"It is a club and we ain't in it!"

FOR EXAMPLE: Chairs and General Secretaries of the Fabian Society 2008 - 2010: Sadiq Khan / Mayor of London

"After Tony Blair’s landslide victory in 1997, over 200 Fabians sat in the House of Commons, including many of the cabinet. The society developed its role as a critical friend, supporting the Blair and Brown government’s in developing policy, without being afraid to draw attention to the omissions or shortcomings of the government. During these years the society conducted influential policy commissions on reforming the monarchy, ending child poverty and taxation and citizenship (the latter laying the ground for the Labour government’s decision to raise taxes to fund the NHS). ..."

"... Labour’s defeat at the 2019 election saw the party turn back towards its Fabian roots. The Labour leadership passed to Keir Starmer MP, the first time a serving member of the Fabian Society executive had become leader of the party. Starmer relinquished his position on the the society’s executive but its membership continued to include 5 Labour frontbenchers including shadow chancellor Anneliese Dodds MP. In 2020 the society’s membership increased to an all time high of over 8,000, including 16 members of the shadow cabinet, and the society was as close to the heart of Labour policy thinking as at any time in its history."

https://fabians.org.uk/about-us/our-history/

DOES THIS SOUND FAMILIAR?

"Since the 1990s, the debate about the relationship between the ‘‘left’’ and eugenics has become much broader in the wake of Zygmunt Bauman’s influential studies of ‘‘modernity’’ and the Holocaust.

Bauman describes‘‘ modernity’’ as a process in which to promote greater individual security people are willing to forego a degree of freedom. The managing of risks and uncertainties is left to bureaucracies, which in turn are expected to create order in the chaos of society. Everything which the responsible authorities believe threatens social stability is automatically regarded as a problem. Closely related to that theory are Foucault’s concepts of the ‘‘pastoral state’’, which exercises its power to ensure the health and welfare of its citizens, and ‘‘biopower’’, with the state endeavouring to control the personal lives of its citizens.

Foucault argues that the state uses a variety of different techniques for the purpose, from statistics and registration to recording personal identities by fingerprinting and photographing individuals.The emphasis on the role of the state and its use of technocratic methodsto discipline the population and so solve social problems is a central theme too in James Scott’s Seeing Like a State, which appeared in 1998."

https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/94158269859ADC577FA74AC0271CF444/S0020859010000209a.pdf/div-class-title-a-brave-new-world-the-left-social-engineering-and-eugenics-in-twentieth-century-europe-a-href-fn149-ref-type-fn-a-div.pdf

The Left - Fabian Society - Eugenics:

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/from-the-archive-blog/2019/may/01/eugenics-founding-fathers-british-socialism-archive-1997