You might have missed it but the two contenders for leadership of what was once the historically most successful pro-capitalist party were grilled by GB News on 17 October. The choice for Tory members is between two horrors – competing to win the competition for who can divide and rule the most brutally.
Big business bosses can rely on Starmer’s Labour to act in their interests. But doing so won’t endear an already unpopular Labour Party to the masses of working-class people struggling to make ends meet. Who’s going to go to the polls and gleefully vote for the party that has cut winter fuel payments, kept the two-child benefit cap and looks likely to increase tuition fees?
But the bosses will need an alternative, and the fact is Robert Jenrick or Kemi Badenoch – like Trump or Farage – will probably be unstable, unreliable representatives for the capitalists’ interests. There are even some Tory bigwigs, like the former West Midlands Mayor Andy Street, who say they might not vote, such is the dearth of choice on offer.
There are probably some capitalists worrying while eating their gold-plated cereal, thinking about how they are going to make sure they have their men and women in Parliament at the next election. For working-class people, the farce of the Tory leadership seems removed, but it’s only happening because the Labour Party in power is looking out for the interests of the rich, not our own.
We need a mass party that will fight for our interests against the bosses. A party armed with a socialist programme to fight back against the profit-hungry bosses and their ghouls in Parliament.
