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"Marx talked famously of history repeating itself as farce. However, even he might have found it hard to envisage the pantomime that the British ruling class now finds itself performing. Having barely scraped through an election in June 2017 promising “strong and stable government”, Theresa May’s government looks today more like the slapstick clowns of the silent movie days, dodging custard pies and slipping on banana skins. In the 18 months since that election, so far 32 government ministers have resigned, including a Deputy Prime Minister, two successive Secretaries of State for Exiting the EU, two Northern Ireland Secretaries, the Secretaries of State for Foreign Affairs, Home Affairs, Defence, International Development, Education, Transport, Work and Pensions, to say nothing of a host of lesser mandarins, leaving several more openly “considering their positions”." Read full article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/01/22/brexit-history-repeating-itself-as-a-farce/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
