Thread by @rodkelly50

Do you know what really grinds my gears? Misplaced anger (1/)

The anger of those left behind, those ignored, those disengaged is directed not at the establishment or institutions which propagate inequality, but at the other little guy, the weak, those in need, those needing shelter (2/)

If you see the gap between the have and the have-nots widening, who’s to blame? It’s Europe, it’s migrants, it’s scroungers. It’s definitely not the bankers fucking about with our money in an unregulated system. It’s definitely not corporations paying close to no tax (3/)

If you’re a hard-working struggling American, who is going to reform the establishment which has so let you down? I guess it’s a multi-billion dollar property tycoon who has spent his entire life milking the establishment for all its worth (4/)

Don’t get angry you’ve got no healthcare. Don’t get angry you’re pay’s going down. Don’t get angry that corporations pay less tax than you. Blame those fucking Mexicans (5/)

And if you’re a hardworking Brit, seeing the pound tank, seeing inequality rise, seeing the NHS crumble before our eyes? Who’s going to fix the broken system for us eh? Who’s looking out for the little guy? (6/)

Is it these guys? (7/)

This fucking racist haystack? Alexander Boris de Pfeffel Johnson? (8/)

This fucking haunted Victorian pencil? (9/)

This man of the people/ privately educated millionaire opaquely funded ex-commodities broker? (10/)

Is that why we’re in the shit now? I thought it was the global financial crash and the bail out of the banks, but no. You know who it was all along? Fucking poor and desperate people (11/)

It’s Polish builders stopping us recruiting enough nurses. It’s Portuguese fruit pickers cutting council funding. It’s european regulations stopping us investing in regions outside London. It’s refugees from wars we started and profited from (12/)

Don’t look at the tax cuts to high earners, don’t look at the cuts to inheritance and corporation taxes (13/)

If you’re trying to make a new life in Britain, working in a Care home - well fuck off if you don’t earn enough money. We need you to contribute mate. If you’re a big corporation though don’t worry about paying tax, it’s fine, we want you here (14/)

It’s fine to be angry, I’m fucking furious. But they’re using our anger, making us direct it at ourselves, rather than them. We’re angry at immigrants, at socialists, lefties, at those using the welfare state, at Europe, not at those propagating the inequality (/end)