In this article written for 'civilservice world, there's no mention that Munira Mirza was a member of the
Revolutionary Communist Party (RCP) or wrote for their magazine 'Living Marxism'. Mirza will now play a
key role in a new think tank called 'Fix
Britain'. The group of technocrats say they have received substantial
funding but refuse to disclose the names of their financial backers. As they
say, he who pays the piper calls the tune.
Mirza, a Trotskyist, or former Trotskyist, thinks that Britain is governed by amateurs and politicians who are more interested in their own popularity than in doing what is necessary to fix Britain. She favours "mission-led" government and cites the COVID lockdown as an example of mission-led government.
Government in Britain was always government by amateurs and that's why they employ an army of bureaucrats, called civil servants. Fix Britain and Munira Mirza, seem to want government by technocrats and less democracy - a sort of enlightened despotism that was much favoured by the Fabians. Some Neo-liberals also think that for Neoliberalism to survive, democracy must fade.
I wouldn't be surprised if we don't see other Trotskyists and former members of the RCP like the RCP guru Frank Furedi and Baroness Fox of Buckley, joining the new think tank.


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