M0nica
The question no one is asking is why Tommy Robinson is attracting so much support, or indeed why Nigel Farage and Reform get so much support.
Its easy peasy jackaneasy to get all upset and wild-eyed because all these events are happenng, anyone can do thaat.
The question people should beasking and thinking about, and perhaps accepting some uncomfortable truths is why people like Tommy Robinson and Nigel Farage attract so much support.
The answer is quite straightforward. Over the last few decades, politics and government has slipped into the handsof an urban intellectual elite, from a variety of backgrounds, who think themselves superior to all of us, who believe they know what we ought to want better than we do and are determined to give us what they want to give us, to dismiss the fears and concerns of what they would conisider the lumpen prolatariat.
This knd of thing goes on for so long then the despised common people take over, and since those in charge refuse to listen they look to leaders who are articulate how they feel, what they want in life and what sort of society they want to live in.
This society may well contain elelments that we do not like and make us put our hands to our face in horror. But why should we have everything our way and ignore those who disagree with us because they are less well educated and not as articulate.
This how most revolutions start. It is how the French Revolution started, and the unsuccessful risings in Hungary and Czechoslovakia in 1956 and 1968 and the successful overthrow of the USSR in 1991.
It is now happening in Western Europe and is advanced in Eastern Europe, now it is the British turn. It is up to the main stream parties to listen to those deserting them for the extreme right, listen to them and act on their deep concerns and not just dismiss them as Gordeon Brown did when he called a Labour supporter who had challenged him over the economy and immigration a "bigoted woman".
Totally agree with nearly all of your post M0nica.
If I can add my perspective to your 6th paragraph, I would not necessarily have used the words less well educated. Some of the people on the Unite the country rally, would have what is now called lived experience. Living directly under the pressures the cons and now lab gov have foisted on the public. I think they have a better 'education' than any text book/phd/warped news article could ever portray.
Whilst those who came up with these ideas live in any and every city the choose.
The day I saw GB behave in such a disgusting manner, was my political awakening.
Thank you for giving some thought to this subject, and bothering to post it.
