The only truly firm thing I see in the UK is an ideological commitment to fighting against the left and maintaining the status quo of deterioration and the movement towards the end of the UK and empire.
There's definitely a rear-guard action that the entire political establishment performs to keep any kind of Corbynite (or Farage-esque) popular movement from gaining ground. But the deterioration isn't intentional. Its just a consequence of their retreat from the frontier. They're left with less and less of the globe to exploit. That's something they'd happily change if they could.
Who is "they" though? The British born bourgeoisie? They don't seem like any kind of strategic or united group, they bought into Thatcher's individualism so hard that they crippled their own class consciousness and ability to strategise as a united class.
They have no means to exploit anywhere else, no army to do it with anymore, and no ability to justify it to the population without an enormous reaction.
With no material conditions that allow them to seek exploitation elsewhere they are cannibalising the UK, bit by bit. I see no end to this, I see the end of the UK as an inevitability. Historically empires have contracted until they cease to exist and become something new, I do not see the UK as being immune to this pattern. I don't think any of them will set their sights outwards (successfully) until this historic process is completed.
There's definitely a rear-guard action that the entire political establishment performs to keep any kind of Corbynite (or Farage-esque) popular movement from gaining ground. But the deterioration isn't intentional. Its just a consequence of their retreat from the frontier. They're left with less and less of the globe to exploit. That's something they'd happily change if they could.
Who is "they" though? The British born bourgeoisie? They don't seem like any kind of strategic or united group, they bought into Thatcher's individualism so hard that they crippled their own class consciousness and ability to strategise as a united class.
They have no means to exploit anywhere else, no army to do it with anymore, and no ability to justify it to the population without an enormous reaction.
With no material conditions that allow them to seek exploitation elsewhere they are cannibalising the UK, bit by bit. I see no end to this, I see the end of the UK as an inevitability. Historically empires have contracted until they cease to exist and become something new, I do not see the UK as being immune to this pattern. I don't think any of them will set their sights outwards (successfully) until this historic process is completed.