Readers of this blog may often hear me refer to “the Establishment” and those of you who are not quite yet ‘au fait’ with what is really going on might be unsure what I am talking about.
First of all lets look at the dictionary definition of the word ‘establishment’:
noun
the act or an instance of establishing.
the state or fact of being established.
something established; a constituted order or system.
Often the Establishment .
1. the existing power structure in society; the dominant groups in society and their customs or institutions; institutional authority: The Establishment believes exploring outer space is worth any tax money spent.
2. the dominant group in a field of endeavor, organization, etc.: the literary Establishment.
a household; place of residence including its furnishings, grounds, etc.
a place of business together with its employees, merchandise, equipment, etc.
https://www.dictionary.com/browse/establishment
So by the very definition of the word, we understand now that the “Establishment” is that which is already established over time, the constituted ‘order or system’, the existing power structure of our society.
The Establishment exists to maintain power and control over society – the “status quo” – and of course it doesn’t take lightly to any attempts to break up its power and control. The only ‘change’ it allows to happen is that which it demands.
If you’ve ever wondered why nothing really changes for the better in our country, this is why!
The Establishment itself as a whole is made of various facets, so lets have a closer look at some of them.
The Political Establishment
This is probably the main one that many people may already be familiar with, and is arguably the most important aspect with regard to being the dominant power controlling our country.
We have the houses of Parliament, the House Of Commons and the House Of Lords, both of which are made up of ‘representatives of the people’ who are also members of various political parties.
The Government of the day is formed by the party which has the majority of seats in the House Of Commons. Traditionally political parties follow ‘ideologies’ which make them ‘left-wing’ or ‘right-wing’, while some others sit somewhere inbetween.
This in itself is really an act of ‘division’, and it makes people fall into the trap of the Hegelian Dialectic, otherwise known as ‘divide and conquer’, as it makes people argue amongst themselves over who is right or wrong.
In the UK, there are two main political parties, the Conservatives (Tories) who have traditionally been seen as the ‘right-wing’ party, while the Labour party is seen as the ‘left-wing’ party.
For many years, the perception was always that the Conservative party only looked out for the interests of the rich and wealthy, while the Labour party was there to represent the poor and the “working class”.
There are of course other political parties out there, but for reasons I’ll come onto shortly, they stand little chance of gaining a shot at forming a government, because of the archaic “first past the post” voting system that elects MPs to their seats, which usually means it will either be a Conservative or Labour MP that gets returned, which then means you end up with a Conservative or Labour government.
You of course have the same thing in the USA, where voters are pretty much given a binary choice between voting Republican or Democrat and no other party gets much of a notice. (Side note, which we’ll explore later, both words mean the same thing in their respective native Latin and Greek forms).
In the UK, there are some other ‘minority’ parties which do garner some regular media attention, such as the Liberal Democrats (LibDems) and the Green Party. Then there are the ‘nationalist’ parties in Scotland and Wales, the Scottish National Party (SNP) and Plaid Cymru respectively, and those in Northern Ireland which I don’t know much about, but even so, these I consider still all part of the Establishment, as they just become ‘release valves’ for the disaffected voters to be corralled towards, but don’t offer any real hope or chance of change, just “more of the same”.
Any new or ‘upcoming’ party that threatens to undermine or break the Establishment’s control of the ‘system’ will become ‘infiltrated’ by agents of the Establishment to become ‘controlled opposition’ in order to serve a short-term purpose, and be ‘managed into decline’ once the usefulness has passed.
That’s exactly what we saw happen with the UK Independence Party (UKIP) under the helm of Nigel Farage. It rapidly grew in popularity with its single aim of forcing a referendum on the UK’s membership of the European Union. The party won majorities at the European Parliament elections, and finished in third place (on number of votes counted) at the 2015 General Election.
UKIP should have gone on to be a serious challenger to the LibLabCon Establishment, but after Conservative PM David Cameron promised the referendum that UKIP had campaigned for, and which the people then voted in favour of, support for UKIP collapsed from within after Farage stepped down as leader.
Even to the point when Farage was urging UKIP voters to vote Conservative and ‘back Boris’ in order to “get Brexit done”.
Voters (including myself) who would never dream of voting for Labour and had become disaffected or dissatisfied with the Tories had been corralled or ‘shepherded’ into supporting UKIP, then when the time was right, the ‘pressure valve’ was released, and the UKIP voters went ‘back to the Tories’ fully believing that they would deliver on their promises. (Apart from me!)
THAT is how the Establishment works. It gives people this ‘idea’ that they have some kind of ‘choice’ when in reality they don’t. The Establishment seeks only to maintain and protect the ‘status quo’, and it does so by appearing to the general populace that ‘something has changed’ when ir reality it hasn’t.
The same ‘unseen agenda’ is being followed. You think you live in a ‘democracy’ when you don’t. Every few years, people are tricked and manipulated into ‘voting differently’ but ask yourself “what really changes for me?”
Very little, if truth be told.
The Labour government from 1997 to 2010 rapidly increased migration into the UK. When the Conservatives took ‘power’ in 2010, they ‘promised’ to get a grip on migration and reduce it to ‘tens of thousands’. People voted for change, yet here in 2022, net migration levels into the UK are at an all time high, and this is despite us having left the EU and supposedly “taken back control” of our borders.
Ever get the feeling you’ve been had?
