Theroguetrooper's Blog

January 2011

So we come to the end of the first month of the New Year.  It has been month that is for sure.  The scene is set for quite a year I feel.  The uprisings in Tunisia, Sudan and Egypt, the wikileaks affair, cuts beginning to bite at home, the ongoing student protest, the suggested anxiety and economic uncertainty at the Davos World Economic Forum and a growing sense the line has well and truly been drawn.  

Noting discussion across various social media, I came across the question being asked if they can do it in Egypt why we can’t do it here?   It was pointed out that nobody riots in winter.  Now if said in jest or not it begs the question could we be in for a long hot summer?  My own experience of how the cuts will bite certainly points to this, it seems by the end of June public services will have been stripped bare and will hardly be recognisable.  If we look at this in a certain way the condemolition gang could actually have unwittingly set in motion something that will feed into ideas of popular dissent.  Public services and in particular social work acts as form of policing in that the task of any social worker is not only to support but to regulate the behaviour of individuals and/or families already excluded from the mainstream.  By stripping this back to the bare bones they are in effect removing a very subtle form of policing, without which they cannot hope to maintain the consent social work and related professions serve to maintain. 

Mervyn King calls for pay restraint while the bankers continue with the obscene bonus culture.  The people who create the problem are rewarded handsomely for their sterling work and the ideological assault gathers pace.  Private companies will be given massive sweetener to run the NHS, paid for of course by the tax payer.  They will tell us time and time again the NHS is failing and is beyond repair.   Writing in The Times on the 29^th Cameron sought to reinforce the big lie by claiming the NHS will sicken if we don’t modernise.  What he really means is this “I have some super rich chums who helped install me in number 10 and I really must reward them for that” Just four banks Barclays, HSBC, Standard Chartered and Lloyds are expected to post huge increases in profits totalling £25 billion plus yet the value of the houses people have bought have fallen for the fourth month in a row.  I wonder what plans the condemolition gang have for maintaining order……once the reality of their hatchet job really starts to bite at the squeezed middle.

Goebbels famously said if you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it people will eventually come to believe it.  So there is a financial mess, the NHS is failing, schools are failing, the poor and the immigrants are renting houses in central London they have no right to occupy paid for through the benefit system.  Joseph Goebbels it seems would be proud of the condemolition gang.  They have with the help of their media friends (excepting of course the rather Stalinist BBC) done a sterling job in working the great lie into the nations consciousness.

Now I know this reflection is preaching to the converted but hey, you have to get these things out, the personal becomes political, we all, each and every one of us has a part to play because it may the Stalinist public sector first in line for the harsh austerity treatment but this will affect the oh so precious private sector in time and then all that pent up rage of those highly opinionated Daily Mail readers (who let’s face it are so wound up they are potentially more worrying than anything home grown Muslim fanatic) could well and truly be released.

The private sector the darling of those good old free market apologists who will tell us time and time again austerity is for the good of the nation and lead to the global capitalist wonderland the path to nirvana.  Notice how Osborne was quick to cut headline corporation tax.  The truth is the private sector is a hotbed of tax avoidance; clever accountancy and a licence to be breaking all the rules whilst at the same time pour scorn on the public sector as a cumbersome monolith.  The public sector may be cumbersome and wasteful, but the private sector? Give us a break; it’s a platform for corruption, poor working conditions and low pay without benefits, nothing more nothing less.  The private sector will not lead us to a better world, it will fail to pick up the slack in the “job” market it will fail and this wraps up my reflection for January 2011.

Cameron et al may well wish to reflect on this “If you tell a lie big enough and keep repeating it, people will eventually come to believe it. The lie can be maintained only for such time as the State can shield the people from the political, economic and/or military consequences of the lie” 

And that came from a Nazi for fuck sake.

Anarchy & Peace.