Don’t be sent to prison, sick, not too bright, born into poverty, or unemployed. You no longer have a hope in Hell: the New Right is on your case.

Britain 2013: the depraved in pursuit of the deprived

This week, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) revealed data showing that, from the cost of living to standards of health and education, pretty much all the means by which we track economic progress are going backwards at a rate of knots.

Look deeper into our civilisation ratings, however, and things are much worse than even the ONS data would suggest.

Today, it emerges that Baby P’s mum has been released from prison because (shudder as you read this) she “no longer represents a threat to the public”. The social services nitwit who didn’t notice the son being slowly murdered has walked away from a row over her dismissal with £600,000.

Prison could’ve done the mother some good if enough money were invested in the system. Everyone in possession of the facts now accepts that prison doesn’t work: but if government (not just this one) put some thought into it – rehabilitation and then career training – it could. Nevertheless, two things that have been shown time and again to be terminally dysfunctional are parole boards and social services.

What we’ve had in Britain since 1979 is not so much a stop-go approach to our culture, more a sort of neutral-reverse strategy. Mrs Thatcher privately thought ghettos were a good thing, and bankers an even better thing. She ignored mass industry to kill the Unions, threw money at the Civil Service while she was doing it, and starved the mental health sector into Care in the Community. She then tried to push through the first poll tax since 1340, and that was the end of her. Blair then came up with the idea of doing nothing while pretending you had, Brown’s little wheeze was to behave more like a Tory Chancellor….and then both of them threw money with abandon at health and social services after 2002. The Camerlot regime has but one simple thought in its collective brain: cut expenditure by bringing in the private sector.

What all these disparate and increasing desperate bigots have remained unable to grasp is what a commercially-minded person would ask instinctively: where is investment needed to improve returns? and where is money being needlessly wasted? But because politicians haven’t a clue about that sort of thing, they are unable to discern the difference between a cut and a wound.

Further evidence of this popped into my email box this morning, in the shape of ‘outsourcing’ the service to deal with benfit complaints, information and appeals. I’m told the Cabinet Office came up with the ‘idea’, which specifically involves farming out ‘back office functions’ to a new ‘shared services’ organisation called Steria.

If you’ve ever been with a bank whose call centre is based in India, then you will know the average skill level and language mastery of the person in Delhi. This idea says three things about this Government:

1. It’s quite happy to shift jobs offshore while saying that employment is growing.

2. It’s very happy to provide crap service to the unemployed while saying that their model of capitalism is working just fine.

3. It’s delighted with the idea of private sector people answering calls, as opposed to employing skilled professionals who have a calling.

Perhaps your take-out from that would be “then they’re stupid”. No they aren’t. They have an agenda. In terms of living standards, health, education, housing, policing and transport, they are driving down the life-quality of the majority of less well-off citizens. The goal is to reduce their expectations, make them more compliant, and give all the nice things to the élite. That is, them.

Superfast HS2 trains the plebs can’t afford. University education for the rich. Private health on the company. A manufactured housing bubble to give the wealthy more assets, and the next generation none. Private security to control instead of police to keep law and order for all. Television broadcasting run by the business friendly while offering the viewer increasing levels of cruelty and celebrity braindeath. Fat bonuses for our mates in the City, tax avoidance for our mates in the globalist multinational sector, lots of houses for our mates in the construction industry. Tipping a judge the wink…send that one down, let this one off. It is becoming impossible to ignore it.

As for the poor, the feral, the weak and the stupid….well, who GsAF? Let’s get in more of those nifty crowd control fences and 24/7 omnidirectional cameras. Let’s let them rot.

As the recently deceased Lou Reed once sang:

This room cost 2,000 dollars a month
you can believe it man it’s true
somewhere a landlord’s laughing till he wets his pants
No one here dreams of being a doctor or a lawyer or anything
they dream of dealing on the dirty boulevard

Give me your hungry, your tired your poor I’ll piss on ’em
that’s what the Statue of Bigotry says
Your poor huddled masses, let’s club ’em to death
and get it over with and just dump ’em on the boulevard

I don’t know who to despise more: the Nasties who peddle this bollocks, or the Opposition Party too busy watching its shadow to land some blows on the bastards. Grrrr.

Earlier at the Slog: Full Ahead both backwards in Greece.

And today’s Daily Drivel is a corker