United Kingdom: a rich prime minister, for there to be a poor town
Rishi Sunak took over as Prime Minister from Liz Truss. He is the fifth elected since the Brexit Referendum in 2016, the first one that is not white, the youngest and the richest who has become head of government. He will try to rescue the kingdom from the abyss in which it finds itself, with right-wing politics, neoliberals and at the service of the privileged. The Tories continue to sink the people while the Labor Party goes to the right and offers only reformist patches to the dire social situation that workers and the people suffer. You have to support the struggles, unite them, demand mobilization and a general strike to impose an emergency plan. It is urgent to put up a new left alternative, towards the strategy of a workers' government and socialism.
Author: Julio Santana – LIS United Kingdom
The occupation of 10 of Downing Street by Liz Truss wasundemocratic, since they anointed her 130.000 conservative affiliates, without any public consultation. Equally, bourgeois politicians can always stoop lower. Rishi Sunak was elected prime minister because Boris Johnson did not garner enough support to return and Penny Mourdant resigned, that he couldn't even get a hundred votes from his party. Millionaire Rishi and his friends from the financial market are happy about the election, even if it was discarded, because they want to close the succession of falls in power.
Who is the "Golden Boy"??
Rishi Sunak is a descendant of Indian immigrants, one of his grandfathers collected taxes for his “Gracious Majesty” in India. Between 2001 Y 2004, was an analyst at the bank ofinvestment Goldman Sachs. Then he was in the management firm ofhedge funds Children’s Investment Fund Management, becoming a partner in september2006. In November 2009 joined a new hedge fund firm, with former colleagues from California. In 2010 was part of the Theleme Partners launch. In both hedge funds, his boss wasPatrick Degorce, accused of tax evasion for trying to protect millions of pounds in a film financing scheme. A lifetime at the service of usurious banking, of the powerful and the most rancid political positions of the right.
billionaire civil servant
When Sunak was young he worked a summer as a waiter, a detail that is not enough to hide that he is a billionaire. He is the richest Prime Minister in the history of the United Kingdom., with a fortune shared with his wife valued at 700 million pounds, superior to that of the pirate king Carlos III. The insulting ostentation of the rich allows him to: buy five houses, pay 14.000 pounds a month in electricity for your spa, wear prada shoes 400 pounds and own a smart cup of 179 pounds so that the coffee always has the optimal temperature. As a sign of the decomposition of the regime, a handful of conservatives elected a rich man who leads a life of luxury as prime minister, totally removed from the most basic needs of the great popular majorities. Right at a time of great suffering and social inequalities, where working families can't make ends meet or pay utility bills.
He comes to try to make the crisis pay for the workers and the people
let's not be fooled. Rishi Sunak was elected by one hundred people, but with the approval of their bosses from the big industry, British banking and trade. He will not go against the economic interests that allow him to live like an aristocrat, will seek to protect and increase their profits from the powerful. In a leaked video, sunak said: "We inherited a bunch of formulas from the Labor Party that pushed all the funding into deprived urban areas."And then he bragged about taking public money out of«disadvantaged urban areas»to allocate it to the rich cities. In images obtained by the New Statesman, Sunak boasted that he was the one to start reversing such policies as foreign minister.(The Guardian 24/10/22).
there is no normality
As if nothing bad happened to the British people, it is frivolous and it is intended to normalize the crisis of the capitalist system that the people suffer on their backs. Pretend to give the feeling of "normality" when there is none. In that sense, The Guardian released a perfunctory and nondescript article asking only“How green are the candidates” to speculate on its ecological commitment, leaving aside social suffering and inequality. They want to divert popular attention to hide that the new government is trying to lower wages, increase the taxes paid by the people, defend companies that have enriched themselves, encourage privatizations, lay off in the public sector and keep foreclosed houses whose buyers cannot pay the installment. Definitely, the conservatives will continue with economic measures so that millionaires are more millionaires and the poor are poorer.
The “electoral advance” and the Labor Party
If the elections are brought forward and the Labor Party governs, there will be no background changes as needed. Labor leader Keir Starmer gave details of the policies they would carry out warning that the incoming government should take"difficult decisions", that they couldn't do some of the things they want, not as fast as they would like. (programa Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg de BBC One 23/ 10/ 22). He also signaled that he would continue with conservative plans for harsh sentences for climate protesters who block roads., despite reiterating Labor promise not to get new oil and gas licenses. And if the elections are not advanced, will have to wait until January 2025? who will bear this?
Workers and class independence
Labor is led by an aristocracy that acts as a transmission belt for the interests of the bourgeoisie. Sir Keir Startmer wants to drive the nails into the coffin lid of the Labor Party that was based in the unions. For this reason, currently, the leaders order not to support strike pickets, they sing "God save the king" at their party conference and expel those who dare to seriously question their policy. It is the continuity of the work undertaken at the time by Tony Blair who eliminated clause IV of the party statutes that mentioned the socialist economy, imposing a"Third Way".
the essential tasks
No one can guess what will happen anytime soon as the UK is going through a deep and dizzying economic and political crisis., in the framework of the world capitalist crisis. But, if there is something certain, it is that the working class is waking up. Unfortunately our boxer is fighting with one hand tied behind his back., since the union leaderships do not unify the struggles. In the press they mention the need to"coordinate actions", but they neither unite the struggles nor call for a general strike. when they mention it, they do it only as media pressure on the government and businessmen. The main union leaders speculate on the possibility of an electoral advance that places the Labor Party at the pinnacle of power. Over time it has been shown that thebipartisan alternation between Tory and Labor leads to disaster. What is needed is to support and unite the struggles of the working class and advance in the union organization, even if their leaders do not. With each passing day it becomes more urgent to establish a new political alternative of the anti-capitalist and anti-monarchist left. The regrouping of the revolutionary socialists, it can give impetus to the immediate tasks in the perspective of a strategic solution for a government of the workers and the socialist.
