Even with that being said you miss that the poor (working class) had even less of a say in anything back then than they do now. They were as much ignored, treated as **** and oppressed as those that the posh boys in command of troops in the EIC were kllling to make their money!
Anyways. Spiked is killing it with nail on the head articles at the moment! Yes there are some that peddle it a bit too far and yes I have to admit there may be a bit of confirmation bias because a lot of it is what I have been saying is happening (increasingly) for 10-20 years!
I don't expect people who don't want to understand to accept what they (or I) say but maybe reading these sort of tings you could understand a little of the mindset even if you disagree entirely with the reasoning behind that mindset. Or you could just carry on saying "claptrap, its just racism" without understanding that is not the case.
I think people need to understand that when we talk of left / right, Labour, Tory, establishment the actual government and policies is just a snippet of "the machine" that rolls out daily across all platforms backing up, defending, attacking dissenters. It is the commentariat with their fanbases and teams that do the heavy lifting and all the time people focus on Farage or right wingers that in reality are small amounts of voices fighting against a vast army of "right thinkers."
It really is a vast network across platforms but all most people I am reading seem to notice are a few bad eggs on twitter and the rest is moaning about right wing press or TV giving airtime to Farage oblivious seemingly to the endless parade of talking heads denouncing anyone that dares not toe the line or even in a lot of the non political / news / current affairs output where the shows are squarely aimed to present the "nice people" as being the normal ones, not the crimpers and scrapers! Teaching middle class folks how not to spend massive amounts on £100 bottles of Prosecco and Omega watch collections (yes this was on one of the Beebs how to save money shows. lol.
I find it so hard to understand how so many people seem not to notice the vast ratio difference between left / right wing output on legacy or new media! Massive focus on the reach of nasty right wingers when we are still looking at a 10:1 at best balance there but then of course "right side of history" and all that. right wing is increasing a bit though. We're not talking far right. That will always be a tiny minority no matter how much people want to make out it is bigger and no matter how "seen" that minority are. Ignore the plebs at your peril. This is not the days of EIC! we all get a vote now, and the troops can no longer charge in and shoot the dissenters! Right to protest is not just a left wing right think entitlement!
Anyways. read or don't read. access it on waybackmachine tomorrow if you don't want your numbers to help their ad revenue
"Like their predecessors, today’s so-called progressives are convinced they are on the right side of history. They view the world entirely in their own self-righteous image. Gardner and others like her have no life experience or skill that could actually help those migrants they believe to be ‘victims’.
While they have dropped the old progressives’ attachment to eugenics, they remain faintly disdainful of ordinary people. They have no understanding of the British working class, no sense of why it is that those they are long used to patronising have had enough of being ignored or silenced."
https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/08/22/posh-girls-for-illegal-immigration/
