https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/02/britain-now-elite-dictatorship-majority-opinions-crushed/
"Britain is now an elite dictatorship where majority opinions are crushed
Start listening to the voters on cars, crime and wokery, or there’ll be an uprising even bigger than Brexit"
What Allister Heath seems to be saying is that Society is run by technocrats working on behalf of an elite, and politicians are just their mouthpieces or spokespersons. In other words, there is only one single governing Elite and our Representatives - never mind which party they say they belong to - all belong to the same Elite.
The upshot is that people have no real choice and there's no real change, no radical new ideas to meet increasingly severe challenges to our world, conformity rules, everything is inside the box.
Is this true? Most people only want things for themselves and for their immediate future. In a diverse Society like ours, this brings everyone into conflict with everyone else or you get what he notes would be a tyranny of the majority eg on immigration.
Is it true that society is split in two - an elite and the people? Surely there's some social mobility, membership of the elite is actually more like a game of musical chairs... it's true that most of the chairs stay occupied while the music plays; but when the Music Stops there's always some chairs free and many aspirants competing for them; and there are still other people who want to turn the whole effing lot over and sometimes they can trump the wannabees.
This process of change can be accelerated by the elites, excesses like Ulez or the war in Ukraine or the debanking scandal, that open breaches in the elites defenses.
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