This stuff gets to the nub of why the working class have turned on the modern progressive left - not because they have any love of Farage, but because they don't trust the progressive left to give a fair hearing to those whom they oppose (which is often the working class)
“The power of the populist is, somehow, to turn utter entitlement into victimhood.”
@maitlis
on Nigel Farage using his Coutts bank account closure to provoke a culture war.
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I mean if you have strained every sinew for decades to eradicate - in thought and deed - all discrimination from society, but then suddenly find a way to rationalise multinational corporations debanking those they disagree with, then it's not entirely irrational to be circumspect
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The problem is, those guilty of this simply do not care. The old paternalism, the cross-class solidarity, has simply gone. You're either with us or against us, and if you're against us, then all's fair. What a collapse of a great political movement this represents.
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@michael_merrick
This was done after 13 years of Conservative Government by a bank part owned by the Government.
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@michael_merrick
I'm sorry but that's a load of unthinking post-liberal bollocks,Michael.
The working class have turned against progressives across the West because of their refusal to care about immigration and gay race communists beliefs. And many do love Farage?
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@ferrino100
They haven't. No one abandoned the left, or comparatively very few.
Populism has and always will be very popular with the low ses and low ses working people.
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@michael_merrick
Never forgotten watching Maitlis on Newsnight ask a US guest if the Knights of St Columba were like the KKK, "another extremist group." 😂🤡
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@michael_merrick
There is some truth in what you write here, but the use of prejudicial labels for arbitrary categories of people pushes you into a bit into the same problems of barrier-building into which the targets of your criticism have fallen.
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@michael_merrick
It’s really quite scary when those born of privilege and entitlement fail to get such a basic point of principle.
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@andywigmore
These people are rotten to the core with hatred for anything and anyone they disagree with. That’s why people like her often make a show of themselves. No balance at all !
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@michael_merrick
The progressive left, who are middle to upper middle class, hate class because they wished they were upper class and are terrified they might be lower class. The lower and upper classes understand the value or at least utility of one another.
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@PaulEmbery
Emily Maitless is not someone who's opinion counts. Her anti Brexit stance was self serving. She has a house in France.
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@PaulEmbery
The working class are turning on the left because they are realising that all the policies it advocates makes them poorer and the areas they live worse
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