You could see it as an experiment
what happens when the neoliberal Ultras
take over a government and get everything they want.
The pound tanks the economy collapses,
everything goes to shit almost overnight.
Welcome to oligarch Island.
Liz Truss is the oligarchs Prime Minister
she's a kind of Manchurian Candidate put in place
by these dark money lobby groups on behalf of oligarchs
and corporations most of whom are not domiciled in this country at all.
She is working for Global Capital against the interests of this nation.
These people are fake Patriots they are actually undermining
the status of this nation,
the short sellers the Hedge funders cleaning up,
the oligarchs laughing all the way to the bank
and everyone else pushed towards destitution.
Absolute misery and chaos and collapse
in a country that was one of the richest most stable
most prosperous on Earth.
Ripped apart by this neoliberal experiment.
Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng are members
of an extreme cult called neoliberalism.
When this cult first started to be developed in the late 1930s,
it was regarded as just crazy completely Fringe marginal,
no one paid it much attention but then it started receiving serious money.
Money from some of the richest people on Earth
and it started being championed by those rich people's media.
They began to push it and push it and push it until eventually it became
the water in which we swim or to be more accurate
the sewage in which we drown.
Neoliberalism became so much a part of our political lives.
that we no longer even recognise it as being a distinct thing.
Neoliberalism has been the dominant ideology in this country
for the past 40 years since Mrs Thatcher came to power
and Blair saw himself as inheriting Thatcher's mantle
he slightly modified some of its more extreme elements
you shrink the state you transfer public services to the private sector
try to prevent trade unions from exercising power
and you switch our perceptions of ourselves from being citizens
to being consumers the market must take precedence over politics
which means money takes precedence over democracy.
And the people with the money the oligarchs the billionaires
are the people who are effectively put in charge.
And while it's been this pervasive force in this country for 40 years,
Truss and Kwarteng are the most extreme Advocates
of neoliberalism that we've ever had in government.
They've been schooled by the dark money neoliberal think tanks organisations such as the Institute of
economic Affairs the Adam Smith Institute the taxpayers alliance some of which go back to the
very foundations of neoliberalism and worthy organisations that were funded in the first
instance by these immensely rich people and turned this from being a fringe cult to a mainstream
political organisation both trust and Kwarteng have been rigorously trained particularly by The
Institute of economic Affairs in this Doctrine and several of their crucial advisors people like Ruth
Porter people like Matthew Sinclair people like Caroline Elson people like Alex Wilde they are
straight out of these extremist so-called think tanks who refuse to reveal who's funding them
they're no longer lobbying government they are the government now the thing about these so-called
think tanks is they claim to be independent think tanks just thinking about stuff as if there's some
kind of academics yes what's the best policy for this country let us objectively determine that in
reality they are Lobby groups acting on behalf of the oligarchs and the corporations who give them
their money and every so often there's a leak and we discover who's been paying them oh it's
the tobacco companies who would have guessed it's the oil companies who would have guessed it's some
really really nasty U.S billionaires who would have guessed could there perhaps be a connection
between the people who fund them and the positions that they take that they're very rich should
stop paying tax that industry should stop being regulated that trade unions should effectively
be shut down that protest movements should be shut down they are just Lobby groups on behalf of these
organizations whose identity they won't revealed but here's the astonishing thing the BBC in common
with almost all the rest of the media invites these people onto its current affairs programs
every single day they populate question time that a day program news night the whole lot they're on
there almost 24 7 without ever being challenged as to who's funding them and who they represent
so when we see the absolute Financial economic social catastrophe that this extreme version of
neoliberalism has just inflicted on this country that catastrophe is not just on truss and quateng
it's also on those dark money think tanks it's also on the BBC it's also on the billionaire
press which has been championing these crazy ideas for so long I think the most likely way
this will pan out is that the massive economic crisis caused entirely by this government is
going to put a huge squeeze on public finances and then this government is going to say oh we
can't afford to fund Public Services damn we'll have to privatize the NHS we'll have to do all
the things they've always wanted to do destroy the administrative State privatize everything rip down
Public Services rip down public protections and they'll be able to say and this time they'll have
a justification for it there's no money we can't afford it and why is there no money because they
squandered that money on giving it away to the richest people on giving it away to the energy
companies on tanking the pound on tanking our economy I see this program as being as dangerous
politically as it is economically and socially for the 30 years following the second world war
governments everywhere recognized that to prevent the Resurgence of fascism you had to ensure that
people's needs were met you had to ensure that people had Economic Security that if they fell
out of work they wouldn't starve they wouldn't become destitute you had to ensure that there
were good public services so that people's need for health or education education for all the
other things which make for a good life were there and governments knew that if those things were in
place people would not succumb to the siren Call of fascism they would have too much to lose they
couldn't be conned so easily if they weren't desperate for a solution and fascism plays on
people's desperation but then with the advance of neoliberalism and its adoption by Thatcher by
Reagan and then by their many imitators around the world that lesson was forgotten and they
ripped apart the social safety net they ripped apart public services and now that process is
accelerating greatly and the great danger when that happens is that the fascists come back and
the fascists say we're the New Broom we'll sort everything out we'll sweep away the corruption
we'll solve these intractable problems of course that's another lie because there is no fascist
movement ever which has not been supported by the oligarchs but it pretends otherwise it pretends
it's going to save us from the very forces that have caused this mess when actually it's an
acceleration of those forces the danger is that if you don't have real and workable alternatives to
the disastrous program that this government is enforcing then people are going to look around
and they're going to turn to an anti-politics and that anti-politics is most clearly represented by
Fascism and this is why labor has to step up this is why labor has to stop being this timid
restrained tooth-sucking movement that it's become and actually introduce the radical proposals for
changing our lives for improving our lives for ensuring we have the public services and the
economic security that we need to ensure that it is seen as a genuine alternative to this
government and not a slightly modified version of it I think if you were to put your finger on the
Beating Heart of neoliberalism if indeed it has a heart it's the denial of humanity it's the denial
of human relations it's the denial of anything except buying and selling there should be no
empathy no compassion no altruism no kindness we should not care about other people that does not
reflect human nature they're constantly trying to tell us you are selfish you are greedy and sure
we've all got some selfishness and greed in us but these are not our dominant characteristics
there's a huge body of research showing that our dominant characteristics are empathy and altruism
and benevolence and kindness towards other people a community a family of being together with other
people and wanting them to have good lives as well as ourselves to have good lives so we will
not stand for this we must not stand for this we must Gather in unprecedented numbers to defy this
attempt by a way did extreme cult to impose their beliefs on us This Disaster is on the
government but it's also on the media big time it was a media who gave a massive platform to
these crazy neoliberal Ultras who have tanked the economy and ripped the fabric of the nation apart
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