Set Up To Protect

A pity about the "English" bit in Rod Liddle's superb piece. Workers in all four parts of the United Kingdom have risen as the one that they are. But, as Liddle concludes:

Right now, the government is sticking up for a foreign-owned oil company against the grievances of the British workers: no change there, then. And it is waving the BNP in the face of those who would dare to repeat the refrain ‘British jobs for British workers’, despite the fact that it was the Prime Minister himself who first uttered the statement. With one or two honourable exceptions, the Labour party has pitted itself against the very people it was set up to protect. It seems to sense not the remotest smidgeon of irony in this.

But then, as I say, it’s par for the course. Indeed, has there ever been a government which has shown such contempt for the British working class? Good God, even Thatcher allowed them their traditional pastimes of smoking and drinking — and she sent them off to rather fewer futile and illegal wars, too. If you were from the English white working class, would you ever even consider voting Labour again? I suspect you’d vote for almost anyone but. And you’d be right.

You know what you have to do.