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Brexit – Why things will get worse and what’s coming next
By Graham Vanbergen
– The Conservative government misjudged
the EU referendum as much as they did the general election back last May
which is what ultimately caused Brexit to happen in the first place.
A totally out of touch, arrogant British establishment demonised the
poor, the unemployed, sick and disabled, attacked working rights, forced
millions into insecure work, crushed the middle classes and lied to
everyone in policy terms from taxes, to war, to the NHS and beyond.
Osborne has sold state assets built up over the generations and
privatised at a greater rate than by all chancellors combined since
Thatcher to stem an expanding financial back hole that his policies
were unable to fill.
In the meantime, both political parties have been found to be
harbouring the mega-rich in British tax havens for decades and
then imposed austerity on those least able to cope. Politicians made
everyone except themselves pay for debts racked up at the global casino.
Thatcher, Blair and Cameron are one and the same. They came to make
the richer richer and the poor poorer with a neoliberal ideology and its
thuggery. The result is that 64 per cent of UK households
now need state aid for daily survival. Uncontrolled house prices and
rents are turfing out hundreds of thousands and now the cause of a new
poverty class escalating towards an alarming Dickensian era.
Such is the neoliberal arrogance and contempt that the political
class have in Britain over almost everyone except members of their tiny
clique, that they rolled the dice on Britain’s future and gave a protest
vote to the millions of disenfranchised and disaffected.
The result was not just about the valid concerns of immigration or
refugees or about an unelected bunch of ex-banker bureaucrats in the EU
construct – it was a combination of all these reasons and much more.
The divide and rule model that the neoliberal ideology of our two
party state have so successfully implemented in the past few years is
heading towards its pinnacle of achievement. The young will blame the
old for this referendum, the educated will blame the uneducated, the
rich will blame the poor. Campaigns will attempt to reverse democratic
principles, Scotland and Wales may conjure up a little known EU veto on Brexit
– a rising class war and nationalism will be boosted. Hatred, racism
and bigotry will become endemic. This is just what right-wing
politicians want right now – it diverts our energy away from them.
