China Crisis 11/17/2010
 
David Cameron's recent trip to China was hailed as an economic success for the country. But in reality has the PM endorsed barbaric farming practices and cost us jobs in
our high tech industries?

David Cameron’s recent trip to China is likely to leave the whole country feeling jet lagged. For the ordinary people of England, on the whole, this so called trip of ‘diplomacy to promote business’, has been a complete waste of time. Taking aside the Rolls-Royce engine deal with China Eastern (which because of an existing business relationship was in all likelihood going to go ahead anyway) Cameron has let down the people of England.

In reality, thanks to the destruction of our manufacturing industry, England does not make many of the goods China or any developing countries are interested in. If China requires machine tools or engineering expertise, they look to Germany or Japan. If they require wines, perfume or agricultural know how they very often look to France. The truth of the matter is England sells less to China than Italy. That is the fact and Cameron’s trip has done nothing to reverse that trend.

Let us look at the majority of people accompanying the Prime Minister on this trip. These consisted of CEO’s of blue chip companies that already have regional bases across China.  So why, when we should be promoting what industry and products we have left, are representatives from blue chip companies that already have a foot in China, talking to the Chinese?

It has often been said that we are now a service industry economy, and that the new technologies will be our future. The bottom of the pecking order in service industry work is call centre staff. Look how many call centre jobs have been lost to other countries where workers are paid a pittance and whose record on human rights is appalling. Could we now see more English based jobs in the IT industry being lost to China? Has this trip oiled the wheels of further jobs to be lost to the lands of cheap labour? The coming years and the unemployment figures will tell.

The Prime Minister's comments regarding students tuition fees should not go unnoticed either. When students in England face a lifetime of debt, Cameron was making remarks that overseas students were paying too much to attend our universities. Such remarks must dent the aspirations of young people in England, as they come from a Prime Minister that clearly has shown little concern for the aspirations of young people in England outside of Eton and Harrow.

One deal which it is believed Cameron did broker was the export of live breeding pigs to China.  It is well documented that China has horrendous unregulated farming methods, and this deal basically means live animals are going to be shipped half way round the world to be tortured. The main benefactors of this deal will not be the small farmers of England, but large industrialised intensive farms which in some cases do not even employ local labour!

Through investment in compassionate farming methods England can produce the finest meat products in the world - and sell these products to the world. When English meat is instantly associated with being compassionately reared our meat sales and our farming industry will benefit.  That is forward thinking, which seems completely out of tune with the Prime Minister’s ‘profit for the few’ philosophy.

So there we have David Cameron’s trip of diplomacy to promote business in a nutshell. A lot of taxpayers  money spent  to sign a deal on aircraft engines and servicing which would possibly have gone ahead anyway, to send pigs to be tortured and suffer agonising deaths and to possibly allow even more jobs to be lost abroad. This is not just the government’s way of thinking; unfortunately the whole of mainstream politics is tainted with this line of thought, and it has been happening for years. What is needed is a new brand of politics, a new political system and a new, free radical England.
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THE ENEMY WITHIN 07/30/2010
 
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When people consider ‘an enemy within’ many think of Islamic extremists that seek to abolish traditional English or Christian customs and impose Sharia law. This is true, such people do pose a very serious threat to English culture. Others may think of left wing or right wing extremists, or those that exploit the benefits and taxation system. To some such people also pose a serious threat to the wellbeing of the country. However there exists another enemy within that is a threat to us all. In appearance you would think this enemy was a pillar of society and an almost perfect Englishman or woman. You would think these people were successful business people, helping to turn the wheels of English industry and creating employment for English citizens. However, you could not be further from the truth and such appearances are very deceptive.

This respectable looking ‘enemy within’ cares very little for England or the people of England. What they do care about is the size of their bank balance. To increase the size of their bank balance they will employ the cheapest available labour who will tolerate the poorest conditions. In most cases this will not be workers of English culture or those that have adapted to English culture, it will be economic migrant labour and in some circumstances even illegal immigrants.

It can be argued that this still helps to keep the wheels of English industry turning, albeit with English workers paying the price. However another practice of this enemy within is to actually relocate whole companies overseas or start businesses in the lands of cheap labour. This has no benefit to the English economy whatsoever. Such practices not only deny the workers of England employment it is virtually taking food out of their mouths. These people are far from pillars of society, they are nothing less than economic traitors.

The English Radical vision is for business and industry to work for the greater good of the country and its people. It should provide economic prosperity for the nation and employment, decent wages and conditions for workers. It should be a fair deal all round. In reality, what we have in many circumstances is the exact opposite with unscrupulous economic traitors ripping off the people and the country. Yet the most annoying thing about this is the fact successive Labour and Tory governments have allowed and encouraged this to happen. Therefore it comes as no surprise that the present Con-Dem coalition seem set to continue this practice. Read between the lines of David Cameron’s recent visit to India and you will see he has helped to oil the wheels of Indian industry, whilst merely wiping those of England with an oily rag.

In this current uneven economic playing field, what chance of long term success has any decent business person that wishes to establish a company in England, employ local labour and offer decent pay and conditions? What chance has the ordinary honest working man or woman when he or she is forced to compete against cheap overseas labour? The capitalist system allows companies to relocate abroad or drive wages and conditions down to obtain further profits.  Even if this causes unemployment and social hardships, the ordinary working man and woman or decent patriotic business person will bear the cost to satisfy the profit margins of the economic traitors.

There needs to be a radical approach in order to rectify this situation. However we must never forget what we are dealing with is ‘economic traitors’ who care little for our country and its people. In a new, radical England measures would be introduced to prevent the exodus of companies to ‘the lands of cheap labour’. If a company wishes to relocate it would have to pay its workers a lump sum equivalent to one years pay (on top of any redundancies). This would provide a financial cushion for the workforce and give them the available finance to start their own business if they wish. The sale of the companies premises would be offered first to the workforce at a substantially reduced rate, should they wish to take over and run the business as a co-operative. Favourable financial conditions and training would be made available for newly established co-operatives in a bid to help them succeed. Finally the relocated company would find that it faces stiff import controls of its products into England. Ultimately, an ideal solution would be if someone wishes to relocate their business abroad, let them also surrender their English passport, emigrate to the lands of cheap labour themselves and become a national of that country. England does not need economic traitors.

Economically we also need to address the large multi-national concerns that dominate business and drive smaller companies to the wall. The tide needs to be turned to favour smaller, local and regionalised economies rather than those dictated to us by the multi-nationals. But we have to make sure our future, the smaller businesses of England, stay in England and provide employment for local workforces. England has to deal with its enemies within. If we fail to deal with the economic enemies within our shores we shall continue to fail. We cannot afford decade after decade of governments allowing multi-nationals to run our country and our smaller businesses to relocate abroad. There needs to be a radical solution which involves education, training and economic protectionism.  The English Radical Alliance is the only party that is brave enough to offer that solution.




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