Great Britain PLC the sale of the century

I have been writing since I started this blog about how the fundamental problem with our economic and social life is the persistent policies of deregulation that are at the heart of the Westminster neoliberal agenda. It was the absence of any form of meaningful regulation that caused the financial crisis in 2007 and today, seven years later Westminster has still made no meaningful moves to correct this. Just last week we witnessed another series of fines on banking malpractice that takes the global total of fines imposed on banks in the past six years to £200 billion. Yes that's billion. There can be no doubt left, even in the minds of the most rabid right-wing halfwit that the banking and financial community are the lowest form of life on the planet. However, they are no worse than the Conservatives who are down there at the bottom of the swamp along with them. That is why most conservatives are financiers and bankers.

It is beyond dispute that deregulation is a disaster, that it is a device to allow criminality and gangsterism to go unpunished and to transfer wealth from the poorest to the richest in our society. I have been writing this for many years and it has now been confirmed by official data that this has been the result of successive governmental policies dating back many years. The rich are getting richer and the poor poorer. This is official government policy and it is the policy of all Westminster parties. Today Cameron has announced that he is going to attempt to speed up the ratification of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) trade deal. This is a signal that the solution to the crisis caused by deregulation is, according to our Conservative coalition government, even greater deregulation.

TTIP is designed to remove existing regulatory barriers to trade between the EU and the US. That in itself is not too radical, but included in this deal is the provision for foreign countries and firms to buy up large sectors of Britain's public service sector, and particularly its health and welfare sectors. Included in these contracts will be clauses that will guarantee that no future British government will be able to recover these services once they are sold off. I have repeatedly warned you that the Westminster parties are going to completely privatise the NHS, perhaps someone will now start to believe me.

This is deeply unconstitutional. It is an essential part of the concept of parliamentary sovereignty that no parliament can bind its successors. Thus, if this deal goes through, no future parliament will be able to reverse this policy and recover what was privatised. This is what you voted for on September 18th, and don't try to say you weren't warned. You voted for another financial crisis, the complete privatisation of the health and welfare sectors, the eventual privatisation of all public services, the transfer of the national wealth from the poor to the rich, the sale of all British assets to foreign companies, and the impotence of your parliament to do anything about it. I trust you feel very comfortably Better Together. You have been warned.

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Doktor Kommirat