(no subject)
I'm having one of those "everyone in mainstream politics is a Tory" arguments with someone- obviously this was a statement I made that has been denied. It's on twitter so I can't actually have the argument because there's not enough letters to explain that kind of statement but it's important that I get what I'm talking about. By mainstream politics I meant: parliamentary, local and European and people who are representatives or work directly for those representatives. I didn't mean civil servants. Why are they Tories? Because they all work within a conservative system of government, support capitalist financial policy, are inclined to privatise services. Even Ken Livingstone who is regarded as a red in comparison to a lot of people in mainstream politics used PFI and sponsorship to fund regeneration in London because he was working in a system that required more money. So what is controversial about the statement? Conservative politics (and I do mean the party) is really the basis of British politics, it's seen as the acceptable, respectable starting point. Our class system controlled from the top down for hundreds of years. The affluent who felt they couldn't vote Tory voted for New Labour who essentially were a lot more Tory and abandoned the workerist elements of the Labour Party to become so.
I think I have a solid thought process there?
I think I have a solid thought process there?