Comments by "iggle" (@iggle6448) on "Our Parasitic New Elite Despises the Working Class. Culture Wars & The Decline of the West." video.

@angelmessenger8240 All the blame for this is at the bliar's doorstep.
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@bradleyeric14 Indeed, the aristos and titled simply cloaked themselves in bourgeois appearance in order to preserve their positions, wealth and power. Recently, I heard a member of the royal family chatting to some ordinary folks. It was illuminating to hear this person using glottal stops, dropping aitches, employing common vernacular and even a smidge of estuary English.
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Certainly agree. Though I'd say that these power/money hungry agencies have been hard at work for decades now. They are often quite useless... Parasites on people's confusion and misery. None of this huge helping industry would have been called into existence if governments had treated people fairly from the off. Governments will never allow people to become strong, resilient, independent, in charge of their own lives and money.
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@rogerwoodhouse7945 Yes, I can see that's one layer of joining the dots though it looks to me that there are other layers. Like very limited voting choices - now it's very clear that we have a uniparty which means no choice at all. They've been converging for decades and leaving behind their original bases. Not being contentious, I just don't remember the last 4 decades anyone in Westminster seriously saying that we deserve more. My recollections are more like 'the country needs austerity', 'we need to reduce welfare spending', 'we need to get people back to work'.... Another layer is that wages have been declining in real terms since the early 70s. We never had food banks until Osborne's austerity and now they've exploded so many working people live in poverty, 1 child in 3 lives in a poor family. This are all direct results of gov fiscal strategy. Such poverty isn't just about money - it brings a shedload of other problems with it. What are people to do if their wages are low and taxes are rising? We know that now the tax burden is the highest it's been in 60-70 years! So it's fuelled a need for all sorts of 'helping agencies' that are a huge draw on the public purse with little to benefit to people. A couple of years back I was doing a piece of research that brought me into contact with some of these agencies. One manager told me, in a head-in-his-hands sort of way 'I don't know why the government just doesn't give money direct to low income people instead of contracting organisations like ours to try and help....mostly all the problems start from too little income. People need money to sort out their problems, we're the middleman that top slices most of the available funding...and there's not much that we can really do under our contract for a lot of people that need help.'
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@albert7311 👍
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@steinarvilnes3954 You tell me!!
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