The familiar cry that it’s not fair echoes through the land as the Tommy/Farage/Brexiteer fanboys and girls (mustn’t be sexist 🙂 ) shout about the destruction of an English society that never really existed. Certainly not one I have seen in my 68 years on this planet to date, fuelled and sponsored by proxies of the wealthy who fund division for their own ends. Make the little people fight and keep them divided has always been the game. England was built on this premise and convincing the cannon fodder to go along with it has now never been easier. The politics of the school bully in the playground reign supreme at present. Literally and figuratively so it seems in the case of Nigel Farage’s school days. Private schools in England are still a gateway to much denied to others of ability. Look at many elected politicians who seem to provide reasonable evidence to support this hypothesis. Punching down at minority’s or ridiculing them is as much a part of class privilege as hunting, shooting and fishing still it seems. Once again art/music and much the cannon fodder are encouraged not to pursue buy any means possible. Music education cut to the bare minimum in schools and so forth.
What will happen when there are very few jobs left in say 20 years as most can and will be automated.
Who will be able to buy the stuff produced…
In another life many years ago I happened to meet the head of a very large utility company who’s arrogance was mind bending which was only matched by their total inability to understand a concept that a 5 year would be able to grasp. I used to naively think that people got to positions of power because they had some special quality or ability. Sadly this is not so much the case. For many its luck and being the person that shouts loudest in the room.
A car brought new costs more that half the cost of a house in some poorer parts of the UK. Some people are doing very well indeed and of course there is nothing wrong with that but even the average comfortably off family are bombarded with xenophobic propaganda daily. In the last few years Trans people have also been targeted too. To what end. To keep control, to keep society divided, to keep the little people fearful and frightened. We see the perfect example of this in the USA where a man who has criminal convictions is elected president by those that are now disadvantaged because if it. He told them that the ‘Elite’ was the enemy and he is of course part of that elite. We see the same sort of thing happening in the UK now too of course.
In truth the division in English society has always been there except that now everybody with a smartphone can join in the hue and cry broadcasting hate far and wide. Are people worse than they used to be?
I doubt it somehow, it is just that now they chose to share hate freely with a few jabs of a finger and thumb.
What I do suggest is that if you happen upon some outlandish claim or great threat is that you research it a little rather than take your lead from some provocateur news pundit who makes a living from stoking the fires.
I wish you all a peaceful and perhaps prosperous new year for 2026…