quote:Originally posted by Garage Joe:quote:Originally posted by Daniel J*:
Short of some global miracle, he's set the country up for a radical Conservative government and a whole generation of austerity. If he's an economist, he's a poor one. He actively promoted a decade of Good Times and High Living and left the country wide open to an economic shock, just so he could pursue his personal socialist agenda. What a tosser.
Which personal socialist agenda is that one then? Is it the privatisation of our Post Office?
Well, quite. Like the rest of New Labour, he's given up on the nationalisation aspects of socialism. He appears happy to let private companies own and operate the means of production. Afterall, it mostly works and he gets the tax to spend. No, his personal socialist agenda is mostly about control; state control and state intrusion into the lives of individuals, echoing his personal traits, together with some redistribution of wealth from the affluent middle classes to the lower classes. The middle classes are much easier targets than big business now globalisation has happened.