New Labour' Equals New Subservience and Degradation
IAN BUCKLEY comments on current British and global trends
IT IS A TRUISM that most British people are incapable of taking any passionate interest in politics. One exception to this general rule is a road sweeper of my acquaintance, who tell everyone willing to listen that Britain is going to the dogs, and that Thatcher and Blair should be shot. This is perhaps an extreme reaction, but public patience with the practitioners of the Con-Lab disaster double act does seem, thankfully, to be starting to wear thin.
As real political power declines in the face of the ascendancy of multi-national business, tiny figures strut the stage of Little Britain Plc, a wholly owned subsidiary of Washington Global Domination Inc. Thus Mr. George Robertson, a man with all the statesmanlike qualities of a Glasgow pub bore, is ennobled and promoted to Secretary General of NATO for his dog-like devotion to the warmongers of Washington. The labourer is worthy of his hire.
Even the 'inward investment' hailed by the politicians is a chimera, the consequence of years, not of economic success, but of economic failure. Such employment as is generated amounts largely to no more than low-paid serf labour, carried out by assembly lines of harassed females, chained up by anti-static straps to their benches in the Korean- or Japanese-owned electronics factories.
The evisceration of manufacturing industry continues, with hundreds of jobs vanishing every week in engineering and chemicals, but the official media continue to hoot with delight when, as compensation, some utterly ludicrous 'jobs' are created, such as a hundred posts at a new chain of all-day night-clubs (surely a contradiction in terms). Meanwhile, miners at one of the last four pits in Nottinghamshire receive their marching orders, presumably now wishing they'd never listened to David Hart, the eminence grise behind Thatcher's Morgenthau Plan for British coal. The 'fall' in the unemployment figures - which are disbelieved by 94 per cent of the public anyhow - reflects the fact low-paid, part-time female employment has increased, while male unemployment continues to rise.
BIG MONEY RULES
Parliament does not rule: the international money power rules. But has this not been so for a long time? Perhaps, but only the perceptive few could understand way back. Now the hour is late, the masks are beginning to be removed. Articles about the displacement of elected politicians by the over-mighty financial markets are a recent commonplace of the Sunday supplements.
For example, commentator Ed Vulliamy revealingly stated that: "(Alan) Greenspan's title, chairman of the Federal Reserve, has the charisma of a traffic jam. It conceals the reality that he is the most powerful man in the world. He is the master of ceremonies for the American - and, in effect, the global - economy, host at the Cabaret of Capitalism." Greenspan, of the privately owned Fed, was never elected by any voters and cannot be dismissed by any voters. Doesn't that cut our Westminster parish councillors down to size?
Especially when Gordon Brown runs like an errand boy to the boardrooms of the financial establishment in Washington before later (coincidentally?) announcing more banker-driven cutbacks. The defining motif of our parish-pump politicians like Blair, Brown and their gang of glib-tongued, men-hating 'babes' is a few soundbites and no independent action while the Greenspans of this world run everything from not so far behind the scenes. Blair's motto should come out of Alice in Wonderland: "I can do nothing for you now, and I can do nothing for you in the future." Even legislation to reduce the working week to a maximum of 48 hours has come to nothing - employees being so terrified of losing their jobs that they 'volunteer' to work far more hours. Similarly, now that New Labour has closed the government-owned Remploy factories, 1,000 of the physically disabled must fend for themselves in the harsh world of the global market. These workers include many ex-servicemen, who may now receive the reward a grateful British Government often gives to its military veterans. Cardboard box and tin cup of cha, anyone?
According to the U.N Conference on Trade & Development, "Globalisation is not delivering widespread economic growth. The rich have gained everywhere and not just in comparison to the poorest sections of society. The 'hollowing-out' of the middle classes has become a prominent feature of many developed countries. Increasing job and income insecurity has become the order of the day."
ENTRY ON A BALANCE SHEET
The European nations are stigmatised in the economists' jargon as 'high cost, low return'. When one reaches the rarified summits of high finance, the happiness, or even the continued existence of whole peoples is a matter of indifference - no more than an entry on a balance sheet. Without accepting the whole baggage of the conspiracy theorists, it is obvious that heterogeneous societies, growing social break-down and economic decay all aid in subsuming our historic European nation in the New World Order.
Of course, Blair & Co. do not give a damn about the immense cultural and scientific achievements of the European nation - all now sadly, mostly of the past. The 'Europe' of the system puppets is just a dry run for the NWO, an opportunity for a few mega-wealthy shysters to make even greater profits. The policies of globalisation that are now pushed by the so-called Labour Party, as once the so-called Conservative Party pushed them, have now been dominated for over 20 years. As is the technique of skilled poisoners, the procedure was carried out by stealth and in gradual stages. First came the abandonment of exchange controls, restriction of the money supply and maintenance of high interest rates. Then came the deregulation of the financial markets and 'privatisation'.
'Privatisation', an ugly un-English expression apparently invented by Nigel Lawson, involved massive labour cuts in public utilities in order to make them more saleable to private companies and overseas interests. As a direct consequence, our electricity industry is now largely in the hands of Americans, just as our water industry is mainly controlled by the French. If we are to stand a chance as a nation, then all these destructive trends must be reversed. It is an immense task, but one which be faced, as the alternative is not just further economic decay but also national extinction. The wealthy multi-nationals, investors and speculators who have done so well out of globalisation may seem to have the upper hand, but in the final analysis, while they are few, we are many. Therein lies our chance of victory.
Webmaster's note: This article was originally published in 'Spearhead' magazine No.368, October 1999.
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