It is all about choices

I apologise for not having posted for some time but mein laptop vost kaput and I had to have it repaired. This involved getting a new hard drive and having to reinstall everything including Windows and Office etc. which, for a technological imbecile like me, was a daunting and time consuming process. However, the absence of a computer has given me time for reflection and I cannot avoid my increasing incredulity at the speed of descent into the bottomless pit of politics on both sides of the Atlantic. The situation in the USA is truly alarming with the divisive nature of congressional politics assuming the status of open hatred and this is reflected on the streets and in the media. Both The Moron and Theresa May have turned out even worse than I bargained for and both American and British governments are in a genuine and dangerous crisis. The Moron's stint as president must assuredly end very badly for the USA as its political culture is now genuinely scary, but it is the UK I wish to comment on here.

The Tories persistently peddle the mantra that because the 2008 financial crisis left the nation with such a punitive and costly deficit then austerity was not only necessary, but also, reverting back to the sacred words of the Blessed Margaret, there was no alternative. That of course is not only a barefaced lie, it is patently stupid. Austerity is both an ideological and political concept. Ideological because it is based on a very narrow and specific way of thinking, and political because it involves a series of quite deliberate choices that are the result of that specific way of thinking. It is part of a belief system that is itself rooted in the entrenched and ever present class warfare that is the essential characteristic of the United Kingdom. Britain, as I have repeatedly told you in this blog, is based on privilege, entitlement, and exclusion, and to the Tories it was neatly summed up by the Blessed Margaret who categorised people by whether they were 'them' or 'us'. I frequently comment that the notion that there is no alternative is a totalitarian concept. Now, those familiar with British politics will be aware that the Tory government will not allow a vote by either Parliament or the British people on the Brexit situation. It will not even sanction a vote by its own MPs or party. It has also refused to allow any input by the Scottish Parliament, The Welsh Assembly, or any political institution in Northern Ireland other than the DUP who they bribed to support their government after the last election. Thus Britain is governed by a set of ideological politicians who simply refuse to even pay lip service to democratic norms. They are both ideologically and by nature, authoritarians who must get their own way. One of the largest targets for the Tories war against democratic institutions has been local government. Local governments have suffered an average 60% cut in their budgets since the last election and local government has been effectively crippled. In his ‘Representative Government’ John Stuart Mill argues that
‘The very object of having a local representation, is in order that those who have any interest in common which they do not share with the general body of their countrymen may manage that joint interest by themselves.’

Liberal democracy requires a system of limited government with defined independent centres of power. Thatcher launched an aggressive war against such independent centres of power and her main targets were Britain's system of local government and the trades union movement. Both have been effectively crippled allowing central government to do what it wants, which was Thatcher's primary aim. Democratic governance requires legitimacy and representation and as wide a dispersal of power as is necessary. The principle of local government is designed to satisfy such requirements as is neatly summed up by Mill. If such local responsibility were to be replaced by centralised administration from London, it is argued that such local individuality of approach would be sacrificed to uniformity, and that the adaptability of local decision-making would give way to rigidity and the centralised imposition of a bureaucratic ‘only one way’ of doing things. That is exactly what has happened in the UK. If local government enjoys a degree of autonomy from the centre, the power of the state is therefore fragmented and limited and that is anathema to authoritarians like Thatcher and her successors. As the political commentator John Kingdom notes, the elimination of local government is generally taken as a symptom of totalitarianism.

However, austerity is not inevitable, even given the disaster of the financial crisis. Politics is the art of choosing between alternatives and the Tories made the classic fundamental choice between imposing cuts or raising taxes, which was of course, completely ideological. For example Alfred Marshall was professor of political economy at Cambridge from 1885 till 1908 and founded what we know as the Cambridge School of Economics and so is hardly qualified to be labelled a socialist or a Marxist, even by the fevered imaginations of right-wing Tories or American Republicans. In his 'Principles of Economics' in 1890, he wrote that

"It has been left for our own generation to perceive all the evils which arose from the suddenness of this increase of economic freedom. Now first are we getting to understand the extent to which the capitalist employer, untrained to his new duties, was tempted to subordinate the wellbeing of his workpeople to his own desire for gain; now first are we learning the importance of insisting that the rich have duties as well as rights in their individual and in their collective capacity; now first is the economic problem of the new age showing itself to us as it really is. This is partly due to a wider knowledge and a growing earnestness.......In particular this increased prosperity has made us rich and strong enough to impose new restraints on free enterprise; some temporary material loss being submitted to for the sake of a higher and ultimate greater gain. But these new restraints are different from the old. They are imposed not as a means of class domination; but with the purpose of defending the weak, and especially children and the mothers of children, in matters in which they are not able to use the forces of competition in their own defence".

If Marshall was to write this today, The Moron would be mocking him and sneering at him at one of his infamous rallies and the Tories and their lickspittles in the media would undoubtedly seek to have him removed from his Chair at Cambridge. Today's capitalist employers are no longer untrained in their duties, indeed they are all too well trained today in how to subordinate the wellbeing of their workers to the desire for their own gain, another of the legacies of the Blessed Margaret, and sentiments such as Marshall's would render them impotent with rage. As Marshall obviously tells us, there are choices, there are alternatives. Both The Moron and the British Tories are quite deliberately dismantling our respective systems of politics and remodelling them in their own image. If our peoples allow them to do that, then they will get exactly what they deserve. You have been warned

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat 

Can there be anyone more disgustingly hypocritical than a white American Christian?

Can there be anyone more disgustingly hypocritical than a white American Christian? I have reached this conclusion after watching and reading innumerable documentaries and articles about this strange group of people, who, whilst preaching brotherly love, tolerance, and peace and goodwill to all men, must rank amongst the most hate-filled, intolerant and potentially murderous people on the planet. I could fill this blog with quotes from Christians who appear to genuinely believe that their god, not only put the White House Moron into office, but supports and defends him, and regards him as his/her true representative on earth, a protestant pope. It was Jesus Christ Himself who told us that when we wish to know the true character and motivations of a person we should judge them 'by their fruits'. There are few people who can match the Moron for lying, fostering hatred, demonising others, abuse, racism and misogyny, and those are his better characteristics. They are however, his fruits which are divisive in the extreme and very dangerous, as he continues to incite and encourage violence and hatred. He would make a perfect Tory Party leader.

I fear American Christians are rather selective in their understanding of the teachings of their own religion. I have an article in front of me of a Christian rally, by something called the Values Voter Summit, where one woman actually told the reporter that Trump had surrounded himself with godly men. Either me or the Christians are living in an alternative universe, because in the world I inhabit, all of Trump's godly men are in serious trouble with the law as they have been exposed as a bunch of gangsters and criminals. I watched a rally last night during which the Moron praised his Supreme Court nominee as a great man and dismissed the lady who has accused him of sexual assault without even listening to what she had to say, and the great and good American Christians applauded enthusiastically. This is a lady who has already submitted to a polygraph. So, what kind of Christian justice is that supposed to represent? By what moral standards are these people operating? Is that Christian morality and justice? Perhaps that is actually what the Christian religion is evolving into in its American context!

However, I am seriously beginning to think that Trump and his army of godly men are indeed representative of the American Christian community. I have watched three documentaries about the Ku Klux Klan in recent months and they all spout the same gibberish about love of god, love of country and love of the Moron. They all claim to be Christians, and as a result of watching the Christian community in America in its many forms I confess that I no longer understand what Christianity is, or what it is supposed to represent. The things that appear to unite all white Christians in America are hate, guns, and the Moron. If these people are indeed representative of the god of the Bible, then I no longer understand the Bible either and want absolutely nothing to do with their god. Imagine going to heaven after you die and spending eternity surrounded by such people and under the authority of a god who endorses them, their teachings, and their behaviour?

By the standards of their own Bible, the behaviour of the Moron has been, and still is, on a daily basis, a catalogue of never ending sin. Nor is he either repentant or even slightly remorseful. Now, I do not judge this creature on his behaviour by the same standards as a Christian is supposed to, but it is they who claim to uphold their commandments, which, the last time I looked forbade lying and adultery amongst other things, both of which forms of behaviour are the Moron's supreme talents, indeed they appear to be his only talents. That matters not a jot to our good, upstanding white American Christian community however. They are quite happy to ignore this because morality and ethical behaviour is selective and relative in their world. Their brand of Christianity is a moral and ethical supermarket where you exercise your individual choice, and, as long as you are happy with it, you are a rational consumer, a good old boy or girl. This is the real manifestation of the American free market, it is a free market of moral and ethical choices, and as long as you utter enough 'praise the lords' and 'hallelujahs' you're in the gang. If the Supreme Moron does indeed qualify to be accepted as a Christian, and the Christian community continue to support him on his own terms, then the Christian religion has lost all meaning and relevance. You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

Immigration - the myth that will not die

The British Government's Migration Advisory Committee has just released a report confirming all that The Kommirat has been telling you about immigration since the start of this blog. The government should be congratulated as they are only six years behind me, which for a Tory Party led by the appalling Theresa May, is quite an intellectual triumph. If you are following the Brexit saga you will now be aware that the British government are even more staggeringly incompetent than I have been giving them credit for. They are genuinely useless and we, in the UK, are at present in crisis in almost all parts of our social life, particularly in railways, transport in general, health and education just to name the most crucial. But our biggest problem is political as we have a government of unbelievable stupidity and an opposition which is possibly even worse.

However, this report on immigration is quite serious, and should be a cause of national concern, because what has always been obvious to me, but has been repeatedly denied by most of the Westminster pigsty and their lackeys in the media,  and in particular by the Tories, in order to fuel the myths that the political class peddled for the purpose of scapegoating their own incompetence and criminality, was that immigration was the principal source of the Brexit vote to leave the EU, which I remind you was unadulterated racism and hatred of foreigners, despite what the British majority white population want you to think by their repeated and indignant denials that they are racist, anti-Muslim or antisemitic. That British white nationalistic population are of course a significant minority in Scotland which, I again remind you, is by far the most intelligent and civilised sector of the United Kingdom. Without going into details which are widely available in the press, I quote you the summary of the government report from the Independent newspaper.

"Key myths on the negative impacts of EU immigration have been blown apart by a major report commissioned by the government. The document found EU citizens have little impact on UK workers’ wages, pay more in taxes, have no adverse impact on young Britons’ schooling, are not linked to increasing crime and contribute “much more” to the NHS than they consume. It did highlight how immigration helped push up house prices, but concluded the rise is directly linked to a broader failure to build new homes".

Crucially, the Migration Advisory Committee concluded that EU immigration has been significantly beneficial to the public purse with each EU migrant contributing £2,300 more to the exchequer each year, in net terms, than the average adult, and over their lifetimes, they pay in £78,000 more than they take out in public services and benefits, while the average UK citizen’s net lifetime contribution is zero. How does that grab you Boris the Spider and Nigel Garbage?

There is some good news however, Theresa May has just been firmly rejected by the EU and her policies are in tatters, and demographic data shows that, statistically, on 19th January next year, the majority of the electorate will now reflect that pro-EU voters will outnumber leavers by several percentage points and the prospect of Brexit will begin to recede rapidly. In some ways that is bad news for me. because, as I have told you before, I hope for the hardest of Brexits. Brexit will be a disaster and I firmly believe that the only way that the braindead Brexiteers will come to their senses is when they are faced with the disaster that they cannot deny was of their own making. They will need to have their noses firmly and repeatedly rubbed into their own mess. As you know, I have been thinking about Brexit for three years now and I still fail to see even one positive about it. It is an act of national political suicide based on lies, hate and quite frankly, stupidity. As the man said, 'that makes no sense at all.' The other reason I want the hardest of Brexits of course, is that I am quite certain it will bring about a large majority for Scottish Independence and Scotland will be free to create a Tory free zone. Hope springs eternal. You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

The Tyranny of a so-called majority wedded to madness

There can be few more stupid and fatuous statements than Theresa May’s claim that a second referendum on Brexit would be a betrayal of democracy. It demonstrates the childish grasp of politics that predominates within the Westminster class and shows that we really have reached the point where the dominant Brexit narrative from the leave lobby has established itself as what John Stuart Mill called ‘the tyranny of the majority’. It now stands as a form of bullying and is exposed as a fraud. It is this kind of asinine approach that allows people to claim that the referendum result demonstrated ‘the will of the people’. Mill himself told us that, in practical terms, the will of the people means ‘the will of the most numerous or the most active part of the people; the majority, or those who succeed in making themselves accepted as the majority’. Thus, when we consider ‘the people’ we must remember that this actually means the electorate as opposed to the population, and that the Leave vote of 51.89% on a 72.21% turnout in the referendum equalled 37.47% of the electorate. In other words, 37.47% of the British electorate have succeeded in their demand that they must be accepted as the majority of the population, that their decision is sacrosanct, and to oppose it is treason. Thus, the result of the referendum has suddenly appropriated the authority of a sacred text.

This is important for several reasons, first, in differentiating between the population and the electorate, it must be remembered that the government refused to extend the vote to those 16 to 18 years old’s who were included in the Scottish Independence referendum (and who numbered 1.46 million in the UK in 2016) despite being earnestly advised to do so. Also, the referendum was only ‘advisory’ according to the government as they were determined they would not be held to the result if they did not like it or by claims that the vote embodied ‘the will of the people’ if it went against them. In addition, the Electoral Commission has confirmed that the winning side achieved their goal illegally with Vote Leave, Leave UK and BeLeave all having openly broken electoral law. This should have declared the result null and void, and therefore goes to the heart of the British claim to be a nation of laws; can the future of the British people be dependent on a flagrant breach of the rule of law and can we be bound for time immemorial on the ‘advice’ of a minority of the population who reached their decision on a farrago of lies and criminality? If anything constitutes a betrayal of democracy, it is a government who are determined to proceed with an openly corrupt policy process in the full knowledge of that corruption.

In addition all recent polling data shows that many of those who expressed their will in 2016 have now changed their minds and their ‘will’ is now something quite different, a fact of life that the tyrannous majority quite happily ignore, and that is an abuse of both power and the democratic process heaped on top of the abuse of proceeding with a lie, a fraud and deliberate criminality. Thus, we are all now expected to quietly submit to the demand that we must accept the result of a process of illegality, lies, damned lies and statistics. It would be funny were it not so serious. Is it any wonder that the Brexit process is such an incompetent farce when the authors of the Brexit vote are such liars and criminals?

It would appear that America suffers from a similar complaint about an apparent majority, that is in fact a minority, exercising a tyranny over policy and the political process and threatening unrest if their 'will' is either challenged or thwarted, and who also appear to have gained their victory illegally. In 2016 the American election saw a turnout of only 55.3%. Of that 55.3% of the electorate, the White House Moron polled 46% giving him 25.4% of the possible vote. Hilary Clinton polled 26.5% of the possible vote. As the American Presidential election is a first past the post election, The Moron won the electoral college whilst in fact losing the vote, and so claims that he represents the majority and therefore 'the will of the people' just as our own Brexit gangsters do as well. The fault of course lies with that 44.7% of the electorate who couldn't be bothered to vote.

That the Moron is demonstrably insane is too obvious to challenge, but what is so worrying is that just as a significant section of the British seem oblivious to the madness and lies of the Brexiteers, especially the Spider, so a significant sector of the American people are either oblivious, or simply don't care, that their president is a lunatic. The following is part of a speech given by The Moron in July 2016 at a venue in South Carolina, in a place called Sun City. This is a word-for-word transcript of a section of his speech

“Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, OK, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart —you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, OK, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.”

That passage not only displays, but is, genuine insanity. This is in his own words. How can anyone who attended that speech support, let alone applaud, such demonstrable gibberish? Were they not listening? This demonstrates better than anything else that the American president is a gibbering bombastic charlatan who is incapable of rational narrative, or of even finishing a complete sentence, without an autocue. As I keep saying, the British and American people are in a very dark place at this moment in history and it is getting darker. Both the Conservatives and the Republicans have sold their souls and, because of the crisis they find themselves in, are becoming more intolerant and tyrannical. British politics are quite insane and completely irrational just now and are a reflection of the leading elites. In both of our nations we are seeing the ghosts of the 1930's rising up to haunt us. The future is in your hands and you cannot say that you never saw it coming. You have been warned

Your Servant

Doktor Kommirat

The USA and Britain, societies devoid of justice.

I have not posted for some time because I am watching the gradual disintegration of our political systems on both sides of the Atlantic due to the quite deliberate and sustained assault by the political classes on our traditional norms and values, but only as they impact on them, they are still required for the rest of us. Poisoned by so many years of entrenched free market ideology it has now become the one prevailing norm that the political and economic elites must not be restrained in any fashion and that their behaviour must not be subject to traditional forms of regulation, that they should be able to act, and say, anything they want free from accountability or restraint. I have also been wondering if there is any point in writing such things as there is no one listening. I'm beginning to suspect that the White House Moron was quite correct when he said that he could shoot anyone in the streets and get away with it as he is beginning to resemble Der Furher in his language and behaviour and apparently in the eyes of his supporters. A similar state of public paralysis bedevils the UK with an unbelievable display of recurring incompetence in both government and opposition. What is most worrying is the contempt that our political elites display for the law and conventional decency.  

If I may I seek your tolerance to return to a recurring theme of this blog, let me remind you how Adam Smith told us that society cannot subsist among those who are at all times ready to hurt and injure one another and that justice is essential to the existence of society, indeed he tells us that the prevalence of injustice must utterly destroy society. According to Smith, justice is the main pillar that upholds the whole edifice that is society and that if justice is removed the great and immense fabric of society must in a moment crumble into atoms. He tells us that few men have reflected on the necessity of justice to the existence of society, regardless of how obvious that necessity may appear to be. Thirteen hundred years before Smith, Augustine of Hippo reached the same conclusion telling us that if you take away justice, what are nations but massive gangs of thieves? He tells us that where there is no justice there is no commonwealth. His term, commonwealth derives from the Greek, res publica, the public realm. Thus, without justice there can be no public realm, society will be atomised and fractured. Thus as Smith told us, there is no society.

I don't think that many intelligent people would argue with the notion that both the USA and the UK, dominated by an addiction to free market ideological dogma, have become characterised as massive gangs of thieves and that our public realms are both fractured, divided and atomised. Yesterday we had the EU warning us that the United Kingdom will probably not survive Brexit as it will almost certainly lead to Scottish Independence, with the further possibility of Irish unification thus causing the UK to lose two of its four constituent parts. This is because the UK has now become devoid of any forms of justice, with intolerance, inequality, open hatreds and the demonisation of large sectors of our populations now quite accepted as the norm.

You see justice and the free market are incompatible, they are mutually exclusive. As the free market demands the continued deregulation of human behaviour and activity, justice demands the opposite, because justice is a form of regulation. Justice is a constraint, it regulates human behaviour and particularly the behaviour of the powerful, redressing the gulf between power and powerlessness. Justice demands that people restrain their greed, their selfishness, and prevents abuse and damage. It redistributes opportunity, a certain amount of wealth and life chances. It is the realisation of the truism that all people are born equal, that fundamental concept that has been abandoned in both the US and the UK by those at the top, the worst in society whose governments now can be truly defined as kakistocracies. Our problems are fundamentally ideological. It is the ideological obsession with a particular political and economic dogma that has shaped the institutional structures of our respective societies and has unleashed greed and ruthlessness and the determination to utilise power to do whatever the powerful want in their own interests, regardless of the effects on the rest of us. The result is that we are in danger of watching our nations crumbling into atoms because we tolerate and indeed support, organised gangs of thieves masquerading as politicians. As a result, the worst has risen to the top and we are getting what we voted for. This is the legacy of Thatcher and Reagan. I trust we can live with the consequences. You have been warned.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat   

It will have to get worse before it gets better

Well it looks as if its the end for the Spider, brought low by his own overweening arrogance, a case of classic hubris. He will of course limp along, clinging on to his parliamentary constituency, but he must now be surely discredited, branded a Poundland version of the White House moron. We may even be spared any more idiots assuring us that he is an intelligent man. What his latest disgraceful episode does highlight, however, is the destructive divisions that beset this sorry nation and demonstrates the deep seated racism that characterises the British public, or at least the English public and the media that encourages them and people like the Spider.

Johnson is only the latest manifestation of the horrendous racism and division brought to the surface by Brexit. As I write, we have a national scandal being played out that plagues both of our national major political parties. Labour is at war over anti-semitism and the danger that the Labour party poses to the Jewish community, and the Tories are at war over anti-Islamism and the danger the Conservatives pose to the Muslim community. All commentators are agreed that Johnson's jibes at Muslim women were aimed at garnering support from the Tory grassroots Muslim hating supporters. It was, in his own imbecilic manner, an attempt to position himself for the Tory leadership. What that tells you is the nature of the Tory grassroots. At the other end of the spectrum, Labour assumes that every Jewish person is a quasi-fascist, Palestinian hating Zionist. This is a sample of the narratives that drive national party politics in the UK. I am confident that Corbyn and his Jewish hating supporters don't even know what a real Zionist, or indeed Zionism, is. By the same logic, the Tories assume that every Muslim is a closet Jihadi terrorist, just waiting for a call to turn themselves into a suicide bomber. Politics in the UK is not in the gutter, it has sunk well below that. Indeed it is significant that Johnson's Telegraph article came on the heels of his meetings with Steve Bannon and his circle. 

I have written before, and do not apologise for repeating it, that what we are witnessing is the end product of Thatcherism and her determination to destroy the normative and value systems of British life. She saw a society she hated and determined to destroy it. She has been spectacularly successful, I hope she is proud. Thatcher set in motion a systemic agenda to destroy the public and collective nature of British society, to atomise it and reduce all values to an economic price imperative. She promoted a policy of aggressive and ruthlessly selfish individualism, and we now have a nation of aggressive and ruthless selfish individuals. In modern free market Tory Britain, if anything has no  monetary value, if it cannot be priced, then it has no value, it is worthless, and that includes people, the type of people the Nazis called the ballastexistenzen; untermenschen to be discarded and eliminated wherever possible. If you read this from outside the UK I trust you are aware of how frequently the Tories are referred to as cruel and heartless as they target the poor, the disabled, the unemployed, those people who have no market value, the worthless. Coupled with that is their demonstrable racism towards immigrants and foreigners in general. They openly display a genuine loathing of non-whites. This is what a significant section of the British electorate persistently vote for. If England ever becomes an independent country, its declaration will begin with "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all white, English, Christian men are created equal." The Spider is the role model for this form of English nationalism. It should also be asked why the Daily Telegraph commissioned and published his article if you think he is a lone eccentric voice, or why the Prime Minister was careful not to personally condemn him, contenting herself with agreeing with others who did.

What we see around us is the wreckage of free market Thatcherism, but she never gets the blame. It is always the scapegoat, the unions, socialism, immigrants, and above all, the EU. As you know I sincerely hope that we get the hardest of Brexits because not until the British get their noses firmly rubbed into the filth that results from their own stupidity, until it becomes too obvious even for Nigel Garbage, Liam Fox or Michael Gove to deny, will we be able to begin a meaningful recovery. That will require a new politics and a new political class. The signs are not hopeful. You have been warned

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat

The free market is an illness that will destroy the body politic

In the UK we are ruled by ideologues, the very worst kind of person to have in government. Government is the art of the possible, requiring compromise and the ability to consider other opinions and the necessity to be able to admit that you may be wrong. Those qualities are completely absent from British government and the mainstream political class. In the USA we see a person who is psychologically incapable of even contemplating that he is not totally correct in everything he says and does, we know that because he keeps reminding us how omnipotent he is. Thus in both our nations we are governed by people who are unwilling, indeed determinedly unwilling, to consider alternatives or compromise. This is government of the worst kind.

At a time when a coherent and active opposition is absolutely essential the British Labour Party are immersed in a quite insane ideological war within itself over antisemitism, with a leader who is a dogmatic ideologist of the worst kind, rendering it incapable of mounting any serious challenge to anything this most incompetent government does, whilst in the US, the Democrats hold blindly to the dominant economic narrative of free markets and therefore fail to offer any coherent alternatives to an imbecile. That is a serious state of affairs, when a major political party in the most powerful country in history cannot mount a serious campaign against an ignoramus who is demonstrably deranged. In the UK Labour has ensured that it has lost any chance of support from the Jewish community and those sympathetic to them and from anyone who intelligently sees that this is not a party that will support a wider constituency than those who ideologically support them. They simply will not compromise, and as I keep reminding you, is why they continually fail to hold any credibility in Scotland where they are widely regarded as a branch office of the London Labour elite (a branch office was what they were branded by their own Scottish leader).

That is the same story we have with the Tories, whose ideological commitment to the free market is an obsession. As you know, I maintain that there is no such thing, nor can be any such thing, as a free market. It is an illusion, and a fraud. Free trade is one thing, a free market is quite another, but no-one in this sorry society seems prepared to challenge the assumption that they are different and normally incompatible. That is why I hold modern economics, and modern economists in such contempt. Even so-called socialists today believe that there can be free markets, they just don't want them. They seem oblivious to the fact that they are a nonsense. As a result, the dominant narrative goes unchallenged, and it is the dominant narrative that is the problem. That is what has given us Brexit, The Know Nothing, and the descent into barbarism we are witnessing throughout the world.

The free market narrative has very successfully campaigned over many years against restraints, against regulation, and this anti-regulatory mentality has spread into every corner of our lives. We now habitually complain about any kind of restraint on our behaviour and activities as some kind of breach of our human rights. As a result, far too many people believe that their behaviour should be uncontrolled, and this extends to language, both verbal and print, leading to people believing they have the right to abuse whoever and however they please. This has its worst manifestation in government and in the political classes, but it percolates right down throughout society. The Know Nothing takes any form of restraint on his language and behaviour as a personal insult and launches a tirade against whoever or whatever seeks to hold him to account, be it the press, the judiciary, foreign governments, or his political opponents. In the UK we have a similar phenomenon that is more widely diffused throughout society as we have some of the most odious media outlets who are prepared to say anything they like regardless of truth of fact. This again spreads throughout society causing racism, misogyny, anti-immigrant and anti-foreigner hatreds and violence. But they all refuse to accept responsibility or be liable to constrain their language and behaviour. Thus, the free market has destroyed decency, self-respect and respect for others. It has fostered hatred, violence and division. The free market, both in its economic and political manifestations is a sickness that is rotting the body politic. 

But the worst crime of the free marketeers is that they persistently preach about freedom and liberty without having the faintest idea what freedom and liberty mean. To the free marketeer, freedom means being able to do exactly as they wish free from being held accountable to anything or anyone, including the law, and the rule of law, and most certainly not the electorate. In addition, freedom and liberty only apply to them, not to the rest of us. To the free marketeer freedom means that they must have the freedom to remove freedom and liberty from the rest of us and reduce us to a state of slavery, poverty and dependence, because our freedom and liberty means that they will have to sacrifice some of their wealth, but more importantly, the mechanisms by which they gained that wealth. We must never be allowed freedom to challenge them or campaign for real concrete and meaningful freedom and liberty, from poverty, from austerity, from unemployment, homelessness etc, all goals that the free marketeer insists must be our legacy whilst they enjoy the fruits of their selfish criminality. This is what Toryism represents, this is what the Know Nothing and the Republicans represent, this is what Brexit represents, this is what so many of you voted for. Keep believing in your free market paradise and keep it in mind in your coming slavery. You have been warned.

Your Servant
Doktor Kommirat