It’s remarkable how many of the people who profess to be comfortable not only with Zara’s plight but also with their own impoverishment boast about supporting Brexit in their biographies. ‘Patriotism’ that doesn’t extend to concern for actual people is a bleak and ugly spectacle.
https://twitter.com/lbc/status/1509857672438366209
The majority of people who explained to me yesterday that they couldn’t afford to heat their homes *before* price hikes were pensioners. A breast cancer patient in Sheffield who explained that no matter how many layers they wear, the air her & her 86yo husband breathe remains…
freezing. A man in Evesham who puts the heating on for one hour every evening and sits with his wife under a blanket for hours. The mystery of how this can happen is solved when these stories go ‘viral’ & Tory voters queue up to reminisce fondly about deprivation & poverty…
I know why they do it. I know why they insist that there is no *real* suffering & that people should just cancel their Netflix or eat fewer takeaways. It is the same toxic appetite fed by tabloid claims that all unemployed people had ‘flat screen TV’s’ or that refugees must be…
frauds because they have ‘smartphones’. Some of the callousness is genuine, rooted in unhappiness & shame, in a warped belief that their own misery can be assuaged by hurting others. Some of it is self-protection, a desperate attempt to pretend that such horrors only happen to…
people who have somehow brought it on themselves through ‘lifestyle choices’ or fecklessness. And others are just ignorant, hateful wankers. It’s hard to tell the difference but I’m increasingly comfortable with the idea that the massive majority are in the final category…
Especially the ones in the media.
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