A senior female member of parliament in the UK (Angela Rayner) was horribly accused of “crossing and uncrossing her legs on the parliamentary benches to distract Boris Johnson” in what has been widely and rightly rubbished as pure misogyny and in addition, her working-class background was flung at her but bizarrely, if you read some of the online chatter, it is indeed the working-class, council estate dwellers in the country who are raining insult on her online. It really is unfathomably confusing!
Equally confusing is a similar phenomenon of billionaire/millionaire politicians being able to convince a crowd of low-income members of society that they – the billionaires – are one of them, that they understand them, get them and are there to fight for them. The billionaire will drop by from his mansion every now and again, use the language the blue-collar, low-income folks want to hear, tell them what they want to hear, tell them everyone else things they’re stupid and nobody else care about them. Whips them into a frenzy and they begin following him/her where ever…
I simply cannot understand it.
Could it be, that poor people simply find it less envious to follow a rich person? Same as an illiterate would pretend to dislike someone with a posh accent but deep down, just wants to be that person?
One would expect solidarity from the working class when a working-class person makes it as far as to become a Member of parliament, but bizarrely, ire is what Angela Rayner appears to be drawing from our low-income folk. Truly baffling…
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