UKUncut

Do you enjoy living in our Big Society? 

If the answer to that question is yes, then: 

a) seek medical help. 

b) ignore UKUncut.   

Do you find living in our Big Society something like taking a walk through a hall of mirrors?  

If the answer to that question is yes, then:

c) have a look at the UKUncut website. 

At the very least, whatever it achieves or fails to achieve, the existence of UKUncut helps remind us hapless minions that civic responsibility - which the Big Society is purportedly interested in regenerating - means more than simply accepting anything and everything that is done to our country by the corporate-military-media nexus our leaders ultimately serve. Civic responsibility means criticism, protest and the asking of difficult questions. 

If there was any money left we might call this the £850 billion pound question. (That figure being one of the more conservative estimates of the cost to the British tax payer of ensuring the maintenance of socialism for the corporate class, a maintenance which is usually referred to as 'the bank bailout' or 'saving of the world', but which should be seen as the essential rule of the casino: 'the house always wins'). However, as we all know, there isn't any money left. (At least, not for the ordinary people of the country who must suffer capitalism, while the corporate class can enjoy socialism.) 

The Big Society is, among many things, the work of Phillip Blond, the 'red Tory' thinker who has given Cameron the means to dress the right in the clothes of the left. The Big Society allows Cameron to continue Thatcher's economic policy whilst fooling enough people that Britain is a social democracy. 

The Big Society is no more than an updating of Blair's Third way. Blair drew on the work of 'blue socialist' Anthony Giddens to create his vision of a left that dressed in the clothes of the right. This allowed Blair to continue Thatcher's economic policy whilst fooling enough people that Britain was a social democracy. 

 

WHAT IS UKUNCUT? 

Well, it is no more than an aspect of the Big Society that Cameron would rather did not exist. A movement which grew out of the desire to protest against the fact that corporations within British society are not held accountable for their actions. UKUncut, which promotes protest on the British high street, asks how it is possible for there to be drastic cuts to the state, while the corporate class continues to get away with paying less in tax than it should. Why is that libraries, education and hospitals, which, in any sane and rational society a state should provide as essential services, have to bear responsibility for the failure of the corporate class to manage the economy? 

21 February 2011