For me it's about how the rich simply accumulate without hard work - once you've got money it just begets money. So the real inequality is how the poor and middle classes just keep working their asses off and get nowhere especially with inflation with what it is. We're even feeling it with our earning capacity - a teacher's wage used to mean you'd be reasonably well off but now it feels we're struggling with the rest of them. So it's this inequality that's eroding the social fabric - rather than inequality in general. You just can't get anywhere. YOu can't afford to build assets and have wealth accumulate the way you used to be able to. People are getting locked out of things they could work to buy into - housing, education etc. And now it's looking at only those who can inherit the last gen's wealth will have any social mobility, which furthers the upset.

And now we seem to be simplistically blaming migrants when it's been an accumulation of factors over successive governments. Worse, it becomes about blaming Indians and anyone not English (we have almost the same amount of English migrants here as Indian) which furthers social division. Sure 'mass' migration is a problem but there's a lot more factors at work. But people need a simple and easy thing to blame. It's a shame that people whip up rhetoric about migrants rather than acknowledget that yes, mass migration is an absolute issue but so is taxes, negative gearing etc etc.

Everything feels a bit fucked up right now. For once I can see how people are beginning to align with Pauline Hanson, though I can't stand her politics.

On a side note, have you got Australian citizenship? Jamie's finally applying for his this year.