconnect77 on
Same stupid fucks voted Thatcher for the longest time, then Camo, Leave and BoJo. Now Reform’s numbers are looking very healthy with the same characters.
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Aka Brits are waking up tp reality. The bubble is burst
Belief requires faith, if you don’t think the elite are corrupt you lack reason.
Can someone explain the rise of the reform party then?
Nigel Farage is not your working class mate and to believe he hates the “elites” is essentially a bad joke.
As in we know we would have been carted off in cuffs straight away if we had done what Mandleson has.
I wouldn’t be riding a horse round a private estate just now either.
Nice advertisement for your very unbiased substack mate
Important to realise though that people have very different definitions of what an “elite” is…
Because they are.
Also, they’re not “elite”. They’re economic parasites.
The sole fact that both Epstain and Gasoline were allowed to “plead the 5th” when asked about trump or others having sex with minors is VERY telling
Of course they are! Which is why the working class/disenfranchised men are so susceptible to Right-wing ideologies because the elites on the right will occasionally deign to scatter some crumbs to foment civil unrest where as left wing elites only offer disdain.
The UK is crying out for representation for the betterment of working class people and all the political elite can offer is the duplicitous Farage or the delusional Greens.
It’s no longer a belief, we have seen what happened with how Boris acted and how they siphoned our taxes during Covid.
Because they’ve shown us time and time again that they are.
Well, it’s taken a while, but better late than never.
It’s a return to the norm.
For most of human history the difference between the lives of the rich (the aristocracy) and the poor was huge. The rich effectively or absolutely owned the poor.
That system came under strain from the emerging middle and business classes during the industrial revolution, and partly collapsed after the Second World War for complex reasons.
The gap between rich and poor narrowed. Better wages, workers rights, unions. The second half of the 20th century saw an increasing parity and universality of experience.
I don’t know when the peak was – late 80s? – but it’s been in reverse for the last 30+ years. The gap between the average wage and the income of the ultra rich (the new aristocracy/oligarchy) has massively increased.
We’re entering a new era where even our private info, debate and correspondence is controlled by the rich. A basic level of living (which is better than the nineteenth century admittedly) is provided for the working classes, but power and control has returned to where it always was.
Ahh hail Nigel, working class hero, defender of the working class and NHS.
It’s not a case of belief. it’s a cut and dried, evidence-based fact.
Is Baroness Mone in jail? No
So it seems a correct position to hold
The depressing thing is that this mindset is just going to feed in to Reform anti establishment support. Despite Reform almost certainly being up to their eyeballs in corruption. The UK voting populace are insane.
That’s because they are and none more corrupt than their puppets in Reform. Labour and Conservatives can do one but reform really can F all the way off! Elites buy our government, you want change then vote for a party that isn’t bought and sold by the powerful and corrupt.
The reality of this is strange though when tax avoidance/evasion is rampant in small businesses ~40% according to HMRC. This shows that a non-signifacnt number of people I’ve don’t consider their law breaking as law breaking or don’t care.
Believe? It’s hard to ignore the pattern.
The bigger issue isn’t minimum wage workers wanting to buy a home or immigrants trying to improve their lives.
It’s a structural class divide that keeps attention focused sideways instead of upward and much of the media amplifies that distraction
The rest of us don’t support anyone anymore.
They’re all too corrupt and we need several overhauls to the whole political landscape for trust to be regained.
The anti-corruption minister was convicted for corruption.
Difficult to argue against
Same stupid fucks voted Thatcher for the longest time, then Camo, Leave and BoJo. Now Reform’s numbers are looking very healthy with the same characters.