Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Farage fills an empty room because no one else is capable" video.

  1. Nigel Farage is a symptom, not the cause. He's a representative of a class of people that want to install a compliant government who are opportunistically exploiting the valid concerns of UK voters. He proves most of all that anger, fear, and resentment can neuter commonsense if ignored and allowed to fester and grow over decades, as it has been. Richard J. Murphy argues much as Professor does that Top-down technocrats are divorced from the realities of the citizens at the bottom. And unless they can meet together in the middle - by the top down relinquishing their isolation, detachment, arrogance, and listening to and learning from, and acting on the valid issues of people the bottom - then they are making room for the Farages of the world and their powerful donors to take this country over and hollow it out even more. The "growth" desired by the well-meaning is being needed out by the long disease of nothing working effectively or efficiently for people at the bottom. Not only are they impoverished and sometimes hungry and homeless, they are verging on the desperate in many cases as they struggle to get the real help they need. The people in control of this country are clueless to the extent they know a lot of information, but don't know or have the wisdom understand when they are failing everyone else but themselves. And their complacency then shifts into incompetence. That why Farage is steamrolling the two main parties. He is filling the credibility gap left by the unimaginative, the incurious, and the complacent. "Growth" is not what ordinary people are talking about at their kitchen tables. "Growth" doesn't pay their bills, or stops them from spending hours in A+E, or having someone to care for a relative while they have to work, or deal with impenetrable bureaucracy. By insisting on "growth" as being the issue you are not actively listening to the people at the bottom, or addressing their immediate concerns, and they know it. They are not being heard or treated with respect. They are being talked down to. They are being stereotyped, scapegoated, and being policed, but not being dealt with as people. And if you think Nigel Farage is bad, you haven't seen the people behind him, and who will come after. If you don't fill in that credibility gap, they will come and hollow out this country even further than it is already.
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