It is only fitting to mark the death of the only great man left in this sorry world, Nelson Mandela. Indeed the world has become a poorer place this morning. I was left thinking about his work when listening to Question Time last night and was forced to turn it off halfway through as I could no longer stand listening to such a bunch of gibbering bombastic charlatans with the exception of the admirable Mary Beard. The two representatives of government and opposition, Danny Alexander and Rachel Reeves, can only make anyone with even a sliver of intelligence and decency despair for the future of this country. They are quite frankly appalling. You see, everything they say and everything their parties stand for, is constrained within the very narrow confines of the dominant neoliberal economic ideology. They have neither imagination or self-respect and are simply robotic mouthpieces for the neoliberal ruling elite they represent. I repeat, Westminster politicians are lost and are intellectually bankrupt. They not only constantly repeat the lie that there is no alternative, they actually believe it, and it is that belief that demonstrates that they are not at all intelligent. If I can remind you of some of the words of Nelson Mandela
Overcoming poverty is not a gesture of charity. It is an act of justice. It is the protection of fundamental human rights. Everyone everywhere has the right to live with dignity, free from fear and oppression, free from hunger and thirst, and free to express themselves and associate at will.Yet in this new century millions of people remain imprisoned, enslaved and in chains. Massive poverty and inequality are terrible scourges of our times - times in which the world also boasts breathtaking advances in science, technology, industry and wealth accumulation.While poverty persists, there is no true freedom. Amnesty International is right to stand up against the rights violations that drive and deepen poverty.People living in poverty have the least access to power to shape policies - to shape their future. But they have the right to a voice. They must not be made to sit in silence as"development" happens around them, at their expense. True development is impossible without the participation of those concerned.
If you will allow me to remind you of something I posted recently, that the richest 1% of the world's population own half the world's wealth. Such a statistic is hard to believe, but it is accurate. By contrast, the poorest 66% of the world's population own only 3% of the world's wealth. If Mandela is correct in what he says, what successive British governments have been doing, since at least the election of Margaret Thatcher, and yes, this includes the Labour Party, is ruling unjustly and denying much of the British people their fundamental human rights. British government has been quite deliberately transferring wealth from the poor to the rich and has produced a society where, just this week, the British Medical Journal has published that poverty in this country has become a dangerous health issue. The 7th richest country in the world has over half a million people depending on food banks and announcing that people will have to work until they are 70 before being considered for a pension. The imbecile Alexander admitted on Question Time last night that this meant everyone, even people who would be physically incapable of still being able to do their job at that age, such as people who work in heavy manual labour. He thus admitted on national television that the government had just announced a policy that is not only unjust, but unworkable. That is the nature of government in this country today. If that hadn't occurred on a national television programme I am sure people would have accused me of making it up.
Never underestimate the hatred of Britain's ruling elite for ordinary people, or their determination to subject the bulk of the population to modern forms of slavery. It may seem extreme to say that they have deliberately created this poverty and despair, but they have. It is quite calculated. These are successive governments who quite deliberately make no attempt to recover an estimated £40 billion of unpaid tax per annum. That alone could remove all poverty and hardship in this country and provide everyone with a decent pension, so you should ask them why they let this situation continue?
Should you vote to continue to support such people next September then that is your choice. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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