The working class is BY FAR Britain's most ethnically diverse class.
Virtually ALL w/c people are kind, decent, & not remotely 'bigoted'.
Instead of chasing the greedy or gullible 3 in 10 Tory voters, @UKLabour should listen to & inspire the 7 in 10 voters who didn't vote Tory.
And yes, you read that right: less than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted for the @Conservatives in the 2019 general election - and now they want criminalise protest.
Of the 47,074,800 registered voters, 67.3% voted in #GE2019. Of those, 43.6% voted Tory.
This means that *LESS THAN 3 in 10 OF THE ELECTORATE* secured the Tories an 80 seat majority.
It's simply ridiculous.
Working class people have been scapegoated, demonized, & SHAFTED by forty long years of increasingly deregulated free-market capitalism that only ever benefits the rich.
@UKLabour need to ignore the fake culture war, & offer an inspiring alternative.
British people deserve MUCH better than a Govt of delusional backward-looking bankers, bigots, bullies & lobbyists, headed by a sociopathic liar, & supported by a fawning media owned by billionaires & populated with free-market cranks, charlatans, grifters & Little Englanders.
Thought for the day:
Less than 3 in 10 of the electorate voted for the @Conservatives in the 2019 general election - and now they want criminalise protest.
And let's not forget the brutal miner's strike, or the poll tax riots, which helped end the draconian tax, & get rid of Thatcher.
On Black Friday, 18 November 1910, suffragettes were kicked to the ground, punched, & their breasts were pinched.
Independent newspapers, later banned by the government, clever photo journalism, & mass protests all brought the cause for women's rights to the public eye.
Elsie Flint, a militant suffragette, recalled in the 1970s: "People laugh & say what ridiculous things to do, but it was never done for fun. They had to get the notice of the public and that was their way of doing it."
Asked what's required by a broadcaster who has commitment to UK broadcast standards:
AN: “To be impartial & truthful & honest & to reflect all manner of opinion that reflects the great public debate that goes on in this country about a multiplicity of issues.”
Q "Could Sky News become more partisan whilst still, essentially, meeting the requirement of due impartiality?"
AF: “That would be up to two things. One would be a commercial judgement: is there an audience and money to be made out of providing that kind of service?"
We need to understand the *real* Boris Johnson. He's not the bumbling clown act we're presented with, which has been cultivated to hide his grotesque incompetence, sociopathic lying, fragile ego & bullying arrogance.
"Boris Johnson can change from bonhomie to a dark fury in seconds. His normally jokey demeanour flashes into a sarcastic snarl, his skin reddens and blotches, his eyes dart into an intense narrow glare and on the worst occasions his lips curl back to reveal wisps of spittle."
Sonia Purnell worked alongside him, sharing an office in Brussels, reporting on the EU.
"He has the fiercest and most uncontrollable anger I have seen. A terrifying mood change can be triggered instantly by the slightest challenge to his entitlement or self-worth."
WHAT DOES IT SAY ABOUT BRITAIN that we have a posh, sexist, racist, pathological liar as PM?
Sonia Purnell worked with Boris Johnson.
She knows firsthand that he "has the fiercest & most uncontrollable anger I have seen. A terrifying mood change can be triggered instantly by the slightest challenge to his entitlement or self-worth."
The poll tax riots were a series of riots in British towns & cities during protests against the draconian "poll tax", introduced by the @Conservatives under Thatcher. The largest protest was in central London on 31 March 1990, shortly before the tax was due to come into force.
In 1989 the All Britain Anti-Poll Tax Federation was set up by the Militant tendency.
Other groups such as the 3D (Don't Register, Don't Pay, Don't Collect) network provided national coordination for anti-poll tax unions who were not aligned to particular political factions.