Woe are we in the rich West. We don't look after our 'workers' and can't get a doctors appointment.

Bollocks.

A response to some middle-class, naive, patronising tripe from Grace Blakeley.

Yes, we’re in the rich world. Most, including myself and my 92 year old mum have no difficulty accessing health care whenever we need it. The doctors and other staff we encounter are helpful, polite and considerate. Hopefully, being in the rich world, we shouldn’t often need healthcare as we have access to fresh fruit, veg and clean water (though the Western pandemics of loneliness and obesity may counteract this benefit). Even if we can no longer retire as a millionaire by buying a house, boohoo, we’re a damn sight better off than millions in the Global Majority.

a) Yes, we know Blackrock are in control and are making the rich richer. We know that the only choices we’re offered is neoliberalism or right wing nationalism. We know that GDP growth doesn’t represent increased prosperity for the majority: but we’re not going to vote our way out of it- even if the right politician comes along- look what they did to Corbyn.

b) The UK economy is going down with US Empire (coming soon due to de-dollarisation, the end of the Zionist project, NATO defeat in Ukraine and a debilitating cold or hot war with China). The States has also underinvested in it’s own infrastructure- it has a military economy meaning that money doesn’t come back to the ‘workers’. In a desperate attempt to maintain hegemony the US is sanctioning itself into oblivion. The future is BRICS multipolarity, which will hopefully bring more peace, further denting the US economy. Once the UK crawls out from under the rubble of its US puppet master: then maybe we could talk about how to restructure our economy.

c) ‘'Give people access to nature, to time, to the things that make life worth living.” D’ah! I don’t think that we need to buy your books to know this.

c) However, the is a big fly in the ointment: climate change. Only economies that are based on zero growth are sustainable. There’s going to be agricultural failures and mass migrations. By 2050 we’ll be lucky to be alive let alone have a £million house or access to health care.

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