Blatant and extreme socialism

WE ARE not all political, economic and history experts.

Are Labour playing with the votes of folk who don’t and can’t be expected to realise the huge implications of their intentions?

The Labour party manifesto is breathtakingly blatant, extreme socialism. Huge spending, nationalisation and state expansion, much further to the left and more dangerous than we’ve seen in this country for a long time.

This is not the labour of the last decades, this is truly last century, literally turning away from a market economy towards a state model, more recognisable generations ago, and east a lot.

It is really hard to believe we are seeing this again in this country, and yet we are, because so many are unaware of the most fundamental lessons of the 20th century.

For the proportion of the electorate who engage themselves with it, the Socialism V Capitalism argument is very old. Extreme versions of both right/capitalism and left/socialism are cited, the deep issues with both being easy to see and understand.

It’s not so simple, what is required is balance, this has always been the case, the point here is that the 2019 Labour manifesto is anything but.

Even without the mega level of national income spending, economic decline would soon be unavoidable. Standard of living decline for all has to follow, the very opposite of the promise, history has proved it every time.

And that’s the kernel, this level of socialism sounds great on paper, and whilst it has never worked out in practice, who knows? Enough don’t. Certainly enough to keep me, for one, awake at night.