In 1945 the Atlee government came to power in spite of the dire warnings of the doom and disaster brigade of the privileged Churchill pack of parasites. In taking power his government set about carrying out its promises of laying the foundations for a society based on needs based services. It was not perfect, but it was a massive step to a better society for the ordinary people. Over the years it has changed and grown, modified in many ways, but the underlying structure was the same, we look after those that can't look after themselves, we give to those who are in need.
This bunch of millionaire parasites that have cobbled together a coalition of millionaires to grasp power is a grouping of dogmatic free-marketeers and they are on a mission. That mission is to dismantle the very principles and structures of our welfare state. This is not an “on the hoof” idea, it is a vicious well planned idealogical attack on the ideas of sharing and mutual aid at the base of any civilised society, the very principles that underpin our welfare state. Everything will be supplied by the private sector. There will be no such thing as public assets, no public space.
To do this they need the help of the public, so they set about using the tried and tested policy of scaremongering, the same tactics used by the last government in their “war-on-terror” as they chipped away at our civil liberties.
This millionaire cabal of free-marketeers will attempt to scare you into believing that any other policy will have catastrophic effects on us all. Along with their scaremongering, they will of course come up with their chosen scapegoats. They will set about demonising the unemployed, making out that they are living a life of luxury at our expense. A life of luxury on £65 a week job seekers allowance. They will claim that it is their own fault they are unemployed, ignoring the fact that, in this country there is over 2.5 million unemployed and only 500,000 job vacancies. They will persist in this lying and smoke and mirrors illusion even as the unemployment is set to rise dramatically.
Their vision of society is one that everything we do and everything we want will generate profit for their shareholders. Everything, health, education, pensions, prison services and all other social services will be provided by the corporate world over which we will have no control what so ever. If it can't generate profit the price will be increased or it will be closed down, no matter the need.
Those who cannot provide some profit for them will be left to fend for themselves or appeal to some charity or other. This is the return of the Victorian era of wealth and privilege swaggering over abject poverty, where the poor are punished for being poor.
They can't do it without your quiet consent, if this is the world you want for you kids and grand-kids then remain silent and let them suffer. If on the other hand you want a better world for your kids and grand-kids then stop being silent, stop giving consent by your apathy. Stand up and stop being silent, they are prepared for a fight but hoping you won't bother. Let us prepare for a fight, a fight for the right to a decent life without being in bondage to the corporate world. Your kids and grand-kids are depending on you. Communicate, organise, resist.
LET’S MAKE THAT STAND.
Come rise with me
here, take my hand
it’s time my brothers
to make that stand,
we’ve bought this world
with blood and tears
shed by our kin
through countless years.
Put an end to war
it’s time for pace
man killing man
has to cease.
No more poverty
in a sea of wealth
all men equal
in a new commonwealth.
Let’s never again kneel
let’s stand up tall
claim what’s ours
justice for all.
ann arky's home.
I've agreed with most of your posts since you started, but not this one, at least not fully. You're right about the demonisation of the unemployed, but not about the evils of private enterprise per se. I can't think of any product of a state-owned "business" which has been any better than - or even as good as - a privately-developed one. Nor can I think of a State-designed product which has been beneficial and of high quality (except, in it's day, the VW Beetle). The thing about private enterprise is, if they produce a poor product they disappear. State inefficiency results in more money flung at the problem, until the edifice is so crappy that it has to be trashed or it collapses anyway. If you haven't read "Slide rule" by Neville Norway, who worked on the R100 airship for Vickers in competition with the State-funded R101, I would recommend it.
ReplyDeleteThe main thrust of the article was the destruction of the welfare state. There is a difference between delivering a tin of beans and delivering health and education. Most people realise that you need some sort of social services that see to the needs of the people and we are about to see the demise of that principle.
ReplyDeleteTa for the reply. I fail to see how having my wages dipped into in order to pay to treat someone else's diseases is ethical. Nor do I see anyone emerging from an English comprehensive school that could even read - never mind enjoy - a children's encyclopedia of the '30s, for instance. The Welfare State is a justification for theft. As I said before, if there's anything a government does better than a private company - apart from, I might add, stealing and warfare - I would like to know what it is. Most people realise that their wages have been ravaged, and that otherwise they could afford a nice private health insurance policy if the State wasn't such a drain on the results of their labour.
ReplyDeleteI'm not advocating support for the state, I think some my previous posts make that clear. I am however defending the principle of seeing to the needs of the less fortunate in society, the welfare state goes some way to that end and we are about to see it demolished. I sincerely hope you never find yourself in the need of some of the new free market social services when you are in a position where you can't afford them.
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