Enjoy the puppet show

Labour’s first King’s Speech will showcase their empty philosophy of nothing.

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Labour’s first King’s Speech looms like an empty crisp packet in a vandalised bus stop. Stand by for the rainmakers agenda as explained by Maury Levy in The Wire.

As George Carlin explained in his brutalist style of comedy: contemporary politics is a false shop front, something to hoodwink you into believing you have a choice but…

They own the news factories in which the careers of politicians are fashioned, broken and discarded: all on the whim of the 1%. The modern politician understands that they belong to the higher ups and have even less choice than us.

Public office is no longer a responsibility, as they have no ability to respond. It is just rainmaking. If things go well (rare) they take the credit; if not, they walk point and find reasons for you to vote for them again. You can vote out a crew of rainmakers, but you are obliged to accept rainmaking forever.

Buggins turn is how Labour got elected at the last election: the Murdochs et al were reassured that Labour would be mildly less (nakedly) corrupt and shambolic than the Tories but would show proper appreciation and ‘change’ nothing. Those dwindling number of sheep who still believe in British democracy were thus herded towards the red gate.

On the basis of a an empty manifesto, Labour will now deliver their first King’s Speech. David Lammy has already scuttled over to Israel to reassure their partners in genocide that nothing will change there. Blairite era ghoul Alan Milburn has been reappointed to preside once more over the creeping privatisation of the NHS. Rachel Reeves has made it clear that class war austerity measures are to remain forever. Starmer has dutifully pledged that the money faucet will never be turned off for NATO / Ukraine. You can almost hear the chink of champagne glasses.

Bedecked in high energy wallpaper there will be much chatter about growth: not to reduce food banks or in work poverty, but to boost the stock-market and the asset balances of the usual suspects. Such growth is in fundamental opposition to dealing with climate change or biodiversity loss so instead we will get empty blather about wind turbines and ‘green growth’.

How long will it take for Labour voters to realise that they have been had by the same old shell game? About ten years I suspect. In the meantime Starmer and the Thatcherettes know that contemporary public office is not to be taken seriously as a duty, but enjoyed and exploited for personal gain. Starmer will get his long coveted ticket to the big club and a think tank foundation a la Tony Blair soon enough.

Does the billionaire class have a plan for dealing with the multiple threats that business as usual represents to all life on earth? Of course not. They can’t see beyond their own cynicism and greed. Thus we all stand next to the economic, social and military nuclear reactors we have co-constructed: waiting obediently for Chernobyl while all the plant personnel are out to lunch.

Politics is dead, as Labour will shortly prove for the umpteenth time. All that remains is entertainment and spectacle. If you think that the Trump / Biden spectacle couldn’t happen in the UK, then think again. We are but a few short steps behind them and Big Nigel may soon be beaming down at you from posters all over the land.

Nothing short of a revolution will change anything now and I doubt that the tiktok generation have a sufficient connection with the real world to start one. Hope I’m wrong, because their futures are being sold out on the cheap and they deserve so much more.

In the meantime, enjoy the puppet show of Dumb and Dumber. The great spectacle of nothing is about to start a new season.