© Ian Forsyth/Getty ImagesFILE PHOTO. Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer
Summary
UK Prime Minister Keir Starmer is the perfect example of the greed that has corrupted parties that are supposed to represent the common voter
The scandal that has recently engulfed UK Labour Prime Minister Keir Starmer is not just about political corruption.
There have always been corrupt politicians - even amongst the leaders of social democratic parties - although it is impossible to imagine Jeremy Corbyn or Harold Wilson accepting tens of thousands of pounds' worth of designer label clothing, gifts and free luxury accommodation from a billionaire businessman.
There is something very contemporary about Starmer's rapacious greed, and it reveals a fundamental truth about modern social democratic parties in the West - namely that these parties have long ceased to represent the interests of the working class and ordinary citizens, and today simply do the bidding of the global elites that rule and control most Western countries.That being the case, it is hardly surprising that these elites should shower copious benefits upon political leaders that so assiduously protect their massive wealth, social status and power.
This, of course, is not a peculiarly British phenomenon. In Australia, the fondness of Labor Prime Minister Anthony Albanese for accepting corporate largesse is legendary - although the gifts regularly received by Albanese (including free tickets to football matches and Taylor Swift concerts) seem decidedly miserly compared to the bundle of upmarket loot recently collared by Starmer and his family.
Nor should it surprise anyone that these compliant political leaders should seek to ape the luxurious lifestyles of their masters - even when they cannot quite afford to do so.
How has this fundamental political transformation come about?Essentially it has been driven by the rise of the global elites and the new economic world order that they have created since the 1980s.
Comment: More from people on the ground who are witnessing the government's egregious apathy first hand: