Blog 11 - Chickenshit politics - targeting the weakest but not the strongest
- A System Analyst
- Aug 29, 2025
- 2 min read
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Did you read the piece ‘Nationalism and Classism’, linked from Blog 9? And here again -
It argues to tackle nationalist politics, which relies upon an ‘insider’ identity, by urging people not to look at ‘outsiders’ but at the insiders and how they behave towards each other. Particularly how the wealthy behave towards their fellow-country(w)men.
So, with the current wave of anti-outsider activity in the UK, isn’t it time to use this view to show up how it’s not only nasty but ridiculous? Time to say to people ‘C’mon, this is chickenshit politics. Asylum seekers and migrants aren’t the people who run the country and any problems they cause are trivial compared to what the insiders who do run it do. That’s the business class, and the main reason Labour can’t do enough for you is their resistance’.
Ask people who mention the migrant/asylum issue ‘What do you think of how the conservatives in the House of Lords are trying to wreck the much-needed and long-awaited Employment Rights Bill?’
The crucial thing is simply to name the business class. They get away with running the country invisibly because we don’t do that.
They are the ruling class. They are organised, in businesses and conservative parties.
Asylum seekers and migrants are the weakest people in the country. Unlike the business class and their conservative parties, they aren’t even an organised ‘they’. They haven’t even established the right to be here. It’s chickenshit to target the weakest when you don’t have a go at the strongest.
Identifying by nationality and colour – in most countries – is lining up with and backing those who care least about you, have most of the power, and cause most of your problems – conservatives like Farage. And against people like yourself who are different but in insignificant ways.
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