Pbog 50 days to save the planet 5 oct 2012

50 Days to Save the Planet
What a state the state is in...

A working hypothesis
by Clive Burgess October 2012
My global perspective
➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures
Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger
picture
Clive Burgess ©2012

Research Practice
Dexter Whitfield's empirical research 'In Place of Austerity',
matches the 3 year research project I did for my local
Labour party, but mine was less detailed, hence my dad
giving me a copy of Dexter's book.
The state has many functions, and is very diverse, strange
as it may seem from my professional workers point of view
I quite liked some of what new Labour had set up.
My research indicates that new Labour had used the
Lisbon model for regional distribution, this model uses the
idea of hubs, clusters and networks.

First Premises of Materialist Method
The various stages of development in the division
of labour are just so many different forms of
ownership, i.e. the existing stage in the division
of labour determines also the relations of
individuals to one another with reference to the
material, instrument, and product of labour.

Karl Marx.
The German Ideology. 1845 Clive Burgess ©2012

The Regional Development Agency was the key element for
sustainable regeneration within each allocated region.
➔ The funding from government would be distributed for urban
regeneration region by region
➔ This element was working well and was seen to be profitable.
➔ There was a large number of Quangos and ALMOS that were
networked together each interlinking with the other and so on.
➔ This was truly 'joined-up thinking' as Prescott once said.
➔ New Labour's interpretation of Neo-Liberalism could have
been developed into something better in relation to society, its
citizens, its production, and the producers conditions and pay.
New Labour's version was a bitter sweet relationship
with society Clive Burgess ©2012

The Coalition 'shabolic' governance
Then along came the push-me pull-you coalition
government and the great QUANGO cull.
➔ Randomly and indiscriminately slashing and burning the
network of QUANGOS set up by new Labour.
➔ 30% of funding has been slashed from each of the
government's departmental budgets.
Britain ended up in a mess...
➔ This is seen as 'clunky' governmental style & practice.
➔ The 'joined-up thinking' network of hubs and clusters to
redistribute funding had disappeared overnight.

The de-construction of democracy at
Local, National and International levels
by...
➔ Dispossession
➔ Disinvestment
➔ Destabilisation
➔ De-politicisation
➔ Dis-empowerment
Clive Burgess ©2012 Dexter Whitfield 2012

The Conservatives and the Liberal Democrats
interpretation of Neo-Liberalism has a nastier taste
of Thatcherism that Blair's or Prescott's didn't have.
➔ There now is the relentless attack on our citizen's
social security funding and the plunder of our
accumulative pensions pot.
➔ I now have to work until I'm 66 and if lucky will be
able to retire then.
➔ But things don't look that prosperous at this
moment in time and I'm not as optimistic as I
once was. Clive Burgess ©2012

The poor and the vulnerable are an easy target, as
is the NHS and 'cuts' to the privatised welfare
funding.
Construction of public and affordable housing,
building 'schools for the future' have been shelved
➔ along with a number of other developments
Labour had introduce prior to the financial
collapse of Western Capitalism such as Sure
Start and other wage related subsidies.
➔ Next came the attack on employment & pension
rights, TUPE, & Health & Safety legislation.

Britain is now truly broken. Clive Burgess ©2012

➔ using an analogy of the body to reflect society's
capacity to work, the veins have been cut and its
arteries severed.
➔ Britain in relation to this analogy is now a limp and
lifeless mess, unable to move in any direction.

The state of things to come...
The Coalition's version of Neo-liberalism is a bitter sweat shop society for its
citizens and a profiteering one for transnational corporations
➔ The coalition government now has an opportunity in which they are able
kick start the economy using 'Natural Capitalism' as their model and its
ideas on how the 'new' green industrial revolution's processes could be
used in practice '.
➔ This opportunity arises because they neglected such things as 'climate
change' Agenda 21 and sustainable development during the first two
years in power,
➔ In turn this will look good to the public so the coalition government
would be elected for another term in office, but exploiting the workforce
in the process
➔ Clegg mentioned the new green industrial revolution once during a party
conference just after the coalition had formed.
➔ This was the 'added value' manufacturing focus Peter Mandelson
presented at one of Labour's annual conferences
➔

These projects won't be seen as being funded
by the government or tax payers money but..,
➔ The funding for these projects will inevitably be
produced through social security reductions, the
public sector worker redundancies and the
decimation and privatisation of the citizens
welfare state and the break up of the NHS.
The poor, the vulnerable and the rest of Britain's
citizens will fund it indirectly in the long run.


Localism
➔ The focus on localism is designed to mask the
increasing centralisation of decision making.
➔ The claims of devolution or subsidiaries are false,
because they are not matched by local power to tax,
borrow or regulate.
➔ Thus new 'leadership' models such as elected mayor
and participative budgeting have little or no practical
value.


Devolution & Community Budgets
The devolution of power at the local level will be
undermine if they occur in the absence of parallel
changes in local democratic governance.
Community budgets represent a tiny percentage of
local authority expenditure and whilst they increase
flexibility into local or neighbourhood, they are not
significant and rarely represent added value


Four Key identifiable trends
➔ 1 – The continued establishment of national and local
agencies to commission services that remove client and
contract management from direct political control.
➔ 2 – The break-up of public sector provision into stand alone
organisations and businesses ready to be reconsolidated
into privately managed/owed groups.
➔ 3 - The commitment to create markets irrespective of the
cost and consequences.
➔ 4 – The continued reliance on public money, irrespective of
increased charges, personal top ups and social
investment .

TRASNATIONALISATION State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology
CONTROL
Information Management
Risk Management
Meetings
Supervision Limited Consultation People
No mandate Accountability Management
to Govern Individualism
PLAN BEHAVIOUR
Self-regulation Personalisation Financialisation
Business Capture
Comply . Participate
Teamwork
Conform Roles and
Responsibilities
Financial Roll Back
Management GUIDELINES ORGANISATION The STATE
Marketisation Privatisation Undemocratic
'Free' Market
Process
Economics
Manage Corporate Citizen
Legislative Management Corporate Social Responsibility
Key Performance Indicators -
Payment-by-Result Business 'Freedom'

Corrective Action
PBOG
Sanctions Operations Management The sociology of organisational life

Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012

In Place of Austerity
Reconstructing the economy, state & public service

Dexter Whitfield
In Place of Austerity
First published in 2012 by Spokesman
Russel House, Bulwell House
Nottingham NG6 0BT England
www.spokesmanbooks.com
ISBN 978 0 85124 793 9
© Deter Whitfield's
All words in italics throughout this slides share are Dexter Whitfield
all the rest are my own including my PBOG schematic Clive Burgess
10th October 2012 & Karl Marx The German Ideology 1845


A working hypothesis
by Clive Burgess October 2012
My global perspective
➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures
Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger
picture, the state of things to come - Transnationalisation
Clive Burgess ©2012 Thank You for your time & energy... hope you have enjoyed my stuff so far Clive

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