Part of the problem is that the unions that once represented the working class now mainly represented the public sector class.
The working class which I believe to be social conservative (small c ) and slightly left economicly (was about a decade ago ) have no organised voice . The right (which is a broader church than the left ) is not organised, they cannot call 500 thousand out on a whim (see the protests over farmers, while we'll meaning and we'll behaved , no impact ) .
Even the anger over winter fuel payments, apart from a motion and labour conference, what did the unions do ?
We are already seeing the political left go after Jews and Israel 🇮🇱 , we have seen the right now target Muslims (reform, banning burka and halal which also affect Jewish community) .
We are in a very dark and dangerous place , we are ruled by disingenuous cowards.
I think a large part of the problem is that commentators are still talking in terms of "left" and "right".
In my opinion these terms make little sense in today's world and are hangovers from the last century, where they were primarily used to describe economic positions.
Like Paul, I was an admirer of the yellow vests at the time, even though 2 pub friends who were trade union activists kept telling me they were "right wing racist thugs" So I agree with you that modern trade unions are not representing ordinary working class people here anymore.
Is it any wonder that public servants don’t give a monkey’s about the working class in the private sector. They’re sitting pretty on well above average salaries and obscenely generous final salary pensions. That was all meant to level public and private sector workers’ remuneration but has gone way beyond that.
We need a ‘pied piper’ who will lead mass protest marches, it isn’t Farage or Clarkson, both of whom alienate as many as they fire up. So who?
The Pied Piper I have in mind is none other than Paul himself! I have been wishing that I could join a grassroots demonstration along the lines he describes. I went on two of the anti lockdown marches in London and it was an incredible experience to be able to talk with total strangers in friendship and agreement on the main topic. No need to agree on absolutely everything. I think it could work if there were several main issues that everyone agreed on.
Agree totally Paul but we need people with empathy and common sense in the temple of none sense which is sadly lacking on both sides of the green benches…
Yes, thank you, we do need a Yellow Vest movement, with the caveat that aspects of it in France splintered into anti-capitalist vandalism of Paris stores.
I have been writing to politicians about debanking (which I experienced), and the tyranny of Net Zero with little response and now we have the spectre of digital ID.
Net Zero is not being done in a democratic way. It is entirely authoritarian! People who earn over 70,000 a year telling people like me with an income below the tax threshold that I should not have a gas boiler, trying to stop me eating meat and dairy and blocking nuclear power that would reduce my electricity bill.
Less than 10 years ago my late mother on a basic pension, in an all electric council flat only worried about forgetting to pay the electricity bill NOT how whether she could afford to turn the heating on.
Now people in work worry about switching the heating on.
How many people make the connection that if I am paying 27 p per kilowatt for electricity, I am subsidising an electric car user who pays 7 p per kilowatt for electricity!
We need to alert people check out what the C40 organization that our councils have signed up to want to do.
The following comes from the C40 website.
Shift to plant-based diets
Citizens consuming no more than 16kg of meat per person per year down from an average of 58kg by 2030. This includes 1.3kg beef, when currently the average citizen from East Asia consumes 13kg a year.
A target of 90kg dairy per person per year, down from C40 average of 106kg, or around 220kg in Europe.
Most people shrug their shoulders and think it will never happen. Just remember lockdown.
People need to be alerted to how low traffic neighbourhood are based on the UN's 15 miinute cities idea.
On the day after the grroming gangs enqiry announcement, I make one plea. Yes, DEI and "preferential hiring" have to go but perhaps, to be positive, we can come together around the message of Don't Divide Us.
Great idea Paul but...the gilet jaune movement lasted barely 2 years and ended in 2020. I think something more powerful is needed but don't know what. If we adopted gilet jaune tactics I suspect the government would wait for it to fizzle out using France as an example.
I would like to protest every weekend but I struggle to find posts that inform me where these protests will take place. Please point me in the right direction.
As usual, a very well thought out and put together article Paul. But a yellow vest movement is almost too good for our Establishment, especially Starmer. It’s not just that our population has been ignored. They’ve been lied to. The brass neck of Starmer is breathtaking, look at the rape gangs. Half a dozen times he said no to an Inquiry now he acts as if that didn’t happen and he's the first to have the idea. That’s just one topic, the script is repeated continuously. I hate been lied to, that’s why Starmer is so hated by just about everyone.
Our country is too far gone Paul. Well, it’s not a country. It’s an embarrassment. One big stain on the world. The only thing that will actually change it is a proper revolution, and people at the highest level not only run out of office, but arrested and jailed. What for you may ask? Subverting democracy.
Hi Paul 👋
Part of the problem is that the unions that once represented the working class now mainly represented the public sector class.
The working class which I believe to be social conservative (small c ) and slightly left economicly (was about a decade ago ) have no organised voice . The right (which is a broader church than the left ) is not organised, they cannot call 500 thousand out on a whim (see the protests over farmers, while we'll meaning and we'll behaved , no impact ) .
Even the anger over winter fuel payments, apart from a motion and labour conference, what did the unions do ?
We are already seeing the political left go after Jews and Israel 🇮🇱 , we have seen the right now target Muslims (reform, banning burka and halal which also affect Jewish community) .
We are in a very dark and dangerous place , we are ruled by disingenuous cowards.
I think a large part of the problem is that commentators are still talking in terms of "left" and "right".
In my opinion these terms make little sense in today's world and are hangovers from the last century, where they were primarily used to describe economic positions.
Like Paul, I was an admirer of the yellow vests at the time, even though 2 pub friends who were trade union activists kept telling me they were "right wing racist thugs" So I agree with you that modern trade unions are not representing ordinary working class people here anymore.
Authoritarians versus freedom lovers.
Or…
Technocrats and billionaires versus everyone else.
Is it any wonder that public servants don’t give a monkey’s about the working class in the private sector. They’re sitting pretty on well above average salaries and obscenely generous final salary pensions. That was all meant to level public and private sector workers’ remuneration but has gone way beyond that.
We need a ‘pied piper’ who will lead mass protest marches, it isn’t Farage or Clarkson, both of whom alienate as many as they fire up. So who?
The Pied Piper I have in mind is none other than Paul himself! I have been wishing that I could join a grassroots demonstration along the lines he describes. I went on two of the anti lockdown marches in London and it was an incredible experience to be able to talk with total strangers in friendship and agreement on the main topic. No need to agree on absolutely everything. I think it could work if there were several main issues that everyone agreed on.
As ever Paul, you read the room correctly.
But who do we coalesce with to start such a grass roots movement?
Agree totally Paul but we need people with empathy and common sense in the temple of none sense which is sadly lacking on both sides of the green benches…
Dear Paul,
Yes, thank you, we do need a Yellow Vest movement, with the caveat that aspects of it in France splintered into anti-capitalist vandalism of Paris stores.
I have been writing to politicians about debanking (which I experienced), and the tyranny of Net Zero with little response and now we have the spectre of digital ID.
Net Zero is not being done in a democratic way. It is entirely authoritarian! People who earn over 70,000 a year telling people like me with an income below the tax threshold that I should not have a gas boiler, trying to stop me eating meat and dairy and blocking nuclear power that would reduce my electricity bill.
Less than 10 years ago my late mother on a basic pension, in an all electric council flat only worried about forgetting to pay the electricity bill NOT how whether she could afford to turn the heating on.
Now people in work worry about switching the heating on.
How many people make the connection that if I am paying 27 p per kilowatt for electricity, I am subsidising an electric car user who pays 7 p per kilowatt for electricity!
We need to alert people check out what the C40 organization that our councils have signed up to want to do.
The following comes from the C40 website.
Shift to plant-based diets
Citizens consuming no more than 16kg of meat per person per year down from an average of 58kg by 2030. This includes 1.3kg beef, when currently the average citizen from East Asia consumes 13kg a year.
A target of 90kg dairy per person per year, down from C40 average of 106kg, or around 220kg in Europe.
https://www.c40.org/news/a-sustainable-diet-by-2030-is-key-to-solving-the-climate-emergency/
Most people shrug their shoulders and think it will never happen. Just remember lockdown.
People need to be alerted to how low traffic neighbourhood are based on the UN's 15 miinute cities idea.
On the day after the grroming gangs enqiry announcement, I make one plea. Yes, DEI and "preferential hiring" have to go but perhaps, to be positive, we can come together around the message of Don't Divide Us.
There is TOGETHER.org
It won’t happen Paul and if it did, Starmer would jail them all and call them ‘far right thugs’.
Yes Paul, the streets are where democracy lives and we need to be heard.
Great idea Paul but...the gilet jaune movement lasted barely 2 years and ended in 2020. I think something more powerful is needed but don't know what. If we adopted gilet jaune tactics I suspect the government would wait for it to fizzle out using France as an example.
I would like to protest every weekend but I struggle to find posts that inform me where these protests will take place. Please point me in the right direction.
As usual, a very well thought out and put together article Paul. But a yellow vest movement is almost too good for our Establishment, especially Starmer. It’s not just that our population has been ignored. They’ve been lied to. The brass neck of Starmer is breathtaking, look at the rape gangs. Half a dozen times he said no to an Inquiry now he acts as if that didn’t happen and he's the first to have the idea. That’s just one topic, the script is repeated continuously. I hate been lied to, that’s why Starmer is so hated by just about everyone.
Our country is too far gone Paul. Well, it’s not a country. It’s an embarrassment. One big stain on the world. The only thing that will actually change it is a proper revolution, and people at the highest level not only run out of office, but arrested and jailed. What for you may ask? Subverting democracy.
Absolutely
That's a very bleak picture you paint of our brave new world, are you by any chance disillusioned? Too late my brothers, too late but never mind.