If yesterday’s election showed anything it is that most people do not want a Tory government. Just 20% of the public voted Tory – the same proportion of the population the Office for National Statistics estimates have a personal wealth of over £600,000. The rich are in charge despite what the rest of us want. As usual.
No matter what might have happened yesterday the rich would still be in charge. The UK’s electoral system has been designed over hundreds of years to ensure precisely that. In Scotland the whole country can vote on mass to reject both of the main political parties and it doesn’t make a blind bit of fucking difference. A million people can vote Green and nearly four million UKIP and nothing will change. Although the UKIP thing is pretty funny. Bye Nigel.
Already some in the Labour Party want to lurch even further to the…
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