Like many others in my situation,as a student in 1981-82 living in University Avenue in Belfast,I experienced the unsanitary and dangerous buildings being used to house students.
Yet again,in 1983-4 after a year's absence from my studies due to the witless activities of Brice Dickson of MI 5 and Christy Patton of MI 6, the inhuman and degrading treatment of students by private landlords in gerry-built housing in Agincourt Avenue had to be endured.
Many of those student dwellings were tenanted by the so-called Student Accommodation Service at Queen's and were unfit for human habitation. Many of the ultimate beneficiaries of Belfast Rachmannism were police landlords and hung-his-mother-type small businessmen. They were in truth only rent-collectors for the wealthy parasites in hock to the City of London. (Every form of society throws up its fair measure of parasites not all of them Tories. Some of them are dyed-in-the-wool Labour types on small pensions but with a 'DLA car' so that they can meet their police contact man).
Parasitism found its full expression in Thatcher,a madman called Norman Tebbit and a silly old fool in Washington who claimed some ancestral affinity to Ireland.
All those persons stripped their country bare of what they called "real jobs". They began the process of mass social degradation, bogus self-employment,safety standards deregulation, abolition of basic labour standards,monetary policy madness, agency working,job insecurity, financial parasitism, economic immiserisation, robbing Peter to pay Paul, deindustrialization and deskilling on behalf their puppet-masters in California and London.
Their legacy is a society,two societies in fact,gan faic gan fiud (without economic substance as surplus exporter or real hope). Let anyone contradict these facts at their peril.
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The only outcome of Thatcherism was make-believe 'work' in insurance firms, banks, shopping centres,transport,the arms industry and the shadow economy. One of those coupon clipping exercises in mass titillation,gambling, is a shadow business for wayward individuals intent on aping the behaviour of the rich.
In 1987-88, hyperinflation set in. Mass speculation on property was punished by the money sector. Britain's currency was reduced to junk status.
The outcome?
In 1992,the Chancellor of the Exchequer, Norman Lamont,accepted that the UK could not compete in the world market by taking Britain out of the Exchange Rate Mechanism. (The ERM was intended to secure cheap credits for industry). Britain's government decided that that country must rely on monetary 'spin' and imperialist barbarism to stay financially afloat.
The 'copycats'? Germany?
Kohl copied Thatcher's policies. After 1985,Germany entered the deepest and longest recession in its entire history. Japan followed soon afterwards,then Russia,then Clinton's America. Those countries wanted the unsuspecting to board a French-built plane and fly out to see the mess left behind by the idiots of the Adam Smith Institute and Chicago Business School,Hayek,Milton Friedman,Johnson and similar space cadets.
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The Freedom Trail? America? The future?
America,don't throw away your life on a three-minute Merle Haggard song. Listen instead to a decorated Marines Captain,
"Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose..."
Stay the course to social reform!
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The outcome of political decline and economic decay
The future belongs to Asia and Africa. The European and American Millennium has passed. Its last century ended as it began with a war against Slavs.
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19.4.2022
Britain and E.U. 'market harmonisation '
Thatcherism and wayward dickheads such as Tony Blair who put their faith in Free Trade beliefs (and 'market' equilibrium economics) could not foresee a massive blow-out in the economy. Did they not realise where starving industry of cheap credits was leading long before being rejected at the polls? Their tenures led to industrial ruin,manifest injustice and enormous welfare dependence.
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There is, since Thatcher's reign,a mental paralysis in politicians when confronted with Britain's long-term industrial decline and economic decay. Tighter restrictions on industrial managers,endemic police corruption and medical euthanasia require enlightenment thinking. Instead, we get an untrammeled belief in the fickle certainties of media hype and information control.
Even more so than Thatcher, Blair initiated the casual brutality of medical repression. His gift was for totalitarianism accompanied by random acts of murder and open cruelty. Medical murder and widespread hospital experimentation cost many,many people their lives during his tenure.I can bear witness to that fact. I suffered at the hands of male and female psychopaths who were employed by the NHS during his fashionable outbursts of idle rhetoric. Blair's casual brutality was characterised by his fatal embrace of paramilitary gangs and their political frontmen and media camp followers. Indigenous police forces grew steadily out of control.
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Blairmania?Thatcherism? Reaganomics?
Social death cults finding expression in a necrosis of the collective mind.
Those cults denied the vainest hopes of ordinary human beings and everyone's modest ambitions for a reasonable standard of living and sympathetic treatment by the state.
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9.5.2022
Women in politics?
"A woman who can't cook or sew,much less clean up the mess left behind after her erratic behaviour, should not be in public life or running for parliament or election anywhere in the world. She should be put to work with a scrubbing brush until she learns a bit of manners since she- Michelle Gildernew is typical of that type- is a failure at everything she turns her hand to apart from,that is, in the eyes of a few maniacs in Sinn Fein around Belfast and Dublin. The latter are hoping for a rise in government allowances for the unemployed or long-suffering disabled to buoy up their socialist claims. Women in politics and their male admirers are destined for an old people's home or nursing establishment. There staff are well used to people ranting and raving at them about nothing in particular." ( The voice of a mother on " that oul' bitch", Edwina Currie, and other people who made a living crying,"Foul!" once too often for their own health and well-being,a class of self-serving publicity-seekers).
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Thatcher's contemporaries?
The media,public life and politics are laden-down with looneys such as conservative spokesmen, political parasites and ideological madmen.
"Look at Sinn Fein,in particular the corner-boys from Donagh and Roslea and up by Ballagh Cross who wise up too late about the people who sent them to jail for insolence."
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12.5.2022
Misguided?Women politicking?
Distraught women such as Michelle Gildernew and Michelle O Neill become hysterical and unbalanced when they think that they have the ear of their main opponent or electoral cannon-fodder.
This facet of feminism is the leading cause of female nervous breakdown, catered for in Aspen,Colorado by doctors such as Day-Cody. In the case of Belfast Walter Mitty -types who have killed someone,I am referring to Adams,by clinics in New York and in Michelle Gildernew 's case of alcoholism,by St. John of God's in Dublin.
The problem with women who think they're as good as any man does not merit serious analysis. Its origin is self-explanatory, moral infidelity to a set of beliefs or family associations. (Arlene Foster can not be found guilty on that count since she was born with great self-possession and over-riding ambition). Neither Gildernew nor Thatcher saw fit to speak to anyone who understood their problem,moral conceit and sensual complexity until recourse to medical assistance or spiritual help was too late.
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25.11.2022
Le but de geste?
What Thatcher and her kitchen cabinet of nouveau riche-types set out to achieve with a considerable measure of success,was to renovate British capitalism and narrow the scope of government activities. Apart,that is,from draconian security measures.
The continuum?
Under Charles Johnson, Alasdair Campbell, Jonathan Stevens, Marjorie Mowlam,John Reid, Jonathan Cain, Michael Goggins,Tony Blair and Peter Mandelstam the police went into security overdrive in Northern Ireland. That was the outworking of the internal terror and political factionalism.
Independent witness to Thatcherism's get-rich idealisation? Culture?
Witnesses to personal degradation are the British entertainment industry and press. Both were swamped with drugs and medications to stimulate creative energy, subdue political opposition and cultivate wayward talent. That police practice has spread to what the House of Windsor call the 'Commonwealth'. This Commonwealth they want us to join to share in their financial poverty and social misery.
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Capital accumulation?
Thatcher was engaged in that most egregious range of activities, namely, transferring wealth and investment i.e.capital from "underperforming" areas of the economy to more profitable, largely unregulated areas,a woman's dream and a worker's nightmare.
Her activities and those of the British government are best synopsised by Karl Marx in Volume One of Capital or,more loosely,by his Theories of Surplus Value Volumes 1-3. Thatcher 's policies were properly characterised one hundred and twenty years and more earlier by Karl Marx.
If you want to know about the "erosion of Britain's skill base" (The Guardian,1987),read Das Kapital (Dietz Verlag,Berlin).
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24.12.2022
'Ordinary' people,the self-employed
The reason the Irish and English self-employed do not like Thatcher was that like any other Jezebel in a 'social' ministry,she expected people to pay their taxes to keep her and others in the lap of luxury.
Her appetite for Scots whiskey?
Profligate. Not only that fact occurs to the wary observer, but she was a woman who constantly cried "Wolf!" at England's competitors and partners alike. She fed secret briefings based on unsubstantiated 'intelligence' to the English press.
The first wave of economic migrants from Thatcherism?
Thatcherites believed in double taxation. She hated reciprocity and understood that phenomenon to mean derogation from treaty obligations. As an abandoned wife would retaliate for a "cheating husband",she viewed the subtleties and complexities of international law and European Treaty obligations as a marriage contract...
....Tee-hee-hee,as my late brother Dermot used to characterise the Protestant marriage arrangement and something derived from it,the contract of employment. (That wordy old Labour peer and advocate, Lord Wedderburn, could not see industrial chaos as imminent. Britain's leading labour advocate and labour law peer was little more than the unhappy husband who rejects the mediaeval "right of the first night").
To return to my theme, Thatcher could not see the true extent of the suffering and misery she cultivated. She reduced society from a situation of reasonable sufficiency and rising expectations to a cardboard cutout of India.
She received no impartial advice. The police and secret services hounded her opponents and intimidated journalists. Police everywhere behave like those dangerous capitalist Gauleiters (Toraigh/Tories, G."pursuers") at the instigation of such reactionary politicians.
One instance in my situation occured in Dublin in 1990. In August 1990,she flew in an RAF helicopter over the rooftop of the flat where I lived in Saint Teresa's Gardens. (I lived an exile in my own country,an exile from her brutal and barbaric regime).
Hers was a violent,unstable,intolerant and bellicose attitude. She and her political hangmen demanded total submission.
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Her legacy?
War,famine,want,filth, disease, prrostitution, crime,drug-taking and the public rejection of any public charity.
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The ultimate goal of the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in Germany,the US,Canada and Australia?
Death,of course.....
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20.3.2023
Tory catchphrases
Thatcher like the Asians and Catholics who she encouraged to enter politics,was an abhorrent individual who had ready to hand a host of glib superlatives such as economic reality, common sense, national security,real jobs, economic growth and similar profanities, never seeing the descent into a drug-addled,hen-pecked,Third World state of affairs she was creating.
Little did she or others foresee what someone Tebbit wanted to bring back from Germany in chains would do to the Tory hooligans in October 1983.
You're an old man now,Norman.
You represent the brutal and barbaric legacy of political catcallers and Tory yakking birds.
Your passing,too,will be a cause of open rejoicing.
Thatcher's legacy is a world subsumed in disease,filth,hunger,poverty and quiet desperation.
The Tories, whatever the fine qualities of one or two Catholic M.P.s,are finished in government for a generation.
Free market economics?
Let us not allow assholes in Blair's former governments or pricks in tiny left splinter groups to take the credit for the supercession of classic 'free' market economics.
Socialists,Communists and liberals were a hindrance in purging society of an evil cult dreamed up by economic fantasists in Boston,London and New York.
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26.3.2023
Tories?
We say of those who claim that they are 'pro-business',"You are concealing your real agenda. Your aim is to enrich yourself and your family at the expense.of those foolish enough to endorse your claims or stupid enough to be taken in by your idle rhetoric."
If the claims of those describing themselves as "pro-business " are ever taken seriously by a majority,a path to ruin will have been charted.
"Law-and-order" types?
Those who describe themselves as "pro-law and order and in favour of stricter controls on criminals" are covering up a catalogue of judicial and administrative errors of judgement, outright barbarism and numerous human rights violations by doctors and others at the instigation of their victims' enemies.
Defences?
Give the apologists of medical and police violence a flea in their ear when these fools approach you in the street. (They will rarely come to your door unless it is to have you arrested or killed).
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16.8.2023
Levelling up
If the modern Tories intention to 'level up' is genuine,the noble aim of equality positions them to the left of the Labour Party and Liberal Party and all others.
A noble ideal BUT.....
....very flawed thinking because it is a left-wing ideology alone that can reduce differentials and even out economic outcomes....
....a worthy and a great social good but naïve because there are so many other social goods such as public housing,fair rents,fixity or security of tenure and safe working conditions....
....levelling up is all well and good for the 12 000 000 in receipt of a social security payment but many in an England where public housing has been reduced to a source of private enrichment,must subsidise private landlords with these very social security payments....
.....AND,the price of short-term contracts prohibits the main body of those on poverty wages partaking of this grandiose ambition to create greater equality of income....
....there are many other issues too such as hospital brutality and RESTRICTIONS ON TRADE UNION RIGHTS.....
The price of ignoring those who produce the wealth of society for a HALCYON ILLUSION dictates taking to the streets by those whose taxes pay social security bills at government level.
Let us have done with illusions and stick to the LABOUR path to social equity and private wellbeing. The taxpayer should not subsidise the get-rich-quick dreams of dolemen and the unproductive classes. Most of the poor have adequate income,not all,and a wealth of social supports.
Jedem dem sein! Each to his own!
Levelling up? LAUDABLE but lamentably naive.
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Thatcher and Blair forced working class people to discount their wages by accepting self-employment. Building workers and many graduates were forced into self-employment to reduce their employers' National Insurance bill. Thatcher sought in her drunken frenzy to introduce a Ground Zero of falling social insurance and rising debt by her cavalier approach. Hers was a dumb and insensate ideology such as Kwarteng,Truss and Mordant tried to introduce.
People such as Thatcher and Haughey occur at all stages of history,anxious to batten down the hatches on labour discontent by deregulation,mismanagement and bogus self-employment.
This labour degradation is a synthesis of the US prison system and English and Dutch market liberalism. Blair changed nothing. His days at university were spent strumming a six-string and combing his hair as were Cameron's and Rishi Sunak's.
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29.4.2024
The heart of the matter
The only political or economic explanation for the development of the female hen party around this unhinged yakking bird was a drive for capital accumulation by British monopolies.
Nothing else. The Catholic bishops of England and Wales furnished her path to power and backed a warmonger and Tory as they now use their residual influence to back a bloody and brutal genocide in the Middle East.
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10.7.2024
Thatcher's legacy is a generation reared under her tutelage with no livelihoods who are characterised by anomie.
I am referring to those who do not accept rules, morality,justice,decency or anything else.
Blair had an opportunity to distance himself from The Unjust Class of bankers and spivs who took over England in the 1980's but he steadfastly refused. The Blair years were noted for the politics of chaos, disharmony and deregulation.
In the Blair years, Thatcher's essentially dystopian policies and military government were never truly abandoned. Sewer rats proliferated in politics,medicine, hospitals and public life.
A feral generation developed without moral or social guidance,one beyond the limits of the law,a generation which could only be controlled by the police.
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21.7.2024
Her Majesty's Loyal Opposition
In the demoniac ranting and raving of Thatcher and her hangmen and the man who I dubbed The Welsh Windbag,there are the presentiments of a socially disfigured polis and a mentally damaged world of work.
Thatcher and Kinnock were two hyper-inflated bores who were taken seriously only because one was dispatched by shopkeepers, police and high finance to confront the unions and the other was appointed by union bosses to lead the charge of the light brigade against labour reforms.
The enduring message of the slash and burn economics of Thatcher and Reagan,Bush and Gorbachev is of societies going through the 'change of life'.
Society never stands still. However,there are eternal verities and absolutes such as care for the sick and elderly,human compassion and tolerance for your own kind. Those were sadly missing from Thatcher's super-exploitative and inflationary Britain.
Middle and upper class British voters were responsible for the phenomenon.
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15.12.2024
Thatcherism's internal workings focussed on two things the most important in May 1980 being to control the printing of money to bail Britain out of one of its perennial crises. The banks control the financing of debt by releasing money to debt this influencing the setting of interest rates at the Bank of England.
The second trick she devised was to get a businessman to close down the nationalised monopolies and sell off what remained of their fixed capital and labour assets.
In the first case she stopped the Jews flooding the market at home with Treasury money while sending their own money abroad to avoid high interest rates on lending and in the second she set Johnson against the domestic capital markets in the real economy.
What did it amount to?
Playing both ends off against the other.
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Since the miners brought down the Tory government in 1974 and the Big Three brought down the Labour government in 1978-9, England has been a polarised society with fringe politics gaining ever more credibility and supporters.
While in its manifestations, be they the National Front, British National Party and Reform or the Militant Tendency,Socialist Workers Party and Jeremy Corbyn, the views are ever more diverse and incapable of reaching a harmonious accord.
Labour is the only party of flexibility which does not allow "stark,raving lunatics" ("What is to Be Done -The Sequel", July-August 1988, Dublin) to give an official and mainstream Labour viewpoint. It keeps strictly on the left when populism is on the rise and stays well clear of endorsing wicked individuals such as Nigel Farage or Penny Mordant or their pet hobbyhorses.
LABOUR! Working people,Keep Left!
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"Thatcher's main backers are the Catholic Church in England who want her to do something for all the young girls who are going to abortion clinics."
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The whole point of Thatcherism was rowing back on industrial agreements between labour unions, employers and government before unleashing a torrent of deregulation and free market accumulation and property speculation.
The only people who followed her example were Gorbachev,Yeltsin and Gaidar. They knew as well as they had a head on their body that the key to easing private capital accumulation was to break up the Leninist economic model of industrial trust and trade union Kombinat.
They broke up the joint union-employer factory committees because they no longer served the purpose of state capital accumulation and raising productivity. They knew that the unions as in Britain,had taken over the running of the country and were slowing production to the workers pace.
People such as Mirzov,Aganbeygan,Gaidar,all being enemies of socialism and the working man,realised that the adjustments Thatcher had made were the best route to feathering their own nest and enhancing the power of the managerial class (apparatchiki) and turning public property into private wealth. That was Thatcher's and the Vatican's and the US government's long cherished plan to pacify Russia and calm national independence movements.
The Good Friday Agreement,all sane people say,is the outcome of fascist and imperialist revanchism.
In terms of investment flows and wealth accumulation,the Free State of Ireland has been a beneficiary of the dilution of the world working class movement but,if history moves in cycles,socialism in advanced, technically -orientated societies will once more be a talking point when the long dark night of the soul has passed for the working class.
