This is why there is such LOW voter turnout in this country. People here, the people who are not wealthy, the majority, feel it is just hopeless. There is such a thick air of utter hopelessness here. So many people here do not feel even remotely empowered. They feel completely voiceless. The inequality is intentional. The game is fixed. If you are not IN, you are OUT. Know your birthplace. I dont see this ever changing here. If anything, it is getting worse. Its really sad. And it permeates everything. How you are treated if you try to send back incorrectly prepared food in a restaurant... How you are treated if you attempt to advocate for yourself in any little way... They size you up, fast. You are either of the respected class and you therefore live in the land of YES, or you are not, and you live in the land of NO. It creates a hostile society. It makes people living in the land of NO extremely defensive, insular, fearful, paranoid, frustrated, depressed, and angry. I know, every country has a class system... but it is especially, intentionally, entrenched here. And, sadly I agree that there really is no point in fighting it here, because the winners have already won. Game Over. Only 7% in Britain are privately educated, and yet this section of society makes up 71% of senior judges, 62% of the senior armed forces and 55% of permanent secretaries. It is quite something when the cabinet of millionaires is one of the less unrepresentative pillars of power, with 36% hailing from private schools. The statistics should provoke Britains media into a prolonged period of self-reflection. They probably wont since 54% of the top 100 media professionals went to private schools, and just 16% attended a comprehensive school – in a country where 88% attend non-selective state schools. Forty-three percent of newspaper columnists had parents rich enough to send them to fee-paying schools.
Posted on: Sat, 30 Aug 2014 08:39:47 +0000