THE leading Blairite and Labour party member, Alan Milburn, who was forced to resign as Labour’s Health Secretary for his over-enthusiasm for complete NHS privatisation, is ready to join the Cameron-Clegg reactionary coalition as its ‘social mobility tsar’.
This post, as the name suggests, is designed to impose the separation of the unemployed, the sick and the disabled from their benefits, so as to ‘free them’ to rise up through society.
The Sunday Mirror is insisting that former Home Secretary, Labour MP David Blunkett, is also being offered a job by Cameron, to advise the government on pensions and pension cuts, and more Blairite ex-cabinet members are said to be waiting in the wings for the Cameron call.
The Blairite wing of the Labour party in fact considers that the LibDem coalition is their government, and are jumping over themselves to join it, and to be part of a national government.
Another former Labour cabinet minister, John Hutton, is conducting a review of how to slash public sector pensions for the Cameron government, while Labour MP Frank Field is leading Cameron’s review on ‘tackling’ poverty.
What binds the Blairites to Cameron and the coalition is that they agree with his programme to rescue British capitalism from its crisis, by making the working class and the middle class pay for it.
After all, while they were in the Blair cabinet, or were Blair appointed ministers, they were in 100 per cent support of the master plan to privatise all state-owned industries and services, such as the NHS, and supported the globalisation policy, under which employers who left Britain and went overseas to find cheaper labour and make bigger profits were supported as doing the right thing.
They were also in favour of strengthening the anti-union laws. In fact, under their regime the gap between the rich and the poor became even greater than it was under Thatcher.
It is therefore only natural, with capitalism in its biggest crisis, that they should now feel it is their duty to join the Cameron-Clegg coalition, and strengthen it for the battles ahead, to make the most savage cuts in wages, jobs and benefits ever seen in Britain, as well as bringing in a graduate tax for students, and destroying the Welfare State.
They will have been greatly impressed by Cameron’s plan to put an end to the situation where losing a vote of no confidence in the House of Commons means that the Prime Minister has to call an election.
He is bringing in five year parliamentary terms with a vote of 66 per cent of MPs required to make a dissolution of parliament and the calling of a general election mandatory.
They will appreciate that the policies to maintain capitalism are so brutal, that they will have to be imposed and for that you must have a sound parliament, ie one that cannot be dissolved for five years.
The fact that since joining the coalition, the LibDems poll rating has halved to 12 per cent, will prove the need to maintain the government regardless of what people want.
The Blairites are joining an open bourgeois dictatorship under construction. They must now be expelled from the Labour Party.
The trade unions must further declare, at the TUC Congress, that they will defend the Welfare State with a general strike to bring the coalition down, and bring in a workers government and socialism.