A lot of people seem to be really struggling to grasp exactly what the Tories have become.
It's no mystery to me- I've seen them up close, at work and play, and I think you guys need to understand what we're dealing with.
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And if you supported Brexit, you were doomed from the start. These jokers didn't see you as ACTUALLY PEOPLE. You were a dot, a spot, a peasant to be manipulated into doing their bidding. Even the most flagrantly racist of you doesn't harbour the hatred a Lord has for YOU.
First, a bit of context. England (and I do mean England) still operates not just on class, but on FEUDAL lines.
You know, Lord, Reeve, Bailiff, Yeomanry, Peasants, Serfs.
We don't see it, any more than fish see water. It's the sea we live in.
So what we have now is a gang of Lords- all of whom feel 100% entitled to be in power- and this is their time!
The social contract- where we all get NHS treatment and some form of pension in exchange for not killing our betters- is torn up, gone, a joke they tell each other.
I'll get to the point.
The "Lords" are broken, dysfunctional, unloved boys that have been turned into absolutely amoral, predatory men. They are INCREDIBLY dangerous, and are bound by no particular laws or morals.
The top table in Johnson's cabinet, the top faces and backroom facilitators in Brexit, the editors that supported them, the backers that believe- truly BELIEVE- you are NOT ACTUALLY A PERSON- are all Lords.
The correct reaction to this should be fear and revulsion.
The rest of the 2019 intake, and therefore, a good slice of the cabinet, is made up of, well, sellouts.
Nearest historical parallel to the 2019 Tory MP intake I can find is "Gauleiter". Obsequious, sycophantic cretins whose only talent is unconditional support.
They are absolutely your enemies, but they will laugh and lie to your face, and say they are your friends, while picking your pocket, fucking your wife (with or without her consent), and keying your car.
And there is a wholly amoral layer of ambitious, forelock-tugging twats from my own class that will go along with it, purely for the crumbs from the Lords' tables. The Reeves and Bailiffs. They're cunts. One British guy in my platoon kissed arse with the Royal; it was gross.
Every few months you go home where your parents tut and puff when you bother them with questions.
There's ALWAYS enough money and you want for nothing, but love is absolutely absent, and never spoken of. Your parents tell you they want to be PROUD of you, not that they LOVE you
Because, to put it bluntly, if you're going to fit into your tribe, you must first go through initiation. If you're a Lord or a Reeve (i.e. a Johnson or similar), your parents will likely be emotional cripples who've been through the same initiation. It's brutal.
While private schools offer better education (smaller class sizes, buildings don't leak, best teachers), that's not actually the key to decoding the current.
It's the discipline. The trauma. The bullying. The ritual. The mandatory entry in the "religion" box.
But- and this is critical- the Lords, now resplendent in their adult plumage, never meet peasants.
They got summer jobs in their dad's banks, or vineyards, or simply went on the piss in Monaco, Val d'Isere, Puerto Banus. If they were unlucky, they'd perhaps meet a few like me.
The Gauleiters enriched themselves MASSIVELY at the taxpayer's expense; they aped their Lord's depravities, they were perverts and thieves, and when the end came, they fled like rats. Not ONE was competent.
Looks like I've broken Twitter, so I may have to link threads...
English private schooling is where the currents become visible. The egalitarian postwar dream- that aberration from the will of the Lords- provided free- FREE!- schooling even to the humblest offspring of mere serfs.
But for those above, more SUITABLE education is offered:
Also key- they NEVER meet anyone outside their social class. They might meet the son of an Indian steel magnate, or Russian oligarch, but while they're foreign (hence a bit odd), they speak with the same accent, and are also clearly loaded. They never need financial help.
You're six. Your parents- who're distant, reserved, never really warm or loving- dump you, in itchy, unfamiliar clothes, in am imposing stone cathedral of learning, and hand you over to Mr. Hardthrasher and Mr. Caning. Dorms are bestial arenas of survival and loneliness.
Then, at 18, there is the Great Mixing. I did my first temp jobs. I met my first state-schooled colleagues (also Grammar-schooled). My mind was blown.
Is this how everyone else lived?
Why were they sometimes hungry?
Why did these people have more month than money?
The reason I see it is because my parents weren't fish- they were from elsewhere. I, however, was born here, and have had to learn the currents myself.
Life's been good to me on several levels. I was LUCKY; I was born to parents who could pay for private school.
Bear with me:
These Lords cannot conceive of a world where they are not naturally in charge. Next PMQ's, play Spot the Lord.
There was a tiny group of Tory Lords that understood being a thunderc*nt was dangerous, and wanted to keep the social contract. King Twat fired them.
And in so doing, they have sown the seeds of their inevitable downfall.
I look forward to it, but I could weep for the lost lives, the lost opportunities, the wasted potential of millions of lives. These NOT ACTUALLY PEOPLE will eventually crush these amoral chancers.
It wasn't rudeness: it's that I wasn't a REAL person, like him, so he wasn't offending me.
My friend explained he'd seen this Lord at another party, ordering the opening of a gross of champagne. That's a dozen, dozen bottles. 144 bottles. A couple of grand. Just for fun.
I would just about qualify as "Yeomanry" or "Merchant" in these guys' world view. I went to a minor public school- one that turned out their estate managers, perhaps small businessmen, sometimes a doctor.
I rarely saw anyone outside MY social class either.
And I will be there for it. We must break these chains of abuse they put their children through, while we reclaim our rights. But what a price we must pay first!
If you were angry about Brexit, and what inevitably has followed, this may help shed some light.
He looked at me EXACTLY as a cat would. Once he realised he couldn't fuck (not my style, thanks) or eat me, and didn't need to fight me, we exchanged a few words. This 21-year old buck had a Ferrari. An old one. But it made getting women for sex easier.
One of my friends, son of a relatively successful small businessman, got into Oxford. And there, I met Lords for the first time.
One guy sticks in my memory, as he went on to SPAD for Cameron, and we met in a pub.
He was studying PPE, and my friend introduced me.
The Cavalry wouldn't even make eye contact with me.
Their entry question for officers is: "with whom does your mother hunt?"
My mother didn't ride.
But I met (literal, but not British) Royalty. And it was instructive.
I was into my cars, but in an oil-under-the-nails, keep-the-thing-going-so-you-can-get-to-work kind of a way. I had an old Scirocco. We made car small talk, but as soon as he clocked my accent, and realised I hadn't brought available women with me, his interest visibly collapsed.
The Army excels in forging tight teams through creating adversity, and it reveals character.
The Royal in our platoon did the barest minimum, had his car (yep, a Ferrari) flown in on diplomatic plates. Cops let him go 180mph up the M4, cos diplomatic incident, sarge.
The Officers and Sergeants knew EXACTLY which side their bread was buttered. Argue with their betters, and have a Lord finish their fragile, hard-won career? Nah.
On you go, your Highness!
Several years later, I went to RMAS (Sandhurst, you ignorant civvies), and while it's an equal opportunities employer now (although gays had just been allowed in), some regiments wouldn't allow just anyone in.
We had a ginger scouser, FFS
Saturday nights he'd head into London, rent a pricey woman, take her back to RMAS, bang her, and then dump her outside Sunday morning with cash. Royalty, innit.
One Yeoman-grade guy like me got caught with his long-term GF in the lines ONCE, and was lucky to stay.
@LloydLoarsGhost
Key point. Ken Clarke, for all the affability, was very frank about Tories being a Special Interest Group which won elections. But this new breed is also financed and abetted by disaster capitalists, who just want to plunder the country down to the floorboards
Having survived minor public school, I wasn't offended. I was a bit shaken, but my training kicked in and I barely raised an eyebrow.
My friend shared that this Lord didn't consider himself racist- he'd do anyone. "After all, they're all pink on the inside"!
@saitomri
It looks odd to western eyes because we haven’t publicised the alternative we’ve chosen, which is hundreds of thousands of people choking to death, alone, of an avoidable disease.
If we had televised the dying rooms across our countries, these images would seem very reassuring
@JohnBoo85608696
Hitler spared Eton, Oxford and Cambridge from bombing raids, because it was where the future Reich leaders would be taught. He was in childish awe of the British empire and saw it as proof of English racial superiority. He had PLENTY of support from English “Lords” (and Lords)
It may get much darker before the dawn, so be resilient. We have the awesome challenge of runaway global warming, and consequent crises, to mitigate- as a species- and jettisoning these parasites is a crucial step in preparing for it.
Hold firm.
And for those asking what they can do- I say remember this feeling, every time the Junta lies, and take every opportunity to make good trouble.
The “Lords” despise two great birthrights- EU citizenship and the NHS. They’ve stolen one, and want to destroy the other.
I’m going to add another bit to apologise for abbreviating about teachers. “Customer expectation” is they get the best teachers. Reality REALLY varies. Some of mine were *quite* mad.
Public sector teachers taught my kids, and there were HEROES among them. You deserve better!
Also here. The entire party is now a vehicle for Global ultracapitalists. Singham is worth a Google: he was involved in the disastrous Charter City project in Honduras, and wants to set up multiples as Freeports in UK. Corporatocratic city states. Illegal in the EU, so…
Must watch:
Minister Steve Baker hid meetings with Legatum’s Shanker Singham by using IEA’s Mark Littlewood as “shill”.
Singham also wrote Gove’s Customs Union policy.
This is how the opaque rightwing thinktanks interweave with Govt.
One thing defines all of these, the privileged and the Gauleiters: they have an absolutely fanatical WILL TO WIN. The peasants’ revolt failed because they underestimated this. And the result was this:
They won’t give quarter. Neither should we.
On Thursday I was at
#FutureOfBritain
conf hosted by
@InstituteGC
@BritainProject
@mylifemysay
The pitch was ideas for a new politics, and there was some good stuff
But I came away deeply worried, by a SERIOUS lack of respect for our nation’s biggest asset
Its people
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@CallyOrange
@AdamRamsay
It’s easier for the kids of immigrants- and an international perspective and experience really helps. It’s one of the reasons there’s such EXTREME xenophobia in the higher classes
@joncstone
American PM, American resident chancellor with tax avoiding wife, a governing party financed with dirty oligarch money…
Took back control, then… but for who?
#THREAD
The Heritage Foundation is a dangerous & very influential US neoliberal free-market fundamentalist think tank that represents the interests of the 0.1%
Charles WL Hill: "given that the Heritage Foundation has a political agenda, its work should be viewed with caution."
@LOS_Fisher
That’s the kind of policy only possible from someone who:
- doesn’t own a car
- doesn’t know about cars
- doesn’t realise MOT is about safety
- doesn’t realise MOT testing is a paid job and generates tax revenue
E-
@Peston
@eyejosh
@johnmcdonnellMP
Handpicked for a reason, just like the tame Speaker. The annihilation or hobbling of any checks or balances. Oversight and protection by the EU was only ever the first step.
You can say it out loud, Robert.
Call it out for what it is.
@LloydLoarsGhost
In the words of Trump’s 2016 election team: “Brexit was our rehearsal”.
These fools don’t even realise they were just a practice run for a serious country
@SteveHandford3
Spot on! What these chumps don’t appreciate is that the Americans (and Russians, Saudis, Qataris etc) who’re bankrolling they now are ALSO Alpha Predators. Once they’ve finished gutting they UK, they’ll still be hungry
@joepike
A dollar short and a day late. Still half-arsed and inhumane.
In a country with an ageing population and falling birthright, immigration isn’t a burden, it’s the key to the future.
Short-sighted and cruel, but right on-brand
So I went to my local butcher to learn a WHOLE NEW Brexit Benefit. Thread:
He normally does BBQ boxes; he said he’d printed the price list, just couldn’t use them, as the prices were going up £5 a week or more. This is on a £30 box 😱
@PaddingtonCares
Unpopular opinion: MPs SHOULD be paid well enough to prevent any excuse for corruption, and to encourage people with life experience to apply.
HOWEVER.
There should be a hard ban, enforced with prison, on second jobs/ incomes/ shares/ gifts/ directorships. Public service ONLY
@JohnSimpsonNews
Definite promotion opportunity for his subordinates right now, just requires tea, windows, or something more direct.
And I don’t think a quiet retirement like Kruschev’s is on offer, either
@jameskirkup
People will only plan a family when they can afford to build a nest; the absence of strategic investment to permit this, especially the last decade, is a story of national self-sabotage based on chasing the grey vote. Predictable, and indeed, predicted
@sturdyAlex
There’s a reason MI6 didn’t pass this guy papers when he was FM. He’s horribly compromised, narcissistic and verbally (and sexually) incontinent. A total hazard to navigation who wouldn’t hold onto an Assistant Manager job at World of Carpets once HR got involved
@hoffman_noa
It’s bad, but it’s not “getting fellated at work by a staffer you’re trying to get a job she’s not qualified for while your wife is at home surviving cancer” bad.
But they should both resign, agreed
@EuropeanPowell
The whole Charter City concept is inherently parasitic; it consumes the benefits of people, infrastructure etc around it and gives nothing back. It’s a recipe for poverty and societal failure- even the architects of it must realise this, no?
Westminster voted for A hard tourism border on the island of Ireland tonight.
Ireland had zero say.
To be clear:
This means that a French or German person cannot take a trip to Belfast from Dublin for the w/e without UK border documentation.
Disaster for
#NI
.
#Brexit
So, if like me, you hadn't heard of Michelle Donelan (the new Education Sec), be advised that apparently her other half is the Head of Commercial at Stronghold Global, who supply... PPE to... government departments.
They seem nice. Over to you guys to dig more:
@trussliz
@Daily_Express
“Stop asking for enough pay to feed your families, peasants”
Ex-Tory voter here. I’m voting
@UKLabour
next time. I want to live in a country where my compatriots can afford to live decent lives.
@LordAshcroft
After 12 years of it, any business would just shut down the failed experiment, sack everyone off & sell the facilities. It's been disastrous for everyone, except a tiny of the super-wealthy
@BloombergUK
@Joe_Mayes
It’s a terrible, transparent, pathetic excuse, but it’s still less awful than the truth, which is he doesn’t believe in any state responsibility to ensure poor people don’t die.
We are all replaceable economic batteries to be consumed and discarded when broken or empty…
@drphiliplee1
Just as well all our pandemic responses are at 100%, fully funded and the government is right behind the NHS, otherwise it might turn into a total shitshow
@DPJHodges
@DeborahMeaden
Because… they’re dependent on Russian dirty money, and absolutely HATE foreigners. It’s really no more complex than that. Patel would cheerfully drown refugees in the channel if she could.
@Ooshie1962
Shahmir Sanni (I've probably murdered his name) got it bang on: there's about 200 people at the top of English society who only ever fail up- hence Dido Harding, Matt Hancock etc. Any lower class and they'd be slopping out at Wormwood Scrubs, or dead already
@nandmeister
It’s not bullshit, but Twitter doesn’t allow room for nuance. Some come out brilliant and balanced despite everything, but there is a sizeable proposition who are *selected* by those -matching this description- by those in power. And THAT is the problem
I asked him why:
- grain feed costs 👆
- energy costs for farmers 👆
- diesel costs for farmers & hauliers 👆
BUT ALSO
- THE EU SLAUGHTERHOUSE STAFF HAVE GONE HOME
How does that affect the price of meat? GLAD YOU ASKED 👇
So they load ALL of that sales price onto the same amount of meat.
So yes, confirmation from my local, apolitical, butcher that there is NO situation Brexit cannot make worse.
Maybe treating these vital skilled workers like 2nd class citizens was a dumb, racist idea?
@orwatercress
I’m referring to the scum we’ve seen float to the top around one especially unscrupulous PM. And I’ve not fully broken my programming, I’m just acutely aware of it. Nothing’s inevitable; but these people have made choices too and are accountable. It’s my lived experience. 🤷♂️
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@DrEricDing
I love Sweden, but don’t be fooled by meatballs, IKEA and ABBA. There’s a streak of eugenics running through their establishment a mile wide- remember that forced sterilisation for the mildest of mental conditions was state policy until the 1970’s… this fits.
@benrileysmith
Unhinged. While the current Cote Leave government is pretending that Brexit DOESN’T mean massive duplication, (50,000 customs agents alone), this ideological destruction of the civil service is going to really devastate the economy AND services. A recipe for decline!