A UK break-up close ahead

The agonising break-up of the UK is taking a further step into a trough. The pathetic Pincher affair sits in the PM's lap, but that is only the surface. Labour leader Keir Starmer has swallowed Brexit, hoping the Tory government will go for a quick election while dumping Boris, while Boris may pull an election to prove he's still able to lead. But again that is the shadow of the important UK matters. 

The real process starts with Tories who are in desperation as they review their leader and the disaster of empty food and fuel in the next months. Whatever lies and twists the Tories shout-out, the reality is more and more obvious. The government is dissolving. The example of the ridiculous Secretary for Foreign Affairs, Truss, deciding that the Ukraine will be provided with another Marshal Plan, is as fatuous as the UK's withering wealth - over the last months barely able to hold the sliding £pound. Coming from another source, Starmer is not just promising Brexit. He is trying to delay the many major strikes that are building up new directions. Really, Starmer is frightened by an early general election and terrified that the police send him back to the Law. Starmer openly thinks that Labour can only 'go to the centre' to win. In other words, to carry on more of the same. More idiocy that promises nothing of the enormous change that the UK is required to make. 

Nevertheless, the growing idea of a general election is hovering in the air. The Tories are breaking up and Labour has no serious ideas. What's next? Much depends on the strikes and strikers that Starmer wants to hide away. Meanwhile the possibility of an election will invariably show one thing. It will expose the lack of any substantial answer that the two main parties have to deal with the crisis; that is fundamentally the increasing uselessness of the UK's current Parliament. The most likely result of both the Tories and Labour's failures in the next year or so will initially create a National Government.

The standard, nervous, late and marginal politics that is running along with its failing English engine will stutter on. The dissolving UK will face hunger marches, the second modern collapse of public health and welfare, the desperate need for rations for essential food and, centre of it all, bringing down the continuing and increasing inequality. Politics will become less and less accepted as the regular histrionics in a deaf Parliament and more and more deciding, in action, for the many that need their basic needs. The search for a new real democratic politics is opening.