There Is No Alternative

Since the election of Margaret Thatcher, all our neoliberal governments have been consistently telling us that there is no alternative to their economic model and the policies they promote to further the aims and goals of that model. Indeed, the first minister sacked by Thatcher was Norman St John Stevas in 1981 because he refused to associate with Thatcher's lie which he quite correctly considered ridiculous and an obvious fraud, and nicknamed her TINA (There Is No Alternative). Politics and economics are always concerned with choices between many diverse alternatives, and any politician who tells us that there are no alternatives should be driven from office and forbidden to hold a public position ever again as they are either an unscrupulous liar or an imbecile though they are probably both. St John Stevas was at least honest enough to realise and admit that.

Economics is not a science, it is a particular form of human behaviour that involves moral and ethical principles because, amongst other things, as I said above, it involves choice. You see, the statement that there is no alternative is a moral statement, because, if there are no alternatives to the policies and programmes being pursued by the policy makers at any given historical period those policies and programmes must be, by definition, right. In addition, should anyone propose alternatives to such policies and programmes, they must be, by definition, wrong. In other words, according to Thatcher and her cronies, you do not have a choice. This is a very good example of the Nazi propaganda expert Joseph Goebbels’ advice that if you are going to tell a lie, tell a big lie, and tell it often. This is a lie that is so obvious that it beggars the imagination that anyone would consider it for a second. However, it is very successful and is widely accepted as a fact, proving Goebbels’ point. In any economic decision there are a multitude of alternatives, there are choices galore, you may not like most of them, but they are available if you want them. What governments are telling you when they say this, is that their economic policies are the only ones available that will work, and that all other policies are not only wrong, but will fail. They are also claiming that the economic model they are operating by is the only viable and correct model available. This is like going into the butchers for a steak for your dinner and the butcher telling you that he/she has run out of steak and has only chicken left for sale, and you can only have chicken for dinner as there is no other alternative. Yes there is, you can go to another shop that does have steak for sale! You could have lamb or pork; you can go buy a pizza or some fish and chips. There are numerous alternatives available; you have choices. You are only limited in choice and alternatives if you insist on purchasing in that one shop. As a result, successive governments, beginning with Margaret Thatcher, have been insisting that there is indeed only one shop, that you have no choice and that their model, and their interpretation of free market economic capitalism, is correct and the only one that will work and provide you with your dinner, which of course, will have to be chicken. They have therefore been persistently lying to the British people for over 30 years at this time of writing, thereby engaging in immoral behaviour. Even if they themselves deeply believe it, it is still a lie, and if they do believe it then they are criminally stupid and manifestly unfit for government.

What is worse though is that a gullible public has bought into this nonsense and accepts it despite all the evidence of its stupidity that is all around them. This is the model that has brought the Western world to its knees and has been exposed as legalised gangsterism. Should anyone wish any more discussion on this subject please feel free to ask, or, if you feel that I am talking nonsense then please forward your objections, I welcome them and will respond as honestly as I can!!!

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat