The Fagash Führer

That speech on the economy

On Monday 03/11, Nigel Farage promised bonfire of business deregulation in an economic policy speech while rowing back on his previous tax cuts pledge. Apparently that was just ‘aspirational’ despite being in his manifesto. There you have it.

Nigel Farage is a wrecker and according to contemporaries, he always has been since he was a schoolboy at Dulwich College (fees? if you have to ask, you can’t afford them). All he knows how to do is break things that currently work. Brexit was his latest big success in smashing things to smithereens. What we now know is that he’s also a supply side reformer which means his wet dream is deregulation. I have written about the tripos dream of supply side reformers previously but I’m not sure I can think of a more dangerous individual than someone who is both a wrecker and a supply side reform believer.

To recap on deregulation and what it will mean for you and me, it will mean:

• No regulation to keep us safe from fire in our homes.

• No workers’ rights; holiday, sick leave, sick pay, no weekends off, no time and a half or double time, no limit on working hours, no regulation on pay levels, employment contracts worthless, workers can and will be fired at management’s whim.

• No regulation to keep gas and electrical products safe.

• No consumer redress.

• No environmental regulation or protection.

• No housing rental regulation.

• No climate change regulation.

• No OFCOM, OFGEN, OFWAT, OFSTED. Not that their absence will make a huge difference, they are so inneffective.

• No web or broadcasting regulation

Farage is saying that he wants to create the conditions that will allow him and his already super-rich friends and donors to enrich themselves massively still further.

He won’t leave tax alone for long either. Supply side reformers’ long term goal is to move the tax burden from the 10% richest to the 90% poorest. Add to this, no NHS, no state schooling, no state pension and no welfare and hey presto, we’re back to the 1920s and 30s.

Who would vote for policies that will make their lives uncertain, dangerous and miserable?

Farage’s speech speech on Monday about Reform2025 Ltd’ proposed economic policies to give it its companies house full name, was the speech of a man who is either economically illiterate, purely self serving or both. Just what is it about the UK working and even middle class electorate that makes them want to vote for such lunatic and life threatening policies from Reform2025 Ltd and the Tories?

Is it that we are simply unable to rid ourselves of those ridiculous old class maxims:

• They’re my betters.

• They went to Public School and Oxbridge, they must know what they’re doing.

• They were born to govern us.

Are these gullible fools incapable of seeing that the leadership and MPs of these parties together with their unelected employees and donors are treating their ordinary spporters with utter contempt and laughing their heads off that the suckers have drunk the kool-aid? Oh Farage, Tice, Yusuf, BadEnoch, Jenrick and Philp will never do that in public, but in private, at their exclusive private clubs like the 5 Hertford Street Club or the Carlton, they’ll be laughing themselves silly at the distinct possibility of attaining power and the huge pile of dosh they’ll then make for themselves.

Then, after five years during which these parties have wrecked the economy once and for all, ruined more lives than one could shake a stick at, the largely unschooled ignoramuses who voted for them will still say, ‘Oh, it must be my fault’. Or is it that their supporters bigoted but always factually inaccurate beliefs just override any common sense they might once have had?

I just can’t get my head around this … 🤦‍♂️