The establishment has declared class war
Whichever party you side with, you're siding with your enemy
Neither major party is hiding its desire to screw the working class. Both are siding with corporations and offering austerity - and austerity is just another word for “class warfare”.
Our choice at the next election is whether the red team or the blue team fights the war against us. Remember, if you don’t vote for the red team, you’ll be enabling the blue team and vice-versa.
Democracy is just a piss take at this point. The parties are falling over each other to see who can come up with the most idiotic, irresponsible ideas while treating anyone who disagrees with them like children crying for a new toy.
The Tories are boasting they’re going to ban councils from introducing 20mph speed limits that have reduced road deaths by 25%.
As a father who lives in a council estate where idiots race around on motorbikes, and whose son was clipped (unhurt) by a car driving through a red light, I’d quite like those speed limits, thank you very much. I’d also like speed bumps for those who ignore them, but the Tories call such policies “anti-motorist”. I would call the Tories “anti-keeping children alive”.
Depressingly, both Labour and the Tories want to scrap Ulez and turn our cities into smog-filled dystopias so we can choke on nitrogen dioxide as the planet boils and the Mediterranean turns into a desert. It’s like they’re looking at everything they can possibly do to make life worse while outright refusing to do anything to make life better.
Real wages in the UK are set to be lower in 2026 than they were in 2008 before we had a Liz Truss-sized inflation problem - and we’re expected to believe inflation is caused by our wages being too high. Note how the opposition is refusing to challenge this narrative, even though it’s clearly bollocks.
Corporate profiteering (increasing prices more than is made necessary by rising costs) is the biggest cause of inflation, and instead of challenging these bastards, Labour is boasting that it’s wooing corporations and millionaires.
Now I’m no historian, but I’m pretty sure Labour was founded to represent the other side of the class divide. I have a hunch that’s why it’s called the Labour Party and not the Bloodsucking Corporatist Party. Perhaps a renaming is in order because these people are very far from being on our side.
Let’s not let the government off the hook though. No matter how awful the opposition tells us they are, the government screams they’re somehow worse.
“We’re definitely shitter than the other party!”
“No, they’re not, don’t listen, we’re utter bastards!”
“We’re utter bastards too, plus, we hate you!”
As record numbers of people use food banks because supermarkets decided starvation was good for business, the government has come up with the brilliant plan of sending shoplifters to jail. You know what the most shoplifted item in Tower Hamlets is? Calpol. Yes, medicine for kids. Another commonly stolen item is milk formula. This is why stores are putting electronic tags on it.
I don’t know about you, but I think it’s perfectly fine to steal food if you’re hungry, and as someone who foolishly did not steal when I went a week without food, I must tell you that if someone is “stealing” milk formula, I did not see a damn thing. Shit, I’d probably distract the security guard while they made a run for it and give them a fiver if I bumped into them later.
I guess this is called giving a shit. Sadly, we only have about four people like this in parliament and the media tells you they’re do-gooder snowflakes who love dictators, suicide bombers, and homemade jam. In case you didn’t know, you’re supposed to cheer for one of the teams who laugh about child hunger while pretending they’re on your side.
Rishi Sunak loves to make promotional videos where he does his best human impression and insists his decision to impoverish public sector workers is “fair”. His chirpy but robotic tone is straight out of a dystopian movie where an AI politely informs you it’s sadly necessary to harvest your organs because a rich person needs them.
Not that Starmer is more human-like than the organ-harvesting robot. He laughs on camera with Dark Lord Anthony Blair about his plans to starve third-born children. It’s literally the only thing Starmer has ever laughed about. I think someone programmed laughter into him for this specific situation.
Now I don’t know about you, but I find it chilling these two are the only realistic options in 2024. They live in a different world where all the sacrifices we make don’t apply to them, and all that matters is they get to live in luxury while we struggle.
Starmer used to put a £2,000-a-week chauffeur on expenses while he was head of the CPS and Sunak uses helicopters like taxis to get to and from work, at a cost of £16,000 to the tax payer.
Sunak recently breached the ministerial code by scheduling an RAF Dassault Falcon to fly him to Scotland when commercial flights were available (and those things poor people use called trains). I read that on another trip, a train would’ve taken just 15 minutes longer to get him to Wales, and if true, this really says it all.
Sunak’s family firm Infosys (the dodgy one that refused to shut down operations in Russia) signed a $1.5 billion deal with BP in May and it counts Shell among its top clients. In a sheer coincidence, the prime minister has decided to grant over 100 licences to drill for oil and gas in the UK. Obviously, there is no suggestion Sunak would profit from ripping up his net-zero commitments. None whatsoever.
Incidentally, the government unlawfully granted BP a permit to drill for oil off the coast of Aberdeen in 2018 - and Akshata is set to receive a £6.7 million dividend from Infosys this year. This is interesting because other rich people connected to Russia were sanctioned by the west, but not Akshata. The rules don’t apply to her.
While the government ignores public opinion to take the piss with its climate commitments, Labour has a perfect opportunity to put distance between themselves and the Not Zero Party. Labour has therefore decided to do the exact opposite.
A Labour strategist has been telling Emily Maitlis that Labour’s Green New Deal sounded “too much like old Labour”. This is just another example of the change of language when Labour discusses the climate crisis. Labour’s clearly keen to wash its hands of its commitments and seems embarrassed to have made a good policy.
It’s like they’re saying: “We’re sorry, this was an accident, we won’t let a good policy happen again!”
Labour does not do good policies anymore. In fact, it doesn’t even do policies. It is an anti-policy party.
According to reports, Sir Keir Starmer is furious with London mayor, Sadiq Khan, because he provided free school meals, built more council houses than the rest of England combined, and improved London’s air quality by 26%.
Just stop and think about that for a moment.
A Labour leader is mad that a Labour mayor found affordable solutions and made a positive difference to people’s lives. Sadiq Khan is far from being a radical leftie; he’s too close to the centre for my liking and there is plenty I could criticise, but when even a soft-left mayor is too left for Labour, we have a problem.
It’s a similar story with Jamie Driscoll who built affordable homes, invested in offshore renewables, implemented the best anti-child-poverty measures in the country, and increased enrolment in adult education by 50% at no extra cost. Driscoll had to go because he was doing all the things Labour was pretending weren’t possible.
Driscoll was yet another example of a Labour mayor delivering for the people and making Labour HQ deeply unhappy. What can we learn from all of this? That Labour has no intention of delivering for ordinary people.
Starmer is David Cameron circa 2010, insisting “there’s no money left”, however, he’s not interested in solutions that have proven to be cost effective. This tells you Labour has no intention of making our lives better, even when it can afford to. On the plus side, the Tories are trying hard to kill us all.
The message is simple: public spending is to be kept to a minimum forever. We have endless excuses: it’s the fault of the last Labour/Tory government, the fault of Putin, it’s Brexit, it’s the EU, it’s the pressures of the climate crisis they’re refusing to tackle. We have to “live within our means”, but do you know who won’t be living within their means? The billionaires who donate to both parties.
It's Neo-feudalism. You're spot on, Ricky.
Yep, the elites keep everyone bickering and fighting culture war bs when we should be fighting class war. Divide and conquer, as old as “civilisation”.