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Barring a huge surprise, clown prince Boris Johnson will be anointed as the unelected prime minister next week. It is a fitting epitaph for the absolute degeneration, chaos and total lack of democracy that reigns supreme in this country at the moment. Neo liberal policies have reduced Britain from a leading industrial nation to a so called, ‘service economy’, and an international laughing stock. First introduced by Thatcher, the policies of cutting and privatizing public services and crushing trade unionism has led us to this disgraceful situation, and this farcical juncture. The almost complete destruction of what was left of heavy industry, reduced what was once the workshop of the world into a gangsters paradise. Inequality soared as working class people were driven into the ground. Unemployment, poverty wages, zero hours contracts and bogus self employment became the norm in our non unionised economy. Stockbrokers, property developers, chief executives and assorted parasites and spivs enriched themselves at our expense. read entire article here: https://oaklandsocialist.com/2019/07/20/now-presenting-boris-johnson-next-british-prime-minister/ -- *“In politics, abstract terms conceal treachery.” *from "The Black Jacobins" by C. L. R. James Check out:https:http://oaklandsocialist.com also on Facebook _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
