Welcome to my World, Part II

A Little British Political History, what you have lost

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Anyway… As a brief intro/overview (with an admitted emphasis on British political history, which is where it all began), our divergence goes something like this:

Originally the British Liberal Socialist Party was, in fact, the British Green Party, which yours truly joined in late 1987 when I was fourteen, quickly followed by my three best friends, Kirsten Lindauer, Rachel Davies, and Nicci Heston. At the Spring Conference 1988 we formed the Young Greens, for the under-18s in the Party, with myself and Kirsten as the first two principal spokesgirls. I should add in the face of serious and suspicious antagonism from Porritt & The Gang (as I call them – as opposed to us four, ironically they called us the Gang of Four). His lot said the Young Greens should be under-30s. We said that would sideline all the young people in the Party (quite a lot of us). This seemed deliberate to me. So we demanded to put it to a vote, and we won. Our argument was, after all, blatant common sense. So why would you object to blatant common sense? One of the many reasons for my suspicions. Keep that in mind.

Later that year, ahead of the Autumn Conference, Kirsten’s mum, Petra, who was our Labour Councillor in Mid-Sussex, defected to us and suddenly became, by default, the most prominent member of the entire Party. She had, understandably, become utterly fed up (to put it mildly – stronger language may be more appropriate, to be honest) with the centrist direction Kinnockio had been taking the Labour Party.

What this left, then, was what you might call a massive open goal in the political compass. Us lot down in Sussex were essentially a bunch of socialists, and began to form a seriously influential bloc within the Party, to the increasing annoyance of the centrists who had, by that time, after ten years of what I suspected was classic Establishment infiltration, effectively taken over the executive of the Party (I’d read Peter Wright’s Spycatcher half a dozen times by then, you should know, so it all made sense to me; my so-called ‘accomplice’ (lol) Anna Marten also got it – more on that later). A little later they became the ‘Green 2000 Movement’ (I noticed you also had that in this world).

Our breakthrough came at the 1989 European Parliament elections, in which we won our first two seats, most prominently Petra in Mid-Sussex (the other one was in Brighton). The main reason for this was that when Porritt & The Gang tried to play down our socialist credentials during that election campaign we effectively told him where to go and ignored him. Sussex, after all, was our patch. Obviously, we proved ourselves right. So there’s a second suspicion.

A third suspicion was when ‘someone’ briefed against the Party ahead of our 1989 Autumn Conference, which should have been something of a celebration (2.5 million votes, two proper parliamentary seats and all that), talking about how increasing population was going to be a problem. Thus handing the mainstream media the ‘eco-fascist’ headline on a platter (I notice in this world Porritt is still parroting the overpopulation agenda). Likewise, they allowed Paddy get your pants down Ashdown and his so-called Liberal Democrats to blatantly steal our anti-Thatcherite, environmentalist credentials. So with all that, by the end of the year we were back down to five percent, if that. Nevertheless, Petra just became the most important person in the Party, and the rest was only a matter of timing.

So I’m going to cut short here. Petra and I made a successful leadership bid in early 1991, then summarily purged the Party of Porritt & The Gang. Then we effectively became the Liberal Socialist Party in all but name (the change of name wasn’t to happen until about four years later). We presented a Liberal Socialist platform to the people, behind which the entire Party was united, in advance of the 1992 General Election, and came third with some 21% of the vote. That was around 7.3 million votes, resulting in our winning 35 seats, and forcing a hung parliament (no 3 million non-existent shy Tories, I hasten to add), which led to a Tory-Lib Dem coalition, which (somehow) lasted until early 1996. We became the official opposition in the spring 1996 election, with 200 or so seats (Blair’s New Labour won, with around 350 seats).

The 1992 election, by the way, was quite exciting and dramatic, to put it mildly. So I shall have to regale you with that one at a later date. I resigned (as I had said I would) as the co-leader after that election (although I remained as ‘security spokeswoman’), and then had to resign from the Party completely at the end of that year (classified conflicts of interest – yet another story). I noticed, of course, that your Green Party got totally wiped out in your 1992 election – clearly, the centrist infiltrators did their work perfectly – then, job done/mission accomplished, just upped and left. Your Green Party has been pointless ever since (more on that later). Well, it’s only pointless from an anti-Establishment point of view. From their point of view on the one hand they help to split the anti-Establishment vote and seduce and misdirect a whole load of young people (who don’t know any better because of your lack of an education system) and on the other hand they serve to perpetuate the fraudulent, neoliberal and Malthusian ‘global warming’ agenda (we never bought into that unscientific rubbish, continuing to concentrate instead on genuine environmental problems – Iain Davis has written an excellent series of three articles about this, part one is here). Eco-fascism and depopulation indeed. Yes, definitely more on that later. But just for starters, when have you ever heard your Green Party ever talk about fusion power? (We have it – just for the record).

To resume. After this, the Party always stuck to the Lizzy Manifesto. We had effectively proven that there really was a massive open goal on the so-called ‘left’ of politics – a genuine need and desire for a proper socialist party (it’s the same in your world, by the way – always has been, always will). And after Kinnockio, that was only us. So, the Party absolutely refused to pay any attention to the so-called ‘Overton Window’. The Overton Window, you must understand, just like the so-called ‘polls’, does not reflect public opinion, but is in fact designed to influence public opinion. If the polls, or the papers, or whatever (social media nowadays), suggests that the majority favour X, Y, Z, then humans’ natural social group psychology takes over (the need to belong to a social group) and they are inclined to side with that ‘majority’. I’ve already noticed this in your world with various issues. Immigration, for example. The ‘right wing’ media bang on about how ‘immigration is an issue’, when from my own experience hardly anyone I’ve encountered gives a shit about it. Yet still – allegedly – a majority voted for ‘Brexit’. I say allegedly because I’m somewhat suspicious about that referendum result. Maybe I’ll go all conspiracy theory on you another time (again).

To resume again. There was another election in 2001, which pretty much resulted in the same basic result, although the Lizzies lost around thirty seats and New Labour gained around twenty. Suspiciously enough, the estimated 500,000 votes the Lizzies lost were almost uniquely in Scotland (to the SNP – they won sixteen, if I remember correctly), not in England. These suspicions led a certain person in MI5’s F (counter-subversion) section to do an unofficial investigation into potential voter fraud/vote rigging in that election. I’m not allowed to mention this person’s name by the way, which suggests she does exist in this world (I haven’t looked her up). Although from my intimate knowledge of her I would imagine that in this world she would’ve resigned from the Service when Lander took over, along with a fair few others of her generation (from what I hear – that didn’t happen in my world). This person, however, does play a significant part in my story (she wrote a very detailed psych report about me, including coining the now-infamous phrase ‘Katrina is pathologically obsessed with being good’ – when I was put on trial for breaking the OSA, my defence barrister, Gareth Peirce, utterly slaughtered Lisa about this -yeah, another story), so I’m going to have to pseudonymise her or something. [Her name is – Oh no you don’t, Katrina. Pseudonymise her. Pish. Ok, how about Lucy Tolpuddle? Lol. Too close. Hmm. Ok, just Lucy T., then? Is that ok? Yeah, sure. Go ahead. Ta.] Lucy T., then, is my designation of her from now on.

Anyhow, Lucy’s investigation proved more than fruitful and she made her report public at the end of 2002. The so-called Socialist Campaign Group (most of those names will be familiar to you I believe) promptly defected to the Lizzies (Tony Benn had told them ten years’ earlier to ‘wait for the opportune moment’ – the great man was right, as usual), taking about another twenty-five of their colleagues with them (‘soft-left’ I think you’d call them – people like Andy Burnham, who incidentally is set to succeed Jeremy Corbyn as PM for Domestic Affairs when Jeremy stands down in May 2022; Andy will make an excellent PM-DA; he’s got a robust, common sense northern thing going on and he’ll perfectly complement Becky L-B, who is our PM for Economic Affairs (they’re losing a lot of ground to the NCP (New Communist Party) in the north); Kirsten is now our PM for Foreign, Defence, & Intelligence Affairs (FDI), not that there’s much call for defence anymore). The latter being as much mindful of their political careers as their principles.

The reason for the need to do a little rigging was that in 1996 New Labour didn’t have a majority without the SCG, who were a constant rebellious thorn in their side, so in 2001 the Establishment decided to ‘correct’ that, by increasing the majority so Blair didn’t need the SCG and could therefore proceed on their neocon neo-Thatcherite agenda (you’ll be very familiar with this, I’m sure). Anyhow, as you can imagine, this precipitated the downfall of Blair & Co., Inc., and led to the May 2003 election, in which the Lizzies finally won the landslide they and the people had always deserved, gaining some 56% of the vote with a whopping majority in the House. The Tories came back into second place (from around 60-odd seats in 2001 to 150 or so in 2003), and Labour were all but finished (Yeah! Good fucking riddance!).

Labour were finally wiped out five years later, by the way. When people ask me who the Prime Minister is, and I say we’ve got three, and one of them is Jeremy Corbyn, they say ‘oh, you have a Labour government then?’ I have to say, no, we have a Lizzy government, Jeremy defected along with the rest of the SCG at the end of 2002 (as I’ve mentioned). I’ll tell you about our constitution later. It’s been reformed quite a bit. No dysfunctional ‘monarchy’, for a start.

Another long story short now. The Lizzy policies proved themselves to work, the ‘seeing is believing’ factor kicked in, and at the 2008 election they won an even more massive landslide, securing some two-thirds of the popular vote (around 28 million), and, reader dear, that’s all she wrote. The Republic of Britannia has had a Liberal Socialist Government ever since (although Scotland became independent in 2010, and Ireland is now unified (2014), so our nation is now England, Wales/Cymru, and Cornwall/Kernow).

The so-called ‘domino effect’ then really kicked in, especially in Europe (and especially after the banking/debt crisis, which didn’t affect us in the slightest – publicly-owned national bank, you see – Jacob Rothschild’s last words: ‘Bugger Broadmoor’), where one by one people voted for their national equivalent of the Lizzies. Pretty much the whole of Europe has been Liberal Socialist ever since, with the basic ideology also spreading elsewhere, most notably in Central and South America (which has always been socialist, just prevented from being so by the fucking CIA. [Language, Katrina. Language.]).

So we now have what you might call a ‘multipolar’ world order, characterised by a combination of the Westphalian model of state sovereignty (each State respecting every other State and the principal of ‘non-interference’ – yeah, take that CIA!) and emerging ‘blocs’. The latter, for example, include the Central & South American Union. Most Caribbean nations have also joined, although there’s some politicking here from the Americans, who, together with the Canadians (the ‘North American Union’) have been trying to persuade those islands to join them rather than the Latinos. Then there’s the Mesopotamian & Persian Union, the Arabian Union, the Australasian Union, and obviously the European Union (expanded to include most of the Eastern Europeans, with Russia having an ‘access to free market but not much more than that’ kind of model – similar to your ‘Norway Model’, I believe). Countries getting together into blocs for collective bargaining and diplomatic power is clearly the way things are going. You may be interested to know, on that note, that your colourful little populist, Nigel Farage, has hooked his flag to the ‘Britannic & Celtic Union’ mast in my world with his ‘Britannic Union Party’ (I’ll also tell you about that, and all the other smaller parties, later – your kids are gonna love it, trust me).

Anyhow, that was a little longer than I had envisaged. To finish, my part in this saga also included my bypassing the mainstream media by publishing a book, called simply ‘The Liberal Socialist Manifesto’, in November 1991, which ended up being read by quite a few millions. This was part autobiography, part political manifesto, peppered with, if I say so myself, some highly amusing comedic vignettes. If I can remember some of the latter, I’ll reproduce them for you. This section of my Substack, then, will be where I likewise reproduce, as faithfully as my memory allows, some of the theoretical stuff from that book, as well as a rundown of policies. Also, naturally, the history of our politics (and geopolitics) over the last thirty-odd years, and how the thing has evolved since the original 1991 manifesto. I will tell you about the kind of system we have now in Britannia, hopefully make it come alive to you, and then, well, maybe you’ll get inspired. I don’t know.

But I will tell you this for nothing. I myself am not getting involved. And that’s not just because that would almost certainly exceed the permitted conditions of my being here. Nor is it because humans have to learn to resolve their own problems (if you need me to do it for you, then how would you fare without me?). It’s because I have to keep myself and my alters safe. And if I get involved, I will be an obvious target. And you don’t have a democratic deterrent like we do. They could snuff me out in the middle of Piccadilly Circus and the most anyone would ever do is maybe sign some petition or go on a march, make some pretty speeches, wave some banners around, kick some cans all over the place, then obediently go back home again.

And that’s no deterrent, is it? The monsters learn well from history.

In our world, suffice to say, the people would threaten to storm parliament and take back control. And they’d bloody well mean it.

Anyhow, that’s my intro done. Now I’m going swimming. See you later…