This is just a continuation of the British Establishments hatred of the working-class youth since the Thatcher era and an appeal to the voters in ‘middle England’ who’s selfish values have dominated the agenda of the political-class for decades. Here a few shocking factual extracts from my article ebookbrowsee.net/the-price-of-economic-barbarism-an-uncomfortable-truth-pdf-d377435396 In the 1980s Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, Nigel Lawson said in a speech, that we should now think about training people for jobs which are, as he put it, “not so much low-tech as no-tech”. Writing in that period, G.A. Cohen asked ‘what sort of education is contemplated in that snappy statement “not so much low-tech as no-tech”? Not an education that nourishes the creative powers of young people and brings forth their full capacity. Nigel Lawson is saying that it’s dangerous to educate the young too much, because then we produce cultivated people who aren’t suited to the low-grade jobs that the market will offer them.’ (3) During the same period a leaked memo from a senior official at the Department of Education and Science said something similar. ‘We are beginning to create aspirations which society cannot match. When young people can’t find work which meets their abilities and expectations, then we are only creating frustration, with disturbing social consequences. We have to ration educational opportunities so that the society can cope with the output of education. People must be educated once more to know their place.’ This was a deliberate policy to diminish young people’s aspirations and fit them into a low wage economy - but only certain young people……………………………….Paying the price; next it began to be clear who were going to be the casualties of this economic model. In 1991, Norman Lamont, the Tory Chancellor of the Exchequer, in response to questions about the 3 million unemployed answered, “rising unemployment and the recession have been the price that we have had to pay to get inflation down. That price is well worth paying” But who was paying this price? Certainly not the Chancellor’s friends. In 1998 controversy surrounded the Governor of the Bank of England Eddie George (who later claimed he was misquoted) agreeing to the suggestion ‘that three million unemployed was a price worth paying’. He provoked further outrage by his comment that job losses in the north were an acceptable price to pay for curbing inflation in the south. However economists argued that the governor was quite right - that a rise in unemployment means less pressure on wage increases that can cause inflation. So it is quite clear that creating unemployment is an inherent part of this economic model - but not for those at the top of society…………………………….
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