Tory MP Robert Jenrick complains about filthy streets full of litter on GB News for eight minutes, but somehow forgets to mention how Tory austerity is to blame.
The tragedy is that Starmer’s party aren’t even remotely interested in fixing the damage done by Tory (well, basically all neoliberal politicians) austerity. They claim to be all about “GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH”, which in itself is neolib austerity gaslighting 101, when multitudes of economists - who aren’t free-market ideologues without any other ideas such as the Tufton Street shitehawks exposed by Liz Truss’s car-crash as a bunch of rich elite know-nothings - are in agreement that if you want the economy to grow the public needs jobs and money to spend, created by public infrastructure spending and suchlike. Reeves and Starmer aren’t total dummies, they know that Keynesian economics works, but they ARE those neolib free market ideologues, albeit with front facing identitarian Idpol rhetoric to gaslight and distract people from thinking about and understanding why our material reality is rapidly falling, faster even than Thatcher dreamt it could happen.
The Tories (with a helping hand from Blairism) have stolen all the benefits and gains working class people earned in the “post-war settlement” and a Labour Party aren’t even prepared to tax wealth and the wealthy in order to get it back. Because that’s where it all went : UPWARDS.
Dog whistle politics is where we're at. When the political infrastructure fails, as it has so clearly done, those at the top circle the wagons and prepare to defend against any and all attacks by descending into the pit of populist rabble rousing. From the original tories we expect such behaviour, because populist racism and Little Englander "It's all the fault of the fordigners" jingoistic flag shagging is the only politics they've ever been any good at.
Now, we see the same rhetoric from Labour, under the leadership of a man so weak and cowardly, so beholden to the patronage of the corrupt elite, that he's trying to rebrand a party built on the ideals of socialism as a party exclusively of the white working class, but controlled by the white middle class.
The political infrastructure is broken beyond repair, so I think it's without question as to how we fix it. The only important question yet to be answered is: do enough of the ordinary, everyday people have the guts to take to the streets and tear down the system? Until the answer to that question is a resounding 'FUCK YEAH!' I'm afraid we're stuck with the current corrupt, shambolic, failing democracy that none of the mainstream are inclined to change for the better.
A classic situation is to blame the person (holding the baby?) at the end of a long line of miss-management, rather than the decisions which lead there.
The tragedy is that Starmer’s party aren’t even remotely interested in fixing the damage done by Tory (well, basically all neoliberal politicians) austerity. They claim to be all about “GROWTH GROWTH GROWTH”, which in itself is neolib austerity gaslighting 101, when multitudes of economists - who aren’t free-market ideologues without any other ideas such as the Tufton Street shitehawks exposed by Liz Truss’s car-crash as a bunch of rich elite know-nothings - are in agreement that if you want the economy to grow the public needs jobs and money to spend, created by public infrastructure spending and suchlike. Reeves and Starmer aren’t total dummies, they know that Keynesian economics works, but they ARE those neolib free market ideologues, albeit with front facing identitarian Idpol rhetoric to gaslight and distract people from thinking about and understanding why our material reality is rapidly falling, faster even than Thatcher dreamt it could happen.
The Tories (with a helping hand from Blairism) have stolen all the benefits and gains working class people earned in the “post-war settlement” and a Labour Party aren’t even prepared to tax wealth and the wealthy in order to get it back. Because that’s where it all went : UPWARDS.
My names Dave, an ex builder and I drive a white van, fly tipping is disgraceful, now who’s generalising ???
Dog whistle politics is where we're at. When the political infrastructure fails, as it has so clearly done, those at the top circle the wagons and prepare to defend against any and all attacks by descending into the pit of populist rabble rousing. From the original tories we expect such behaviour, because populist racism and Little Englander "It's all the fault of the fordigners" jingoistic flag shagging is the only politics they've ever been any good at.
Now, we see the same rhetoric from Labour, under the leadership of a man so weak and cowardly, so beholden to the patronage of the corrupt elite, that he's trying to rebrand a party built on the ideals of socialism as a party exclusively of the white working class, but controlled by the white middle class.
The political infrastructure is broken beyond repair, so I think it's without question as to how we fix it. The only important question yet to be answered is: do enough of the ordinary, everyday people have the guts to take to the streets and tear down the system? Until the answer to that question is a resounding 'FUCK YEAH!' I'm afraid we're stuck with the current corrupt, shambolic, failing democracy that none of the mainstream are inclined to change for the better.
A classic situation is to blame the person (holding the baby?) at the end of a long line of miss-management, rather than the decisions which lead there.