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THIS weekend we can look back on a week of whirlwind frustration. On Tuesday evening 118 Tory MPs rightly voted down not just the key piece of legislation in the government’s programme, but the most significant decision of Parliament in a lifetime.
On Wednesday, the same Tory MPs voted to assert their confidence and loyalty in that same government in a display of immense and perverse hypocrisy. Yesterday, we saw the beginning of manoeuvres to bring together Conservatives, nationalists and right-wing Labour over some kind of deal and, of course, project fear with media outlets continuing to forecast doom in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
So what does this tell us? Fundamentally this week we have learned that the representatives of the capitalist class in Parliament are genuinely reflective of the division in the ruling class itself, and that above all, the thing that unites them is their shared fear of the prospect of a left-led Labour government.
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