It doesn't matter who said it, but the comment floating around is
"If only Labour would act in the national interest."
And there is so much wrong with that idea.
It's the sort of thing politicians say when they're pursuing a policy of more than usual stupidity.
Every government claims to act in the national interest, and they always find that their own prejudice best serves whatever they believe that interest to be.
Labour believes that the national interest is best served by a Labour government pursuing Brexit in some manner pleasing to itself.
Nor is there anything wrong with that.
What there is something wrong with is this idea that there is a national interest that exists outside politics.
And when you turn it over with a stick, what you find crawling underneath "national interest" is class prejudice.
What you mean is that the middle class should set their politics aside and find unity where you prefer to imagine it, in class identity.
Why are all these middle class people pretending to be different parties? Can't we have a government of middle class unity?
This country is becoming very infantile in its thinking.
You've got a problem that your country has created entirely by itself, so it's not a real crisis involving external forces. It's just a domestic.
So you've got a political stalemate. Two sides facing each other, and no majority for anything in parliament.
Well, you've got a mechanism for that. It's called a general election. So what's the problem? I'll tell you what the problem is.
You don't want a general election because you don't like what this country might vote for.
And that is middle class prejudice. You don't trust people to vote the right way, so you want to abolish democracy. A government of middle class unity.
A government of middle class unity that you can impose your middle class prejudice on the country without the inconvenience of an election.
You make me sick.
What you can have is a general election, and I suggest you get your thumb out of your arse and start thinking about who you want to win.
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