Comments by "" (@charliemoore2551) on "The party is over" video.

It's not the name of the party that matters. It's the people behind it; the ones providing the seed money and profiting from the outcome. The Tories were originally the party of the landed whom they defended against the growing power of the industrial bourgeoisie who were championed by the Liberals. In the period between the 1880s and 1920s they gradually took over that mantel of being the champions of the capitalist class which subsumed the landed class through marriage and other means. In effect, they BECAME the UK's liberal party, leaving the party of Lloyd George to fester as the party of the rump middle class while Labour squeezed them the left. The Tories still retained an element of the patrician "one nation" Conservatism of Peel and Disraeli but that was effectively neutered by Thatcher and finally purged out of existence by Johnson. In so doing, he made the party utterly unelectable as its underlying corruption (always there but hidden) and incompetence has become too obvious to hide. So, enter the new party of the capitalists: Starmer's Labour. To make it acceptable to its new donors it had to be purged of everything progressive. After being weakened by Blair, the left of the party has now been completely destroyed by Starmer and it has become the same racket as the one that Stanley Baldwin snatched off the Liberals in the inter-war years. A different name over the door but, for all intents and purposes, the same enterprise with the same business plan: rob and exploit the poor on behalf of the rich. Richard Murphy is right in one way. The Conservative Party is probably dead now. But only in name. Starmer's Labour is every bit as corrupt and rotten and will carry on the tradition for a while before it's either overthrown by democracy or replaced with another placeholder.
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