Ryre, C45's post is on point. I don't know if he is born in the UK, but his observations are very accurate indeed.
The UK is a very (socio-economic)class divided nation. The types of people at this protest will be 90% middle class, white-collar or idealistic students from middle class backgrounds. They will mostly be comfortable financially, or from families that are comfortable financially in the case of the students.
I agree completely that the financial crisis hit the middle class hard, but now most of them are doing OK. They're doing well enough to have time off from their jobs and spend a day out in London virtue-signalling. They'll be posting about their valiant efforts trying to bring down the evil government on social media and will garner many likes from their middle class friends. I guarantee there will be hardly any working class people at this protest, apart from the odd die-hard socialist.
I also guarantee that most(90%+) of the people at this protest will be fully supportive of the current economic migration flooding in to Europe. These types of people think they are politically and economically literate, but have ZERO idea why the migration is taking place(mandated and encouraged by EU leaders and bureaucrats) and the net effects it causes to a society(pushes wages down, pushes costs of essential services such as health care up due to increased workload). They will all think that the migrants are refugees escaping horrific conditions.
It is a faux counter-culture movement. These idiots will decline a referendum on leaving the EU, they'll post about the day on their iphones and shout about how unfair their corporate led government are. They are truly the useful idiots.
The so-called austerity policies are actually very mixed, as Foolsgold mentions. On the one hand, it is good that single parents popping out kids are having their welfare payments capped and other long term welfare claimants are forced out of torpor, but it is bad that essential and vital services are running on vapours. For example, there is even discussion to combine police and fire service to save money.
I think the austerity policies are a way to mop up the mess caused by the Eurozone and to prop up the soon to collapse Euro currency. If these idiots had any brains they'd be protesting to leave the EU.
The UK is a very (socio-economic)class divided nation. The types of people at this protest will be 90% middle class, white-collar or idealistic students from middle class backgrounds. They will mostly be comfortable financially, or from families that are comfortable financially in the case of the students.
I agree completely that the financial crisis hit the middle class hard, but now most of them are doing OK. They're doing well enough to have time off from their jobs and spend a day out in London virtue-signalling. They'll be posting about their valiant efforts trying to bring down the evil government on social media and will garner many likes from their middle class friends. I guarantee there will be hardly any working class people at this protest, apart from the odd die-hard socialist.
I also guarantee that most(90%+) of the people at this protest will be fully supportive of the current economic migration flooding in to Europe. These types of people think they are politically and economically literate, but have ZERO idea why the migration is taking place(mandated and encouraged by EU leaders and bureaucrats) and the net effects it causes to a society(pushes wages down, pushes costs of essential services such as health care up due to increased workload). They will all think that the migrants are refugees escaping horrific conditions.
It is a faux counter-culture movement. These idiots will decline a referendum on leaving the EU, they'll post about the day on their iphones and shout about how unfair their corporate led government are. They are truly the useful idiots.
The so-called austerity policies are actually very mixed, as Foolsgold mentions. On the one hand, it is good that single parents popping out kids are having their welfare payments capped and other long term welfare claimants are forced out of torpor, but it is bad that essential and vital services are running on vapours. For example, there is even discussion to combine police and fire service to save money.
I think the austerity policies are a way to mop up the mess caused by the Eurozone and to prop up the soon to collapse Euro currency. If these idiots had any brains they'd be protesting to leave the EU.