But I can't get my head that far up your arse!!! That is why I don't think I'd hold down a job these days. That along with "Don't you ever get tired of being wrong!"
So it amused me today to see how people reacted to the "resignation" and the reshuffle in the Labour Party and also how Reform were being viewed. Now, I try and watch the Party Conferences and yesterday (and today) it is Reform and it's quite glitzy and glamorous and quite different to Tory and Labour ones of the past. Of course they were pleased with the resignation of the Deputy Leader/PM and the reshuffle made them (and me if I am honest) laugh and moan at the same time but reading today's comments on Facebook you'd have thought it was quite a different thing that happened.
Someone I know who I have to hide every few months suggested that it was a blow to Reform and took the attention away from them. Well I suppose that might be so but it wasn't unexpected. Another person suggested that Nigel Farage (leader of Reform) had been savaged by the US Committee he gave evidence to a few days back. Did they even watch it? I didn't particularly like it but he wasn't savaged. There was some parochial stuff going on and some misinformed opinions but savaged?
It is striking how people see the same thing and react and draw opinions quite differently as if their view of reality is quite different to mine say. I watched the whole thing apart from the break where Jeremy Kyle (I am not a fan) was chatting to delegates and commentators. What was apparent was that it was quite different to Tory and Labour Conferences. More razzmatazz - mini Trump style I'd suggest.
There are some serious problems coming our way and societal breakdown is one but also, it seems to me, these views of the world that are quite different to the lived experiences of the majority of the population. I cannot fathom how people do not understand the depth of the problems we have, why we have them and how to tackle them. There's a lot of "I'm alright Jack" going on but many people yesterday and I imagine today too when asked were concerned about the future, not for themselves but for their children and grandchildren.
There were some heavy subjects touched on and many I've mentioned before about business, finance, taxes, cost of living, lack of opportunities, the list goes on but the decline in all areas seems to hardly concern the metropolitan liberal elites (they say elites but they surely are not). Those who wholeheartedly support higher fuels costs to save the planet, higher taxes, you know the sort. They don't have a problem (YET) that the majority have and it will come as a complete surprise to them when the problems manifest themselves at their door. So they don't get the populist movement away from the failed two party situation at all. I cannot imagine what these people have been watching or where they get their news from over the past 20 years, probably the BBC and the Guardian most likely.
They cannot help themselves but to sneer at the changes that are coming as they do no to comprehend the situation either locally or globally. If they stopped chattering for a moment, scrolling on their phones, taking Instagram pictures of their lunch and gym & yoga classes they might, just might have time to take in the impact of idiotic policies and the consequences coming down the line at them.
Whilst people have different views and opinions, it is the ones who cannot see or hear who make the loudest noise and will perhaps get the shock of their lives when they perceive the outcomes of failed policies, losses of freedom, increased taxes to pay for vanity projects and the freeloaders using our money to live off the fat of the land. Our land.
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