Left Behind Britain, how to help them?

[treelover]

It seems all the protests are going to focus on those angry about not having access to the EU anymore, the appalling rise in racial abuse, the fear of house prices collapsing, etc

But what about 'left behind Britain', is that it?, they have had their say, now the 'thickos and racists' should take their medicine. Very little was being done for them by the liberal middle class(who will dominate the above protests) will this change? What can be done to make them feel included, a fight for the North, for Hartlepool or Rothertham?, will there be more support say for anti-Atos, sanctions protests(usually badly attended) I fear some of the protests will be seen by them as rubbing their faces in it.

 

[seventh bullet]

It'll just reveal the divide more. The last few days are not an 'eye-opener' if you've been on the receiving end of this bigoted classist shit. You know what it'll be about and who it excludes.

The chavs and other assorted uneducated trash will be too busy doing their shit low-paid loser jobs (if they have one) along with their immigrant w/c co-workers.

 

[CNT36]

I think part of it is pretending people have been "left behind". What a vacuous phrase.Oh noes, these people have been left behind it is nobodies fault just one of those things. No power involved just everyone else has magically progressed. They've been deliberately attacked physically, verbally and economically, the industries many worked in destroyed and relentlessly mocked even by many of those who consider themselves to be on the same side. Left behind. Fuck off.

 

[butchersapron]

I think part of it is pretending people have been "left behind". What a vacuous phrase.Oh noes, these people have been left behind it is nobodies fault just one of those things. No power involved just everyone else has magically progressed. They've been deliberately attacked physically, verbally and economically, the industries many worked in destroyed and relentlessly mocked even by many of those who consider themselves to be on the same side. Left behind. Fuck off.

With a concomitant assumption that where those who have forged ahead have ended up is a nice place. It isn't. It's horrible.

 

[SaskiaJayne]

A Corbyn led government might help them by starting a massive programme of social house building, rent controls. Better employment laws & so on.

 

[Idris2002]

It's the sort of thing Laurie Penny would say.

 

[seventh bullet]

In a way it is someone's fault as it comes from thinking that individualises the resulting consequences of deliberate political/economic changes to this society that have been and still are outside of working class people's direct control. You failed. Shut up and be quiet. Go away and suck it up.