This is what the Tories in attacking the Militant
- like you say there's no reason to do it in terms of the popular psychology -
because the reality is, the Tories think it is better to break the poor than to break the law. They do.
That is literally their raison d'être.
Leo Panitch puts this really, really well.
You have to understand, "Who are the Conservatives?"
Before you have universal suffrage,
before you have the franchise, before ordinary people believe they can shape their own lives -
albeit in a tiny way.
Who are they? These are the powers that be, these are the establishment,
they then have to create electoral parties to represent their interests
because society has transitioned to democracy.
These organisations weren't set up to change anything or to help anybody.
The Labour Party was, arguably the Liberal Party was, the Green Party was.
So people have to understand this.
There is no reason for the Conservative party to exist.
It's simply there to extend the same interests
that were extended in the 17th Century, the 18th century, the 19th Century.
That's it.
