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Our #NHS is in danger.

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On the 19th June, 2015, ex-Deutsche Bank MD Sajid Javid was the keynote speaker at the opaquely funded free-market think tank IEA’s 60th Anniversary.

He spoke about how "free markets" & sound economics help "everyone".

iea.org.uk/multimedia/vid…
The IEA subscribes to a neoliberal worldview & advocates positions based on this ideology, including climate change denial, & total privatisation - in effect abolition - of OUR #NHS.

The dodgy IEA is secretly funded by Big tobacco, & IEA officers have offered "Cash for Access".
Let's have a look at what Javid said to the bankers, hedge-funders & free-market fundamentalists gathered at the IEA, a think tank funded by Libertarian billionaires & disaster capitalists keen to exploit Britain's last remaining publicly funded institutions, especially OUR #NHS.
Sajid started with obsequious flattery:

"For 60 years now you’ve been thinking the unthinkable, winning hearts & minds & influencing governments from Westminster to Washington to Warsaw & everywhere in between."

Because the IEA isn't a think tank, it's a lobbying organisation.
"A young Sir Antony Fisher was set on a career in politics. But Friedrich Hayek told him that if he really wanted to change the world he should forget about becoming an MP, & start a think-tank instead! I don’t know if that means I’m in the wrong job!"

Javid IS in the wrong job.
Sir Antony Fisher invented The Institute for Economic Affairs - the first modern think tank - back in the 1950s.

It is the template for practically all the think tanks today.

Fisher himself went on to found another 150 think tanks around the world, including the Atlas Network.
Fisher worked with Major Oliver Smedley, fighting a lonely battle against the state planning that was trying to reconstruct Britain after the war - including OUR #NHS - because they were convinced that it was going to lead to 'a totalitarian state' & the 'end of democracy'. 🤪
Hayek suggested to Fisher that the #IEA should masquerade as a "scholarly institute", while behind that - like many free market think tanks - it would really function as an ideologically motivated PR organisation.

Major Smedley was clear about the IEA's mission, saying it was:
Javid went on: "But I do know that we should all be very grateful for Hayek’s intervention. Because the think-tank Sir Antony established, would go on to play a huge and important role in political & economic history."

The IEA's real mission is to change the climate of opinion.
Javid expressed his ❤️ for deregulated free-market fundamentalism & for neoliberal/Libertarian head cases Hayek, Friedman, & Minford:

"It both reflected & deeply influenced my views, helping to develop the economic & political philosophy that guides me to this day."
"I have never been in any doubt that free enterprise is the best way to bring prosperity to as many people as possible. That the free market can solve not just economic problems, but social ones too."

Do you understand why we should all be extremely worried about our #NHS yet?
"A strong economy will never be delivered by attacking big business, or by endlessly raising taxes, or wrapping innovators up in RED TAPE. That’s why my Enterprise Bill will free businesses from another £10 billion of needless regulation. That’s why we’ll keep on cutting taxes!"
Javid starts foaming: "During the COLD WAR, the physical bulwark against COMMUNISM was provided by the formidable military might of the NATO alliance. But throughout that time the ideological bulwark, the theoretical & philosophical defence, was BRIGADED by the likes of the IEA!"
"WHILE OUR TROOPS & BOMBS & PLANES PROTECTED THE WEST FROM THE RED ARMY, IN THE BATTLE OF IDEAS OUR GENERALS WERE SIR ANTONY, LORD HARRIS (ex-Bruges Group Chair & director of Murdoch's Times) & ARTHUR SELDON (invited Friedman to the IEA, influencing Enoch Powell & Thatcher)".
The utterly delusional Sajid Javid is now frothing: "THE FREE MARKET IS THE MOST EFFICIENT, MOST ENDURING, MOST EFFECTIVE SYSTEM EVER DEVISED BY MANKIND!"

It's leading to catastrophic climate change & grotesque wealth accumulation - $30 TRILLION is horded offshore by IEA-lovers.
"President Reagan was talking about democracy when he said that that freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. But HIS idea – that freedom is not passed on but must be fought for, protected & defended – applies equally to free market!"

YOU WHAT?
"We neglect it at our peril & if we fail to support it, it could still crumble in the face of countless tiny attacks. As George W Bush put it in slightly more succinct terms during the global financial crisis: “this sucker could go down”."

In 2004, Javid was MD of Deutsche bank.
"If the price of FREEDOM is eternal vigilance, then we will always need the likes of the IEA to be THE WATCHMEN FOR CAPITALISM. We will always need the heirs of Fisher, Harris & Seldon to make the case for free enterprise, to be its last line of defence & first line of ATTACK!"
And if you *still* think OUR #NHS is safe in the hands of Sajid Javid (who just a few weeks ago was earning a fortune from dodgy banking giant JP Morgan) & our corrupt cabal of lying free-market fundamentalist charlatans, you're a bloody idiot, & you don't deserve OUR #NHS. 👍
If Sajid Javid was honest:
We've known exactly what's happening for well over a decade.

bbc.co.uk/blogs/adamcurt…

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