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courtesy of ONS. I think measuring by disposable income is better than measuring by wealth, as some people in London for example who are homeowners will have a large portfolio of wealth locked up in the value of their home, which they are unable to use, and they may earn more but have higher costs than if you lived in the countryside. So by measuring by disposable income, you can account for people who have assets they can't use (no one's going to sell the roof they live under) and urbanites who have higher wages and higher costs.
Wherever people voted for Remain, they're loaded with cash. This was an immense gift to the Leave campaign, because when Remain started spreading panic about how Eastern European maids would leave and there would be no one left to do their jobs, the rest of the country laughed at these soft elites who couldn't even lift a finger to do their own housekeeping. They who had so much money they actually had
personal support staff, and they were willing to sell out their country's sovereignty just to maintain their dominance! Their convenience! Ahahaha, one of the best things to come out of this is that our intellectual elite who prided themselves on exclusivity, superiority and luxury have now paid the price of their pride - all their pampering bit them in the arse because no one believes in them, no one supports them and they showed their own rotten attitudes plain and clear. No one's going to forget the image of rich white princelings sneering at the old and the poor - nothing more priceless than spoilt kids demanding that WWII veterans who paid taxes for 4 times longer than they've been alive be ignored. That is a crippling blow they dealt to themselves, and they've no one to blame but themselves.
Some context for transatlantic shitposters as well, the NewStatesman is based in London and caters to the politics of Tony Blair, his special brand of neoliberalism that managed to unite communists, conservatives, liberals and nationalists together across both main parties - not even talking party leaders or MPs, the actual voters on the ground, normal people who weren't born in Oxbridge Universities with Eton's spoons in their mouth. The seismic rejection of neoliberalism in every party (bar the Liberal Democrat party of course) is rather astounding, though I don't like drawing on it too much because then people will think neoliberalism is solely to blame and forget they hold responsibility for allowing them to gallivant as they please. Without going on a tangent too much, I'm also going to go on and say I do not expect anyone to reject the NewStatesman's arguments on the basis that they're the exact elitists the entire country is fed up with, as that is unfair and some of the things they have said are factually true.
In short though what I am saying, is that the NewStatesman are trying to justify a moral case for those who have all the money, influence and power to continue laughing at the working men and women who make this country what it is. This has been a long time coming, there were multiple warning signs and they were all ignored.
In the 80s and 90s, the working class were increasingly ignored in an effort by New Labour to appeal to the middle class urbanite. They took it for granted that the working class were "theirs," theirs to do whatever they wish. British politics at this time revolved around the notion of "safe seats" and "strongholds," of political tribalism. The issue with this is that MPs took it for granted that their so called "safe seats" would always be theirs, thus they would never have to listen to or provide anything of substance to their constituents. Some rich London elitist liberal could go to any working class stronghold and get an assured job in Parliament running the nation for their own enrichment - it doesn't even matter if they joined the Labour or Tory party, it only mattered which stronghold they were going to. In this way both parties readily abandoned their voters to pursue the same agenda of neoliberalism, voters for the first time began looking for actual alternatives to Labour and Tory. It was a terrible time, a great living joke, that the Labour party of 'working class Britons' was represented by cosmopolitan London elites who owned summer homes worth more than entire villages, more focused on gaining access to local multicultural food than actually providing for the welfare of their voters. And don't even get me fucking started on the Tory party, which had the cheek to call itself the Conservative party whilst it conserved nothing and was composed of blue blooded aristocrats, right down to the degenerate fornication of dead animals.
Fortunately normal people won in the end, the Conservative party is led by Conservatives and the Labour party... Well, they're still fighting an endless war of attrition between socialists and their liberal foes.
“What the research showed was that as Labour candidates became more middle class, many working-class people simply stopped voting. For the last 20 or 30 years we have had a picture of gradually growing working-class abstention,” he said, arguing that people felt Labour was no longer representing them.
“They became alienated from the political process – and that went unnoticed for quite some time. But these alienated voters are fertile territory for being remobilised,” he added, saying that is why they were drawn to Ukip and then – more clearly – the vote for Brexit.
“It is very difficult for Labour to rebuild the connection in a credible way. The party needs to reassess what its social identity is – who it wants to represent: the disaffected working-class voters in the north or the more liberal middle classes. I think it was easier when it had a strong identity at the core.”
Heath said the original shift away from poorer candidates was started by Kinnock as part of an effort to break links with the unions, and disassociate with working-class radicalism.
His research found that the problem was most acute with wealthy candidates, finding that they tended to “particularly repel” the working classes, because they were not seen as approachable.
“MPs from privileged backgrounds are indeed perceived as less ‘in touch’ by working-class voters, who will regard a pledge to stand up for the underprivileged as more credible coming from someone whose own background is modest than a similar promise coming from the child of millionaires,” he wrote in the report.
Heath called for action, arguing that political parties had rightly tried hard to increase the representation of women, ethnic minorities and young people in Westminster. “But the representation of those groups has been growing over time, while the representation of working-class MPs has been falling,” he said.
People tend to vote for who their leaders are, so ethnic minorities and Scots who are well-represented in Parliament by pro-EU MPs of their own kin were much more likely to vote for Remain, whilst the English, Welsh and Northern Irish (whom the NewStatesman conveniently ignored) won it for Leave.
It is very hard to excuse wealthy pricks from digging their own grave when over the years they have been entirely contemptuous of the working class Britons of the UK.Here's another bit from Owen Jones - can you imagine that, I fucking agree with Owen Jones. THAT'S HOW BIG LIBERALS FUCKED UP
Politicians used to pretend the working class didn’t exist; now they zealously compete for working-class affection. “We’re all middle class now” was New Labour’s mantra in the 90s and 00s. “Class is a communist concept,” declared Margaret Thatcher. “It groups people as bundles and sets them against one another.” Class is no longer banished to the fringes of politics: it is becoming a defining concept once again.
The movement that unexpectedly catapulted Jeremy Corbyn into the Labour leadership places class at its heart. Ukip seeks to position itself as the party of the English and Welsh working class. Ukip “represents the concerns of most working-class men and women”, declared Mark Reckless after his short-lived victory in the 2014 Rochester and Strood byelection. And now it’s the Tories’ turn: they have shed the patronising formulation of “hard-working families doing the right thing” in favour of an audacious claim to be “squarely at the service of ordinary working-class people”. The return of class politics is an opportunity for Labour – and also a looming existential crisis.
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Our European Parliament election, our 2010 and 2015 General Election, the Tories and Labour didn't just have second chances, they ran out of every single chance they were given and pissed on them. It worried me when amongst the graffiti I just saw scribbled on the floor 'Remember Rotherham,' times were changing ahead and I didn't know what was in store as our MPs were continuing as usual, holding their votes in contempt for their concerns.
Oh, and the Brexit vote was not a rejection of Multiculturalism.
Multiculuralism was rejected in 2010. Cameron tried to stop Multiculturalism with 'muscular liberalism,' but either cared not or liberalism proved too weak.
It could just be that Labour and Tory were living in a wealthy bubble, completely isolated from normal people.Another key link is University Education, which I would entirely disagree with you on. I do like your description of University, it is rather cute and optimistic, but sadly I do not believe it so.
90 fucking percent of Academic staff supported Remain. They're bought and paid for with EU funds, they have to do whatever the EU commands them - now, rather happily, no longer. I'm also rather proud how the useless degrees have immensely high support for the EU, whilst support for Leave was highest with engineering! XD
Moreover, speaking from personal experience, in secondary education I was amongst the most ethnically, religious and culturally enriched place I've ever been in my life. Anglos, Scots, Nigerians, Afrocaribbeans, Israelis, Iranians, Russians, Chinese, Koreans, Japanese, Sri Lankans, Indians, Indonesians, Malaysians, the list goes on. Same with religions, even having the pleasure of knowing Jains! The sheer diversity in opinions and philosophies was invigorating for the mind, helping me see for my own mind a much broader world than I had ever anticipated. It also helped me realize that progressives are a tiny minority vs the rest of the world lol
Things changed in University, wherein gone were my enriched peers, fated was I to eternally dwell amongst a sea of whites and marxist professors calling everything problematic. I believe I've actually regailed to you before of my most puzzling day Reelya, when I bore witness to a room full of white women calling for a violent uprising against whites. It was rather puzzling, but makes complete sense - these people live in a bubble. Inside the University they have all they need, accommodation, food, sex, and they are free from having to interact with normal people. They are surrounded by those who look like them, sound like them, believe exactly as they do, and even so there are safe spaces for those who find any threat. All their professors unanimously agree in the universal virtue of the European Union and progressivism, there is no alternative opinion welcome whatsoever - in my Uni the only political societies were socialist progressives, communist progressives and liberal progressives.
Needless to say, it was nothing like the
culturally enriched paradises of ideas I had come to love. All they wanted was everyone in the UK to be immigrants so that no one could be racist (I wish I was exaggerating, and alas poor Sweden, you have implemented Anglo academics into institution). They wanted lots of races of people outside their little gated white communities, but also wanted them all to think the same consumerist way. The us-vs-them mentality is so strong that they actually believe they are superior in ever way to literally the rest of the entire UK! Hahahaha, I still remember the priceless irony of rich white kids protesting against the gentrification in East End
they were causingReposting from current news:
Theresa May to accuse politicians of sneering at Brexit voters
Prime minister will use conference speech to lambast elites and set out a ‘new centre ground’ in which the Tories step in to protect working people
Theresa May will accuse politicians of sneering at the millions of ordinary people who backed Brexit, as she urges her party to seize a “new centre ground” and intervene more aggressively for the sake of working-class families.
In a withering attack at the Conservative conference on Wednesday, the prime minister will say: “Just listen to the way a lot of politicians and commentators talk about the public. They find their patriotism distasteful, their concerns about immigration parochial, their views about crime illiberal, their attachment to their job security inconvenient. They find the fact that more than 17 million people voted to leave the European Union simply bewildering.”
Speaking after sterling sunk to a 31-year-low, causing stock markets to soar, May will argue that the time has come to “reject the ideological templates provided by the socialist left and the libertarian right” and instead embrace a new centre ground.
“Let’s have no more of Labour’s absurd belief that they have a monopoly on compassion. Let’s put an end to their sanctimonious pretence of moral superiority. Let’s make clear that they have given up the right to call themselves the party of the NHS, the party of the workers, the party of public servants.”
The speech comes as the head of May’s policy board in Downing Street warned of “anti-capitalist riots” if the government does not urgently reform the economic system – including with a more muscular state.
"If you're one of those people who lost their job, who stayed in work but on reduced hours, took a pay cut as household bills rocketed, or - and I know a lot of people don't like to admit this - someone who finds themselves out of work or on lower wages because of low-skilled immigration, life simply doesn't seem fair.
"It feels like your dreams have been sacrificed in the service of others."
Promising to build a "united Britain rooted in a centre ground", she said her government would protect jobs and "repair" free markets when they did not work properly.
Setting out a "responsible capitalism" agenda, she said the government would "go after" businesses that regarded paying tax as "an optional extra", challenge those which recruited "cheap foreign labour" at the expense of British workers and, in a reference to the collapse of retailer BHS, condemn those who "take out massive dividends while knowing that the company pension is about to go bust".
Previous Tory leaders have sought to reduce state intervention, but Mrs May said her government would take action to identify injustice, find solutions and drive change.
We're reaching levels of moist that shouldn't even be possible
May's picked up on it too. Dark days are over indeed. I should probably add that English nationalism is not something I particularly understand as I am not English and have no intention of claiming such identity as my own, it's not surprising that people who actually maintain their heritage are defensive of their lands, I am more interested in the divide between:
- The English, Welsh, Scots and Northern Irish for whom their dual identity as a Brit and a member of their region has been reversed in importance
- The Brits who completely abandoned their heritage to become rootless 'whites' of Europe
Two very different phenomenons going on here which explain the growing gap between provincial people entrenching themselves in their heritage vs cosmopolitan urbanites entrenching themselves in their money
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