Blow by blow of Labour government unravelling
JVL Introduction
This is a detailed analysis of so much that is wrong with what this Labour government is doing (and not doing) as well as a cry out for the left to act. These failings could almost be summarised as “capitalist answers to capitalist problems” but it is more pernicious than that. This article also highlights the rhetoric such as “those with the broadest shoulders should bear the heaviest burden” and then lists how the government has done the exact opposite.
There is a need for socialists to: “build a project which emphasises building power from below…drawing together the provincial, national and global spheres into a network of global socialist strength.” The failings of this government to offer solutions is being exploited by the Far(agist) right. We are in dangerous times as a glance to the USA will prove.
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This article was originally published by Ebb on Tue 28 Jan 2025. Read the original here.
“Move Fast and Fix Things”: Starmerism Unravelling
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Neoliberal subversion of Labour followed that exampled by the Clinton insurgency in the Democrat Party. The Clintons went Reaganite on tax, dismantled, Lyndon-Johnson’s Big Society Program support for the poor, consequently increased gun crime and the prison population. They were being sponsored by the Privatised Prison lobby. New Labour – going Thatcherite – did the same, increasing the prison population, knife crime and the UK prison privatisation. Starmer is continuing those attacks on the poor & sick. It means destroying social cohesion, taking wealth that should have been spent on basic subsistence for the poor and handing it over to the corporatised Private Prison industry, where as taxpayers we’ll also have to pay for industry profits, shareholder dividends and directors’ bonuses. This is about as corrupt as things get, and has been happening right across the public sector. Surely, we’d rather support the poor, and stop manufacturing a desperate feral under-class? See – “The Left’s Right Turn: Behind the media myth of neoliberal Blairite social ‘achievements’ ” https://arena.org.au/the-lefts-right-turn/
great article Neoliberalism which has been at the centre of UK and world politics since Thatcher has increased poverty and inequality by huge proportions. Money rules. Instead of money being a way of benefiting and helping the majority of working people it has become increasingly a way of extracting cash out of all of us from the simple matter of parking a car or parking at airport to drop somebody off. Utilities and public services also now excrete cash out of all of us instead of helping us all to live in a complex society. Neoliberal ideology is about making money king regardless of consequences of its effect on all of us. Asset stripping, hollowing out of public services NHS has become the way the big money operates.
Starmer has without the Charm or skill of Blair carried on the same neoliberal agenda , but because of his lack of any sort political skills has made error after error. He is proving to be the worst Labour PM ever .He is not democrat and certainly has nothing to do with any form of anything that could be called socialist. Why and how he managed to be elected Labour Leader and than PM by default due to the collapse of Tories and have a huge Majority with less votes than Corbyn in 2019 or 2017 will interest and exercise historian’s for yrs long after he has gone.
This is indeed an excellent article which says it all or at least most of it.
The spurious ‘Labour’ government is based upon dishonesty, nastiness, emptiness, servileness and a crass objective of getting votes by any means.
So of course it is failing.
The solution is quite simple. We need a new Left Party. In Kirklees its already happening!