Why is it that anything that is proposed today to alleviate the worst excesses of neoliberalism is immediately attacked and denounced as 'left-wing' as if that was some kind of terminal disease? This is the manner by which both Labour and the Tories have corrupted politics and the English language. Being labelled left-wing is likened to being an enemy of the state, in fact it is similar to being a terrorist. Today the Tory party that I grew up with would be labelled communist and its Prime Minister, Harold McMillan a dangerous Marxist. During the 1950's the Tories built 300,000 council houses every year for about five years. They implemented most of the great nationalisations of our public utilities, it wasn't Labour, it was the Tories under Harold McMillan. They created 14 new universities and polytechnics and introduced free further and higher education with student grants and travelling expenses. Labour created the welfare state, but it was the Tories who expanded and consolidated it. That is why McMillan accused Thatcher of selling off the family silver when she embarked on her privatisation programme. As I say in my title, the Labour Party today make the 1950's and '60's Tories look like communists, never mind Cameron's Tories. I ask again, how are such measures left-wing. Doing the right thing, that disreputable mantra parroted by all Westminster politicians, means absolutely nothing in this modern world, it is merely a short hand to justify anything that they want, including what most intelligent people would regard as criminal and immoral. That is the extent to which political discourse has degenerated today and we must not accept it. Today's politics must be challenged at an ideological and ethical level. For example, most of our infrastructure today has been financed by the EU. They financed most of our motorways and trunk roads, most of our hospital and school expansions. Is the EU a left-wing conspiracy? It is according to the Tories! What is deeply wrong about today's politics is that all narratives are centred on economics, there is no social dimension, there are no moral or ethical standards, and, as I continually tell you, their economics are bankrupt. The economics that govern this country are a fraud and deeply corrupt.
That is why London Labour are doomed. They are part and parcel of this scandalous narrative that seeks to demonise everything within the public sector whilst lionising the private. They have totally bought into the free market fraud. The Scots have seen through this fraud and want no more part in it. This is not to say they have abandoned a market approach, it means that they want no more part in the neoliberal model that is a charter for gangsterism and theft on a truly massive scale. If Labour in Scotland cannot bring themselves to adopt a new ideological and policy approach, one that requires the economic model to be founded on a social responsibility then they are doomed and deserve to be consigned to the dustbin of history. We must act, as a matter of national priority, to redistribute wealth from the elite down to the people. There is an overwhelming necessity to renationalise the public sector without compensation. We must begin a massive council house building programme. Banks must be fully regulated and people must go to jail for financial criminality. I have told you before, and repeat it without apology, we must re-establish a dynamic and vibrant system of local government; that is the beginning of the way forward. Labour in Scotland must make a complete break with Westminster and ditch the current Scottish Labour clique, The prospect of Labour in Scotland being led by Kezia Dugdale is enough to make you weep. In the SNP's case, they will be weeping with mirth. For those of us who desire a dynamic democratic system we will be weeping with despair. The United Kingdom is in terminal decline and it is the result of an obsession with a criminal economic model that has corrupted all parts of society. There is no realistic sign of any relief from this model from Westminster or from the so-called people's party. Every one of the candidates for the Labour leadership are the products of the Oxbridge education system. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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