My dad was from a working class conservative background. The desire for upward mobility is at its weakest in the comfortable middle classes. When you're working 14-16 hours in a felt factory you want to get out of there as soon as possible. My dad wasn't hostile to social democracy per se, he was merely unimpressed with the ownership of industry being transfered to the state. And I think this is an aspect that people in England tend to miss, because of the outsourcing of a lot of manual labour to the third world.
which again is why I find a lot of these debates vex. As a disabled ethnic I'm duty bound to vote labour if I do, unless I want to get ridiculed to kingdom come. So being strawmanned on this forum is a bit like woah, guys, I'm the pawn your party has in a double bind: strangling me — it's either us or the tories, but never *you*
Left-lite as may be interpreted case study - when you’re working 14-16 hours as agency staff in the NHS or any other number of jobs (capitalism = life currently = death), you’re doing it because there’s a need, even a vocation, more likely because there’s nowhere else to go. Politics is beyond monitoring crises. I see it every day with organisations unable to communicate with each other, a bit Ken Loachy agreed, just look at how many NHS trusts have been put into special measures in recent memory. Rotten management and cultures of fear
I hate England too for different reasons, but this mantra you have about a coddled mass of blow hards who couldn’t give a fuck because the third world can twerk it is tawdry. It plays to a warped worldview held by the very culprits you despise. Not everyone is an apathetic or dismissive cunt incapable of grasping the greater game. Not even close and we all have to negotiate the shadows of empires, whether present, fallen or rising
Citing wage slaves engaged in battery work because someone wants to smell fresh children’s tears on their new Nikes is different. It’s heavy on detail and misses nuance. Race is always going to be a factor in humans and the return of EU nationals to the continent due to Brexit shows the fracture cleaved from all sides. Yes, England’s class system remains coded and bounded - an invitation is rarely extended to those without - which is why the greatest anxiety bandwidth is taken up by its lower middle class, possibly the bulk of the country
It’s this demographic and those immediately below that have been hit hardest by Covid and as such have the capacity to politically glass Britain ruthlessly in the proceeding years, something you may rejoice in, something much much worse than Brexit and the “Tories”. The anger is there, you can actually taste it now. A shift has happened, something more malignant with Covid has opened a madness even the mask of democracy, the ethics of voting or left-communism might be behind on