“Was not their mistake once more bred of the life of slavery that they had been living?—a life which was always looking upon everything, except mankind, animate and inanimate—‘nature,’ as people used to call it—as one thing, and mankind as another, it was natural to people thinking in this way, that they should try to make ‘nature’ their slave, since they thought ‘nature’ was something outside them” — William Morris
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While the BBC may seem blissfully unaware, they may also be a coy mistress.
Osborne's 'don't bother to look back at sovereign debt, instead raise taxes in anger' as pat of the neoliberal punitive aspect may actually be replaced with something worse, a policy based upon complete abnegation of all fiscal and social irresponsibility, called hybrid helicopter money after a line in Milton Friedman's book.
This blog is not the place for technical economics discussions, so I will limit myself to saying what one may expect from May is a series of fiscal and legal maneuvers bringing about zero and negative interest rates so the government can keep its burgeoning debt on the books forever at no cost while extracting even the meager hoardings from its subjects. The neoliberal wants you to never 'own' anything and always be paying rent to the sovereign. Sound familiar? We are talking pre enclosure laws feudalism. Theresa May will be the pin up for this highly damaging iteration of the neoliberal state. Osborne will look like Eric Hobsbawn by contrast. Enough wonkiness.
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