Who really runs things ?

Monday 10th June

We are under the illusion that National Governments are actually running things, that they are the drivers of the world.   But I am not sure anymore.  It is almost impossible now for any Government, at least in the West, to really change anything.  Big Business uses a sort of blackmail to make sure that nobody really rocks the boat.  The threat of moving head offices and jobs is almost enough in itself.   But an absurd amount of lobbying goes on too.

The Prime Minister and several of the Cabinet, as well as Ed Balls and Clegg are attending a conference run by the Bilderbergs.   Which is an organisation whose sole purpose is to protect Big Business, and to basically keep the Status Quo. And everyone wants to be on-side.  Because if you actually stood up and said that you as a party stood for ordinary people and that you were going to change the way companies operated so that they were for the benefit of the many and not the few, you would be destroyed.  By the press, and by business itself.

Labour had been out of office for eighteen years and the only way New Labour got elected at all was to persuade Big business that Labour were at last ‘business-friendly’, and now Ed Milliband is doing the same thing.  Reassuring the City that Labour will continue with the same sort of policies, despite supposedly being financed by the Trades Unions.

So, nothing will essentially change even if Labour do win the next election.  Because the only way they will stand a chance of winning it will be if they offer more or less the same policies.

So you tell me who really runs things.