Comments by "80s Music" (@eightiesmusic1984) on "“We’ve got the wrong government” Mick Lynch slams Tories" video.

@saturday7 Not true but how about state funding of political parties? Create a level playing field. Oh hang on, the public don't want it. But they should.
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Where have the unions been for the last 13 years of austerity? Many of them have said and done very little about declining wages, which will never be clawed back. Right wing policies supported by a right wing electorate ( yes, even most of the Labour voters are neoliberals at heart) have destroyed the UK. Anyone who thinks it is going to change is deluded. It is too late. Neoliberalism is hard baked into the system. Thatcher won and we live in Thatcher's Britain today. That is the tragic truth.
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@daxiom6119 I would not describe my view as defeatist. I think it is an accurate assessment of the situation that the voters have put themselves in by failing to support even moderate social democracy. I do not subscribe to ' know my place', quite the opposite. I want to see a genuine change in Britain and firmly believe that democratic socialism has all the answers to the UK and the world's problems. However, experience and knowledge of UK political history in the twentieth and twenty first century tells me that the conditions for a different type of society do not exist in Britain, no matter how much I or others might hope for it. I am 52 so I have seen how the situation has worsened since the 1970s/ 80s, with widening inequality, etc. I am very much aware that fatalism can only play into the hands of the Tories and fellow neoliberals in the Labour Party ( and Liberal Democrats) but the voters have had their chance to force a change of direction but rejected it. In essence they want the same policies they complain about. Until they realise this by rejecting neoliberalism, nothing will change. The reaction to the Corbyn interlude ( forget him as an individual, it is about the policies), proves this.
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@DianeD862 No-one questions the RMT on Brexit. Not heard anyone on the left actually provide an update on how the catastrophe of Brexit is playing out. Silence.
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@superhumantrueman If you have not understood my comment it is because you have not been thinking. Read it properly. For the avoidance of doubt Brexit is the single biggest act of national self harm since the Suez Crisis, and arguably even worse.
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@richardlewis7498 The government was elected in 2019 to 'deliver' Brexit, the same policy the RMT supports.
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@superhumantrueman As a sentient being who can read I am aware of the survey you describe as an article doing the rounds. The Labour Party has been largely silent on Brexit as it is scared of leave voters not backing it at the next election. The unions have said little about Brexit in the media and it is barely mentioned on the BBC, one of the main platforms for views to be aired. Most media is right wing but even on the left discussion of it has been fairly muted for the last three years since Britain officially departed the EU.
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Correct. Labour has purged the left and is committed to the same neoliberal policies that have caused the utter mess Britain is in. The voters, of course, in a country with extremely low levels of political literacy ( or any kind, including the written form) do not join up the dots. They act as if the decline in living standards has happened by accident or the conspiracy against working people was not done in plain sight. Ever since 1979 th voters have accepted neoliberal polices, including in the Blair era. They rejected even moderate social democracy under Corbyn because they mistook it for radical, 'extreme' left socialism. Labour's support is soft and it may contrive to lose the next election in a re-run of 1992. But if it does form a government, it will continue the same policies that have destroyed Britain for forty four years. Living standards will continue to tank- the time for change has gone and it is too late.
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The RMT supports Brexit so surely it is the right government? The Lexit argument is nonsensical just like the hard right Brexit position, for different reasons. Neoliberalism had led us here by design and with the collusion of the electorate under FPTP, who have passed up multiple opportunities to turf them out. Cannot have the cake and eat it- either it is austerity, low wages, weak unions, permanently declining living standards and widening inequality, or proper left wing policies that reverse neoliberalism. The only conclusion must be that the voters are content with the system they have enabled since 1979. Don't be surprised and don't complain- it's what most voted for.
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