Yes, some of the interviews I heard from the west country were quite disturbing (and maybe selective?) I thought. But do note, though a driving force for many, not all who agree with leaving the EU have major concerns about immigration. Like me.
I am increasingly concerned with how simplistic much of the media reporting has become. Impsaint is right that even the BBC are disingenuous in how stuff is portrayed, the Today programme had good examples this very morning. So my off tangent point is can we get rid of Thought For The Day as a vehicle for blatant propaganda?
The BBC and a large portion of society is quite happy to divert the argument away to a "this is disgusting" view on all side because it stop people from asking why
all the options are unsuitable. While everyone is diverted to demonising Clinton or Trump.........or Farage or the Tories or the Blairites no-one is asking the real question which is "How have we got to the stage where
all options are unsuitable."
That is because a growing portion of society the western world over have trundled through the last 2 decades asking why, hearing something they don't like and then saying "it can't be so because everything is so peachy........ooh but we do spare a thought for the needy."
Until this issue is addressed we are going to see vastly increasing numbers on the extremes that actually talk about dealing with the issues even though they will be unable to deliver on their promises and their motives are questionable to say the least.
This country just had a huge wake up call in the Brexit vote but a few weeks gone and some tough talk on "Brexit means Brexit" we can already see it is "business as usual" just with different parameters to work within but it is still a mass societal acceptance whether society realises it or not of globalisation = good.
It is another of the establishment's favourite diversions to lump in anything to do with the world as "globalisation" when it isn't about globalisation at all. It is corporatisation and everyone is giving their vote for it whether they realise it or not.
Constantly buying up this "globalisation" as being just how the world is moving and not realising that it is purely for the "haves" is meaning that people that are only just above the "have nots" are fully signed up members too because they are getting by quite nicely in comparison, no matter how many times the Beeb wants to say that this generation is poorer than the last when you don't even need to work these days to have a life that our parents couldn't provide.
All diversions to stop people questioning the status quo because it might "destabilise" financial matters. It needs destabilising because this is all just theoretical money passing through the hands of a select few to make their "pots" bigger. At the end of the day the money comes back round again.
The difference with corporatisation (not globalisation which is a made up cover term) is that the money that people pay in taxes is siphoned off to bump up the rich's profits under some pretence by all parties (including Corbyn's lot) that it is paid in for the benefit of all.
You pay tax which would have used to pay real people to police or provide care and then instead of being spent on what you pay for it is tendered out to companies that pay less than the state would have paid and then the differences goes into the elite's coffers away from the "people's pot."
The whole establishment including government is at it. They are all so in favour if immigration so that they can reduce labour costs in every sector of the country to maximise profits siphoned out of the public purse. Then they have the cheek to say that British people won't work. When governments of all colours tender out care or policing or prisons or....... they are utilising tendering it out to reduce costs. Those being that these private companies are paying less than it cost before and therefore yes you are needing migrant workers to provide care because qualified or even unqualified nurses are going to work on the tills at Tesco because they are paying more per hour for less "taxing" work than these companies pay their migrant "careworkers." Many of whom are not qualified and learn on the job from day 1 more often than not without any relevant experience.
Far from this country spending more than it is taking in it should be questioned why? The answer is because we are borrowing our own money that has filtered out of the public purse into the "global corporate" sector and we are borrowing it back to then siphen more back to them.
Market competitiveness is these days a charade in these huge $$$ corporations. It is a very real deal for those who are trying to make a few quid and having to drop their costs and profit expectations but corporations don't drop their own profit margin expectations. They reduce labour costs.
And I'm a Tory, lol even harbouring thoughts that maybe big government needs to return with intense regulation to weed out the money siphering.
This is why so many people in the western world are voting for the extremes. purely because those anywhere near the centre are all the same just arguing about how little the bit they give to the bottom should be without ever questioning the whole system because they are all part of that system.
I don't think anyone believes a lot of what Trump says and Farage is way more sensible than Trump and I daresay far less discriminatory but people are purely voting for someone who is say "I am going to take the system on." They are people that are not part of the cosy internal setup and shout from the rooftops "Vote for me and I will shake this lot up."
, Boris, Trump and various atrocities, little things like this are going largely unnoticed.
