The New Politics
Introduction
Prime Minister, David Cameron, took a few people by surprise with his talk of a Big Society, in fact, apart from himself and few back office types, very few knew what he was talking about - many still don't.
However, nothing in this world is genuinely new, most ideas are recycled, repackaged, or simply re-imagined. In the Sixties, US President Johnson kept inserting the phrase Great Society into his speeches, few knew what he was talking about either. Johnson never did clarify his message, he decided to napalm Sout-East Asia into oblivion instead and then there wasn't enough money available to build the Great Society.
Mr Cameron, or Dave, as he prefers his people to call him, is smarter than Johnson. His Big Society doesn't appear to rely on massive spending by government, rather it relies on good will, charity, cooperation and self-help.
The creation of a Big Society is a part of the New Politics, State paternalism started under New Labour and is now refined by the Tories (the Lib-Dems are of no consequence at the level of ideas). What is new here are not ideas themselves but rather the attempt to use a collection of ideas, decades and centuries old, to provide the groundwork for a socially engineered society.
Big Society... discover what it means. Throughout the land the printing presses at Town Halls are churning out glossy brochures, complete with 'how-to' guides for citizens who want to work for nothing.. And the first 'schools' for Social Entrepreneurs are signing up those with a passion for turning a penny from the free labour of others. (July 2010), (Aug 2010)
The Underclass - the key problem to be solved by the new politics. The underclass kill, drug, imprison and feed their own children to savage dogs or turn them into 20 a day nicotine addicts before they start school. They camp like Wilburys on the verge of an imaginary internet world, creating ego-centric, self-regarding persona, waiting like parasites for the next helping hand to arrive - so they can eat it. (Jan 2010) But the State is struggling with its irradication programme. (Dec 2010) (April 2011)
Demise of the Left - Old Labour, New Labour, Labour Now - whatever happened to left-wing politics? (Feb 2012)
Welfare Reform - the final solution, designed to reduce the Welfare concensus to tatters. (April 2011)
The Politics of Happiness (Jan 2011) -
Nudge Theory (Feb 2011)
Social Mobility.. do we need yet another strategy to promote social mobility when 70% of the populace think they are middle class? (May 2011)
Education is frequently cited as a panacea to treat the scourge of poverty and provide the encouragement, support, self-belief and ambition required to climb the greasy pole of opportunity. The question is, does it? (August 2010) (Jan 2011)
Afghanistan - Britain will be leaving Afghanistan in five years. According to the Ministry of War Mongering we will leave when the job's done - five years then?
Cloud Computing... another initiative from the ConDems, find out about the G-Cloud project, it will affect your life. (June 2011)
Child Protection Not much to say, we don't believe anyone's really serious about protecting children from sub-human degenerates - the prevailing liberal fantasy of holding out hope that some kind of redemption is possible is beyond belief. (May 2011)
Getting Old in England - the state of elderly care in Cameron's England.
Healthy Living - The purpose of this small essay is to inform you about the State's plans to persuade you to live more healthy lives and to consider some of the cunning plans coming from a troupe of Baldricks, that Cameron keeps in a cupboard under the stairs at No.10 - to entertain us all. And as a Bonus, you will also be provided with a review of the new ConDem White Paper, Healthy lives, Healthy people - Bon Appétit. (Feb 2011)
Home Carers, slavery by any other name. (April 2010)
Saving the Planet - an assessment of the ConDem's response to Global Warming and Climate Change, and the creation a new common sense in relation to the need for what they call 'greening' through the use of eco-technologies like biofuels, wind farms, solar panels and dull bulbs. Many of these schemes contain the seeds of idocy but many are good money spinners, especially that Kyoto creation Carbon Credits, designed to reduce carbon emissions but in practice a miserable failure. (Feb. 2011)
The Wasteland describes the consequences of gross financial mismanagement, gangsterism, and card sharping accountancy, but more it describes an illusory world where Monopoly is being played with peoples lives.
This page includes the Banking Crisis... being the genuine story of a talent for failure and self-regard unparalleled in the history of arrogance. (June 2010), Quantitative Easing, being the process whereby a failed Government buys worthless assets from a discredited banking system enabling it to continue to pay itself exceptional bonuses for recklessness and ignorance, whilst the failed Government whistles like a child in a darkened room for reassurance. (June 2010), Private Finance Initiative, PFI is not about 'rolling back the State' rather it's about reconfiguring the relationship between the public and private sectors. One consequence of the proliferation of PFI projects has been to blur the distinction between public and private and, indeed, has been to erode the certainties surrounding public provision of goods and services. (Oct 2010), Payment Protection Insurance, PPI signifies the fetid and slimy imagination of the banking community. (Feb. 2011)
Policing Britain, big changes are taking place within the police across England and Wales. We are seeing fewer real policeman and a vast increase in nearly-policeman, PCSO, street wardens, and 'accredited persons' - bouncers by another name - find out what's going on, before you get your collar felt. (Nov. 2010)
Common Purpose, leadership training orgainisation or global conspiracy? (Sept. 2010)