{"id":293,"date":"2009-02-03T16:47:20","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/?p=293"},"modified":"2009-02-03T16:47:20","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T00:47:20","slug":"reaping-a-whirlwind-of-trouble-and-why-smuggling-is-the-new-boom-industry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/2009\/02\/03\/reaping-a-whirlwind-of-trouble-and-why-smuggling-is-the-new-boom-industry\/","title":{"rendered":"Reaping a whirlwind of trouble, and why smuggling is the new boom industry"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Financial Times blog<\/a> outlies the reasons why Gordon Brown’s British Jobs for British Workers probably qualifies as the most stupid thing one could promise, especially when there was a financial downturn on the cards.\u00c2\u00a0 To whit:<\/p>\n

In the UK, prime minister Gordon Brown is reaping the protectionist storm he sowed with his infamous protectionist and xenophobic call for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153British jobs for British workers\u00e2\u20ac\u009d.\u00c2\u00a0 What was he thinking?\u00c2\u00a0 Follow the logic: \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcBritish jobs for British workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122,’Scottish jobs for Scottish workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 (along with \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcIt\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Scotland\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oil\u00e2\u20ac\u2122), \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcWelsh jobs for Welsh workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122 and \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcEnglish jobs for English workers\u00e2\u20ac\u2122.\u00c2\u00a0 Why not London jobs for London Workers, or London jobs for native-born London workers, or even London jobs for white Christian native-born London workers?<\/p>\n

How divisive can you get?\u00c2\u00a0 British workers are demonstrating against workers from elsewhere in the EU – Italian and Portuguese workers are currently at the centre of a rather disgusting series of altercations at UK oil refineries, gas terminals and power stations, following a dispute at Total\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s oil refinery at Killinghome in Lincolnshire, where an Italian engineering company was bringing its own staff from Portugal and Italy for a egnineering construction project.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This is already being exploited by fascist organizations such as the BNP, notably through their front organization British Wildcats<\/a> – if you doubt this is the case then the Ministry of Truth<\/a> details the evidence.<\/p>\n

In addition to providing propaganda to fascists, gratis no less, the other main beneficiary of protectionism will be those operating in the black market.\u00c2\u00a0 John Robb<\/a> outlines the details, basically stating that it just increases the range of goods such groups can provide and thus improving their economic standing.\u00c2\u00a0 Or, if you like, the Law of Eristic Calculation.\u00c2\u00a0 Not to mention that stoking such nationalism, at the expense of foreign countries, will only hamper efforts to cut down on such markets.<\/p>\n

So yeah, nice going Gordo.\u00c2\u00a0 I’ve always wanted to live in a third world country, complete with pointless ethnic strife, a booming illegal industry, corruption, a lowered standard of living and de facto IMF control via “economic structural adjustments”.\u00c2\u00a0 No, really.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Financial Times blog outlies the reasons why Gordon Brown’s British Jobs for British Workers probably qualifies as the most stupid thing one could promise, especially when there was a financial downturn on the cards.\u00c2\u00a0 To whit: In the UK, prime minister Gordon Brown is reaping the protectionist storm he sowed with his infamous protectionist … Continue reading Reaping a whirlwind of trouble, and why smuggling is the new boom industry<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,37,23,30,52,65,71,139,155],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-293","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-20-minutes-in-the-future","category-aneristic-delusion","category-current-affairs","category-fascism","category-politics","category-society","category-strife","category-tactical-polyvalence","category-tensions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.principiadiscordia.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}