Children trafficked into this country from the ends of the earth in order to work on our enormous, and enormously numerous, cannabis farms. Child labour, unrestricted global migration, drugs, huge commercial enterprises beyond the reach of the law: the "free" market in action.
Vigorously defended by some eminence of the 1968 generation. In 1970, spurred on by union-busting pirate radio funded by the man who went on to bankroll the Institute of Economic Affairs, they threw out the Labour Party that had foolishly given far too many of them the vote. They went on to elect first Thatcher and then Blair.
Professor Sir Ian Gilmore (born 1947) demands decriminalisation because no child or grandchild of his will ever end up working on one of these farms, and if any ended up as a victim of its products, then he would be able to give that progeny the best rehab that money could buy.
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Whoever could those progeny be, Mr. L? You have always known your enemies.
ReplyDeleteOh, some of them are a lot more than mere junkies. It is time to examine their financial interests in these cannabis farms worked by trafficked children. Among other things...
ReplyDeleteI take it that they are trying to post furious comments on this. Even without the drugs or the assumption that the sexual revolution is a human right, people formed in neoliberal economics are the biggest cultists in earth. They cannot cope with the the slightest challenge to their assumption and are now reduced to claiming that their system has not really collapsed at all.
ReplyDeleteThey are funny, in that pitiable way, but I won't be putting them up. At least, not this time.
ReplyDelete"It has never been tried" is, of course, what equally deluded old Communists say. Then there is the habit of ageing Eighties types, of pretending that they are still enfants terribles, or indeed that they ever really were. Exactly like aged Sixties types.
Amusing enough in small doses, not least because they do not realise that they are doing it, and take themselves with absolute seriousness. But rapidly tedious and tiresome. And founded on a fiction, on a fallacy: the Sixties, the Eighties and the Blair years were in reality a single process.
"Children trafficked into this country from the ends of the earth in order to work on our enormous, and enormously numerous, cannabis farms. Child labour, unrestricted global migration, drugs, huge commercial enterprises beyond the reach of the law: the "free" market in action.
ReplyDeleteVigorously defended" by your spoilt adolescent critics.
Of course.
ReplyDeleteExactly. You can afford to be squishy on drugs when you have the money to avoid or minimize the negatives. One could say the same for many, many policies.
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