The other day, I woke up to a certain Mr Humphreysfinishing an interview with labour leadership candidate, Diane Abbott. What I seemed to be hearing took me by suprise, her claims that nationalising railways is “not a left wing policy, it’s just common sense”. She then preceded to say “somehow we became right of the Tories on civil liberties” to which I laughed at.
I laughed due to a lack of understanding the left has of the right. In the media and on the left, it’s perceived that the right are these evil power thirsty racists, who want everyone to live under there big brother-esque regime, exercising fascism with utter joy and glee. This is not the case. For some unbeknown reason all good attributes of political ideology is placed on the left, and all bad on the right.
This is just false. Yes, there are bad elements to the far right, but also to the far left, and everyone forgets this due to the rose-tinted glasses people see the communist “utopias“ through. Therefore, I wish to explain why Abbott was wrong, labour never went further right than the Tories on liberty, but labour just went further left.
If we look at the ideologies of Labour and of the Conservatives, we see a difference, and realise that liberty is right wing. In actual fact anarchy is not far left, but far right; and vice versa with fascism.
The father of modern conservatism is often said to be Burke. Now Burke supported the french revolution. He did this because he saw it as liberation of the people. He supported America in the wars of independence, as he saw this as liberation. He believed in local-ism and people making their own decisions. He saw liberty as the key, not a problem. He thought less state control was beneficial because like Rousseau, he saw liberty as freedom and well freedom is what makes us happy and the point of government is to let the people be happy. In Rousseau’s own words “let them eat cake”. The conservatives although traditionalists supported reforms concerning women’s votes, concerning the abolition of the slave trade, and the repealing of the corn laws. They supported laws concerning individual freedoms and local-ism, and against those that attempted to repeal these freedoms. I suppose what my laboured point is, is that Conservatives are the home not enemy of liberty.
What amazes me is labours claim to be the freedom fighters of the average man, continual fighting this upper class toff-bot to liberate the nation from the scrooge of the people. Well what is labour? It is a party founded out of unions in 1900 by Keir Wallace, with the aim of installing democratic socialism into the heart of the nation. Now what does socialism mean? Does it mean totally equality? Does it mean equality in pay? Does it mean everyone is happy? Well, Yes (in theory). See, the issue is the in theory. Everyone is meant to be happy, but they aren’t free, so they’re not happy. They don’t have freedoms, due to the control of the economy. After all they aren’t free to quit or find a better job. They are suppressed with a low wage, as no wealth is generate in the economy due to lack of competition. Therefore everyone is equal, just equally poor. People are unhappy, even though all is provided. And I’ll tell you why; THEY AREN’T FREE, they can’t do what they want. After all, the government is generally caused by a coup or revolution so needs to vet everyone to stop another revolution (remind you of a certain fascism). For goodness sake how can a party claim to be that of liberty when they opposed the emancipation of Women.
Look, Liberty is right not left. Therefore as anarchy is total and utter liberty to do whatever they so wish, anarchy is right wing, somewhat ironically. So this is why Abbott is unfit to be labours leader, she cannot even identify what’s left or right.
