One of the greatest damnations of the free market model that dominates in modern Britain is the
disaster that is privatisation. This was the flagship policy and the fundamental core of the Thatcherite revolution, that privatisation would unleash the innovative and entrepreneurial genius that was just waiting in the private sector to be the cure for all our ills and that was being suppressed by the dead hand of the state.
It is fair to say, 30 years later, that this was a load of nonsense. As you know I am an empiricist which means that I only accept what I can observe and experience, I do not listen to what people say, I judge them on what they do. By that criteria I can safely conclude that privatisation is a total failure. This does not mean that I am opposed to private industry and private creativity, what it means is that there are some very important areas of public and social life that can never be entrusted to the profit motive.
Anyone who knows me will be able to confirm that as early as 1982, I predicted that the privatisation of council housing would bring a serious housing crisis, but even I did not suspect at that time, that it would eventually cause the financial crash of 2007. Housing is in permanent crisis and the fundamental cause of it is the refusal to build council houses, therefore keeping housing in a situation of permanent shortage in order to drive up the price of houses. In addition, the character of Thatchers policy has resulted in licensed gangsterism. Indeed the entire privatisation policy since Thatcher took office can only be described as gangsgterism. Only last week, on Dispatches on Channel Four, Sir Iain Byatt, the architect of Thatcher's water privatisation programme dissociated himself from the results of that policy by accusing it of simply being a 'cash cow' for the international money markets.
In the past 5 years, profits in water have risen 50% but is simply paid out in dividends to shareholders rather than in being invested in improvements. The programme also highlighted how it is the same water companies who are the biggest culprits in sewage pollution. If I can remind you, only two years ago, Channel Four News uncovered the £1000 rail fare in Britain.
In rail, bus, electricity, gas, all essential services, privatisation has been a disaster leading to massive profit making and exponentially rising prices. These people have privatised blood services, air traffic control, ambulances and they even privatised the Criminal Forensics Service. All of these services have been put out to profit, services that are all crucial to the health, well-being and safety of society. We have just recently had the spectacle of Royal Mail being sold off at less than half its market value, thus generating billions of pounds of instant profit to speculators. I ask you to watch how these valiant champions of private enterprise cannot rush to get the dead hand of the state to intervene quickly enough when they are flooded, no call for private enterprise there I'm afraid.
The British public have been duped, lied to and robbed of countless billions of public assets. Westminster has duped you and lied to you, Michael Corleone was a better moral role model than any Westminster MP. The free market is one huge lie, it is a confidence trick operated by the gangsters we elect into Parliament. If this is what you want then so be it. I urge you to have a look at a new book that has just been published, In Place of Fear 2 by Jim Sillars, it is available from a publisher called Vagabond Voices and it will show you how the Scottish Labour Party is dominated at all levels from London. That is why they cannot be trusted when they tell you we are Better Together. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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