It’s a curious thing, this modern British obsession with “the elites”. Back in the day, it meant hedge‑fund billionaires, landowners, offshore tax‑dodgers, the old Etonian set. You know - the people who actually hold the power. But thanks to Nigel and his merry band of snake‑oil peddlers, “elite” has been rebranded to mean something far more sinister: anyone with a functioning brain.
You’ve spotted the pattern, I’m sure. Climate scientists? Woke elites with an agenda. Economists showing Brexit torched our trade? Elites sneering at “real” people. Judges defending the actual law? Enemies of the people. Teachers who dare to educate rather than indoctrinate? Radical lefty elites. Even the poor sods at the Met Office are in on the plot, apparently.
It’s an impressive trick. Convince people that expertise itself is suspect, and suddenly your populist snake‑oil goes down a treat. You don’t have to explain why exports collapsed after Brexit, why the NHS is collapsing, or why food inflation makes people nostalgic for powdered egg. No - you just blame “the elites” and carry on flogging mugs that say TAKE BACK CONTROL.
Meanwhile, the real elites - the hedge‑fund managers, the think‑tank backers, the billionaires who turned Britain into a laundrette for offshore wealth - sit back, pour another glass of Château Lafite, and watch the rabble fight amongst themselves. It’s misdirection on a national scale, and it’s working.
And now, with Reform’s pitchfork politics driving the agenda, we’re treated to warnings from Colonel Richard Kemp and Professor David Betz about Britain “teetering on the brink of civil war.” They might be overstating it, but the direction of travel isn’t hard to spot. Divide people into tribes. Convince them the “enemy within” is their neighbour. Keep them angry enough to ignore the fact that their own pockets have been picked clean. And when it all boils over, stand back and say “told you so.”
This isn’t anti‑elitism. It’s anti‑intellectualism. It’s the deliberate hollowing out of trust in anyone who deals in facts, so the Farages of this world can sell fantasy unchallenged. If civil unrest comes, it won’t be because of asylum seekers or “woke agendas.” It’ll be because we let professional grifters convince half the country that thinking for yourself and reading research papers, rather than getting your story from Facebook, makes you the enemy.
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He learned it from the orange Grifter-in-Chief. It's another US import we really don't need along with chlorinated chicken, cars the size of tanks (too late on that one) and blaming absolutely everything on immigrants.
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