Please, Sir, I want some more...
What on earth are we to make of it all? A stupidly-rich Tory Chancellor throwing scraps at the hoi polloi, when inflation is at its worst for three decades ain't going to help in any real, practical sense, the vast majority of people in the UK who, frankly, are already struggling, and will struggle further as the recession kicks in with a vengeance over the next few months, possibly years. A recession that has been caused by the failure of governments worldwide to exercise control over that which it is their job and sworn duty to control: the economy, and the underlying politics that mould that economy.
All of this could have been avoided, given good governance, diplomacy and statesmanship - oh, and some measure of international, legislative restraint over out-of-control global capitalism, monopolies and oligarchies, which have been given free rein to accumulate and hide a significant proportion of the world's wealth from the niceties of taxation and social responsibility - and from the rest of us - by the overarching philosophy of neoliberalism.
The tragedies that are waiting in the wings on the back of all this crap hopefully will fuel positive change: the way we run the world, at the moment, really ain't much good for the majority of the people who live in it. If there is any kind of 'globalism', it really should be there for the good of the people who live in the real world and who generate all of the wealth of that world; not just for the enrichment and aggrandisement of that bunch of self-entitled crooks and chancers masquerading as politicians and 'businessmen' that currently rule the roost. The age of unearned privilege really has to come to an end.
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