Very successful - but heās got form for being a snake oil salesman and racist knob & a lot of people flock to him because they donāt like Johnny Foreigner coming over here taking our jobs, houses, blocking up the NHS, getting free food and 5* accommodation (while not understanding the difference between illegal and legal migration)
If weāre stupid enough to vote him and his lot in at the next election then heāll get found out just like every other party in power.
This is a fair concern - I dont think people are that bothered about migration per se (I would say that in the early days of freedom of movement people didnt give a shit at all) - however when the investment in housing stock and public services doesnāt meet the increased demand from years of migration, then there is dissatisfaction with migration as a policy, because find they canāt afford a house or get a GP appointment etc
The problem is migration has been weaponised by both sides - on the right we have its all their fault nicking our jobs bollox to the left where anyone expressing a concern about migration is labelled a little englander racist, also bollox
I worry that we are getting very close to āwhatās the worst that can happenā scenario. Plus the more money they get, the better their messaging, they will attract better quality people, they have momentum (ironically)
The article mentions some areas of failure - the Liberal Elite policies - Thatcherism - but in fact those are failures of Capitalism.
At what point do we say people are being failed by out of control Capitalism? The never ending need to reduce costs improve shareholder value and forget about āThe Worldā
Now I am not advocating a sudden Marx/Lenin moment, but the system that failed may not be politics, It may be the fight between the elite to be the one who finally owns everything
The new government looks like it doesnāt have a clue. They just donāt do politics very well.
A lot of them have never been MPs before. The holdover centrists only really have recent experience of fighting like rats in a sack when a Labour man accidentally became leader of the Labour Party.
Iām probably being cynical, but Iāve always felt that the originators of social media possibly didnāt have the wellbeing of humanity altogether at heart. Thatās just a hunch, not based on anything concrete.