Novara Media are a very prominent Marxist organization in the British political scene. Their commentators get invited on mainstream political shows regularly to offer their opinion on what is a reliably bland political discourse. Their takes are different and do offer something new for the average person who can always predict what the Tory and Labour representative are going to say. This distinction means that they are offering something that a lot of people may find attractive, however it could not be more certain that what they are offering should never be implemented. When you furrow into their thinking and morality, taking this video as a prime example, you discover that it’s completely incoherent and would lead the United Kingdom further down the path of stagnation and decline.

Michael Walker, a co-presenter of the video, states that the inheritance tax poses a political problem for him since most surveys show that a plurality of British voters do not like inheritance tax; “people from all classes hate it.” Socialists ground a lot of their political morality in diminishing inequalities present in society. For example, they favor wealth taxes on the wealthiest in society because they are obscenely rich when compared to the average person, so redistributing their wealth is a moral action. In their worldview, it is perfectly moral to steal from the wealthy; in practice it is often middle income earners made to give to the poor through state force. That policy runs into a hurdle when a majority of the poor oppose a policy that socialists support. It should be noted that democracy plays a pivotal role in the socialist morality system; if a majority favor something then it is the state’s duty to action it. Does this public opposition mean that Walker would delay introducing an increase in inheritance taxes?

Processing the framework of Novara Media’s morality system has laid out multiple issues. One does not need to know about natural law, homesteading, and natural rights theory or Austrian Economics to acknowledge the flaws in their system. Working within their own framework suffices to breakdown the moral foundations that uphold their entire worldview. Answers to the criticisms may be available but the United Kingdom suffers from a political class that is unable to challenge socialist thought processes. If the ideas of those at Novara Media remain unchallenged and the rightwing fails to offer an attractive alternative, then people will start looking to radical socialism for the answer. This will not alleviate what ails the United Kingdom. People in positions of influence need to pick up the gauntlet that has been thrown down by the radical socialists now before it’s too late.