Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "This “volatile new force” will bring down Rishi Sunak | Andrew Marr | New Statesman" video.

  1. I'm Australian and about 10 years older than you. You have perfectly described what myself and a generation have endured under what we now call neoliberal economics. I am about 10 years older than and by dates am supposedly of the boomer generation. But I HAVE NEVER identified with the boomers at all. I actually went to university in America and at that time we all called ourselves Gen-X. After graduating and getting back to Australia I landed right into the start of a recession that the Australian LABOR Treasurer Paul Keating described as "the recession that we needed to have." That recession absolutely crushed the majority of people who graduated from the late 80s to the late 90s. Even though the 2000s were great due to the mineral boom to feed the Chinese beast were great we'd LOST a decade of decent earnings that we have never recovered from. Keating was followed by the Liberal (our version of the Tories) Kevin Costello who was even worse because he crushed the entire manufacturing sector. Because like Keating he was a student of Thatcherism and Reaganomics he valued the services sector as the future. So we had 2 (one Left and one Right right wing) Treasurers in succession who were right out of the Blair, Cameron, Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale mold espousing what we now call neoliberalism. AND RIGHT NOW both sides of Australian politics can't understand why we hate them. From what I know of what's happening in America - same thing.
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