(en) North-East Anarchist Nee-Nar! #4 - Ed Miliband: What Is The Point?

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Nee-Nar has been swept by a bout of existential angst ? not for ourselves, but on behalf 
of another. We lie awake at night, staring at the ceiling, anxiously, compulsively chewing 
over that awful question: ---- What is the point of Ed Miliband? ---- It?s not just that 
he?s a charisma-vacuum. We aren?t the idiots who voted for Boris Johnson
just because he?s a character. We don?t expect politicians to be charming and witty. We
merely expect them to have policies. Ed Miliband doesn?t even have that. In the face
of the most nakedly elitist, overprivileged bunch of inbred Tory toffs, Miliband, the son 
of a famous Marxist academic, has nothing to say. For the last three years, he?s been 
almost invisible.

Perhaps this is a cunning strategy on his part: the leader of the opposition moving to 
confuse the vile Tory scum by basically agreeing with all of their policies, save for 
piddling little token details. Perhaps Red Ed is working to infiltrate the Tories, 
Militant style... the sneaky Trot bastard!

Or maybe not.

The trouble with ?Red? (ha!) Ed is that for all his Marxist upbringing, he has no class 
background. Any bairn growing up on a council estate knows enough about class to 
instinctively recognise the Tories as the enemy. But Miliband is one of these New Labour 
gimps who bought into this idea that ?we?re all middle-class nowadays?. The reason he 
can?t muster any righteous anger against the Tory twats is simply because he identifies 
with them himself. He is one of them.

When Miliband launched his ?One Nation? gimmick (stolen from a 19th century Tory PM, 
incidentally), he undermined the whole point of the Labour Party by denying the existence 
of the class system. The idea of ?One Nation? is that we are all in it together, all on 
the same side. It?s complete bullshit though, because any idiot can see Britain has a very 
obvious class system with a constant conflict of interests between classes. The interests 
of the working-class point towards better wages and conditions, cheaper housing, better 
schools, hospitals and welfare provision. The interests of the ruling-class point towards 
lower taxes, lower wages, higher profit margins, privatisation of public assets, fewer 
employment rights and protections, greater job insecurity for workers. They flatly 
contradict each other, and only a cretin could believe we?re on the same side.

This is why the Labour Party was founded. People understood that neither the Tories or the 
Whigs represented the interests of the working-class, so we had to represent ourselves. 
Since then, that idea has been crippled and destroyed by the realities of trying to 
compromise with a class that oppresses and exploits us (see Nee-Nar #2 for details). By 
accepting that the ruling class ? the rich ? have any legitimacy, any right to even exist, 
we accept their right to enslave and exploit us, the working-class. The Labour Party 
should really be prosecuted for false advertising, because all their compromises with the 
rich have meant that they don?t actually represent the interests of labour, of the 
working-class. They should just change their name to the Bourgeois Party and have done 
with it.

But still the same problem arises: who will represent our interests? Why not represent 
ourselves? And why not ditch all these fatal compromises, the illusions of reform, and 
smash the class system once and for all?

ALL POWER TO THE WORKING-CLASS!