“[T]he Labour Party is a thoroughly bourgeois party, because, although made up of workers, it is led by reactionaries, and the worst kind of reactionaries at that, who act quite in the spirit of the bourgeoisie. It is an organisation of the bourgeoisie, which exists to systematically dupe the workers…”
Full text of speech here.
Vladimir Lenin said these words in 1920 whilst serving as Chairman of the Council of People’s Commissars (Prime Minister) of Communist Russia (the Soviet Union didn’t officially exist until 1922). He was arguing that the British Communist Party should affiliate to the British Labour Party in order to turn it into a proper Marxist political force instead of a “bourgeois” organisation run by “the worst kind of reactionaries.” And how exactly has the British Labour Party changed in the past hundred years?
In January 2020 I published a piece called The Decay of the Labour Party in which I argued that Labour had abandoned left-wing economics in favour of neoliberalism and identity politics – the latter is the way people who have done well out of the former assuage their guilt. I have some sympathy for Labour MP Zarah Sultana who ranted about “forty years of Thatcherism” in her maiden speech in the House of Commons; I would only disagree in that it was the Callaghan Labour government that introduced neoliberalism into the UK in 1976 not the Thatcher Conservative government in 1979.
The current lockdown due to Covid19 has given us the pitiful spectacle of upper-class Guardianistas and their equally privileged chums at Jimmy Savile House criticising the behaviour of the poorest people in society. It’s fine to slag off those who live in cramped accommodation for daring to visit their local park when you have a flash London flat with a balcony and a big house in the countryside; it’s easy to sneer when you are able to ‘work’ online, writing your racist ‘journalism.’ It is quite clear that large sections of the media and political class are now “enemies of the people” – to use the deliciously Leninist phrase, originally coined by the French Jacobins during the Reign of Terror.
The rest of this article is going to be straight from the playbook of Crybaby #1 (a reference to Brother #1 Pol Pot, leader of the maddest Communist regime in history, and that’s up against some pretty stiff competition!) and piss-poor Rik Mayall impersonator Owen Jones. Jones’ only tactic is the ad hominin attack, playing the man and not the ball. Whilst this is something I have criticised in the past, I am trying to demonstrate that those people who claim to ‘care’ so deeply about the poor and disadvantaged and who are so quick to demonise others for their ‘privilege’ are actually some of the most privileged people in our society…
* Tony Blair – Fettes College (current fees £28200-£34,800), Oxford, lawyer, multimillionaire property owner, friend of dictators and possible war criminal;
* Alastair Campbell – Blair’s Rasputin, Bradford Grammar School (current fees £10,281-£13,140), Cambridge, implicated in the ‘dodgy dossier’ in the lead-up to the Iraq War and the death of Dr David Kelly;
* Ed Miliband – Oxford, Harvard, ‘special advisor’ to Harriet Harman and the Treasury before being parachuted into a safe seat in Doncaster.
* Jeremy Corbyn – private school, never had a real job, thirty years of undistinguished service on the backbenches, anti-Jewish racist;
* Seumas Milne – Corbyn’s Rasputin, son of a BBC Director-General and Guardian (where else?) columnist, Winchester College (current fees £41,709), Oxford, anti-Jewish racist and apologist for definite heterosexual Vladimir Putin;
* Keir Starmer – multimillionaire barrister and owner of a very proletarian knighthood, Reigate Grammar School (current fees £19,350), Oxford;
* Angela Rayner – the Vicky Pollard of British politics;
* Anneliese Dodds – Robert Gordon College (current fees £13,920), Oxford, academic;
* David ‘I had a friend at Grenfell, honest’ Lammy – fat racist who despises white people, Oxford, Harvard, lawyer, racist (did I already say that? It’s his most defining characteristic);
* Emily Thornberry – fat snob who is the most arrogant person in British politics, allegedly said to ex-MP Caroline Flint that she was “glad my constituents aren’t as thick as yours,” lawyer married to a knighted High Court judge, multimillion pound property portfolio, used her privilege to get her children into selective schools they were not entitled to attend;
* Rebecca Long-Bailey – loony.
So these are the hoary-handed sons and daughters of toil who are going to lead the people of Britain to the sunlit uplands of a people’s utopia? Or are they merely typical members of the Establishment who have colonised a political party set up to represent the poorest and least privileged in society?
I am well-aware that I have broken one of my cardinal rules and launched personal attacks on these people. I am also well-aware that Lenin was a hereditary nobleman who set up a brutal tyranny in Russia, complete with secret police and prison camps. But I am sick to death of rich, mega-privileged people sneering at and criticising ordinary working people. I am disgusted by the vast fortunes accumulated by individuals like Victoria Beckham (in excess of £300million) who have no discernible talent and who demand that the taxpayer fund their businesses. Ditto that grinning ape Branson with all his billions still going cap-in-hand to the Treasury despite not having paid a penny in tax in the UK for fourteen years. This lockdown is making me increasingly nihilistic (another excellent Russian word) and I sometimes imagine a guillotine in Trafalgar Square to deal with the aforementioned “enemies of the people.”
The pseudo-left love tendentious comparisons to Nazi Germany so here’s one of my own – these media figures should be reminded that at the Nuremberg Trials it was decided that organisations could be considered criminal as well as individuals; simple membership of organisations like the SS automatically made you a criminal. Perhaps the appalling behaviour of certain media companies during the Covid19 crisis should lead to them being declared criminal organisations? Decide for yourself exactly how seriously I mean this comment to be taken.
My inner Lenin, my inner Robespierre, even my inner Mao are all straining at the leash at the moment.
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