Socialism is not the answer, and for the next few years, Nigel Farage is going to have a ball mocking its many failures in Britain. From Alasdair Macleod at alasdairmacleod.substack.com:
Britain is retreating into greater socialism. The political landscape will alter accordingly. But it is Nigel Farage who could go into the history books.
While the world appears to be shifting to the so-called right (Argentina, Italy, Netherlands, and potentially the US), Britain and France have veered into deepening socialism.
It is against this depressing background that Nigel Farage has been elected as a Member of the UK Parliament. As the son of a stockbroker and as a commodity trader he obviously has a free market background. But importantly for politics, he is an effective public speaker with a distinctive personality at a time of universal bureaucratic dullness. He has the potential to become considerably more important than a mere backbencher parroting official policies.
There are two factors which could make him a person of considerable influence. The first is his political nous, and the second his friendship with Donald Trump. His political nous has already been demonstrated as a Member of the European Parliament and leader of the now defunct Brexit party.
His relentless attacks on the Brussels establishment showed him to be politically fearless, but they branded him as a maverick. His election as an MP now places him in the heart of the British establishment. Already, he has been widely dismissed as being of little or no consequence by rival politicians and the mainstream media. But I suspect they underestimate his remarkable political acumen and his ability to influence public opinion.
Picture this: a Labour government, to paraphrase Milton Freidman in charge of the Sahara and finding that there is an increasing shortage of sand. It is led by a Prime Minister, the greyest of men since Clement Atlee, renationalising the railways, bankrupting private schooling, and promoting trade union influence. At the same time, it is unable to raise taxes fast enough to pay the bill for socialistic economic destruction. In opposition is a Tory party unable to argue effectively against Labour’s socialism because it is populated by semi-woke intellectually rootless MPs with little understanding of the importance of personal freedom and property rights, the true antithesis of socialism. They are themselves little more that socialist welfare officers.
