Comments by "80s Music" (@eightiesmusic1984) on "Why Rishi Sunak won’t fix cost of living crisis" video.

The Tory creed is that the poor deserve to be poor because it is their own fault. This is fundamentally wrong and immoral, of course, but this is the dystopia we live in. The largest fall in living standards since the 1950s makes little difference to the big picture, which is that working people will continue to vote against their own self interest by aiding and abetting the return of the Conservatives at the next election. Labour has been in power for around 30 years of the last 120 yet the penny has still not dropped- Conservativism is bad for individual and the nation's health. Political literacy is so low in this country and levels of masochism so high that the punishment meted out by the Conservatives in the 21st century iteration of feudalism is embraced by millions who show no inclination to challenge their own thinking and the egregious policies of a government that clearly does not serve the best interests of the majority in society. The Conservatives won big in 1931 ( National Government) and 1935 despite the poverty of the interwar years they created. Ditto in 1983, 1987 and 1992 despite destroying the economy and social fabric ( if I had a pound for every time someone praised Thatcher for taming the unions for at least twenty years after she took office, I would be a millionaire) and in 2015 and 2019 despite needless, cruel and economically illiterate austerity which not only caused thousands of deaths ( fact) but inhibited recovery. Countries with strong unions co-existing with the state have less inequality and more stable economies. Not Britain. Nothing is going to change- that ship sailed with the Corbyn interregnum.
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@caroltodd6691 He is a disgrace but it is the system that is the problem. It goes much deeper than an individual or group of people. Mark Fisher wrote about capitalist realism, the notion that there is no alternative to the wild west capitalism we have laboured under since the days of Thatcher and Reagan. Theirs was a counter revolution to destroy the post war consensus, with the connivance of the Democrats in America, Labour in Britain and the socialists in France who all abandoned their belief in the role of the state to regulate the market, thus losing millions of votes, undermining faith in politicians further ( a third of UK voters expressed distrust in politicians in 1945, now it is over 60%) and creating space for the normalisation of the unfettered market forces that have turned people's lives upside down due to increasing inequality, the cycle of boom and bust, high unemployment, the working poor barely surviving and job insecurity. Labour under Starmer does not see any reason for fundamental change. Even if it is elected there is no prospect of meaningful change. I am old enough to have seen hopes dashed time and again.
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