Sunday, December 10, 2017

Bill Mitchell — British Tories reject the ‘free market’ neoliberal myth

The conservatives in the British Labour Party are obviously worried. The UK Guardian article (December 2, 2017) – Labour faces subversion by Momentum and far left, says Roy Hattersley – reports the claim by former Deputy leader, Roy Hattersley that British Labour is “facing the biggest crisis in its history” because left-wingers are engaged “in a systematic takeover of the party”. Gosh. Sounds shocking. A traditionally left-wing political party slowly wresting it back to mission after being hijacked by the right-wing, neoliberal Blairites. That sounds like Armageddon. The Blairites tried to kill off Jeremy Corbyn several times as they continued to undermine him in the public eye and bleated about how he was going to destroy the Labour Party. They then fell silent when he nearly delivered the Party government in the recent national election and saved many of their jobs. Now, with a by-election in Watford, the conservatives are back to it although it has to be said that Hattersley cannot be called a Blairite. He represents the pre-Blairite right-wingers who backed Dennis Healey as he imposed Monetarist ideology on the Party in the mid-1970s. And this article came out soon after the Tory government announced a major ‘socialist’-style industrial plan. In its press release (November 27, 2017) – Government unveils Industrial Strategy to boost productivity and earning power of people across the UK we learn that the Tories are finally understanding that it can actually improve the fortunes of British workers
Bill Mitchell – billy blog
British Tories reject the ‘free market’ neoliberal myth
Bill Mitchell | Professor in Economics and Director of the Centre of Full Employment and Equity 
(CofFEE), at University of Newcastle, NSW, Australia

4 comments:

Kaivey said...
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Kaivey said...

Nick Cohen had an article in the Observer/ Guardian yesterday saying that the Labour Party must keep Corbyn out of power. The Jewish Nick Cohen was a communist now turned neoliberal. Jeremy Corbyn has sympathies for the Palestinians. The Guardian did not have CiF, the comments section, switched on. They do this a lot now if they know an article is going to get a lot backlash

NeilW said...

Nick has been writing the same article since Brexit. It's more evidence of mental collapse from the world changing around him than anything else.

Matt Franko said...

They are just mimicking Trump...