Biggest surprise for me is that there hasn’t been any such action thus far.
I expect it’s more a case of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ with the way things are going.
If we actually had the balls to protest/riot like the French have already been doing, then maybe things would actually improve.
Looking forward to my weekly email telling me the best five barrricades to man.
looking forward to his top civil disobedience tips. inevitably it’ll involve wearing lots of layers.
We aren’t French, nothing of substance will happen.
Who would have thought the revolution would be led by Martin Lewis!
Where do we meet, Martin, I’ve got my pitchfork….
the irony of any potential civil unrest after the tutting over XR, BLM, Pride etc will be nice to see.
but really the last 12 years of government just make the middle class more placid.
Not even a coupon code for a pitchfork deal. Come on, Martin!
Nothing will happen, everybody in this country has been fucking neutered. Shut up, eat your cornflakes, pay your tv licence
The famous saying from Lenin
“Every society is three meals away from chaos” should be relevant in today’s world.
Judging by how much people go hungry in this country everyday especially since the recent bill hikes, we’re not too far off from civil unrest.
A train ticket to London makes protest in the capitol prohibitive enough for some.
Local protests could be fun though.
Not going to happen. Yes, the cost of living is very high right now and people are starving/freezing in their own houses, but for the majority, its bearable and the risk of having your life ruined by being arrested and charged/found guilty and having a criminal record does not outweigh the possible benefits of strikes/rioting.
The government were *partying* while we all sacrificed and couldn’t see loved ones/be at their side when they were passing. And nobody rioted or went on strike.
The issue is the cost of living is increasing but its a creeping metric which isn’t going to suddenly trigger a tipping point. It is going to get steadily worse and the bar for which people might actually strike/riot would be when the majority are very heavily affected and if we get to that stage we are probably already in the throes of a horrendous recession anyway.
The nation will have a choice soon whether to re-elect a government which is *totally fine* with letting your neighbour freeze to death in their own home or forcing your friend to use a food bank because they can’t afford the shopping after paying the exorbitant rent and energy bill.
Nothing will happen. The government have purposely created a placid population, just look at all of the things they are or have gotten away with.
The only thing the average person cares about is some bullshit tv programme, or their social media account.
Oh god, I hope so.
I’m serious when I say that it’s got to the point where we need this.
There will be some demonstrations, shouting, maybe a few bricks throwing but nobody will react. It’s hard to maintain the momentum of protest when nobody pays any attention.
I would be amazed to see any sort of civil unrest in this country, amazed.
“The public are all such passive sheep, it’ll never happen!” – 100 guys in this thread who are all exactly as passive as those they’re deriding.
Hey, I agree with the sentiment but I have the self awareness to know that I’m 100% part of the problem.
Who had ‘Martin Lewis over throws the Tories’ on their 2022 bingo card?
Civil unrest? From people who cba to just fucking vote.
If the country doesn’t riot I honestly believe the British will accept literally anything being done to them
Just keep clapping and saying “Oh, that’s a bit shit.” while sipping tea. That’ll work out for us for sure.
There is a real risk we fail to raise the next generation of childbearing adults. People just 10 years younger than me paying double housing costs with no chance of getting on the property ladder. Huge escalating child care costs. An even more unfair graduate tax.
This is society ending stuff and no one in power seems to care. A bank of England’s head saying restrain pay. Even Henry Ford realized if you didn’t pay your consumers there would be no consumption.
I’ll be honest, I’m not usually one for major shows of disobedience. I get up, go to work, pay my taxes, keep on the right side of the law but at this point I’ve fucking had enough. Everything has gone up in price, there’s no fuel for my car, we’re still living with the fall out of the pandemic, I’ve not had a pay rise in ages. Life these days is getting beyond a joke and if there was some sort of civil up rising, I’d be at the front.
He is right and I said this to my family a couple of weeks ago. Conditions are the same as the build up to the 1981 and 1985 riots. We just need a hot summer, perhaps a bank hoilday then one small incident could kick it all off. – Worrying times indeed.
Martin Lewis has a little bit too much faith in people I think.
That said, clearly there’s going to be a lot of non payment of bills since people just can’t. I suppose that’s civil disobedience in a way but unrest? not sure.
The last 6 or 7 years have really been a waking nightmare in terms of UK politics.
I’m not a fan of the Tories by any stretch, but the dramatic lurch to the right that the Conservative party started in 2015 to appease UKIP and BNP voters seems to have just destroyed political discourse in this country, and the traditional Tory party.
Obviously Murdoch and his 30 year “culture war” finally reaping its benefits doesn’t help, but the Tories and their appeasing of the Brexit crowd has really fucked it.
We’re in a position where people can’t fill up their cars, can’t afford food, can’t heat their homes, a generation that will have less access to home ownership than the one before, a generation with less freedom of movement and work than the one before, the worst costs of living crisis on record, while essential public services are stripped back and gutted, and literally hundred of billions of taxpayer money is lost to corruption. The PM has stayed in power during several, and I mean several, absolute calamities which in years gone by would’ve cost the previous PMs their position – but they would’ve resigned.
We’re in a place where if a couple of years ago you suggested (or, more correctly, predicted) we’d be here, you’d be called a “loony lefty”. And for some reason, everyone is pretending this is still normal? Sip your tea, go to work, eat your fish and chips, watch the panel show, go to sleep.
I overheard a conversation at work the other day about this situation, and the last election, and their response was still “what was the alternative?”. Maybe not this…
I do think civil unrest is coming and it could get a bit nasty, but I also wouldn’t at all be surprised if a generous proportion of it was misdirected at the very people the Daily Mail, Sun and Express have been telling you to hate since time immemorial.
When the disabled and mentally ill started freezing and starving to death years ago I thought people would get angry and would do something. But all they did was question the reports. When international organizations came to Britain and pointed out, “no, look, this is wrong, this is literally killing people,” I thought people would take notice, but all they did was deride the organizations. I went on disabled demos and pushed that wheelchair I thought people would at least take notice. “look, the disadvantaged and physically unable are out and attempting to make their voice heard. How can you not hear that?” But all they did was get the police to give names and addresses of disabled people to the DWP.
No, people instead voted for the same punishing, hate-filled, ruling class party like the good little surfs they are.
Honestly, we get what we deserve at this point.
Dear me of 20 years ago, you know that nice chap who was tring to get people to switch their telephone provider to save a few quid a month? Yeah he’ll be leading the largest revolution since Marie Antoiniete said “Let them eat cake”.
Against who you ask? You know that funny guy from Have I got News for you? He’ll be the prime minister desparately trying to use the start of ww2 to improve his popularity while his chancellor just whacked up taxes while being a full time US resident who’s family fortune is “non domiciled”
Yes I wish I was joking.
I love that he tries to blame it on the war in Ukraine instead of the real reason….the Tory party
The people have been freezing in their homes (if they can even afford a home), starving, and mistreated by their employers and government for decades.
How is this news? Because it’s starting to affect the “Middle Class” who sat back and didn’t care about it before it affected them?
Nothing will change, things will continue to get worse.
If Martin Lewis is giving his blessing then it is our civic duty to make civil unrest a reality. Sharpen the pitchforks and light the torches girls and boys. We’re goin’ a’ riotin’ tonight!
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Biggest surprise for me is that there hasn’t been any such action thus far.
I expect it’s more a case of ‘when’ rather than ‘if’ with the way things are going.
If we actually had the balls to protest/riot like the French have already been doing, then maybe things would actually improve.
Looking forward to my weekly email telling me the best five barrricades to man.
looking forward to his top civil disobedience tips. inevitably it’ll involve wearing lots of layers.
We aren’t French, nothing of substance will happen.
Who would have thought the revolution would be led by Martin Lewis!
Where do we meet, Martin, I’ve got my pitchfork….
the irony of any potential civil unrest after the tutting over XR, BLM, Pride etc will be nice to see.
but really the last 12 years of government just make the middle class more placid.
Not even a coupon code for a pitchfork deal. Come on, Martin!
Nothing will happen, everybody in this country has been fucking neutered. Shut up, eat your cornflakes, pay your tv licence
The famous saying from Lenin
“Every society is three meals away from chaos” should be relevant in today’s world.
Judging by how much people go hungry in this country everyday especially since the recent bill hikes, we’re not too far off from civil unrest.
A train ticket to London makes protest in the capitol prohibitive enough for some.
Local protests could be fun though.
Not going to happen. Yes, the cost of living is very high right now and people are starving/freezing in their own houses, but for the majority, its bearable and the risk of having your life ruined by being arrested and charged/found guilty and having a criminal record does not outweigh the possible benefits of strikes/rioting.
The government were *partying* while we all sacrificed and couldn’t see loved ones/be at their side when they were passing. And nobody rioted or went on strike.
The issue is the cost of living is increasing but its a creeping metric which isn’t going to suddenly trigger a tipping point. It is going to get steadily worse and the bar for which people might actually strike/riot would be when the majority are very heavily affected and if we get to that stage we are probably already in the throes of a horrendous recession anyway.
The nation will have a choice soon whether to re-elect a government which is *totally fine* with letting your neighbour freeze to death in their own home or forcing your friend to use a food bank because they can’t afford the shopping after paying the exorbitant rent and energy bill.
Nothing will happen. The government have purposely created a placid population, just look at all of the things they are or have gotten away with.
The only thing the average person cares about is some bullshit tv programme, or their social media account.
Oh god, I hope so.
I’m serious when I say that it’s got to the point where we need this.
There will be some demonstrations, shouting, maybe a few bricks throwing but nobody will react. It’s hard to maintain the momentum of protest when nobody pays any attention.
I would be amazed to see any sort of civil unrest in this country, amazed.
“The public are all such passive sheep, it’ll never happen!” – 100 guys in this thread who are all exactly as passive as those they’re deriding.
Hey, I agree with the sentiment but I have the self awareness to know that I’m 100% part of the problem.
Who had ‘Martin Lewis over throws the Tories’ on their 2022 bingo card?
Civil unrest? From people who cba to just fucking vote.
If the country doesn’t riot I honestly believe the British will accept literally anything being done to them
Just keep clapping and saying “Oh, that’s a bit shit.” while sipping tea. That’ll work out for us for sure.
There is a real risk we fail to raise the next generation of childbearing adults. People just 10 years younger than me paying double housing costs with no chance of getting on the property ladder. Huge escalating child care costs. An even more unfair graduate tax.
This is society ending stuff and no one in power seems to care. A bank of England’s head saying restrain pay. Even Henry Ford realized if you didn’t pay your consumers there would be no consumption.
I’ll be honest, I’m not usually one for major shows of disobedience. I get up, go to work, pay my taxes, keep on the right side of the law but at this point I’ve fucking had enough. Everything has gone up in price, there’s no fuel for my car, we’re still living with the fall out of the pandemic, I’ve not had a pay rise in ages. Life these days is getting beyond a joke and if there was some sort of civil up rising, I’d be at the front.
He is right and I said this to my family a couple of weeks ago. Conditions are the same as the build up to the 1981 and 1985 riots. We just need a hot summer, perhaps a bank hoilday then one small incident could kick it all off. – Worrying times indeed.
Martin Lewis has a little bit too much faith in people I think.
That said, clearly there’s going to be a lot of non payment of bills since people just can’t. I suppose that’s civil disobedience in a way but unrest? not sure.
The last 6 or 7 years have really been a waking nightmare in terms of UK politics.
I’m not a fan of the Tories by any stretch, but the dramatic lurch to the right that the Conservative party started in 2015 to appease UKIP and BNP voters seems to have just destroyed political discourse in this country, and the traditional Tory party.
Obviously Murdoch and his 30 year “culture war” finally reaping its benefits doesn’t help, but the Tories and their appeasing of the Brexit crowd has really fucked it.
We’re in a position where people can’t fill up their cars, can’t afford food, can’t heat their homes, a generation that will have less access to home ownership than the one before, a generation with less freedom of movement and work than the one before, the worst costs of living crisis on record, while essential public services are stripped back and gutted, and literally hundred of billions of taxpayer money is lost to corruption. The PM has stayed in power during several, and I mean several, absolute calamities which in years gone by would’ve cost the previous PMs their position – but they would’ve resigned.
We’re in a place where if a couple of years ago you suggested (or, more correctly, predicted) we’d be here, you’d be called a “loony lefty”. And for some reason, everyone is pretending this is still normal? Sip your tea, go to work, eat your fish and chips, watch the panel show, go to sleep.
I overheard a conversation at work the other day about this situation, and the last election, and their response was still “what was the alternative?”. Maybe not this…
I do think civil unrest is coming and it could get a bit nasty, but I also wouldn’t at all be surprised if a generous proportion of it was misdirected at the very people the Daily Mail, Sun and Express have been telling you to hate since time immemorial.
When the disabled and mentally ill started freezing and starving to death years ago I thought people would get angry and would do something. But all they did was question the reports. When international organizations came to Britain and pointed out, “no, look, this is wrong, this is literally killing people,” I thought people would take notice, but all they did was deride the organizations. I went on disabled demos and pushed that wheelchair I thought people would at least take notice. “look, the disadvantaged and physically unable are out and attempting to make their voice heard. How can you not hear that?” But all they did was get the police to give names and addresses of disabled people to the DWP.
No, people instead voted for the same punishing, hate-filled, ruling class party like the good little surfs they are.
Honestly, we get what we deserve at this point.
Dear me of 20 years ago, you know that nice chap who was tring to get people to switch their telephone provider to save a few quid a month? Yeah he’ll be leading the largest revolution since Marie Antoiniete said “Let them eat cake”.
Against who you ask? You know that funny guy from Have I got News for you? He’ll be the prime minister desparately trying to use the start of ww2 to improve his popularity while his chancellor just whacked up taxes while being a full time US resident who’s family fortune is “non domiciled”
Yes I wish I was joking.
I love that he tries to blame it on the war in Ukraine instead of the real reason….the Tory party
The people have been freezing in their homes (if they can even afford a home), starving, and mistreated by their employers and government for decades.
How is this news? Because it’s starting to affect the “Middle Class” who sat back and didn’t care about it before it affected them?
Nothing will change, things will continue to get worse.
If Martin Lewis is giving his blessing then it is our civic duty to make civil unrest a reality. Sharpen the pitchforks and light the torches girls and boys. We’re goin’ a’ riotin’ tonight!