The news commentators talk about the "chaos" in government, caused by Starmer's resignation. They point out that Andy Burnham will be the 7th prime minister in 10 years!

    The Financial Times writes, with hypocritical horror, that this is "more PMs than Italy" - known for its contested proportional representation results. But £7 editors know very well that regardless of the storm in the Westminster teacup, profit-making will continue, uninterrupted. If something does worry the profiteers, it's that even more of us might see through their sham democracy!

    Already the biggest "party" in general elections is "abstain". In 2024, far from Starmer winning a "landslide", as everyone keeps repeating, he was voted in by only 20% of the total electorate. It wasn't a pro- Starmer vote, but an anti-Tory vote.

    And by the way, if nearly half of all adults who could have voted, didn't bother, maybe it's because they already knew that governments of whatever political colour, are here to serve the interests of the ruling, capitalist class. And that "Labour" hasn't meant "labour" for many decades, if it ever did...

    PM-in-waiting Burnham says he wants to change all of this. He wants to "end 40 years of neoliberalism". He talks about taking utilities like water back into public hands. But he also wasted no time in reassuring the same bond markets (which he had previously said he didn't want to be "in hock" to), that he'd stick to Rachel Reeves' "strict fiscal rules"...

    Despite all Burnham's attempts to calm the bosses' nerves, the chorus is getting louder against his agenda - before he has even announced it! They are all helpfully informing him that the state's cupboard is bare, and over-borrowed, so he better not have any fine ideas of re-nationalising energy, funding elderly social care, or taking back Thames Water.

    And yes, the Tories and the FT are right. There is no "headroom" for such reforms. Not within a system in constant crisis, which obeys only the law of profit.

    "Non-voting" workers know already that the sewage isn't only in the water, that it's in a political system serving an economy driven by greed. Changing the driver, no matter how "nice" he may be, achieves little or nothing. We need to change the locomotive! It's name is "socialism" and for that, we need a revolution!