There’s a tendency for articles from The Guardian to be shared here; here’s something from the Telegraph instead.
While I agree with some aspects of this opinion piece there are some segments that irk me. So it goes.
Why the hell did I go into the comments on a Telegraph article… White flight wtf…
I am just under 50 and I would love to leave the UK for another country, but I don’t have the resources to do so. I don’t have a profession or skillset that is in demand in another country, I don’t really speak another language (GCSE French and a bit of Duolingo Spanish). I don’t own property I can sell for a chunk of funds. And I have an elderly mother I’m semi responsible for and wouldn’t want to leave.
Emigration is something of a privilege. The people who are suffering most under the social and economic conditions created by years of austerity and aggressive neoliberalism aren’t generally going to be the ones who can move elsewhere. I suspect a lot of the people who can and will leave are the ones who voted for this shit show in the first place. Twats.
I suspect a lot of the people who can and will leave are the ones who voted for this shit show in the first place.
Unlikely.
The people who are under 50 and moving are certainly not going to have voted for this.
The rich who voted for this are mostly insulated from the mess so if they are here it’s because they have already chosen to be here, and the poor who voted for this couldn’t afford to move countries.
The under-50 who are mobile enough to move are more likely to be liberal.
The torygraph would love it if the only people who stand in the way of total domination left the country
Mixed feelings about this .
People who don’t see the telegraph, need to know to how poisonous it is, and how detached they aren’t their readership are from reality.
On the other hand, to see how triggered we are by it, suggests we are still vulnerable.
every single word, of every single sentence, on every single page is to advance an agenda. We might not immediately know which, or whose, but it is committed to enabling hard right politics
This country is damaged, but not beyond repair. All kinds of people, from all over the world still want to come here. Remember that, and try not be poisoned by constantly consuming messages from the ruling class, that help them stay in power .
The part that pisses me off the most is that, for his audience, this is sage advice: go where the money is. Community and family roots mean nothing. Tories have sucked this place dry, and need to migrate to a new host. All we can hope is that the new host puts them on barges or something.
What a crock of shit. His understanding and use of economic data is fucking laughable
Also by the same author, I think he just writes bait
Did slavery really make Britain rich?
If anything, the slave trade functioned largely to heighten inequality
https://thespectator.com/topic/slavery-really-make-britain-rich/
Mysteriously, there’s no mention in this article of who might be responsible for this mess! Say, a political party of some sort? That’s been in government for some time?
