You don't have to be left-wing to dislike the far-right, and you don't have to be right-wing to dislike the far-left. You get what I am saying, I am guessing.
All it takes to help extremists get into power is to take your eye off the ball by abusing democracy and allowing half of your country to be thrown into comparative poverty by facilitating a prolonged period of short-termism during which anything of true value gets stripped while it still can be.
When we wake up to a bright new Labour future on Friday morning, things are going to get far worse.
Between the devil and the deep blue sea?
ReplyDeleteNot much of a choice, but then it's the same all over the world.
DeleteIf you are working class you can only vote Labour on Thursday. The party for the labourers not the rich.
ReplyDeleteNot since Tony Blair. If Smith had lived things might have been different.
DeleteThings generally get worse before they get better. The world is in a state and stability seems at odds.
ReplyDeleteYes, there is a cycle going on.
DeleteThe rich get richer and the poor take care of each other. Would it were different.
ReplyDeleteIt sometimes is. I don't resent the rich - we need them in this system. I prefer rich individuals to corporations.
DeleteAdjustment needs to take place between rich and poor. I was reading about poverty in one town, the next video said 'What it is like living in a four million pound Chiswick House' . The absurdity strikes you immediately.
ReplyDeleteI have known and worked for many multi-millionaires and billionaires over the years and I can honestly say that I feel no resentment when I compare my lifestyle with theirs. When you have a situation where a family with both parents in full-time work have to use food banks to keep their children fed it is utterly disgraceful. There will always be rich and poor, but we have reverted to Victorian times now, but without the philanthropic industries. Thatcher and her supporters created the divide. It is now shameful to rent your home unless it is for around £3,000 a month.
DeleteShort-termism being the operative phrase here, I guess
ReplyDeleteOtherwise known as a quick buck.
DeleteMy Postal vote went off a week ago - now I can treat today as any other day/ Lovely!!
ReplyDeleteHere, it seems that we have allowed a predatory system to fall in place, one that has enabled big business to use and discard people indiscriminately for years now. Except now there is a huge generation, the post ww2 babyboomers, retiring. They hung on to jobs for years and then suddenly, we all retired at once, and those unattainable jobs are suddenly attainable to young folks. The lower paying jobs that depended on their labor (and treated them like shit) suddenly have all these jobs that they cannot fill. Suddenly those jobs are paying more, and doing more to attract workers. The tide has turned and I cannot help but think this is a good thing.
ReplyDeleteHowever, there is a lot of political stuff going on that makes me very, very nervous.