A Little More Connected This Time

[jazzy_dave]

Had to share this as i in concurrence here -

Originally posted by poliphilo at A Little More Connected This Time

"Smile at us, pay us, pass us, but do not quite forget
That we are the people of England who have not spoken yet"

Perhaps we've spoken now.

I'm not particularly happy with what we found ourselves saying. We were offered a choice of  Tory futures- and we chose the one that would do the most damage to the political and cultural establishment. I don't think we voted to be ruled by Michael Gove or Boris Johnson; I think we voted to smack Cameron's pink chops and  knock the smirk off Osborne's dial.  Osborne was still in office last time I looked. I can't think why...

We didn't, incidentally, vote with our wallets. In the short term, anyway, we voted against our wallets. Did we believe it when the Brexiters promised that all the millions we wouldn't be sending to Europe would be spent on the NHS?  I didn't. And I see that Farage is already saying they didn't really mean it. Well, of course they didn't. They're liars. We always knew they were liars, didn't we? We weren't voting for them

We were voting to upset the apple cart. To smash things up a bit.  Some will say we cut off our nose to spite our face.

There's a lot of anger around. I caught Will Self on the news last night being really horrible to Dreda Say Mitchell. I've never warmed to Self and now I know why. He's the liberal (so-called) version of an angry white man. Last night he was expressing the rage of a metropolitan elite that has been done down by a load of bloody oiks and it wasn't pretty- all sarky and face-pulling and finger-pointy.

This isn't a good place we're in, but Britain hasn't been a good place for the poor and disadvantaged for long, long time. The elite have made sure of that...

Comments

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

THIS...

For me, it is the rampant racism. Even if MOST of the Leavers weren't racist, they gave full bloody way to those who ARE. And those people are now making life hell for everyone. What a fuckaroo...

*HUGS*

[davesmusictank.livejournal.com]

Racism , bigotry and xenophobia .. sigh.

Plus do we still have a government?

Cameron apparently told his aides he didn't see why he should hang around to clear up the mess he'd created- and if that's so I can't see why he's still in number 10. He's handed in his resignation- why doesn't he just go - piss off - and pass the job of governing Britain to someone who wants it?

Margaret Hodge has chosen this time-of all times- to try and provoke a vote of no confidence in Jermey Corbyn. So not only do we not have a properly engaged government, we don't have an opposition either.

Flippin' marvellous, innit! Do any of these people have the interests of the nation at heart?

[in-the-bottle.livejournal.com]

Well, the lib dems have experience a surge in members. Basically, who the fuck knows, though.

[a-phoenixdragon.livejournal.com]

Nope too busy being petty and mudslinging, ugh. Sounds like an ordinary day in our Congress (sadly).

'No confidence' because he 'didn't try hard enough to inform' though he was called down TWICE (if I recall right) for 'scaremongering' and 'politicking'!! Boggles my mind...wtf...

The only interest they have is finger-pointing. Like five year olds at a clown-party. Meh.

[heleninwales.livejournal.com]

I admit that I paid the £3 and voted for Corbyn, but he hasn't lived up to expectations and needs to go. Labour have totally lost touch with the ordinary working class person, which has let UKIP lure them over to the dark side.

Basically, if the referendum was a protest vote against hardship, then the poor have just voted for even more hardship. The rich will ride this out, as they always do. Once the Leave voters realise that Poles and other east Europeans will still be coming to work here, that the NHS won't get the £350 million a week, that the French might just move the border to Dover rather than maintaining it in Calais so the Jungle moves onto our shores, and when all the projected EU funded projects now don't happen, they'll realise just how they've screwed it up for everyone, themselves included.

[thespian15.livejournal.com]

We were voting to upset the apple cart.
And the apples sent shock waves around the world. :o
Hugs, Jon

[qwentoozla]

Farage sure denied that NHS claim quickly AFTER the vote. What a liar, it's disgusting.

[thewayne.livejournal.com]

"Britain hasn't been a good place for the poor and disadvantaged for long, long time. The elite have made sure of that..."

Is there a place that's good for such people? The elites have been slowly destroying the middle class for 30 years, I guess they don't realize that without a middle class, the economy pretty much goes *BOOM*.

Ask a car dealer if he'd rather sell 1,000 cars at $20,000 or 100 cars at $200,000. The numbers look the same, but the dealer will make a lot more money on the former and may well go bust on the latter. It's like the people who say that a consumption tax will level the tax playing field. It won't, because the rich eat the same amount of food as the poor. The rich may pay more for it, but they can afford it. The poor have to pay more, and they cannot afford it.

Cue the Four Horsemen....

[kabuldur.livejournal.com]

And will Britain be a good place for the poor and disadvantaged now? I think not.