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We Hate The Poor. We Always Have
My two cents.
The British under class are such pawns.
To our self-serving, duplicitous and opportunistic politicians, the poor are only useful when elections are around the corner.
They exist to be mocked and defecated on by the social, political and economic elites.
Careers have been made off the backs of the working man, time and again; the likes of Boris Johnson and Nigel Farage owe their prominence to their inordinate skill in gaslighting these folks into thinking that the migrants are the source of their problems.
And anyone who is more than familiar with British TV will readily recognize my points here.
Little Britain was a show in the noughties whose raison d’etre was to mock the life out of the nation’s working class population. Matt Lucas’s parody of a fat single mother living in a council estate was incredibly popular for a minute with the cognoscenti.
And so was Sacha Baron Cohen’s Ali G.
It didn’t matter that both of these men blacked up to play their characters. All that mattered was the ratings.
But what’s happened to the poor in the last twelve years is nothing short of extraordinary.