Chaos, ruin and un-governability are prerequisites of revolution. What Lenin could only dream of, Gordon Brown has all but achieved.
How did this happen? How far, I wonder, is Brown's scorched earth Britain from the precipice?
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Gordon Brown was anointed in his permanently safe Parliamentary seat and set on the path to near-certain power by Ron Hayward, General Secretary of the Labour Party and close friend and fellow-traveller of the Soviet Communist Party, and by Alec Kitson, senior TGWU official and enthusiastic admirer of the Soviet system. Brown’s Dunfermline seat was in the personal gift of the local TGWU boss, Communist Hugh Wyper.
Spectator:
Ron Hayward [General Secretary of the Labour Party] envisioned a real Soviet-style system in Britain with the Party General Secretary - not the MPs' leader - at the top. Chernyaev's diary says he would refer to himself … as ‘the first Labour leader in history who is not afraid to come out alongside Communists with same agenda’, Chernyaev quotes. He even stated later … that Hayward ‘prepares young people, puts them in the right places, helps them to become prominent’.
When Brown entered politics, the General Secretary was a real power in the Labour Party while the trade unions wielded enormous power both inside the Party and across the entire economy. The unions paralysed the Wilson Labour government and destroyed the Callaghan Labour government.
Why, I wonder, did these these extremely powerful Marxist friends of Moscow choose Gordon Brown as their man-for-life? What did they see in the young historian of Socialism? What did they want of him? Why did he accept their patronage with such alacrity?
Brown hated Blair for blocking his path. He warred with him for ten years. He had accepted Blair’s personal electoral attractiveness as a means to an end, the end being Gordon Brown as Prime Minister, as envisaged from the start by his powerful patrons on the Marxist Hard Left.
Blair was never on the inside. He was never one of them. He was supposed to be the poster boy and nothing more. The Deal: Brown had total control of domestic policy while Blair strutted the international stage. Blair was no ideologue. He was not pure. He abolished Clause IV. (Hayward must have raged in his grave.) And how the Left hated him, and still does, and made sure he was driven from office against his will and without the say-so of the electorate.
In 2009, Gordon Brown publicly mourned the passing of Jack Jones, boss of the TGWU and (paid) Soviet agent – that is, traitor – who was ennobled and pensioned by the Labour Party presumably for his life-long work, under orders from an enemy, to destroy the British constitution. Jones's objectives in that regard have been pursued loyally in every year that they have been in office by both Gordon Brown and Broad Left leader Jack Straw, now Lord Chancellor with responsibility for 'constitutional reform'.
And the trade union legacy of KGB agent Jack Jones? All is well:
- The enormous, wealthy, *Moscow-Communist-friendly TGWU sponsored Kinnock, Beckett, Harman (her husband is a senior TGWU/Unite boss), Communist sympathiser Straw, Reid (Communist Party member into the 1970s) and dozens of others.
- 54 current Labour MPs are sponsored by the TGWU’s successor organisation, Unite.
- Derek Simpson, Joint Gen-Sec of Unite, was a member of the Communist Party of Great Britain until the death of the Party which was wound up in 1991.
- Unite's cash is keeping the bankrupt Labour Party on life support.
- Unite’s political officer is Charlie Whelan, Gordon Brown’s personal enforcer for so many years.
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* Labour has not been friendly to British Communists for decades.
Strategically, the two were too suspiciously close for strategic comfort. Distance was required. Labour has long protested that it is ‘anti-Communist’.
In addition, there have been lethal internecine fights on the Left. They are a permanent feature of Left politics but they are fundamentally about means, not ends. The common end is the realisation of Marx’s vision of socialist society.
The hatreds and, e.g., the banning of Communists from membership of the Labour Party, are about strategic and tactical manoeuvring for power, often personal power, and cosmetic masks to disguise the truth of behind-the-scenes activities such as those revealed this week by the Chernyaev papers.
It is also the case that hard Left ideologues – socialists are essentially ideologues to some degree – will sacrifice each other for the cause without blinking. The soft Left is less intelligent, more sentimental and more cowardly. And more patient. Compare David Miliband (son of a Polish Marxist who is buried near Marx) with, say, George Galloway.