When Angela Raynor, deputy Prime Minister, called Conservative voters Scum she was using a Socialist tactic. So too was David Lammy, now Foreign Secretary, when he described Conservative MP members of the ERG (a group that supports Brexit and Democracy) Nazis. When challenged he said the label was "not strong enough". Socialism has always been nurtured by spite and envy. In place of reason it demonise opponents. Calling people worried about insupportable levels of immigration "Right Wing Thugs" and "Racists" is simply their proven method of crushing dissent.
In England the struggle for universal rights has a long history. Rights denied after the Norman conquest were key to the Peasants revolt. Quite simply, those made serfs by the Normans wanted to be free, free to work, own land and contribute. The development of English democratic Liberalism led to reform and the universal franchise. Robert Owen's Platoism and Feargus O'Connor's belief in private ownership are two strands in its development. In England, the movement was about cooperation, mutuality and progress through self and cooperative help.
In Europe a different political idea took hold. Socialism/Communism has its roots in the Jacobin revolts of the late 18th century. It was developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels. According to them, the world belonged to the 'working class'. Those they defined as people without property compelled to sell their Labour. The middle class, bourgeoisie, were the exploiters and enemies. The lower middle class, shopkeepers, artisans and peasants were class enemies holding back revolution. The destitute poor and unemployed they lumped together with thieves and prostitutes as 'Scum'.
Marx was middle class, the son of a prosperous lawyer and vineyard owner. He did not attack the aristocracy, perhaps because he married one. His friend, Friedrich Engels was a wealthy industrialist. Engels, Marx's aristocrat in-laws and the wealthy Philips family into which his sister had married, all contributed to keep the Marx family from starving. Karl's mother was so exasperated by her son's serial scrounging that she opined "Instead of writing about capital, Karl should make some".
Communism and other far left Socialist parties took root in Europe. It was different in Britain. In the 1920s Philip Snowden angrily accused the Working Class of ingratitude for not voting Labour. The Labour party had the same program as Marx. The difference was that Marx believed in Revolution and they believed in achieving Marxism through subverting democracy. The slow progress and lack of class consciousness they attributed to the power of the capitalist press.
Ramsay MacDonald said of the working class that it was "the fault of the minds of the people ". He lamented, "You cannot make a silk purse out of a sow's ear". Later he observed, "the minds of masses of men are so circumscribed that it seems sheer folly and perversity to allow this mass to pass important political judgments". Labour elite's contempt for working people has not changed. Socialists are religious in their belief that Socialism will triumph and their ideology will finally rule the world. If comedian Frank Skinner had realised this, he might not have been so dismayed to find himself at odds with a party he voted for, "because of some vague sense of working-class duty".
The Labour Party has the same ultimate ambition as that set out by Marx and Engel. A dictatorship of the proletariat. The fact that Socialism has always failed, that freedom, ownership and ambition are natural human desires does not deter its acolytes from pursuing their goal.
In 1945, Clement Attlee tried, and failed, to introduce the Socialist Commonwealth envisioned by the Webb's in their 1920s book. It was communism in everything bar the abolition of democracy. Attempts to reintroduce it by successive Labour governments failed too. Tony Blair adopted a different approach. He pretended not to be a socialist but subverted the organs of law, education and democracy so that Socialism could triumph in a different way. Unlimited immigration was part of the plan.
Successive Conservative governments have failed to roll back the changes Socialism has made to our country. The one huge failure of democracy is that it allows pernicious ideologies to infiltrate and destroy it. If Attlee had succeeded, this country would today be unrecognisable and a one party state. There is a saying in India. If you want to know if a Tiger will attack you, look at his eyes not his teeth. We have been looking at Socialist teeth.
We have a far left government. Many lament that it was only voted for by 22% of the electorate. Actually, it's worse. At its core are Trade Union paymasters. Trade Unions have a falling membership. Currently, just over six million. Their leaders are elected on pitifully low turnouts. Despite that, it is they who are paying and the government is dancing to their tune. Allied to them is a civil service that shares the Labour elite's contempt for the people. Our education systems including Universities have been subverted. Children and young people are taught that biology is false, that they have no responsibility to create a future as it is their right to have government deliver all they need. They have been taught a warped version of history that denigrates our country.
No one denies that in any situation where feelings run high, an element will go too far. Murder, rape, looting and the burning of buses, cars and shops during the Brixton Riots is an example. The Police were criticised for not engaging and allowing the riots to spread in London and also to Birmingham and Liverpool. Politicians were unanimous in their condemnation. Unlike the Southport riots this year, no one condemned the rioters as 'Far Right, Racist Thugs."
For that we needed a Labour government, bitter that many of 'its people' had not supported them. Horrified that many had voted for Reform. When Starmer was DPP, Martin Smith National Secretary of the Socialist Workers Party assaulted a Policeman at a demonstration. He was sentenced to a 12-month community order, with 80 hours' unpaid work, and was fined £450. Starmer's record in relation to the grooming gangs is well known. Now Prime Minister he demands swift retribution for those he labels far right thugs. It is impossible to deny that there is a two-tier system, political, legal and police.
The far left, Socialist Workers Party organise for anything that attacks this country. Momentum Militant's successor, there are more on the far left, all untouchable. They happily march in support of Hamas thugs. Not a step to support the over six thousand Yazidi women sold as sex slaves. Not a sound of protest when 19 were burned to death. No support for Afghan women deprived of education. For Iranian women forced to behave as second class citizens. It is not just two tier policing and law that is encouraged by Socialist Labour.
Socialism does not believe in the nation state. Labour politicians draped in the union flag is political smoke and mirrors. The ultimate aim of Socialism is the destruction of nations and a world dictatorship of the Proletariat. Starmer is a convinced supporter of the EU because of its ambition to become a unitary state, it is a stepping stone toward world Socialism.
Many are surprised that the new Socialist government has started off in such a spiteful divisive way. Why? They are Socialists and that is what they do. Yvette Cooper's promises to stop people "pushing harmful and hateful beliefs" is a threat to free speech. Apparently, it will include the 'crime' of Islamaphobia. Religion is not scientific, it is not provable fact, it is a belief. To prosecute people for questioning a belief attacks the basis of our free society.
There is no doubt that Starmer and his far left government will do their best to bring about their dream of the dictatorship of the proletariat. We must hope, that like Attlee, when he is kicked out Starmer will go quietly into the night. We must also hope that whatever government is elected after this will recognise the danger of Socialism and take action to undo the damage.
One benefit of our far left government could be that the scales will fall from the eyes of the working class. Finally, that they will realise the contempt in which they are held. Realise that their legitimate concerns will never be addressed by the Labour party because the disintegration of their communities is what labour wants.
Prior to WW1 there was strong anti-British feeling in Germany. It was not reciprocated in Britain and the truth was a shock. Rudyard Kipling wrote a poem on the subject.
The Beginnings
It was not part of their blood,
It came to them very late
With long arrears to make good,
When the English began to hate.
They were not easily moved,
They were icy-willing to wait
Till every count should be proved,
Ere the English began to hate.
Their voices were even and low,
Their eyes were level and straight.
There was neither sign nor show,
When the English began to hate.
It was not preached to the crowd,
It was not taught by the State.
No man spoke it aloud,
When the English began to hate.
It was not suddenly bred,
It will not swiftly abate,
Through the chill years ahead,
When Time shall count from the date
That the English began to hate.
Possibly, Starmer's legacy will be the recognition that Socialism is a foreign virus, a disease that needs to be eradicated if we are to enjoy a free, prosperous future. That working class people will finally realise that they have been shamefully manipulated, that Labour is and always has been a hindrance and not a help. We are, all of us, better than to be political cannon fodder sacrificed on a failed Socialist alter.
