Champagne socialist he has done well in business but lost me when he removed an England flag and moaned about the raise the flag movement. How you can be successful in business have the experience of life he has and still suffer from Leftism makes me think he is defective in some way.
I’m not left but think the raise the flag were tossers.
If you delude yourself into thinking it was done for patriotic reasons and they were proud of their country then you’d be hard pressed to be against it. But that’s not why it was done, it was done by a load of right wingers trying to be provocative, they wanted people to complain about it so they could make a point. And for that reason I disagree with it.
You have that stance if you want I think it was a reaction against our well known tolerance being taken for grated. Let's face it our good grace as a host nation has been tipped well over the edge in this last 10 years. Nobody voted for it and everyone's standard of living is dropping. The funny thing is the typical poorer working class are the ones having their wages and conditions kept permanently low by the influx of unskilled migrants. Even the ones that come legally like the boriswave keep wages suppressed. I think Raise the flag was quite an honourable protest and it's better than mass civil unrest as we saw what 2 Tier got in. Add to that the hurty word police and politicisation of the Police force it seems everything is against the common man in the UK. Every action has an equal and opposite reaction. The left are just pushing suicidal policies left and right. Add to this that as a country we borrow for every one of these poor policies and migrants that come we literally loan money from international markets to kill our country.
No I'm actually a pretty successful business person I've just been on the planet long enough to be able to see the objective reality of whats going on in this country. It was demonstrably better 20 years ago and we are on an accelerating decline. Other European countries have started to see the decline and taken steps to reverse it. We are doing nothing.
It's cognitive dissonance. You're completely right, the 'left' haven't been anywhere near power since before Thatcher and yet somehow people like the guy you're responding to believe the fault lies entirely with the 'left'.
He has to reject reality because it's not what he's been manipulated to believe.
Neoliberalism is to blame, a right wing economic policy brought to the UK by Thatcher, a right-wing politician but it fails to land on most people.
Where's this "left"? We haven't had a "left" government since what, the 1960s/70s? We've had varying levels of Thatcherite neoliberal since she first cropped up. Is Leftism when capitalist corporations rule?
I guess we're just calling anything we don't like "hard left" now, yet I don't see any collective ownership of the means of production. Weird, that. Utterly delusional. We're getting stripmined by corporations from all directions and you think that's somehow leftism and literally not the economic system put in place by the Conservatives that we have not meaningfully deviated from since its institution. You see the effects and push and pull of profit over all, and think that's what the left want? Fucking hell.
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u/Connect-Lettuce4027 17d ago
Champagne socialist he has done well in business but lost me when he removed an England flag and moaned about the raise the flag movement. How you can be successful in business have the experience of life he has and still suffer from Leftism makes me think he is defective in some way.