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The front-stabbers won and the back-stabbers lost. It's extraordinary how much emotion a lot of the left has invested in the Labour Party, the #2 team for British Imperialism Ltd. The reality is that the British working class in the 21st century has a lot less investment in the British LP than the left does. Unskilled workers in particular. The LP lost the working class in Scotland a few years ago, a country where Labour had been the dominant party for a century. Now the LP has just one seat left in Scotland - yep, one! They are only the third party, miles behind the SNP and well behind the Tories. In England, including some of the most hard-core old working class areas, they trail the Tories. The only country in Britain where they still have the most seats is Wales, the smallest and less populous country within Britain. Even there the Tories are catching them up. Meanwhile the British state is facing potential problems in the part of Ireland they still rule over. The parties favouring a united Ireland now have more seats than the parties that support British rule. (That's potentially also a problem for the southern ruling class in Ireland because they don't want a united Ireland any more than the Brits do.) Who knows, the days of the so-called 'United Kingdom of Britain and Northern Ireland' might be numbered. We might end up with the 'United Kingdom of England and Wales'. _________________________________________________________ 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
