As if by magic, it’s fascism!

Edward Torsney considers the ratchet mechanism built into our political system. Successive governments compound each incremental step towards authoritarianism and intolerance. The result is inevitably fascism.

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Today we’re spotlighting Edward Torsney and his most recent article. This week he featured on the UK’s finest news website SKWAWKBOX ! This was his first published piece for a national news outlet. Ed is an experienced independent artist and writer. Ed is the author of this website which features resistance artists, artworks and art movements.

In this featured article Edward Torsney succinctly describes anti-democratic mechanisms underlying our political system. Successive governments compound minor changes and so this process leads us towards a fascist state. Ed explains how it all started back in the 1980s with Margaret Thatcher, because of her close relationship with Ronald Reagan. This was arguably the beginning of the ideology of neoliberalism. The rationale for mass privatisation of Britain’s public assets is the neoliberal ideology.

Ed highlights this era because it was a turning point in British social history. The Thatcher era was the dividing line between progressive post-war collectivism and the barbarism of free market capitalism. Neoliberalism has constantly degraded our society since the 1980s and we can trace its origins to Thatcher.

This was exemplified by the miners’ strikes of 1984 to 1985. From 1947, Britain had owned its coal industry, the pits had fired the industries and building projects that revitalised the UK after WWII. After a campaign of destruction and persecution against mining communities and their families, the American-inspired Conservative government closed 175 pits. Every single coal worker lost their jobs eventually, including the scabs. A tsunami of poverty ensued. So we have to look at how the trajectory of American fascism has destroyed our country and continues apace.

Please click the links on this page because you should definitely visit Edward Torsney’s creative blog website. Also don’t forget to visit the SKWAWKBOX news site because SKWAWKBOX articles are direct and unbiased. Most mainstream news outlets in the United Kingdom can’t boast such honesty, so take my advice – you won’t regret it!
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