Document on historical factors which led to political situation after last general election?

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ANALYSIS OF BRITISH POLITICAL SITUATION SINCE THE MAY 2010 GENERAL ELECTION! BY ANTHONY BRAIN.


WHY LIBERAL AND CONSERVATVIE BOURGEOIS ELEMENTS CLOSED RANKS BEHIND THE COALITION GOVERNMENT INITIALLY!


The coalition government when it was formed in May 2010 was a compromise by two factions of the Tories and Lib Dems who do not want to upset the main ruling class over their EU project. Despite their neo-Liberal socio-economic policies they are opposed by right-wing Tory backbenchers who want to reverse reforms from the oppressed so they can build a right wing populist movement. They have not organized to remove Cameron as Tory leader because they are subordinating their sectional ruling class interests to stop the Social Democratic wing of the Labour Party coming into government through an early general election.


WHY THE PRO-TORY FACTION OUSTED CHARLES KENNEDY AS LIB DEM LEADER?


The Guardian on 23rd September 2003 reviewed major British Bourgeois papers; one leading Scottish Bourgeois paper; and one regional English Bourgeois paper which all criticized Kennedy’s leadership. Conservative Bourgeois elements were trying to oust Kennedy in revenge for him opposing the Iraq war. Liberal Bourgeois papers such as the Independent utilized that crisis over Kennedy’s leadership to extract concessions towards what has become Coalition policy of localism. This has come to mean attacking and privatizing public services. All the Bourgeois papers cited in that article called for Kennedy to move towards Localism. (Guardian 2002)

How far the Liberal Bourgeoisie goes in these policies is the balance of class forces and whether it deepens a radicalization. They have a dual tactical approach to the coalition government of hoping they can successfully implement some austerity measures and at the same time oppose their excesses if it causes mass unrest.


LIB DEMS UNTIL JOINING THE COALITION GOVERMENT AIMED TO CONTAIN ANY MIDDLE CLASS RADICALIZATION!


In a Guardian article on September 16th 2008 by author Helen Mullholland mentions a devious Lib Dem policy of containing any potential middle class revolt by promising to stop 45,000 expected repossessions. Julia Goldsworthy who was Lib Dem spokesperson for communities and local government is quoted moving a resolution at the 2008 Lib Dem conference calling for mortgage holders facing immediate repossessions to have a chance to sell their equities into council or other forms of social housing such as housing associations. This particular resolution passed at that conference called for more social housing by councils having the ability to buy unsold houses. Goldsworthy lost her seat the 2010 general election. A few days after the coalition government was formed I saw her defend its formation on Andrew Neil’s Thursday evening TV programme called “This Week”.

Vince Cable then Lib Dem Treasury spokesperson made a demagogic speech supporting the resolution by calling for an end of repossessions and for social housing to be re-available once again for millions of people. The Guardian was apprehensive of the Lib Dems entering the Tory Coalition because it could force the middle class more towards the working class towards Social Democracy and ever further left. There is a whole layer of middle class youth looking to the Trade Unions to resist the cuts and begin to transform society. It is an international phenomenon of whole sections of the middle classes looking to the workers to resolve the crisis within the semi-Colonies and Imperialist countries. This could create a potentially revolutionary dynamic as the Tunisian and Egyptian events have shown so clearly.


TORY-LIBDEM COALITION HAS UNDERMINED POPULAR FRONT POLTICS WITHIN THE ORGANISED WORKING CLASS!


The Guardian has been promoting a Labour-Lib Dem pact since the late 1980s. It is interesting to note that in the run up to the June 7th 2001 general election there appears an article by Anne Perkins, written on May 11th 2001 promoting ‘tactical voting’ for Lib Dem MP Norman Baker who was contesting the parliamentary seat of Lewes. Baker is now a minister in the coalition government.

Perkins was expressing arguments used by Liberal Bourgeois elements of an ‘anti-Tory alliance’ to re-elect Baker. Behind this manouvre was to strengthen Liberal Bourgeois elements against Social Democracy (Labour Party still remaining a Social Democratic party despite the rise of a Bourgeois New Labour faction) and against Conservative Bourgeois wing who hijacked the Tories who cut across their interests on the EU. Both of these analyses are confirmed in this Perkins article when she criticizes the Social Democrats in Lewes (East Sussex – AB – My Emphasis) during 1997 general election and threatened to do same in 2001 election expel anybody in the Labour Party who backed Baker in any way. During the article she quotes Billy Bragg backing ‘tactically voting’ Lib Dem. Nearly nine years later Bragg called for a Lib Dem vote in the 2010 general election. Finally a Lib Dem election news conference in May 2001 Perkins deals with a London Lib Dem news conference which launched their general election campaign attacked racist elements within the Tory Party.

The Revolutionary Marxist arguments for class independence against voting for the Bourgeois Lib Dem party have been proven correct in the practical class struggle. This makes it harder for Ed Miliband or the Stalinists to argue in the labour movement for a political; electoral; or governmental alliance with the Lib Dems after their true class character has been shown by their role in government. This is why the Liberal Bourgeoisie have been nervous about the coalition government potentially strengthening Social Democratic or even more further left forces such as Centrist or revolutionary groups.


 
Guardian 2002 – ‘Kennedy must sparkle or step aside’ - September 23rd 2003.

Perkins, Anne 2001 – Call for tactical voting to save Lewes MP – Guardian:11th May 2001.