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    Re: Gary Stevenson: Will Reform win the next UK election? 📂 Archived Message

    Posted by Ian M on September 23, 2025, 11:22 pm, in reply to "Re: Gary Stevenson: Will Reform win the next UK election?"

    Hadn't heard of barrow boy before, seems pretty pejorative from the wiki description:

    'London's banks and investment brokerages were, since their foundation, privileged enclaves of wealth and high social standing. After modernisation in the 1980s they ceased to be preserves of class privilege, and Cockneys of proven ability were employed as traders; such staff might be sneered at as "barrow boys" by traditionalist bankers or brokers.' - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barrow_boy

    Could still be apt, I suppose. In another vid he went on at length about how trading was one of the only ways a working class person could break through on merit and earn the respect due to them. Footballers were his other example. Still a problem if you're making money off the back of other peoples' misery IMO, but I won't do him down for it from my position of relative privilege.

    He does talk about immigration at a number of points in the vid, mainly to plead with the 'left' to not shout 'racist' whenever someone brings up the subject, but also putting it on Reform supporters to 'prove me right' that it's about immigration & not racism by challenging the racists in their ranks. Otherwise he makes the analysis that tackling immigration won't solve the problem of collapsing living standards, no matter how much the tabloid press insist it will. Inequality is the drum he keeps banging.

    If you open up the auto transcript and do a ctrl-f for 'immigration' you'll find the relevant bits.

    cheers,
    I

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