The Tories, in the person of Michael Fallon the new Minister for Business, have come out fighting to show that their newly reshuffled cabinet is full of new energy. Unfortunately it is also full of the same old bullshine. Speaking in the Telegraph Mr Fallon has called for "an end to the politics of envy" and for us all to "salute those who not only create wealth but risk their own money to create jobs for other people". Of course what he actually means is that he wants an end to the criticism of greedy rich people who grab as much as they can for themselves and couldn't give a damn about jobs for ordinary people. His "solution" for ending the recession is the same old Tory mantra - fewer rights for workers, lower taxes for the rich, more deregulation and a new round of privatisations. Entrepeneurs will then risk their personal money to create new successful businesses, new wealth and new jobs. Except, of course, it will do none of these things. Entrepeneurs are far outnumbered, in the business world, by executives who risk none of their own money, milk businesses for bonuses whether they are succesful or not, keep any newly created wealth to themselves and are far more likely to cut jobs rather than create them. Mr Fallon is essentially trying to pedal a 19th century vision of business that is completely at variance with the 21st century reality. What he terms "the politics of envy" is simply the completely understandable protest of those who are forever seeing their standard of living being eroded and what little money they have left being stolen by a wealthy elite who have no idea what the word "enough" means. Why does this moron believe for one moment that we would be willing to exchange what he dismisses as "the politics of envy" for the politics of despair?
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