EU and UK politics [OT]

[Mummelmann]

LegitHyperbole said:

Mummelmann said:

The French riots with the Yellow Vests were targeted the same way; the whole thing was blamed on the far right by some players. In reality, they were angry working-class people with a bone to pick, and their primary concerns revolved around hiking taxes on goods and fuel. Issues such as taxes and fuel pricing are usually met with anger from the opposition as well - citing environmental and social equality concerns first and foremost. The trouble in the case of the Yellow Vests was that the majority of them simply couldn't afford to care about the environment in such a way, and that very same tax that was supposed to lift them, became a heavy yoke instead. All of that was also down to a lack of nuanced discussion, in my layman's opinion.

Yep, and it's only a tactic to avoid the people from turning on the Governemnt themselves. It's a vile tactic, how hard is it to listen to what your people want and try and at least meet them half way with solutions without demonising them. I didn't follow the yellow vest protests, how did labeling them as far right work out? Did it make them stop rioting or make thing worse?

It made it worse, understandably so. There were fears that the movement would spread around the continent. Even the media here reported it as if it was right-wing extremists gone wild. Governments all over were petrified by the whole situation, precisely because it unified people across the political spectrum in their common anger towards the state. Misinformation is a huge problem, whether it's the mob themselves being sparked by it, or the mob being falsely labelled by the media.