Absolutely.
The problem with history is its wrote according to the views of the writer. The Labour party today is more a reflection of Atlee than Blair. Atlee had the benefit of being around before the macarthyite witch hunts against anybody on the left. Blair took the Labour Party rightwards and the UK began to reflect the USA. Both main parties were pro-capital, this opened the door to the populists. Labour always had a long tradition of being the Patriotic party, it was the working class who did most of the dying in wars that protected the capitalist class. In many ways a typical Labour voter was a small C conservative, they valued family,community and tradition. Blairs embrace of capital helped destroy those roots that had been fermented under Thatcher, he was her true heir and so far removed from typical Labour it is astonishing. He failed many because he refused to repeal Thatcherite reform and even stuck to the Tory spending plans. He did some good of course and it would be churlish of me to say different. What he did though was alienate the left, he was and remains a metropolitan liberal. He more than anyone alienated the Labour heartlands and gave hope to the populists.
Corbyn reflects more traditional Labour, more Bennite than Blair and people have eradicated the memory of the Wilson successes and even carry on with the fallacy that it was Wilson who caused the three day week. Now we have the Daily Mailification of the country it is hard to get true Labour values across because the likes of George Hannah insist Labour is a Marxist party and of course buys all the old tropes aimed at it by the capitalist class. We hear about cultural Marxism, taken from the Nazis Cultural Bolshevism which is an old anti semitic trope aimed at the left by the right and its nonsense. Marx didn't write about culture for a start. Labour has also allowed itself to become identarian which is counter to traditional Labour values, of the course the party should always fight for the rights of minorities but it should not be defined by them.
Corbyn has popular policies, few now argue against renationalising the Railways, many want the energy companies brought back into public ownership, calls for rent controls are on the increase, many understand the tax system favours those with capital not those without. The problem is the message, when you have a media dominated by the capitalists you will not get a fair hearing, you get mockery and are told Corbyn is dangerous, he s only dangerous to them.
I have never understood why the working class vote against their own interests and elect Tories, it bewilders me as they do not have the working class interests at heart, they are the party of capital and always have been. We are at this time facing the biggest political upheaval of our generation and somehow people believe that Hunt or Johnson are the answer, two people so far removed from the working class it is unbelievable, but the British do forelock tugging better than anyone and I simply cannot see how a Tory is a better option to cure the ills of our nation than a proper Labour government. It is fair enough people believe Brexit is the way forward for our nation, I would probably support a Lexit option as I am not convinced by the pro capital EU, but on the biggest issue of the day people voted for more neo-liberalism not less and that is what you will get from the next Tory PM whoever it maybe.
I could go on for hours but will leave you with this simple thought. Johnson is a **** and so is ****, please don't buy it, think of the people of this nation and fuck them off for good.
