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*

[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.