Britain is intellectually sterile

One of the things that is so depressing about modern Britain is the absence of any real intellectual debate. For example, the charge that Labour under Jeremy Corbyn lacks any economic credibility is only valid if you accept that the dominant neoliberal free market narrative is credible. As I have written before, the claim that there is no alternative is simply stupid and makes no sense. If there is no alternative to something then that something must be true and without flaw. In other words, it must be an absolute, and there is no such thing as an absolute. Indeed the only absolute is that everything is relative (August Comte said that).

I repeat, the claim that there is no alternative is the foundation of totalitarianism. If there is no alternative to the free market economic model then that model must be true, correct in its application and the complete explanation of human economic behaviour. Empirical reality demonstrates that the free market model is useless, anti-social, exclusionary and divisive. It is only of use if you wish to embark on a criminal enterprise to loot as much of the national treasury as possible whilst impoverishing the rest of society and creating obscene levels of inequality.

I was reminded today, by an article in the National newspaper, of Winston Churchill's response to a question on the trades unions. I trust the National will not object if I reproduce this piece to save me searching for it through an interminable mountain of notes. Speaking to the Tory Conference in 1947, Churchill told them

The trade unions are a long-established and essential part of our national life. We take our stand by these pillars of our British society as it has gradually developed and evolved itself, of the right of labouring men to adjust their wages and conditions by collective bargaining, including the right to strike 

I trust the modern fascist, masquerading as a Conservative, reads this and feels genuine shame (although I know that this is absurd as I write it because a sociopath does not have the capacity for shame). Churchill was a full-blooded aristocratic Tory who was no friend whatsoever of trade unions and working people, but even he recognised the essential (his words) need for the union movement. I say that these people who make up the Tories today are masquerading as Conservatives, because they in fact seek to conserve nothing and are hell bent on destroying the society we call Britain. That is their quest, the quest begun by Thatcher. In order to destroy our society she had first to deny its existence, hence the famous 'no such thing as society' dogma. Even under Churchill, Britain was a collectivist semi-civilised society but the modern barbarian Tory will not tolerate any form of collectivism unless it is the collectivism of their class interests. In its present form, the United Kingdom cannot survive because despite plenty of alternatives  available, Britain is too intellectually bankrupt to even consider a mature debate. A feral and rabid free market press and media will soon destroy any real options. You have been warned

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