Beware, the neoliberals are coming (back)
Just when you thought you'd finally discarded that throat wrenching verbal turd you probably once picked up from a news-stand, once upon a time, to the black hole of your cerebrum. Just when you, for a brief, brief moment, trepidly allowed the mere thought of escape to slip through barrier of your conscience. Just when perhaps, perhaps, maybe, possibly, you considered, people were beginning to see sense. Out of nowhere it seemed, sprang Nick Boles, and that folks, was that. The painful tsunami of memories instantly ransacks what good will remains left inside you, words such as 'Hayek' and 'Friedman' begin appearing all over the shot and you're left, sprawled on your bedroom floor, to ruin by a fit of frustration.
That's correct, ladies and gentlemen, the neoliberals are back. Back with a bank's worth of bullshit, downright lies and conjobbery. Be prepared for phrases such as; 'we're faced with the worst economic crisis since the war due to a deficit created by YOUR Labour government', 'we're all in this together', 'we simply can't go on like this', and the like.
But then again, who am I kidding? They've been here all a long. Sure, the neoliberal war-sirens haven't been sounded in a while, yet they've softly drummed the beat to every government line, offering the framework for a an entire body of responses to any given, pertinent question. The Liebor scandal we're told, is due to the manipulation of the market, rather than quite obviously, the market itself. The Eurozone must be fixed through further centralisation and structural reforms, apparently. For growth, we need more competition, and so on. Expect much, much more of Boles-esque fiction in the run-up to 2015, over the next two years. The installation of the neoliberal consensus, from institutions to the public at large, remains crucial to Conservative plans for power. The battle begins.
That's correct, ladies and gentlemen, the neoliberals are back. Back with a bank's worth of bullshit, downright lies and conjobbery. Be prepared for phrases such as; 'we're faced with the worst economic crisis since the war due to a deficit created by YOUR Labour government', 'we're all in this together', 'we simply can't go on like this', and the like.
But then again, who am I kidding? They've been here all a long. Sure, the neoliberal war-sirens haven't been sounded in a while, yet they've softly drummed the beat to every government line, offering the framework for a an entire body of responses to any given, pertinent question. The Liebor scandal we're told, is due to the manipulation of the market, rather than quite obviously, the market itself. The Eurozone must be fixed through further centralisation and structural reforms, apparently. For growth, we need more competition, and so on. Expect much, much more of Boles-esque fiction in the run-up to 2015, over the next two years. The installation of the neoliberal consensus, from institutions to the public at large, remains crucial to Conservative plans for power. The battle begins.
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