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Re:We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:40AM (#34970488)
> "highly placed members of society and the media", and not so much "infiltrate" as "buy"

Zero evidence for this in the U.K. 81,000 voters chose the last PM in an election 0.3% were eligible to vote in [1]. They’re more middle class and rural than the average Briton and from outside the London cosmopolitan bloc.

[1] https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-60037657.amp

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Re:We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request... by pjc50 on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:18AM (#34970996)
That's agreeing with me: the Tory party membership is very roughly the old "high society", a weird little elite. And they chose the most extremely incompetent candidate. The extremism is coming from inside the house.
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Re:We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request... by JumpCrisscross on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:21AM (#34971064)
> the Tory party membership is very roughly the old "high society", a weird little elite

That’s not who pulls the strings. It’s middle class English and Scots, not the aristocracy or wealthy. This isn’t high-placed society buying power; it’s dues-paying Tories casting a vote.

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Re:We will not ‘walk out’ of UK, nor comply with any request... by andy_ppp on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @11:31AM (#34971231)
Extremists can also be from "high society", as you say they chose an absolute crazy person who just came back to say that she was right despite the idea that giving more money to the rich will cause growth has been totally disproved by economists for generations.

The difference between rent seeking capitalists and dynamic job creating innovative capitalists does not seem to exist in the minds of these people. They believe both are great which is why we have laws like free stamp duty if you have enough cash to buy 6 houses at once like the current UK chancellor.

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