David Cameron Is Right

“The Labour Party is now a threat to our national security, our economic security and your family's security.”

David Cameron, Facebook post, Sunday 13/9/2015

David Cameron is right.
The Labour Party is a “threat” to “our” “security”.

To clarify, however, it’s worth elucidating and translating exactly what he means by the words “threat”, “our” and “security”.  It’s always necessary to translate what political leaders say; the more important the issue to which they refer, the more thought and translation required.

By “our” he means the power structure, what a lot of people routinely call “the system”.  It’s worth thinking about what this really means, because it’s a shorthand term for ‘people we don’t like’, or ‘our enemies’ in some circles.  It’s really just the Established Order.
This is old-school, but still a handy guide:

Within “the system”, “threats to our security” is a euphemism for ‘people we don’t like’.

By “security”, Cameron means security of investment.  And he doesn’t mean investment in public services, health education, infrastructure or any of the other stuff you or I might mean by investment.  “Security” in this context means confidence – of investors.  It’s like “national interest”. This is a technical term which defines “nation” as those who invest and speculate and expect returns from the activities of government and industry. 
So, “the economy” as used in a context such as “it’s good for the economy”, means that it is good for those who speculate and invest.
The point being, what’s good for the economy is good for ‘everyone’.  Even though only a complete re-structuring of the economy could make this any more than a meaningless platitude in practice, since ‘everyone’ means everyone who counts in this formulation/context.

The economy is a complex, technical language, for the same reason the Bible was preserved for so long in ancient languages most people couldn’t understand: because no one who has any control over it wants you to understand it or what they’re doing. 
So, any attempt to make it simpler, like, for example saying “if we spend less money on nuclear submarines, we might have enough to make sure people don’t starve to death” is bound to be a threat to anyone whose power relies on most of us not really knowing what the fuck is going on.

Like Rab C Nesbitt once so eloquently said to a SFA official “See if we start to think about this game, it’ll be people like you sat in wee booths selling tickets for National Car Parks!”

It’s not so much that the economy is a lie, it’s that is intangible and complex.  Whether we are for or against this system of organisation, we need to understand that it is all based on confidence.  Like our formal democratic systems, the confidence of certain individuals is of more importance than that of others.

The notion that politicians in general or the prime minister in particular are/is out of touch is misguided; they are perfectly in touch with their constituency: speculators and investors.  They know about y/our suffering, too, they just don’t give a fuck.  It’s not their job to care about you/us.

So, as in the political system, the most effective people are those who are already rich and powerful or intend to get to that level, or those who band together to decide how to organise their lives/communities/economy. 

And any attempt to organise outside existing, entrenched power centres is inherently threatening to those, to “the system”.  The Established Order is (perhaps surprisingly, perhaps not) insecure.  Almost anything can threaten it, from nationalising a canal to advocating free speech to welcoming refugees to organising a Union….

The attacks on the new leader of The Labour Movement (TM Fabian Soc. Circa 1900) from the mainstream media (a crucial part of the structure not featured on the above picture) are predictable and pathetic.  But they have an effect.  In the coming months and years, it will behove us all to remember that everything has an effect.  Everything “we” do, and everything “they” do.

Being leader of the Labour Party is like being England football manager: everybody wants you to succeed, but also hates you and thinks everything you do is wrong, and that every coffee, umbrella, innocuous comment, chance meeting, cheap haircut or mismatched outfit can and will be used against you.

David Cameron is right.  I know, I know, but wisdom can come from any source, it doesn’t have to come from expected sources or people we like.

The Labour Party is a “threat” to “our” “security”.

It’s the most flattering thing he could possibly have said about them.