Would the UK ever "revolt"

[SWP's back]

when the gas, electric, telecom, rail and water industries were given away, bills have sky-rocketed, infra-structure investment is non-existent and jobs and services have been decimated, or out-sourced to the third world.
The post-office, roads and NHS will be exactly the same.
This year, when disposable income for the vast majority of the population is diminishing faster than at any time since the war, share-holder dividends are higher than at any time since the first world war. More than 50% of shares are owned by less than 5% of the population.
The general public, under the influence of a ruthless media, is sleep-walking into a nightmare return to the horrors of victorian england.
As a taste of the delights to come, a visit to a doctor in Orlando cost $300, a tube of Zovirax( £5-50 in the UK) $103. No wonder the NHS is seen as the ultimate cash cow by the tories.
A revolt needs a focus or at least a leader. A politicised media and police/intelligence service will make sure it never happens.

I'd love to see your source for more than 50% of shares being held by less than 5%.

Also about dividends being higher than at any time since WW1.

I say that as you made them up and they are not true though I'd love for the dividend bit to be true, it would make my working life much easier.

 

[BrianW]

The thing is - it's impossible to predict. If it happened, it would be brought about by circumstances we can't envisage, yet.

Who would have dared predict the fall of the USSR and the various Communist governments of the eastern bloc?

To go back further in time, the Czar of Russia was probably more popular in 1914 than Cameron is now. What happened in in 1917?

Does anyone imagine that in 1785 the people of France thought there was going to be a revolution and their king would get his head lopped? If you'd told the people of England in 1639 that there was going to be a civil war and that a repubiic would be established in 1649, they'd have laughed at you. (Apart from the ones who'd have just grunted 'yea, whatever' and gone back to their ale.)

It's a funny world and amazing things sometimes happen.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

We've had several revolts in recent times, the miners, the poll tax and the more recent half-assed shoplifter riots sparked by another police shooting. The masses get slapped down very easily by a combination of force and propoganda. The machine is too powerful for us to rage against. I think it would take an economic meltdown the level of Greece to see enough working classes unite a truly revolt.

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Technically we are entering a different realm of discussion here

 

[pominoz]

We've had several revolts in recent times, the miners, the poll tax and the more recent half-assed shoplifter riots sparked by another police shooting. The masses get slapped down very easily by a combination of force and propoganda. The machine is too powerful for us to rage against. I think it would take an economic meltdown the level of Greece to see enough working classes unite a truly revolt.

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Should they be shooting them with blanks?

 

[SWP's back]

We've had several revolts in recent times, the miners, the poll tax and the more recent half-assed shoplifter riots sparked by another police shooting. The masses get slapped down very easily by a combination of force and propoganda. The machine is too powerful for us to rage against. I think it would take an economic meltdown the level of Greece to see enough working classes unite a truly revolt.

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Shooting people with blanks was never going to work though.

 

[BoyBlue_1985]

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Should they be shooting them with blanks?

"bang bang, your dead"

 

[Why Always Ste]

Our society is more likely to go and watch a film about Revolution, or play a videogame where you are the main character in a Revolution... Than it is to actually go out and riot.

More people on an Orange Wednesday would go and watch this Revolution film than have ever looted in jd sports or protested on a student march.

We'd much rather buy the videogame version.

 

[dannybcity]

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Shooting people with blanks was never going to work though.

Rubber bullets, tasers?

 

[nijinsky's fetlocks]

We've had several revolts in recent times, the miners, the poll tax and the more recent half-assed shoplifter riots sparked by another police shooting. The masses get slapped down very easily by a combination of force and propoganda. The machine is too powerful for us to rage against. I think it would take an economic meltdown the level of Greece to see enough working classes unite a truly revolt.

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Give or take the odd Brazilian electrician who looked fuck all like an al qaeda terrorist but got shot in the back at point blank range anyway.

 

[PistonBlue]

Yes how dare the police shoot a known criminal thug who deals class a drugs, made other peoples lives a misery and was wanted for murder and is knowing for carrying a weapon. Who the fuck do they think they are

I don't think our police force should be going around shooting anybody with live rounds to be honest.

Should they be shooting them with blanks?

Yes. We wouldn't want to offend them would we?