Not a thread - totally a rant:
On the way into work (late) I was unlucky enough to hear @AndrewMarr9 and guests on Start the Week: this week's episode titled "That's not fair"
During a discussion about property & wealth the guests and Marr expressed their outrage.
On the way into work (late) I was unlucky enough to hear @AndrewMarr9 and guests on Start the Week: this week's episode titled "That's not fair"
During a discussion about property & wealth the guests and Marr expressed their outrage.
Marr himself concurred that the state should seize the value of property capital gains as a means of redistribution of wealth.
This is a man who earns over £400k from his job in the public funded BBC.
Plus how ever much else he earns from books, appearances etc.
This is a man who earns over £400k from his job in the public funded BBC.
Plus how ever much else he earns from books, appearances etc.
The median UK salary in 2018 is just over £28.5k
Andrew Marr is a man who earns somewhere between 14-20 times this average salary. And yet we are treated to his "radical" views on wealth redistribution.
The next portion of the discussion was on the "mutiny against injustice".
Andrew Marr is a man who earns somewhere between 14-20 times this average salary. And yet we are treated to his "radical" views on wealth redistribution.
The next portion of the discussion was on the "mutiny against injustice".
There are at least 3 aspects of this that deserve comment. Let's take the trivial 1st then work up to the meat:
1. There's nothing quite as dishonest as hypocrisy Mr Marr.
2. The constant woke babble is the modern equivalent of fashionable drawing room talk, that's all.
1. There's nothing quite as dishonest as hypocrisy Mr Marr.
2. The constant woke babble is the modern equivalent of fashionable drawing room talk, that's all.
"Oh, do tell us the latest things that all the bright young things say, dear Petunia. It's so very exciting dear, don't you think?"
3. The real life consequences is the rise in far left and right populist politics. That means Trump and Corbyn amongst others.
3. The real life consequences is the rise in far left and right populist politics. That means Trump and Corbyn amongst others.
The "mutiny" that Marr and his guests get all so excited about is of course the same one that Trump, Corbyn & countless other chancers are able to take advantage of in order to get their dangerous fringe views into the mainstream and onto the stage of real power.
The twittering woke middle classes are happily feeding our democracies bit by bit to the totalitarian polulists because - well, because it is all very exciting dear, don't you think?
Who ever knew that extreme privilege begat such irresponsibility, eh?
Who ever knew that extreme privilege begat such irresponsibility, eh?
*populists" not polulists, obviously*
