Bonefishblues wrote:Being right doesn't mean being trusted, iyswim.
As I intimated earlier, (and would speculate that the catalyst was 2008, and perhaps Iraq for some) something has driven a wedge between the ordinary people and as I termed them earlier, the ruling classes, in which I would also class the fat cats, so called, of industry, in addition to politicians.
There is visceral hatred of people who sold a generation, and who knows, generations to come, down the river. Didn't see many of the middle classes+ struggling with austerity, did they.
I agree the wedge is there and has been for sometime.
The problem is IMO it's about to become exasperated by brexit and the ordinary thoughtless wo/man on the street who voted for it and think that once rid of the EU's meddling in their lives(as they see it)and everything doesn't suddenly get better but quite the opposite.
Their first port of call for their anxt and blaim because of that,will be immigrants and the self protecting likes of BoJo and Farage,etc will do nothing to stop what they've created.
The immigrants will return home or them that can't will suffer as a result as will the services they managed so well.
More libral thinking UK citizens will feel the pressure of that too and those who can will emigrate taking their not inconsiderable talents with them,resulting in further suffering of the services they managed.
The rotten apple fat cats of industry will either up sticks and move on taking their money and businesses with them or exploit in any way they see fit the reduction and or absense of human and workers rights,we see this happening now with zero hours contracts and the likes of the way Amazon and other unscrupulous companies treat their workers under existing unenforced legislation,when their is less or no legislation they'll treat them even worse,whilst at the same timepaying little or no taxes.
Mrs May has even threatened the EU with turning the UK into a tax haven for such companies.
This may go on for some while until the people wake up to how bad things have become for them,upto now it's been a steady decline, but IMO were about to see a shift in decline downward and the result won't be a pretty sight.
Temperance will at some point shift to an extremely intemperate and intolerant societal norm.We see some of this ATM,especially from a cyclist POV who rides on UK roads,but it's there in society,what once was a tolerant place to live and work,is shifting to a more dog eat dog society where homelessness has grown exponentially and working people at the bottom of the pay scale are using food banks to make ends meet,during the time this sickly,stupid and totally incompetent bunch of millionaire hurrah Henry's and Henriettas came to power.
We are indeed becoming like the USA where the holes in the safety net are growing bigger as quick as homeslness and poverty are and where the trickle down never went further than the rich's bank account..
