05-07-2020, 06:40 AM
** 07-May-2020 World View: American blacks vs UK whites
That's a very interesting comparison. Further research might reveal
that there's something similar going on in every society. Thank you
for the information.
(05-04-2020, 02:51 PM)Isoko Wrote: > John, We had the same policy here in the UK although it was aimed
> at the white working class. When industries started to vanish and
> the coal mines were closed down in the 1980s, the British
> government had a huge problem. Lots of unemployed white people
> with IQ skills not suited to service based employment.
> So the government helpfully 'encouraged' these people to sign up
> for the sick. As a result, you had these huge welfare estates
> created where no one has had a job in 3 generations. Single young
> women deliberately got themselves pregnant so they would get a
> free council house. For each child, lots of benefit money came
> rolling in.
> Tony Blair was particularly skilled at keeping these people voting
> for the Labour Party due to the fact under his government, you
> could live a nice life with a family of seven on the state. Just
> keep voting Labour otherwise the Tories would take it all
> away. Which as it so happens then did and this has started to lead
> these areas becoming even more dens of crime and poverty then they
> were under Labour.
> I'd say U.S blacks and the once native white British working class
> are very similar. Both worked in many working class
> occupations. When those jobs went, they became dependent upon the
> state, especially for votes.
> Not sure about the U.S however but a lot of these people in the UK
> have been voting Tory due to their strong support of
> Brexit. Unlike blacks in America, the whites in the UK are more
> patriotic, likely to serve in the army and likely to have issues
> with immigration so now they vote Conservative which at one point
> was unthinkable.
That's a very interesting comparison. Further research might reveal
that there's something similar going on in every society. Thank you
for the information.
