Austerity, don't you just love it???...

Left right and centre, I'm laughing at you all. What an old fashioned idea. The people are easily manipulated by the media's sociopathic word play. Labour party we are told plays down the need for austerity measures. There isn't a socialist party any more folks! New Labour is just the resurgence of old unreconstructed pre war Liberalism. Looks like it from here. Blair was promising that every one would become middle class. By a lot of working peoples perceptions that meant more spending money. They wuz trooly suckered. Thatcher gibbered monotonously on about back to Victorian values I think they have slithered a little bit too far backwards. The tricorn coalition is really a variant of Whigs and Tories divided by three. That will confuse the dumbed down captive electorate, keep them quiet whilst they figure out the maths. Britain doesn't offer it's people a promise of a sustainable generic "way of living". who iz leading the way with example of how to live better on less money. Doing it is the first step towards showing . As an idealistic youth"Utopian dreamer" they called me I would talk with working folk about moving away from a cash dependent economy and conditional wage slavery. Talked a blue streak about "green man rising". Listened to working people's reasoning why they couldn't change . "Better the Devil we Know".
Very few experienced intelligent working people seemed to be in a position to recommend what they had done or were doing, to their children. "Show us A model of a better way forward that starts from poverty and moves forward to a sustainable none competitive prosperity." .No one wanted to lose what they regarded as a competitive advantage. We would want to know that it will work before subscribing to a "new" way of life. No one dared to take the risk. Not on the strength of some spurious sounding untested theory. I couldn't blame them.
80% of "western style modern living is contained within cities towns and urban clusters. The landless labour force of the industrial revolution moved into the industrial ghettos there they stayed for the most part for generations. Importing nigh on every vital commodity now. It will get worse. The means to escape from panned out asset stripped polluted regions is not accessible.
Few folk enjoy being preached too from the pulpit , by a body that doesn't share the common burden. Do as I say, (even if you include an "or else" ) doesn't work.
Besides the intelligent educated working man is unlikely to revert back to "the master knows best" Bloody obvious, proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that master doesn't really have a clue that would work on the ground.
I have said it before, I am not completely clueless. I figured that working on and testing my untried "academic" theories to destruction , taking the risk upon myself was the only way forward.
All that"primitive hippy shite" as Dave E. was once prone to call it gradually evolved by trial and error and testing of current perceived wisdom, to become a working hypothesis. Every time I thought I was winning sad to say the goal posts got moved.
"Shifty little yokies them they paradigms", thinks I. To sum up in a small space what caused the continual sabotage and obstruction, precised, if you like ; I was married to a person with an unholy addiction to spending money.The sort of person who would go on holiday abroad rather than pay her creditors. More to it than that, she knows well enough. Covering up with lying cheating stealing, from her own family, without account.
My darling little hypotheses were in danger of contracting what I had come to call Moses Syndrome. Leading the family to a promised land against impossible odds only to die before I got there myself.
I was by every legal definition ,a slave. and a naive fool for love. I didn't want to lose my children , but as a parent I couldn't offer a way forward. Worked till I lost 28 kilos of my body. Nobody noticed, they were to busy with self indulgent treats. Love I felt was totally unrequited.
I was dying.
I got out before I resorted to violence. A man can only take so much.
What did I have to go with but my wonderful vision of a better way of living, Half a carrier bag of ragged clothes my flute and drum. A whole bunch of survival instinct. and not a small portion of painful work a day memories. No family,shelter no friends in my community I could trust, no money and one sick body supported by a stick.
Long journey so far.
What did I learn? I had first hand experience in the microcosm of my home life of the popular "normalcy". Didn't anyone teach them that you can't prosper and thrive by just spending money? Not as a family, as an individual, nor as a nation. "Infill Britain" I call It.

I am not making much of a good fist explaining the mysterious "secret", I know that. The How To... factor. There is one, It remains thus a secret until an individual has achieved the initiation that would bring them back to a state of grace. Creating the infrastructure to sustainable self reliance . This time around my miniature none theoretical model looks like becoming a manifest reality. Gradually expanding to accommodate other people desperate to escape the ravages of the post colonial decline. The poorest working families. Inclusively not just women and children first.
We are duty bound not to perpetrate the "Big Mistake".
Results are quantifiable now. Our efforts to realize a route to a working example that is within the reach of most families has since we hit the ground running five years ago, on less cash than the average U.K. social security hand out, are paying off.
Quantum progress. (I'm just writing, figure out what I mean yourself).It is "happening" here. Most folk can't see for looking. There are no sides to this , no left right nor centre . the head work is done the way forward is a "showable" rather than a "sayable" reality. some one clever called what we are doing "squaring the circle" (don’t ask me ).

“You used to come out with some stuff in those days”, Sed Pete.
Mine wasn’t the cliché ridden regurgitated crambo, my long lost friend reunited after 40 years was dipping into his personal pool of nostalgia. He had given me the hospitality of his sofa during a homeless period in the early seventies. “Can you remember what I was on about Pete?” He couldn’t. I laughed. “Good job I was there then.” I remember.

Building an “underground railway”, a “freedom train”,is all very well, but where is the train heading, and where do we go from there??? Looks from this vantage point like the slaves of old have just been guided towards a funnel trap lured by a hopê and a dream, only to be recycled and sold down the river. The Abolition Act , what 1833, is a great idea, who’s arguing against it. It took a while and a bit before we realised It was just a self appeasing make over.
Socialism was as I understand from old international brigade survivors and union school mentors is meant to free us from the bondage of our own ignorance. WE the slaves. Lest we forget. I am not referring to National Socialism. There’s as many kinds as there are people on this earth.
In essence it is a philosophical practice; not identifiable by dress code, an unspoken principled creed by conduct seen. That is if anyone cared enough to notice. A practice common to all . Thatcher promised that she would “wipe socialism off the face of the earth”. God only knows who wrote her script,she was only the mouth piece of an antideluvian way of thinking.
A wholly owned corporate commodity. A formidable woman for sure, but she was only the most acceptable face of a much more sinister many headed beast. a proxy cypher in effect with little empathy with the real needs of our common humanity rich or poor.
I believe we are seeing the last days of the Elizabethan era. From Lizzie 1 to Lizzie2.
There is no Left, Right or Centre in reality. That is just chess board logic. Those days are over in the progressive mainstream. subscription to that school will only lead to cyclical repeat of historic mistakes. Collateral damage, to what the corporate lobby may regard as an expoitable commodity , the common population is unacceptable. Party politics divides people against each other. The inevitable consequence is human sacrifice.
Hardly what anyone could justly call representative of a civilised standard.

Out dated flat earth thinking is at a tangent to the curved space reality . It may not see things in the round in overview. That way madness lies.

We practice austerity at home. a voluntary act This way works.. Hey guys it makes the little cash we may morally earn worth more. To us at least. We work to provide a route to a better future. modest durable ethical . At zero percent commission. No losers no unjust or illicit profiteering. Humane and dignified.Sustainable development as Charlie once broadcast it.
“One wonders if one understands ones own language “,Iznibz toys with a notion.
God bless Tom Paine for the inspiration of Iz ranting.
I will give you a rest for now. It is a sunny day.