Since the start of this blog I have been withering in my contempt for people who claim that there is no alternative to austerity and the policies of the free market criminals who are destroying our society. I continually tell you that the whole concept of a 'free market' is a lie and a fraud. At last this conversation is beginning to gather pace in the UK, especially since the rise of Jeremy Corbyn's candidacy for the Labour leadership. Of course there are alternatives, there are a multitude if you want to look for them. You may not like them , but they are there if you want them.
I despise the Labour Party as you are well aware, and it is a matter of indifference to me who wins the leadership race, but what is significant is the panic that has erupted from the entire British establishment now that it appears that someone who is challenging the Westminster consensus has a chance of actually winning and making a difference. This panic is shared by the entire British establishment, including the entire press and media. There is not one voice is support of him, but already his message is beginning to have an effect. The loathsome Yvette Cooper is now telling us that she will provide a radical and effective alternative to austerity. It has taken her since 2008 to reach this stage and of course is completely insincere. In addition she has neither the intelligence nor the will to devise such a strategy, it is merely an act of desperation as she has no chance in the leadership contest and no-one is listening to her because the public has at least the wit to see her for the charlatan that she is. Remember she was part of the Labour leadership who wrote on the very first page of the 2015 election manifesto that they would introduce a Budget Responsibility Lock to secure a budget reduction every year. How on earth do people like that, or the other two clowns, Burnham and Kendall, ever get elected? It's enough to make you despair, which of course I regularly do.
Austerity has failed, that is empirically demonstrable with this Tory led gang of economic illiterates failing to meet every one of their own targets over a period of six years. The only targets that they actually meet are those imposed on the disadvantaged and the weak, with over a million people per day using foodbanks, half of whom are in full-time employment. They are of course on target to remove all of our rights, but that will be met with approval by the Yvette Coopers of the world and the British press and media. You see, when I was a student, the received economic wisdom was that if you cut spending in a recession, whilst reducing your tax income through unemployment and reduced consumption, you were flirting with disaster. In other words, austerity was a policy when the economy was booming and overheating and expansion was right for a recession. I wonder what has changed since then? The answer of course was the Triumph of both Thatcher and Reagan who suddenly found that they had both the ability and the means whereby they could introduce policies that would see a massive transference of wealth from the bottom of society to an elite with neither morals nor conscience. Thatcher and Reagan were genuinely bad people and their legacies are disastrous. We may now be witnessing a serious reaction and the beginnings of the end for 'the free market' one can only hope. You have been warned.
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat.
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