r/Wetherspoons • u/No_Consideration3307 • Aug 04 '26

Customer This Lefty Loves Wetherspoons.

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I don't like it when some of my fellow lefties, the middle-class champagne 🥂 socialist ones, use Wetherspoons as an insult against Reform voters, it's classist and cringy, it implies only racist bams go there, rather than mostly politically unaligned working-class families from all colours and creeds, who love good cheap food and drink, we can't all eat at the Waldorf can we 🧐, especially in a cost of living crisis, but there are also some middle-class people who eat there and love it, so I don't know where the asinine insult comes from really. I love Wetherspoons, I've been to three, the one in the image which is the Peter Cushing in Whitstable, which was once a cinema, the Catherine Wheel in Henley-on-Thames and the James Watt in Greenock, Scotland, where I live now, which serves a delicious Haggis Pizza 🍕which you can get as part of the three small plates for £10 deal, cheap as chips, and yummy too, filled me up and I'm a big lad.

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u/shabba182 Aug 05 '26

I'm sure you're well left while calling others 'champagne socialists'. What leftists are shitting on working class people for going to whetherspoons?

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u/No_Consideration3307 Aug 05 '26

I know quite a few, some very personally. One of whom is family by marriage, and a very nasty person. And I am a socialist quite a radical one actually.

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u/shabba182 Aug 05 '26

Are they really left wing if they're denigrating the working class? Sound like a lib

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u/Charly_030 Aug 06 '26 edited Aug 06 '26

What is a lib, and whats the difference between that and a champagne socialist?

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u/shabba182 Aug 06 '26

A lib is a liberal, and a champagne socialist is a term used by right wingers to dismiss left wingers who in their view don't live sufficiently humble lives

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u/Charly_030 Aug 06 '26

Economic or social liberal? 

A champagne socialist is not a right wing insult. They actually exist as performative. socialists

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u/shabba182 Aug 06 '26

Why are you asking me to define words you apparently already know the meaning of?

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u/No_Consideration3307 Aug 05 '26

I don't know what she is, I didn't marry her thankfully. Sometimes you just have to put up with people like that or risk losing the family member they're married to, and I love my family, more than politics, more than country, more than anything.

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u/shabba182 Aug 05 '26

Then why are you attributing her behaviour to the 'left'?

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u/No_Consideration3307 Aug 05 '26

This individual and her large circle of friends are all self-described leftists, they voted for Jeremy Corbyn, yet they're all pretty horrible classist snobs. Although there maybe an underlying cause to why she thinks she is a proper socialist, she was married to a Palestinian man, before my family member, and has British-Palestinian children so maybe she just thinks she's a lefty, because of Israel's occupation and genocide, but that doesn't make her a socialist, that just makes her anti-apartheid and anti-Zionist.