Oh Gordon, don’t you know we only gamers rise up over shit that happens in other countries, not this country?
Ive never wanted to be French more in my life these days.
Nah, the British public are too apathetic. They are more than complicit in their own decline.
There’s only going to be an uprising in this country if Premiership clubs join the European Super League.
Everyone saying British people don’t have it in them to rise up, need to research the charter movement. Tbf its a travesty it isn’t taught in schools
I doubt there will be, it affects the poorest who can’t afford to protest and the people working will just care about their shit wage rises
I would say pension and benefits should be tied to the same increases. That will confuse some voters.
Most of those ‘on benefits’ are actually in work. The economy is just so dire that this is the reality these days.
Many are dismissing the chance of widespread protests…but this could be the “poll tax” of today
Like with the strikes it’ll take the right movement/incident to kick everyone into gear
Will there fuck be an uprising. Even working class people will shit on any one who receives benefits
I’m all for the welfare state, but matching benifits to inflation without doing the same for wages is not the right move.
Since most benefits are deemed to be ‘the absolute min. you can survive on’ (which is a laugh for some) I can’t see how they are not legally obliged to increase them by inflation.
When people can no longer afford heat, food, petrol, etc then I’m sure all politeness and just getting on with it will go out the window. Especially if we see other countries not struggling to the same degree.
Keep going conservatives, the working class revolution is coming
I bloody well hope there will be an uprising if that petition for a GE is discarded, even more so if it’s addressed and booed out of the Commons. They’ve had over a decade to install a Prime Minister that doesn’t want to fuck the general population over sideways (impossible challenge) and every new one they’ve had was and is worse than the one before. Not surprised even a lot of Tory voters have had it by now.
Is Gordon Brown prompting a revolution? The British don’t know how to do a revolution. The uprising will be damage to shop fronts and highstreet fighting, or violence on the doorstep.
It’s actually gross if they don’t hike in alignment with inflation as they generally do this every year to keep up with rising costs apart from when they freeze benefits.
Not hiking for the poorest when there’s a cost of living crisis when generally you do so in more affluent times is grotesque.
They raised Universal Credit during the pandemic by £20 per week. Why? Because a lot of people that usually didn’t require it had to fall back on it for a period of time, and the government wanted to convey its more comfortable and generous that it actually is because they knew if 100’s of thousands of people that usually wouldn’t receive UC then came to realise the poverty of it then there would be problems going forward as these people would remember their experiences and oppose benefit reductions and challenge the government so as to raise the payments so people could have a better basic standard of living.
Remember how much the government squandered during 2020-2021? And here we are now and they are dancing around the idea of not hiking payments for the poorest (which they generally usually do every year in alignment with inflation) and they are doing it during one of the harshest financial periods in a very long time.
It is immoral.
Yeah right Gordon, after how the media portrays benefit claimants, why would the nation rise for them. Did you not see the results of the last election, in areas that probably have more benefit claimants. We will accept our fate like good citizens.
I’d love a proper revolution. Pitchforks and behead the offenders in Westminster. But I fear a “National uprising” just means a nationwide round of tut-tutting and grumbling for a few days.
They no longer fear the people… Let’s change that.
Linked to earnings growth seems like the obvious answer, no?
Nonsense. We’re completely apathetic to our own decline and have sat back, doing fuck all, since the 60-70s and allowed our corrupt politicians to strip the place to scrap.
There should be a national uprising if the Tories attempt to push through policies they haven’t received a mandate for in a general election. Seriously.
How the fuck is it a controversial things to have bare minimum to keep people alive not keep wot inflation?
/r/unitedkingdom: everyone should protest!
also /r/unitedkingdom: What are you doing! you know protesting does not matter or work! stop and go home!
Ever the optimist, Gordon.
At least he thinks better of the British people than an author of *Britannia Unchained*…
He should know, he and Blair got everyone hooked on them.
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Oh Gordon, don’t you know we only gamers rise up over shit that happens in other countries, not this country?
Ive never wanted to be French more in my life these days.
Nah, the British public are too apathetic. They are more than complicit in their own decline.
There’s only going to be an uprising in this country if Premiership clubs join the European Super League.
Everyone saying British people don’t have it in them to rise up, need to research the charter movement. Tbf its a travesty it isn’t taught in schools
I doubt there will be, it affects the poorest who can’t afford to protest and the people working will just care about their shit wage rises
I would say pension and benefits should be tied to the same increases. That will confuse some voters.
Most of those ‘on benefits’ are actually in work. The economy is just so dire that this is the reality these days.
Many are dismissing the chance of widespread protests…but this could be the “poll tax” of today
Like with the strikes it’ll take the right movement/incident to kick everyone into gear
Will there fuck be an uprising. Even working class people will shit on any one who receives benefits
I’m all for the welfare state, but matching benifits to inflation without doing the same for wages is not the right move.
Since most benefits are deemed to be ‘the absolute min. you can survive on’ (which is a laugh for some) I can’t see how they are not legally obliged to increase them by inflation.
When people can no longer afford heat, food, petrol, etc then I’m sure all politeness and just getting on with it will go out the window. Especially if we see other countries not struggling to the same degree.
Keep going conservatives, the working class revolution is coming
I bloody well hope there will be an uprising if that petition for a GE is discarded, even more so if it’s addressed and booed out of the Commons. They’ve had over a decade to install a Prime Minister that doesn’t want to fuck the general population over sideways (impossible challenge) and every new one they’ve had was and is worse than the one before. Not surprised even a lot of Tory voters have had it by now.
Is Gordon Brown prompting a revolution? The British don’t know how to do a revolution. The uprising will be damage to shop fronts and highstreet fighting, or violence on the doorstep.
It’s actually gross if they don’t hike in alignment with inflation as they generally do this every year to keep up with rising costs apart from when they freeze benefits.
Not hiking for the poorest when there’s a cost of living crisis when generally you do so in more affluent times is grotesque.
They raised Universal Credit during the pandemic by £20 per week. Why? Because a lot of people that usually didn’t require it had to fall back on it for a period of time, and the government wanted to convey its more comfortable and generous that it actually is because they knew if 100’s of thousands of people that usually wouldn’t receive UC then came to realise the poverty of it then there would be problems going forward as these people would remember their experiences and oppose benefit reductions and challenge the government so as to raise the payments so people could have a better basic standard of living.
Remember how much the government squandered during 2020-2021? And here we are now and they are dancing around the idea of not hiking payments for the poorest (which they generally usually do every year in alignment with inflation) and they are doing it during one of the harshest financial periods in a very long time.
It is immoral.
Yeah right Gordon, after how the media portrays benefit claimants, why would the nation rise for them. Did you not see the results of the last election, in areas that probably have more benefit claimants. We will accept our fate like good citizens.
I’d love a proper revolution. Pitchforks and behead the offenders in Westminster. But I fear a “National uprising” just means a nationwide round of tut-tutting and grumbling for a few days.
They no longer fear the people… Let’s change that.
Linked to earnings growth seems like the obvious answer, no?
Nonsense. We’re completely apathetic to our own decline and have sat back, doing fuck all, since the 60-70s and allowed our corrupt politicians to strip the place to scrap.
There should be a national uprising if the Tories attempt to push through policies they haven’t received a mandate for in a general election. Seriously.
How the fuck is it a controversial things to have bare minimum to keep people alive not keep wot inflation?
/r/unitedkingdom: everyone should protest!
also /r/unitedkingdom: What are you doing! you know protesting does not matter or work! stop and go home!
Ever the optimist, Gordon.
At least he thinks better of the British people than an author of *Britannia Unchained*…
He should know, he and Blair got everyone hooked on them.