Beware the Fabians

Soon to be crowned Labour Leader and our next Prime Minister Andy Burnham is closely linked with the Fabian Society. So was Starmer. In fact Labour and Fabianism are inextricably linked and this helps explain WHY Labour Governments are so incredibly destructive. It is by design, by intent. None of this is accidental.

Fabianism has always struck me as one of the most insidious ideologies in modern British history. As we discussed previously, this Fabian movement was founded in 1884 and sold itself as gentle, reasonable socialism—slow, patient “permeation” of institutions instead of nasty bloody revolution. But it wanted the same endgame.

However in practice it became a smug vehicle for middle-class intellectuals to remake society without ever asking the permission of the people they claimed to help. The founders genuinely believed ordinary workers were too stupid to run their own lives. They preferred rule by “experts”—themselves, naturally.

This elitist contempt for democracy fed straight into the DNA of the Labour Party. You can see it as clearly today as in 1884. From the moment Labour took power, Fabian thinking dominated: nationalise everything, expand the bureaucracy, trust the state over the individual. This is a summary of what Burnham will bring us, but he will do it with a friendly Northern accent.

We know that eugenics stained Fabianism. These “progressives” who formed it were obsessed with breeding out the “unfit.” Sidney Webb fretted about the wrong sort of people multiplying. Bernard Shaw openly talked about lethal chambers for the inefficient. Many early Fabians supported sterilisation.

Their political judgment was equally rotten. The Webbs returned from Stalin’s Ukraine gushing about the Soviet experiment while millions starved. Bernard Shaw found kind words for Mussolini. This was not an error but the logical endgame of believing clever people should control our Nation.

Today the Labour Party remains marinated in Fabian habits: centralised control, identity politics as the new eugenics, and an unspoken disdain for working-class voters who dare to disagree with them. They hate Reform voters for that reason alone Every time another layer of regulation, tax, or “expert” quango is added, you can hear the ghosts of the Webbs applauding.

Fabianism didn’t just build the welfare state; it created a technocratic Britain that hates its own citizens. And we are about to get several more years of it from the King of the North.