There are many ways to enforce power indirectly using privilege. Jacob Rees Mogg knows every trick in the book and dresses it up as respectability rather than a subtle form or intimidation and deliberate exclusion.
It's not the stuff 'of the people'.
Meanwhile the newly crowned PM, is making rather a bug deal of how he is the man 'of the people', here to serve them and to deliver their will.
There's a big theme here about presenting as 'of the people' whilst simultaneously serving the interests of the elite and reestablishing its power over the people.
It's a theme that is set to run for some time, and is entrenched in Trumpism too.
This shift in power is particularly harmful to women it must be noted.
'Strong and stable' was 'weak and wobbly' and we should be mindful that in the era of reversed spin, what 'of the people' signifies.
We've long known about the authoritarianism at the heart of leaving thinking. It's only now that it's finally going to start stomping it's feet all over our freedoms and power.
The road back will be a long and hard one because we failed to spot the threat and the dangers of it.
Please or to access all these features
Please
or
to access all these features
Brexit
Westminstenders: The Imperial March
933 replies
RedToothBrush · 28/07/2019 14:33
OP posts:
Don’t want to miss threads like this?
Weekly
Sign up to our weekly round up and get all the best threads sent straight to your inbox!
Log in to update your newsletter preferences.
You've subscribed!
Please create an account
To comment on this thread you need to create a Mumsnet account.