The British Prime Minister cares about the excesses of capitalism. We know, because she told us so. Just not enough to do something about it.
Her most recent foray into the world of faux caring is an article she wrote in today’s Observer. Boardroom excesses can no longer be tolerated, she tells us. So what is she going to do about them? Nothing.
Well thanks for squat, Mrs May.
Perhaps the rhetoric reminds you of the day she stood on the steps of Downing Street just after she came to office. She told us she would ‘make Britain a country that works not for a privileged few, but for every one of us’. And then did nothing about it. She reached out to the ‘only just managing’ with a sympathetic hand, only for them to realise it was an empty gesture: the hand patted them on the head condescendingly and gave them nothing..
The working class is not taken in with saccharine words. They have heard it all before. If the recent changes in the political environment tell us anything, it is that workers are more cynical about traditional politicians than ever before.
And trite words get an appropriate response from workers who are tired of being treated like fools.