Comments by "Curious Crow" (@CuriousCrow-mp4cx) on "Labour is a neoliberal political party" video.

  1. Sir, I have lived to see the price of a one-way bus ride into my city centre go up from 2p to £2.50, and for my sins I have lived through the time you speak of. And until the 1970s things were better than they are now. You could go to the shop with a green £1 note and come back with bread, milk and marg from the local shop and still have change. Now, you would be pushed to buy a decent newspaper with that. Yes, there were bad times, but as I found out when I studied British Economic History and then went on to look at British Political Economy and studied finance, I realised that I could not see at the time what really was going on. It would be quite easy for the uninformed me to see things as you did. But the data does not lie. Looking at the economic data, Neoliberalism's greatest achievement was to entrench the largest transfer of wealth to the already asset wealthy from the working class. They totally moved from a mixed economy where there were a greater variety of jobs for all abilities, to an economy dominated by financial services and the service industry which makes up around 85% of GDP. Great when times are good, but utterly useless when the whole global economy is based on absurd ideas, leading atrocious policies, and even more corruption. Hence the atrocities being committed on the sick, the poor, and the unlucky. And then the working man, and the family are going in the samr direction. Neoliberalism is a busted flush, because the financialisation of everything empoverishes everyone except the asset wealthy. Now our young people are being cheated out of a decent future. Because of that folly, the economy is being hollowed out. And AI will be the next coffin nail in the workers of this country. We're going backwards with diseases of poverty resurgent, our children are less well fed, and life expectancy has stalled. I walked up 13 floors in the dark during the power cuts due to the 3 day week, but I was more secure then, than I am now. That's why people are rioting. They are fearful, angry, and resentful because they are more insecure than their parents. And until Neoliberalism's cult leaders finally wake up to the fact that their ideas were unsustainable, things will not improve. So, would I go back then? Yeah. I'm not richer now. But I would have had a better quality of life then than now.
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  2. She was a follower of Hayek's work. Of course she was neoliberal.
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  3. Sorry but Winston Churchill did it first in the 1920's. Read Mark Blyth's "Austerity: History of a dangerous idea." And follow that with "Angrynomics".
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