Cameron has to play to the shires. As is, his economic gamble appears to have failed, and Osborne's austerity policies have rendered the Conservatives close to un-re-electable, if you will excuse the neologism. So he is reduced to playing the anti-European card, with help from the media. Despite this, he seems to be trying to move ahead with a policy of Gay marriage, which doesn't play too well with the Tory hinterland.
Austerity policies mean that the Health Service and Welfare State will be underfunded from here on in, perhaps eventually bringing the UK into line with the less wealthy European nations: this will mean that the UK won't have to put up with welfare immigrants, and maybe even lead to the UK exporting a few of its impoverished underclasses abroad to other parts of Europe in a sort of time-delayed "tit-for-tat" manoeuvre. The losers will be, as always, the poor benighted proles of all nations: but that's Western democratic capitalism for you. And given that Western capitalists still have control over the money markets and ratings agencies, and set the borrowing costs for economies, it isn't going to change any day soon. So we'll turn the UK into a less welcoming place for economic migrants, and a less home-like place for our own poor, as we become more and more like a pre-Dickensian society: just not as racist or sexist version thereof.
And it's not as if the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China is going to come to the aid of the international proletariat by influencing the markets, either. Let's face facts, the underclasses of most nations are screwed unless they actually engage in revolution: and we have allowed this to happen, and have connived in the polarisation between the have and have-nots in the extravagant feathering of our own nests. And I'm not a fan of revolution, so that puts me on the side, however reluctantly, of the Bourgeois Establishment trying to keep a lid on the powder-keg by using propaganda and scapegoats. Still, it doesn't prevent me from trying to understand what's going on or telling it as I see it.
Multiculturalism is another beautiful opiate, but this time directed at the intelligentsia, and the relatively wealthy, and those trying to be fair. We must be good because some of our best friends are Black, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever. And like all opiates, it has succeeded in removing the pain of most of these ethnic prejudices in a specific and limited way. But the fundamental wealth inequalities in our society are still the driving points of revolution, and these we can only address by accepting the fact that we are our brother's keepers, and that such costs money and a certain sacrifice from each and every one of us. And that ain't gonna happen soon, now, is it?
I suppose it'll all end in tears, but hopefully not mine. Which is always the cynic's mantra.
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Date: 14/1/13 15:13 (UTC)Austerity policies mean that the Health Service and Welfare State will be underfunded from here on in, perhaps eventually bringing the UK into line with the less wealthy European nations: this will mean that the UK won't have to put up with welfare immigrants, and maybe even lead to the UK exporting a few of its impoverished underclasses abroad to other parts of Europe in a sort of time-delayed "tit-for-tat" manoeuvre. The losers will be, as always, the poor benighted proles of all nations: but that's Western democratic capitalism for you. And given that Western capitalists still have control over the money markets and ratings agencies, and set the borrowing costs for economies, it isn't going to change any day soon. So we'll turn the UK into a less welcoming place for economic migrants, and a less home-like place for our own poor, as we become more and more like a pre-Dickensian society: just not as racist or sexist version thereof.
And it's not as if the Communist Party of the People's Republic of China is going to come to the aid of the international proletariat by influencing the markets, either. Let's face facts, the underclasses of most nations are screwed unless they actually engage in revolution: and we have allowed this to happen, and have connived in the polarisation between the have and have-nots in the extravagant feathering of our own nests. And I'm not a fan of revolution, so that puts me on the side, however reluctantly, of the Bourgeois Establishment trying to keep a lid on the powder-keg by using propaganda and scapegoats. Still, it doesn't prevent me from trying to understand what's going on or telling it as I see it.
Multiculturalism is another beautiful opiate, but this time directed at the intelligentsia, and the relatively wealthy, and those trying to be fair. We must be good because some of our best friends are Black, Jewish, Muslim, or whatever. And like all opiates, it has succeeded in removing the pain of most of these ethnic prejudices in a specific and limited way. But the fundamental wealth inequalities in our society are still the driving points of revolution, and these we can only address by accepting the fact that we are our brother's keepers, and that such costs money and a certain sacrifice from each and every one of us. And that ain't gonna happen soon, now, is it?
I suppose it'll all end in tears, but hopefully not mine. Which is always the cynic's mantra.