Our political system is becoming a two-party
system, here each party has much the same economic policy. Neo-liberal, free-market
economics have become the ideology of both main parties. Mrs T began it. New
Labour carried it further and it reaches it's culmination in Osbornism:
elimination of the deficit – a process which
Labour proposes to take more slowly, but without any dollop of Keynes to make
things better.
The most depressing thing is how little dissent
there is from both idiocies. A few crazed Tories want to move further and
faster to stateless heaven, but they're of no account. While on the Labour side
the left is pathetically small and getting smaller – as processed peas replace retiring lefties. John McDonnell, Michael
Meacher and Kelvin Hopkins will keep sense alive. But will they be heard above
the chorus of bleats?
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