Angela
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Not only have the Tories won the election, they've won it resoundingly, taking seats they haven't held since 1945, and some they haven't held for a hundred years.
Amazingly, they've even taken some seats in Labour centers like Manchester.
Is it all about Brexit, and wanting to leave the European Union, or hatred of unrestricted immigration or racism?
I absolutely don't think so. As many have noted from the commentariat class, this is a working class revolt.
The white working class is in free fall, not only in Britain, but in the U.S. and other countries as well. People educated for the post industrial area don't give a damn about illegal, low skills immigrants flooding the country, whether they come from Africa or Mexico, or, in England, from Poland or the Balkans. It just means more cheap gardeners, housekeepers, and plumbers.
It's the people who are put out of jobs, or have to accept lower wages for those jobs who care.
They're also increasingly threatened by automation. Robots are stocking shelves in supermarkets, slicing the meat, robotic trucks will take away one of the few high paying jobs left for working class people.
What is the result, in the U.S. longevity is declining because white males are increasingly killing themselves with alcohol, and their children with heroin.
I've been clanging this bell for years. It started to show with the election of Donald Trump. Now we see it writ large in Britain.
When are people going to wake up to this crisis and develop policies to deal with it???
"Andrew Sullivan @sullydish · 18h One lesson from the UK: if the Democrats don't stop their hard-left slide, they'll suffer the same fate as Labour. If they don't move off their support for mass immigration, they're toast. Ditto the wokeness. Left Twitter is not reality."
I'm beginning to think this is part of what is driving the Trump impeachment frenzy. They're afraid they're going to lose again.
Amazingly, they've even taken some seats in Labour centers like Manchester.
Is it all about Brexit, and wanting to leave the European Union, or hatred of unrestricted immigration or racism?
I absolutely don't think so. As many have noted from the commentariat class, this is a working class revolt.
The white working class is in free fall, not only in Britain, but in the U.S. and other countries as well. People educated for the post industrial area don't give a damn about illegal, low skills immigrants flooding the country, whether they come from Africa or Mexico, or, in England, from Poland or the Balkans. It just means more cheap gardeners, housekeepers, and plumbers.
It's the people who are put out of jobs, or have to accept lower wages for those jobs who care.
They're also increasingly threatened by automation. Robots are stocking shelves in supermarkets, slicing the meat, robotic trucks will take away one of the few high paying jobs left for working class people.
What is the result, in the U.S. longevity is declining because white males are increasingly killing themselves with alcohol, and their children with heroin.
I've been clanging this bell for years. It started to show with the election of Donald Trump. Now we see it writ large in Britain.
When are people going to wake up to this crisis and develop policies to deal with it???
"Andrew Sullivan @sullydish · 18h One lesson from the UK: if the Democrats don't stop their hard-left slide, they'll suffer the same fate as Labour. If they don't move off their support for mass immigration, they're toast. Ditto the wokeness. Left Twitter is not reality."
I'm beginning to think this is part of what is driving the Trump impeachment frenzy. They're afraid they're going to lose again.