Where we are
They say the key to a successful media career is sincerity, once you can fake that you have it made. For the far right there is a similar route to success. Convince the poor and downtrodden that they are poor and downtrodden because of some external factor and they are your’s for life.
Once they are convinced it is the EU that is behind their lack of success, it does not matter if leaving the EU makes no difference you can just move on to the next bogeyman. Immigration, Islam, a two tier legal system, the ECHR, the woke, the blob, the civil service, the politicians, anything really.
Once you have bought into the idea that there is a simple explanation, provided by multi-millionaires who care not a jot for you, why you and your neighbours are living in a miserable dump with few or any prospects, then they are yours for life.
This is the real challenge to Labour (the Tories having given up on this one and decided to become populists too) you have to make life better for millions of the poorest when they may not thank you in the end anyway.
But it is the right thing to do, although unfortunately it is very hard to do, takes a long time and means destroying Thatcherism, which is the root cause of all of this.
“Rewarding success”, destroying whole industries, concentrating wealth in a few hands and areas and then leaving the victims to stew is the real problem.
That is why we are where we are.
From Jonty Bloom Media Ltd
Economics, trade and Brexit, not necessarily in that order but the dog always comes first.
There was poverty long before Thatcherism… Charles Dickens made a career of highlighting the plight of the people who were stricken to lifelong poverty simply because they weren’t born correctly.
The root cause is imperialism - from the Romans enslaving every population they came in contact with and sent the wealth of their misadventures to enrich the capital, to the sugar plantations in the Caribbean, to the blockades against Palestine. One group of people decide that their birth is more worthy than another group’s, so they deprive them of property wealth and tell the world they deserve it.
The people that inspired Dickens became the cannon fodder in the Somme, then the ignored general strikers of the inter war years, then cannon fodder again in WW2, then they were granted thirty odd years of dignity, then Thatcher decided the Kingdom had done enough and set about reestablishing the hierarchy of property wealth, and since 2008, has evolved into restoring feudalism - a tiny land-owning contingent deriving unearned wealth by exploiting the populace who are excluded from owning land.
Thatcherism was a symptom not the cause.