Why (or how come) its NOT about Blue Team v Red Team
My dad likes to reduce all politics to blue team v red team… as if it were an Everton v Liverpool football match and you pick your team and then are biased towards them. But that is not how the British public think and feel anymore. Yes, there are exceptions. A small amount of the British public do still think like that. But the majority do NOT think and feel like that. This is not the 1950s, 60s, 70s, or 80s. The British public are on their own side and do not need or want a team out there to identify with. Identifying with both a class and a political party is minority sport. Even ideology is over in that there’s not any substantial difference between left and right on crucial money issues. (e.g., as many of the Tories new voters in 2019 believed in a socialist society as a free market capitalist society, see reference 2).
Most of the public prefer to consider the people united and the political parties (Westminster) as the opposition. Thus its about People v Westminster. The people are NOT divided. They appear to be divided if you simply point to opinion polls that ask who would you vote for? But even there YouGov say that their figures do not reflect the huge amount of people who say none of them. Pollsters say that if you ask the public who would make the best leader, Johnson or Starmer, then abstain wins by a double digit figure. Let me put it like this… the public would prefer me to the blue team or red team. And I would prefer the public to the blue team or red team. Its not about them. Its about us. Change does not come from there. It comes from here.The blue team and red team are secretly united in their dividing of the public. i.e., they are the political class along with the news media. Nothing much changes with a change of government. Thus UK political culture has become closer to Catalonia v Madrid, Scotland v Westminster, Wales v Westminster. Its harder to see with England but when you ask people what they think of Westminster then they give you the same answer as the Scots and the Welsh… see Reference 2. People want the Westminster establishment to lose. They want them stripped of power, be it the government, be it the opposition, be it the news media. They want to be empowered as an individual. They want money spread, and yes, that means into their pockets, the nurses pockets, their region. Playing the Blue team v Red team game results in maintaining the power of those who we oppose. It means they can play the public off against each other. In other words, it means the clique can manipulate and exploit you. Because power corrupts all… those who get to the top inevitably exploit the power they attain by exploiting the public for their own ends. Yet still they ask for your support.
Blue team and Red team both attain delicious irresistible power when in government. The vast majority of the public prefer my way of thinking. The people must try and win power from Westminster. Thus DON’T play their game. Think of it like this… there’s no such thing as Blue Team/Red Team. There’s corrupt Westminsters game… its NOT ours. There’s just one team… the Westminster team… and then there’s the public. In a way I can see that the public may feel like David in a contest between David & Goliath. But Goliath can easily win this battle because only 1% of the public support the view that Westminster is not at all corrupt. (See Reference 1). Not since Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up Parliament has the public had an opportunity like this to extract power away from the elite. We must now take it, united as One Public against Britain’s most powerful criminal network that is Westminster.
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