The Tories are historically the worst. When in power they are easily corrupted due to their love of money, power and control. But the other parties are historically complicit too.
And sadly far too many people do not realise it... but we will get there.
Its 5th November (yeah I know, a time that goes down in history as an attempt to bomb Parliament). And now on 5 November 2021 British Politics is where it seems to be most at home… in the sewers again. The hypocritical print press are screaming sleaze, scandal. They are not wrong. I just wish they would turn the spotlight on themselves rather than pretend to be custodians of pure angelic light. I mean come on! And YouGov (who obviously have not yet published a poll conducted on 4/5 November) are saying that they are seeing what looks like a monumental (approximate) 10 point fall in Tory support. A huge overnight fall.
Lets first look at Tory corruption and then move on to say why we cannot just play the (in-itself) sleazy game of saying that the other side are whiter than white. Humans are humans and we all have the same potentials in us. I will get to that very soon. But first the low hanging fruit, i.e., the Tories.
Above: quoted from the Financial Times, 5 November 2021.
I want to be clear that I am not just thinking all of this now. i.e., this is not jumping on a bandwagon. And I can prove it. On 22 October 2021 I published a piece on what a New Party would look like. Note the emphasis on New Party… hence even then I wasn’t trying to suggest that its all just the Tories. Indeed the long-winded title of my mini paper was ‘I am not predicting a new party. I do not know if one will emerge or not. But if it does it would have to be very good. For me it would have to look like this…” I penned one paragraph on criminal money in party politics. This is what I penned…
“[The new party] wouldn’t accept large donations from corporations wanting a tax cut. Because the New Party would not only say that large corporations that donate to it are wasting their time. The New Party would go further in advocating for a system that makes such donations illegal. (many such donations are from international criminals). Any party that won over X% of the vote in a General Election would receive all donations from the tax payer. And each party would receive the same amount of money. This wouldn’t be a policy designed to bleed the parties dry. I am not against money. I am against the unfairness that money can and sometimes does result in. So its not accurate to say I am advocating getting money out of politics. I am advocating getting dirty and unfair money out of politics.
I add here that its about cash for influence and access that is so corrupt. e.g., an MP who makes thousands of pounds working for X and then lobbying for X to receive a tax cut. It goes on all the time. So in the last few days its not just been about Owen Patterson. Its always going on. Its the norm. That makes it more corrupt, more sleazy, not less so.
I look forward to the next YouGov poll not because I want the other parties to do well at the Tories expense. Rather because I want the Tories to do badly as punishment.
Now onto the bigger picture which is Westminster per se. (not just the Tory part of it, although the Tory part of it is the first part that I want to see suffer. Its just it won’t stop there).
If you were born to Etonians you would probably be a Tory. If you were born poor and deprived of opportunity you would probably be anti Tory. If you were born 10 minutes away from Newcastle you would probably be a Sunderland fan. If you were born in Victorian England you would probably believe that gays deserve to be punished. That last one is a hard pill to swallow. But if its true its true. I mean for others the other examples are a hard pill to swallow. But they are all true. We are not born in a vacuum. We are all time and place specific creatures. Now lets get to the most relevant example. The most relevant example is the one about being a power and control Tory. If the socialist was born into the Etonian Tory culture then he or she too would be feeling tainted today. Its true, the reasonable Tory MP (who does not go in for this sleazy situations him or herself) is nevertheless an enabler by adding a seat to the Tory Governments parliamentary numbers. But my point is that these potentials are in each and everyone of us. Power just brings it to the front of our individual mind. We get bought and in doing so we get corrupted. The Tories have been bought everyday for the last 30 years. Not only is it not new. Its an everyday occurrence. Nevertheless I understand the comparison with late 1992 because the hypocritical press turned against the Tories then for being sleazy and they have done so again.
We have been a so-called democracy for over a century and yet still these problems. Can we really say that Labour and the Lib Dems are entirely innocent? No we cannot. Even now it seems like Starmer is rejecting an anti sleaze candidate standing against the Tories in North Shropshire. That illustrates the fierce power and control instinct of Conservatism. I am happy to call it the [power and control] conservatism of the centre left parties. That is to put it nicely. Its sleazy, sly etc as it is the method to ensure that the very sleazy Tory governments they are supposed to oppose are given open goals to win. Thus Starmer is complicit. He’s an enabler even more so than the individual Tory backbench MP. Because the Tory backbench MP is only responsible for 1 seat. Starmer gives the Tories closer to 150 seats. If he seriously wanted to clean politics up then he wouldn’t allow for that to happen. He can ensure that it doesn’t. But he doesn’t want to ensure that it doesn’t happen.
Its not about being a Tory, or Labour. The shadow is in all humans. Those labels are just labels. The political label is manufactured. The human potential is not manufactured. Its real.
I do not deny for 1 second that many peoples desire for UBI will be motivated out of a selfish gain. But at least its needed. At least it improves mental health. At least it improves physical health. At least its not corrupt and dirty money. At least its progressive. At least its necessary given the technological revolution. At least people as a whole want it. UBI isn’t corrupt. Lobbying on behalf of a huge corporation for a tax cut that you gain thousands of pounds from, is corruption. And as said it goes on all the time. You don’t have to campaign for that reality like UBI campaigners have to do. If its corruption you want then Britain has, does and always will deliver for you.
In conclusion we live in a nation whereby while people are against elite corruption nothing is ever done about it. The Tories dish it out and Labour and the Lib Dems are historically complicit and enabling. Indeed, Starmer is doing that right now. What we need is the death of the major political parties (as has happened in Germany) and a much bigger focus on those who are outside of the political system that oppose elite power and control… those campaigners are authentic and sincere. Whereas those at Westminster are trapped within the corrupt party political game playing system… as it is good for their career prospects. (and most, not all of them are addicted to climbing the corruption ladder. Its like a drug to them). In Germany they have smashed the major parties but do not strike me as knowing what has replaced the old ways. In the UK I want the new thing to be a rejection of consuming the Westminster village farce. Focus on where the real leadership is. Its in the climate change campaigners, in the BLM campaigners, in the UBI campaigners, in campaigners for pensioners and universal credit claimants etc. Really it always has been. We just get deflected. What I mean by ‘it always has been’ is that it wasn’t Tories or Labour leaders that won women the vote, the working class the vote, gays and lesbians the right to marry. It was the suffragettes, the working class campaigns, and gays and lesbians coming out. Likewise it was climate change campaigners that have (over about a 30 year long slog) finally got politicians to take it seriously, and UBI (in the UK at least) is more about campaigners than politicians. There’s a pattern. Westminster ignores real need for years before finally sucking up to it. They follow. That’s NOT leadership!
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