Current Affairs

I am not sure whether I should be writing this, but listening to Nigel Farage this afternoon made my blood to boil. The more you say “the economy is broken” and the more you say that the British state needs reform is an ideology based on scant argument, few plans and disposing Britain to the variances of an argument that many agree with but few have the understanding, knowledge or capabilities to pinpoint where the state has failed.

It is in the play-book of Trump who argued that the “economy was broken” that the US handed a massive tax break to the wealthiest, broke down the civil service on the whim of one man (Musk), who could not find the massive waste in Trump’s assertion that the civil service was a bloated wasteful behemoth. This action of sabotage led to massive fraud and without the check-lists that could manage the absolute corruption of the president, the argument that the state was broken has been offset by his personal privatisation of the state and its assets. It is not a recalibration of the state and its resources, but the intransigence of the states assets have become tangible argument in how to siphon off the assets of the majority to a few in a cabal, that is corrupt.

But in the UK it is the city that needs to be fed… “yes that fucking lot”… the ones who begged to be nationalised when the financial crisis hit the banks, and demanded a bale out when they had become hypnotised by a quick profit on US housing stock neatly packaged into loss accounts and sold off to the UK banks with the promise that the profits would be an asset on the banks books. The reality was that US losses were transferred to the British taxpayer and the “shits” that had demanded the bale out are the same ones now financing Farage.

I have seen a lot in my time – but the raping of the state and its business’ has been at the forefront of city business practice. The idea that Britain cannot manufacture, engineer or even manage business’ has been at the forefront of bankers arguments when seeking a quick profit. ( I have been in an engineering manufacturing company that produced a successful product, it was sold to a German company and is still a successful company, but the manufacturing line ran twice as fast in the UK than it did in Germany).

But it is the loss of the utilities, which is most vexing. The idea that if a bank owns shares in utility companies, must mean a share out of the profits. Special government dispensations and loans to Water Companies to manage pollutants are being put on the balance sheet to exaggerate the assets of the utility companies and bonuses are being paid out without any thought to the safety of the consumers or the management of the environment. It is the lack of responsibility that has been shifted from the proprietor of the company to the government, which is hamstrung by arguments of whether there is anything they could argue that will make these companies listen to the concerns of their customers. It is a weakness in a system that won’t use a jail cell as an incentive to manage corporate malfeasance and force a turn around in the behaviour of those who have profited from the mismanagement of these assets.

But it is the absolute corruption of the banks and insurance companies that has led to the final scavenging of the British economy and with the NHS as the prize, – as the last piece of silver to be auctioned off-, is the prize to make Farages lot electable. This has not been a secret in the ranks of reform, they want the final piece of silver to be auctioned off so the “fucking banks” and “insurance companies” can rip the state off that little bit more.

Here, I must be honest as I have noticed how closely reform follows the policies of Trump, but it is the diabolical argument of Trump that has led to his assertion that the American people wanted a re-balancing of the US demographics, and though the re-balancing of the US demographics does have support in the US, it has a tiny support base and is underpinned by a lineage of argument that has its roots in a hard right element in American politics. The concept is very much an argument that was magnified by Trump, but it is also an argument that has been challenged by millions of Americans who have been on the streets demonstrating against the heavy handed ICE patrols who have confronted and violently suppressed the activists and concerned citizens.

But it is this same argument that has magnified a right wing element to support reform in the UK. As said by a member of reform “there are too many black faces on adverts,” which quickly drew an apology, but the underlying argument among reform supporters is that it underpins their argument that reform is the only party that could manage the “small boat crisis,” “illegal migrants” and rebalance the UK economy into a white dominated stratosphere. However much reform argues otherwise and point out token members who support the party, there is very much an argument among certain members of the population that reform will rebalance the demographics of the United Kingdom.

Yes, the problem has been the politicians in the UK, whether they want to hear it or not! The politicians have moved to fast for the electorate, and the failure of the politicians has been compounded by dictums that have challenged households. What do I mean? There has been a crisis in politics for a long time, which is that politicians do not reflect the concerns of the electorate and crisis’ have been compounded by the magnification of popular arguments that don’t really reflect the majorities beliefs or understanding of underlying political arguments. But there has been a crisis in language (political expedience), the police and social services have been dominated by the hyperbole of political correctness and in the same way that reform underpins their arguments of difference, there has been pushback through electing Labour, with a caveat not to repeat the mistakes of the Tories…. which is being repeated.

But the arguments that have underpinned reform are basically divide and rule, and it is through dividing the majority from a minority who have been the vanguard of power that has enabled reform to underpin their powerbase through ethnic differences. I am sure reform would disagree with this analysis, but the arguments of reform have been magnified by having its leadership and right wing commentators on their very own loss making TV station, which has empowered a select few whose arguments magnify and reflect minority arguments that divide and instil an ideology that on the one hand underpins the theories of difference and the salvation of the state, by arguing that the state is responsible for alienating and magnifying the polarisation of the electorate.

But it is the absolute corruption of MPs who have disgraced the House, the Lords and those that felt they are above the law that has empowered the Houses to be viewed as being in a elite stratosphere that bares no resemblance to the average Jo and the the average family. Once again it is the argument of inflation, cost of living, affordability and job insecurity for the majority who have been squeezed to the hilt and face an uncertain future

But like anything reform promise it is an argument that they will answer with the selling off of state resources and rewarding a minority. reform will place pressure on the majority through the concept of easing the tax burden and inflation with the selling of the last pieces of silver, leaving families struggling in the property sector, who will be further penalised by health insurance premiums that will bankrupt families in the long run who will be taxed to the hilt by insurance premiums as they age. (Anybody who has had their dog insured will know this!)

But Britain is moving into an uncertain future with the introduction of AI tools in the workplace, which is most likely going to be reflected by an uncertain jobs market for the majority. Jobs will be more difficult to find and the service sector will be challenged internally through the introduction of AI. Britain is on the edge of re-jigging its economy and the absolutes that once guaranteed a life that could be economically viable, will be challenged by AI – now and in the near future -, which will mean more uncertainty in the job market and the migration of employment to sectors that were once thought unprofitable.

But it is the failure of the government not to have a golden share in companies that it promoted and have now been sold off to the highest bidder (Health sector companies developing AI!!!!). The artisan community that is producing companies in the private sector are being forced to sell to the highest bidder, and the few companies in the UK that are producing AI tools are looking over their shoulder to see how they will be financed… and whether their hardwork will be sold to an outlier, which will then license the same product to the government and other business’ who will pay a premium to a behemoth instead of having a cost effective product with profits taxed at source in the United Kingdom. (NOT IRELAND)….

Reform does not have any answers to the future of the UK, it is short term argument that feeds on the polarisation of the state. It is very much a party that looks to the city, without being the investor in the economy and the skeletal remains of industry that will be further ripped to shreds will be the final argument that Britain is the slave to the vagaries of a subset of arguments that have eliminated the very foundations this state was built on. The refusal of the city to invest in the economy is a misnomer in any other state and the factions in the city that are investing in Nigel Farage and reform are making a huge mistake in not investing in the state as the tech companies do in the US.