The Club for Prime Ministers

Every UK Labour Prime Minister, from Clement Attlee through to the current incumbent, Andy Burnham, has been a member of the Fabian Society. It is a fascinating little club whose theories and teachings do much to explain how and why what was once a great nation- our Great Britain - is now imploding from within.   But the Fabian Society is so much bigger than just a ‘little club’.

The Fabian vision was to achieve profound political and social change, not through revolution, but through the steady, often unnoticed, transformation of institutions. It was a slow march through the institutions - educating teachers, influencing journalists, training civil servants, shaping judges and advising bureaucrats - eventually redefining what the public came to regard as normal.

It happened one committee, one regulation, one university department, one government agency and one generation at a time.

Whoever controls the institutions eventually controls politics. Elections come and go. Institutions remain.

Cognitive emptiness follows until no one remembers, or even cares. Everything simply exists. Part of the blueprint. Part of the plan.

The Fabian Society has been described as directly responsible for advancing the idea of a New World Order. Its symbols tell their own story. The tortoise represents gradual, almost imperceptible progress, while the wolf in sheep's clothing reflects a strategy of concealment rather than confrontation.

Today, AI is increasingly being positioned as the next generation of expert-assisted governance.

Fabian influence spread throughout the British Empire, across the English-speaking world and into America. Through organisations such as the United Nations and UNESCO, it extended its influence over education and world culture.

The logic was straightforward. If you shape the education of future leaders, civil servants, economists and policymakers, your philosophy spreads far beyond Britain.

In the United States, these ideas filtered through elite universities, philanthropic foundations and professional associations. There was no need to seize power directly. Over time, the graduates of those institutions would become the administrators, judges, journalists and politicians who governed society.

Much of modern governance now occurs beyond the ballot box.

Having failed to persuade people through economics alone, Fabianism increasingly justified socialist ideas through the language of social justice.

Modern political debate now revolves around themes such as sustainable development goals; diversity, equity and inclusion policies; stakeholder capitalism; public-private partnerships and pandemic preparedness.

There is a reason the Fabian Society founded the London School of Economics in 1895. Education became an instrument for guiding social change and fostering what they saw as a common world culture.

Educational victories last for generations.  Governments come and go.

The long-term vision was of a world increasingly governed by experts operating above the turbulence of electoral politics – what was the foundation of technocracy became the science of social engineering.

Citizens increasingly find themselves governed by frameworks they never voted for, implemented by officials they cannot remove and justified by experts they cannot question. Many would argue this is precisely how the European Union functions.

Today, much of the Western world accepts as perfectly normal the idea that experts, regulators, international institutions and administrative bodies increasingly shape public policy, while elected governments simply ratify decisions made elsewhere.

Modern technocracy gained an important political foothold with the formation of the Trilateral Commission in 1973. Presented as a political think tank promoting cooperation between Japan, Western Europe and North America, it sought practical solutions to many of the concerns already expressed in the Club of Rome's 1972 report Limits to Growth. It proposed the establishment of a new economic order that would transcend political borders and, ultimately, reduce the role of nation states in favour of increasingly centralised global governance.

Technocratic thinking has always been sceptical of conventional politics. Experts, it argues, are the best informed and therefore best equipped to make decisions about the global challenges humanity faces.  Always trust the science!!

Elon Musk's grandfather was himself a significant figure within the technocracy movement.

The objective was never to persuade voters to approve sweeping ideological change. Instead, it was to reshape individual behaviour over time.

Fabian thinkers developed an intellectual framework for industrial Britain that emphasised co-operative economics while steadily reducing the role of private ownership of land and capital.

Fabianism was never about revolution. When your emblems are a tortoise, a wolf in sheep's clothing, a chisel and an anvil, your method is patient and covert. You chip away. You permeate. You infiltrate from within. You gradually erode the inner substance.

It could be argued that this strategy has proved remarkably successful. Institutions have gradually been rewired from within, and it is now regarded as perfectly normal for governments simply to ratify decisions made elsewhere by so-called technical experts without direct voter approval.

Each organisational tier leads to another subsidiary until the structure becomes almost impossible to follow.

This logic of layered subsidiaries eventually lends itself to algorithmic governance, designed to respond automatically to programmed crises such as pandemics.

Inclusive capitalism embeds social justice and environmental stewardship into the allocation of capital. Some see this as reflecting Fabian principles operating in tandem with modern financial systems.

Astro Notes: The Fabian Society was formally established on 4 January 1884, after its founders began meeting during 1983 as the Fellowship of the New Life. 1983 had seen the start of a new Saturn/Pluto cycle signalling harsh, transformative controls at 29 degrees Taurus.  A critical degree of fixed desires.  Its founders were earnest, romantic and overwhelmingly middle-class rather than working-class reformers. They sought practical solutions to what they regarded as the moral evils of their age. Critics often described them as champagne socialists.

The London School of Economics was founded by the Fabian Society in 1895, shortly after a Jupiter-Pluto-Neptune cycle - a hugely ideological aspect.

The United Nations was established on 26 June 1945 under the ‘big dreams’aspect of a Jupiter-Neptune cycle. UNESCO followed on 16 November 1945 under the same planetary signature.  The underlying philosophy was that some form of political unity offered the best safeguard against another world war.  Its mission was therefore to shape attitudes and beliefs that, in its view, would reduce the conditions that lead to war.

But what had developed during wartime became the intended direction of peacetime.

And then the mantra of ‘Own nothing. Control everything’ began to be heard.   This was a phrase commonly attributed to the Rothschilds and the Rockefellers.  Eventually the middle class has become more and more squeezed – maybe to become merely the resource of the wealthy.

As UNESCO itself famously declared:  "Since wars begin in the minds of men, it is in the minds of men that the defences of peace must be constructed."