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Competition as a distraction, stressor and Conservative code

November 21, 2017 By Useful Ideas Project Leave a Comment

"Let 'em argue"

Why are some British politicians so keen on injecting "competition" into the lives of working people? Andy Beckett: "In the early years of the 21st century, the inevitability of an ever more competitive, deregulated, internationally orientated market economy, to which both government and society were subordinate – a doctrine often called neoliberalism – was accepted right … [Read more...] about Competition as a distraction, stressor and Conservative code

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