Thatcher's greatest success was hiding the truth

The following is a cut and paste from an editorial in the Guardian today

Has British politics given up on the working poor? It is an extraordinary question to have to ask after a week in which official figures recorded wages lagging the cost of living for the fifth straight year, with pay even more stagnant at the bottom end. The proliferating use of zero-hours contracts since the recession is only the tip of an iceberg of insecurity. And even as unemployment declines in the recovery, the number of unwilling part-timers, lumped with inadequate hours, continues to set records. Toil for scant reward really ought to be the great issue of our day

My point in pasting this is that I have been telling you this since I started my blog, and, whilst it is welcome that the Guardian is at least attempting to highlight the state of poverty in modern Britain, it is to be condemned that such sentiments are just beginning to be spoken when this state of affairs has been obvious for many years now. There are several reasons for this. First, by taking all this time to see what was in front of them, the Guardian writers betray how they have successfully bought into the neoliberal agenda, and have shared the 'there is no alternative' narrative. Thatcher was uniquely successful in winning the battle of ideas and establishing what Antonio Gramsci called a 'hegemony' in ideological terms. As I continually tell you, to accept that there is no alternative is intellectually imbecilic, as, in economic, social and political life, there are always alternatives, there is a multiplicity of alternatives if you only sit down and look for them. There is no one 'correct' or acceptable economic and social system. There is no one model of capitalism. But in Britain, we have been lulled by constant propaganda to believe that there is. This is the principal reason that we cannot affect any recovery from the recession as we are still applying the model that has so catastrophically failed. All the so-called alternatives we are being offered are in reality simply variations of the same theme.

Next, the notion that the British political system has given up on the working poor refuses to accept that the economic model we are operating from has a very deliberate agenda for working people, and that is to impoverish them as far as possible. They haven't given up on the working poor, the fact that we have the phenomenon of working people being driven into deeper and deeper poverty is evidence of the government's active agenda. In other words, being increasingly poor whilst being actively employed has been the deliberate goal of British government since 1979. What has happened is that it has taken a long time to attack and remove the carefully constructed institutional safeguards that were erected over many years to prevent such things happening. Now that most of these safeguards have been removed the Tory led neoliberal agenda is bearing fruit and the Thatcherite programme is finally being realised in all its glory. What the British people and its so-called intellectual leaders cannot seem to accept is that the Westminster elite are at the forefront of a programme to transfer as much wealth as possible upwards and away from the mass of the people, and in doing so reduce the working people of the country to a modern form of slavery in which they will work for almost any wage, under almost any conditions. That is the whole rationale behind the phenomenon of zero-hours contracts, to create a ferocious insecurity and transfer, not only as much wealth, but as much power as possible into the hands of the super-wealthy and the owners and controllers of that wealth. Neoliberalism and modern Toryism, which are also the dominant ideas of both Labour and the Lib-Dems, is immoral, unethical and criminal. That is what you voted for, and is all you will be offered in 2015 if you remain blind and loyal to the Westminster lie. You have been warned

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Doktor Kommirat