By derekscott1953

HS2 is a testament to the massive transfer of money from the poor to the Professional classes – lawyers, land-owners, consultancies, NGOs, layer upon layer of takers, who, given the massive cost rises, late delivery and dubious benefits, are clearly ‘unprofessional’. £102 or 103 billion, up from £35 billion, all to shave minutes off the journey into London.

History does not repeat itself but it often rhymes, said Mark Twain, and this rhymes with the banker crisis. Banker even rhymes with another word that has come to define those working in that lower ring of Dante’s inferno. That financial catastrophe cast a long depressing shadow over everything, again caused by the Professional classes, who actually gained, while everyone else took the hit. You see it in the Post Office scandal, Mandelson farrago, the hideous archetype that is Prince Andrew, the absurdity of the culture wars, where it has taken years to decide that men and women should have separate toilets.

This is emblematic of what’s gone wrong in the country. The graduate, managerial class, who now dominate politics, education, the media, journalism, the arts and most institutions, have taken everything and impoverished the rest. Although by no means unique to London, that is its centre of gravity.

Let’s spend a billion plus on flying our graduate kids around Europe in Erasmus, said Starmer. Does he have any idea how weird that sound to those whose kids do not go to University? Erasmus was for some a scam, as we got very little back for an enormous investment. It was mostly spent on academics, not students, and private school kids, not ordinary people (who would have gained most from the experience).

We had the Turing scheme which had wider geographical reach and was far more socially equitable. ‘Inclusion’ for the middle classes largely means including them and keeping others out. Reeves then says she’ll give you a free bus ride to a local theme park, if you are poor. They are literally out of their tiny minds.

As Labour swing towards rejoining the EU, they are simply seen as liars. Burnham, with no policy statements, says one day he wants to rejoin, the next he denies it. So pissed off are the voters nationally that he may lose in his own city. To be fair, he sounds vaguely human, the only criteria for selection of a leader of the Labour Party.

Starmer, Reeves, Streeting and Philipson literally sound like bad robots. The Greens candidate has had to withdraw for being a nutter conspiracy theorist.

Rejoining was NOT in their manifesto but everyone knows what they’re up to. At least Streeting was honest in saying he was a liar! But what choice does any Leave voter have now? Only one – Reform.

A Referendum would plunge the country into a massively divisive period, impoverishing us further, all to join a trade bloc that is on its knees, heading further to the right than the UK. The costs would be phenomenal, in terms of donor contributions, with no rebate, especially if Ukraine joins. Freedom of movement would cause massive political problems as we experience a massive net movement into the UK, putting unbearable pressure on jobs, rents, housing and services (as happened last time). Sure the boats would stop, as you’d be able to simply walk in. Then there’s the stifling regulation, and stagnant growth, admitted by Draghi and Merz.

We have literally pushed working class people in England (and Wales?) into voting for Reform, who stormed through the local and Welsh elections this month, then branded them Far Right. So deluded are the middle-class, graduate-professional class, that they think abusing people they rarely know is the solution to our problems in a democracy.

This summer will be interesting.

The World Cup will be a distraction in June but could also act as a catalyst. You can feel the anger in people. They’ve had enough of being used, abused and ignored. Social unrest is in the air?