At the end of the 19th C, labour leaders, and many among the labouring classes, knew that conservative elites were abusing the offices of state*; not only for immense private gain, but to maintain an out of date, deeply undemocratic class system in Britain.
By that time that system had long been known to the world as "capitalism". Labour was finally founded in 1900 to oppose it. More than a century later, capitalism, thus Britain's deeply undemocratic class system, not only remain, but appear to be going from strength to strength.
