Common Sense Club
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You have to ask why Trump and Farage and Le Pen etc are popular. They wouldn’t exist as political forces if the authorities didn’t cock everything up. I would question where the alternatives on the left exist in similar levels of support. Corbyn, Galloway are figureheads of the far left but don’t seem to be popular, perhaps because it is the left who appear to be in control; hence the popularity of the right as the counter.So the youth are indoctrinated! And you aren’t, I suppose!
We all get influenced by those we trust but I see less in the young than others. The young take pride in their independence! Getting them out to vote has always been a problem but keeping Farage’s hands off the levers of power is the strongest motivation for them I can recall.
You don’t speak for “the people”. You speak for an echo chamber and you only fool yourself, and them, with your silly assertions.
The kind of “retribution” attitude you espouse, reminiscent of Trump, is another strong motive to make sure the ideas of people like you never see power. We know there are problems. We know why there are problems. Those problems aren’t caused by social liberalism. They have been caused by events. Social liberalism is the cure, not the disease. Blaming scapegoats is what the weak minded, without any real ideas or answers, do.
The government, with its announcement of compulsory training for young people not in education or employment, the “NEETS”, may well have turned the tide in its fortunes. It’s brave, expensive and full of difficulties but is also very necessary.
I no more “crave” foreigners than I do cigarettes! I see the need for us to accept some current immigration. If we can get the skills we need locally then no problem. Nor do I hate benefits. Some are necessary. What I believe is that most people can, and should, do something, whether or not they receive support. It’s the feckless who I detest. Those who play the system because they are lazy.
You may not like it but it is going to be Farage’s turn to rectify the situation.

