Rule Britannia, amirite?
Fuck it, Tories and Labour are two sides of the same coin, and at the end of the day the rich twats will just get people to blame anything but them. Blame immigrants, blame trans people, blame the disabled, but don't blame the rich! Just vote Reform and watch GB News and read the Daily Mail!
Eurgh.
The problem is that Corbyn didn't win, and now that he's been thoroughly smeared, Labour decided to completely ditch him, completely ditch his "actually believing in things and wanting to change things" bit, and have been trying to pander to Tory voters, while still trying to (at least during the election) give off the impression of changing things and being progressive, but ultimately this just results in them pleasing nobody. But y'know what? The Tories were so shit, people were so sick of them, that they didn't care. Just get the Tories out. And now Labour are continuing to try to appease Tory voters who would never vote Labour to begin with, regardless of how much Labour tries to appease them. Hell, look at the shit with the disability payments. Ultimately no one likes it, it's not remotely left-wing at all, and ultimately it's only there to give off the impression of saving money while
still not taxing the fucking rich. Anything but taxing the rich, gods forbid.
And ultimately people are supporting Reform because bad times breed extremism. When things are terrible, people want change. Radical change, radical change clearly being the only thing that will get them out of this mess. And right now, right wing populism is the big thing, particularly because of all the support from the rich. It's funny how some of the richest men in the West (Donald Trump, Elon Musk and Peter Thiel) are all meant to be anti-establishment rebels, who control the narrative both with them running Twitter and with the press.
And of course, humanity is used to tribalism, and when things are already bad? Then it's remarkably simple to take the scent off yourself by playing into that, if you control the press. Convince them that they're poor because of immigrants, that society is going to shit because of immigrants and because of trans people, people who are
different from them.
And so, the right wing extremism is the brand of extremism currently winning in the Western world. And that's why, amongst other things, Reform is gaining popularity. Never let them tell you that the right wing is "anti-establishment", they
are the establishment.
But people will eat it up. Fall for the psyops, not go after who really causes their suffering. I feel like a big part of it, in the UK's case, is just the British mentality. I feel like this comes from their colonialism. As a colonial power, Anglos believed that there are the inferior, uncivilised people, and the infallible authority who is there to guide them to the light. Resisting authority is silly, juvenile and savage. Now we don't have natives to go after, and yet not only is the racism still there, but more importantly, this idea of resisting authority being unthinkable has really stuck, especially because we haven't had anything that really radically changed that. I say that because I would argue that the French are complete opposites in this regard, where to an outsider it seems like any slight government overstep causes people to riot in the streets. France was a colonial power too, but they had the revolution. They had the radical change in their society there. Sure, our colonies have broken away from us, declared independence, but British society in itself, on the mainland, has not really went through any rapid, radical change, one that would cause a cultural shift, a change in the Anglo identity.
It's very frustrating to see. To see the government fuck over the populace time, and time again, and the people just take it. They'll organise en-masse over trans people just wanting to exist in peace, they'll riot in the streets over immigrants, but it's the government and it's the rich fucking them. And those are the groups they'll never go after. Because the Anglo people exist to bow down to authority.
ANYWAY SORRY FOR GETTING POLITICAL, JUST MY TWO CENTS AND ALL, KINDA A LITTLE PASSIONATE ABOUT THIS TOPIC YOU SEE HAHAHA.
Someone get me out of here.
Same. If I wasn't so fucked up mentally, I'd take my Irish passport, renounce my British citizenship completely, and fuck off to somewhere in mainland Europe. I'm too unstable to work, or really function too well in the world on my own, let alone in a new country, so that's shot for now.
Even better than getting out of the country, though...
