John McDonnell gets it: UK risks shift to fascism without radical change soon
John McDonnell: he’s right to fear a far-right ascendancy if current Labour leader Keir Starmer fails to restore faith in UK politics.
Public disillusionment and disconnection with politics could lay the UK wide open to an invasion of far-right populists and fascists.
The onus will be on the Labour Party – if it wins the next election – to re-establish trust in politics and restore belief that politicians work for the people, rather than leech off of them.
That’s what former Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell believes, as he has written in The Guardian:
“People will be patient as they fully realise how broken Britain is, but the foundations of credible and radical change will have to be seen to be being laid early in the life of the incoming Labour government,” he writes, calling for a “real strategy” to restore the value of wages and incomes.
There had also been a retreat on key core policy commitments, he said, such as the level of investment needed for Labour’s green new deal.
“If Labour fails to set out early upon a path of radical change to secure the all-round wellbeing and security of our people, then inevitably disillusionment will set in,” McDonnell said. “The risk then is the potential for a significant shift in our politics to the right, with the return of a Conservative party completely shorn of any traditional one nation Tories and under the dominance of the populist right both within the party and beyond.”
That is This Writer’s fear – as I have laid out in previous articles like this.
The best way to avoid a Tory resurgence of any kind at all, and particularly a growth of the far right, would be to change the general election system to a form of proportional representation – but Keir Starmer opposes this.
Without it, the UK risks falling into fascism. The only promises Starmer has made suggest five years of sub-Tory stasis with no economic improvement and huge harm to our health after the NHS is fully turned over to private-sector asset-strippers.
That would feed exactly the disillusion that John McDonnell fears.
Starmer has been warned – and all the signs suggest he is ignoring the warning. You must decide for yourself why he would do such a thing.
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Stammer is a Tory plant a man in a red tie like the rest of the leaches who tell us they for us but not but greedie people’s who want labour quiet
I think risks is probably the wrong word to use. More like has shifted to the right into fascism.
Little England is already a fascist state and if fascist Starmer does win the next election he will ensure fascist tory policies continue. Labour party no longer exists and instead we have just one party – a fascist one!