I am persistently asked by people why anyone listens to Donald Trump? They also express disbelief that anyone could vote for him, which, from my perspective, reveals that the Scots still retain a modicum of intelligence and decency. But the answer is not difficult and we should not be surprised by his rise in popularity because he is a typical representative of the dominant free market neoliberal ideology in both Britain and America. Trump is the logical product of this odious and fraudulent ideology that fosters greed, selfishness, intolerance and hate. We have our own Trumps in Britain, but here they are Eton, Harrow, and Oxbridge educated and are taught how to promote the same poison that he does in the manners and style of a 'gentleman'. In other words, our fascism is genteel and mannerly. For example, only today we are being told that the British government put the deportation of a ninety-two year old woman on hold due to public pressure. Our good Christian Prime Minister was going to deport a ninety-two year old South African woman who has serious heart problems, cannot walk unaided and is losing her eyesight. She came to this country to end her days with her only daughter in Poole in Dorset, but British immigration officials had booked her onto a Virgin flight to Johannesburg this coming Tuesday. I am sure Trump would have eagerly approved and is even now considering building a wall around South Africa to protect the poor helpless British from any more 92 year old potential terrorists and benefit scroungers abusing British hospitality.
In Britain we are approaching a referendum on membership of the European Union and the only topic that is being discussed is immigration. We have just been informed that the referendum will be on June 23rd which is, of course, designed in the hope that the Scots and Welsh will not vote in any great numbers given that they will have just emerged from their own elections for the Scottish Parliament and the Welsh Assembly in May and the Tories are praying that they will suffer from voter fatigue and abstain in order that the Scots in particular will not be able to call for a referendum on Independence if Britain votes to leave the EU on the basis that they did not show enough enthusiasm during the EU referendum. The Tories are many things, but they cannot be accused of inconsistency.
The arguments on immigration all centre around the threat to British jobs and the pressures that immigrants put on our services such as housing, health, transport etc. This is of course nonsense since all of these pressures arise, not from immigration, but from the savage cuts that the Tories have made in all of those areas. The other major cause is the privatisation of most of these services. Interestingly, this argument, about the pressures on our services, is in fact a damning indictment on the free market as all of the arguments about privatisation centred on the promises that this would not, and could not happen once market forces were allowed to rescue our services from the carnage wrought by the public sector. However, what can you expect if you place the responsibility for health, care, housing etc. in the hands of disciples of Adolf Eichmann.
So, we are in a position where our politics have been reduced to the level of Donald Trump and David Camoron and our civil society is motivated by building walls rather than by building bridges as the Pope was so gracious to point out, by hate, greed and racism. Adam Smith would condemn this society and its ruling elite root and branch. Remember, there is no such thing as a free market, it is a lie and an illusion, but worse it is a cruel deception. You have been warned
Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat
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