(You do the Hokey Cokey and shake it all about)

So members of his Majesty’ Loyal Opposition (the Labour Party) are claiming an astounding victory in the latest UK General Election – yes! However, this only reveals that their grip on reality is blinded by their euphoria at now getting their feet to dangle in the trough of high salaries and privileges, paid for by courtesy of the tax payer legally shackled to the hierarchical mass society system in the UK. The reality is that the citizens of the UK have distanced themselves from both the right wing leg of the British State (the Conservatives) and the left wing leg of the British State system (the Labour Party). In fact in the latest General Election, the citizens of the UK have distanced themselves the greatest from the Tories and even some of the Labour voters voted tactically in order to keep the number of Tory MP’s down to the minimum. Despite the unprecedented crisis for working people in the UK neither political wing of the British Establishment actually gained votes.

The knock on results of this result is almost the reverse of the last election in which large numbers of the traditional Labour voters switched to the Tories to show their disgust at the New Labour Parties track record since Tony Blair and his right -wing support group shunted the Labour Party away from its electoral roots among the British working class. The Blairite Coup ended the post war facade of the Labour Party being against the established British Ruling elite and being for the working men and women of the UK and the working class desertion to the Tories was the result of that betrayal. That pre-Blairite facade had been created by the Labour Party being in a coalition parliament during the 1939 to 1945 War with Germany led by Winston Churchill and the Conservative Party. The war against Germany was in order to save substantial parts of the British Empire from a second attempt by the German ruling elites to take them over.

The first attempt by the German hierarchical mass society to obtain land and resources controlled by the British Empire had resulted in the First World War. The second attempt by Germany resulted in the Second World War. A further boost to the facade by the Labour Party came with the post war reconstruction of the UK and Europe in which reforms to the hierarchical system in the UK introduced free health services, free further education, social housing provision, social security and pension provisions paid for by National Insurance Contributions. Since these reforms mostly benefited the working classes, and since a post-war Labour Government was the government to fully implement them, the myth or facade of the Labour Party being the party of the working class was established. That facade was eroded under other post-war Labour governments by incomes policies and attacks upon the British trade union movements, until the last tattered remnants of the facade were stripped away by Tony Blair and his cronies.

Since that time the Labour Party and its leadership have reinforced the Blarite tendency of emphasising a one-nation Labourite ideology to counter balance the Conservative one-nation Tory ideology. The one-nation ideology is an ideology that is fully committed to maintaining and preserving the three class system of hierarchical mass society living based upon the neo-liberal phase of capitalist development. That is to say it is based upon; a ruling class; a middle class; and a working class, all working and administrating the socio-economic system to maximise the profits (and interest) of those who own and/or control large amounts of money in the form of investment capital. In effect, the Labour Party and the Tory Party are the two political legs which hold the socio-economic body of the UK upright and able to manoeuvre within the global system to the benefit of its ruling, political, economic, financial and bureaucratic elites. This is why Tony Blair and other Senior Labour Party members have been able to enrich themselves out of office and why Boris Johnson and other senior Conservative Party members have been able to do the same or in most cases much better.

The Labour Party under the leadership of Keir Starmer and his shadow cabinet members went so far in order to reassure their British Establishment masters of their loyalty to the hierarchical mass society system in the UK, that they could not condemn the horrific genocide taking place in Gaza. Nor did they risk their future stipends by a call for a halt to the UK supply of material, information, advice and encouragement to the genocide perpetrators in the government of Israel. Thousands upon thousands of innocent men, women and children were allowed to be slaughtered during the months these individuals sat tight lipped on the opposition benches in the highest seat of governance in the UK. Silent, except when they were caucusing to plan and prepare for their ascent into higher places of UK office and privilege than the ones they held at the time. That silence and inaction during the most vicious concentrated attack upon defenceless civilian men, women and children, since the Second World War tells you practically everything you need to know, about them. It tells you just who they are prepared to sacrifice in order to not spoil their chances of obtaining high Office. This silence also explains why so many people in the UK could not in all conscience turn out to vote for them even to get rid of the much hated Tories.

Nevertheless, the election of the Sir Keir Starmer led Labour Party, despite having less than hoped for electoral support, means they do have enough Members of Parliament to push through many reforms to the hierarchical mass society of Britain. However, given that Starmer and his associates have marginalised the few remaining left of centre Labour Party members and MP’s it is unlikely that anything of substantial benefit to the working classes of the UK will be enacted by them. The likelihood of anything of substantial to benefit infrastructure or to prevent further pollution of air, sea, water or offset climate change, ecological destruction and essential species loss, is unlikely. This is because they will first and foremost be dedicated to maintaining the entitlement rights and privileges of those making up the three classes of UK society. Since the hierarchical mass society system is controlled by the elites and the elites are dedicated to protecting their own entitlement rights and privileges before all else, then the future of the UK in their hands is fairly predictable. Any few remaining hope’s and illusions in Sir Keir and his knights around the Number Ten labourite top table, are almost sure to be dashed.

Roy Ratcliffe (July 2024)