Crime and Punishment

Austerity is a byword for: punishment. Every bona fide economist in the West recognises the idiocy behind an authoritarian practice that only creates public pain. So, why would anyone vote for a fiscal blight on a nation?

I’ve posed this question to experts in the field really since Robert Peston did those impulsive reports of financial meltdowns and morning credit crunching ten years ago. The answer is simple: good old fashioned economic numbskulls who unconditionally love neoliberalism.  A stagnant economy is the best of a bad show and done on a full employment rate too….  Anyone with a shred of intellect would stoke up and say, ‘something’s not right here.’   And if anything the deregulation of finance should indirectly alarm logical thinkers, for there’s an increasing premeditated incompetency surrounding austerity.

Deregulation per se has ticked the boxes of clandestine corruption and we’re only just opening our eyes to this prospect. Ultimately disguised to me as… ‘Not in the national interest’ -- my peers understand the complexity of highlighting the plethora of fiscal delusions to a majority who’re fixated by Brexit. But this is what the May administration wants, they’re sublime at deflecting from their innate ideologies, alas diabolical at computing simple economics.  For an example, May and the Cabinet are still embracing the archaic Party slogan… they’re competent with finances as a bid to bolster up support whenever policy discourse gets tough and the irony is…. They’ve shown to be totally incompetent with the nation’s finances. Austerity means catapulting household debt and this is currently at 1.3 Trn (GBP); call it enforced debt driven by dysfunctional economics from Central Government. If you disagree, ask yourself why is austere measures been imposed on its people for eight years? No developed nation governance has adopted this fiscal approach in a democratic state during times of practically zero interest rates.

Graciously announcing the deficit is down but your own household deficit is up – notably, this is irresponsible governance and begs the question what was it with the national deficit in the first place? Professor Simon Wren-Lewis at Oxford University smirked and gushed out; ‘it depends on what side of the fence you’re looking at austerity; its normal to adjust spending and taxes to keep government debt relative to GDP stable, albeit, there’s an injustice to systematically conclude a particular stabilised level, for annual tax receipts fluctuate and in regards to an uncertain financial forecast its madness to cement yourself to a stabilised level. ‘I come to acknowledge that austerity not only is invalid but is entrenched in Tory philosophy of the observation they’re via default not visionaries but missionaries. No different to a pious-orientated- cult –of-prophecy exclaiming the need to clamp down on spending is purely based on fictitious ideology.  Here’s the bare bones… there’s an intrinsic belief in Right-Wing mantra that punishment is the only means for redemption and reward. The very factor that Theresa May has stated ‘Austerity is ending’ actually exposes this belief system. By categorically stating in exultation ‘rewarding fashion’ that … ‘after the financial crash, people need to know that the austerity it led to is over and that their hard work has paid off.’  In theory this defies common sense let alone fiscal rules.

May subsequently let the cat out the bag we weren’t it in together and admitted the UK involvement of the global banking consortium which lost control of its buffers were bailed out by the ordinary hard workers; the very same people who’re now hard-wired Right-Wing supporters who voted for Brexit.  Their absurdity is due to buying the contingent patriotism card and effectively letting the financial sector off from any blame, every intellectual is baffled at the level of culpable irrationalism, why there’s a Left-Wing united front pulling the levers of ‘corrective policy.’ Tories are losing every debate and it’s due to seismic derailment of logic and vision.   I doubt this demographic will ever pay witness to the condescending tone, for patriotism overrides reality and a true fascist administration understands this fully.  Ye-h, the Conservatives are waving a flag for their despot agenda - and the odium fuels the power to the Maybot – henceforth, to our nation’s detriment. Unsurprisingly, why there’s a behemoth ideological divide in modern Britain and it won’t subside as long as it’s being fuelled with Brexit and austere pandemonium.  Never fear austerity is here with us until 2021 at least.

We tend to believe structures of power as immutable - virtually part of Nature.  Of course they’re far from it, instead they’re built on Rights and Legal theory that lay behind them rooted in much the same intellectual soil as nourished as the other two major forms of totalitarianism: Fascism and Boleshevism. Currently the government are now strategizing onto another agenda, why they feel they can deliberately misinform the nation without compunction. The private tyranny rests with the level of patriotism they can muster via Brexit rhetoric to the working class; contributing to a breath-taking and perverse bid to strengthening authoritarian resolve, and the result -- leaving humanism in a desperate state. Durable austerity, conditions the status quo to read about / observe the dying on the streets; hence, the upsurge of ridicule diminishes because there’s an acceptance of our austere politics, morals and ethics. To put it point-blankly, austerity causes a costly clean-up process which future generations have to bridge with diplomatic relations and enforced tax hikes, far greater than any Social Movement could endeavour.

One of the incessant issues that arise is the outright oddity that surrounds Theresa May in regards to her oratory and belief-system. She’s given away enough information to intellectual minds that enables this demographic to gather all her discourse and rationalize it to dangerous heretics.  The character similarities, her body politic is synonymous with Mother Theresa, another Theresa who spoke about the deprived and impoverished yet kept the donations / taxes for a self-perceived hierarchy that only a Theresa can imagine. Automatically this exacerbates societal paucity.

What hasn’t been answered is how illogical and reckless are the feverishly patriotic our working class? During this unprecedented epoch of system malfunctions and seismic cover ups whereby clarity is underpinned with absurdity and illogical nuances. There’s only way it’s going: and this is an absolute decline in living standards and unabated venality, the signs are unadorned. Look no further than how the UK Governance respond to Saudi dehumanization; complicit to arm trade with tyrants for years. Austerity starts with punishing those who’re financially strapped to do anything about it; for evidence (dissolving Legal Aid) and every-time it ends in unequivocal anarchy. I suspect the folly can’t smell coffee.