It’s very clear that what the UK is suffering is not ‘economic mismanagement’ by this government but a deliberate scheme of ‘planned misery’ (if you want to understand it and why, I can’t recommend Naomi Klein’s ‘The Shock Doctrine’ highly enough).
Think Left’s article on Osborne as head of the ‘wrecking crew’ touches on the same themes brilliantly. Please take a look.
Reblogged this on paurina and commented:
It’s ideology, not economics
Great find, Steve.
Reblogged this on Grannie’s Last Mix and commented:
This analysis is spot on.The systematic neoliberal takeover has been going on since Thatcher and Reagan’s day and Blair did more than his fair share to advance the cause. Much of the thinking behind IDS’s welfare destruction is based on US neocon thinkers like Charles Murray who blamed all the UK’s problems on an ‘underclass’ characterised by absent fathers and teenage mothers.IDS’s Centre for Social Justice have been shaping his policies on this warped ideology since 2004. There’s a chilling article by David Harvey here which sums up the global picture
http://www.correntroig.org/IMG/pdf/El_neoliberalismo_como_destruccion_creativa.pdf
Correction to previous post. The linked article was the Spanish version! Here’s the English one
https://www.justassociates.org/sites/justassociates.org/files/neo-liberalism-as-creative-destruction-david-harvey.pdf