Good old Chris Broad.
He always tells it as it is.
The Tories don’t care about you. Labour should care about you, but don’t, at least not yet. Reform don’t care about you and might kill our democracy like in America. The Lib Dems probably don’t care about you either. Unless Labour stop f*cking around and start fixing the country, vote Green.
This is all by design, Cambridge analytica already showed us its by design, sowing anti intellectualism amongst older people on Facebook, scare them with anti immigrant rhetoric through targeted algorithims and videos ,blame others and tell them the reason you’re struggling is because of them and you’ll fix it all by giving super simple solutions to complex problems
Win
A scared populace who reject intellectuals/ experts and its own institutions are easy to manipulate, have the media on your side and it’s basically an open goal
Chris broad. Total legend, had enough sense to leave the UK before it all went to shit.
And people are laughing at Trump saying he’s fixing Biden’s economy.
So we’re agreed. Our current politicians would rather let this plank win then listen to what the people want.
Right wingers want to keep working class voters uneducated because they’ll keep voting for right wingers if they lack critical thinking skills. Unfortunately we as lefties aren’t allowed to acknowledge this openly without being accused of sneering.
It’s the Republican Party strategy.
Wreck the country, blame the incumbent, gain power, repeat.
This is it. This is what they do – fuck up the country and then get rewarded for doing so!
Anyone else just Google British exports from 2016??
It’s not about Brexit or potholes
It’s extremely simple: voters have been telling the government for 15 years that they want immigration to be reduced, and the government has consistently said it will and *not actually done it*. The Tories spent their entire period in government using anti-immigration rhetoric to try and win votes, and then were surprised when people wanted them to follow through with action.
Now Labour have come into power and are doing the same thing, they *say* immigration is too high, but they aren’t seen to actually be doing anything about it.
Immigration has been growing year on year despite governments saying it needs to be reduced. Last year it was 900,000 – the highest it has ever been – so this problem is getting bigger and hence the desire for a government to do something about it is getting bigger.
It is completely unsurprising, given that, that people are turning to a politician who is perceived as someone that will actually take action over immigration, and are they wrong? I hate Farage, I hate his views on basically everything, but if the only thing I cared about was lowering immigration he’s the *only person* worth voting for, because the rest aren’t doing anything.
Farage *could* have been consigned to history after Brexit. He’d based his whole career on it and it went to shit. The reason he’s back, quite frankly, is because huge swathes of the country want immigration to be lowered, have wanted it to be lowered for years, have been told that it’s going to be lowered, and have instead watched it rise and rise and rise. The social-democrats in Denmark – a left wing party – secured power for themselves and completely marginalised the far-right *simply* by being forceful on reducing immigration. This is one of the major failures of the British state and the whole reason someone like Farage is approaching power. The failure of a liberal party to oppose immigration has caused a rejection of liberalism itself.
Reform are clearly not the answer. However Farage is cleverly speaking to millions of disaffected people. Starmer should be doing this. People are fed up. Yes we are fed news on an algorithm, but also this doesn’t change reality. That we can’t get a GP appointment or a dentist appointment. Schools are full to bursting. Police are over stretched and being cut again. Community support officers in schools (proven to reduce crime and prevent offending) are being cut, yet we’re sending £400m to Ukraine.
All of it talks to Reform voters.
Immigration is a complex issue to solve. I think everyone accepts that. Whilst following international laws and remaining humane. But is filling up hotels the answer? Or is there a better solution. Should we be tougher on foreign criminals? There’s much more Starmer could be doing in my opinion or Reform are gonna romp all the way home much like Trump did.
He’s an evil bastad. He’d have been dragged down a London Alley yrs ago and not come out of it.
We deserve every single misfortune Reform will reap on this country if we keep voting for them.
I wish we weren’t such a hateful and uneducated place.
Romanian politics: hold my beer !
It isn’t even remotely as black and white as that. Farage is mainly back because the establishment can’t stop shooting itself in the foot. They ignore the people and act surprised when people stop voting for them. Reddit and other online spaces really can’t seem to grasp how sick people are of our government.
I don’t mind the guy’s content, but this is a really poor way to frame the situation.
Also, should he be slagging the UK economy off when he lives in Japan? The country whose economy has been in trouble for decades.
I always say my second favourite British Political satire show is “the thick of it” but my top British Political satire is BBC parliament.
Unfortunately, a significant percentage of our population shouldn’t be trusted a pencil let alone a vote… They’ve had the thinking parts of their brain replaced by a live stream of Mail Online
The riots last summer brought it all to light. There’s a massive number of people who have been brainwashed
Farage and his lot have successfully convinced a lot of people that the square root of all their issues in society is immigration
Biggest problem with humans throughout history is that we’re fucking idiots.
No one thinks they will do a good job but labour have drastically underestimated how strongly people feel about immigrants.
Very disappointing post. I’m a big fan of Chris Broad but this isn’t it.
And to think people fell for this just a few months after a very similar thing happened in America is insane. So gullible.
Possessed by Russia. In denial and watching football.
I hate to be impolite, but anytime I try to understand Nigel Farage’s mindset, I feel like I’m somehow doing the polar opposite of learning new information.
Democracy is looking so weak and broken recently in this country. Labour literally cannot deliver the everything people think they should so easily be able to. And people can’t get it in their skulls that fortress Britain would make us all poorer. They demand to go backwards, and eventually they’ll get (more) politicians who will oblige that demand, blame foreigners and reactionaries when things inevitably get worse and worse, until democracy is meaningless
Uk :
adds ~1 million people per year in legal migration
Adds 10s thousands in illegal migrations
Builds about 143 homes per year
Has corrupt politicians, who entirely ignore the above.
Wonder why there is civil dissatisfaction with the politicians?
I just can’t believe how dumb people are to vote for a party that wont benefit them at all. I don’t know how they don’t see that it’s all smoke and mirrors.
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Good old Chris Broad.
He always tells it as it is.
The Tories don’t care about you. Labour should care about you, but don’t, at least not yet. Reform don’t care about you and might kill our democracy like in America. The Lib Dems probably don’t care about you either. Unless Labour stop f*cking around and start fixing the country, vote Green.
This is all by design, Cambridge analytica already showed us its by design, sowing anti intellectualism amongst older people on Facebook, scare them with anti immigrant rhetoric through targeted algorithims and videos ,blame others and tell them the reason you’re struggling is because of them and you’ll fix it all by giving super simple solutions to complex problems
Win
A scared populace who reject intellectuals/ experts and its own institutions are easy to manipulate, have the media on your side and it’s basically an open goal
Chris broad. Total legend, had enough sense to leave the UK before it all went to shit.
And people are laughing at Trump saying he’s fixing Biden’s economy.
So we’re agreed. Our current politicians would rather let this plank win then listen to what the people want.
Right wingers want to keep working class voters uneducated because they’ll keep voting for right wingers if they lack critical thinking skills. Unfortunately we as lefties aren’t allowed to acknowledge this openly without being accused of sneering.
It’s the Republican Party strategy.
Wreck the country, blame the incumbent, gain power, repeat.
This is it. This is what they do – fuck up the country and then get rewarded for doing so!
Anyone else just Google British exports from 2016??
It’s not about Brexit or potholes
It’s extremely simple: voters have been telling the government for 15 years that they want immigration to be reduced, and the government has consistently said it will and *not actually done it*. The Tories spent their entire period in government using anti-immigration rhetoric to try and win votes, and then were surprised when people wanted them to follow through with action.
Now Labour have come into power and are doing the same thing, they *say* immigration is too high, but they aren’t seen to actually be doing anything about it.
Immigration has been growing year on year despite governments saying it needs to be reduced. Last year it was 900,000 – the highest it has ever been – so this problem is getting bigger and hence the desire for a government to do something about it is getting bigger.
It is completely unsurprising, given that, that people are turning to a politician who is perceived as someone that will actually take action over immigration, and are they wrong? I hate Farage, I hate his views on basically everything, but if the only thing I cared about was lowering immigration he’s the *only person* worth voting for, because the rest aren’t doing anything.
Farage *could* have been consigned to history after Brexit. He’d based his whole career on it and it went to shit. The reason he’s back, quite frankly, is because huge swathes of the country want immigration to be lowered, have wanted it to be lowered for years, have been told that it’s going to be lowered, and have instead watched it rise and rise and rise. The social-democrats in Denmark – a left wing party – secured power for themselves and completely marginalised the far-right *simply* by being forceful on reducing immigration. This is one of the major failures of the British state and the whole reason someone like Farage is approaching power. The failure of a liberal party to oppose immigration has caused a rejection of liberalism itself.
Reform are clearly not the answer. However Farage is cleverly speaking to millions of disaffected people. Starmer should be doing this. People are fed up. Yes we are fed news on an algorithm, but also this doesn’t change reality. That we can’t get a GP appointment or a dentist appointment. Schools are full to bursting. Police are over stretched and being cut again. Community support officers in schools (proven to reduce crime and prevent offending) are being cut, yet we’re sending £400m to Ukraine.
All of it talks to Reform voters.
Immigration is a complex issue to solve. I think everyone accepts that. Whilst following international laws and remaining humane. But is filling up hotels the answer? Or is there a better solution. Should we be tougher on foreign criminals? There’s much more Starmer could be doing in my opinion or Reform are gonna romp all the way home much like Trump did.
He’s an evil bastad. He’d have been dragged down a London Alley yrs ago and not come out of it.
We deserve every single misfortune Reform will reap on this country if we keep voting for them.
I wish we weren’t such a hateful and uneducated place.
Romanian politics: hold my beer !
It isn’t even remotely as black and white as that. Farage is mainly back because the establishment can’t stop shooting itself in the foot. They ignore the people and act surprised when people stop voting for them. Reddit and other online spaces really can’t seem to grasp how sick people are of our government.
I don’t mind the guy’s content, but this is a really poor way to frame the situation.
Also, should he be slagging the UK economy off when he lives in Japan? The country whose economy has been in trouble for decades.
I always say my second favourite British Political satire show is “the thick of it” but my top British Political satire is BBC parliament.
https://youtu.be/QFgcqB8-AxE?si=G7KIk1BQsaApakb_
Unfortunately, a significant percentage of our population shouldn’t be trusted a pencil let alone a vote… They’ve had the thinking parts of their brain replaced by a live stream of Mail Online
The riots last summer brought it all to light. There’s a massive number of people who have been brainwashed
Farage and his lot have successfully convinced a lot of people that the square root of all their issues in society is immigration
Biggest problem with humans throughout history is that we’re fucking idiots.
No one thinks they will do a good job but labour have drastically underestimated how strongly people feel about immigrants.
Very disappointing post. I’m a big fan of Chris Broad but this isn’t it.
And to think people fell for this just a few months after a very similar thing happened in America is insane. So gullible.
Possessed by Russia. In denial and watching football.
I hate to be impolite, but anytime I try to understand Nigel Farage’s mindset, I feel like I’m somehow doing the polar opposite of learning new information.
Democracy is looking so weak and broken recently in this country. Labour literally cannot deliver the everything people think they should so easily be able to. And people can’t get it in their skulls that fortress Britain would make us all poorer. They demand to go backwards, and eventually they’ll get (more) politicians who will oblige that demand, blame foreigners and reactionaries when things inevitably get worse and worse, until democracy is meaningless
Uk :
adds ~1 million people per year in legal migration
Adds 10s thousands in illegal migrations
Builds about 143 homes per year
Has corrupt politicians, who entirely ignore the above.
Wonder why there is civil dissatisfaction with the politicians?
I just can’t believe how dumb people are to vote for a party that wont benefit them at all. I don’t know how they don’t see that it’s all smoke and mirrors.
When even ChatGPT would make a better politician
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