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Imagine what the working class in the UK have felt like for the past 30 years.
by hyperdunc 9y ago
Imagine what the working class in the UK have felt like for the past 30 years.
- corford 9y agoAgree but try "last 300+ years" rather than 30. Sadly I don't think Brexit will be their salvation. The problem with the UK and class has always lied with domestic politics. This wont change whether we're in or out of Europe.
- grey-area 9y agoImagine what they'll feel like when they realise limiting immigration will not save them but lead to more austerity.
- hyperdunc 9y agoIf it does, imagine what they might do when they realize that. A rapidly changing first-world is producing a lot of losers - but they're not yet disenfranchised and many of them are even armed.
- grey-area 9y agoI'm a little concerned about this. We're entering a new industrial revolution - a lot of white collar jobs and blue collar jobs are being disrupted or eliminated. For example every factory and driving job will disappear in our lifetimes, many office jobs will be disrupted. New jobs will be found, we'll be more productive, and the world will be better because of it, but history shows us that this sort of disruption and destroyed livelihoods leads to violence, revolutions and unrest. We will see a similar situation to the original industrial revolution. I do think it is misguided and harmful to attempt to try to find scapegoats for structural changes in society (popular just now are immigrants, muslims, corporations or evil federal governments), which is why I disagree fundamentally with almost every argument advanced for Brexit (from foreigners are taking our jobs to the evil EU is out to crush our democracy). It will not end well when people don't see improvement in their life but suffer more, and wonder who is to blame if not immigrants.