In the weakest of the half dozen western nations, it is the UK that throws down its weaknesses and failures. It is not just the effect of the many different alarms that already cover across the globe. It is the particular UK's tremors and its specific declines that prevents dissolution of any real development of the future.
There are vast, essentially capitalist conditions, that are shifting in the general western nations, pushing previous pieces out in responses, unsettling increasingly troubles and crises. Most of that troubles signifies the UK itself, which increases the possibility of constant decline, continuing increasing wide, social and economic battles.
In the UK, the absolutely obvious requirement for any proper function in reality and genuine improvement would be the main, critical fight against austerity. Not the breathlessness of the fake 'Brexit'. Not any turns to vicious 'immigration'. Not even the struggle and war for or against NATO. It is the fight for the population in the UK to build the new, collective distribution of wealth.
Now, today in the UK, wealth needs to change - and directly become - public wealth.
1% of households are at least £3 billion in the population. The UK's net of all 'work', massively private dominated, is that which is created by the £10.7 Trillion in 2020. Britain's billionaires rose from £549 Billion in 1990 and then to £653 Billions in 2022 (adjusting inflation.) The UK number of Billionaires have increased more than tenfold from 1990 to today.
Meanwhile £4 Billion costs children who are living in known poverty. 10% of households are poorer than £15,000 per year. £6.7million in households cannot heat. Two-thirds of the British public say people do not get 'fair share'. Yet constant realities speak louder. 'The UK's problems will not go away in 2023' says Prime Minister Sunak, who owns £730 million. Enormous wealth has doubled by the private rich since the last 12 years and beyond. Enormous poverty of most people is constantly continuing into decline.
Astonishingly, the Labour leadership has been moving since the last three years towards the bent ideas and failing reflections that are based as what will continue to be - a total disaster. The constant dangerous shift in capitalist dominance goes on. Political promises try to go on. The fundamental shifts are demanded into denial. Starmer and his Labour leaders will grab into minor edges, into ancient governments, continually unable to change. Strikes should be pulled back by Labour histories, from 'compromises', not real possibilities. The deep realities could be ignored.
But a mass movement, right now, in its first steps, organised
Agreed.
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