Jubilee

[Gandalf]

Miles you are the worst kind of snob. You question the ability of anyone who does not share your views to be able to string a sentence together and use words like "Chav" to dismiss them. For someone who has supposedly come from a working class background you seem very eager to distance yourself from it. Working class people up and down the country are partying in the streets and hanging out miles of bunting and yet you and a minority of Republican fascists would deny them them this to make a stupid point. You are an elitist. Politicians do not represent the populace and are far more out of touch than the Royals. The occupy movement are another elitist institution with a poor grasp of how to effectively demonstrate and absolutely no backbone. If they had any they would have occupied the cities banks and financial district, instead of an easy target like a public church. They are so lame, the hundreds of CND women who chained themselves to military bases and Greenpeace activists who ram whaling ships ,the miners who fought running battles with police over their right to protest and strike, and the anti Nazi league who took it to the racists would shudder at the pathetic occupy lot.

People who support the Royal family are snobs. They support a system of inherited privilege and luxury. They support a head of state that is unelected. Those are the views of elitists and are clearly not ideals that I adhere to. I support the complete opposite.

I am of working class origins and my politics has never ran from those origins. I believe in equality of opportunity and a Royal family goes against that. The Royal family should be private like every other family and be divorced from state involvement. For them to be held as different or special is something that runs against my principles of equality for all.

Politicians do not represent the populace right now. Mainstream politics is divorced from reality. People do not buy into the system. They know Thatcher sold them out, they know Labour let in the immigrants, they know Cameron refuses to reform the banking sector. Not since the war has there been a party putting forward true change in the interests of the populace. I see an angry country (from afar) and I see a lot of disenfranchised people angry at the system and apathy regarding the Jubilee. I would love to know how many on here celebrated. I bet few really give a damn.

Occupy is struggling because they cannot even exercise their right to protest without police victimization. Britain is not a democratic country. People really cannot even protest peacefully without the police intimidating and arresting wantonly. The backbone is there, but the system is rigged against them. They went to the Bank of England and look what the police did. Mind you, I agree that the occupy movement needs to get stronger and I advocate greater militarism. But if you do, the system eats you up. You become a terrorist. The media spins it against you to represent their wealthy backers.

People know it's a scam. We all do. I'm not an elitist when it comes to politics. I am a snob when it comes to things like music, but when it comes to labour rights and a fair system I am far from a snob.