'Work till you drop' society
We must have the most right-wing Labour Government ever. I think that is pretty obvious. Its a Government that is hell bent on destroying any vestiges of publically owned organisations, such as our National Health Service, selling off all council housing (and not replacing it), gutting the Department of Social Security (I think they were even thinking of outsourcing the helplines India), and anything remotely to help poor people, they want to 'modernise'. This doesnt even mention the attack on Pensions, with the Queens Speech last week spelling out policys to make people work until they are 68 before they would be entitled to a State Pension. Essentially, we are living in a three mortgage society (see Socialist Worker), whereby we need a mortgage to buy a house, for education, and now to have any decent pension when we retire. All this is so obviously directed at the workers; council workers, nurses, builders, i.e all the most vunerable sections of society who are low paid will have to pay the cost of this neo-liberal economic agenda.
Blair and co. want to bring the private sector into every aspect of our society, whether it be in our NHS or in our schools. Bringing the private sector into the NHS will drive down wages even further in order to compete; the pursuit of profit becomes a holy grail to the managers and to reach this elusive goal means trampling over any remaining vestiges of free health care for all. Thats right folks, New Labours ultimate intention is to destroy our NHS; bringing market forces into health will only, once again, lead to poor people suffering because of the future costs.
All New Labour has done since the 1997 election is continue what the Tories started under Thatcher. There are some good things like the minimum wage, but below the veneer of Labour Social Policy, is the most rabid right wing attack on workers and our society. This doesnt even go into the 'disaster' in Iraq, or cash for peerages, or the corruption amongst our 'elected representitives'. It goes to show that we really do live in a one party state...neither the Liberals and least of all the Tories will change a single iota of the offensive started by Thatcher in the '80s.
Highly depressing. I am off for another drink.
Blair and co. want to bring the private sector into every aspect of our society, whether it be in our NHS or in our schools. Bringing the private sector into the NHS will drive down wages even further in order to compete; the pursuit of profit becomes a holy grail to the managers and to reach this elusive goal means trampling over any remaining vestiges of free health care for all. Thats right folks, New Labours ultimate intention is to destroy our NHS; bringing market forces into health will only, once again, lead to poor people suffering because of the future costs.
All New Labour has done since the 1997 election is continue what the Tories started under Thatcher. There are some good things like the minimum wage, but below the veneer of Labour Social Policy, is the most rabid right wing attack on workers and our society. This doesnt even go into the 'disaster' in Iraq, or cash for peerages, or the corruption amongst our 'elected representitives'. It goes to show that we really do live in a one party state...neither the Liberals and least of all the Tories will change a single iota of the offensive started by Thatcher in the '80s.
Highly depressing. I am off for another drink.
posted by Kevin Sparrow at 3:57 pm
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