Comments by "Billy Liar" (@billyliar1614) on "Our Leaders Must Listen or All is Lost! By David Starkey" video.

  1. He talks about Emily Thornberry's contempt for the proletariat, but that is just a parlour trick, him trying to appropriate the clothes of class consciousness all while mounting a defence of authority, as does Reform UK. Starkey's virulent, pathological contempt for the poor in this video is manifest and it is repellant, when he talks about them not being able to help 'their children and pets from peeing in lifts' . As is the case so often with the self-made, the man would appear to despise those incompetent 'ordinary people' from whom he has risen. The Right just have to feel superior don't they, at least to someone ?
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  2. Free market economics is what's buggering us up. If there is no restraint on the market, you end up with the destruction of the natural world, a housing crisis and a low birthrate. Perhaps that's what Starkey wants, for the poor anyway ? Thatcher represented a generation who were defined by nothing really other than predatory self-interest - it's not insignificant that she smashed more grammars than any other politician , being herself the archetypal grammar school girl. What you saw in the 80s was an entire generation who benefitted from the post-war consensus (as did Starkey) coming of age, surrendering to greed and pulling up the drawbridge of opportunity behind them. Who wouldn't ? But, like Saturn devouring his son, it was at the expense of the nation's future. We need a radical vision moving forward, one which combines elements of market regulation while retaining our traditions of social permissiveness, something from which we all benefit. Far from living in a Progressive society, we've had to endure 4 uninterrupted decades of a smelly counter revolution, and, as with Dracula, it's time to ensure the predatory old world is put back in the grave beyond any prospect of revival . The 20th Century can only really be understood as a power struggle between privilege and social progress with each side advancing and retreating, and the war isn't won yet. Reform is just more of the same reheated Thatcherite crap which is so appetising for people like Starkey, but we need something different, something...new .
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  3. We invented Modernity eh ? I'm sorry but the master/serf psychology of England is still feudal even today , irrespective of our wealth or technological advance - the wealth isn't really shared is it. We're a bit backward in that respect and the rest of the world laughs at us as we stroke our egos with all that Medieval crap while we have no industry, no great geopolitical importance and can't even get our Trident up, so to speak.
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