The UK’s political system, as in the US and many other westernised countries, is discredited and in tatters.
Britain’s tory-led coalition government of impotence acts merely as an administrator of cuts demanded by ratings agencies, global financiers and multinational corporations. This situation is no different to when Labour was ‘in power’ from 1997 to May 2010.
Labour, whose Stalinist policies while in power included a national ID card scheme and other draconian ‘anti-terrorism’ laws, lost much of what little credibility it had during Anthony Blair’s decade-long leadership term and Gordon Brown’s subsequent stewardship. According to data released by the Electoral Commission earlier this year, trade union funding now accounts for 91.3% of cash and non-cash donations to the party’s central office – up from 59.9% last year -at a time when individual subscribers are down.
No wonder then that Ed Milliband, today’s Leader of the UK Labour Party, has been under pressure from inside and outside his party almost since taking up his position in September 2010. Many want Milliband to cut his Labour’s ties to trade unions, whilst others in the political classes wish he and his party would form an effective opposition. But he can’t, not least as Murdoch-loving Labour is as mesmerised as any of the other major parties by those banking cartels, European Union centralists, global arms dealers, Big Pharma and general US hegemony that are shaping our world to their distorted vision.
Labour is redundant. The Tories are making policy up as they go long. The Lib-Dems will be extinguished at the next general election by their own disenfranchised supporters. The Green Party will never win a meaningful vote so long as it bleats the fraudulent “manmade climate change’ mantra used to justify carbon taxes so desired by centralist politicians and their corporate masters.
As Milliband himself said this morning on BBC Radio 4′s Today programme, “”The … next Labour government, if it’s elected in 2015 will inherit a deficit … Of course we’ll carry on spending money, but the choices will be much harder and there will be much less money around.”
The illusion of political choice has indeed evaporated. There is no future of hope, merely one of endless grind and gruel. But if what is left of democracy isn’t enough to effect real change, then surely, in the words of a song from the ’90s, “it s too much for us to lose”.
Political collapse comes hand-in-hand with economic failure, whether we are talking about the global depression that led to the rise of fascism in the 1930s or about thieving banksters continuing to rape supposedly sovereign nations today.
Now more than ever we need to change society from the bottom up. One place to start would be having a box on ballot papers offering the electorate a “none of the above” option.
#justsaying
