posted on 19/8/2022 14:42Yer free market conservatism & Brexit - pt1 - Gramsci.

It is September 1939.

 

As the German military sweeps across a beleaguered Europe, the British PM reassures an anxious parliament that the crisis will be solved - not by armed forces, but by Market Forces.

 

He is cheered to the rafters for his insights. 

A centrally-directed Command Economy is ineffective, as we have always been told.

 

So training budgets are immediately slashed for our military, since the govt's team of top economic advisors has determined that supply-side excess will be harmful to our efficiency. 

Anybody wishing to sign up to join the military must take on a govt-backed (but privately supplied) training loan of £9,000 per annum, on the basis that soldiers value training more if they have had to personally fund it.

 

This debt will produce a more dedicated fighting force. 

The various branches of the military are instructed not to co-operate with one another.

 

Competition is always more effective, and an Internal Market is created to ensure the best outcomes. 

This is based on the self-evident principle that if the RAF provided air support to our infantry, it would prevent the infantry from achieving "self-reliance".

 

The pain they go through today will – in time – produce more effective results. 

Building on this successful strategy, the British First and Second Armies are instructed to bid for reduced funding, with the losers being decommissioned.

 

The army will just have to do more with less, in line with the agreed ideology. 

Across the channel, as the British Expeditionary Force is driven back towards the beaches of Dunkirk, it is found that our govt's core European Non-Cooperation policy objective for the last decade has accidentally caused 3-day delays for rescuers trying to depart from Dover. 

Rather than change policy, the govt outsources (to one of their schoolfriends) a programme encouraging ordinary Britons to stand on their doorsteps at 7am every Thursday, and clap our dying soldiers for 5 minutes.

 

This is deemed to be a massive patriotic success. 

Focus groups have discovered the govt's core voters object to helping people who live overseas.