As I write in December 2023, there is much talk in the news of the UK’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak being replaced by his Political Party, and of the next General Election which is generally considered most likely to be called for the early Summer or Autumn of 2024.
Politics in the UK today is regrettably very tribal. But within these tribes, two different ideologies dominate, even though for some people, they will not be recognised by name.
They are Socialism and Neoliberalism (Or what most believe to be Capitalism with a more modernised name).
Whilst Socialism and Capitalism (which has really been Neoliberalism since the removal of the Gold Standard in 1971) were clearly very different political ideas historically and were previously easily defined through analysis of the public policies that they espoused and implemented; such clear definition no longer exists.
The only discernible difference between the Political Parties that exist in the UK today is the language that they use to frame and promote the Neoliberalism that now drives and is common to them all.
Neoliberalism is a control-level obsession with money, overtly displayed as a fixation with the idea that the markets are much better stewards of everything than government could ever be.
The true purpose of Neoliberalism is also its greatest danger to Humanity.
To be successful, Neoliberalism requires constant growth of the volume of money in circulation. This in turn means that whilst newly created money is funneled towards those who are already rich, the value of everything owned by everyone else is constantly becoming less and this now means that the wealth divide is growing exponentially – which is why so many of us are now getting hurt.
The wealth divide is now so wide, that what we are now demonstrating to be the meaningless ideologies that the different Political Parties in the UK play around with can only dictate or influence the speed with which the lived experience of the masses continues to degenerate and get progressively worse.
Both Socialism and Neoliberalism are presented to the public as being the champions or causes of freedom. Socialism through the freedom to be equal with all things, where that equality is inevitably designed or defined by someone else, so is never really about equality at all. Neoliberalism, where freedom is presented as being the removal of the state or government from every part of life and the public sector with the inherent suggestion that market freedom can only benefit everyone. Whereas what that freedom really becomes is freedom for big money from law and restrictions, meaning that those with lots of money can increasingly control everything and everyone using civil law and the courts as if they have become the government itself.
The Neoliberalism pursued by politicians is nothing more than a dictatorship by private proxy that just creates misery, harm and poverty for the masses. It facilitates a System that doesn’t either represent or resemble anything like freedom at all.
If you can understand and accept that this is how the reality of the narrative really works, the only suggestion that I will add is that it will serve neither your own nor anyone else’s interests to feel angry about what the people we have elected have really been doing all the way along.
Politicians, public servants and people in the public eye are human too. It is simply amazing just how many of them don’t really see how they have also been played and as such, they have no real understanding of the damage that they genuinely do.
This excerpt is taken from One Rule Changes Everything, Published on Amazon for Kindle, 23rd December 2023.
Adam Tugwell 