Brown under fire as allies rally, bbc, 7-25-08
relipsticking the pig:
The merry-go-round of corruption in the UK and US
The brits are trading one bad party for another, just as we are doing here
Alex Wierbinski, Berkeley, Ca., July 25, 2008
Gordon Brown just got his ass handed to him in the Scottish by-elections. The downfall of labor should be of no surprize to close observers of British politics. This day was preordained when Bill Clinton and Tony Blair each led their respective parties to betray their core constituiencies, and replace popular democratic support for their parties with the power and wealth of each county's respective corporate elite.
Clinton betrayed the working people of the US by adopting the economic and social policies of the Republicans, while Blair did the equilivant in the UK. Both the Dems and Labor became the handmaidens of corporate power under the camoflauge of their respective party's working-class labor credientials.
Clinton pushed the American political center so far to the right that George Bush's open criminal presidency was enevitable. The economic and military failures of Bush, and Blair's successor, Gordon Brown, assure that both Republicans here, and Labor in the UK will lose control of government.
This will not significantly alter or improve the political, social, economic, or war policies of either country.
Strange as it may sound, but both labor in the UK and Republicans in the USA both pursue the same domestic and foreign policies. Even Stranger is the fact that the Democrats in the USA have the same war policy as the Tories in the UK.
The dems are The Other War party here in the US, while the Tories are the original war party over there in England. Each is recieving the baton of political leadership as their political opposition collapses in the failures of their commonly held domestic and foreign policies.
I hope the picture is becoming clear to you: Both parties here in the USA are funded and guided by the same interests, and a change in party will not alter the fundamental trajectory of our international or domestic policy. The cosmetic details will slightly rearrange themselves.
The pig is merely changing its lipstick, here in the USA and in the UK
