It’s time to get revolutionary

ANY individual with more than four functioning brain cells, and an even rudimentary experience of political matters, could surmise that there would be no respite in Philip Hammond’s first Budget as Chancellor from the brutal misery inflicted on struggling families by the Tories’ ideological austerity measures.

This is what happens when you trade one millionaire chancellor whose tax affairs are questionable with another, but apparently we’ve undergone some sort of mass memory wipe and find ourselves seething at the pernicious transfer of wealth from the poorest to the richest all over again. The people deserve better than this.

I feel it would be entirely extraneous to mention the Budget’s contents in methodical detail. After all, this particular topic has already been tackled by better commentators and there isn’t any point in reinventing the wheel.

However, the reaction to Hammond’s illconceived Budget from within his own party (and subsequent U-turn regarding a proposed National Insurance hike targeting the selfemployed) is patently symptomatic of weak governance by a divided party.

And we can use this to undermine the Government on their other Budget blunders – providing a robust opposition in the absence of Corbyn’s constant floundering and the abysmal infighting within the Labour Party.

My proposition is that mass civil disobedience – on a scale which was never before witnessed in Britain – would eventually topple the Tories and provide us an essential opportunity to put things right.

But if we don’t lay the groundwork for an unashamedly revolutionary mass workers’ party to restore democracy and social equity, we’ll get four years of a weak-willed Labour government quietly conceding to the demands of reactionary publications and corporate interests.

We need to educate, agitate and mobilise people if the status quo is ever to be successfully defenestrated and replaced with a system that works for everyone. Daniel Pitt Mountain Ash