The war against climate pollution is primarily idelological

I have been heartened by the actions of the young people who have decided that enough is enough on the subject of climate change, but I feel it important to suggest to them that in order to effect any kind of meaningful change they will have to tackle climate change from its root causes, and that the one common denominator driving the fundamentals of climate pollution is the dominant free market economic ideology. What must always be remembered is that this is an ideology that refuses to be restrained by rules and regulations, that gives permission to business and corporations to do whatever they want, whenever they want to, free from the restrictions that govern the rest of society, but, most importantly, absolves them of any responsibility for damage their actions may cause. Thus, what everyone concerned about climate change must come to understand is that their primary battle is ideological and that before they can get any meaningful change on issues relating to climate change, they must confront and defeat the ideology that underpins it. They must understand that climate change is happening for a reason, that it has a driver, and that until they challenge that dominant model head on they will fail to realise their goals because they will be set on a course that has been determined by a false hypothesis and so must inevitably produced a false conclusion.

The key proposition underpinning free market economics is the concept of deregulation, that regulations are fetters on profit making and market activity and therefore a bad thing. Free market economics operates from a perverted notion of freedom. The free marketeer genuinely believes that freedom means that where economic activity is concerned, you must be allowed to do whatever you want, whenever you want to and that any restrictions on your ability to do what you want are evil, that people who erect regulatory frameworks inhibiting your right to do what you want are socialists and communists and are self-evidently the enemies of freedom. However, the freedoms they demand do not extend to other people. Those people who exercise their freedom to protest against, and to curtail economic exploitation, the destruction of ecosystems, the devastation of natural resources etc. are terrorists who must be stopped at all costs, such people must not be allowed freedom because they are a direct threat to the ability of others to do exactly as they want, accountable to no-one else. That is also why they are so hostile to trades unions and to employment rights and health and safety regulations that are constraints on their activities.

The poison of modern free market ideology emanates from America, and principally from the Chicago School of Economics headed by Milton Friedman and his disciples. J,K.Galbraith told us that the modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness, and in the teachings of the Chicago economists and the public policies of Margaret Thatcher, they found exactly what they were looking for. Writing in 1970 Milton Friedman preached that "there is one and only one social responsibility of business--to use its resources and engage in activities designed to increase its profit" He called anyone who argued for a socially responsible approach to business as a pure and unadulterated socialist. This was then championed by Margaret Thatcher due to her position to determine public policy with her infamous claim that there is no such thing as society. Few people have ever contemplated the deeply sinister implications of that statement. Thus, a socially responsible approach to anything is by definition bad and wrong.

Therefore this interpretation of the role of business denies any social responsibilities, because, if there is no such thing as society, how can you be responsible to an entity that does not exist? It was this deeply selfish and irresponsible attitude that caused the financial crisis of 2008, and is the principal driver of climate change. Similarly, if there is no such thing as society, the individual has no social responsibilities either. Their only responsibility is to themselves, not to other members of a society that does not exist, nor to such abstract concepts like the environment, or nature, or the climate. This is the ideology of unrestrained selfishness, of unrestrained greed. What is so terrible is that the people who preach and practice this odious ideology care nothing for their own children and grandchildren, never mind anyone elses. What you must realise is that you are dealing with people who are knowingly and willingly destroying the planet and simply don't care as long as they get what they want here and now. If you don't approach this problem and these people on that basis, if you think for one second that they are open to reason and normal human compassion, then you will fail. You have been warned.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

English nationalism and the end of civilisation

I have not posted for a month because I have been watching the unfolding of the events that you have also been watching on both sides of the Atlantic and I did not wish to simply provide a running commentary on events as they unfolded. As with most of you I expect, I am quite staggered by the levels of incompetence that the Westminster pigsty are displaying. I say Westminster because, despite the Prime Minister proving to be as thick and stupid as I have always credited her with being, we are completely devoid of any kind of opposition. Labour are embarrassingly hopeless and this most tragic of governments is getting away with murder, killing our constitution, our international relationships, alienating friends and partners and destroying our futures and our economic prosperity, to say nothing of the destruction of our social structures. The Health Service, care, hotels etc. are grinding into crisis because of the lack of foreign workers necessary to man such services. Foreigners have had enough of the continuous barrage of hatred they are faced with and are leaving in droves. The British political system is literally falling apart with poll after poll showing that trust in and respect for, our political class has evaporated. We can no longer be described as a civilised society as the abiding characteristic of life in this country is increasingly hatred. We are seeing a huge rise in racist attacks, of antisemitism, of homelessness, child poverty, and degenerating mental health. Homeless people are being attacked and persecuted and in many areas of the nation it is simply not safe to be a Muslim. This is all the fallout from Brexit which itself has its genesis in a cruel and heartless dominant economic ideology that promotes greed, selfishness and hatred of the poor and disadvantaged.

As I have said from the start, Brexit is 100% racist as the determination of Westminster is to appease those racist nationalists who blame everything on immigrants and foreigners in general. To listen to a Brexiteer you would think that the EU is some kind of invading barbarian horde determined to enslave us and make us a colony. What is now apparent is that all British politics is being driven by English exceptionalism. These people still genuinely believe the 'Great' in Great Britain. The singular most pertinent problem for Brexit is Ireland, because, true to a thousand years of history, the English treated the Irish with their normal contempt and never gave a moments thought to the consequences of their actions for either Eire or Ulster. In a similar manner they have simply dismissed any consideration of the wishes or concerns of the Scots or the Welsh. This, whether people like it or not, is racist. Only the English matter, and the Irish, Welsh, and Scots must doff their caps in gratitude and accept what our masters and betters are prepared to give us. We actually had a Tory MP tell the government to use the threat of food shortages in Ireland after Brexit in order to get the Irish government to help them out of their impasse. You literally could not make it up. A Tory free market neoliberal is not a heartless creature, they are not up to that level, they are soulless, devoid of humanity and common decency. Theresa May has displayed a dogmatic and ideological obsession with trying to reconcile a Brexit that gains as many advantages as possible without giving an inch on the question of pesky foreigners and the nuisance of Ireland. International law, decency, humanitarian concerns are completely foreign to this creature, she has to get her own way regardless of the damage she inflicts in the process. People talk about her strength and her determination, but they are wrong, what she displays is weakness and arrogance, and a complete indifference, indeed contempt, for opposing opinions and arguments. However, perhaps her most notable achievement is in setting a new standard for staggering incompetence and lying without a shred of shame or remorse. One British MP noted that she spent over three hours in front of a Commons committee without answering a single question, she just lied and swerved around every issue she was asked about. A friend finally confided in me recently that he now understands why I call Westminster a pigsty as it is populated by a breed of creature who delight in wallowing in their own filth.

There is light at the end of the tunnel however. Sense still prevails in the Celtic regions as the Scots, the Welsh, and the majority of Northern Ireland have seen through the Westminster stupidity and refuse to be bullied by the Tory English nationalist narrative and threats. I am becoming increasing confident that Brexit will not happen. Even some Tories are taking fright at the monster they have created. There are calls for another referendum and even some arguing, as the ex Prime Minister John Major has, to abandon Brexit all together and revoke Article Fifty. Such arguments will have to overcome the utter hatred and blind ideological obsessions of the swivel eyed barbarians who are in the ascendancy at the moment. Brexit is both rank insanity and completely irrational. Surely sense must eventually prevail.  You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

Westminster, the root of all evil

A persistent theme of this blog since I first started has been my repeated warnings how the British Conservative Party and its allies throughout our society have displayed a steely determination to complete the free market project of Margaret Thatcher, a crucial part of which is to reduce the majority of British people to a state of modern slavery, to impoverish them and deprive them of as many rights, civil, political and employment rights as they possibly can. This policy is designed as part of their determination to transfer as much wealth as is possible into the pockets of the British elite and to ensure as little resistance as possible. They have been, and continue to be, extremely successful. This ultimate goal is, of course, the principal driver behind the Brexit programme.

Over the years, many friends and colleagues have dismissed my arguments and accused me of hyperbole, simply on the grounds that they could not bring themselves to see what is staring them in the face. They offered no evidence in their rebuttals of my arguments, just a condescending form of pity that I was losing the plot. They refused to accept that the British could elect evil people, that the Tories were fundamentally wicked and had nothing but loathing and contempt for the majority of the British population. Slowly, however, the Scots are wakening up to the facts of the Tories, and indeed the entire Westminster pigsty establishments withering contempt for Scotland with their behaviour over Brexit. I suppose it is too much to ask, but perhaps even the most braindead amongst our forelock tugging population will take heed of the United Nations, who, I do not hesitate to say, give substance to everything I have been saying over the years. I trust most of you will be familiar with the UN Report by their poverty envoy Philip Alston and will not go into it in detail other than to remind you of his most crucial findings. His language was enlightening as he writes that the UK government (the Conservative Party) has inflicted 'great misery' on the British people with “punitive, mean-spirited, and often callous” austerity policies driven by a political desire to undertake social re-engineering.

Now I wish you to note that this is a programme of social engineering according to Mr Alston (what I call the Thatcher project) that is, it is deliberate and calculated policy producing amongst other things, levels of child poverty that are “not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster”, even though the UK is the world’s fifth largest economy. Mr Alston reports that about 14 million people, a fifth of the population, live in poverty and 1.5 million are destitute, being unable to afford basic essentials, citing figures from the Institute for Fiscal Studies and the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. He highlighted predictions that child poverty could rise by 7% between 2015 and 2022, possibly up to a rate of 40%.
“It is patently unjust and contrary to British values that so many people are living in poverty,” he said, adding that compassion had been abandoned during almost a decade of austerity policies that had been so profound that key elements of the postwar social contract, devised by William Beveridge more than 70 years ago, had been swept away.

Mr Alston gives the British more credit than they deserve when he tells us that such things are contrary to British values, because one of the greatest of the Tories achievements, aided and abetted by the Labour Party whilst in office, has been the destruction of what we call British values and their replacement with greed and selfishness as the only permissible values. The British have no values left of any consequence as we have seen over the Brexit disaster and the indifference of the population to the conditions that Mr Alston so vividly describes. But the most telling part of his report is the one that I have been warning for so long, that in the United Kingdom “poverty is a political choice”. That is correct, he tells us that British government policy is deliberately creating poverty, it is not an accident or an unintended consequence, it is a choice. As this post is getting too long I will leave it there, but the British can no longer deny the empirical reality of their political and social system. As I repeatedly tell you, you have been warned, although I have no confidence that the British will take any heed as they are too attached to their royal weddings and the trust of their beneficent and kindly aristocratic betters. You get what you vote for and the British persistently vote for their own impoverishment and slavery.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

Brexit - British hubris writ large

As you will all be too aware it hardly requires me to remind you of the utter incompetence and stupidity of the British ruling class as it is demonstrated on a daily basis so graphically over our catastrophic Brexit negotiations, or rather what passes for negotiations. You will all be familiar with the Europeans bewilderment at the British approach, at their arrogance, their inherent belief in their superiority and their towering sense of entitlement. The English upper class really do adhere to stereotype and are as stupid as they are portrayed in comedy. P.G.Wodehouse was only marginally exaggerating. This is the Eton, Oxbridge mentality, when that imbecile Liam Fox (whom I am ashamed to say is a Scot) proclaimed loudly and longly that a free trade deal would be the easiest thing in history. Two years and hundreds of thousands of air miles later we are still waiting for this cretin to justify his existence, never mind his expenses. It is rare, even in the Tory Party, to find someone as utterly useless.

It was Einstein who told us that the definition of insanity is attempting the same thing over and over whilst expecting different results. That characterises the Brexiteers and particularly the disastrous Theresa May who is even more thick and stupid than I gave her credit for. The EU repeatedly tell them that what they propose is not possible because of EU law and the various Treaty Articles, but that falls of deaf Tory ears. If you listen to Tory Brexit voters, all they ever parrot is that we should just get on with it, oblivious to the fact that 'it' is not an option. Indeed they have no idea what 'it' is. In addition, they repeatedly tell us that Brexit is the will of the people, despite the fact that, if the polls are correct, three million of the leave voters in the 2016 referendum have now changed their mind and the will of the people is now something quite different. But that is the Tory way, never let facts get in the way of a good story.

You see, it is now demonstrable, even to the most stupid, that everything, and I mean everything, that the Leave campaign told us during the referendum was wrong, and what wasn't simply wrong, was a barefaced lie. Having said that, I am happy as there would now appear to be only two options left, a complete withdrawal with nothing to show for it, or staying in the EU. That is because, unless there is agreement in the next few days, there will be no time left to get anything through either the Westminster Parliament or the European system. It is not for nothing I call Westminster a pigsty, although I am beginning to reconsider that opinion as I now accept that it represents a grievous slur against a noble breed of animal that is very efficient and quite intelligent, and far more worthy of my respect than a Westminster MP. I will be happy with a disaster because it will almost certainly lead to Scottish independence and the English in their arrogance will never learn anything until they are faced with the disaster they not only voted for, but wish for. I personally do not think Brexit will happen, but then I am wrong about most things. But one thing appears almost certain, the Irish are about to get their revenge and the Brits will only have themselves to blame. You have been warned.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

Maybe I've got this white supremicist thing all wrong?

I've been contemplating the white supremacist thing and wondering if I should rethink my attitude towards them. I was musing on the tremendous courage and bravery of someone with a machine gun and two powerful handguns entering a synagogue full of worshipping Jews and shooting a 97 year old unarmed lady in a wheelchair. That took a lot of courage, especially when you remember that this old lady was Jewish, and Jewish wheelchair bound 97 year olds are renowned for their ferocity. It is similar to attacking a week old kitten, something even the most battle-hardened military expert would baulk at. You then must consider the tremendous bravery of someone entering a school and mowing down unarmed children and their teachers and contemplate on the undeniable wisdom of the Moron in the White House describing such people as having real good and decent people in their midst, people with the courage to drive a car into a group of unarmed demonstrators and kill a young woman, because it is obviously only the finest specimen of white supremist who engages in such acts of outstanding valour. Thus it would be unforgivable of me to even attempt to criticise the Moron for his wise and thoughtful comments on such matters. Those patriotic upstanding and indeed outstanding members of the white supremist community must therefore take up the banner of role model for all their more undeserving brothers and sisters who think all they need to do is vote for racists and fascists who will do the job for them, because, much as he would like to, the Moron cannot do it himself as his security people will not let him. I mean imagine if the Moron was faced with an unarmed 97 year old Jewish wheelchair-bound terrorist, or a schoolchild brandishing their satchel, or, perish the thought, an African-American pastor wielding a Bible. It is too horrific to contemplate.

I was then led to consider which is the most glorious act, massacring unarmed Jewish worshippers, unarmed children, or massacring a similar number of black people who were engaging in the outlandish activity of Bible study when they were shot by one of the Moron's good upstanding white supremist citizens. White supremists are all of course Christians, as they and the Moron continually assure us, which makes their acts of bravery all the more impressive because they had to enter places of worship, particularly those Jewish places, that are by definition Satanic and engaging in hellish conspiracies to take over the world and exterminate the white Christian problem. African-Americans can't possibly be real Christians anyway because they too are all busily engaged in an anti-white, anti-Christian conspiracy? I mean it's obvious, why? because they're not white and God is white isn't He? So, their churches are in effect permissible targets for those paragons of Christianity who are identifiable by their hoods, hatred, and their worship of the new Messiah, who has been identified by his sacred number, 45. Thus the white Christian is being assailed on all sides, by Jews, African-Americans, Muslims, transgender and feminist fanatics, CNN, HIAS, The Pittsburgh Steelers and of course the Muppets. It is therefore necessary for those white Christian patriots to step up to the plate, which I understand to be an American baseball metaphor for courage, tenacity and patriotism.

I fear America is heading into another form of civil war, as, rather than the leadership of the nation attempting to impose peace and unity, since the recent atrocities, the opposite is occurring and hatred is being intensified as the perpetrators attempt to portray themselves as victims. America is a graphic example of how you get what you vote for. You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

Hate is so much more powerful than love and understanding

If our present history is demonstrating anything it is the real and graphic evidence of the power of language. On both sides of the Atlantic we are seeing daily how words are both symbolic and meaningful and being utilized to spread a hatred and division within our societies that is having real and tragic consequences. Language has power. The Brexit debacle was founded on a hatred of foreigners and the result of a national referendum was founded on the exploited fears of immigration. The US midterm elections are being fought on exactly the same kind of platform. In both cases the leading opinion formers utilise Nazi propaganda techniques to promote fear and loathing, arguing that outsiders are going to invade us in large numbers and destroy our social order, our culture and our fundamental way of life. They then feign surprise and innocence when such fears produce results, and atrocities are committed by people motivated by such hostile and inflammatory language. The purveyors of hate and violence then adopt the Monty Python defence, "it wasn't me guv, honest".

We live in a symbolic social world and our language is symbolic, it supplies us with images that we associate with the words we use to describe our everyday life. When we hear words we conjure up symbols and images from our consciousness and socialisation, from our particular cultural upbringing. Depending on our worldview we will have a positive or negative reaction to words like, Jew, Muslim, Black, Homosexual, immigrant etc. When someone asks you for a chair, they do not need to explain to you what a chair is, you immediately recognise the word chair by the symbolic representation you carry of a chair. In the same way you will respond to words like Jew or Muslim according to how you symbolically envision them as a result of your worldview. If you have a deeply negative symbolism of such associations you will react negatively which may be so intense that it spurs you to action. It is quite likely that your reaction will be inexplicable to you yourself, you will not be able to definitively articulate why you reacted in that manner, it will be genuinely irrational, and that is what the sowers of hate and poison are counting on, an irrational reaction that will lead to similarly irrational action, such as gunning down completely innocent strangers, simply because you associate them with a word.


It has become essential, indeed incumbent on us, to highlight and call to account those powerful people and institutions who habitually demonise others, who utilize language to promote the hatred and division we are seeing so graphically and tragically on a daily basis, hatred and division that terrorises some and motivates others to kill. It is time to say enough to those sowers of poison, the liars and propagandists, whether politicians, the press, or influential individuals and groups. By calling those who disagree with us, those we do not like, members of our own society, enemies of the people, parasites, not like us, etc. and portray our own citizens as ‘others’, outsiders who don’t belong, we promote an image, and exert a powerful influence that encourages others to refuse to see such people as real and appropriate human beings. By such methods we create an image of real and concrete enemies, see other people as threats, not only to our way of life and culture, but to our very existence. When we seek to quite deliberately demonise individuals and groups, we should not be surprised, or feign innocence, when such people are actually viewed as demons, as monsters who are not legitimate human beings but are something else. We create a society where people do not see Jewish, Muslim, Black, LGBT, immigrants etc. as human beings; instead they see demons, others, monsters who threaten them and their way of life. It therefore becomes our duty to oppose such demons and object to their presence amongst us. In the same way, we create demons who are a real and existent threat to our society when we label people on welfare, the unemployed, the disabled etc. as scroungers and skivers, as parasites  depriving us of our hard-earned money through the need for taxation to provide for those we deem undeserving and ungrateful.


By this process we create an alternative reality of an underclass of subhumans who are different from us and not deserving of the normal considerations we give to real people, and importantly, who do not belong amongst us. These are the people who are taking our jobs, our houses, destroying our children’s education, living off the benefits system and all the other malicious and mendacious propaganda we are subjected to on a daily basis from those who seek to profit from other people’s misery. Thus we reduce living human beings to the category of those untermenschen who were so powerfully and effectively demonised  by Hitler; that subhuman underclass who threaten to engulf society and destroy our culture and our way of life and who should be removed for the greater good of those of us who are real people, real citizens and  meaningful members of society.


When such language is being deployed from 10 Downing Street, the Home Office, The White House, Fox News, the Daily Telegraph and the Daily Mail, it carries the cloak of authority and respectability and therefore gives permission for others in society to share such opinions and indeed promote them. However, it is then only a short step from holding such respectable opinions of hatred and division to acting upon them as we see being so horribly enacted in the United States and increasingly on our own streets. It must stop, now! You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

So, The Moron's language is finally having its desired effect

Well it had to happen, and this is just the start. It now appears that numerous people have been warning the White House Moron that his rhetoric and behaviour was dangerous and liable to cause trouble, but that he wouldn't listen. Well, as you know, I have been telling you why he won't listen, because this is what he wants. At his rally last night, after all his weasel words about how America needed to unify, he reverted back to type by once again sowing division and trying to blame the media, when the whole world and his brother knows that he is the cause of  the terrorist attacks on American citizens who dare to oppose him. He can't help himself because he is a complete psychopath and is not in control of his behaviour or his emotions. He is an imbecile but a very dangerous imbecile, a deeply evil person who never sees opponents, only enemies that have to be vanquished and destroyed. I believe he is quite deliberately trying to foment civil unrest to give himself an excuse to delay and ultimately suspend, the democratic process so that he can begin the process of making himself president for life. What I don't understand is why legal and corporate bodies such as the Democratic Party and CNN don't sue him and seek to have him removed from office for his persistent lies and slanders about them. The Moron is a classical bully who must be confronted on his own terms because he doesn't understand anything else. He is a coward, as all bullies are, and therefore only understands threats and confrontations that will damage him, he is completely impervious to reason or appeals to decency.

What is perhaps more dangerous to the world and its security is the people who surround him, who recognise the atrocities that are his language and behaviour, fully understand the consequences of such language and behaviour, but persistently support him and deny what they know to be true. They are more evil than him, because, being insane, he probably ends up believing his endless lies, but his supporters aren't mad, they are simply bad, those people who emerge all throughout history around and behind tyrants and demagogues and who exploit their positions and encourage their mad masters to even greater excesses for their own personal gain. There can be few more soulless and amoral creatures on earth than his press secretary, a creature who lies even more effortlessly and shamelessly than the Moron himself. The people who surround the Moron are no less loathsome or inhuman than those who were despatched by the Saudis to butcher and murder Jamal Kashoggi, people who have sold their soul and quite deliberately taken that step, so graphically described by Solzhenitsyn, into the bottomless pit, people who have quite deliberately given up the essence that makes a person human.

There is no doubt that today's events will only prove to be a temporary setback and restraint on his language and behaviour, because he is incapable of restraining his baser instincts. He will seek to turn these events to his advantage and will soon construct an alternative reality where he is in fact the victim. American government and politics cannot get much lower or out of control and the American people do not have much time to turn things around. You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat