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Indeed. All of them not amounting to much. The same could be said about the US of A as well. There was a time when we had proper politicians. It's all meaningless soundbites now. Mainly due to Blair.

Or mainly because of a steeply rising wealth devide. The wealthy class atleast has the interrest to sway politics their way and when the wealth gap is rising they find themself ever more influential, besides that many among the wealthy class also control a share of the media pie. Politics nowadays often boils down to sprouting a lot of puppulist nonsense in ellections and then many politicians mostly defend the interrests of the wealthy class that fund them anyway. Trump is a nice example too as he will mostly act to create an even harsher neoliberal policy on the relative poor underclass that voted in such volume for him. The left is no exception either, they too have rich backers that they need though mostly from industrial sectors that would actually profit from certain left wing policy like pharmaceuticals that suddently might see a lot of their products repayed to the customer trough social security stimulating more pill consumption.

While the people are practicly diametricly devided among left/right ideological leanings, most political party's and politicians just line the pockets of their wealthy supporters.
The issue of money in politics has been discussed in the USA before for obvious reasons but even with attempts in the past to limit donations new structure's are invented all the time to facilitate it. Politics (and i might surprise few with this) is rather corrupt and held hostage by a nepotist clique's backed by large sums if needed, the real enemy for them are potential new rising party's rather than the oposition they know. And given the trend it's likely going to get a lot worse still, perhaps one day people here will cherisch this time for the relative harmless candidates we have today even when still taking Brexit in mind.
 
And most of them will be dependent on those same young people working and paying tax so they can continue to enjoy their ever rising pensions and ever rising health care costs.

And most lived through much harder times than the youth of today are.

There’s a lot wrong with society today but years gone by have been harder.
 
Diane Abbott is not a racist. You can disagree with her politics, even dislike her public persona but she is not a racist. She is a hard working and diligent constituency MP who is very popular and appreciated by the people she represents.

I guess you missed her slip on what she feels about “white people”.

She’s a hard left cronie who couldn’t count to 50.
 
You have to be poor to be a proper socialist? Owning a house and having a pension excludes you from having a voice or speaking out on social matters? Is empathy for someone else’s position income linked?

Man that is some fucked up shit.

It is, the usual pejorative is champagne socialist.
 
I guess you missed her slip on what she feels about “white people”.

She’s a hard left cronie who couldn’t count to 50.

No it’s being much discussed. Fascinating that one tweet has made such a powerful impact on some of you. Not sure how would you all cope if it was on a daily basis but fascinating nonetheless.
 
Where did I say i wasn't a fan of state housing?

Poor is a state of mind. But not owning your own house, having a pot to piss in or getting a decent pension would lead to most people thinking they were poor.

Meh. Personally I think poor is a state of ‘having no meaningful income or assets’. Although I guess the Tories would be keen on means testing income not on actual income but on how people ‘feel’. “So Mr Bob do you ‘feel’ poor? Do you have a rich, satisfying life? I mean apart from the hunger distracting you do you feel truly blessed? Excellent news I think we can go ahead and cancel your meagre benefit. Same time next month? Assuming you haven’t starved to death by then hah!”.
 
No it’s being much discussed. Fascinating that one tweet has made such a powerful impact on some of you. Not sure how would you all cope if it was on a daily basis but fascinating nonetheless.
One tweet like one comment often gives an insight into someone’s private thoughts.
 

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