Echoes of A New Tomorrow: Life after Revolution in the Commonwealth of Britain

[TheExecuter]

at the heart of Britain’s economic dominance was an unswerving faith in the principle of free trade, and a stable currency pegged to the gold standard.

We must remind everyone that 'free trade' in the British politicians understanding prior to world war 1 does not mean the same thing as 'free trade' today.

It usually meant England was free to have unfettered access to other markets...but this privilege does not apply to other nations.

Britain’s leaders after 1918 had on the whole managed the economy as if the Great War had not happened

And not just the economy...you see this baffling response in a lot of areas...

The ultimate aim was to insulate the British economy from the shocks of a volatile international market abroad, while creating artificial demand at home via a system of credit expansion amongst producers and consumers, the control of banking and monetary policy by the government, and the revaluation of Sterling according to a floating exchange rate.

So, the creation of an internal pricing bubble...ok in the short term, but did the planners foresee a way to ease out of the long term problems of distorting demand?

the government set about a vigorous assault on landlordism, confiscating all landlord-owned property and leasing homes back to workers at controlled rates.

So, instead of an aristocratic landlord, you have a bureaucratic one.

How is this an improvement?

Much of the old aristocracy had already fled to Newfoundland before suffering the indignity of losing their estates, taking with them as many liquid assets as possible.

So, how did the government get sufficient monetary reserves to invest in new agricultural equipment without creating inflation? Especially if most of the wealth of the rural areas has fled the country?

in some cases placated by the many subsidies extended by the state to prop up production

Even more inflationary pressure from this action...

Creating a bubble plus inflating the currency...this has to have had an effect within the decade as the bubble bursts or the people get tired of being kept poor.

with the former African and Indian colonies now exercising self-rule within the Union of Constituent Commonwealth States

UCCS?

Will we get to see how this comes about?

 

[TheExecuter]

They can’t just kick us out.

Ah, but they just did...

...and they may very well decide to kick us down some more.

Growing up in a company town where having your own land and autonomy was a BIG deal...

Claiming I should just trust a bureaucracy not to betray me is a step too far. Seen that side of the coin too much to ever trust it.

Want to know why people in the US are adamant about the ability to have their own car? Simple...they never wanted to be dependent on a 'public' transit system that could be and was used to oppress them. If you have a car, you can go where you want...the ACTUAL freedom is yours no matter what anyone says.

Again, this whole 'everything is fine' shtick from the authors is very much a propaganda line...it is not true.

All of these changing trends contributed towards making the first years of the Commonwealth something of a cultural golden age

Really? Was it?

The upper classes were presented in an almost uniquely bad light, and the few attempts to show more sympathetic characters were soon swept under the rug by the censors. An example is My Lady, an aborted romantic comedy starring Robert Donat as a young factory worker who falls in love with the daughter of an impoverished aristocrat (Anna Neagle) in the years after the Great War. While by no means a bad script, the portrayal of a relationship across class lines did not find favour with the directors of the Board of Film, and the scenario was rewritten to make Neagle’s character a young miner’s widow.

Because this is not how I would describe a golden age...

Yet it is important to bear in mind that, however free its characters and editing may have been, film-makers were forced to work under a strict system of management handed down from the Communist Party leadership. Censorship was commonplace, and many actors who had had some taste of fame in more middle-class roles before the revolution now found themselves out of favour. Even today, the debate over the extent of state control of the film industry continues, and last year the conviction of the Heatherden Twelve following their campaign of direct action in support of the Free Cinema Movement served as a timely reminder of the violence that surrounds this question.

Nor is this.

Yet more propaganda.

Much ado about nothing. So many leftists of my childhood...and today's politicians, seem to believe that you can warm yourself in the winter just by talking about a fire...as though the fire were real.

Meanwhile, everyone freezes to death...and the deaths are blamed on the fascists and the elites. You really can tell how folks like Pol Pot get a following.