Labour, Tory, Lib Dem or Reform — it doesn’t matter. Britain’s rulers all answer to the same empire.
I’ve been alive since 1974. In that time, I’ve seen three Labour governments and six Conservative ones — one of them with the Lib Dems strapped to the side like a loose wheel. That’s four Labour prime ministers and I think about 270 Conservative. I’ve honestly lost count, there’s been so many.
And here’s the truth: they’re no different. They’re all the same.
Tony Blair was what Margaret Thatcher would’ve been had she lived long enough and not be burning in hell, and both left the country broken in the same ways: privatisation, war, and a political class that sees ordinary people as background noise.
David Cameron was the same, ushering in a decade of austerity cuts to public services while bombing Libya under false pretences. Keir Starmer? He’s Blair without even the fake charm. No charisma, no warmth, no spark. Just the hollow face of a Labour Party that abandoned the working class years ago.
They’re all the same because of two simple facts.
First: nobody in Number 10 is in control of UK foreign policy. It doesn’t matter who’s on the lectern outside Downing Street — the orders come from Washington. Our “special relationship” is just code for doing as we’re told.
Second: every prime minister is shackled to a financial system that actually died 17 years ago. 2008 wasn’t a wobble — it was a gigantic crash. Everything since has been life support: endless money printing, endless wars, endless lies, and endless wishful thinking. It’s necromancy economics. The corpse is long gone, but the political class keep shocking it with taxpayer electricity just long enough to stagger through another election cycle.
So when people tell me to “vote for change,” I laugh. What change? Blue rosette, red rosette, yellow rosette — same stitched-up system, same broken country. Voting has become an empty ritual. A pantomime to keep people believing the show is real.
The War Lies
This is the reason multiple governments have lied us into war. Because we’re shackled to alliances that don’t serve us — alliances with partners who can’t be trusted, who violate every deal the moment it suits them.
No country signs up to an alliance with America because they’re scared of what China or Russia might do if they don’t. They sign up because they’re scared of what America will do to them if they don’t. It’s a deal they can’t refuse.
That’s why every government ends up selling the same lies. Iraq’s “weapons of mass destruction”. Libya’s “humanitarian intervention”. Ukraine’s “defence of democracy”. All NATO/US wars dressed up for public consumption. All of them fronted by British governments who had to lie through their teeth to their own people just to sell it.
And with those deals comes subservience. Subservience to Washington’s agenda, to NATO’s demands, to wars that aren’t ours but leave us paying the blood and treasury bill anyway.
The Financial Leash
Financially, it’s the same story. The UK is tied to the exact same system, and its foreign policy is subservient to America no matter which party is in power.
America, as the issuer of the world’s reserve currency, uses the dollar like a weapon. Any country that dares defy Washington’s wishes gets sanctioned. Iran. Venezuela. Russia. Doesn’t matter who — step out of line, and your economy is throttled like a python squeezing the life out of its prey.
And here’s the kicker: when America decides to ban Russia, Iran, or whoever from buying and selling certain goods or services through the global banking system, the UK has no choice but to follow. It doesn’t matter who’s in Downing Street — Labour, Tory, Reform. They’re all shackled to the same dying financial system, and that leash is held in Washington.
And because the UK is tied so tightly to Washington’s wishes, we don’t just fight America’s wars — we enforce America’s economic bullying too. When the US decides it wants Iran’s or Venezuela’s oil because those countries refuse to bow to an unfair system, the UK is dragged along for the ride.
Not long ago, the Bank of England seized 1.4 billion dollars’ worth of Venezuelan gold. Gold mined in Venezuela, belonging to Venezuela. But because Washington decided Juan Guaidó — their puppet, a man only 1 in 6 Venezuelans had ever heard of — was “president,” our government went along with it and still refuses to give the gold back. Venezuelan gold, locked up in London, because America said so. Think about that.
Our banks can’t deal with those countries when the US makes these decisions. Companies are forced to make tough choices. Jobs are lost. Economies get throttled. Reputations get shredded. Trust erodes. And all of that lands on top of an economy already on its knees. None of the parties have any answers for it — just variations of the same failed medicine that got us into this mess in the first place.
And when America decides it wants to try yet another regime change in Iran, it doesn’t just hit the country with sanctions — it strangles their economy by blocking oil deliveries, and the UK falls in line every single time. It’s not just financial obedience. They rope us in militarily too, like a junior partner doing the dirty work.
Remember a few years ago, when British marines hijacked an Iranian oil tanker off Gibraltar? We dressed it up as “enforcing sanctions.” In reality, we were acting as Washington’s muscle, choking off Iran’s lifeline because they dared to defy the system. That wasn’t a sovereign decision. That was obedience.
And here’s the kicker: every time we play lapdog in these stunts, it isn’t free. It puts Britain directly in the firing line. It makes us a target. It damages our trade. It wrecks our reputation. And it drags us deeper into wars and crises that have nothing to do with the people who actually live here.
The Migrant Effect
And let’s not pretend this doesn’t come back to bite us at home. Every time America strangles another country’s economy with sanctions — and we go along with it — ordinary people there are pushed deeper into poverty. When you can’t sell your oil, when you can’t trade freely, when your hospitals can’t get medicine because of sanctions, people leave.
Where do they go? They head north, they head west. And we act surprised when migration spikes, as if it’s just random. It isn’t random — it’s blowback. It’s the direct consequence of wars and economic warfare that Britain signs up to.
Then, when the migrants arrive, the same politicians who cheered the sanctions, who waved the flags for the wars, stand in front of cameras and tell you the boats are the problem. They never mention it was their foreign policy that created the mess and flood of migrants in the first place.
The Cost to Ordinary People
And all of this has a massive effect on the economy at home. It isn’t just about foreign governments, oil tankers, or gold in vaults. It’s in your rising bills, your stagnant wages, your crumbling hospitals. Every time we hitch ourselves to Washington’s wagon, we end up paying the price. You pay it when your council collapses. When your water rates go through the roof because some billionaire is creaming all the profits. You pay it when your GP surgery has a six-week wait. You pay it when your energy bill doubles because Britain’s “allies” blew up a pipeline.
There’s nothing, really, any government can do to fix things or do anything different. They’re tied to the same dead financial system that the entire western world is tied to, with few options available.
They can either raise taxes to free up cash, print a load more (which devalues the currency), sell off assets (like water, railways etc) or cut spending on public services (austerity). There are no other options available to them. No other strings to their bow. And as a result each government we get, regardless of their pre-election promises, ends up doing variations of the same stuff they’ve done before. It’s the definition of insanity — doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.
The Illusion of Sovereignty
So if the Prime Minister has no control over foreign policy and is tied to a Zombie financial system, what’s left for us to vote on? If we don’t control our wars, if we don’t control our trade, if our financial system lives or dies on Washington’s whim, what exactly is Parliament sovereign over?
A government that is not in control over its own foreign policy is not a government in control of anything at all.
And you see this collapse of sovereignty playing out right now. Look at the government’s proscription of Palestine Action. Let’s be clear: that ban wasn’t about some homegrown threat. It was a political order carried out because Israel demanded it — and Israel, in practice, is America. Our tightest “ally,” welded to Washington’s hip.
And because Britain can’t defy America on Palestine, it can’t defy Israel either. It doesn’t matter that what’s happening in Gaza is a genocide. It doesn’t matter that people here want to protest against it. Westminster can’t stop the genocide, it can’t speak out against it, it can’t change direction. So what does it do instead? It bans the protest. It criminalises the conscience. It silences the people who would hold them to account.
That’s not sovereignty. That’s not democracy. That’s subservience — the ugly truth of a government that would rather outlaw protest than risk upsetting Washington’s favourite client state.
The Moral Collapse
It isn’t just a technical failure. It’s a moral one. A country that lies its own people into war, helps strangle others with sanctions, and then criminalises dissent at home has already abandoned democracy.
And when a population sees its own country violating international laws on the daily — even laws as serious as aiding and abetting genocide — what incentive is there for them to remain law-abiding, as their rights and hope are stripped away and their children’s futures are sold off to the highest bidder?
Crime goes through the roof, of course. Then the government clamps down with even more draconian measures and the cycle continues.
These aren’t leaders. They’re caretakers of decline, pretending they’re in charge. They’re not. Washington is.
The Generational Betrayal
And I’ve lived long enough to see the cycle repeat. Since 1974, every supposed “new dawn” has ended in betrayal. Thatcher crushed communities, Blair marched us into war, Cameron and Osborne sold austerity as medicine, Johnson sold lies as optimism, Starmer broke every election promise he made within a year and is now more Tory than Jacob Rees-Mogg.
Different faces. Same script. Every generation gets told the future will be brighter, and every generation gets sold down the river.
The Reckoning
So no, I don’t believe elections change anything in the UK. I don’t believe our salvation can be found at the ballot box. Voting has become theatre — a ritual to convince you this country is still democratic. It isn’t.
Britain today is a vassal state to a dying empire that has run out of options and is fast running out of friends (and oil). It doesn’t matter who you vote for — Labour, Lib Dem, Conservative, Workers Party, Greens, or even if you’re daft or racist enough to back Reform. The fundamental problems remain.
I’m 51 years old. That’s half a century of experience, and I’m telling you straight:
It doesn’t matter who you vote for.
Britain doesn’t need another government, another servant of the empire, another caretaker to flog a dead horse of a system.
It needs a reckoning.
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