Pbog 50 days to save the planet 5 oct 2012

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

➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

Curious... looking beyond the obvious at the bigger picture

My global perspective

Clive Burgess ©2012


Research PracticeDexter 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.



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.

First Premises of Materialist Method

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 relationshipwith society Clive Burgess ©2012


The Coalition 'shabolic' governanceThen 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.Clive Burgess ©2012

50 Days to Save the PlanetWhat a state the state is in...

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. Clive Burgess ©2012


Britain is now truly broken.➔ 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.


50 Days to Save the PlanetThe 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

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➔ 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.

These projects won't be seen as being funded by the government or tax payers money but..,



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 BudgetsThe 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 .


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PLANPersonalisation

GUIDELINESMarketisation

BEHAVIOURFinancialisation

ORGANISATIONPrivatisation

Consultation

Participate

Manage

TeamworkConform

Comply

Operations Management

Information Management

Legislative Management

FinancialManagement

PeopleManagement

Risk Management

Key Performance Indicators -Payment-by-Result

Supervision

Self-regulationBusiness Capture

Meetings

Corrective ActionSanctions

Clive Burgess ©Oct 2012

Roles andResponsibilities

Roll BackThe STATE

PBOGThe sociology of organisational life

CONTROLTRASNATIONALISATION State-Monopoly Capitalism with a Liberal Democratic Ideology

No mandateto Govern

Limited AccountabilityIndividualism

'Free' MarketEconomics

Undemocratic Process

Corporate CitizenCorporate Social Responsibility

Business 'Freedom'

In Place of AusterityReconstructing the economy, state & public service

Dexter WhitfieldIn Place of AusterityFirst 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

http://www.spokesmanbooks.com/


➔ One World ~ Many People with different cultures

A working hypothesis by Clive Burgess October 2012

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Clive Burgess ©2012 Thank You for your time & energy... hope you have enjoyed my stuff so far Clive

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