Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation

Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by toyg on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:20AM (#29590232)

You have equivalents of Farage in any EU country these days, believe me. And yes, they are often funded by comrade Vlad at the moment, but they started their rise well before he became a factor.

> allowing the electorate to smell their bullshit.

I wish I was as optimistic as you. In Italy and France, far-right views are now solidly held by roughly a third of the electorate, year-in year-out. Party names and figureheads can change, but the message stays the same. In Germany it's a bit better, but then you have Austria and the Visegrad block, where they command relatively solid majorities.

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Re:Worker pay isn’t keeping up with inflation by Jenk on Friday December 17, 2021 @05:58AM (#29590555)

> I wish I was as optimistic as you.

I think if everything is laid bare - facts are proven to be facts, and lies are exposed as lies - yet the electorate _still_ vote it in, then that's fair. I'll emigrate.

But the biggest con about Brexit (as a particular example) is that _everything_ from the Leave campaign was bullshit and not one claim, pledge, or promise from the Leave "side" was ever checked, questioned, or since held to account and, in my opinion, it is _that_ which stinks the worst.

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