Class Wars.

In recent years, we've seen a significant class divide in the UK over many things.

On Brexit, it seems that most working class people voted for Brexit, but most Middle Class people voted against.

It's significant that the protesters against Brexit outside Parliament seem mainly middle class. Because they're the only class that either retire early and so have the free time to stand outside Parliament all day, or the kids are students from middle class families, where they are sponsored by parents to go to Uni. They don't have to hold down jobs to pay the exorbitant uni fees like working class kids.

When it comes to climate change, it's those same entitled, enabled middle-class students sitting in the streets protesting. The working-class kids are working. It's the working class paying the inflated energy bills that line the pockets of the rich and pay the pensions of the middle class.

In a way, it's a measure of the dereliction of political representation for the working class that is causing the divide.

Working class people are still under the illusion that the Labour Party represents them, but in reality it hasn't since the 70's. I don't think the Wilson Governments actually did much for the working class. They allowed the rise of the Unions and their grab for power that was subsequently crushed by the Thatcher government.

That was when political support for the working class started to crumble. The Kinnock and Foot opposition Labour parties were never for the working class. They were bourgeoise Labour, Labour influenced by Marxist philosophy, not a pragmatic and effective support for  the working class.   Instead we got ever more ridiculous demands from Labour until finally, someone with sense in the form of John Smith became leader. He started the purge of the radicals and I like to think that had he not died an untimely death, we would have had a Labour government in 1997 that would have favoured the working class, as opposed to the pro-corporate Blair government.
The same is happening today with the Corbyn Labour party, with no real policies for the working class. Plenty for the non-working class in the form of increased benefits, but their main focus is to effectively lob rocks at the Tories. After that....nothing of substance.

Since 1997 the working class have largely been forgotten politically and are still unrepresented toady.

This is where a leftist would call me racist. For pointing out the truth. Immigration and the multicultural policy whereby every culture is equal (except it seems working class culture) has caused immense problems for the working class. In the North whole towns have been changed irrevocably.

I went up North to see my parents last weekend and finally the wife (born and bred in the South) started to understand. In the South you don't see it, or feel it. But in the North you can. As a white, native British citizen, you are the minority. At the very least, an uncomfortable feeling.

Unsurprisingly,. the middle-class enclaves of the North and Midlands have not been affected, nor has the majority of the South (except London). Hence why the middle class shriek in horror at the lack of working class racial and cultural tolerance. The working class flight from London has only been mitigated by the fact that house sellers in London can buy a better quality property in the home counties  thanks to the house price disparity. If conditions had forced the working class of London to stay, then racial and cultural tensions would not be as rosy in the capital.

Had this cultural shift happened in middle class heartlands, then there would be uproar. But not when it's in the unseen working class heartlands of the North.

Brexit was the first time that working class people had had an equal say in the political workings of the UK. They voted to end the cultural evisceration of their towns. They voted against their disenfranchisement, they voted against the bourgeoise governments that had forgotten them.

From the day of that working class victory in June 2016 the middle-class, the political class, the bourgeoise MPs and Lords, the corporations, the media, have all been working against the working class.

This is a class war, plain and simple.

Climate Change and Who Pays for it.

It's always struck me as odd that the poorest in society are paying extra taxes and tariffs to pay for climate change. Money which eventually goes to the pockets of the rich in the form of carbon trading and tariffs for corporations and rents for landowners with windfarms.

Not one poor person benefits.

But isn't it the rich, the owners of the big corporations and companies that belched out and continue to spew out massive amounts of carbon that should be paying?

Aren't they the ones that took huge profits and therefore benefitted and continue to benefit from the big corporations? The poor didn't benefit from those corporations, they didn't see those profits. No, they went upwards, which is exactly the direction the carbon taxes should be heading now. Payback.

Why are the poor paying?

Why aren't the rich paying?

Just saying....

More Paralysis in Parliament.

Ok, it's quite clear as has been shown over the past 3 years that a majority on MPs in Parliament don't want Brexit.

So now they have voted to take no-deal off the table and commanded the Prime Minister to ask the EU for an extension and to accept any length of extension the EU decrees.

This is not Democracy. The people voted to leave and parliament are voting against their wishes.

Normally, the way to resolve a deadlock between the Majority of MPs and the Government of the day is a vote of no confidence. If the Government loses then normally an election is triggered.

But not in this case.

The wreckers in Parliament voting against Brexit know they will lose their seats in an election. Thanks to the fixed term parliament act, enacted by David Cameron and Nick Clegg, the government have to ask Parliament to agree to an election. Of course the self-serving MPs won't trigger a process that will end up with them losing their jobs.

So there is stalemate.

Does the Prime minister go cap in hand to the EU as directed? Or does he sit on his hands? Does he face MPs with defiance and say "I won't do it and if you want me gone, vote me out = I dare you!"

Or will some situation, some crisis arise that will postpone Parliament and enable Brexit by default? Will Boris Johnson's plane or car fail to start? Will he catch a cold and pull a sickie?

Time will tell.