Sticks and Stones

Well, now it all makes sense. The Blairite, New Labour years were all a cover, just to get elected and in power in order to carry out the real, socialist work that the Labour party was founded to do. At long last, Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling have begun to undo the damage wrought by the bourgeois Conservative Party under Thatcher.

I refer, of course, to the long-overdue nationalisation of Northern Rock, which must be the right course of action, if for no other reason than the fact that Osborne doesn’t like it and will be opposing the legislation in the Commons. The real incompetence, of course, as many wiser and more knowledgeable spectators than myself (Anatole Kaletsky, Richard Lambert, et al.) have commented, was that this step wasn’t taken earlier. One hates to appear in any way similar to Vincent Cable, and I have no way of proving this, but I’ve been saying this from the start.

Of course, I’ve been advocating the nationalisation of all wealth since long before this ‘crisis’ started, but that’s another matter completely. The issue at hand is that Labour have lived up to their former ethos, and, as the Conservatives have moaned, taken Britain “back to the 70s”. Now, I have a lot of problems with the 70s (John Lennon, alive? No thanks), and many reasons that I wouldn’t want to live through them - and it’s probably true that if Labour had had their way back then the country would now be in ruins. But, of course, that is their plan.

Brown, like the dyed-in-the-wool Commie I always knew him to be, along with the Radical Darling (that man is a nutter on acid) and bona fide Bolshevik Straw, is flying the red flag high over Britain. Northern Rock today, the collapse of the capitalist behemoth tomorrow. This was truly a glorious day (or, perhaps, yesterday, by the time of publishing) for Marxists throughout the land.

And as for the shareholders - good riddance, say I. They made a gamble, it didn’t pay off, and now they are understandably upset. Fortunately, that hasn’t stopped Comrades Brown and Darling from setting the dynamite under the decaying and dilapidated structure of the capitalist system and unhesitatingly setting it off.

We can look forward to a future free from class boundary and the evil influences of capital and its bourgeois fetishists.

P.S. I’m joking.

P.P.S. But only a little bit.