You'd have most of the media, political, and security establishment labelling this protest as 'extremism' and cracking skulls within days. It'd be the 'politics of envy' from 'the far left', in contrast to brave, oppressed freedom fighters such Clarkson and Dyson...
I’ve been renting since 1997. Would have paid off a mortgage by now but deemed unable to afford a mortgage that would likely have been less than my rent 🤷♀️
I'm in poor health, 63 and renting a tint flast with no heating - working full time. Total pension pot + savings c.£150k. Good job I won't live long enough to need much more but hey - those poor bloody farmers
I’m beyond furious on the day the latest child poverty figures were published, not one feckin mention of them has appeared on BBC news, constant wanging on or vox pop shit about ‘poor farmers’, or Zoe B leaving R2, shameful behaviour from Beeb.
The tenant farmers who actually farm the land but don’t have anything to pass on would love to join you, but they are too busy actually producing the food.
Yeah, it's not counterintuitive at all! This is broadly true throughout history! Starving people can riot, sure, but broad protests or revolts require a slightly more stable group.
Yeah.
The sweet spot between people having absolutely nothing to lose and having enough education, money and free time to spot they are being griffted.
It’s tragic that if enough time passes the young won’t even realise what was possible. My blue collar parents in their 70s bought a house and have good pensions. They are aware that that just doesn’t happen now.
People also protest when they've got nothing left to lose. Even those currently on the bottom rungs still are clinging on and have a lot to lose...there is literally no safety net left.
Absolutely.
I posted similar below.
You want your population to be not badly treated enough to be revolutionary but not well off enough to be getting ideas.
Can we also do a protest of all the parents and grown up children who will always have to live at home because they'll never be able to afford to move out?
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This is possibly the biggest driver of increasing inequality. 😡
Don't scoff at it!
https://www.livingrent.org/rally_for_rent_controls
How could those rich people live if rents were lower.
So, who cares, eh?
People working three minimum wage jobs to afford to eat don't have time to protest.
Conversely there were mass youth protests in 60s American when living standards were highest.
The sweet spot between people having absolutely nothing to lose and having enough education, money and free time to spot they are being griffted.
I posted similar below.
You want your population to be not badly treated enough to be revolutionary but not well off enough to be getting ideas.
If not, then they don't matter...
And do you have tires to burn? (or is that only in France?)