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  • Unfortunately for you, and all of us, there is an increasing tranche of poor people who are directly suffering because of immigration.

    We ignore these people at our peril because they will vote for the Trumpists if nobody else is representing their interests.

    The middle classes enjoyed the benefits of cheap labour, in particular, but those who had their pay and conditions destroyed are not going to vote to be turkeys at somebody else’s christmas party.







  • Even opening up a poll on X to see what his users think about the idea…

    Presumably the other headline that read ‘50% of voters’ were in favour of this party, should have read ‘50% of X users who voted in the poll (a potentially large proportion of which were bots owned and controlled ultimately by Elon Musk) were in favour of this party’

    1. US (and in fact all ‘Western’) media is as bent as anything in the former Soviet Union.

    2. America certainly is in the hypernormalisation phase. I’m not sure how far behind the UK (and other Western nations media) is because I really don’t engage in the media here. But any Murdoch owned media (like Fox in the US) is at the very least poisonous to open and fair democracy, and egalitarian society.





  • It has been red tory v. blue tory since Blair took leadership in '93/'94.

    It is more of less the same as the US (where it was red v blue republicans for a few decades and is now Republicans calling themselves ‘Democrats’ v. Christian Nationalist Fascists).

    It is the natural continuation of Reaganite/Thatcherite neo-liberal capitalist ideology.

    The outcome for the UK will be a lurch right as the poor vote for parties (Reform) who have used the immigration (that has caused serious legitimate problems for poor communities that simply can’t afford to support the huge number of asylum seekers that have been dumped upon them) and other cultural issues of various legitimacy (imvho) that poor people have been coerced into finding important, as wedge issues.

    Edit - obviously this lurch to the right is the opposite of what should happen but here we go. It is what fossil-fuel powered capitalists prefer to socialism and an egalitarian society any day.