It’s a forever political mystery that low-paid/working-class voters will opt for the very wealthy with contrary financial interests.
Like, you know, Toynbees?
It’s a forever political mystery that low-paid/working-class voters will opt for the very wealthy with contrary financial interests.
Like, you know, Toynbees?
She never did have much self-awareness, did she?
More brass neck
What did she do with the money from selling her Umbrian villa? Give it to the workers?
(That’s assuming she sold it rather than, urgh, let it.)
Working class people really should know better and vote for parties that will keep them in their boxy little council flats, eating gruel, and watching Eastenders, for the rest of their lives. It’s a mystery why they’re not more grateful.
The thing with the divide is not wealth but type. It’s parasites vs productive. Talk to working class people they overwhelmingly respect James Dyson. He invented a thing, got rich.
including that ball wheelbarrow. Don’t think you can get them anymore.
I actually remember that. I can actually see Pops telling me about it. He was an engineer, see (RN, but). And he was terribly excited by the story of a local bloke (just the other side of Bath) who’d invented a new wheelbarrow in his shed. Which was now selling boatloads and he showed me the ad in the mag of the Sunday supplments. You can, really you can, just invent new things!
Ah, but did he get some sort of government approval before inventing it? It seems that among the left’s great concerns are how do you stop people from inventing stuff without their approval.
They are excellent. I had one we used for site work. It would sail over stuff a conventional barrow would bog down in.
Why the hell did he only market plastic hoppers? It’s one problem was it wasn’t durable enough for serious work. Something built for the construction industry rather than DIY would have sold like hotcakes.
And why would people who work for a living opt for people who had never done any real work and hence have no awareness of what business need to survive?
Ah! She has noticed that *low-paid* workers don’t support the Labour Party which was invented to lobby for and benefit the *higher-paid* workers and their trade unions.
That’s what drives lower class workers, fighting the intangible.
Read: the prosperous. Workers may hate the company, but love having a job. ‘Fighting inequality’ isn’t even on their list.
They are not contrary. Workers, managers, stock holders, all are striving for prosperity. Labour says f..k prosperity, we’re going after inequality! That’s what the voters really want!
Which begs the question, are they going to fight inequality, or tackle it? Wrestle in the mud with it?