I am far from the first to state this - the present-day British government are behaving quite callously by deliberately targeting those least able to fight back, namely the poor, the disabled, the sick and the elderly, in order to protect their supporters, the rich. In fact the distribution of wealth of the rich has actually increased during this Recession.
The belief that a fascist government could never come to power here in Britian is quite simply a delusion, for as the photomontage artist John Heartfield (1891-1968) realized, one reason why the Nazi party were able to come to power in Germany was a direct consequence of the Great Depression, along with the self-preserving desire of those with wealth and without any social conscience, to hold onto their wealth at the expense of the poor.
Propaganda then as now, manipulates the thinking of the great majority, who unable to think for themselves, lazily believe all they are told by the Media; such as, for example, that it's not the Bankers who are to blame, but the previous British government who were responsible for the World-wide recession. However, strangely enough, there's always sufficient funds in the coffers to finance yet another war, except the present-day involvement in the Libyan conflict, now in its fourth month, is not really a war, but merely assistance to the rebels against the regime of Colonel Gaddafi. As ever, black liquid gold lays at the heart of British military involvement. Under the smoke-screen of establishing democracy the democratic rights of other nations are more important to the present-day British government than the rights of its own people.
Wikilink - John Heartfield
Wikilink - John Heartfield
