Goodbye Election

Tomorrow some people will go and vote. Not me, the only election held here is for the Police and Crime Comissioner. Since cops are cunts and the role is a made up non-job I tore up my voting card. I'm also going to have my second jab so fuck you capitalist state controllers.

Labour wants to pretend that Starmer is going to hold Hartlepool. Maybe he will, but doesn't deserve to. Not because the Tories are deserving. They are not. They are malevolent incompetent sleazy scum. But Starmer is a naive bland voiceless fool. His supporters will, and in fact already are, blaming Corbyn and his supporters, whom thye insultingly call Corbynistas while whining about how Corbynistas call them names. This is nothing if not ironic: they have spent five years publicly smashing their own party just to get rid of the twice elected leader. To the point they publicly called for people to vote against them. 

Starmer is already sharpening his excuses in anticipation of the electoral bloodbath by declaring that Labour's 'reconstruction' will take a long time. Yes it will, thanks to your naivete and desire to throw the left under a bus. Anyway I don't care. The Labour party is a capitalist tool. It has willingly complied with austerity, as is happening under the useless Marvin Rees in Bristol. Sadly he will likely win. If not it'll be a Tory. Who can tell the difference these days?

Labour are going to be in the wilderness for a very long time, just when opposition couldn't be more vital. Unfortunately they will never have the vital epiphany they need to smarten themselves up. Now is the time for something different. Lurching ever further to the right is pointless, you can't out-Tory the Tories. Their chums in the media won't stand for it, even if capital finds Starmer - for now - to be a safe pair of hands. Compared to Johnson and his brexpocalypse that is certainly true, but the reality is that.

This is late stage capitalism. A shoring up of ideological positions, a polarisation. The centre cannot hold. There is no actual centre; the idea of a neutral position, politically equidistant from left and right is a myth. Starmer isn't a centrist, that's something people that think themselves reasonable (as opposed to radical) tell themselves. We don't want reasonable, we want change. A better world. It will happen, the inertial makes sure of that. Too many people can see through the curtain now. They just need some help building confidence that fighting for the radical is the only option. Everything else is self destruction.