Ah yes, you poor endangered white men of England, now that UKIP's supposed victory has set off a wave of hate crimes against... immigrants and foreigners. Make sure you portray this as the
exact opposite of what it is. (Pretty soon three drunk hooligans murdering some unlucky brown-skinned person on the street will also be a Crisis Actor Production ordered by the Soros-Globalists, at least for some of you here on RI.)
Not that I should care too much what you lot think.
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Getting back to actual events in the world -- the world of capitalist civilization in crisis:
The racist element was at the forefront of the Leave campaign, as all but the racists in denial can see (since it was explicit). But victory for Brexit would have been impossible if the establishment motherfuckers had not all united so clearly in favor of Remain (something that also had me leaning Lexit until a few days ago, not that my opinion matters to the outcome either way).
Leave would have never won without 36 years of neoliberalism under Thatcher, Blair, Brown and Cameron robbing the English working people of all hope (although those in Scotland and Northern Ireland obviously developed a different opinion of the EU!).
The neoliberals, interestingly, are always at their most dangerous and usually most effective at their points of maximum failure. They really take the motto of "never let a good crisis go to waste" seriously.
As we saw after 2008 (when even most of the demented punditariat conceded a "failure of neoliberalism,") neoliberals are especially good at exploiting
neoliberal-caused crises to initiate new round of neoliberal prescriptions. They hold a pretty thorough hegemony -- at this point as the reflex ideology -- over interpretation.
Thus, somewhere in Alasdair Campbell land, Leave is now supposed to be Corbyn's fault, for not being strong enough in support of Remain. This would have been the story no matter what Corbyn did, short of immediate self-murder. Logically enough the Blairites, who are actually responsible for having created ideal conditions for the Leave vote, are using this moment to attempt a coup d'etat against Corbyn in the Labour Party.
Benn kicked it off (what a disgrace to the father), Corbyn sacked him as shadow foreign minister, and since then another 10 or more have resigned their shadow posts and are calling for a vote of no-confidence of the Labour parliamentary group. The Guardian and The Telegraph are both a-howling.
LABOUR PARTY LEADER JEREMY CORBYN MP HAS JUST RELEASED THIS STATEMENT:
“Our country faces a huge challenge following Thursday’s vote to leave the European Union. And the British people have a right to know how their elected leaders are going to respond.
“We need to come together to heal the divisions exposed by the vote. We have to respect the decision that has been made, hold the government to democratic account over its response, and ensure that working people don’t pay the price of exit.
“Neither wing of the Tory government has an exit plan. Labour will now ensure that our reform agenda is at the heart of the negotiations that lie ahead. That includes the freedom to shape our economy for the future and the necessity of protecting social and employment rights.
“One clear message from last Thursday’s vote is that millions of people feel shut out of a political and economic system that has let them down and scarred our country with grotesque levels of inequality.
“I was elected by hundreds of thousands of Labour Party members and supporters with an overwhelming mandate for a different kind of politics.
“I regret there have been resignations today from my shadow cabinet. But I am not going to betray the trust of those who voted for me – or the millions of supporters across the country who need Labour to represent them.
“Those who want to change Labour’s leadership will have to stand in a democratic election, in which I will be a candidate.
“Over the next 24 hours I will reshape my shadow cabinet and announce a new leadership team to take forward Labour’s campaign for a fairer Britain – and to get the best deal with Europe for our people.”
I like this guy. Seriously. He's having none of the bullshit about voting again until the plebs get it right. It is exactly the right time to use the outcome to negotiate out of the neoliberalism imposed by both the Westminster and the Brussels elites. Seems to me like a perfect election strategy -- if he can survive the Blairite onslaught within his own party.
