You know he is going to swan off to the USA as soon as he looses the election. There will be a reason he will not investigate the tax fraud that the audit office said was happening. The people of Uxbridge should be ashamed of what they voted back. He is piggy backing on their ignorance to make money for his family.
Peasants could match the medieval Kings of Europe in a lot of ways. The force Kings could apply without using peasants was limited to knights that were dispersed across the country and a small number of professional guards/soldiers. The weapons these forces used were more powerful than the peasants but could be overcome through sheer numbers. If the peasants withheld their labour, the Kings would starve and the kingdom would fall apart.
Most states now have a large professional police force and military that is extremely well equipped with weapons and intelligence that modern peasantry cannot come close to matching. These forces are mobile enough to deploy rapidly throughout the jurisdiction. And the labour of the peasants has largely been offshored or supplanted with temporary foreign work.
Kings were right to fear peasants in the past because the peasants represented a credible threat. This is no longer the case in the modern world. We are entirely at the mercy of those in power to play by our imaginary rules for democracy. If those in power choose to ignore those rules, the rest of us peasants have very little effective recourse.
The pandemic showed we just have to stop going to work in great enough numbers. I know it’s a pipe dream, we’re too divided, there’s too many that would betray their class, etc etc., but theoretically we do have recourse. Even mass unionization would help.
Crime?!?
These are perfectly legal deals. Knowledge is power and everyone's going to die anyway. The man is simply providing for his poor family while he has some power. It's not his fault if these IT surveillance people happen to peek at his documents (heavy /s)
It's scary how much knowledge these folks have access to...
Crooks, crooks… Whether it’s in the UK, France, Canada, US and etc. these crooks are everywhere. Surely these fine people must attend some kind of monthly get together and devise a strategy on how to feed shit and bollocks to the common folks.
I would argue it's rich people and not politicians in general. We have some kind of poor politicians (<1 million) and the never do bullshit like that while we also have rich politicians which all the time do stuff like that.
There are politicians that really try to serve the people and there are politicians that are only in the game for money and power and we need to sort that out!
Look, I'm older than the majority of the crowd around here; I've lived in several countries and unfortunately that's the way it is with politicians. Sure, I don't doubt there are a few here and there who are "idealists", but if they stay long enough in politics, they'll join the group who wants power and money. And it happens with the left and the right. Some politicians are happy with a steady income of a few thousand of dollars and some with billions of dollars deals.